European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes May 1977 Africa warns Rhodesia on Oil by Kenneth freed Washington a South Africa has threatened to Cut off Oil supplies to rho Desia if that nation tries to obstruct a Quick Transfer of Power to rhodesian and diplomatic sources in rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith was told that South Africa will not Supply him arms if he tries to forcibly retain the sources in South Africa told Smith that he will have to leave office in line with a British plan to establish a Constitution pro Viding a rhodesian government run by leaders of the Black British foreign Secretary David Owen has been actively promoting a plan calling among other a constitutional conference to arrange an immediate trans Fer of Power to rhodesian Owens which also provide for direct american participation in Rhode Sian settlement have been rejected by at least two major rhodesian Black Radical one reason for their rejection is septic ism that Smith will willingly give up Power the South african threat is expected to go a Long Way toward convincing Smith that a loss of Power by the White minority is Rhodesia depends almost entirely on South Africa for Oil As Well As any military or political american intelligence experts say that a White refusal to accept a constitutional settlement will Lead to a full scale guerrilla War which the Blacks Are bound to win in the Long safely at sea the Owen plan replaces an earlier scheme designed by former Secretary of state Henry that proposal called for an interim government in which Power would be shared by Whites and Blacks until a full Transfer of political control to the Blacks could be the Kissinger collapsed be cause Smith insisted that Whites retain key positions in the interim including prime minister and head of the nations police and defense the Black leaders rejected the South african position on the Owen plan runs contrary to that nations Public last South Africa said a rhodesian settlement was an internal mat Ter and it would not try to influence events by pressuring South african prime minister John Vorster actively urged Smith to accept the original Kissinger approach and the and diplomatic sources say he is convinced that the rhodesian Whites cannot hold Power under any Circum Oil spill off Florida breaking up Miami i a a 60milelong smear of Oil which floated dangerously close to the popular tourist beaches of the Florida keys and the continents Only living Coral reef began breaking up still safely at coast guard officials but cleanup Crews were kept nearby in Adair and Texas team Cap North sea Bravo i continued irom Page ii ecological said Frank commanding officer of the coast guard strike team at san a norwegian government pollution government Agency official reported sight Ings of dead Birds but said the Slicks effect would be surprisingly neither the consequences of the Blowout on the infant North sea Oil the Cost of the Accident to which is legally responsible for or its cause was the norwegian which shut Down the entire Eko Fisk Field thursday be Vance continued from Page i that withholding of Aid should be Only one Vance showed a Clear preference against negative saying that whenever possible we will use positive Steps of encouragement and rather than underlining past statements by Carter and others that the United slates should set itself out As an exacting alone to protect human Vance talked of an International a he stressed the role to be played by the United regional organizations and multilateral economic groupings in promoting human but he noted that Quick results Are in we recognize that Many nations of the world Are organized on authoritarian rather than democratic he we can nourish no illusions that a Call to the Banner of human rights will bring sudden transformations in authoritarian ufos i continued from Page la me he was a very open minded individual and it was showing a change in the Atti tude of the american hews said he understood one of Carters Campaign promises was that he would make disclosures about government investigations of he said the air Force concluded in after 20 years of that ufos posed no threat to society and it released its ufos files to the Public last no cause of what it called a safety has started an investigation into the including the possibility of criminal neg i circumstances surrounding the Blowout suggest human error As a Factor in the rupture which spread about tons of Oil on the surface of the North the resulting Slick extended Over 170 Square Miles saturday but it was reported that less than 25 per cent of that area was completely covered with Robert Phillips Engineer ing told reporters that the Adair team modified a capping technique that failed three times on thursday to bring the Well under control when the Force of the Oil burst through the momentarily closed Blind the simplest Way to describe what we said is to say that we made the rams close More tightly by lengthening a Hydraulic Piston which activates the when the Piston was lengthened the closing pressure became after the Adair team shut the stopping the they bolted a Hood and a valve on top of the Blowout preventer Ai the Well sports in Brief Buenos Aires api the Man aged to stay alive in Davis cup Competition saturday by beating Argentina in the doubles match of the american zone americans Sherwood Stewart and Fred Mcnair Defeated eur Alvarez and Ricardo Cam reducing Argentina Kad in the Besto five series to Vienna up the undefeated soviet team captured us sixth consecutive win saturday by defeating the s2 in the world ice hockey National league Houlton do Odd 0000 pud urge is my 19110 Mclay Golm Larton Iii end Teune is and Oil 13 up k Niec Tny 111 or Stargell 111 american league Settle 001 000001 110 new com 000 0 Pagan 111 and Iii and Munton up 11ii Fri Munwng Jashawn Slown Iii loom mo1110 Minnesota 0 Arroyo ii and Zann Itoi 4nd flog Mann hive of Oakland 100 Dolton jilolk111 0 ban sen Uro Turgor ii and hams Anlou Ondr and 111 Wil Harrusib Case remnants of the Brown stain began washing and coast guard vessels and air planes launched a search for the Tanker responsible for the polluting All major concentrations Are coast guard spokesman Dave Tail said right its just a Light Sheen on the he said the spill was being broken up by currents and the some fragments of the spill were moving closer to he bul it appeared that none of it had damaged beaches or the underwater reefs of Deli living the River of Oil was discovered it extended from off key Largo in the Northern keys to near about 50 Miles Northeast of key the ranging in concentration from thick globules to a Light was first found seven Miles from the nearest but Only two Miles from some offshore Coral the formed by billions of tiny Ani Are protected by Federal and state Law against collectors who have stripped Many of the jewel like formations from the Tail said the Oil apparently floated Over some of the reefs without damaging there were no reports of fish or Birds being affected by the officials said the Oil probably was dumped by a Tanker Between 6 thurs Day and 3 u could have been spilled accidentally or dumped deliberately when tanks were they dumping Oil within the 12mile limit can be a felony punishable by a Fine and a year in officials were compiling a list of tankers believed to have been in the area when the spill we Are sending messages to All port officials from Maine to to let them know the names of the vessels and asking them to Check captains logs to see if the ships really were in the area during the critical Tail the coast guard can inspect suspect ships Only at us ports and authorities didst yet know if All the vessels travelling through the area in the past few Days were heading for american the port officials also Are going to take samples of Oil from All suspect Tait experts can compare samples from the Oil spill with Oil from ships known to have been in the Carfer aides confirm transition fund juggling Washington up members of president Carters transition team were Given More than in travel advances for trips they never White House aides acknowledged the advances were a cover for personal Loans to the suffers until their first Federal paychecks the aides while House spokesman Rex Granum said All the Money was Laler resumed to the govern ment transition during november and at least 73 aides to the president elect received Cash advances Lor More than 600 trips to that were never the destination was considered a code to show the Money actually was a the aides Granum generally confirmed a Story by syndicated columnists Robert Walters and Martha who Are doing a series distributed by the newspaper Enterprise association on alleged irregularities during the Europe Cloudy to portly Cloudy with Occo Thonol olt Renoon role Oer Howert in the and and Sunset sunday in Central Thunder Howert in and rain in int Jour sunday turn pm monday soot Frankfurt Heidelberg High Tow corded saturday 4 4 it 4 4 i 1 75 p 71 0 a r 1 it ii 41 Cle Loudy partly Cloudy 43 m cd 41 so 41 p 41 a a a so n r 2nd weather Wing Granum said the phony travel advances were requested from the general services administration because some staffers were not paid for six weeks or More be cause of a Long Startup time in setting up it was the Only Means Granum calling the existing proce dures a system that is relatively inf Lexi it was All paid Granum and that was the understanding right from the there was never any ques Congress allocated million for use in the period Between the november election and the 20 Gas was in charge of disbursing Money from the Angle and Walters said most of the Cash advances ranged Between 1200 to and some of the recipients were Timothy Carters appointments Secretary Barry Carters chief television adviser and Mary Finch Rosalynn Carters press i have no problem whatsoever with getting a salary Advance through a travel Jagoda was quoted As the scheme allegedly was coordinated by transition staffers Walter Kallaur and Jonathan who told the columnists Gas officials not Only approved of the plan but suggested there damned said the Gas official in charge of funding the they falsified travel advances without our
