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Show V Page 4 Wednesday, February 8, 1978 t m,.. ITS ST ILL OUT T HERE INTERNATIONAL Cairo. Kgvpt-The first pyramid to be built in Egypt in nearly 4,500 years is being constructed by Japanese archaeologists from Wasseda University near Tokyo. Approximately 3,000 limestone blocks, weighing up to 2.5 tons each, will be used to erect the 36-foot-high pyramid. The project is being sponsored by the Nippon Television Network and construction methods used are the same as might have been employed by the ancient Egyptians. It will cost an estimated $1 million to build the pyramid and 10,000 local workers are being employed for the job. "We have just begun but already we are one week behind schedule," said building director Takayoshi Satoh. "We must Tinisn in 60 davs" Johannesburg, South Africa-Once again U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young has said that Cubans have helped Angola develop "a stable and orderly society." Young made his remarks Monday in an interview inter-view with the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. "It was Cuban troops that helped keep (Angolan President) Agostinho Neto in power when Soviet and black racist forces sought to overthrow him, essentially for being a non-racist intellectual," Young said. The ambassador ignited a controversy last year when he said the Cuban presence in Africa was constructive. Frankfurt, West Germany A Czechoslovak engineer asked for political asylum in West Germany Monday after hijacking a Czech jetliner over East Germany and forcing it to land in Frankfurt. Ladislav Molnar, 24, will be tried in West Germany on air piracy charges because Bonn has no extradition treaty with Czechoslovakia, Frankfurt prosecutors said. West German law makes hijacking a crime regardless of the motive and other Czechs have received prison sentences of three to eight years. Police said Molnar told the pilot of the Soviet-built Soviet-built TU-34 jetliner that he had a bomb in his briefcase and would explode it unless he was flown to Frankfurt. After the plane landed, the hijacker surrendered to West German police and requested asylum. Hanoi, Vietnam-Vietnam announced Sunday that it is recalling United Nations Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, who is accused by the United States of spying. Thi had been ordered out of the country coun-try by U.S. officials but refused to leave. The ambassador, the first U.N. chief of mission ordered out by the U.S., has been named by a grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal spy case. The case also involves a U.S. Information Agency employe and a Vietnamese Viet-namese expatriate. The official Vietnam radio said Hanoi recalled Thi because "the U.S. government is trying to disturb activities of the Vietnamese ambassador." am-bassador." t hamonix, France-Avalanches are believed to have killed at least 21 persons after heavy Mowfalls hit the French, Austrian and Italian Alps over the weekend. The latest fatality was a Frenchman who was with five other skiers when an avalanche descended upon them. Three of his companions were seriously injured. It was feared that 12 people were killed by ava lanches in the French Alps on Saturday. Ilmldrrsfield, England-More than 100 detec-tivo detec-tivo and uniformed officers are hunting for the kill" of a teen-age girl whose naked bodv was di , . be the seventh victim of a modern-day Jack Hipper. Hie Ripper," as he is called by police and the sh Dress, is believed resDonsible for the deaths of at least five women in the Leeds area during the past 27 months. All have been found in or around red light districts. Paris-Rather than face sentencing in California Califor-nia for having sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl, movie director Roman Polanski has taken efuge in Paris. Polanski, 44, flew from Los Angeles to London on Wednesday and then came to Paris where he las an apartment, friends said. The widower of nurdered movie actress Sharon Tate was indic-ed indic-ed last March on charges of rape, sex perversion perver-sion and drug abuse but after plea bargaining, he )leaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual in-ercourse in-ercourse with a minor. Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband .aid Monday he had informed Polanski's lawyer n advance that he planned to sentence the movie director to 48 days in prison to be followed by Polanski's voluntary deportation. NATIONAL Washington-A tentative pact between striking :oal miners and coal producers was announced Monday by United Mine Workers President Arnold Ar-nold Miller and chief federal mediator Wayne Jorvitz. The agreement contract terms could nrl the record 63-day coal strike which has I mutilated near Huddersfield's red light ct. Police said 18-year-old Helen Rytka m th Hi depleted coal stockpiles and caused power cut-oacks. cut-oacks. The proposed settlement, which has to be ratified by union members, calls for a 37 percent increase in wages and benefits for miners over a three-year period. Washington-Following weekend talks with President Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said Monday that there could be peace in the Middle East "in less than a week" if Israel agreed to return to its old border and make Jerusalem an open city. But the Arab leader said there is little hope of Israel agreeing to such conditions unless the United States exerts pressure. As yet, there is no indication that Sadat has convinced Carter to perform heavy arm-twisting on the Israelis. Washington-Muriel Humphrey was sworn in Monday to replace her husband as a United States Senator from Minnesota. She is only the 12th woman in history to serve in the Senate. Atlantic City, New Jersey-The New York Times Magazine said Sunday that several organized crime families and a powerful Teamsters Team-sters local are striving to cash in on the legalized gambling coming to Atlantic City. According to the Times, the crime families of New York's Carlo Gambino, Vito Genovese and Lucy Luchese, along with Philadelphia's Angelo Bruno and Arizona's Joseph Bonanno, have attempted at-tempted to purchase Atlantic City real estate, bars, restaurants, casino hotels, motels, croupier's schools, vending machines firms and other businesses. Detroit-With shouts of "Save the Baboon Seven," animal lovers are calling for a halt to automobile crash tests which use live baboons. Seven of the animals are currently awaiting their turn behind the wheel. The Save the Baboon Seven committee is challenging scientists at the University of Michigan's Highway Safety Research Institute with a petition drive and bumper sticker campaign. cam-paign. Institute officials said the study is aimed at developing life-like dummies that will eliminate the need for using animals or cadavers in future crash tests. During the tests, the baboons are anesthetized and strapped onto im-; pact sleds which propel them at high speeds intojj an object which inflicts severe chest injuries. Af ter examing the injuries, researchers "fer-; minate" the baboons before they regain consciousness. con-sciousness. "The carnage is an unnecessary waste of life," said Rev. Erwin Gaede, who heads the Save the Baboon Seven Committee. Washington-Defense Secretary Harold Brown said Thursday that the United States must significantly increase its military budget over the next five years if it is to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Brown expressed concern over Russia's nuclear strength which he said is threatening the military balance between the Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact. He claimed $56 billion must be added to the military budget by 1983 to maintain parity. "The world remains turbulent and dangerous," the defense secretary told the House Armed Services Committee. "The Soviets, despite all their internal and external problems, have become a serious military competitor." com-petitor." Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania-According to Punxsutawney Phil, America's foremost groundhog, groun-dhog, spring is still a long way off. A crowd of about 300 gathered at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob on Thursday to watch the groundhog look for his shadow. He saw it and predicted six more weeks of winter. Since 1887, Phil and his shadow have predicted an extended winter almost every year. McKay Praises Farmers' Tactics They filled Congressional halls with hoots and cheers, stormed Agriculture Secretary Berglund's office, and blocked Washington's rush-hour traffic, but Utah Congressman Gunn McKay last Saturday claimed that farmers pressing for 100 parity in recent weeks have had a "positive impact" on Congress. As a result of their efforts, said McKay, the House and Senate have introduced nearly 100 bills to help the farmer and the House .Agriculture Committee is holding hearings and plans to report out farm aid legislation by the end of February. While many farmers were rude and disruptive, Rep. McKay praised the Utah demonstrators' behavior. "They were a moderating influence in-fluence urging other farmers to abandon emotion for a reasoned approach to solving agriculture's problems." In a speech prepared for the Utah Corn Growers annual an-nual meeting, McKay cited disagreement among farmers far-mers over what they really wanted from Congress. "I had representatives from 41 states in my office. They could agree on only one thing higher prices." McKay suggested the best way to help farm prices is a voluntary marketing quota. "The government offers the farmer 100 of parity loans on crops he holds in reserve. As the market price for his crop rises to keep pace with the parity loan rate, the farmer sells part of his crop on the open market for a profit and at the same time borrows money at full parity against the excess he has stored." r ? ta t- "I don't much .like, land set-asides, either mandatory or voluntary," said McKay of the government's 20 voluntary set-aside program. "It bothers me to see good land remain fallow. The government has no business telling the farmer he can't plant on ground he owns. Even if all our farmers far-mers were to participate in the set-aside, there would only be an 8 reduction in production." "Government intervention in agriculture should be kept to a minimum. Government should only enter the picture to shore up sagging market prices instead of guaranteeing guaran-teeing an established price." However, McKay pointed to two government programs helpful to farmers. He encouraged en-couraged farmers to take advantage of government low interest loans to build new storage facilities to control con-trol their own reserves and called for increased government gover-nment storage payments to farmers contributing to the national wheat reserve. In the 1977 Farm Bill, Congress ordered a 300 to 700 million bushel wheat reserve by next October, yet only 75 million bushels are in storage. "We should increase in-crease the amount the government will pay farmers far-mers to store their grain from 20 cents to 25 cents or 30 cents per bushel," said McKay, "and we should eliminate the 6 interest charge on money farmers borrow to store grain. 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