European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jf0T" tuesday october 14, 1966 th6 stars and stripes find May be piece of colossus one of seven wonders of the world Athens Greece up divers May have discovered Par of a Gigan tic Bronze statue of Apollo set at the Entrance to the Harbor of the Island of Rhodes and included among on of the seven wonders of the world an official said sunday. Two divers have been searching Rhodes Harbor for traces of he statue said Cap. Loannis Georgakis Rhode port police official contacted from Athens by Telephone they say they have discovered Metal object approximately 4 meters Yards Long and i meter Yard wide he said. This May be part of the Torso of the colossus or it May be something else it is Loo Early to let at this stage he said. An official of the National tourist organization nto on Rhodes said further details on the find would be released nest week. We cup Cal the archaeological society 10 make a statement next week Spyros kale his director of the Rhodes nto. Told up. A woman lecturer at a dutch University Elcani Apostolopoulos Hook and frogman a Andros Eleftherios dived Friday to i depth of up to 120 feel to search for the statue after dutch clairvoyant sic Rcd them to its location press reports said sunday. The reports said the dutch clairvoyant Anna Dankbar had for a Long time been pressing for a search of the Harbor after seeing the giant statue under mud in the ancient har Bor. Apostolopoulos Hook is still Uncertain whether the discovered Metal object ii pan of the colossus or not. To re. _  stirs a  fit 4sfl ii of Tiv the reports  appears to be made of Metal she was quoted in the reports As say ing but the results would have been More exciting if we had More Tim and better  she said a second team with Belte equipment will make further Miyei into Rhodes Harbor once permission for this is granted by the Rhodes port authorities and the greek archaeological  legs of he 90-Fcol-High Colos sus of Rhodes which historians Saywas set up in 290 . And ii consid ered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world straddled the Entrance to the bustling ancient port of rho  show that the Sale of siege artillery that Demetrios polio Keles had presented to Rhodes at the end of his unsuccessful siege in 305-304 . Financed the statue s construction. Apollo was regarded As the protector of  said a ministry of Cul Ture official. The colossus head was probably framed with Sun rays and in the right hand Apollo held a Torch which also served As a Lighthouse for  historians believe earthquakes in 225 . Toppled the statue sending it crashing into the Aegean sea. Bui superstitious Rhodiane did not apparently iry to bring the huge fragments to the  Rossiter an expert on Greece said the pieces were brought to the sur face eight centuries after the devastating earthquake by a a tradesmen. They sold the pieces to jewish Mer chants in Mesa who carried the away on 900 camels to be melted Down and resold he said. School do s find Gold mine in 137-year-old diary Madera Calif. A dung along forgotten 137-year-old diary 200 southwestern children plan to publish historical account of the Southern Over land route used by the forty liners Loet to California s Gold Rush. The group of mostly eighth graders Infix school in California Arizona and Texas is editing the unpublished 500-we memoirist William p. Huff add Njg maps and hundreds of footnotes throughout. Tutsi year or. Huff is our teacher said Michelle madelta 13, of Easton a cob school in Madera where schoolchildren held a news conference to announce tie project although he died 100 Yean ago next month Bis Genius will live on. Anna Brandenburg also 13, of o Henry Junior High school in Austin. Texas Caia the project would give the children a Chance to contribute to their heritage. Thi will be a Little bit of history thai we be saved from being loss she said in a Telephone interview thursday. Besides the Long lost diary the teen agers Are using hundreds of primary an secondary historical resources such Ai census tracts letters and contemporary biographies to verify huffs lairs and his detailed observations of mud of the2,000-mile Trail from Eastern text to Mariposa county Calif., in Gold Rush country East of Madera. We be got a sleeping historical pan Here and these kids have been charge with bringing it Back to life said Wil Liam Coate the Madera teacher who started his class on the project last month. A class Coale taught two years ago published the minium Chro Nides a fictionalized diary of the lives of a real life Pioneer family in nearby Chowchilla. The Huff diary recently was discovered by his Ereal Greal grandson David Stewart of Austin. It contains what som believe May be among the besi records Ever Kepi of he forty niner Trail. Stewart heard about Coate when the teacher was in Texas working on another class project. He contacted him and offered his Grai great Grandfather s diary. Your Hope As a historian is to find this kind of journal said Thomas an Drews executive director of the historical society of Southern California in los Angeles John Hosmer i class Ai Green Field country Day school in Tucson ariz., i researching huffs journey through Texas Mexico new Mexico and Arizona to the California Border. This is in a funny Way a kind of voyeurism said Hosmer who holds Adoc Torale in history. I be never seen Slud Enli become to ferociously fascinated with a  Huff was a newspaper editor in Chetiny Texas town of Richmond when he caught Gold fever and organized an expedition of 23 to Mariposa county. Among the travellers was Henry Smith first provisional governor of Texas. Besides being & journalist. Huff had been an Amateur Scie Lisl dabbling in botany geology and palaeontology. He even tried his hand at poetry. His diary contains voluminous scientific notes but in also has tales of the Rigours of life on the Trail. For instance in describes a fight in wild West Casino Between two card Deal ers with swords on their laps. The Fig tends with the wife of one of them killing the other Man with her husband s  also has descriptions of cattle skulls containing notes left by starving pioneers. The diary is the work of an educated articulate person with a More scientific Eye than Moil Andrews said. Huff mysteriously slopped recording in his diary when he reached the Colora do River at the California Border. Telling the rest of the Story it the Challenge fac ing Coale s class. They be already discovered that there was no big Gold strike and thai Huff apparently returned to text in 1853. We will assume his identity. We Willic the trip with him in our  said Taunya Gaufin 13, of Madera libyans cleared of bomb charge face new trial _ _ i of a a. A y.mii-1 Cinnic ref the t Tiv Ink the Tiro Trutlion contend Ankara Turkey a Turkey. Supreme court of appeals a ordered a a canal of two libyans who tre a quilted of the charge of conspiring to kill a group of people in connection with the Lepied bombing of he . Officers club Here in april the defense lawyer Laid monday. The two libyans All Al Ece Fli Ramadan and recep Mustar Rohoma tar uni  another charge of possessing explosives and sentenced by a state Security court Here to five years in prison each. However in a ruling last wednesday the High court accepted the prosecution argument that the libyans should have been convicted of the More serious charge which carries a minimum prison term of 12 years said the lawyer gunner is Radenz. The lower court had ruled thai there was no Evi Dence to convict the libyans on the conspiracy charge. The libyans were arrested on april 18 near the club carrying bag containing six soviet made hand grenade. In an indictment based largely on pretrial Confes Sions of the libyans prosecution contended lha the two had plotted to bomb the club with the help of libyan embassy employees. The High court said the lower court had ignored the libyans pretrial testimony Kara Deniz said. Kar Adoniz also bad appealed asking for outright acquittal of tar uni and a lesser sentence for Rama Dan but the High court rejected the defense Appeal she said no Dale has been set for a new trial she added