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Show & 4 jjjxjunrnr'ni The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, August 4 0, 1973 Jr By rivJc Associated Press Writer N. Hawkins - In a TIMOKO, CYPRUS field, goat herder Kouns Koumis sifts the dry earth through his fingers in frustration d He talks about what is on the minds of most of this Mednations iterranean island the farmers and shepherds worst drought Cyprus has faced in a century My father said they had a pretty bad drought back in hersaid the 1870, der as he watched the dust Cerslip through his fingers tainly no one here rempmbers anything worse Deceptive Green The only food growing for his herd of 80 goats are small cactus plants which have turned many of Cyprus fields deceptively green, but which "offer little nourishment for goats and none for other livestock. So like others, Koumis in foreign reserves, the government has been able to underwrite the drought which, nevertheless, has crippled development and led to a further gap in the nation's unfavorable trade balance. lion Fairly Strong Our economy is fairly strong now, notes an agriculturist If this had hap Ex-Dictat- Of Cuba pened years ago, we really would have had a calamity. Luckily theres full employment and people can find jobs to help them get by Dies at 72 (LPI) - Former MIAMI Dictator Cuban Fulgencio Batista, 72, died of a heart attack Sunday night at a seaside resort in Spain, according t close fantily fnends in Miami. lot will depend on next If year, says Michaelides. we have a vety good year, the damage will be minimized. But another dry year will really be a catastrophe A . 4 ,iWA ill 7 'j 1 'w The massive i4-k- , 45 yards high, was now slithering 90 percent more slowly towaru Nantua, thanks to dry weather, he said Others have had to cut their hungry flocks back Saves Skyline Normally Seryios sheep would graze free on crop stubble in wheat and barley - fields, but this year there We didnt were no crops. even get the seeds back, complained one farmer. . The Cyprus government it has lost more than 95 percent of it's cereals, 100 percent of fodder and more than 93 percent of the tobacco crop. The loss of olives and almonds is put at 50 percent and the citrus fruit crop dam- t. age is estimated at 25 I per-cen- Serious Problem . Rogiros Michaelides, direc--- ' tor gineral of the Department of Agricultture and Natural ' Rbsources, describes the prob-- ; and ; lem as very serious ; -- 1 losses at puts drought-relateI - $90 million I; I The government is lmport- ing more than 300,000 tons of feed and grain to Z ; meet the losses and is spend-- ; - mg more than S3 million for new seeds ; . d ' ; . ; C i , I y; - ; - Effects on the nation's water supplies also has been harsh as bore holes and springs have dried out and overworked water ground supplies are being damaged by salt water seepage Water is rationed m most places and only tourist hotels and related facilities are guar- anteed day. a supply No One hours a 24 Starves Unlike the drought-strickecountries below the Sahara in Africa a id in South Asia, no ne in Cyprus is starving and the situation has not reached the same crisis proportions n v - Although 35 percent of the population relies m some form of agriculture for at least part of their living, Cyprus so far has managed to absorb the blow. With an estimated $150 mil- - Oil Discovered Reuters News Agency The Teheran TEHERAN ; c newspaper Ettelaat said huge reserves of oil have near the been discovered Ahvaz oil town in South Iran. SXThere was no official com- ftent on report. - Sun-i'da- y y; - his country's drought problem, goat herder Kouris Koumis sifts dry earth. - : : x 18-- 3 Cambodians Gain In Fierce Attacks PHNOM PENH (AP) -Government forces moving behind American air attacks regained a village Sunday in fierce fighting three miles southeast of Phnom Penh At one point, U.S. air strikes were discontinued because troops of the two sides were so close to each other. The battle marked the heaviest fighting yet so close to the capital during the current series of Communist-leattacks. d Further down Cambodia's strategic Highway 1, field reports cud Khmer Rouge and North Vietnamesetroops were still in control, effectively cutting the highway. The government soldiers cleared the village, Veal Sbau, after a three-dabattle that Commleft heavy damage. unist-led m withdrew troops the face of overwhelming firepower but still held the stretch of Highway 1 beyond the village and were harassing traffic as far away as Deveth. 13 miles from the capital. Brigade Arrives y Reinforced by a brigade of troops from the front southwest of Phnom Penh, the government forces began edging . back into the village behind Advancing armored personnel carriers, they were met by heavy fire from insurgents concealed in bunkers along both sides of the road Sunday-morning- Insurgent troops apparently m good order, taking their dead and wounded with them. Some of the rebels slipped away by sampan down withdrew the Mekong River. Others retreated to bunkers along the to highway and continued keep the road closed. A government communique announcing that the highway had been cleared was contradicted by the field reports 4 Newsmen Hurt Four newsmen were slightly wounded during the Veal Sbau fighting. Career Opportunity : JERUSALEM (UPI) The city council bowed to international pressure Sunday and voted to restrict future high-ns- e construction to preserve Jerusalem's historic skyline. The council voted in favor for a graduated plan to limit building heights in the city. The decision, which can be challenged by public petition, must be approved by the national governments district commission. Demonstrating &&&&&&&& salesmen : KEEP OFF CrRASS.lj THE Ortho Mattress needs salesmen with management notential. New stores continually opening locally and throughout the U.S. Our top salesmen earn in excess of $20,000 per year. Now ir the time to join the Nation! largest and fastest growing bedding chain Salary PLUS commission, hospitalization, paid vacations. Applications accepted freta 10 A.M., to 2 6148 SOUTH STATE STREET tt An international heavy upsurge in fighting was reported across South , Vietnam. Saboteurs blew up a train 25 miles government northeast of Saigon, a..d a battle raged 50 nules south- east of the city. Viet Cong or North Vietnamese troops fired 300 mortar shells into the defense lines around the former Vietnamese capital of Hue m the far north. There was no official for the explanation stepped-ufighting in Vietnam. A p skirGovernment patrols mished with Communist-leonly two miles insurgents d from Phnom Penhs near Pochentong airport Samrong. Truck convoys laden with nee and other foodstuffs as well as luxury goods arrived from the port of Kompong Som on the Gulf of Siam and from m the Battambang north panel of architects, planners ami engineers urged the city last June to safeguard the skyline from jutting concrete towers before it was too late. Seek Arsonists ISLE OF MAN Twelve more detec(UPI) tives arrived on the Isle of Man Sunday to join the hunt for three youths suspected of starting the Summeriand Fun Center fire that killed at least 50 British and Irish vacationists. Another 49 were still unaccounted for. DOUGLAS, The death toll was reduced by one person to 50 after carrying out found that one autopsies recovered from the body entertainment center was in fact debris, police chief Frank Weedon said burned-ou- t Sunday. The total number of bodies recovered now stands at 50 . ., Weedon said Mom Killed, Girl Charged CANNES. FRANCE (AP) -Police charged a girl and two young men Sunday with torturing and killing the girls mother because she refused to allow her daughters marriage to one of the men. The girls name was withheld under French juvenile delinquency laws but officers said she and her companions risk the death penalty if convicted The mother, Jeanne Gneruc-ci- , a unmanned waitress, was found m her apartment early Sunday moi n- - ing, beaten and strangled. Police said a bucket of water beside her body showed that she was nvived by her torturers whenever she fell unconscious The girl was found bound and gagged nearby. But the knots were loose and immediately aroused the suspicion of investigators. Police said the girl confessed after several hours of interrogation and gave the names of her accomplices who were arrested fy?,. Associated Press Wirephoto The Cubs Scouting Hon cub, resti"g This week-olat Windsor Safari Park, doesn't seem to notice that he is breaking the law. LONDON on the lawn - ATHENS (AP) My heart pounded from fear. 1 thought to myself that they had little to lose after killing and hurting so many people was Kakkans Chnstos recalling the moment when he was hauled behind a bar along with 34 other hostages during a grenade and pistol attack Sunday at Athens International Airport. The incident left two Americans dead and about 50 other persons wounded. Pinned Down The wounded moaned and screamed for help, but we were pinned down by the two gunmen. They waved their pistols at us, Kakkans said shortly after his captors Kakkaris, a Athens hotel worker, was a passenger bound for London. It was a Women and covered with Gerald Stern, Pittsburgh. after the attack. Mid-vu-- Red Bullets We have made many conSoth countered cessions, Lao misPathet the Pethrasv, sion chief Now it depends on their side We have put the key into the hands of (Premier) Souvanna Phouma and the government of Vientiane Injure Journalists PHNOM DIA None of the four was reported to be seriously hurt m the fighting at Veal Sbao iking Highway 1, which insurgents had cut The government side, reportedly under strong pressure from Washington, signed a Feb. 21 peace agreement couched in Pathet Lao rhetoric that established, in tne words of one Vientiane official: My wife, she is my wife; your wife, she is my wife, too But - four-hou- Union officials said strike action will hkelv resume Tuesday. R. C. Smith, chairman of the Associated r cloudy and whatever its faults, the agreement at least stopped the shooting. In it, the Vientiane ReMONTREAL (UPI) newed contract talks between of Canadas representatives and their nonrailways broke employes operating r down Sunday after a session. 56,000-membe- however Railways Unions negotiating team, said the union found the meetings to be completely unproductive and so with any future talks as long as the companies refuse to make any concessions. g side gave up claim to the 80 per cent of Laotian territory that the Pathet Lao controls and also gave up half the national government The text mentioned withdrawal of Vientianes U.S. and Thai military allies but did not name the North Vietnamese, who are reported to have 504)00 to 70.000 troops m Laos. Most recently both sides have reported what the Pathet Lao bill as a major concession: Prince Souvanna will be premier of the new govern- CAMBO- were wounded Sunday in a withering exchange o$ smalt arms and recoilless cannon fire at a village thre miles southeast of thecapitaL The coming weeks will show statements such whether reflect true positions or barRegardless, poses gaining most knowledgable diplomats and observers here believe some sort of an agreement is not far off Shooting Stopped Rail Talks Fail In Canada Rift PENH, - Four journalists (AP) , The newsmen were French freelance photographer Bernard Sargos of Bordeaux, Columbia Broadcasting System cameraman Joe Yue of Hong Kong and two Cambodians, Co American Broadcasting soundman Van Tha and United Press international photographer Tea Kim Heang Associated Press special correspondent Peter Arnett reported from the village that government troops, backed by armored personnel carriers, moved through the are, by fire and in ihree hours regained 109 yards of highway. A Cambodian colonel uid U.S air support was stopped temporarily because the battle lines were only 50 yardi apart m places. Arnett estimated insurgent strength at between 300 and 500 men, armed with mortars, rockets and rifles He saw at least one government soldier killed and about 20 wounded recon-noitenn- g t r, h JEWELERS P0WERFU1 PLUNGES CLEARS Stern said he fled out of the when the shooting stopped. I walked by myself to the aircraft and took two pills, he recalled. airport Bloody Scene There was blood and broken glass everywhere, said another witness in Athens The attackers, identified by police as Arabs, held the 35 persons for two hours while they bargained in Arabic for a plane to the Middle East. The two men, about AGAIN that tick feeling when your toilet overflow NEVER TOILAFLO Toilet Plunger Unlike ordinary plunger, lbilaflex doe not permit compressed air or messy vater to splash back or escape. 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PLEADS Checks Slide Reuters News Agency -FRANCE NANTUA, Good weather Sunday checked the slide of a 12,000-torock down a damp hillside toward this frightened town, and plans to evacuate 1,000 people from its path were postponed. The danger has not been eliminated but it is much less than yesterday, a local official said. ment and there will be two deputy premierships. one for the Pathet lao and one fw Ibe Vientiane side (P) d 9 i -VIENTIANE, Laos The Royal Lao Government Pathet and the Lao have agreed in principle-oa joint government, but dragged-ou- t bickering over the details has blocked formation of the new regime V Mrs. Orlando they received Monday that and said word early Batista died of a heart attack at a hotel in Marbella, Spain, on the Mediterranean Coast not far from Malaga Piedra told UPI that he and of the Batistas, who live in exile in south Florida, I planned to leave later Monday for Spam. The death was also by Andres Rivero Agu- ero from hts Miami Home. Rivero Aguero was presidentelect of Cuba at the time of Fidei Castros rise to power. must The rainfall has been less . than a third of the normal an-- ; nual rate of 20 inches and , some areas have been dry for nearly 18 months. It is the ' least amount of rain received - - since the weather bureau began recording figures in Mr Piedra In nearby Aytos Seryios vilTheodosis lage, shepherd Bouroutl, 50, says he has been 'luckier than most because his ; ;wife has taken a job to buy fodder from the government ..and keep his flock of 90 sheep I alive. K R( 10 4a Groups Cant Agree On Yientiai e Rule or Wt rely on government support keep his flock alive Cypnot authorities estim; that as much as 25 percent the nation's livestock has been lost in the drought so far, many slaughtered prematurely because there is not enough feed. f, Bickering on Details WMf World Scenes Record Drought Hits Cyprus. 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