ke

yee

HINOMISAKK,
AAP) —. In
village, when thew setting sun

has turned the Sea of Japan

into a shimmering carpet of

coral, women and small

- children wade offshore with

nets to catch-sardines for
meal,

he can giver

where they lie topping an .
witay wre

gasping until
ered into a wooden box.

On he horizon are

hundreds’ of small fishiri
vessels which later "will
bring their catch to docks in

REBUILDING

PAGAN, Burma (AP)
— With water-buffalo carts
and the same kind of
primitive labor that built it .
centuries ago, the Burmese
governmen ‘is ing to
restore this earthquake-
damaged city to its ancient

Buddhist grandeur. The -

roject is being financed b
donations from the faithful

PeMiore than 5,000
monuments rest on 32

square- miles of plain in |
many -

central Burma,
dating back to a time when
there was ‘no ‘American
and the English were eating
raw meat,” as one Burmese |
official put it.

About 1,000 structures
were damaged or destroyed
in an earthquake on July 6

1975. Deep fissures an

cracks ravaged _ the
foundations of temples as
old as'900 years. Thousands
.Of square: feet of priceless —

mall paintings crumbled,

The tops of towers housin

Buddhist shrines broke off.
Hardly had the earth
settled when work crews
appeared to take Peete
measures and eople
throu pot the eban

‘fan mally jewels to hel top aa “tr
la ewe 5 pay for
the restoration work
The neitralist policy of
the government of Gen. Ne
Win-prevents the Burmese.
from asking for foreign
financia] hel; ip.

A United Nations cultural
officer in Bangkck says the
restoration effort has been
impressive, given ~ the

tive tools and Burma’s

verished economy. But -
it has the

8 .béen slow and
Burmese admit that only:

those temples regarded as .

\

B-12ib .

having special. religious,’
historical and archeologic
value can: be worked on.

“The salvage of these
monuments ... is a du for
all Thankind,” wrote:
Pichard ~ of — the SON
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural | ‘Organization
(UNESCO). He surveyed
the damage in late 1875 and
recommended — that
equipment valued at more -
than $8,000 be provided the”

- Burmese on a bilateral basis
or through UNESCO..

Amadou-Mahtar
bow,

-Tecently but came out with
no: concrete internati tonal:

ald pevlect.

fisting be

"s- director- —.
visited: Pagan

f

THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday, July 2, wm, PAGE 7

TO JAPANESE

nearby towns. The fish will
sorted at co-operatives
and later sold to businesses
in nearby towns, or frozen

_ and flown to big ‘cities,

The Japanese take “about
Onesixth of the world’s fish
catch from the teeming sea
around them. They get more
than 25 per cent of their
protein from seafood..  —

On the Tokyo wharves,
business at the Tsukiji Fish

with tuna, the big fish frozen
and white with frost.
Workmen - pull ‘them- from
trucks with wooden hooks
and the fish clatter to the
. Other workers each
tuna ona seale t is
wheeled up and down the
docks, Tags
welght are stuck to the head
of each fish and the tuna are

- Cleavers .b

Zz

then arranged in long, neat
rows,
oped of the fish are
workmen: bare
to the waist, their foreheads
in sweat bands.
Buyers
clipboards walk alo:
rows, peering at the lack
backs and silver bellies. —
Tuna are cau

o deals in fish caught
nearer to shore, . tanks ‘of
brine at Tsukiji ‘are eels,
flounder, bream,

crab, clams, oysters” and |

{ ling masses of small |

e-like fish,
Octopi rolled into. ‘small
balls a

or teat. at ized, | &

apefruit,.are in tanks or
the pn inetal trays, On the docks
lie dead sharks, some six,
feet long, ~

More than 500 auctioneers

begin ringing bells to gather...

buyers. to the various

off with big meat auction stalls, where bids

are e recorded on clipboards.

Fish form major protein source ©

Before the auctions: are..
finished, the sun has risen
and the shape of Tokyo's 0!
skyscrapers begins
appear in the distance.

partying

ing fleets but the’ ocean: |
Market begins before dawn. eso ‘caught
Trucks arriye crammed |

tthe size of an egg °

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