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Show ' nindei iras knou VOL 384 NO. 75 54 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WEEKEND OF MARCH 27, 15 CENTS 1 976 n Utah territory as the 'State of Deseret' r METRO Vail crash Today in the News possibly caused NATIONAL GRAIN RESERVE should be to he,p cushion the inflationary shocks of the General Accounting Office poo1 ('0-05.uuge .ted tKivv The GAO report pointed out that invert u.ity whether "each year's crops will result or surplus" makes it difficult to deal with io D io? h.ii p hikes or drops m food production. (Challenges ii mg U S formers will be examined next week in a inof the par series beginning Monday on A reefed by frayed cable to-i- A-- 3 A frayed cable VAIL. Culo. 'AP) may have caused the derailment of two aerial gondolas that dropped 100 feet to the mountainside at the Vail Mountain ski area, killing three peopl .. a ski area official says "The ears looked like nvmgled tuna fish cans. There were ski poles sticking out of the top." said a skier ho arrived at the scene moments after Friday's crash, which also injured nine persons. Boh P irker senior vice president of V ill operator of the ski resort, confirmed witnesses' reports that a cable carrying the gondolas was frayed and acknowledged that the I rayed cable may have caused the accident Parker said the accident probably was caused by an exterior strand on the fMito foot cable breaking and dangling n nin the cable track He said the sti md probably became entangled with the first ear. which then fell off the line when it reached an approaching tower. "The second ear may have had the same experience." Parker "This is only speculation on our part." Parker said the cable was last given a thorough inspection in May 197a, but added that it w as inspected and greased weekly by Vail Associates. A U S. Forest Service team has been assigned to pin down the cause of the crash. The gondola lift, installed in ittif), has carried 5 million skiers 2,178 fet from the base of Vail Mountain. It has been used by President Ford during his Christmas skiing vacations at the mountain resot t. Witnesses said the enclosed each carrying cars collided when one broke six skiers from the overhead cable or hit a steel of the support tower about way to the mountain. Hanging by a thread in two gondolas that collided, above, but did not fall, terrified passengers await rescue. On the snowy slope below them lie the crumpled remains of the two cars that fell, killing three and injuring nine. PICKET LINES were removed and 15 hotel-- ' os' nos that account for up to 40 percent of Nevada's aombliiiq revenue were reopening for business tedav after a strike The stage hands were the ist to settle early today and an estimated 11,000 empluves began reporting for work. 1 LITTLE third car stalled on the cable and slipped backward, slamming into the car behind it, leaving both of those cars dangling precariously from the wire, said Howard Bronson of Vail, who was skiing nearby. Harriet Cooper of Wood bridge, Conn., who was in one of the dangling ears, said the people in her car noticed Chat a cable ahead of them was (rayed. PROGRESS MADE BEEN HAS in strike at the Ford Motor Co.'s x" ling Heigh's. Mich axle plan. The strike tremens to shut o'! ne firm's U.S. factories. The dwnute tenters on health and safety grievances at the plant to settle a THOUSANDS OF VACATIONING college jamming nearby Cocoa Beach, Fla., watched late Fridav as the Satcom 11 domestic communications satellite was launched into an elliptical orbit. A spokesman for its owner, RCA, said he was "absolutely overjoyed" with the launch. The satellite is capable of relaying 24 color television programs or 24,000 telephone conversations. stu-oen'- s AN EXPLOSION at a London exhibition of home products iniured about 25 persons today. First reports said a compressed gas cylinder exploded, but a Scotland Yard spokesman later said a bomb may have gone off. POLITICAL VIOLENCE FLARED in Argentina after a short lull following the military coup against Isabel Peron. But schools are open again and stores and factories are operating normally. Lt. Gen. Jorge Videla, the stern, anti Communist army commander who led the coup, has been named as president of Argentina for an indefinite term. Mrs. Peron reportedly is under custody, guarded by 600 so'diers, in a posh retreat owned by a provincial governrr ent 900 miles south of Buenos Aires. SOUTH AFRICA WITHDREW all of its troops rom Angola today, leaving behind thousands of Angolan refugees fearful of their fate under the country's Marxist government. China, meanwhile, accused the Soviet Union of 'naked armed intervention" in Angola in an attempt to grab the resources of central and southern Africa. ISRAEL WILL KEEP ALL OF JERUSALEM and maintain its settlement policy In the occupied two-thir- A r jt N0Vy s ' .VP ;tlA ti territories despite American protests. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the U.S. veto of an resolution in the U.N. Security Council did not erase the "grave significance" of a speech by William Scranton, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., calling Israeli policies "an obstacle to peace." gondola passenger is lowered to ground on a rope. A anti-Israe- They were planning to advise lift operators at the mountaintop. "Shortly after that the cars started to rumble and really shake." she said. "Then the cable began to really go up See VAH. on A-- "I CAN THINK OF NO PLACE where it would be easier or less expensive" to build a subway, said Treasury Department architect James K. Taylor in 1909. Today 66 years and millions of dollars later thousands of people waited in line for a free first-daride on the world's most expensive rapid transit system: Washington's Mefrorail. Only 4.6 e miles of the eventual system are ready for use, with another 13 miles scheduled to begin operation Jan. l y 7 -- Turkey pact goes to Congress 2 punch WASHINGTON 'AP' -Congress will be asked to approve a new agreement with Turkey to restore the I.S hits cancer ST. PETERSBURG BEACH. Fla iCPH A quick punch with drugs and one-tw- o radiation is producing dramatic results in prolonging the lives of a small group ot patients with the deadliest form of lung cancer. treatment The now has been under way at the .National Cancer Institute for a year and a half and it has more than tripled the remission rate for a lung cancer that annually kills 15, 000 Americans. "We can say without any equivocation whatsoever that survival is prolonged and the quality of life has improved," said Dr. Ralph Johnson in reporting the development Friday at an American Cancer Society seminar. Johnson said of 27 men and women given this intense new combination therapy. 2! are free of all evidence of cancer for up to it months. It was also disclosed at the seminar that teen aged girls have all but caught up with boy s in cigarette smoking, and the teenagers who smoke aren't convinced it's a serious health hazard. smokTwo studies show that teen-ageers are rebellious and more sexually active than nonsmokers. "Girls are joining in with the boys and smoking pot, drinking alcohol and getting in trouble with the authorities," the studies say. d military foothold tr.itegic country border on The agreement. m that the Soviet Mgncd on Friday alter three days ot meetings between Secretary ot Stale Henry Kissinger and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahsan Caglayangil. is seen as the most positive development in !'S Turkish ties in many monlh- - not Fait is believed to lac of si billion in until Monday evp-cte- o.recmen; ill, carry price lor Turkey during the lour-yea- r life of the accord. Tile accord is subject to congressional approval. Congressional sources withheld comment until details oi the agreement are made public. About two dozen F.S. instal lotions m Turkey, including intelligence facilities used for monitoring activities inside the Soviet Union, were shut down by the Turkish government last July. This ,h ,n retaliation for ihe decision by Congress to Iwisters rip Midwest United Press InieiTiational Tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma. Missouri and portions of the Midwest Friday-nightleaving a path of death and destruction. Heavy rain and stiong winds swept the South At least four persons were killed and several others injured by the twisters A tornado swept through a residential section of the Arkansas border town of Spiro. Okla., leveling buildings and crumpling mobile homes. At least three persons were killed and more than three dozen others injured. A National Guard command post reported rescue workers still were searching through the rubble for missing persons. 'The damage is tar worse than either the Tulsa or Stillwater tornadoes, there is no way to compare it." a newsman at the scene aid, referring to the state's last two major . 'omadoes. "There are homeless persons wamieimg all over the town. Confusion reigns. Cars are backed up making it hard for ambulances and emergency vehicles to get through "An entire section of the town is gone." he said. "The only power in town is from a few emergency generators." An elderly Sarcoxte. Mo., man was killed and his wife injured as tornadoes touched down in at least four southwest Missouri counties u-- i.ilit,. kism-josaid 'here is no mention ot the Cy prus issue in the agreemen'. Congress Jscuir"ntP weigh me new legislation aiiecting hill Turkey A would permit unlimited cash sales of military equipment but no U credit sales to Turkey. Senate-approve- riied Press International Jimmy Carter, confident of going to the Democratic National Convention with two thirds of the oelegates needed to win the nomination, says he could afford to lose the April H New York primary. President Ford, campaigning in California, today asked supporters of Ronald Reagan on the state Republican central committee to Minium and "walk with me on the to path of peace, on the read victo the on way prosperity, tory." Carter said in Buffalo Friday, I think we could withstand any severe loss m any particular state He ..r.d still win the nomination. ... id he New York voMig is more t important for Democratic rivals Morris Udail and Henry Jackson. Then he told 14 campaign contributors at small dinner his analysis of minimum and maximum numbers of delegates he should win in each state shows a figure of 1,000 delegates "within my reach." It takes 1.505 delegates to win the nomination, and Carter said he will be "'mpossihD to stop" if lie has 1.000 after the primaries. In a speech prepared for a midday meeting with the California Republican leaders at Fresno, Ford responded to Reagan criticisms that the United States has lost military superiority to the Russians "I havc taken affirmative action to insure that America's alliances are strong, our commitments are worthwhile, anu our defenses are without equal in the world," Ford said. "And let me assure you they are." Ford flew to California Frid.n for fund raising banquets in S..n Francisco and Eos Angeles, and was to go to Wisconsin later today Udail was in Wisconsin u Jackson in New Vu k Ronald Reagan speaks tonight m Richmond. Va.. m his first campaign appearance since his initial primary victory Carolina last Tue.-d.i;- .' Jackson Ijd a group in of North -- i ten m New capital investment for energy amounted to $4-- billion las! year, Jackson said, and "I'm talking toughly of an investment of 82 trillion n capital nue.-lr- u nt m tin- next c! s THE TEAMSTERS UN ION'S alleged connections organized crime will be investigated by a Senate subcommittee. Sen. Robert Griffin, who urged the comprehensive probe, said it will "delve into many troubling and unanswered with pornography The showing of "Deep Throat" in a rented Salt Lake County theater started as a joke nd 0 V C ved into a successful operation at another iocation. The proprieter of another theater moved to Salt Lake City after deciding it had "great potential" as a sex movies. On market for hard-corV.onoav, the Desvt et News' "Pinpoint" team wig begin a series of articles focusing on how lucrative the pornography films business is and trac'ng how came to Utah. twin-theat- 'escalating hysterically' BEIRUT i.APi - Savage e house-t- house fighting caged in Lebanesi towns today, and leftist Moslem armies vowed to continue the civil war until Christian President Suleiman Erar.jicli resigns unconditionally. "It's a day of armed madness, a wide open hell of hand com bat," a police spokesman said "The war is escalating hysterically- in Beirut and the rest of Lebanon. W7 Business W3 Comics A5 Comment AID Deaths Helping Hand W6 He said incomplete estimates showed 9(i persons were killed and 157 wounded by midnight Friday along the UTAH WEATHER " Udail tdi voters m the nation's tr. policy "is m crying need of total re" form lie recommended sml!",.: money in the highway trust umd mto mass t; aiisit Newspapers said the top leftist warlord, Kama! Junblatt. is travelling to Damascus with Palestinian guernlia chieftain Yasir Arafat for talks with Syrian Presulent Hafez Assad on ways ot ciidir.i; the 11 monh sectarian It has already taken mole than I non lives by modest ofticia! count It s ms overy'hitig hinges now on if tiie Junblatt t.aT.s v. da oi.te-miSwia. said a spokesni ei tor Moslem Premier Rashid Kiirann s six man co erment w bu h no longer giiv'rib force- - preNsuvmg Clinst'an With U t of ..oiii.is in i rut and the Molin' la baiioii. Junblatt aid he uoiil.t not hu-- go on ,,r.y t t tie- leftist demands con-iilc- ' l Vi 11 -- i ! W8 Living A6, 7 Sports W2 Theater VV4, 5 What's Doing W3 TV Today f 40 percent cnunco tonight and Sunday. Cooler. Highs in low 40s. lows around Cloudv with a frontline that divides Beirut into Moslem and Christian halves. The spokesman acknowledged that police estimates were largely guess-wor'since we have no real means any ni"i'c to get into the battle zones in Reinil or reach mountain towns where tight mg erupts 'fey 7 ones showers of ; gO n New York he fuot expanding the nation's science and technology to solve the energy cic is in an effort "greater than what we put into World War II and 's' AS V " Ms's d A MEW CRACKDOWN ON MEDICAID FRAUD and abuses that cost taxpayers an estimated $750 million annually has been initiated by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, but the department denies the campaign is an election year ploy. Federal and state examiners will begin the prube in Massachusetts in April and in Ohio in June. Lebanese war two-mii- Carter growing more confident 1 impose an arms embargo ..gainst Turkey after Turkey's i7! invasion of Cyprus in which American supplied arms were again-- l Greece, also a U S U'.S. aid reverses a pattern of competitive reprisals that recently have characterized relations between Pie tw-- old allies. About lour hours after the iir.al negotiatin'- - m .sion both Kissinger and Caglayangil signed th" document or their respec t. vc countries and hailed the accord as ushering in a new era ol F S. Turkish cooperation Details et the agreement are !t 100-mil- 23. 2, 10 C.cr,H Wasatch Front Vaiiay nor Thvvrst deserts; Clounv and cooler unt,i Monciov Good chur.re Q ratn Provo ana Wendov" 'Aiii hit 50, hiqhs esewhero 47 48 I OATS fcEkCOt-- 25 Zones 3, 4, (Delia. M.i tout. City, Sc"v'r VHovI - Cloudv a no homofmek rainy tonight .md Lows txyf 75 c.l Sio-Sjv- . Zone 5 i Utah's Dixie VtriHtVo cGudinoss Ath a Nil got cnanct' ot ram. High SJ. low 35. Zones 6. 8 Uinton Basin Carbon County' - Ciouay md cool Ath a chance of om tonight and Sunday. w ?8 highs around 50 Zones 7, 9 (Southeast I Gtnh. Powin Lake a Canvonlnnds, Cloudy wih 'ak.-- around chance of showers. Highs in the rrnd to upper 50s, except Vonfcello. 48. Lows will Fannie hom 25 in Monticeiio . to mid 30s in Moab ana ,0 tw National weethe? .map, urea wTiiiwt High y on A 1C. |