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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and Stripe monday tuesday july 4/5,1994 Hill by the Toronto Globe and mail scientists Are describing the discovery of the fossilized remains of a tyrannosaur in Saskatchewan As one of the most significant palaeontological finds in recent memory. Palaeontologists Are cautiously optimistic that they will have a full Skeleton a one of Only a dozen known in the world a when they have finished unearthing the remains by Summers end. The Dinosaur a scientifically called tyrannosaurus Rex a was found in july 1991 by Robert Gebhardt a school principal in the nearby town of Eastend when something unusual caught his Eye As he walked along a cow path on the Side of a Hilt in southwestern Saskatchewan. �?o1 looked to my left and i thought it was a piece of Ironstone a Gebhardt principal of Eastend school 217 Miles Southwest of Regina said wednesday. A it seemed a bit Odd Reddish  it was part of the Jawbone  65 million year old tyrannosaur embedded in the Side of a Hill. A a it san extremely rare find a said Ron Borden director of the Royal Saskatchewan museum in Regina which is overseeing the excavation. Gebhardt was with palaeontologists John Storer and Tim Tokaryk when he made his discovery. A it was right by my left foot a he recalled. A i could have been looking the other Way and missed it altogether. A but it did no to fit in with the vegetation there because of the color. I thought it was a piece of Rock it was about the size of a Large file folder. And then there was a cylindrical object the same color about a meter away. It turns out it was a tooth. About the size of a Small  scientists began their dig earlier this month and have excavated the upper part of the Skeleton including several vertebrae part of an upper jaw some Teeth and part of a leg. The fossilized remains Are encrusted in Ironstone. Scientists unearthing tyrannosaur Bones near Eastend Saskatchewan Hope they have the makings of a Complete Skeleton a rare find. Huge pieces of Rock Are being taken from the site by helicopter to a flatbed truck and then to the Regina museum. It could take scientists up to a year to separate the Fossil remains from inside the Rock which built up in layers Over millions of years preserving the Bones almost intact. Scientists say. The specimen apears to be an adult meat eating Dinosaur that was up to 45 feet Long and nearly 18 feet tall and weighed some 6 tons. It could open its Mouth about 3 feet exposing 60 Dagger like Teeth. It dates to the cretaceous period about 65 million years ago Storer said the discovery might represent one of the largest tyrannosaur specimens Ever unearthed. No one will know for certain until it is completely dug up but Borden said the body and Tail extend into the Side of the Hill a Good sign that it could be a Complete Skeleton. The area has been a Mother lode for fossilized mammal remains but it has produced far fewer reptilian fossils Borden said. As Well As generating International scientific interest the latest find also has fed Hopes of tourism development for this Pristine Southwest Corner of the Canadian province. Distributed by Scripps hqwardnew9 service Over by Robert l. Koenig St. Louis Post dispatch Washington a from six Miles up an awed Tail gunner described the mushroom Cloud that Rose Over Hiroshima As a a spectacular sight a bubbling mass of purple Gray smoke a but under that monstrous Cloud a 5-year-old japanese girl saw Only a Blue Green Ball of fire that transformed people into charred hulks and gave her a a terrible lonely feeling that everybody else in the world was  from which perspective should history View Hiroshima was the Mission to drop that first atomic bomb an awesome technical achievement that helped end world War ii and save thousands of  scr ice members lives was it an atrocity that killed More than 75,000 people and plunged the world into the nuclear age or was it perhaps something of both those questions Are at the Center of a controversy Embr oiling the smithsonian institution As it prepares an exhibit on the Enola Gay a the b-29 that dropped the atomic bomb a Little boy on Hiroshima on aug. 6,1945. A this is the toughest exhibit in be Ever been involved in a said Thomas Crouch a historian who is chairman of the smithsonian a aeronautics department. He has helped put together dozens of military exhibits Over the years. A the Enola Gay exhibit is a Tightrope a he said. Quot on Boih sides of the Pacific the sensitivities on this subject run very deep.�?�. A file a a bubbling mass of purple Gray smoke Over Hiroshima Japan ushered in the nuclear age aug. 6,1945. A year before its scheduled opening in Washington a air and space museum the exhibit already is catching flak from some air Force veterans who say it focuses too much on Hiroshima a victims. Moreover some historians and japanese groups fear the. Exhibit will glorify a questionable raid that destroyed a City with a single explosion. Because of those sensitivities Crouch so id the smithsonian has gone to extraordinary lengths to get experts to review the exhibits script. The main advisory group on the script included the air forces chief historian a theologian a japanese american scholar from Harvard University and the pulitzer prize winning author of a Book about the atomic bomb. After collecting suggestions from those experts the exhibits managers Are revising the script and plan to Send out a new version this summer. The managers will then make a final decision on the Content. Already they Are hearing rumblings of discontent. Some leaders of the 180,000-member air Force association were so perturbed by the exhibits original 500-Page script of the exhibit that its Magazine editor published a six Page article criticizing the museum for unbalanced Quot politically Correct  a women children and mutilated religious objects Are strongly emphasized in the a ground Zero scenes from Hiroshima and Nagasaki a the article said. It also complained that the script played Down japanese military aggression. On the opposite Side Crouch confirmed that one historian on the review committee a whom he declined to identify a had complained that the exhibit script tended to glorify the bombing Mission and that the Enola Gays Crew showed a no remorse about the bombing. A although the japanese government has taken no formal position on the exhibit some japanese leaders Are concerned about any exhibit. A this is a very sensitive Issue in Japan a said Kazuhiro Tajiri a cultural affairs Diplomat at the japanese embassy in Washington. A we would Hope for the exhibit to take a balanced approach. If the exhibit ends up showing Only the Enola Gay and the bomb and not showing what happened to the victims in Hiro. Shima and Nagasaki then Many japanese people would be  As the controversy swirls experts at the smithsonian a workshop Quot in Suitland md., Are finishing the $1 million restoration of a 60-foot-Long Section of the Enola Gay that will be displayed As the exhibits Centrepiece. Largely absent from the debate Over the exhibit so far is retired air Force Gen. Paul w. Tibbets the Man who piloted the b-29 and named it for his Mother a few hours before the historic flight to Hiroshima. Tibbets 80, has never expressed doubts about the Mission and a spokesman for him said last week that he Quot is staying away from the exhibit controversy. The exhibit scripts original version a with the title the Crossroads the end of world War ii the atomic bomb and the origins of the cold War a begins with a warning to visitors a this exhibit contains graphic photographs of the horrors of War. Parental discretion is  distributed by Scripps Howard nows service a i  
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