European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July w7 the stars and stripes Adfle 27 indians ask world help Denver a twenty4hree Western Indian Are seeking the help of Oil Rich Arab and to lilt world nations to develop vast uranium and Coal reserves be Neath their two meetings have been held in Washington Between representatives of the Council of Energy resource tribes and six member nations of the organization of pc Tro Loum exporting an Indian spokesman a third meeting 19 to be held there this said Peter tribal chair Man of the Navajo nation and chairman of the Council of Energy resource the indians going outside the coun try for help because of what hey Call fed eral tape and Macdonald said were looking information Princi Macdonald believe they have a certain amount of information and technology thai would be most valuable to interviewed by Telephone from the Navajo reservation in window declined to identify the coun tries with which Cert met on june 28 and 29 in he said the discussions were initiated by the indians and that a statement would be issued afle the meeting this the 23 tribes represented in the discussions include the Chippewa Cree and they represent about two thirds of the native american and their reservations Are spread Over 10 Western states from the Dakotas to Washington and South to new Mexico and according to estimates supplied by a spokesman for the about to per cent of the nations uranium reserves and about on third of All the Low Sulphur strip Nable Coal in the country lie under those a spokesman for the Bureau of Indian affairs in Washington said those estimates Arent far the Federal government now is working on a Complete Survey of re sources on Indian the spokesmen said the first Ever done by the Federal Ingmar Bergman May get apology from Sweden Stockholm a tie swedish government is considering an apology to film director Ingmar Bergman who left Lytje country after a lax a government spokesman said in an interview with the Stockholm daily Dagens Nyseter the government and the country would very much like to apologia to if this would Maku him return to Sweden and enable him to continue his work minister of education Janerik said in the Ingmar Bergman is one of Sweden s Foremost cultural it is there fore very distressing that he will not work in the minister currently vacationing at a Small Island off the swedish East said he is moved by the but it is impossible for me to return to Sweden before Ive got an engage ment in West lha will keep me abroad for at least another three Bergman Rome buses doubling fares Rome Puli the City trying to make the deficit of the Macdonald said open representatives at the meetings held in Washington were receptive to the indians but he refused to provide details of the Dis weve found How Energy companies have dealt with them in the past bad leases and on sided Mac Donald we wanted to see if they could give us some technical assistance we cant get from the United states govern the Council of Energy resource tribes has asked for is million in Federal Fuis i to develop their natural the Bureau of Indian affairs in Washington last week said the figure hits been Cut to the Blas acting Deputy commissioner for Indian Ted said Friday that the Cut in funding was primarily the result of the slowness of the govern ment appropriation one million dollars is a considerable amount that requires time to Analyse and he said were not refusing Macdonald said of the but he added thai the funding cutback typifies the problems the indians face in developing the resources i think they feel Unco fort Balij and threatened that the Indian is going to manage his own the Federal trustee of Indian has left the indians completely void of any technical knowledge that would be natures Fine cutting Edge from the air it looks like a held tilled with freshly Elled Christmas Trees ready for shipment to the expert cutting Job was the result of a windstorm which flattened Trees in the area of a Accident cause is disputed pipeline blast blamed on electrical foul up raise fares to 22 Alaska workers in a pump House that exploded into rubble on the alaskan pipeline said Lale Siil urday that an electrical malfunction caused a valve to spewing Oil which ignited and blew the buildings Shell 300 feet into the air Alyeska pipeline chairman said the Accident which filled one worker and caused millions o dollars in damage would probably be attributed to human Herb of eng said be was in the building when the valve opened by Hobson i dont know if it was a signal or an electrical malfunction but it did open and there is no Way of stopping it once it it had to be electrical if be cause the valve is operated by an electrical he Frank of agreed the valve was we know it was because we bled the line we put the control on manual so we could control in at the valve site that Way no one else could control it must have been their statements conflicted with fallen who also said at a news conference in an chorale that the pumping station could be bypassed and Oil flow resumed in the pipe possibly in a matter of he dismissed reports from the scene that the inability to close a valve caused the tire which followed the he said All other valves around the pump Sta Tion were closed by Remote control within four minutes and that the failure to return one valve to Remote control was meaning needed to address the issues now facing Macdonald As a result of this Lac of expertise on the Energy companies have the upper hand in dealing with Macdonald in has led to a feeling that the tribes bring exploited by the Energy he we find hot Many of the Ali in world nations have similar background and sin Ilar problems that Are facing the native he Macdonald said open nations have not offered to Aid but Utah May come in the lie said that even if greater Federal funding is the indians will continue their talks with open nations mine blast probe is find open lighter a an open cig Arette lighter was found near the bodies at the four miners killed in a methane Gas explosion deep inside a Coal mine according to Federal mine because of he obvious Specula Tion is that the blast happened when some one lit his lighter for a said Ray supervisory Engineer of the mining enforcement and safety administration but we plan to look further before a formal pronouncement is he adding that mesas safety guidelines absolutely prohibit fire or smoking of any kind in an underground Coa digging of firing Ottense smoking has never been tolerated underground and even carrying a match or a cigarette lighter into a mine is a firing of another Mesa official Ross said Friday the cigarette lighter was found lying on the mine car the four victims were Wing to retrieve equipment from a shall abandoned in talc the dead miners were All found lying around the basques set out on Freedom March Madrid up ii armed with Knap sacks and nationalist Basque activists set out sunday on a Freedom March for regional autonomy and total the which will end 28 in the City of began from four separate Points in the Spanish Basque a fifth column was also scheduled to set out from the March fell within efforts by Spain various Independent minded regions to regain or win Home Premier Adolfo Suarez government has announced that in favors such autonom ies for the Basque Region and other government sources said some marchers set off from the Basque shrine of some 400 from the town of and Small groups from Salvatierra and the government has not authorized the March but authorities were not expected to harass the Effort by left Wing and nationalist groups to try to foment Basque patriotic the two leading and moderate political forces in the Basque the Basque nationalist party and the Spanish socialist workers party pop have not supported the Freedom March which the parties leaders said they Felt