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The Red and Black, Thursday, April 2k, 1977
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2nd nuclear test of year
detonated 1,950 ft. down
YUCCA FLAT, Nev. (UPI) - The second U S. nuclear test
of the year was detonated 1950 feet underground
Wednesday, causing “quite a thump" at the test site but
apparently going unfelt 70 miles away in Las Vegas,
The federal Energy Research and Development Adminis
tration said no radiation excaped from the test which was
detonated at 8 p.m.PDT, 11 a m. EDT.
An ERDA spokesman said the test went as expected and
was a "success."
The earth above ground zero leaped upward when the
nuclear device exploded, causing “quite a thump,”
according to observers on the perimeter of the test site.
The observers said they could feel ground motion but were
unable to determine its direction.
Two helicopters circled ground zero at detonation, one
with radiation monitoring equipment and the other with
closed circuit television cameras.
There were no reports of the test being felt in the Las
Vegas gambling resort 70 miles south of the test site.
Construction workers on high rise buildings had been
notified to find a secure place to stand until after the test.
Miners in the area of the test site also were warned to be
above ground at blast time.
Ethiopia backs down
on demand deadline
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (UPI) - Ethiopia backed down
on its demand that 320 American government employes
and their dependents must have left Ethiopia by yesterday,
but the U.S. Embassy said all except 10 persons were
leaving anyway
The government Wednesday said some 200 of the
expelled Americans still left in the country could stay on
until Saturday. The embassy said most were planning to
leave yesterday on a chartered World Airways flight for
Athens *
More than 100 left Monday and Tuesday.
When the leftist government issued its expulsion order
Saturday, it said of all of the persons connected with five U.S.
agencies it was shutting down would have to be out of the
country in four days.
Tuesday, the government said it would allow six
administrative staff members of the agencies to stay on
and Wednesday extended that allowance to other expelled
Americans still in the country.
Ethiopia's decision to order five U.S. facilities closed
came just 24 hours after the State Department informed the
leftist regime of plans to close the Kagnew communications
base in troubled Eritrea province.
Committee approves
reduced peanut supports
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Agriculture Commit
tee yesterday slightly fattened and then overwhelmingly
approved an administration-backed compromise plan to
reduce peanut price supports and save taxpayers an
estimated $900 million over the next five years.
The committee, working its way through an omnibus
farm bill which currently carries a potential price tag far
above the $2 billion a year set by President Carter as a
ceiling, also approved an amendment setting a mandatory
$4 a bushel floor under soybean supports for the next five
years.
The peanut provision would drop supports for that
southern and southwestern crop from the $450 a ton
scheduled for 1978 under existing law to $420 a ton for the
1978 through 1982 crops.
The plan would also make a cut of nearly 20 per cent in
the amount of acreage eligible for the new support rate.
Growers holding planting allotments would be able to use
the acres ineligible for the basic support to grow additional
peanuts for sale at a world market support of about $200 a
ton.
Turner forces resignation
of 2 agency employes
WASHINGTON (UPI) - CIA director Stansfield Turner
has forced the resignation of two agency employes for
“endangering" the organization with unauthorized activi
ties. a spokesman said Wednesday.
Turner, who took over as CIA director two months ago,
said in a statement "there is no suggestion of a
conspiracy" in the activities of two employes in assisting
former CIA agents in "unauthorized activity which cannot
and will not be tolerated."
The statement did not identify the two employes who
were described by the spokesman as "not supergrades. 1
nor were any details supplied on the nature of their actions
Archbishop of Canterbury
meets with Pope Paul VI
LONDON (UPI) - The Archbishop of Canterbury left
London yesterday on an ecumenical pilgrimage to the
major seats of European Christendom and his first meeting
with Pope Paul VI Archbishop Donald Coggan left for
Rome for a series of meetings which could result in
approval of a common position on three doctrinal disputes
under study for 11 years, according to Anglican sources
Thompson plays with a subtle touch
By ROB ALEXANDER
Characteristically few, if
any, of the musicians who have
been a part of the amalgam of
British folk-rock tradition
known as Fairport Convention
have ever scored well with
American audiences.
Apart from the wider distri
bution of Steeleye Span and
Fairport, anglophiles have had
to explore the import bins of
record shops to find their
particular brand of folk tradi
tion.
Island Records has packaged
a two record set of one of the
most sought after imports of
1974. Richard Thompson's Live
More or Less) features his
first solo album with wife
Linda. The second record con
tains outtakes with Fairport
during the Leige and l.eif and
Full House sessions and pre
viously unreleased live per
formances.
Two of the more cryptic
songs on the studio album are
"Calvery Cross” and “The
Album
review
Great Valerio." Thompson's
ballads possess a dark, brood
ing quality that dovetails nice
ly with his trenchant guitar
style. Unburdened by exces
sive special effects, he plays
with a subtle touch, emphsiz-
ing the pacing between notes
and rhythmic lines
He begins "Cavalry Cross"
with a ringing guitar introduc
tion like it was an overture to
the apocalypse He continues
with a heavy backbeat to
accentuate this hoary Gothic
tale
On "The Great Valerio”
Linda Thompson's vocals add
a haunting flow to this meta
physical parlance of every
one's desire to be the great
hero of love. "We are all
acrobats of love,” mesmerized
by our own desire. Thompson’s
quiet sarcasm lies beneath the
hypnotic music.
This moodiness is broken up
with two reck numbers. "I
Want To See the Bright Lights
Tonight" sung by Linda and
"When I Get To the Border"
which speaks to all who've felt
"Monday morning coming
down on me.”
The former lead guitar play
er with Fairport Convention,
Simon Nicol, plays dulcimer on
a Bacchic “Down Where the
Drunkards Roll." a milieu
befitting Falstaff and a merry
band of strumpets
In a similar vein Linda sings
a lilting "The Little Beggar
Girl." Although not as soulful
as Fairport's periodic singer-
composer Sandy Denny, Linda
Thompson's more sharp-edged
voice arouses sympathy for
the lonely in "Has He Got a
Friend for Me?"
Richard Thompson's singing
has clearly matured since he
left Fairport in 1971. On "End
of the Rainbow" he sings a
sardonic ballad to his first
born He brings pathos to an
otherwise dreary spectacle He
sings more passionately than
in his earlier monotonic at
tempts
The ablum is packaged to
appeal to bo>h the aficionado
and the curious The liner
notes arc written by Sam
Sutherland, the West (oast
editor of Record World and a
highly literate writer He aiso
did the discography on Fair
port's Chronicles album
If you're looking for music
with a sense of histor and
mystery, Richard Thompson
will nourish vour soul
CLEP offers 75-80 hours,
but few take the tests
Few University students take advantage of a
national testing program which allows the
student academic credit without auditing the
equivalent course, according to Mrs. Wilma
Sanders of the University testing office. "Only
five or six students" take the tests which are
designed by the College Level Examination
Board (CLEP), a subsidiary of the College
Entrace Examination Board, she said.
Initially designed to help the non-student gain
academic credit for knowledge gained outside
the classroom, the CLEP tests are available to
any University student who has not enrolled in
the course he is trying to get credit for.
Of the CLEP test recognized by the
University, 75-80 hours of offered
The tests are divided between five general
exams (English,social studies, natural science,
the humanities and mathematics) and the
subject exams which test achievement in
specific college level courses. Each test is
scored and the student must make a score
above a level set by the University to gain the
credit Most of the tests are objective and last 90
minutes.
The tests are given every third week of the
month on campus and range in price from $20
to $40 depending on how many tests are taken
For more information contact the University
Testing Office in Academic.
Lear cancels, cancels
'Mary Hartman' show
MAYDAY
MAY DA
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Nor
man Lear’s strange soap opera
about Mary Hartman and the
freaky folks of Fernwood is
finished, finished
Well, not entirely.
True to his reputation for
doing things differently. Lear
not only conceited "Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman"
while it was doing very well,
he managed it so the charac
ters will not disappear
They will be lurking in the
video bushes like the Fernwood
Flasher, probably for years to
come.
Lear and Louise Lasser, who
plays the bemused Mary, told
a news conference Tuesday the
syndicated series' days are
numbered.
"Throughout television's his
tory. hit shows have been
allowed to run to the point they
fizzle out,"Lear said. “We
didn’t want that to be 'Mary
Hartman. Mary Hartman's'
fate.
"We chose to leave it as it is,
wrap a ribbon around it and
put is away with love."
“We have not stopped doing
it," Miss Lasser said. "We
have completed it. We have
completed a circle.”
They have not yet completed
it. With some 300 episodes
filmed in two years, the series
will continue for another 40
episodes, finally calling it quits
in July.
But after that, a Lear
assistant said, "most of the
characters will live on" in two
sequel series, “Fernwood
US.A ," and "Fernwood To
night" — which it has been
reported will be a music and
comedy format on the idea of
“what the Tonight Show would
be like it it was broadcast from
Fernwood."
"We now go to an anthology
type format." said Barbara
Brogliatti. vice president of
Lear's Tandem Productions
Co.
"We will go deeper into their
characters and deeper into the
town
"You're going to see a lot
more people in the town. You’ll
probably see a lot of guest
stars. The stories will be only
three weeks long and we’ll be
able to get prominent guest
stars to commit themselves to
that length of time."
She said money was not a
factor, that the series had
made up all its first year loss
of $1.7 million, and was still
profitable.
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Prospective middle school teachers will be offered a unique
employment and training opportunity at Jefferson Middle School for
next year, according to Bud Weston. Principal
"We are anticipating employing personnel who would want to attend
a summer workshop Jefferson on the Middle School concept."
according to Weston A stipend would be paid to all persons who
attend the week long workshop, plus they would be able to earn
two-and one-half Staff Development L’mU toward recertification and be
able to earn the required additional two-and one half SDU's during the
fell quarter." he said
Several staff positions are open at the school Any interested persons
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ATLANTA UPI) Georgia
Tech's Mechanical Engineer
ing Department has been
reduced to a third-rate shcool
by patronage in hiring and
firing, two former professors
said Tuesday
Dr Novak Zuber, who
resigned from Tech two years
ago this month, said jobs and
promotions were "decided on
the basis of loyality."
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