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Show i Page 4 Wednesday, December 7, 1977 s still out there Blood Drive. Set INTERNATIONAL Tripoli, Libya Palestinian leaders took a new hard line against negotiations with Israel Sunday at the conference of Arab delegates but the Iraqi contingent walked out early Monday, erasing any chance of unanimous agreement among the participants. The Palestinians demanded that the Arab leaders end their internal inter-nal fighting and present a "steadfast" front against the peace moves being made by Egyptian Egyp-tian President Anwar Sadat. Leaders of Syria, Algeria, Libya, South Yemen and Iraq had been trying since Thursday to reach a common stand to counter Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. In calling for the "formation of a front of steadfastness and confrontation," the Palestinian Liberation Organization declared, "This front should confront all surrender solutions and imperialism and Zionism, as well as thier tools in the Arab world." Hamilton, Bermuda British troops landed Sunday Sun-day on Bermuda after three nights of rioting and firebombing triggered by the hanging of two black extremists convicted of murder. Police reported calm following the arrival of the British forces whose presence was requested by Ber-mudian Ber-mudian officials. "I think the steam has gone out of it," said Police Inspector Allan Lister. Damage from the three days of unrest was estimated at more than $5 million. Police and soldiers used riot gas Saturday to break up a crowd of 300 black youths gathered in the rain in Court Street, two blocks from the waterfront, but the sun came out Sunday and so did the camera-toting tourists. The riots began Thursday night after the government refused to stay the executions of Er-skine Er-skine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn, both convicted convic-ted of murder in politically motivated slayings. They were hanged at dawn Friday . Johore Baharu, Malaysia Rescue workers found no survivors after a hijacked Malaysian airlines jet with 100 persons aboard exploded and crashed Sunday night in southern Malaysia. Sources at Kuala Lumpur airport in the country's coun-try's capital said the pilot radioed, just prior to the explosion that his craft had beew'selzetf by terrorists. t Police reported an 18-year-old boy in the village of Kampong Tajung Kutang told them he saw the jet "shoot upward," then go into a dive and explode in flames. Bangui, Central African Empire dictator Jean-Bedel Jean-Bedel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor Bokassa I on Sunday in an elaborate $30 million ceremony inspired by his idol, Napoleon Bonaparte. The self -proclaimed emperor of one of Africa's poorest nations, wearing an ermine-trimmed ermine-trimmed red velvet cloak with a 24-foot train, placed the diamond-studded imperial crown on his own head and then crowned his No. 1 wife as empress. Bokassa, a former French colonial army sergeant, seized power in an army coup December Decem-ber 31, 1965, and has served as ruler of the Central Cen-tral African Empire and its two million inhabitants ever since. Pretoria, South Africa A magistrate ruled Friday that no proof of criminal responsibility was discovered in the prison death of black leader STEVEN Biko. The ruling came after a 15-day inquest and was immediately attacked by U.S. officials. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said, "We were shocked by the verdict in the face of compelling evidence, at the least, that Steve Biko was the victim of flagrant neglect and official of-ficial irresponsibility." ma x Security police detained 13 blacks, including ; Biko's older brother and his cousin, in a pre- i dawn raid in Johannesburg's black township of Soweto, according to a family lawyer. NATIONAL Washington President Carter expressed hopes Friday that his intensified dam inspection program will reach 1,800 high-hazard, nonfederal non-federal dams within the next 10 months. The dams, targeted for inspection at a cost of $15 ' million, are listed as having a high hazard potential poten-tial because they are upstream from populated areas. Inspectors from the Army Corps of Engineers will try to determine if they also pose , special dangers because of structural flaws. Carter's action was prompted by the collapse of a dam last month in his home state of Georgia. A private dam gave way at Toccoa Falls, Ga., claiming 38 lives, and it was the latest in a series of dam collapses since 1972 that have left 355 per- , sons dead. I Albany, California Joseph Egenberger, 33, walked in to the Alameda County District Attor- i ney's Office Wednesday and confessed to the 1963 f murder of a University of California coed he had dated. Egenberger had been working as a $24,000-a-year supervisor for U.S. Steel in Chicago but unexpectedly quit last October and returned to California. "He is a strong suspect," said Albany Police Chief James Simmons, who as a young par-tolman par-tolman was assigned to the October 29, 1963 slaying of Judy Williamson, 18. Miss Williamson was on her way to class at the Berkeley campus from her Albany home when she was last seen. It was not until April, 1966, that part of her skeleton was found by hikers in the Santa Cruz mountains. Los Angeles For the first time scientists have succeeded in using artificial genes to "order") a bacterium to produce a hormone normally found only in higher animals, it was announced Thursday. Thur-sday. Hailed as a "scientific triumph of the first order" or-der" by the head of the National Academy of Sciences, the breakthrough paves the way for less j expensive, purer insulin and other hormone-based hormone-based medicines. The scientists, who were working in the controversial new field of genetic -engineering, said they implanted an artificial -gene carrying "blueprints" forhor somatostatin into a bcetrium,rafl th,?nb4c-l1e terium obediently manufactured the specified hormone. Some scientists feel research on recombinant DNA could produce dangerous new forms of life. Washington President Carter will break his postponed world tour into two stages, visiting six ? nations in Europe and Asia fronVDec. 29 to Jan. 6 and three in South America and Africa in the ; Carter is slated to leave four days after Christmas on a nine-day trip that will take him to Poland, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, France and Belgium. In the spring he will travel to Brazil," Venezuela and Nigeria. .For Dec 22 A blood drive to aid Park City resident Marcia Davidson, David-son, who is suffering from a rare form of leukemia, will be held December 22 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the high school multi-purpose room. - This Red Cross drive will establish a blood bank for Park City. The Red Cross reports that only four per. cent of the population donates blood and in the case of an emergency or natural disaster, cities with established blood banks receive aid first. To expedite the; scheduling, attempts will be made to screen and register donors prior to the date of the drive. A pint of blood will be taken from six donors every fifteen minutes.; Donors who ' have not registered will be accepted the day of the drive,' however. Approximately ten volunteers volun-teers are needed. Friends of Marcia -are urged to volunteer volun-teer an hour or the entire five hours to help at the high school. To register to donate blood or volunteer your time, call Carol Ernst, 649-7566 after 6:00 p.m., or Gayle Jones, 649-8874 after 6;00 p.m. The following is a list of donor requirements issued by the American Red Cross. You may donate if: Six months have passed since completion of a tattoo. You are between 17 and 65 years of age (must have parental consent if 17). Your last blood donation was at least 8 weeks ago. Your allergy is not active ac-tive on day of donation. It has been 3 days since oral surgery or tooth extraction, extrac-tion, if there is no infection. Your are a diabetic not on insulin (oral or injection) for control. You weigh at least 110 pounds. You are in good health taking birth control pills, small doses of tranquilizers, diet pills, aspirin. ; ' If taking an antibiotic for acne, last dose must be 48 hours ago. You may not donate if : You have any history of cancer. You have had repeated fainting spells or loss of con sciousness. You have had hepatitis-yellow hepatitis-yellow jaundice in your life. You have come in con-. tact with hepatitis-yellow jaundice within the last 6 months. You are taking antibioticsorally an-tibioticsorally must wait 48 hours, injections must wait 2 weeks. You have had an attack of malaria or have taken an-timalaria an-timalaria drugs within 3 years. You have traveled in a malaria area within the last 6 months. You have a cold, flu, sore throat, or cold sore with cold symptoms. You have had major surgery or blood transfusion within the last 6 months. You are pregnant now or have had a pregnancy in last 6 months. You have had infectious mononucleosis in last 6 months. mon-ths. You have had an asthma attack in last 6 months. If you have any questions, please call the American Red Cross Intermountain Blood Bank at 582-5276. Please eat within' 4 hours of donation. "When you're sick orhurt,Icangive . you some old-fashioned attention!' Trash Trial The City Council Thursday night tabled a request for a : $76,000 trash compactor and opted for a trial run of a dif- ; ferent breed of Cat. City Manager Wayne Mat- ; thews asked approval for the i purchase of a trash compac-;I n tor specifically designed for landfill 1 'dperatibhs'MaV thews said the compactor would double the amount of " refuse which could be placed in the city's landfill. The compactor should last ten years before needing replacement, he added. Councilman Jan Wilking said he would like Matthews to explore "other possibilities, ' ' such as 1 joining the county refuse collection system and using a county-owned dump site. "We should have learned by now that we're better off being by ourselves," said Councilman Richard Mar tinez, commenting on city-county city-county relations Martinez suggested that the city consider purchasing a D-8 Caterpilar instead of the compactor. He said a D-8 could be bought for between $30,000 and $40,000 and could be used fob emelrgeitey stiaw w rem'6vaias'Wefll as 1ahdfnT operations. Matthews said the amount of compaction provided by the two pieces of equipment would be approximately equal. However, he noted that the D-8 with a front-mounted front-mounted engine would be more prone to problems caused by debris being sucked into the radiator. He said the compactor has its engine mounted in the rear. ', The council , instructed Matthews to rent a D-8, use it at the landfill for a few months and then report the results. TOMLIGARE MOUNT AIR MALL 649-9161 r in See me for State Farm health insurance. I.iLr si 9Ann f fywww i STAT FARM neighbor, State Farm is there. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Home Office: Bloomington. Illinois I INSURANCE JQ( I - ' r, . Steak & Lobster, $8.95 X, I , Sunday Night, December 11 5tolOP.M. I J fPi 049-80 I . ; J |