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Show Page 4 Thursday, February 5, 1981 The Newspaper 1 nm ....... :: ,.. . ll aUfeSTcSS TTWrWft VL Tin TIN rrnrU : ' OPENING SOON at Shadow Ridge Elegant dining at its best. Private party facilities available. 649-4300 Ext. 515 KID' JM We've still a good selection of kids parkas, sweaters, stretch pants, bibs and powder shirts by Obermeyer, CB and Mother Karen's... PLUS skis by Rossignol, K2 and Fischer, boots from Garmont, Lange, Raichle and Dynafit, Salomon and Tryolia bindings and Reflex, Kerma and Barrecrafter poles all at 30 off. Shop while supplies last! MM 1700 PARK AVENUE, PARK CITY, UT. 84060, 649-4949 Open 8 -8 Daily )NAL Lima, Peru The countries of Ecuador and Peru battled for five days this past week over three border posts, then agreed to let matters rest with a Deacekeeping commission. The four countries on the commission the United States, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile were guarantors of a treaty in 1942 that ended an earlier border war between the same two countries. The three mountain outposts were located in the Condor mountain range, located 800 miles north of Lima on the western edge of the Amazon jungle. Both nations claimed they inflicted heavy losses. Even as the peacekeeping body was formed, Peru announced it had seized the last of the outposts and declared a conditional cease-fire. Ecuador abrogated the 1942 treaty nine years afterwards, claiming it gave too much land to Peru. The country's current president, Jaime Roldos, gave a harsh nation-wide TV address, saying he would accept a cease-fire that "respects the territorial integrity of Ecuador." He continued, "I don't believe in the word of (Peruvian) President Belaund after all the lies he has made." The peacekeeping agreement was announced in Brasilia after diplomats from the four guarantor guaran-tor nations met over a 20-hour marathon. Observers Obser-vers from each nation will begin overseeing a cease-fire as soon a formal agreement is reached. Dublin, Ireland An American diplomat's private appraisal of Ireland as "an isolated, provincial country . . . pretty small potatoes" was accidentally sent out with an embassy press release and was splashed across the front page of the Irish Times. Robin Berrington, the cultural affairs and press officer at the U.S. Embassy, Em-bassy, was recalled to Washington for consultations con-sultations over the affair. But Berrington said he had received letters from all over Ireland expressing ex-pressing support for his critical views on the country. "Ireland has food and climate well matched for each other: dull," said the letter, which Berrington had written to fellow diplomats in America. He called his job a disappointment and complained, "The high cost of goods, their unavailability, ... the constant strikes and the J long, dark, and damp winters combine to gnaw away at one's enthusiasm for being here. ; jfierrjing9despribed.the problems An northern Ireland as""a constant depressant," "but said the hottest political issue in Dublin was whether Ronald Reagan's ancestors really came from Tipperary. The one bright spot, he wrote, are the people, whom he compared favorably to "the insufferable in-sufferable English." Warsaw, Poland Progress was reported at ending the regional strikes now scattered throughout Poland, while government leaders there and in eastern Europe directed fire at the country's rebellious labor movement. Premier Josef Pinkowski reached an accord with the major independent union, Solidarity, on the five-day five-day work week issue, and the union called off a planned one-hour warning strike. Polish Politburo leader Stefan Olszowski said the strikes were motivated by "advocates of chaos and destruction." The East German news agency said the Solidarity was the first step in a plot by "anti-socialist" elements to undermine the Polish government. And Polish party chief Stanislaw Kamia added his voice to the attacks, charging the unions with barging into political matters. The leader of Solicarity, Lech .Walesa, traveled to the town of Rzeszow to take part in vital negotiations covering some 69 demands-most demands-most importantly, the demand by farmers for their own rural Solidarity. Johannesburg, South Africa Tensions between bet-ween black Africa and white-dominated South Africa rose after South African commandos invaded in-vaded Marxist Mozambique and destroyed a black guerilla headquarters an action that left eight people dead and several wounded. A top military spokesman said Johannesburg would "pursue the enemy where ever he might be found," and said the raid against members of the African National Congress (ANC) was mounted because of evidence the terrorist group was plotting plot-ting attacks against South Africa with the help of Cuban and PLO advisers. It was the first time the country had raided Mozambique, which imports many of its skilled workers from South Africa. The Mozambique news agency said the raiders killed ANC members, mem-bers, plus a South African soldier and a nearby motorist caught in the cross fire. Windhoek, South Africa An animal park here has prescribed the pill for female lions. Why the pill? Because vasectomies for the male lions were an impractical idea, say biologists. An excess ex-cess of food and water caused a population explosion ex-plosion at Etosha Pan National Park, and park officials say they decided to introduce family-planning family-planning instead of either killing the lions (too much criticism) or sell them (there's no market for them.) ; It is the first time contraceptives have been used for wild animals, although they are often used in zoos. The vasectomy idea was rejected because it would spoil the gene pool. NATIONAL Washington The Reagan Administration fired the flames of controversy this week, first by abolishing oil controls, and next, by jumping into a war of words with the Soviet Union. Energy Secretary James Edwards announced the end of price controls on crude oil, gasoline, and propane. Edwards said the action would raise the price of gas three to five cents a gallon, but consumer groups predicted the price would rise as much as twelve cents a gallon for gas, and ten cents a gallon for heating oil. Reagan promised decontrol in his campaign as a way to promote conservation and increase oil production. Secretary Edwards said decontrol would lead to a savings of 50,000 to 100,000 barrels a day. But, admitting he was "a little confused" about some of the details, Edwards was unable to say how much additional oil would be produced and how much additional profit would be earned by oil companies. Meanwhile, President Reagan has incited Russian anger by comments that the Soviets are atheistic terrorists bent on world domination. Moscow responded at first with blistering attacks at-tacks accusing Reagan of distortion, lies and hypocrisy. ("The kid gloves are definitely off," said a diplomat.) The denunciations even included in-cluded charges that the CIA was guilty of assassinations from Aldo Moro to Martin Luther King. On Monday, the Russian commentary took a more conciliatory tone. But Reagan continued the attacks. "They don't believe in a god or a religion," Reagan told newspaper reporters, "and the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the world of socialism." Lynchburg, Virginia In a recent magazine interview, in-terview, the Rev. Jerry Falwell lambastes President Carter for granting an interview in 1976 to "Playboy." Falwell's interview appears in the current issue of "Penthouse." But the embarassed minister, founder of the political-religious group Moral Majority, said that British writers Andrew Duncan and Sashti Brata obtained the article from him under false pretenses. "I do not give interviews to pornographic por-nographic magazines, nor do I practice swimming swim-ming in cesspools," said Falwell. A U.S. District judge denied the minister's request to halt distribution ofe issie,,foutFalweH,ispuiteuin a $10 million damage suit' against the magazine and the two writers . Judge James Turk granted a preliminary injunction in-junction halting distribution for three days, but ultimately ruled Monday in favor of "the public interest" meaning "Penthouse" 's 10 million readers. Falwell said the two writers told him the article ar-ticle would be used in a book and a London newspaper and not in any pronographic publications. Duncan and Brata, both freelance writers, say they told Falwell they would sell the article anywhere they could. Washington Education Secretary T. H. Bell abolished the Carter administration's proposed rules for bilingual education, condemning them as inflexible, unworkable, and costly. The decision brought cheers from some educators, but one Hispanic spokesman, called it "one more example that the Reagan administration is trying to disembowel the Hispanic community." The rules were proposed by former department depart-ment secretary Shirly Hufstedler last August, but were blocked by Congress. They would have stipulated that if a child had limited or no ability in English, he would be taught basic courses-math, courses-math, science, reading, etc. in his native language while receiveing instruction in English. The Education Department estimated the rules would have added between $176 and $592 million to annual schooling costs . "Nothing in the law anoints the Department of Education to be National School Teacher, National School Superintendent, or National School Board," said Bell. Salt Lake City The painting of a nude couple soaring in flight has aroused controversy if nothing else, so far at the second terminal of the Salt Lake City International Airport. A woman told the airport authority last week that the work by Utah artist Trevor Southey was repulsive and could excite people "to rape and kill." A representative for Western Airlines, which occupies most of the second terminal, said customers have threatened not to fly Western if the painting is not removed. Blanche Humphreys identified herself as a member of Citizens for True Freedom, and said she had worked with psychiatric patients. "That picture is one that could really incite possibilities," she said. But she was challenged by several other observers, including Joy Beech, the CTF executive director, who said the painting pain-ting did not meet the constitutional guidelines for pornography. U. of U. art professor Frank Sanguinetti said, "Anyone who wants to see nudity or genitals in that painting better take a magnifying glass." The most original comment on the art work came from a Western flight captain "The woman has too much drag and if she doesn't turn over soon she'll stall out," he said |