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Show I Page 4 THE Wednesday, April 20, 1977 a STILL OUT THERE INTERNATIONAL Madrid, Spain - The first free Spanish Election in more than 40 years has been scheduled for June 15. A government decision to allow Communists to participate in the election has caused a furor among top military commanders. Admiral Gabriel Pita de Veiga, Spain's navy minister, resigned when he learned that the 38-year-old ban would be lifted. Most of Spain's high ranking military officers fought against the Communists during the 1936-1939 civil war and the army supreme council last week criticized the government's gover-nment's decision but pledged to accept it. Plans for Spanish political reform, which call for elections before June 30, were overwhelmingly approved in a national referendum held last December. Kinshasa, Zaire - The first major battle in three weeks between Zaire forces and invaders' from Angola erupted on two fronts Friday. Details of the fighting were incomplete out sources said the combatants were engager in a major battle near Nasondoye and that f. battle was also being fought around Kzenze. Both towns are near the key copper center of Kolwezi and casualties were reported on both sides. According to diplomatic sources, 1,500 Moroccan Moroc-can troops have been airlifted to the invaded province but did not engage in the battles. It is believed that the Moroccans will not mount a full-scale attack or join in major counteroffen-sives. counteroffen-sives. The Soviet Union has protested the Moroccan intervention and has accused China of trying to "pour oil on the fire" by aiding Zaire. Concerning U.S. policy on the invasion, Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko said, "It is very disconcerting. Less than 24 hours after the attack at-tack on Shaba, Secretary of , State Cyrus Vance informs me that the United States is on the side of Zaire and that there is no question of dropping us. That is a committment. Then Andrew Young (U.S. Ambassador to the United Naitons) says the contrary." Bangkok, Thailand - Thailand's avowed war on narcotics began in earnest Friday when an alleged heroin dealer was machinegunned to death without trial by the military-supported government.- - The shooting of Thavorn Udomrueduj, a Lao-Chinese, Lao-Chinese, was the first execution under broad powers vested in Prime Minister I Thain Kraivchien to deal with national security crimes. Thavorn was arrested on March 25 when authorities discovered 32 pounds of heroin in the trunk of a car he was driving. Jerusalem - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, pleaded guilty Sunday to violating Israeli currancy laws. . Tel Aviv Dist. Court Judge Dov Levine fined Mrs. Rabin $26,852 for illegally keeping as much as $21,101 in two Washington, D.C., bank accounts. accoun-ts. She faced a maximum penalty of three years in jail and a $63,000 fine. Levine said Mrs . Rabin ; was not sent to jail because of her guilty plea and her "dizzying fall" from prominence. Prime Minister Rabin, whose political career has been ruined by the financial scandal, an-nouned an-nouned Sunday he would be taking an extended leave of absence. He was fined $1,611 last week as coholder of the account and has declared he will turn the reins of government over to Defense Minister Shimon Peres this Friday. Peres is Rabin's successor as leader of the ruling Labor Party. NATIONAL New York - More than 500 cars maintained a snail's pace through Kennedy Airport Sunday, protesting the proposed landing of the supersonic super-sonic Concorde passenger plane. The demonstrators demon-strators claimed their traffic slowdown was a success despite failure to immobilize the airport as predicted. Organizers promised to stage a similar parade every week until the Concorde is permanently banned from Kennedy. Although many airport customers experienced experien-ced delays of up to a half hour, most were aware of the scheduled demonstration and set out earlier than usual. A recently conducted survey indicates that most Americans favor Concorde landings except at airports which are near their residences. Las Vegas - Nevade Attorney Robert List said Friday that the "Mormon will" has been determined deter-mined to be a forgery by the FBI. FBI investigators described the will, one of more than thirty purported to have been written by the late Howard Hughes, as "an unskilled attempt at-tempt to copy or simulate the handwriting" of the famous industrialist. List said officials have been unable to discover who prepared the three-page, three-page, handwritten document. Boston - Criminal charges have been brought against the captain of a Soviet fishing trawler accused of violating the recently imposed 200-mile 200-mile U.S. fishing limit. Alexander Gupalov, master of the Taras Shev-chenko Shev-chenko taken into custody off the Massachusetts coast April 9, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Lawrence Cohen Friday for a preliminary hearing. The master of the 257-foot long vessel has been charged with "general violations" of the new fishing law which went into effect March 1. If convicted, Gupalov faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail and-or a fine of $100,000. Washington - After two days of closed meetings with economic political and congressional aides, President Carter Thursday personally announced he is withdrawing his proposal for a $50 tax rebate. Admitting that many Democratic congressional leaders had "lost their enthusiasm" en-thusiasm" for the rebate, considered by many as inflationary, and that "there were political and economic considerations," Carter said the nation's improving economy no longer requires the stimulus. He listed reduced unemployment, increased inflationary pressures and the impact of his new energy package as reasons for abandoning aban-doning the rebate. Tallahasse, Florida - The Florida Senate, unimpressed by lobbying efforts by President Carter and Vice President Mondale, voted 21-19 against the Equal Rights Amendment Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The setback raised serious doubts as to the future of the proposed 27th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Prospects appear dim because the seven-year limit for adoption expires on March 22, 1979, and many of the non-ratifying state legislatures do not convene until after that date. An ERA supporter blamed the Florida defeat on "a tremendous political fight going on between bet-ween conservatives and moderates." Owner Wants to Rebuild 'Fly's Eye' The owner of the modern "fly's eye" house on Wood-side Wood-side Avenue which was devasted by a fatal fire in January wants to rebuild the structure. Rex Crosland of Salt Lake City, came before the Planning Plan-ning Commission Wednesday Wed-nesday night after being denied a building permit by the city planning office. Crosland contends he is remodeling the house while city officials say he is rebuilding and should conform con-form to the architectural standards of the historic district. Fire struck the Crosland residence in the early morning mor-ning hours of January 2, claiming the life of Jewell J. Crosland, 57, of Sandy, Utah. It was Park City's first fire fatality in eleven years. Eight other persons were in the house at the time of the blaze and all of them sustained injuries', many serious, in tryiAg to escape the flames. Saying, "we're all getting over our injuries,", Rex Crosland commented that exits would be built into the house as a safety feature. The owner said the exterior ex-terior of the house would be wood and that "it will be a Environmentalists Meet In Park City why preserve the existing wilderness? The weaknesses inherent in this philosophy need no rebuttal. Nature trulv "needs no defense." The fact that Utah has no statutory wilderness area is mind boggling. Lone Peak is a portion of the American Endangered Wilderness Bill currently in Congress. If passed, a precedent could be established for future vitally needed wilderness designations designa-tions throughout the state. Letters are needed. The High Uintas With the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964, the Forest Service began a study of its 34 primitive areas in the Uintas and, as requested by the act, submitted their study to the President in 1966. By the 1970's, however, it became obvious that thousands of acres of wilderness wilder-ness in the surrounding area were not added to the study. In 1972 the Roadless Area Review (RARE) scanned 15 additional areas (300,000 acres), only 3 of which were selected for study. In the 1974 Vernal Land Use Plan, of 174,000 acres 107,000 were designated for logging and "general" Forest Service Ser-vice management. In 1976 the Draft Land Use Plan withdrew from wilderness wilder-ness study 120,000 acres around Bald Mt. and the North Slope of the Uintas. Currently the South Slope Land Use Plan omits large portions along the Yellowstone Yellow-stone River, Swift Creek, and the Uinta River, from wilderness proposal. A Wilderness Wild-erness Society bulletin warns, "With planning like this on the Vernal, North Slope and South Slope Planning Plan-ning units, it is obvious why the Uintas are in real trouble." Wild Rivers Verne Huser, a vibrant,, brey-bearded environmental Continued from Page 2 specialist for Kinnecott, who laughed and said he hoped the connection would not taint him, opened his discussion discus-sion group by stressing the fact that whereas Utah has no statutory wilderness area, neither has it Federal Wild and Scenic River status. sta-tus. Considering the tremendous tremen-dous economic impetus and aesthetic pleasure river running run-ning provides in the state, and in light of repeated attempts being made for Utah generated power for Los Angeles, the lack of river protection is frightening. The Amended Wild and Scenic River Act of 1976 states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, envir-onments, possess outstandingly outstand-ingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic. ..or other similar values, should be preserved in free-flowing condition.... for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations..." The 1968 Wild and Scenic River Act provided for porposals of river study. Fifty-seven rivers were submitted sub-mitted on the basis of: 1. length-at least 25 miles long; 2. quality of water; 3. a development survey; 4. field exams-examination of logging, log-ging, mining scars, etc. ; and 5. hydrology. Rivers of three categories could be considered eligible : 1. Wild rivers-those accessible accessi-ble by trail and essentially primitive and unpolluted and free from impoundments; 2, Scenic rivers-those free from impoundments, still largely primitive but accessible acces-sible in spots by road; and 3. recreational rivers-those accessible by road with some development and some impoundment im-poundment in the past. Of these 57 rivers, only one in Utah is included and then not in its entirety: a 60-mile segment of the Colorado from its confluence with the Delores River to 19.5 miles from the Colorado Border. Some of the Western rivers understudy are: Cearwater-Middle Cearwater-Middle Fork-Idaho; Feather, Fea-ther, Calif.; Rio Grande, New Mexico; Salmon-Middle Fork-Idaho; Snake, Idaho' and Oregon; Flathead, Mon-tanna; Mon-tanna; Green, Colorado; Gunnison, Colorado; Snake, Wyoming; Delores, Colorado. Colo-rado. Huser, who has been running run-ning raft trips for 21 years, proposes that the Green River, more of the Colorado, the San Juan, the White and possibly the Delores Rivers in Utah be added to the study. There are only two ways to add rivers to a study: by state action or Federal legislation. He says that Terry Green of the Utah Division of Natural Resources Resour-ces has given him strong reason to believe that a state program for study is in the planning. Letters are needed. need-ed. Utah's Natural Resources Jan Johnson and Mary Belle Bloch revealed incredible incre-dible statistics regarding the tremendous wealth of untapped untap-ped natural resources present pre-sent in the state. They were concerned with Utah's paradoxical para-doxical curse of being blessed with dynamic natural beauty and at the same time blessedcursed with rich mineral endowments, endow-ments, the extraction of which causes irreversible destruction to natural beauty. They felt it was time for Utah to take a stand as a state, for as Dick Carter had said earlier, "Once wilderness wilder-ness is gone, it's lost forever." They seemed concerned con-cerned that native Utahns, for the most part, particularly particular-ly in the Kaiparowits, IPP and CUP issues, were essentially pro-growth due to Continued on Page 8 7? Hi- cihJiitl H iu1MhuilHl3!lfr vNitv hi hltt kimi ini --it l i Ht mi, This burned out shell is all that remains of the modern structure on Woodside Avenue. Owner Rex Crosland's plans to "remodel" the house have run into opposition. completely different building" rather than the industrial in-dustrial material previously used. He remarked that other houses in the area with wood exteriors are "every shape under the sun." Crosland said it would not be "fair or reasonable" to force him to redesign the house using historic architecture. "This may or may not be fair but that's what we're doing," Commissioner Roy Reynolds responded., Commissioner Bob Wells said, "I personally don't like the building but I - have a problem with not letting someone rebuild what was burned down." City Planner Van Martin stated that if the design does not come close to the historic guidelines, he would not recommend construction approval. "Since you're going to have to rebuild, you should conform," Martin said. 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