European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday september 2,1977 10,000-year-o/c/ baby elephant user Mammoth find truly Small Leningrad user up at first glance the soviet Union s 10,000-year-old Frozen baby Mammoth looks like a sleep ing elephant Complete with a curving trunk. It was hard to imagine that this perfectly preserved Little dark Brown creature with a few scraggly hairs actually roamed the wilds of northeastern Siberia centuries ago. Had it not died As a baby it probably would have grown up to be big and bold like his father with giant tusks and furry red hair covering his body. He was found Frozen in a solid Block of ice this summer the first baby Mam Moth to be discovered intact and is the current Pride and Joy of the soviet Union s natural scientists. After an official interview Vadim Zait Sev head of Leningrad s zoological Institute offered to show the latest find. Laboratory chief Michael Zaslavsky led the Way Down two flights of stairs to his subterranean Headquarters. The Small group stood in Zaslavsky s cluttered lab anxiously waiting for its chief to enter with the much talked about beast. Then Zaslavsky and two assistants entered carrying something wrapped in foam rubber. Steam like condensation Rose from the bundle As the three men hurriedly unwrapped it. A minute later and there it was a Mammoth which died at the age of 9 months then froze solid and was pre served in perfect state until dug up about 10.000 years later. Go on and touch it. It won t bite laughed Zaslavsky. The cold hard skin Felt rough and the few hairs were coarse like pig s bristles but the smallest details of the head and body were perfectly preserved. The three men then stood the Mammoth on its feet. The 140-Pound animal named Dima after the Stream where he was found in Siberia measured about three feet Long and almost the same in height. After 10 minutes Zaslavsky and his assistants carefully wrapped Dima up again and carted him Back to the Freezer. We can t keep him out too Long or he will Start deteriorating said Zaslavsky. This is the greatest discovery in the Field of mammoths said Zaitsev during the interview. The organs have been preserved and with today s level of scientific technology we can do extensive research. For exam ple today we have facilities to do research on blood and skin. This find should be very interesting for those in the Field of blood re search and  on june 23 a Bulldozer operator excavating a site for Gold prospectors in Northeast Ern Siberia struck a solid piece of ice in the permafrost. The curious worker examined the Block of ice and found that it contained an animal. He contacted the Magadan research Center 435 Miles to the South whence a scientific team was dispatched to bring the find to Leningrad in a specially constructed Container at a temperature of minus 40 degrees. We have a Mammoth committee which has leaflets printed and distributed to All construction workers to be on the Lookout for possible finds Zaitsev said. He said the first intact Mammoth was found in 1799, but As it thawed out it was eaten by dogs. In those Days it was no possible to preserve organisms he said. The second intact Mammoth was founding 1901 in Siberia and was preserved except part of its trunk which was also eaten by dogs. The furry creature is on exhibit at the Leningrad zoological museum which according to Zaitsev has the larg est Mammoth collection in the world. Certainly this latest discovery is thereat Zaitsev said. By using the radio Carbon method of testing we believe the baby Mammoth to be Between 7,000 and 10,000 years  he said about 20 per sons were involved in analysing the latest find including biologists geologists zoologists and other scientists. He said the baby was an example of the last generation of mammoths who roamed the Earth. It is difficult to say what caused the death of the Mammoth Zait Sev said. Maybe it drowned but we have Only been studying it for a month and that is not Long enough to  said the baby Mammoth froze very shortly after its death and therefore there was very Little decay. The stomach was empty but there Are traces of grass inthe intestines which indicates that he was  said after the Mammoth has been thoroughly researched it will be stuffed and put into a museum. During the research it will be com pared with the 1901 find Zaitsev said. We will study biochemical contents an take chromosome samples. The present find will also be compare with research into the elephant family. Attiat is the research will involve a genetic study of the evolution of mammoths to elephants. This is the first find we can re search by molecular  French condemn soviet restrictions on Airbus and concorde jetliners Paris up soviet authorities have banned the the French German Airbus from Landing in Moscow and Are deliberately blocking French demands to allow the concorde supersonic jetliner from flying Over Siberia government officials charged thursday. They said the negotiations on soviet Landing rights for both the Airbus and the concorde were stalled and there was apparently no Hope of seeing the soviets lift ing the ban soon. The soviet move is forcing the French government to fight on two fronts for land ing rights of airliners built in France or in cooperation with other european coun tries. France is currently engaged in a bitter Effort to overcome a concorde ban in new York. Transport minister Marcel Cavaille condemned the soviet attitude in a statement to la Dereche do Midi newspaper. The French government Cavaille said naturally cannot accept this discrimination against a plane whose production represents an important part of the work program of the French aircraft in  the communist party in Toulouse where the Airbus is built also denounced the soviet position. A transport ministry spokesman said thursday the soviets also Are refusing to Grant Landing rights to the concorde French British supersonic jetliner. France has applied for permission for the con Corde to land in Siberia for refuelling on a prospective run to Tokyo since its radius is too Short for a nonstop flight. The soviets Are claiming the Sheree Tirevo Airfield in Moscow cannot handle wide bodied aircraft such As the 300-Pas Senger Airbus the transport ministry spokesman said. He said the soviets also insisted that the French soviet accords on the joint operation of flights Between Paris and Moscow called for the use of equivalent aircraft. Re or a ? a -1%--," / of eve in i live we