European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 10, 1991 the stars and stripes a pages Yosemite Park Issue resolved Washington a the Interior department and japanese owned Mca inc. Agreed tuesday on the Sale of Mcay a Concession facilities at Yosemite National Park to a non profit foundation. The ownership by Mca a los an Geles based entertainment conglomerate of Yosemite Park a amp Curry co. Had been strongly criticized by Interior Secretary manual Lujanjr. Since Mca was purchased dec. 29 by Matsushita electrical industries a major japanese electronics company. Lujan said Mca would sell its Curry subsidiary to the National Park foundation for $49.5 million in 1993 when the government s contract with Curry expires. Curry operates a Broad Range of facilities in the Park including about half the hotels restaurants recreational facilities and souvenir shops. The 760.000-acre Yosemite Park established in�?�1890. About 150 Miles East of san Francisco is one of the most Beautiful and most heavily used a a a of the major a Crown jewel Quot National Parks. Its 3.3 million annual visitors rank it fourth in the 50-Park system. A a the agreement ends w weeks of verbal sparring Between Lujan and with representatives of Mca and Matsushita Over operation of the Yosemite. Facilities by a company owned by foreigners. Lujan accused Matsushita of a Burro Gancez and threatened to cancel Curry a contract for failure to observe a provision requiring his approval for a change of ownership of concessionaires. Matsushita and Mca representatives meanwhile accused Lujan of trying to extort Curry a assets estimated by the company As being a in excess of $100 million a by coercing them into giving the concessions to the National Park service for nothing. Lujan in turn said Matsushita representatives before the Mca Purchase was consummated offered just that donation of the Concession to the government a but then reneged on the offer. The Sale Price for Curry was about half of what Mca has said the Yosemite facilities Are valued but about what the Interior department has said they Are Worth. In return for allowing the concessions to remain in Mca hands until 1993, Mca agreed to donate $6 million to the Park foundation and provide a below Market loan for the eventual Purchase. A a cameraman gets shots of a Saturn Coupe at tuesdays preview for the North american International Auto show in Detroit. Pm to compensate dealers for lagging Saturn output Detroit up a Saturn corp. Said tuesday it will pay As much As $5.8 million to nearly a who dealers clamouring for cars because the general motors corp. Car making subsidiary is 45 Days behind on its production and sales schedules. At a preview for saturdays North american International Auto show in Detroit Bruce Macdonald vice president of communications for Saturn said slower than anticipated production at Saturn s Spring Hill term Complex is aimed at ensuring higher Quality Levels for the Small import com Petin cars. Macdonald also said a Lack of cars will delay startups for an additional 30 Saturn dealers until april or May they had originally been scheduled to open next month. A Saturn however has now solved drivability problems on cars with automatic transaxle which Are in higher demand than those with manual gearboxes according to Macdonald. A we done to have As Many cars out there As our retail partners would like a conceded. Macdonald displaying a shiny red Saturn so Coupe which recently followed Saturn a Sedan models into production. Macdonald said the compensation which ranges Between $50,000 and $100,000, will be reimbursements for certain fees related to the design costs of Saturn facilities. Most dealers have invested $2 million to $3 million to get a Saturn franchise those who have been asked to delay their openings will not be compensated Macdonald said. Saturn plans to have about 125 dealers by the end of 1991. ,. Since october Saturn has sold nearly 2,000 cars out of its production of just Over 4,200. Only a few Hundred of those built Are coupes the rest being Sedan  the base Sedan starts at $7,995, Macdonald said a the typical transaction Price on Saturn sold so far has been about $10,500. Separately Saturn executives said the company has about 12,000 idled pm unionized workers plus another 3,000 workers in Tennessee waiting to fill Only 1,-500 jobs when  a second shift at Spring Hill by april. Currently there tire about 4.000 workers at Saturn. Among several other pm divisions also holding previews few executives were willing to predict the strength of the 1991 Market because of uncertainties Over the Mideast crisis and its effects on the Economy. All did however emphasize the fuel efficiency of their cars a and All predicted they would capture a larger slice of the . Vehicle Market in 1991, regardless of total Industry sales. Existence of cold fusion unproven Sands of times Salt Lake City up University of Utah scientists have failed to prove the existence of a cold fusion and have been working in a a siege atmosphere that could taint their controversial work an Independent panel said tuesday. _ while researchers at the National cold fusion Institute generally have been doing Good work and have produced interesting results they had not provided definitive evidence confirming their claims the panel said. A the present. Program is directed toward a direction that could result in such proof if indeed cold fusion is real a said Robert Adair a Yale University nuclear physicist Quot but. The results they have achieved up to this time fall Short of proving the reality of cold . Adair is one of four researchers who examined work started by b. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Cambridge in England at the request of the states fusion Energy advise by Council which has been monitoring the research. In a report presented to the advisory Council tuesday the panel said Institute researchers belief in cold fusion. Stands in Stark contrast with the rest of the scientific Community. T a this cleavage has consequences in creating a level of siege atmosphere at the Institute that May result in a science that is less critical than it might be a Adair wrote. A _ _ a a i Felt that very marginal positive results were taken far too seriously by a Community a and a director a w to want very much to prove their Faith justified. None of the Institute programs has succeeded in establishing the existence of cold fusion a he said. Fritz will Institute director said he was pleased the panels a technical review was  he added that a while it is agreed that the scientific reality of cold fusion has not been established Here or elsewhere there is Strong and grow ing evidence for the occurrence of nuclear reactions at room temperature.�?�. Pons and Fleischmann sparked a scientific controversy nearly two years ago when they announced they had produced nuclear fusion in a relatively simple Tabletop Experiment at room  the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 10, 1951 a the Navy said it would Call 47,000 enlisted reservists into Active service from april to june. The figure  15,000 previously announced,-30 years ago today. Jan. 10, 1961 a president elect John f. Kennedy promised that his administration would be mortgaged to no group a economic racial or political. A .�?z,.� �?�20 years ago today. Jan. 10, 1971 a the British luxury liner Queen Eli a a both 11 docked with 501 survivors of the French lines cruise ship Antilles which was left a blazing Hulk on a Caribbean reef. -7 0 years ago today. Jan. 10, 1981 a american hostage negotiators unexpectedly delayed their departure for Washington amid reports that they had been confronted with fresh iranian demands for concessions delaying definitive agreement on a package Deal exchanging american hostages in iranian jails against billions of dollars of Ransom Money