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Show Cage A6 - THH DAILY HLRAI.D, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, Swiss-Englis- A EN EVA balloon team as balloon the pagne approached the Mexican coast, "We're pleased that the Pacific G. HICGINS The Associated NATIONAVORLD balloon races over Mexico aboard jet stream h By AI.KXANDER ( March 17, l"WJ Press Swiss-Englis- is now behind them," Smith said. "It was a long crossing six days over the Pacific Ocean. It must be a big psychological barrier for the pilots to be over dry land." The balloon was flying at 34,000 feet at a speed of 87 miles an hour, Smith said. It was to fly south of Mexico City and on toward the south side of Cuba. h crossed into Mexican airspace late Tuesday, expecting to retain enough fuel to cross the Atlantic and become the first to circle the world nonstop. Earlier Tuesday the Breitling Orbiter 3 set a record for the longest distance flown in a balloon, passing the milestone of 14.2.JH miles over the Pacific, said Brian Smith, a flight controller at the Geneva control center. of Piceard Bertrand Switzerland and Brian Jones of England lifted off from the Swiss Alps on March 1. They crossed the Mexican coast near Acapulio at 9 p.m. EST, and expected to pass over the country in a mere five hours. Smith said. The support crew in Geneva popped open a bottle of cham The team earlier Tuesday had received permission from Mexico and Cuba to fly through their airspace, meteorologist Pierre Eckert said. Smith said weather conditions were good for the team. "The skies are starting to clear and they might see some of the lights of Mexico City as they fly by. That would be lovely." If the team makes it to North Africa, possibly by Saturday afternoon, it will have traveled more than 26,000 miles and Piceard and Jones will break a record that has eluded the world's top balloon-ist- s for years. "If I get there, I really won't be able to believe it," Piceard told Swiss Television. The Breitling Orbiter's path near the equator had caused the team communications problems the huge silver balloon blocked the capsule's antennas from connecting with the satellite nearly straight overhead. The team had to rely on a ground station in California to relay radio messages to their V i" Jones and Piceard, who had drifted as slow as 30 mph sometimes, finally reached a jet stream southeast of Hawaii for the trip to Mexico. Smith said the balloon likely would be able to maintain its speed as it crossed Mexico, and was on track to fly south of a 1 88? 123cm nCa "- p& If L. Ringling Bros, challenged the Ringling's own consumer surtrademark. In December 1995, vey "tended to disprove rather the U.S. Trademark Trial and than to prove the required Appeal Board approved Utah's threshold mental association of request to trademark the phrase. the marks." "When asked with whom or Ringling Bros, then filed suit in January 1996 under the what they associated the comSince 1S72, Kingling Bros. Federal Dilution Act, which pleted phrase, 'The Greatest & i!il Barnum Bailey took effect that month. The act Show on Earth,' virtually every Combined Shows Inc. and its is designed to protect famous inside Utah and consumer indicated in predecessors have billed their trademarks from uses that outside Utah reus as "The Greatest Show damage it. one way or other that they only U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis in Earth." Utah began using associated Ringling's circus tie "Greatest Snow" slogan in III of Alexandria ruled that with that phrase," Judge James !!i52 to promote could not Bros, Ringling stop Dickson Phillips Jr. wrote in and registered it as a use of the snow slogan. He said the unanimous ruling. the company failed to prove tare trademark in 1975. Utah uses the "Greatest The dispute with Ringling that consumers were confused Snow" slogan in tourism adverBros, began when the state by the similar slogans. tising and on license plates. A of the State officials had said an pplied for a federal trademark panel rom the U.S. Patent and 4th U.S. Circuit Court of adverse ruling could force them Office in 1988. 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