New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 086, No 156, 7/29/1982." 86, 156 (1982)
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1982 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 7-29-1982 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 086, No 156, 7/ 29/1982 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 086, No 156, 7/29/1982." 86, 156 (1982). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1982/82 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1982 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NEW MEXICO-------------- ______________D_______,.....a____,.-i 1y Lobo Vol. 86 No. 157 Thursday, July 29, 1982 U.S. support of PLO tied to asylum offer CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) ~ Presi The delegation, after visiting dent Hosni Mubarak told a U.S. Syria, Lebanon and lsrael, met with congressional delegation Wednes Mubarak for 75 minutes at AI-Oruba day Egypt will give refuge to 3,000 Paiace. Rahall described the talks as of the Palestinian guerrillas trapped ~"very good, very frank, very in Beirut if the United States de straightforward.'' clares support for a Palestinian The congressional team, which homeland. also includes David E. Bonoir (D Israel is demanding that all 6,000 Mich.) and Mervyn M. Dymally (D Palestine Liberation Organization Calif.), is on a fact-finding tour that guerrillas agree to leave Lebanon as also will take them to Jordan and a condition for ending the war there. Saudi Arabia, The "basic message President Mubarak addressed to us is that the In Beirut, Israeli jetfighters and United States must reevaluate its gunboats pounded the dty for the current policy with regard to west seventh straight day Wednesday in Beirut into a long-term peace, a what an Israeli official called a comprehensive peace in the Middle warning to the PLO to agree to leave East," Rep. Nick Rahall (0-W. Va.) Lebanon or face "hell." told a news conference. The Palestinian news agency Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio) WAFA said 28 people were killed or said Mubarak told the group "he wounded in the latest attacks, which Joe Cavaretla would be willing certainly to accept followed Tuesday's devastating raid IT'S A MIRACLE/ Michael Roms, a UNM accounting student, and his brother, Gabriel, crawled some Palestinians - the figure on uptown Beirut that killed 120 out from their overturned vehicle with minor injurie_,s after an accident early Monday evening. 3,000 was mentioned - only on people and wounded more than 230 others, nearly all civilians. They were traveling northbound on 1·25 near Lomas when their car flipped over the center the condition that some hope would be given." guard rails into the southbound lanes and came to rest on the roof. Two other cars were The airstrikes coincided with Rep. Paul McCloskey (R-Calif.) involved in the accident. ~ U.S. envoy Philip Habib's return to added, "On the hypothetical Lebanon after a meeting with Israeli thought that if the Palestinians had Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the hope of a homeland, then he Jerusalem. Damage settlement fair, motorist says (Mubarak).lhought the Palestinians Just three hours after Habib land Don L. Hart to end a high-speed chase that had why they were being stopped. "The could be evacuated and dispersed in ed in Beirut, Lebanese Prime Minis At least one ofthe people who lost begun earlier that day in Socorro: State Police just said 'park your car various Arab countries. ter Chefik Wazzan said he was their cars to the State Police roadb The roadblock was successful and and get out,''' said Espalin. They f'But he could not consider tak trying to arrange for a cease-fire. lock on ·June 25 is happy with the was completed without serious in were also led to believe, at the time, ing, say 3,000 Palestinians, unless it But less than an hour after the compensation she received from the jury, but resulted in damage to at that they would not be compensated was clear they had the hope, ex cease-fire deadline, Israeli gunboats state. least four automobiles. for their automobiles; Gov. Bruce pressed by the United States con attacked as the Palestinians fired on "We have been compensated Robert A. Clarkson, 16, of El King announced on June 28, howev crete commitment there would be Christian East Beirut and nearby already," said Albuquerque's ~nna Paso, was arrested in the incident. er, they would "receive renumera hope for t"e establishment of a suburbs. Espalin. "They settled nicely He had allegedly stolen cars in El tion." homeland for them," McCloskey At the United Nations, Israel flat ..• fordamage to our car and for the Paso and Socorro and evaded seven said. ly rejected an Egyptian-French inconvenience.'' other roadblocks between Socorro Espalin said that, although she is McCll)skey said he would not re· proposal for a diplomatic settlement The roadblock took place when and Albuquerque. happy with the compensation, and commend the Reagan administra based on mutual recognition be State Police stopped privately own given a choice next time, she would tion recognize the PLO until the tween Israel and the PLO. The ed automobiles and used them as a The citizens who sacrificed their not volunteer her car for a similar group fittnly and explicitly recog Palestinians earlier said they were barricadejust south of Albuquerque automobiles were allegedly not told roadblock. nized Israel's right to ex.ist. receptive to the plan. New science probes Sundagger's secrets Michael Richie On both the autumn and spring equinoxes, Chaco Canyon has long been known as the one dagger first appears over the large spiral, center of the ancient Anasazi empire. Near its widening into a thick band as it moves down entrance, on an isolated butte 500 feet above ward right of center. Then the second dagger the desert floor, stands the Sundagget. For forms a triangular patch over the smaller spiral centuries this baffling sun calendar wrought and lengthens downward through its exact from native stone has been marking the sol center. stices and equinoxes with moving daggers of The mathematics behind the Sundagger's light. Its recent discovery has. added feat are quite complex. Anna Sofaer, the tremendous impetus to the fledgling science of Washington, D.C., artist Who "discovered" Southwestern archeoastronomy. the sundagger in 1977, writes, ..The place The Sundagger can be considered .a highly ment, size, shape of the slabs, the orientation accurate instrument that unequivocally marks of the cliff face, and the positions and sizes of the four most important dates of the solar year. the spirals are all criti~al. A change in any one Sunlight is channeled through narrow spaces would change or eliminate the images. No one between three large sandstone slabs leaning component dominates in such a. way that the against a cliff on which are pecked a large and others could be left to chance.'' a small spiral. This arrangement of rocks Several researchers working in Chaco Ca changes the suns horizontal motion across the nyon have posed some serious questions with sky.into finely controlled vertical motion of respect to the actual Sundagger' s significance. light daggers. The most important dispute concerns whether On June 2!, the summer solstice (the the three large slabs fell into place or were longest day of the year when the sun takes its purposely placed by Anasazi astronomers. highest path across the sky), a thin blade of • Sofaer and her colleagues, in an a_rticle pub· light. appears near midday above the large lished in Science, conclude ''several pieces of spital, lengthens downward, pierCing the ex evidence rule against the slabs having fallen act center, then passes out the bottom. Mid into their present positions naturally. '' A U.S. way through its path, the dagger is centered Geological Survey report, however, states both vertically and horizontally . withi.l'l the " . • , weathering allowed the block which spiral. The whole motion takes just 18 mi· formed the slabs to rotate, slide, and ultimate• nutes. ly fall into place without human interven Six months later, on December 21 (the win tion." ter solstice and shortest day of the year), one Still more questions arise regarding the ex dagger of light moves downward along the tent of human involvement. Sofaer's article right side of the larger spiral, and then another Michaal RlchliJ states the slabs are "partially supported by moves down the left side. The two daggers buttressing stones'' atQul'ld their base and both frame the large spiral, leaving it "empty ()f LA FAJADA BUrrE (view is looilng toward the southwestl: To view the · the cliff face and the inner edges of the slabs light,'' then disappear downward. The whole Sundagger, one mu•t climb to nearly the top of thi• butte at Chaco Canyon, show signs of reworking by the Anas:li to process takes about three hours. NewMe111co. continued on IMg• g . • t " ~ .- ' ; f . .~. ....... :~ Page 2, New Mexico D~ily LQbo, July 29, 1982 Page 3, New Mexico Daily Lobo, July 29, 1982 Wire Report by United Press International ,International News Wednesday was the start of a 90-day grace gious feelings but I do not see how they can Bethe said he saw no need to develop the period in which people were expected to sur extend tnem to include prehistoric Peru," he MX missile and the B-1 bomber, but said their Student Book Store render their weapons, but many people said.