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Bt-lte lima Newt Friday, May 87, 177 Gas-laden tankers i -I. n. A creating controversy Andy stuns em all except his President QUINCY, Maas. (AP) The first of 14 American-built natural gas. tankers is being dedicated here while controversy still simmers over whether such Alps are answers to the energy shortage or'potantial sources of nning disaster.

The ship being put info service today wlU carry 125,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas. Supporters say thats enough tb service an American dte of 500,000 people for a month. But critics, says lt'ls also enough to cause a catastrophic fire 100 times the size of the wreck of the Hinden-burg, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible that burst into flames In 1987. greatest damage could occur, scientists say, if the ships tanks were ruptured during a collision at eea. The liquid gas would pour into the water, and if it did not catch fire Immediately, would evaporate into a colorless, odorless cloud of gas.

That gas, they say, would float close to the surface. If the wind eventually pushed it to land, any flame, even a cigarette, could ignite it The new ship, called the LNG Aquarius, is the first of 13 liquefied natural gas tankers being built by the May 1 General Dynamics shipyard in The Quincy. Six others are under construction at shipyards in Newport News, and New Orleans. The 936-foot-long ship, which cost $100 million, will be operated by Bur-mah Oil Co. of England to carry gas It would vialbie It hazardous said its are handle Rolf said he to No And nake ride riders attractions Pdnt in operation The which Kinzel would be a devastation.

There be a bans fireball in the iky from miles away. Ins a potential of being very under certain Robert Reid, a natural gas expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But if its handled right, about as safe as anything. There lots of other dangerous paea we on our waterways. Glasteld, the chief development engineer for the new tanker, believes the ship is a safe way transport fuel.

question about it, he said. no effort has been spared to it sol Cedar Point featuring new rides SANDUSKY A combined thrill and ferris wheel that flips its upside down is among the new this nmnwr at Cedar amusement park, which opened 14. Witches Wheel is a new concept a ferris wheel, according to director Richard KinseL ride is located on an 806-foot extension of the park's new midway, opened last-summer. said the Witches Wheel, "begins in a horizontal position with two passengers seated in each of 20 gondolas. As the ride begin to pick up speed, the wheel begins to tilt and the gondolas are pushed outwards.

"Then, the ride goes into its vertical, ferris wheel position and the riders are flipping completely upside-down." Other new features this summer are a dodgem (bumpercar) ride and a pattostyle restaurant on the new midway. The addition of the Witches Wheel and the dodgem car ride gives Cedar Point 55 rides. The new midway is in its second year of development It is expected to be linked to the Frontiertown theme section of the park by 1978. New rides and attraction will be added to the new midway each year. Print opens at 9 a.m.

dally, with rides beginning at 10 a.m. The park closes at 10 p.m. DURING A SPECIAL ceremony in 1940, flights of vintage planes pass between the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as pedestrians stroll on the roadway. The bridge marks its 40th anniversary today. Sad, joyful ceremonies to mark bridge's 40th was calling it a matter of -grave con- CtfD." When first asked about reports that SO Cuban advisers were in Ethiopta, Young made an effort to espouse the State Department' poritkm, but it didnt end then.

The State Department hu expressed grave concern about that and I gueae thats what I should do, too, file ambassador replied. Then he admitted he wasnt really all that gravely concerned. No because theyre killing people right and left (In Ethiopia). I guess I think maybe thp Cubans might be a little more rational than Ethiopians at this point We ought not -just be afraid of Cubans, Young said. The statement recalled his earlier controversial contention that the Cubans had brought stability to Angola at a time when several native factions vied for control after that country's independence from Portugal Though the State Department recently said the presence of the Cuban advisers could be a serious development, a spokesman Thursday refused to admit Young's statement deviated from the department stance.

Arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Young coolly rebuffed suggestions that his sometimes-controversial remarks were bringing him criticism. "I haven't had apy criticism, all I've had is praise, he said. "I'm not going to worry about what a few people say to sell newspapers. The newspapers they were selling in Sweden on Thursday prominently displayed Young's "terrible racist remark. One prominent Swedish editor responded that I think we are neither better nor worse than other nations.

The remark linking Sweden and Queens was also being noticed in New York. "Incredible," retorted Donald R. Manes, president of Queens. "The residents of Queens have established an outstanding record of working and living together in harmony. He suggested that all Young knew about Queens was that it was some dace he has to be driven through on the way from LaGuardia Airport to the United Nations.

Not so, responded Young, who recalled having lived in Queens from 1957-61 when he was on the staff of the National Council of Churches. Earlier during his two-week trip. Young angered South Africa's white government by suggesting economic boycotts by the black majority, and irritated black Africans by talking about negotiated solutions in Rhodesia and Namibia. During his South Africa tour, Young admitted he may have exploited bis own racial identification because there is no way I can't identify with the blacks. "But actually, I spent far more time with whites because I think they have the problem." WASHINGTON (AP) Fiery U.N.

Ambauador Andrew Young la back la Waahlagtoa after a trip through Europe and Africa that left the State Department etunned, the Swedes irate, the British chastised sad the president of the New York borough of Queens incredulous. But President Carter was still on Youngs side. In a nationally televised news conference Thursday, Carter said he knew of "no instance that Andy Young has violated" administration policy. The black ambassador stepped into new controversy while talking with reporters Wednesday en route to London from his official travels in Africa. The Russians, he said, are "the wont racists in the world." He got Sweden and the New York borough of Queens with the same breath.

The Swedes, he said, are "terrible racists" and When the crunch comes, the black in Sweden is treated just like the black in Queens. He declared Britain's "old colonial mentality" is still very strong" And, finally, he jolted the State Department on Thursday by saying in London and later in Washington that he really wasn't all that concerned about Cuban advisers in Ethiopia, -eve though the State Department Child porno probe shifts to west coast LOS ANGELES (AP) A House committee la bringing its investigation into child pornography to Los Angeles, seeking ways to control a growing trade in photographs, movies, slides and books depicting children engaged in sexual acts. Los Angeles has become a kind of capital city of the so-called Kiddie Penn" business. Investigator Lloyd Martin of the Los Angeles Police Department estimates that 30,000 boys and girls are sexually exploited by adults in Los Angeles every year. Martin said much of child pornography is made in southern California.

"You can tell by the suntan marks on a child's body that (he or she) is from a sunny climate," he said. The scheduled lea doff witness today before the House Select Committee on Education and Labor is Robin Lloyd, a Los Angeles-based television newsman who has written a book on boy prostitution. Lloyd says the children who most frequently wind up in the pages of such magazines as "Nudist Moppets" and "Little Girls Together" come from "a vast army of a million kids who run away each year." Under current law, most child pornography is prosecuted under obscenity statutes, but getting a conviction is no easy matter. from Indonesia to Japan. The giant.

Mack-hulled ship carries its cargo in liquid form in five globe-shaped tanks. The tanks protrude above the deck, and from the air, the ship looks like a long, narrow carton filled with eggs. Boston now is the only U.S. port where liquefied natural gas is delivered. The Coast Guard considers the tankers so dangerous that all other traffic is halted when they enter the harbor.

Other docking facilities for such cargos are being prepared in New York, Providence, R.I., and Cove Point, Bid. One of the most outspoken critics of gas tankers is James MacKenzie, a director of the Union at Concerned Scientists. I "If and when an accident occurs, there would be an enormous conflagration with people being injured for miles around, MacKenzie said. suicides. Hundreds of others are believed to have leaped in the middle of foggy nights without leaving a trace.

"The Golden Gate Bridge is far and away the single most deadly spot in the world right now. It is the No. 1 spot for suicides, said Richard Set den, a University of California psychologist who has published several papers on bridge suicides. Seiden said nis research has uncovered a depressing trend: the age of bridge jumpers is getting younger. "In the early years of the bridge people who jumped were in their 50s and 60s, he said.

"Now, for the first time since it opened, the median age average is down below 30. It's so available. If someone got into a momentary crisis, all they have to do is vault a SW-foot railing." Studies of would-be suicides and the few jumpers that survived the plunge of ovfr 200 feet show that for many it was 'the Golden Gate Bridge or nothing. Seiden said most never consider suicide again. "It's like having a loaded gun around the house," he said.

"The only reasonable and humanitarian thing is to put up some deterrent. The bridge district has estimated thakjnstalling a higher railing would cost up to $3 million. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A charming Indian legend of a sun god's tumble explains the narrow channel known as the Golden Gate that connects the Pacific Ocean with the San 'Francisco Bay. For 40 years now a graceful orange arch has spanned that channel, and today it carries 90,000 vehicles a day. It also has become a not-so-charming mecca of suicide to hundreds- of troubled souls.

As a result, there will be two ceremonies this week to mark the 40th opening of the bridge on May 27, 1937. Today, 50 of the steelworkers and others who helped build the bridge will hold a reunion. On Memorial Day, a group of area residenjts lobbying for a suicide barricade -will hold a ceremony for suicide victims. According to the Indian legend, a -sun god swept a beautiful princess into his arms and fled over the mountains but stubbed bis toe and fell, tearing a gash in the mountain range. The gash became the Golden Gate.

Today the bridge is a vital transportation link between San Francisco and suburbs to the north on the other side of the gash. Bridge officials also say 606 persons have jumped to watery deaths from it and those are just the known Kings Island opens Saturday and 8:30 p.m. Monday in the park. New attraction this season include the Screamin' Deamon, a 360-degree looping roller coaster; a outdoor amphitheater; the Inters national Showplace, scheduled to open in July; a Boulder Bumpers kiddie dodgem ride; the game of Fascination; the original musical production, "Hooray for Hollywood; and bison, elk and white-tailed den in the Wild Animal Safari. Kings Island is located 20 miles northeast of Cincinnati on 1-75.

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