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Show Local SAN JUAN A four-mile long oil slick clogged the San Juan River from bank to bank Wednesday after an oil company pipeline rupture near the Utah-Colorado Utah-Colorado border. Workmen rushed to try to stop the sluggish flow at Bluff or Mexican Hat, two of the few places where the river is accessible. Phillip Iverson, Utah director for the National Park Service, said 60,000 gallons reached the mouth of Montezuma Creek, 12 miles east of Bluff by early afternoon. A pilot flying over said water was covered bank to bank for four miles and was trailing behind for 20 miles. SALT LAKE CITY-A Salt Lake City man has been sentenced to one to 10 years in Utah State Prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in the blackjack slaying of a Santa E. Gonzales. Eddie J. Trujillo, 46, was originally charged with first degree murder in the death. Third District Judge James S. Sawaya accepted the plea to the lesser charge Tuesday. Gonzales, 41, also Salt Lake, was found beaten in Trujillo's apartment and died later in a local hospital. SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Highway Department says rain has slowed repair work on the 6th South Freeway exit in Salt Lake City. Work on the major traffic route to the downtown area was supposed to be completed by mid-October. But a department spokesman said Tuesday the repairs are running behind schedule. The spokesman said for every day it rains, two more days are needed to dry out the work area. National NEW YORK A strike by musicians seeking higher wages forced the shutdown of Radio City Music Hall Wednesday night for the first time in its 40-year history. WASHINGTON The House Wednesday approved a tough law to control strip mining throughout the nation and impose strict federal standards on reclaiming already scarred land. WASHINGTON Jail inmates took over a cellblock all day Wednesday, threatening for a while to kill the city's prison's chief one of nine hostages and later telling a federal judge they would rebel "again and again" until conditions improved. International PARIS Presidential envoy Henry A. Kissinger held a fourth straight day of Vietnam peace talks with Communist leaders Wednesday and, although a French cabinet official reported "rapid progress," it appeared the latest round of negotiations was over. "We have no indication that Dr. Kissinger will be extending his talks another day," White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told reporters in Washington. BELFAST A gunman riding on the rear seat of a motorcycle Wednesday shot and seriously wounded a Belfast Roman Catholic magistrate with a reputation for dealing sternly with member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army IRA. PARIS France reported its Hanoi legation was destroyed Wednesday during a raid by U.S. warplanes and strongly protested to the United States. Hanoi Radio and the Hungarian news agency, MTI, said seven persons were killed in the bombing, including in-cluding a woman official of the French legation. They said legation chief Pierre Susini was injured seriously, along with a visiting Albanian diplomat and his chaufeur. |