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Show 3." TV 6A SaH Lake Tribune, Monday, Dennis the Menace Juneo, 19T3 By Hank Ketcham Free Greeks Cool and Control Lava Flow Icelanders Fight Back to Save Volcanic Island Issue Call For Revolt New York Times Service - A call to the ATHENS Greek military to use their arms and revolt against the government was made Sunday by a royalist underground group calling itself the Free Greeks. army-backe- d .The group is beheved to consist of royalist officers ousted by the regime after the military takeover of 1967. Three weeks ago leaders of Uw regime, having failed to gain the support of the king for their rule, abolished the and monarchy proclaimed a republic. The Free Greeks, in a proclamation mailed to foreign correspondents here, said officers and men of the military should now fulfill their oath to defend the nation from internal and external enemies. Mom, how many more years of fun is there before I have to get married an settle down? N. Korean Rejects battle-honore- Proposal on U.N. name of Korea, be used for such a confederation. Seruce Los Angeles Times North Korean Premier Kim II Sung rejected outright a proposal by South Korea's President Park Chung I lee that the two halves of the divided nation agree to join the United Nations together, news reports reaching here Sunday indicated. Kim, in a speech to a visiting delegation of Czechoslovakian communist party and government officials, resurrected an old North Korean plea that the tw o halves of the country should first join in a confederation. TOKYO The North Korean premier did say for the first lime that wished to be his government The 12th hour has struck, the proclamation said. "The it power lies in your hands is the arms the country has entrusted to you: Rescue your colleagues who were ousted and humiliated, and many who are being tortured in the hands of the Juntas Gestapo, the military police. The allegation of torture apparently referred to naval officers held for questioning by military police after an abortive navy mutiny a month represented as an observer at the United Nations when any question pertaining to Korea was debated. That statement, however, appeared to represent the only point of agreement he had with Parks proposal. a8- d (Copyright) Sigurgeirsson, a physicist at some Reykjavik University, islanders stayed behind to try to cool and control the lava flow, which had begun to menace Heimaeys harbor and lifeline. HEIMAEY, ICELAND (AP) Imagine waking up one winters night with a volcano come to life near your home town, fuming, flaming, thundering and threatening to engulf you. Would you curse or tv? Or just leave? The 5.273 folk of Heimaey, in the Westmann biggest Island group south of Iceland, did all these things when erupted less than a mile from their village center Jan. Not Sitting Back in past volcanic disasters, local authorities concentrated on saving life and property, then settled back to wait until the earthly furnaces had spent Hel-gafe- ll themselves. But Sigurgeirsson took the attack to the elements themselves. He had established during the nearby Surtsey eruption 10 years before that flowing lava can be stopped and solidified if cooled to 750 degrees centigrade from its 23. Today they're fighting back. Their battle began even while the disaster was in its full fury. Most families fled the fumes and lava cinder. But led by Prof. Thorbjorn temperature of 1,100 degrees He had a readily centigrade. available cooling agent, the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Three days ter Helgafell erupted, Sigurgeirsson called for and got pumps, pipes and persoimel. Water Cannons First he set out to prevent the undersea lava flow from sealing the harbor mouth. This he did by aiming water that began itself to serve as a barrier. Sigurgeirsson set out next to cool a zone around the crater itself. He did so by leading a piping system up the western face of Helgafell where sprays of cold seawater began cooling lava streams edging down the hillside toward the dock area. This, too, worked despite a series of difficulties. Tons ef Seawater cannons, operating from the decks of small boats, against the basalt snield that precedes the seabed lava stream. At the height of the profesoperations, 18 pumps were directing half a miiliun tons of seawater a day against the lava flows. Within a week this spothad enabled the water-jet- s to penetrate the shield and to solidify the lava fireman, told how he and others worked 18 hours a day under the professors direction cooling sors on the pumps in the harbor area. I never believed the fessor's plan would work, he But then I got to understand his theory when I found myself on the pumps and could stop a burning rock ten meters wide by playing the hose on it. said. The professors idea changed everything. The harbor is the heart of Heimaey. If we had not stopped the lava the town would have died. land-base- d Ingi, a Haildor Port Saved To a degree their efforts saved the $100 million port and, in so doing, injected a new momentum inL, the fight-bac- DeValera Steps Down as Irish President for accounted Heimaey about 17 percent, roughly $17 million, of icelands annual fishing exports. Its harbor a home for 70 fishing vessels was at the center of all ac- DUBLIN (AP) Eamon de Valera, revolutionary turned statesman, bowed out of Irish public life Sunday with a sentimental journey to the scene of his 1916 battle against the British. Ireland, conscious that a historic career was ending, gave the president a huge and emotional sendoff. Thousands jammed around the gates of the presidential mansion in Phoenix Park, shouting "good old Dev and singing Auld Lang Syne. Ireland was technically without a president from the moment De Valera left the mansion that has been his home for 14 years. Monday marks the inauguration of Erskine Childers, a Protestant whose father fought alongside tivity. Now more than 400 of the islanders have returned to whats left of their homes. Scores arrive on weekend visits to help clear the buried roads and excavate their partly or wholly covered properties. Some 600 homes were de' stroyed or damaged The fightback will take years of toil and tears, said Heidmundur Sigurmuiidsson. w ho helps direct the six labor divisions on salvage work. Even then well only be back where we had to leave off so suddenly. De Valera in the Irish civil war of 1922-2- De Valera, now almost totally blind, spend his last day in office quietly at the mansion. In late afternoon he said farewell to his personal staff in the foyer with its bust of John F. Kennedy. Then, in black Hamburg hat and black overcoat, he walked slowly on the arm of his military aide to take his last journey in the presidential limousine. De Valera drove off with Frank Aiken, former foreign minister and a fellow survivor of the 1916 uprising. Both were clearly moved at the warmth of the crowd's farewell. More crowds lined the route across Dublin to Boland's Mills, a bakery where in 1916 De Valera commanded a detachment of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in one of the first sparks of revolt against British rule. There he heard speeches from representatives of the four provinces of Ireland reviewing a career that made him the focal point of Irish affairs for almost 60 years. he drove off to rejoin his wife Sinead at a retirement home rur. by Roman Catholic nuns m the southern suburbs. Finally De Valera will be at Monday's inauguration and at an interdenominational service preceding it at the Protestant St. Patrick's Cathedral. Calls for a mutual Korean reduction of military forces, convocation of a massive Korean national peoples assembly," and an overall approach to political, economic and other contacts between North and South were reiterated. Oufy after such a confederation was formed could Korea consider joining the United Nations and only then as one government, the communist leader was quoted as saying by Radio Pyongyang Saturday. Kim suggested, that the name, Koryo, a historical Since the North and South began governmental level contacts last July, the Seoul government has rejected, all such proposals as premature. Fasts But Remain in Russia 6: Scientists End x Reuters New s Agency hunSix Jewish scientists ended a ger strike here Monday which was called to protest the soviet governments refusal to grant them permission to emigrate to - - MOSCOW two-wee- k Israel. The six said they had proved they were their own masters. k spokesman for the group said they declared the strike to protest the principle of state ownership of people which he said was demonstrated in the Soviet Union. Reading front a statement prepared by the group, the f spokesman said the six had succeeded in attracting the toward scithe world to the problem of discrimination entists and specialists applying for permission to go to Israel. One of the striking scientists informed Prof. Yuval who together with six president of Tel Aviv University other heads of Israeli institutes of higher learning had that appealed to the scientists not to endanger their lives they. had agreed to end the fast. The six scientists were physicists Vladimir Roginsky, .Mark Azbel, Moisei Giterman and Alexander Voronel, mathematician Alexander Lunts and computer expert Viktor Brailovsky. atten-tionj- Nee-ma- n A Mrs . 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