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People in the news Lost tribe and gold found Vanleer said the tribe also extracts precious stones I irom ine grouna. a young Russian anthropologist who attempted to keep one for himself was killed by the Niawas, the surgeon says. He refused to give the tribe's exact location in order to prevent its com i LIMA (Reuter) Five scientists say they have discovered a tribe of primitive Indians who have their own gold mine in the South American jungle a possible link to the legend of El Dorado and its city of gold. The Niawa tribe lives in an unspecified and hitherto unexplored area between the borders of Peru, Brazil and Colombia, says French surgeon Louis Vanleer, a member of the scientific team. He told a news conference that the tribe exploits a rich gold mine, and "their temples are filled with gold and precious stones." The gold is extracted by about 50 prisoners of the Niawas.

"The mine itself is an intricate underground fortress complete with houses for its workers," Vanleer added. He said the discovery might explain the story of El Dorado, which set countless Spanish adventurers on the road to South America four centuries ago in search of a legendary city of gold. plete extinction by gold hunters. He said the tribe once had about 50,000 men, women and children, but its numbers have dwindled to 2,000. However, a 50-year-old American explorer.

Gene Savoy, who found the Lost City of the Incas says he is I Savoy going to search for El Dorado'. Savoy plans to sail up the Orinoco River later this month along a historic route taken by Sir Walter Raleigh. The scientists, including an American, a Swiss, a West German, and an Italian, approached the tribe in November of last year after a lengthy period of observation, Vanleer said. He reported that the Niawas wear little clothing and carry out human sacrifices. They kill young girls and take out their hearts to placate their many gods, including fire and water gods.

Or. Benjamin Spocft shows he still has a lot of pull as he Spock, Olympic rowing champion in 1924, stopped on tries out the rowing course in Krylatsky, Russia, where his way home from the International children's Fes-the rowing events of the 1980 Olympics- will be held, tival in The Crimea. 14-carrot boss wins award CAP LAN'S today's department store A Summer Brings out the best 2 pee DRESSES This elegant and flowing two-piece dress of cool polyester has attractive cowl neckline, buckle belt. two-panelled skirt in a pretty print pattern. Sizes 14 to Abram Schwab Blues are out voodoo is in wants wax museum immortality for the executed killer and says she will provide the bullet-riddled clothes he wore when he died before a Utah firing squad.

Toni Damico Gurney, a cousin of the man who attracted worldwide attention by taunting officials to carry out his death sentence, is looking for a wax museum to do a likeness of Gilmore. "Some people might think it's morbid, I guess," Gurney said from her home in Lehi, Utah. "Some people might take it bad. But if it was to help someone, I wouldn't care what other people thought. It would depend how you felt in your heart, I guess, as to how you looked at it." Appanoose County (Iowa) officials are trying to figure out how a Uriionville woman managed to buy 300 feet of a county paved road for $5 at a tax sale in early July.

Mrs. Clifford Burger purchased the road part of a major farm-to-market route and an adjacent piece of property from the county when she was the only person to bid on the land, which was deeded to the county in the 1950s for back taxes. The county accepted her $5 offer, not knowing the dual included 300 feel of the east side of county road T-11. "Our plat map in the auditor's office did not show the county had even bought it," said auditor Darrell Neal. "When I saw that, I said to myself, 'Oh boy, have we got a But I thought we could get out of it." Oh well, any port in a storm.

Dozens of tourists apparently thought it was just part of the show as they filed past a nude woman sleeping in a hammock on the deck of the HMS Rose, a replica of a Revolutionary warship in Newport, R. I. "The most amazing thing was that 30 to 35 people went through before anyone said anything," said John Millar, manager of the dockside tourist attraction. Millar said he thought the first man who reported the Sleeping Beauty was telling a joke. When another visitor reported the woman he sent crew members to investigate.

The woman explained that she had fallen into Newport Harbor after the bars closed, according to Millar. He said she found her way onto the ship, took off her wet clothing and fell asleep in a hammock strung between two cannons. 20. Chauvinism-personified dept. An unidentified senior partner in the law firm of Kelley, McCann Livingstone who requires his secretary to supply him with fresh carrots has won the Cleveland Women Working organization's first prize for pettiest office procedure.

"This is usually his own secretary, but if she is not in, someone else must do it," said CWW spokeswoman Cathy Tom bow. "He munches on carrots instead of smoking, which is commendable, but 1 think he should buy them himself." The CWW dubbed the partner the partner the "14-Carrot Boss." Does crime really pay? The ransom note spelled a frightening demand: If Michael Stroud (of Durham, N. did not leave $30 at an old house or if he notified police, he would never see his riding lawn mower again. Stroud found the note on his doorstep when he got home from work. He checked his garage and, sure enough, the mower was gone.

"They started out at $10, scratched through that, wrote $50, took that out and then put $30," Stroud said. Stroud left the ransom in a crumbling chimney in the woods about a mile from his home, as the note instructed. But he retained some bargaining power and a chance of tracking down the abductors. He paid the $30 by cheque. ffow's this for coming up short? Nick Scotti, 83, left his home in San Pedro, Sunday night, en route to Rome, but when he stepped off the plane, the nephews he expected to meet him were nowhere to be seen.

He spent the next two days riding buses and searching for them. However, the pizza stands and backyard gardens filled with tomatoes and zucchini squash were in the New York borough of Queens, not Italy. By mistake, he had stepped off his jet when it stopped in New York for an hour on its way to Europe. Police were summoned by a bus driver who was worried about the elderly man who sat patiently in his bus for four hours. tWith the help of an interpreter, detectives learned what had happened, called his daughter in California and put him on the first plane home.

A 94-year-old farmer from southern Japan scaled the Mount Fuji recently to become the oldest person ever to climb the sacred mountain. He promptly announced his intention to continue climbing the mountain until he turns 100. Fukutaro Takimoto of Tosa city on Japan's southern island of Shikoku made the climb Saturday with his 63-year-old eldest son, Inemi, and three other climbers. They reached the summit after a nine-and-a-half hour climb from the mountain's fifth station. 54 Second Floor MIX and MATCHMATES by Tan-jay Fashionable plaids, pinstripes and solid co-ordinates are now available in wool blend polyesterwool tabric lor a completely interchangeable (all wardrobe.

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Vials of alleged bat blood, packages of myrrh root and hunks of dried dragon's blood wrapped in palm leaves are nestled in between packages of baby socks in the old-fashionedgeneral store. Cures are offered for every ailment from rheumatism to unrequited love. "We just sell what our customers said' Abram Schwab, the 53-year-old grandson of the store's founder. "The fortune tellers and others tell them what to got and we sell the items. "We started out selling incense to restaurants that wanted to cover up the smell of fish," Schwab said.

"And then customers wanted oils to go with it. We just kept expanding." Now Schwab's, which is better known for its funeral parlor fans, straw hats and detachable, stiff collars for men's shirts, features love potions with multi-lingual instructions, dried herbs, mojo hands and voodoo-how-to books. "People think voodoo is all bad," Schwab said, "but 95 per cent of the customers are trying to get something for themselves, like money or love. Very few want to harm anyone." A "crossing powder" is offered for those few who would like to see their enemies a little less happy, but Schwab said 10 times more uncrossing powder is sold to undo evil. "Many of our customers are just uptight.

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She said in an interview at Toronto General Hospital that her gynecologist, Dr. Manuel Spivak, finally convinced her to have the tumor removed. Sprvak said he removed the tumor, along with pounds of fluid, in an operation July 18. Dr. Robert Taylor, executive director of the National Canter Institute of Canada, said the tumor probably does not classify as a record, but 33 pounds is "enormous that's four times the size of a pregnancy." What-prieefame? dept.

A relative of Gary Gilmore Brothers Samuel and Emmanuel Lusser, now living in Northbridge, Maine, and Canadian natives are celebrating their 100th birthday today. The brothers are believed to be the world's oldest living twins. Between them they head up families of 19 children, 32 grandchildren, 51 great-grandchildren and seven Actor Vince Barnett dead Grey and Camel combination. Fashion PANT with fly front Black or Grey Sizes 8-18 Basic PANT $24 with elasticized waistband Black or Grey. Sizes 10-20 Sportsfashions-Street Floor ENCINO, Calir.

(UPI) Vince Barnett, one-time air mail pilot, vaudevil-lian and veteran character actor of more than 400 movies, died of heart disease at Encino Hospital Wednesday. He was 75. Barnett, whose balding head, large ears and slightly bulbous nose were familiar to millions, began his show business career 50 years ago in George White's Scandals on Broadway in 1927. The same year, he moved to Hollywood to begin a career as a charactor actor and comic. For two years before his debut on stage in musical reviews, he flew a mail plane on the Pittsburgh to Cumberland, route.

He nevCr lost his interest in aviation and remained a member of various flying organizations. His early work in movies was highlighted by appearances in Scarfaee, with Paul Muni, Riff Kaff with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow, and Springfield Rifle with Gary Cooper. His last movie assignment was as the principal in Schoolteacher. Barnett was as well known as a hoaxer as he was a comic actor. Letters from the famous attested to his ability to play his comedic roles in real life.

He once was a stumbling waiter to an amused George Bernard Shaw. "Vince Barnett pulled my leg but I enjoyed his wit very much," Winston Churchill wrote. There are similar letters in his effects, from Henry Ford II, from Franklin Roosevelt, Gen. H. ll IIap" Arnold of the U.

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