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11 THE TENNESSEAN, Thundoy, Spt. 11, 1975 ueaih Valley Mining Set Despite Protests Abandoned, MelHeld Women Says ccilMMaTia fall sale! no down payment, pay V3 October, Vh November, Vh December. (Longer terms available). PARIS (AP)-A Frenchwoman being held by African rebels for a $2.2 million ransom declared in an interview broadcast yesterday: "I never would have believed the French government could be so cowardly." "People like me don't count," archeolofeist Fran-coise Claustre said in a tape-recorded interview broadcast by a private radio station. Europe No.

1. MRS. CLAUSTRE has been held prisoner for 16 months by Moslem rebels of the Toubou tribe in northern Chad. They say they will kill her Sept. 23 unless the ransom is paid.

The French government has said it is willing to pay but would deal only through Chad President Felix Mal-loum, and Malloum refuses to bargain with the rebels. "I'm suffocating and waiting," Mrs. Claustre said in the broadcast tape. "I'm trying to think of all the people who are abandoning me. I'm trying to hide my Kelvinator giant 17 cu.

ft. refrigerator freezer By THOMAS LOVE The Washington Star WASHINGTON Widespread strip mining is set to start soon in the most scenic portion of Death Valley National Monument, under a recent ruling by the Interior Department. Overruling a decision of the National Plark Service, interior has ruled no action is possible to prevent what NPS officials say will forever ruin the most popular spot in the monument which draws 500,000 visitors a year. THE ECOLOGY of Death Valley is so fragile the park service is worried about the damage caused by the grating of wild burros and is working on a plan to control them. Scars left by roads and a pipeline built half a century ago still mar the landscape and may never heal, according to officials at the monument.

The area of the proposed open pit mines includes Fa-briskie Point and Goner Gulch, the first of which provides the best-known view of Death Valley and the second the most popular hiking trail. The area was made amoas by the work of nature photographer Ansel Adams. In a mento to Interior in June, Russel B. Dickerson, acting director of the NPS, said "immediate action on this matter is imperative to forestall the threatening location of mining claims in Goner Gulch," and he proposed prohibiting all future mining in the area. IN AUGUST, the park service went further and proposed legislation which would prohibit any mining in Death Valley and also Glacier Bay National Monument in Alaska, Tuesday, a spokesman for the Interior said there are no plans for the department to take any action to block the mining.

Michele B. Nettrinno, associate interior solicitor, ruled in July that the park service cannot prohibit any mining in th monument because of a law enacted in 1933. She would not respond Tuesday to questions about the decision, but a department spokesperson said her ruling concluded that although the law opened the area to mining under "regulations prescribed by the secretary" of interior, that '398 authority is limited to such areas as campgrounds and archeological sites. There is no authority to withdraw the land from mining solely for scenic reasons, she said. THIS DECISION is in conflict with the decision of the NPS solicitor and ruled that authority existed to block the mining.

An attorney for a respected environmental group, who asked not to be identified because he had not read the rules, said Tuesday he believed the law allowed Interior to withdraw any part of public land from prospecting and subsequent mining. The Park Service memo to interior concluded that because of various legal opinions, "we feel that scenic and recreational protection" are ample reasons to withdraw the area from further pro-pecting and mining. The memo also said additional mining would jeopardize any future Park Service moves to create a wilderness area at Death Valley. I40 Link Opening Near Knoxville KNOXVILLE (AP) -Both lanes of Interstate-40 between Knoxville and the intersection of Interstate-81 in Jefferson County will be opened to traffic tomorrow, the State Transportation Department announced yesterday. the 23-mile section is the last portion of 1-40 to be completed from the North Carolina border in the Smoky Mountains to Overton Park in Memphis.

"Actually, this section between Knoxville and 1-81 will be open to six lanes of traf-fic," said Charles R. McAmis, East Tennessee regional engineer for the department. McAmis explained that the department decided while the Knox-Jefferson section was under construction to expand it from four to six lanes. GNC C0UP0NE2E3OOOI31 "No-frost" trimwall refrigerator-freezer is only 3 1 wide, needs no de-frosting ever! Has adjustable cantilevered shelves, twin slide-out crispers and icemaker capability. model tsk170kn I) nrxrirF1 ta 0)tD UJUSJ USSI2E MH bitterness, my anger and to forget." French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has sent a special envoy, Rene Jour-niac, to seek Mrs.

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But France has been reluctant to anger the Chad government because there have been indications northern Chad is potentially rich in oil and uranium, and because other former French colonies would be irritated if the French circumvented Malloum. Mrs. Claustre's husband, Pierre, is also a prisoner of the Toubous. He was captured when he flew a private plane to the Toubou camp in July, but the rebels have not made any demands for him. RFC fiQp LIMIT 1 COUPON EXPIRES SEPT.

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