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Waterloo Courier Sun Feb 24, 1980 From page 1 More anti-Soviet Bigfoot. clashes in Kabul to the newspaper office to swear they've seen one, too, in order to get their names in the paper. On the other hand, some people report they've seen a Bigfoot and ask not to be identified. And there are undoubtedly people who won't ever report a sighting because they're afraid of ridicule. Does Delaware County have a Bigfoot? Only Bigfoot knows.

1 'J Bigfoot-type of animal on the riverbank. According to Dan, it was more than six feet tall, covered with hair and standing with its arms raised to its mouth as if dipping water from the river with its hands. Dan said later he was so surprised he could say nothing. All day, however, the event worried him and that night his parents, noticing his concern, questioned him as to his silence and Dan finally told them. The next morning, Dan, a friend and his mother, returned to the riverbank.

They found a line of 14-inch footprints, each six feet apart, leading from the woods to the river and then back. Since then, reports of other Bigfoot sightings continue in Osceola County. DO SUCH creatures exist? There are many, particularly those who have reported seeing them, that insist they do. There are many doubters, including newsmen. True, there have been hoaxes and many false reports of sightings.

Some people, if told there is a Bigfoot in the area will rush quatch" (as it was called by the Indians) or "Bigfoot" as the white man called it. It is the only one of the legendary giants that has ever been recorded on film. In 1967, two men were horseback riding in the area of Northern California when they saw someone or something about eight feet tall, weighing hundreds of pounds, covered with hair and walking upright. Their horses shyed, throwing them to the ground but the late Roger Patterson of California managed to get his movie camera on the retreating creature. The resultant film received wide attention and Bigfoot devotees were ecstatic at having their beliefs confirmed.

Later, however, scientists said the "creature" walked like a man, possibly in a fur suit, rather than an ape. They based their findings on the differences in the movement of the knees and feet. Nevertheless, the legend persists. NOT ALL Bigfoot stories originate from great distances. On Aug.

22, 1976, near Sibley, 13-year-old Dan Radunz and his father of Ocheydan were driving to the family farm. As they crossed a narrow bridge across the Ocheydan River, Dan spotted a photographs. Despite this, the legend lives on and grows stronger. The "Mono Grande" (big monkey) is not as well known as the Yeti. Again, while the Indians of the Andes had carried the legend of the creature through their folklore, it wasn't until 1920 that knowledge of it reached the outside world.

A prospector, returning from the Andes stopped in Panama and told a tale, how true no one knows, of his encounter with a Mono Grande. He said he was walking high in the range one day when he came upon a creature that was about six feet tall, which walked erect and weighed as much as 300 pounds. It was covered with long black hair and while it didn't attack him, it stood in his trail, chattering excitedly. The prospector pulled out his revolver and shot the animal. He said he examined it and noticed it had feet like a man rather than the widespread big toe of an ape.

FOR MORE THAN 100 years reports have been trickling out of the Pacific Northwest about giant, ape-like creatures. Since 1958, more than 750 sightings have been recorded of the "Sas- KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Anti-Soviet protesters clashed with Russian and Afghan army troops in Kabul for the second day Saturday, although less intensely. Hundreds were killed and several thousand injured in Friday's fighting, hospital sources said. There was no sure estimate of the total number of casualties, said to include many Soviet soldiers and at least two children apparently caught in the cross fire. A Western diplomat who picked up an injured man in the street and took him to Joumouriet Hospital said he counted more than SO bodies lined up on the floor for burial.

Another reliable witness said he saw six civilians dead in the street after renewed fighting Saturday morning. THE DISTURBANCES later quieted down and the streets of Kabul were deserted. Soviet and Afghan tanks and roadblocks were seen in many parts of the city. "Kabul has never been so tense," said one Afghan resident. (Travelers arriving in New Delhi from the Afghan capital said Soviet troops were in control of Kabul Airport and seized a roll of film from a British tourist.

"They took it away because 1 was taking their picture while they stood in the terminal building," said Mark Davey, 23, of Bristol, England "There were two Soviet soldiers for every Afghan soldier," he added.) This photo shows tracks of "Bigfoot" (left) compared to those of an investigator from the Delaware County Sheriffs office (right). Several persons have reported seeing a strange "Bigfoot-type" creature in Northeast Iowa. Photo courtesy Delaware County Sheriff's office fV I A PT I A Klr I A general strike in Kabul, which began Thursday, remained in effect. Most merchants kept their shops shuttered in protest against the two-month-old Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. On Friday, the sabbath in this central Asian Moslem country, Soviet and Afghan army tanks fought in the streets for several hours to put down an open insurrection by Islamic rebels battling the third a series of communist regimes since 1978.

It was the first outbreak of heavy street fighting since the Soviets poured tens of thousards of troops into Afghanistan in late December. (The official Soviet news agency Tass charged Saturday that the CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies had conspired to provoke a "bloody pogrom" by stirring up disturbances in Kabul. But, the Tass dispatch from Kabul said, the Afghan gvernment was "taking energetic measures to isolate and render harmless the provocateurs and instigators." (In Islamabad, a Foreign Ministry spokesman denied 'Pakistan had been involved in the disturbances, as alleged by the Soviet and Afghan governments. There was no immediate comment from Washington.) FIERCE battles erupted simultaneously in different parts of Kabul shortly after midday Friday, suggesting that the uprising was carefully prepared The government of President Babrak Karmal, installed in a Soviet-backed coup Dec. 27, responded by imposing martial law.

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