Ships Rescue Yachtsmen

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"By dropping the shield of Jane's said the Soviets now have VERNON - The Board of Educa LONDON (UPI) - Soviet naval two aircraft carriers operating east tion, at the end of this school year, strength has been expanded far maritime security,” it said, "Western leaders have so far of Suez with at least two more approved a calendar for the coming beyond mere defense needs and now weakened their own position that expected in the next three years. year which included keeping the threatens vital Western lifelines iiaiirljrBlPr they are moving towards a position It said they have begun building the schools open on election day in around the Cape of Good Hope and in Fair Tonight, of vulnerability to blackmail. The first of a dozen giant 32,000-ton November. the Indian Ocean, according to the results of that blSckmail: depriva “Sovietsky Soyuz" class warships at Now the hoard, on request of Sunny Thursday authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships. tion of raw materials, markets and Leningrad, twice the size of strike Mayor Frank McCoy, will reconsider "The steady increase in Soviet Datalto on pago 2 the freedom of those friends who are cruisers earlier planned and then the calendar at the Sept. 10 board forces as Western numbers have abandoned by the U.S.Navy. meeting. declined dramatically has remained not strong enough to guarantee their own security are some of them." “It bristles with missiles and guns, Several of the schools are used as far beyond the needs of defense, can carry aircraft and can best be polling places and usually those Jane's said in a foreword to its 1979- Jane's said Western failure to protest Soviet moves into countries described by the old-fashioned title schools are closed on election days. A 80 edition. where there is no reason for their ‘battle cruiser,”’ Jane’s said. few years ago there was an accident The foreward was written by presence "is presenting the Soviet It said the Soviets also are building involving a student on election day Jane's editor. Capt. John E. Moore, a Forest Fires Vol. XCVIII, No, 268 — Manchetter, Conn., Wednosday, August IS, 1979 • A Family NEW Spaper Since 1861 • 200 Single Copy • 1St Home Delivered Navy with a series of bases and safe two more classes of warship capable and this caused concern among town former deputy chief of British naval BOISE, Idaho (UPI) - Fire havens which are remarkably of long-range operations - the 13,000- officials and some parents. crews concentrated their efforts intelligence. similar to those available to the ton “Ivan Rogov” class of landing In a letter to the hoard. Mayor Jane's said the United States and platform docks built to carry a bat McCoy asked the board to reconsider today on the northwestern comer other non-communist powers have United Kingdom 80 years ago." of the 85,000-acre Mortar Creek It said the Soviets are well placed talion of naval infantry, helicopters, the school calendar and to close the let their own naval strengths slump. hovercraft and supporting armor, following schools which will be used fire to prevent flames from It said the U.S. Navy, which had to interfere with the West’s vitaf oil lifelines around the Cape of Good and four “Berezina” class support as polling places: Sykes, Maple roaring into a heavy timber area. Ships Rescue Yachtsmen 976 active combatant ships at the end Hope at the southern tip of Africa ships of 36,000 tons with a surface gun Street, Skinner Road, Lake Street, The crews hope to establish of the Vietnam War. now has only 536 and in the Indian Ocean from bases in armament, SAM missiles and an and Vernon Elementary. a fire line there, v^ich would give and could be well below the 400 mark them a measure of control over Angola and Mozambique. tisubmarine launchers. The mayor said his request was by the end of the century. being made in order to avoid traffice the 3-week-oId blaze in Idaho’s picturesque but mgged Primitive At Least 13 Die congestion and possible injury to students attending those schools. Area. Ship Move Delay Seeks Dr. Bernard Sidman, superinten Forest Service officiais said dent of schools, who made up the they hope to declare the stubborn In Race Disaster calendar approved by the board, said blaze contained by Sunday. Crews from Arizona and New Mexico he doesn’t feel it’s necessary to close PLYMOUTH, England (UPI) - that’s usual.” were withdrawn from other areas Prisoner Exchange Pact the schools. He said Police Chief Rescue vessels criss-crossed the “I was sure this was going to of the fire Tuesday after they Herman Fritz said he could provide storm-tossed waters off the west happen because of the trend for were able to establi^ lines on the police service for the safety of the coast of Britain today, plucking sur lighter boats and I have spoken WASHINGTON (UPI) - The man of the Armed Services seapower rest of the fire — with the help of school children. vivors from scores of disabled or against this, but I was a voice in the transfer of four U.S. Navy ships to subcommittee. two days of cooler temperatures Monday night the board voted to damaged yachts in the worst disaster wilderness,” Turner said. Turkey is being delayed in an effort “If the Turkish government in and rain. Firemen achieved con rescind its previous action on the in yacht racing history. “My boat is a well found boat and to speed Turkish action on a prisoner tends to sit forever on the treaty, I tainment of the 10,400-acre Ship calendar but a motion made by At least 13 persons, including one we came through all right.” exchange treaty with the United can sit forever on the ship Island blaze Tuesday night. It had . Robert Schwartz to close all schools American, died in the storm that Authorities in England and Ireland States. Rep, Les Aspin, D-Wis.. transfers,” he said. burned out of control for a month. on election day and to add a day at slammed into the 330 competitors in coordinated rescue efforts and by revealed today. The treaty is not expected to be The Mortar Creek fire was bur Stadium Disaster the end of the school year, wasn't the prestigious Admiral’s Cup early today said 24 yachts sank or The treaty, signed this spring, is taken up by the Turkish Parliament ning away from the Middle Fork acted on. Fastnet race early Tuesday. Dozens were abandoned and 84 boats expected to be ratified by the Senate until later this year. Parliament is Body of a worker lies on a beam after collapse early Monday of the Salmon River in a were injured and 24 yachts sunk or when Congress returns from its not now in session and its members of the multimillion dollar Horizon sports stadium under con northeasterly direction — headed returned to port. will be up for election before a new Because several board members were abandoned in the force 10 (65 A Coast Guard spokesman at recess, but Aspin said he is con struction near O’Hare International Airport in Rosemont, 111. were missing the board decided it toward a heavy timber area. cerned that the Turkish Parliament session begins this fall. mph) gales. Land’s End said 249 yachts were ac “First, 1 am concerned about the At least five men were killed and about a dozen others injured. wouldn't be fair to recind previous The winner of the Fastnet, the last counted for and race officials at will be slow in granting its approval. action without them being there. Aspin, wbo initiated the delay of slow progress with regard to Cyprus, Cause of the collapse is unknown. (Copyright Chicago Sun- Quake Risks leg of the four-race Admiral’s Cup Plymouth said 171 people were series, was American yachtsman rescued. the ship transfer, also objected to the although it has now been almost a Times, photo by Sun Times staff photographer Jerry Board member Harold Cummings BOSTON (UPI) - A geophysics Ted ’Turner, owner of the Atlanta Many of the yachts continued the slow progress toward resolving the I year since we voted to lift the arms Tomaselli) said, “We would be doing a disser expert says New England’s Braves and skipper of the 1977 race. The Argentine yacht Acadia, on issue of Cyprus, which is still largely Rep. Les Aspin embargo on Turkey because we were vice to board members not here reputation as a high-risk area for America’s Cup winner Courageous. charter from its U.S. owners, was under Turkish occupation. block the transfer of U.S. Navy ships told that would speed progress on tonight. For the future conduct of earthquakes is unfair — since it’s Turner crossed the finish line at the first Admiral’s Cup entry over Among the Americans who would to foreign navies - an action he took Cyprus," Aspin’s letter said. meetins we should let it ride the way largelybased on .one big 1755 Plymouth aboard his sloop Tenacious the finishing line early today. be affected by the exchange treaty is in the case of the three destroyers “Second, 1 have been intimately in it is.

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