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Show Fightfiimg ihodesicain limvcadleirs - SALISBURY, Rhodesia i UPI i The Zambian army was reported fighting Rhodesian invasion troops Saturday after massive Rhodesian air and ground strikes against more than 12 black guerrilla bases that may have killed more than 1.500 persons. A Rhodesian military communique estimated the death toll in attacks launched Thursday and Friday by Rhodesian warplanes and helicopter-born- e troops on the guerrilla camps in Zambia and Mozambique. Prime Minister Ian Smith blamed the Business Church, School 28 Editorial 57 Society Sports Obituaries bloody raids on what he said was Washington and London's failure to come through on a promise to arrange a cease-fir- e with the black guerrillas. "These things raids) are now taking place because they (the United States and Britain didn't live up to their obligations'' Smith told reporters, adding the raids could even increase in i the future. As long as the guerrillas continue attacking Rhodesia, he said, "we have a right to attack them at their bases." In neighboring Lusaka, official Zam bia Radio said Zambian troops were fighting Rhodesian soldiers w ho staged new attacks Saturday in addition to the bloody raids on the two previous days. Rhodesian military sources and black guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo. speaking from his home in Lusaka, confirmed the reports of fresh raids but there was no official word from the Salisbury regime. A reporter who acconpanied the Rhodesians on their strikes Thursdav said the Salisbury troops had established a "forward air base" inside Zambia and were keeping it in operation as late as 48 hours later One raid Thursday on Mkushi. near Zambia's northern border with Zaire and 96 miles north of Lusaka, was Rhodesia's most the strike of bush war. The Rhodesian military communique said an air strike was launched Thursday against "F C" camp at Chikumbi, 12 miles north of Lusaka, and other troops raided two other major terrorist complexes and nine satellite camps" in Zambia The communique also said Rhodesian forces struck several guerrilla bases in Mozambique but did not say how many nor did it give an estimate of the casualties inflicted Rhodesia said its total losses from in Zambia and Mozambique were one man killed and two injured The two injuries occurred when a helicopter crashed in Zambia "in difficult terrain " The communique said that "in addition to the casualties inflicted in the attack on F (' camp, a minimum of 500 the operations 1 PR A i Z i m babwe Peoples Revolutionary Armyi terrorists were killed" in the other attacks It added. Because of the w idespread nature of these operations, an accurate casualty count was not possible, but it is assessed that there were hundreds more killed This is substantiated by Zambian estimates that terrorist casualties, excluding F C camp are in excess of 1.500 dead." it saidr though reporters in Salisbury had received no such Continued on Page !) es-- I ui:tiii:h Mostly sunny today with cooler temperatures for the Provo to Ogden area; highs today in the lower 60s; probability of measurable rain 10 per cent; light winds. 49 33-4- Z 7 5 4 106TH YEAR, NO. 71 PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1978 1 1 - PRICE $150 PER MONTH 50 CENTS Feared Dead Coast Guard Ship Sinks In Bay After Collision - Coast REEDVILLE. Va. (UPI) officials held out little hope Saturday for 11 crew members missing from the cutter Cuyahoga, which collided with an Argentinian freighter on Chesapeake Bay and sank in minutes. Divers located the crumpled ship in 57 feet of water near the mouth of the Potomac River and reported no signs Guard & IP of life. Lt. j.g. John Kercher, commander of the Port Huron, a Coast Guard cutter assisting the search, said there were no air pockets on the submerged vessel and the 11 missing men could not have survived the Friday night accident. "There are no survivors, there are no survivors," he muttered to a throng of reporters on deck of the Port Huron. "The divers said there is no one alive inside the Cuyahoga." Petty Officer 1st Class Roger E. Wild, 32, of Newport News, Va., one of 18 men who did survive the wreck, said CREWMEN of the Air Force Rescue helicopter team he was below decks when his captain Utah County Deputy Sheriffs remain at the wreck site from Hill Air Force Base are shown just seconds after sounded a collision alarm. awaiting arrival of an FAA investigating team. Mr. He raced to the bridge wing just in Anderson was from Biackfoot, Idaho where he setting down in an open field behind Utah Valley time to see the collision with the Santa coached the Snake River High School Football Team. Hospital with the body of 36 year old Kurt Anderson, n t, Cruz II, a whose plane crashed on Mt. Tlmpanogos Friday night. frieghter bound for Buenos Aires. He said the Cuyahoga was struck on the starboard side and heeled 50 degrees, touching off a wild scramble as men on deck tried to rescue their comrades below. But the ship sank three to four minutes after impact and the men belor apparently went down with it. The 18 survivors swam through dark, WASHINGTON (UPI) U.S. chilly waters and climbed aboard, a mediators met with Israeli and Egyp- utility vessel that had floated free. "I wasn't cold at all until we got on officials Saturday and new tian to the crash site Saturday morning, and By JACK E. EMMERSON the Santa Cruz and held a muster. Then the was in treaty progress reported The crash of a light plane on the back returned with the body of the pilot, talks hours before the Jewish state's side, of Mt. Timpanogos early Friday Kurt Anderson of Biackfoot, Idaho, top negotiators headed home for head football coach of Snake River consultations. night claimed the life of a Idaho High School football coach High School, in a rural school district Israeli and Egyptian diplomats also enroute home to coach his team in an about five miles west of Biackfoot. held informal contacts at the Hotel evening football game. According to Sheriff Mack Holley Madison during the day in what apUtah County Deputy Sheriff's two young Provo hikers in the vicinity peared to be a significant departure Sergeant Gary Clayton guided a Hill of Emerald Lake, heard the single from Israel's usual refusal to negotiate Air Force Base helicopter rescue team engine plane pass overhead and then on the Jewish Sabbath. smash into high cliffs in the area. Their The meetings appeared to breathe subsequent search turned up some new life into the treaty at a time when VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope wreckage and after a seven hour hike progress had been stalled for most of John Paul II startled aides Saturday by through heavy fog they were able to the week. contact the sheriff's office and set President Carter held an unan- plunging into a crowd of 2,000 joursearch and recovery operations into acnounced meeting with the Egyptian nalists, shaking hands, laughing, extion. delegation Saturday morning after a changing quips and telling them he similar session with the Israelis late would like to visit Russia "when they'll Sergeant Clayton said Mr. Anderson let me." apparently was killed instantly when Friday. Roll-Ov- er his Cessna 172 slammed into the mounThe new pope spent the eve of his inIn addition, American mediator tain. "He was thrown clear of the crash Alfred Atherton conferred with both vestiture as the first pope in A Salt Lake County man was killed and landed on a nearby slope." at the Hotel Madison Satur- 455 years and first Polish pontiff in delegations and six others in the same hunting Sheriff Holly identified the two young day as part of a U.S. campaign to get history in an unprecedented session party were injured when the truck they men who heard the crash as Ben the stalled talks moving again. Israeli with journalists accredited to the were riding in rolled over Saturday Heaton, 18, 3750 N. 766 E. and Manuel and Egyptian military officials also Vatican much to the dismay of morning 25 miles east of of Heber City. (Manny) Kepas, 17, 3343 N. 350 E., who met informally. Vatican officials. The identity of the dead man will not told The Daily Herald there was The former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, "All sides feel that the talks were heavy be released until relatives have been fog in the mountains when they heard constructive and that progress has 58, archbishop of Krakow before his notified. an airplane. "It sounded real loud like been made," said conference election last Monday as the 264th sucWasatch County Sheriffs Deputy Ed we were out at the airport sitting under George Sherman, cessor to the Throne of Peter will be ofThacker said eight members of a an airplane," said Manuel. "The engine spokesman he spoke for all three emphasizing ficially invested with the title in a simhunting party were riding in the back of was going full throttle, like he was tryoutdoor mass Sunday in St. Peter's ple delegations. a truck on a ridge road between Mill ing to get over the mountain. Then all Sherman said Saturday's trilateral Square. Hallow and Wolf Creek when the truck of a sudden there was a crash and the talks last more than four hours, An estimated 3,000 Poles flew to Italy ending pulled onto a soft shoulder to allow engine stopped and we heard the at 2:15 p.m. on special charter flights to join world another vehicle to pass and rolled down wreckage falling off the mountain for Israli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan leaders and other pilgrims at the Idaho Athletic Coach, Dies in Plane Crash On BackSide of Timp In of inquiry is held. The accident occurred Friday, at 9:10 p.m. about six hours after the Cuyahoga left the Coast Guard's Yorktown Reserve Training Center. About half the 29 crew members were officer candidates taking courses at the center, officials said. The sunken ship was discovered Saturday morning about four miles north of Smith Point, Va. Divers, under a brilliant autumn sun and wearing bright orange wetsuits, searched the crumpled ship. The Santa Cruz was anchored about 200 yards (Continued on Page 2), coal-lade- 521-foo- U.S. Serves I realized how many people were missing." said Wild before boarding a plane to Newport News with the other survivors for a Coast Guard debriefing. Four crew members were injured in the accident, but Coast Guard officials said none appeared seriously hurt. Officials forbade interviews of the bridge crew because their statements will be given as evidence when a board jt 125-fo- Mediation ii JP Role in Talks - Investiture For Pope Set Today Hunter Killed, Others Injured - In rT THIS IS AN AERIAL I SHOT of the Argentine coal freighter Santa Cruz II after Its collision with the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga in Chesapeake Bay. The cutter sank and 11 crewman are feared dead. (UPI Telephoto) non-Itali- the embankment. Deputy Thacker said the victim was transported to Wasatch County Hospital by members of the hunting party. Efforts to obtain help by way of CB radio failed and part of the party started down out of the mountains with the victim. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital from head and chest injuries. Six others, who were riding in the back of the truck with the victim when the mishap occured were also injured and left behind at the scene until help, from the Wasatch County Sheriffs Department arrived to help transport them. Now You Know The full title of Pope John Paul II. according to Roman Catholic tradition, is John Paul II, bishop of Rome, vicar of Jesus Christ, successor of the prince of the Apostles, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, patriarch of the West, primate of Italy, archbishop and metropolitan of the Roman Province, sovereign of the Vatican City state, servant of the servants of God. about 20 seconds." young men are students at Timpview High School in Provo. Mr. Heaton said the accident occurred at 6:20 p.m. and they searched the area Both for about 40 minutes before darkness and heavy fog rolled in to bring an end to their efforts. But, before that, they found two seats and other wreckage from the plane including a large part of (Continued on Page 2) inauguration. The new pope met with the journalists in the Vatican's Hall of Blessings and delivered a brief address in French on the difficulties of reporting on the Roman Catholic church. Then, the stocky, white-haire- d former archbishop rose from his chair on a raised dais in the front of the hall and began to move among the reporters crowding close to see him. Call for Victory by Demos - CamROCHESTER. Minn. (UPI) paigning together for the first time since 1976. President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale appealed to Minnesota voters Saturday to continue the Democratic Party's lock on the state's two Senate seats and the governorship. Speaking in an airplane hanger in the southern Minnesota town famous for its Mayo Medical Clinic, Carter and Mondale both invoked the spirit of the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey to plead with sharply divided Democratic-Farmer-Labo- r Party members to reelect Sen. Wendell Anderson and Gov. Rudy Per- - Born to Woman in Jerusalem Quints - A JERUSALEM (UPI) gave birth to quintuplets by Caesarean spctinn Saturday and officials at Hadassah Hospital said the mother and three boys and two girls were in good condition. "I wasn't surprised well, maybe a little," said Mrs. Sara Wexler of Beershaba, who had undergone fertility treatments at the hospital. The three boys and two girls were reported in good condition and likely to survive. Their weight ranged from 3 woman and Defense Minister Ezer Meizman were to fly home alter the Jewish Sabbath's ends at sundown, bringing the talks to a sudden halt. Dayan said Friday he would brief Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem on a new U.S. proposal to break the deadlock. But he predicted Carter would eventually have to call summit to another Camp David-styl- e reach a settlement. Carter, Mondale Campaign Together in Minnesota; pounds, 9 ounces, to 4 pounds, 14 ounces, the hospital spokesman said. The first of the five, a boy, was delivered just after dawn Saturday. He was followed by another boy, a girl, then a boy and a girl. Mrs. Wexler said her family will need a new apartment, since the children will make their apartment, also shared by her husband's father, a bit crowded. She said she hopes local authorities will help them because her husband's two-roo- m pay as a factory worker will not cover the expenses. Looking tired and giving brief answers, Mrs. Wexler said "OK," when asked how she was feeling. She said she did not know she would have five babies, but was aware it would be a multiple birth. It was the third case of quints at Hadassah Hospital in the last seven years. The babies were kept in separate incubators in the hospital's maternity ward. Doctors said the infants' condition was the same as any healthy baby's. There were no complications during pregnancy or delivery. Mrs. Wexler had been kept in the hospital for the last few months, since it was clear that she would give birth to a number of babies. Doctors said the babies' chances of survival were improved bv the length 35 weeks of the pregnancy just under the normal period of nine months. pich and elect Senate candidate Robert Short. "The elections here are unequaled in importance in our entire nation," Carter said, imploring the crowd to "remember what happened to Hubert Humphrey in 1968 when our party was divided." "Give our party a tremendous victory," he said. Mondale said, "If Hubert was here today, I am sure he would say 'please sent Wendy Anderson back to Washington.'" Both Carter and Mondale made a point of pumping almost just as hard for Short, whose conservative primary campaign upset Rep. Don Fraser. the DFL liberal-winfavorite to finish the Humphrey term. g The president and vice president went on to Minneapolis for another major rally in their effort to holo. the state for the Democrats. Cdi'tel upened Hie Ldiilpdigning for Democrats in Wichita. Kan., where he signed a bill allowing China to buy U.S. (arm products under American-guaranteeloan programs. He signed the farm bill and stumped for local candidates in Kansas before heading for Minneapolis to campaign and sign a waterway toll bill levying ia't d (Continued on Page 2) |