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Show THURSDAY, WAY 1977 12, Fate Of Future Generations Hinges On The World Climate benign climate has smiled on the world for the last 10,000 years and civilization has thrived. But where things go from here is any- A Home Of 'Roots' A Surprise Alex Haley's African anwould never recognize his old homeland. On the other hand, Gambia might not be all that unrecognizable, despite some 200 years of change. After centuries of colonizing and a decade of independence, modern ways are still new visitors in this sliver of a country on the western shoulder of Africa. Yet there have been changes since the day when Kunta Kinte, "the African" as his descendants thought of him, was captured and sold into slavery in Virginia, cestor probably one s guess. The questions facing worried climatologists are: Is the world as a whole cooling off, and perhaps heading into another onset of huge ice sheets? Or are we instead warming the atmosphere of our planet irreversibly with our industry, automobiles, and land clearing practices? What sort of weather will our children know? The fate of nations and of millions of people may depend on the answers. "Whatever the answers, all agree there is a new factor in the game of climate change, a 'wild card' never there before man himself," reports Samuel W. Matthews in the November National Geographic. "FOR THE FIRST time in earth's long history, climatologists agree, human activities may be beginning to affect weather and climate on a par with natural forces." One expert. Dr. Reid A. Bryson of the University of Wisconsin, calls the overall effect of man's activities his smoke, tractor dust, jet exhaust, smog from cities "the human volcano." Man is indeed a factor in the climate equation, he asserts, and may be the decisive factor. Many scientific efforts are under way to assess man's impact on climate. The most detailed study of earth's atmosphere ever conducted will begin in as part of the United 1978 Na- tions' Global Atmospheric Research Programme. IN A period, monitoring stations, ships, planes, buoys, balloons, rockets, and satellites will attempt to track air and .han 40 years of virtual uhwnce. Glaciers in Aiasna and Scandinavia have slow- moisture movements and temperature variations over every region of earth's sur- their recession; some in Switzerland have begun advancing again. Yet. oddly, in the eastern Inited States, western Soviet Union and much of Europe the winters of 1973 through 1975 were the warmest in decades. And recent studies have hinted that the Southern Hemisphere maybe warming by at '.east as ed face. Meanwhile, temperatures continue to change, storm tracks and drought belts shift, volcanoes erupt, and inner churnings move conti-net- s and build mountains, which block and switch circulation of the atmosphere and the seas. Since about 1940 the average global temperature has fallen about half a degree even more in Fahrenheit high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. England's annual growing season shrank by nine or ten days between 1950 and 1966, and in the northern tier of the United States Midwest, summer frosts again occasionally damage crops. much as the Northern has been cooling of. There are some indications that the Northern, too, may be warming up. All this leaves the experts scratching their heads. Concludes Mr. Matthews: "Man still does not really know' what controls and changes his climate, his daily weather, his seasonal comfort, his livelihood, and the crucial boundary conditions of life." Remodeling year-by-ye- Free Estimates 2L I ( ACHE Wt Buy We Call JUNCTION TRAINS Used Toy Trains. 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Kunta Kinte today would find many of his Mandinka tribespeople, the majority of the population, speaking the strange tongue that slave masters taught him, English. It is the official language, adopted from Gambia's century and a half as a British colony. Since independence, Gambia has retained ties with London as a member of the commonwealth of Nations. Bathurst, However, Victorian-lookin- n toilet seat 1 12-- 2 the - NOW brass zinc pop-u- p heads head a key 399 outdo the Gambians in the British-educate- complete with chain capacity great for basement, utility less tubes reg. 22.95 light be adjustable brass jet pops up for better watering or full reg. 75c easy to install reg. 1.79 65$ My 11 OQ mowers d your choice once boasted: "There's not a cow in Gambia that doesn't know me personally." 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The country's leader is Sir Dawda Kairabe ROLLS sprinkler fluorescent fixture recessed different strangers, blond, cli- 2 silent switch quality receptacle ivory reg. 49C each gleaming white on wood install in minutes 500 reg. $5.99 Taiwan, now from the Chinese mainland are showing the people how to plant another crop, rice. Cotton, the staple of the Old South, might surprise him in eastern Gambia where it has been introduced as a new and promising crop. Back in Banjul, Kunta Kinte would find crowds of clothing that LIMIT switches & outlets river being diverted into flooded fields, where strangersChinese, once from helps make the tropical mate more comfortable. with ground 250-f- t. MPOJ'THWES TJMY 18; 197 half-millio- n lightweight wg house wire Ml 7 88 "THE AFRICAN" would find his people have become a nation of peanut farmers: 80 percent of the population are farmers, and in 1976 they produced some 140,000 tons of this number-on- e crop. He would see waters of the d 2 box buy now and save colonial governor at the river's mouth, is now the capital, renamed Banjul. blue-eye- Coupon Special 2-- full scat of the g & flT East74,h Saturday North a. m.-- 6 iSf p!m' jf Rebroadcasf The National Geographic television specials of the season will be this spring over the Public Broadcasting Service. The programs are "The Incredible Machine," March 29; "This Britain: Heritage of the Sea, "May 17; "Search for the Great Apes," May 31 ; and "The Animals Nobody Loved." June 14. The programs are scheduled for 8 p.m. Eastern lime, but times and dates of local showings mav varv. 1975-7- 6 , M..ii-i- ic . sfcU jr; h- - ArrteiT; :tt8 i&jas fjgjflj -- ..!r 1 K'mfU,Mmmm. |