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Show Page 4 5 Wednesday, October 25, 1978 b n S'S S toi mnr INTERNATIONAL Vatican City One of the largest crowds in Vatican history watched as Pope John Paul II assumed the throne of St. Peter Sunday. Describing himself as "full of trepidation" and "conscious of his "unworthiness," the multilingual multi-lingual pope issuued greetings in French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian Czech, Ukrainian and Lithuanian. Like his predecessor, John Paul I, the new leader of the world's Roman Catholics decided against the traditional crowning with the beehive-shaped papal tiara and against being carried by a dozen footmen in the portable throne. On Monday, Pope John Paul II supported the church's policy of accommodation with the communist nations, saying cooperation was the only way toward human progress. Moscow The first of the old Bolsheviks to retire with honor died Sunday. Anastas Mikoyan, former Soviet president, succumbed after a prolonged illness, according "to the official Tass news agency. Mikoyan's 40-year 40-year career survived the purges of dictator Josef Stalin and the demise of Premier Nikita Krushchev. Krush-chev. Tokyo A friendship destroyed by two wars in the past 100 years was rekindled Monday when Japan and China formally concluded a peace-friendship peace-friendship treaty. China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping told Japanese' Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda the treaty should assure peace between the two countries for generations. He added, however, that the world is headed for war because the Soviet Union is expanding its armed power. Baguio, Philippines In the wake of Anatoly Karpov's gruelling 93-day victory over Soviet defector Victor Korchnoi in world chess com-f com-f petition, chess officials revealed that Karpov and former champion Bobby Fischer are trying I to arrange a match. I The match would not count as a world cham-5 cham-5 pionship contest due to a complicated official procedure but Fischer has publically confirmed VihatJ f competition. He nnas announced he will play a ? friendly match next year against Yugoslav Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric. :' Melbourne, Australia The Australian Air ; Force Monday renewed its search for a private I pilot who disappeared Saturday after reporting K he was being pursued by a UFO . Frederick Valentich, flying a Cessna 182, ; radioed an Australian control tower, saying, "It : isn't aircraft. It's...." Moments later he again : made contact. "Melbourne, it's approaching from due east toward.. .It seems to be playing I some sort of game.... flying at a speed I cannot estimate." i Transmission then was cut off and nothing has ; been heard from the pilot or his plane. i : Luska, Zambia Saying "those savages have -come here to wipe out children," Rhodesian "guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo reported Sunday : that fighting in Zambia against invading 5 Salisbury troops has subsided. I The guerrilla leader said Salisbury's claims of : 1,500 killed in the three days of intense air and i ground strikes were greatly exaggerated. : Bangkok, Thailand Recent escapes from Laos have told an American researcher that : Laotian and Vietnamese troops are using poison ;gas to suppress tribal resistance to the com-imunist com-imunist government of Laos. The reports are I supported by foreign doctors treating hill tribesmen. The doctors said the victims' symp-tons symp-tons indicate deadly chemical warfare is being waged in Laos. Nairobi, Kenya Radio Uganda reported last Wednesday that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has reponded favorably to President Idi Amin's request that "Kamikaze" pilots be sent to Uganda Ugan-da to assist in air force training. The radio said arrangements were already in preparation for a visit by a group of the World War II suicide pilots. NATIONAL Augusta, Maine An out-of-court settlement that would give two Indian tribes $27 million and 100,000 acres of land has been agreed upon by Maine's top leaders. The compromise plan would settle one of the largest Indian land cases in the nation but the proposal has yet to be endorsed by the tribes or Congress. The Indians originally claimed they are entitled to $25 billion and 12.5 million acres. Under the terms of the agreement, the Penobscot Penob-scot and Passamaquoddy tribes number fewer than 4,000 members, would receive a large portion of Maine woodland without having to prove their case in court. March Air Force Base, California A B-52 Strategic Air Command bomber crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday morning, killing five crewmen and injuring a sixth. The plane narrowly missed a civilian farmhouse farm-house but no persons on the ground were reported report-ed injured. An ensuing fire killed about 34 farm animals, however. The B-52 is designed to carry nuclear weapons for long-range, strategic attacks in the event of war, but the Air Force said the plane that crashed was on a training mission and was not armed. Washington Lung cancer among women has increased dramatically in this decade, according to a report published Thursday. Cancer cases generally have been increasing one percent to two percent a year since 1970 but the rate of lung cancer among white women has risen eight percent a year and nearly 10 percent among black women, the National Cancer Institute In-stitute reports. Lung cancer is by far the deadliest ; of : the three most common can-cersf can-cersf the other two being colon and rectal cancers can-cers and breast cancer. New York Actor Gig Young, best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in "They Shoot Horses Don't They?" was found dead Thursday in what police called a murder-suicide. murder-suicide. The body of Young's wife of three weeks also was found in the actor's 57th Street apartment. apart-ment. San Francisco A jury has awarded what could be the largest-ever medical malpractice payment to a teenager who was paralyzed after a dose of radiation destroyed her spinal cord. Unless the decision is reversed by a higher court, Laurie Necochea will receive $7.6 million from Mt. Zion Hospital. Miss Necochea was paralyzed in 1972 while undergoing six weeks of radiation therapy for a slow-growing and usually treatable form of thyroid cancer. Washington Birth control programs in some of the most populous nations may have defused the world's population time bomb, according to two Chicago sociology professors. Demographers Amy Ong Tsue and Donald J. Bogue of the University of Chicago said Wednesday Wed-nesday that in most developing countries, birth rates have been declining faster than expected. A report published by the team noted that ten years ago experts were predicting mass starvation, star-vation, world chaos and possible world war by the year 2000. "If recent trends continue, the world population crisis appears resolvable," the study concludes. Tom Ligare Mount Air Mall 649-9161 - f t. ' ' ' See me for Homeowners Insurance torn State Farm-the world's largest." i 3 Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. STATE FARM State Farm Fire and Casualty Company Home Office: Bloomington, Illinois publish someone's first story or poem." The editor recalled the first edition of Silver Vain in the spring of 1977, composed mostly of the works of friends he had contacted. Now a manuscript arrives nearly every day, creating not only a wealth of talented pieces to draw from, but also the unenviable task of rejecting. reject-ing. "It feels awful." Louis said. "I agonize for a week before sending a rejection. I started out writing letters, but now I'm swamped and can't spend that much time." Louis said he feels proud at the nuniuer of talented artists seeking page space in Silver Vain. One such skillful contributor, Blair Fuller, was chosen by William Abrahams for inclusion in his distinguished yearbook Prize Stories 1978: The O. Henry1 Awards, published by Doubleday. His story, 'All Right." first appeared in Silver Vain One. Despite the ulcers and headaches of publishing, Louis said he was encouraged encour-aged and excited at the success of the magazine, and called this, Silver Vain Three, "our best one yet." Editor Hank Louis He's Got Silver In His Vains .,.-y x r I i3 There are weather vanes, arteries and veins, and the shamelessly vain. And there is Silver Vain, a "little" magazine maga-zine now in its third publication. It is a collection of fiction, poetry, art and photography contributed by knowns and unknowns from the big city and Park City. It is painstakingly pains-takingly produced and published pub-lished by f-Right Press and can be found on the shelves of most bookstores in Anchorage, Anch-orage, Denver, San Francisco, Francis-co, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, as well as in Dolly's, the Kimball Art Center and The Newspaper. The detailed pen and ink cover drawing by local artist Val Kaminiski beckons the reader inside, where the gray linen pages are graced by other resident talent, including E.E. "Doc" Murd -ock and L.W. Offret. The brainchild of Park City publishers-editors Hank Louis and Barbara Barry, Silver Vain appears thrice yearly in a purposely limited quantity of less than 1,000 copies. "We want to keep it small and intimate," said Louis. "That insures the quality." Although the magazine reflects re-flects a regional flavor, the editor noted that the emphasis em-phasis is a rural, rather than Wester, attitude. "We always al-ways want to combat The New Yorker because it's so urbane." Louis attributes the birth of Silver Vain to a need for a national vehicle for poetry and fiction. "Younger writers have a terrible problem being published pub-lished and exposed," Louis said, an involuntary grim-mace grim-mace crossing his face at the thought of rejection slips. "It's for my own exposure and other young writers. And it's a little bit daring to I? 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