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Show , 1 Pego4 Wednesday, January 28, 1 976 v 1 j ITS STILL UT THERE INTERNATIONAL ' London Twin Angolo-French ; Concorde airliners took off simultaneously Wednesday from London and Paris to launch the world's first fir-st scheduled supersonic passenger transport service. ser-vice. ..i'V' j4;;'' Crusing most of the way at Mach 2.2 (1,300 miles an hour, or more than double the speed of sound) the British Concorde made the 3,515-mile London-Bahrain (on the Persian Gulf) flight in three hours, 38 minutes a savings of two hours, 37 minutes. The United States, concerned about the ecological impact of the $80 million jetliner, is expected to rule in three weeks whether to permit per-mit it to land at U.S. airports. i ;y. Rome : With Italy's political crises generating new economic and social tension, the government Wednesday closed 1 the official foreign exchange, market indefinitely after,, a wave of speculation against the lire.-Financial experts believed the market closure was due to a lack of faith in the Italian economy.' ' ' Beirut; Lebanon Although continued fighting resulting in 56 casualties marred the first fir-st week of the Lebanon ceasefire, Moslem leader Rashid Karami returned as premier on Saturday and called; on his countrymen to "build a new Lebanon." t, ! Washington 'President Ford outlined his proposed $394.2 .billion budget for fiscal ,1977 Wednesday, saying it '"would arrest fa spending trend that increasingly threatened pur national economic stability." V ?ih';'X , The new budget includes increases for; offense., spending; cutbacks for some welfare programs j and higher Social Security taxes. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, speaking for congressional Democrats in ; response to i President Ford's State of the Union address, - delivered Monday night, told the nation that Ford's plan for the economy will mean fewer jobs, higher prices and ever-rising budget deficits. . Washington WJ. Usery Jr., director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, was nominated by President Ford Thursday to be the third secretary of labor in the 18-month-old Ford administration. New York The stock market overcame profit-taking pressures Tuesday to record strong gain in the second heaviest trading in history. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks finished with a 6.14 gain to 949.88, still another 26-month 26-month high, The average gain since the start of 1976 is now more than 97 points. .Washington The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it will conduct a broad review of capital punishment laws enacted since the court's 1972 decision declaring previous capital punishment unconstitutional. Princeton, N.J. President Ford and current Democratic frontrunner Hubert Humphrey Hum-phrey are tied in the latest national election Gallup poll. Although Ford received 48 percent of registered voters compared to 46 percent for Humphrey, the percentages are' so close that statistically neither man can be said to have an advantage. , ...--. ; ; ,. . ?- .. .. Washington f Newly released documents from the CIA's Operation Chaos revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency collected information in-formation about political dissidents : at Utah State University, Brown University and Boston University in 1970 and 1971. The memo released concerning Utah State University said the campus "is more politically active than most in the state. There is an active chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance. A number num-ber of small groups also exist but are not as important." im-portant." The school's officials reported Sunday they were unaware that the CIA kept files on the political activists on their campus. Local Salt Lake City Kennectott Copper Corp. suspended operation for the first time in its history Thursday evening at its Magna copper smelter due to a sulfer dioxide buildup in the "Smelter operations will be shut down for an indefinite period, until ' the temperature inversion in-version has lifted from the valley and allows operation without violating ambient air standards," stan-dards," a company spokesman said. The ambient air standard, the must-not-exceed level of concentration, is 1 part per million .'; tppm)v of sulfer dioxide . on , a 24-hour basis. Kennecott's monitoring equipment, as well as those stations monitored by the Utah Air Quality Bureau in the Magna area recorded .35 ppm at 3:30 a.m. and .78 at 5 p.m. Thursday. ' - - ; - Ski The Rockies Offers 'Spring Fling' At 13 Resorts Sunshine, fresh air, high mountain scenery, comfortable com-fortable temperatures, lots of snow and not too many people : that's a "Spring Fling" and skiing at its best at the 13 Ski The Rockies resorts. The World famous snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains . of v Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and Colorado ac-; ac-; cumulates ' during the ski ' 1 1 season to depths of 6 to 10 feet by the end of March and . allows all 13 Ski The Rockies i resorts to operate with? excellent conditions in April and May . 1 , ! ( Ski, The Rockies is an v association of 13 of the West's "-anid the world's .most popular ski resort areas. . Included are Wyoming's Jackson Hole; Taos in New , 11 Mexico; : Colorado's ; Aspen, ' Aspen Highlands,? j ; Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Snowmass, Steamboat, Vail and Winter Park; Park City i and Snowbird in Utah; and Sun Valley,, Idaho. All will operate as usual into April or May during 1976. Sun Valley will;' be open! thru April -4, Aspen, Aspen Highlands,, S n o w m a s s -:!a n d Breckenridge thru April 11, Jackson Hole until April , 17, , Crested !. Butte, ". Steamboat, : ' Taos, Winter Park until April IS, Vail until April 25, : Snowbird ; until May V and . ' Park City until May 9, snow permitting. . "April skiing has long offered the best value, in. Rocky Mountain skiing", according h the Ski The .Rockies Executive Coordinator Coor-dinator Connie Baxter. "The days are longer in the spring so the light is better; warmer air temperatures allow you to ski in a sweater comfortably com-fortably yet the snow remains ' cold and crisp; the weather is ideal for picnics on the mountain; many areas have special events and rates during this time; and, best of all, there are generally no lift line waits", adds Baxter. There are other good reasons to ski the Rockies too. All 13 resorts feature complete villages, exceptional ex-ceptional dining and en- .: tertainment options for after skiing, western atmosphere and hospitality, outstanding ski schools and easy accessibility ac-cessibility from the major ' gateways of Denver or Salt Lake City or other nearby airports. To expose more people to , the delights of a "Spring Fling", the 13 member areas of Ski The Rockies agree aD offering a week long ski . vacation package that includes in-cludes seven nights lodging and sue days of skiing from only $99 per person based ot - four persons per room. Rate are effective at participating lodges March 27 thru the resort's scheduled closing. More information or reservations reser-vations are available by contacting any of the resorts direcUy or by requesting the special "Spring Fling" package brochure by writing: Far West Ski Tours, 3416' Via Lido, Newport Beach, California 92663, (714) 673-9311. SUPPORT OW THAT THE HOUDAY! 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