European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 8 the stars and stripes wednesday May 4, 1977 Back on Road mandate going to Vienna for Vorster talk sin stepped up Campaign to prod Rhodesia Washington api the Carter administration stepping up its drive for Black Rule in Rhodesia is sending vice president Walter f. Mondale to Vienna for strategy talks with South african prime minister John Vorster. The talks will be held toward the end of the month and will Deal also with Namibia Uio predominantly Black territory con trolled by South Africa Mondale. Who recently was Given special oversight authority for Africa will see Vorster As part of a trip to Britain. Portugal. Spain and Yugoslavia in addition to Austria. This will be the the second major Over Oil spill less than feared officials say  Al l the norwegian Oil directorate and Phillips Petroleum  tuesday a Grid that the Skof so Oil Field Blowout dropped much less Oil into the North sea than had been feared now estimates they presented tuesday said a maximum of 12. Pm ions of Oil probably less gushed from the runaway Well nil the Bravo platform before it was closed last saturday Ilia also could explain Why the Oil has disappeared Mueh faster than expected Oil directorate spokesman said after pianos discovered Only Small spots of Oil in four hours of searching tuesday. The biggest Slicks we could see today were Only some few Hundred Yards Long in each direction some 50 Miles off the Kkt Fisk area the rest of the Oil forms to have been broken Down by Waves the spokes Man said no More dead fish or Birds have Bee discovered since the Blowout was killed norwegian authorities said the disaster control renter established in Stavanger  after the april 21 Blowout will be closed hut both we and Phillips will continue constant Aerial and ship surveillance of the Oil until it has  melt Teu  the spokesman said seas venture for the vice president. In Jan uary he was sent by president Carter to France Britain West Germany Italy Belgium and Japan. Vorster has said his government would not succumb to external pressures to push Rhodesia into accepting an Anglo Ameri can plan for Black majority Rule. But since then British foreign Secretary David Owen has toured Southern Africa and to Gether with . Officials is trying to arrange a Rhodesia conference. Secretary of state Cyrus r. Vance will Confer with Owen in London Friday on prospects for bringing Black Rule to the breakaway British Colony. Vance will accompany Carter to an economic Confer ence  Africa upon which Rhodesia de pends economically assisted last year in former Secretary of state Henry a. Kissin Ger s efforts to arrange a transition government. Rhodesian Black leaders rejected the terms and the Carter administration s backing the British in a new at tempt to move directly to Rule by Rhodesia s 6.1 million Blacks. Here Loo. South Africa s role is Clasid ered critical. The administration has been working closely with . Bothe the new foreign minister who until recently was South Africa s ambassador Here. . Officials said Washington stands ready to cosponsor a conference with the British but several conditions must be met first. These include willingness on the part of militant Black leaders to attend and to commit themselves to results. Another condition is setting up a fund to compensate White property owners for losses. The administration is encouraging South Africa to relinquish control of Nami Bia which is held in Defiance of the u.n., and the Vorster regime has taken major Steps toward eventual Independence. J yanks jailed in Mexico ask to be britons Mexico City in Ali some 600 Amer Irun prisoners in mexican jails asked British prime minister James Callaghan  for British cilia ship since they were tired of waiting for Washington s approval to finish their sentences in is  fully re room i the unusual nature of this request but we witnessed and applauded your government s actions in Chile during the Pinochet coup d eat an Felt assured that the. British perspective is one of Honor and commitment to its citizen  i he prisoners said Man open letter. " to can Only ask that you treat this enquiry seriously and with a  of Rorn  the letter said we Are Soung and greatly desire to return to Freedom As useful and productive entities " the letter did not a what the prison ers almost Allf them jailed on or ii charges hoped to obtain by Hyntish citizen  s Congress has approved Legisla lion fiver int a prisoner Exchange but Washington has Yel to  United Stato government has made every Effort to delay their Obliga Tion the prisoners said Len. Franz Joseph Schulie commander in chief Allied forces Central Europe presents the Canadian army trophy to Cut. Turn Burnie Captain of tank gunnery winners the Royal Canadian dragoons s5-Man team that won the tank gunnery Competition at Bergen Germany. The canadians led throughout the Competition. This time in the Indian Ocean Kon Tiki Sailor plans new trip in Reed boat London a Thor Heyerdahl the explorer made famous by his Kon Tiki voyage across the Pacific Ocean is plan Ning a new voyage in a mesopotamian Type Reed ship Heyerdahl Hopes to establish by this trip that 5.000 years ago men were Able to Navi Gate Large ships to Given destinations in the arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean his two earlier voyages the 117 inca Balsa raft Kon Tiki and his 1970 Atlantic crossing in the egyptian papyrus ship a demo castrated that it was possible for Early Man to Drift across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for migratory purposes. Cuneiform tablets found in Mesopotamia the Indus Valley. Egypt and else where have proven to Archert ogints that Contact existed Between these societies Al though the travelling routes have remained mystery this trip is aimed at proving that civilizations used the sea route the new boat the Tigris will la built from mesopotamian Berdi Reeds according to Early sumerian designs. Like the a vessel the Tigris named after the mesopotamian River where it will be built will be made from several tons of Reeds lashed together with hemp rope and capable of carrying a Crew of 14 Heyerdahl Hopes the ship will be ready in Early november plans Are to sail the boat Down the Tigris to the arabian Gulf and from there into the Indian Ocean for a destination to be decided by the Crew after confronting local winds and currents. We will sail the boat As Long As it stays afloat and As far As it goes even if it takes  said Heyerdahl. The similarly built a i was abandoned after sailing from Egypt to just Short of Barbados when the ropes on the starboard Side chaffed off the a ii. Built after the failure of the first vessel made it across the Atlantic but was so waterlogged that barnacles were growing on the Frek which brought together teams from Belgium West Germany the nether lands the United kingdom Canada and the . Canadian forces photo 100 kids Hurt when balloons burst into flame Mexico City map More than 100 children were injured some of them Burin a and others trampled in the panic when Hydrogen filled balloons tied together burst into flames at ceremonies at tended by president Jose Lopez Portillo. Lopi i Ortillo. Who was not Hurt sus Pended the opening ceremonies of the National cultural. Artistic and sports games in the olympic velodrome in Mexico City s sports Center at the Eastern Edge of  witness said he saw someone throw a cigarette at a Bunch of about 30 balloons lied alongside the bicycle track in the Northern Section of the velodrome. Carter names 2 envoys Washington Lupe president Wirter has nominated u Douglas Heck of Clatskanie. Oreto be ambassador to Nepal and  Ridgway of washing text. D c., to in ambassador to Finland both work or the state department