PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Tuesday, July 11, 1978 Whole World Watching MOSCOW (AP) - The U.S.S.R. government put two of its leading dissidents cn trial today. Anatoly Shcharansky, a 30- "year-old Jewish computer expert, went on trial in a Moscow court on a charge of “high treason in the form of espionage.” . Alexander Ginzburg, 41, went before a court in Kaluga, 160 kilornetres south of Moscow, on the lesser charge ci "anit-Soviel agitation and propaganda,” As Shcharansky’s trial opened in a closed court, the U.S. embassy sent its second secrelary, Raymond Smith, to stand with foreign reporters and members of the. dissident movement. behind the barriers around thecourt, The embassy said Smith was there ‘‘to show Scientists’ Role Increasing Rapidly TORONTO (CP) - Future governments will not be able to formulate policies without advice and support from the sclentific community, says William Schneider, president of the National Research Council. Schneider told reporters Sunday alt the opening of an international conference on the future of raw organic materials that governments and scientists will have to work together on both national and international levels. “This may not, in future, be a question of choice, but .. Of necessity because the nature of problems facing us in the future are such that I don’t think either the scientific community or governments by themselves can address these problems and hopefully make rational decisions,” More than 750 scientific and industrial experts are meeting this week to discuss one such problem: finding alternatives to increasingly limitedand costly oll and gas resources. Delegates from such countries as the Soviet Union, Egypt, Brazil, Japan and the United States will present briefs on developing. more resources from oil sands, coal, shale and wood. Schneider said industrial chemists: are interested in research and development of non-conventional fossil fuels from surplus forest products bio-mass, the sea and urban and industrial waste. Main aim of the con- ference is to produce a series of recommendations on the future development of such resources, said Schneider, confernce chairman. Bryant Rossiter, research director for Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y;, later told reporters the conference represents a growing .trend by the scientific community to accept greater soclal responsibility in matters of international concern. | Rossiter, chairman of the confernce’s planning committee said pollution and energy conservation are of concern everywhere. The conference, Chemical Research Applied to World Needs, is the first of a series planned to prepare govern- ments and industries for a gradual shift away from dependence on petroleum: based economies, he added. “Thesé conferences, we anticipate, will be much different than the con- ventional scientific meetings that are held,” he said. "First of all, we're going to deal with much more than just the technologies in- volved, These problems that have been identified - in this case the need for future sources of energy and raw materials - will be treated as. a system, taking into ac- count the environmental factors, the technological factors, the financial and capital factors.” In future meetings the conference will focus on word food needs, Rossiter ERA Supporting Marchers — Busy Lobbying Congress. WASHINGTON (AP) - Backers of the equal rights amendment ERA to the US. constitution, who marched by the tens of thousands Sunday in support of the proposal, were lobbying members of Congress today to extend the March deadline for ratifying the measure, The National Organization for Women NOW and more than 300 other groups staged the march and a rally on the steps of the Capitol to dramatize their stand that, even if the proposal dies next spring, the issue will not fade, away. Bella Abzug, co-chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Women, told the marchers to ‘lobby members of Congress and make as a condition of support of thelr re-election a vote for the ERA extension.” The head of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, Patsy Mink, told the marchers not to leave Washington ‘‘without having a firm commitment, yes or no, from every member” of Congress. “And if they dare to turn us down," she said, ‘we will turn them out on the next election day.” The proposal passed by Congress in 1972 to ban discrimination based on sex, will die March 22 unless three more states ratify it or Congress extends the seven years given proposed con- stitutional amendments to | Did ‘the ‘Surgeon-General Know? Turkish Cigarettes Booby-Trapped CIGARETTES KILL ISTANBUL (AP) - Of ficlals at Sagmaleitar prison returned 9,000 packs of cigareties to the manufacturer after finding some were booby-trapped. A cigarette fitted with an explosive blew up in southern Turkey last week, killing a factory worker, Police said they believe terrorisis are putting ex- plosives in cigarettes, and the government tobacco company says it is checking its product, QUEEN ON VISIT THE HAGUE (AP) Queen Jullana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands flew to Tanzania Sunday for a one-week official visit. They are returning a visit by President Julius Nyerere to the Netheriands in. November 1975. EXERCISES BEGIN ISTANBUL (AP) - Turkish air, naval and ground forces begin four days of joint military exercises in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas today. win approval from 39 state legislatures, The extension is in serious trouble in the House of Representatives judiciary committee, where sup- porters have delayed its consideration, presumably because they don’t have the votes to pass it. : The marchers were told to boyeott the 15 states that have not ratified the ERA and to consider more dramatic steps, Feminist Gloria Steinem, noting that suffragists chained themselves to the White House and were force- fed in jail as they cam- paigned for the right to vote, said ERA supporters might have to block highways. Organizers said Sunday’s SOW BY PLANE TOKYO (AP) - The Chinose army has found that sowing rice by plane is 21 fimss as efficient as sowing by hand and saves up to 80 pounds of seed an acre, the official Hsinhua' news agency reported. The army sowed nine acres serially on a farm it operates in Anhweil province and got more than three tons of grain an acre, 24 percent better than the yield from hand sowing, Hsinhua sald, It reported the seed also was evenly scat- tered, and there was less rotting of seedlings, march was the largest ever for the ERA. Estimates of size varied ' widely. Police put the crowd at 55,000 but the National Park Service said its count ranged from 90,000 to 100,000. By either tally, it was far larger than sponsors had predicted. At the other end of the Mall, meanwhile, about 200 persons attended an anti- ERA "prayer rally” in front of the Lincoln Memorial. _ Organizers of that meeting contended that passage of the ERA would lead to “free and unfettered abortions, preferential treatment for homosexuals and a federally mandated uni-sex society where women will be in- distinguishable from men.” SEEKS RESTRAINTS NEW YORK (AP) - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith has called on . President Carter to impose ‘wage and price restraints, saying they worked in the Second World War and the Korean War President Nixon re-elected in 1972," Galbraith, in- terviewed Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, said any federal tax cuts now would be inflationary and criticized California's Propositlon 13 property tax cut as an attack on “the poorest of .our people,” Port of London Nears Bankruptcy LONDON (Reuter) — Few communities anywhere have been more blasted by progress and technology than the docklands of Lon- don, once the golden gate through which the wealth of an empire poured into Britain. Port Chairman John Cuckney has told the government that only drastic steps can save the docks from the final ignominy of bankruptcy. Britons are absorbing the shock of what may be the steepest area of decline in the natlon’s economic life. The Port of London authority has virtually no reserves and has warned that its losses will motint to &75 million over the next five years if nothing is done. Today, with three of the five East London groups of docks closed and the others doing scant business, a walk: through dockland is a depreasing experience. Where forests of masts and cranes once filled the skyline and streets bustled with the energy of Britain’s imiost vibrant and colorful com- munity, there is quiet, defeat and decay. RESIDENTS MOVE OUT Thousands of Cockney eastenders, who stamped a unique culture on the Thames-side hamlets, have moved away and many of thoge who live in the ugly apartment buildings that sear the landscape are new- comers. “The old Ilfe has all gone," sald an old lady over her battle of black porter beer in a tavern in the so-called Isle of Dezs— which isn't an island but a_ riverside hamlet. “Years ago you knew everybody inyaur street and if you wereill your neighbors came in and did the washing and did a meal for your husband coming home from work, “Nowadays, in these tower blocks, you don’t even know who your next-door neighbor is, + Fifteen years ago London was still the busiest port in the world, although its decline was well under way. In the last decade its tonnage of cargo handled has slumped from five million to 1.7 million. CONTAINERS TAKE OVER Ships which once lined up in the Thames for berths along its 70 kilometres of dockside now stop at Tilbury, the huge container port 25 kilometres down- river, or new container ports such a8 Fellxstone on the east coast. . A container depot, where containers are received or loaded and put directly onto ships, can manage with one- tenth of the men and handle 10 times the tonnage. The first London dock was opened in 1696 just below Tower Bridge, and perhaps the port’s proudest moment was on June 6, 1944, when 200 ships and 1,000 barges set out fo land 50,000 soldiers and 9,000 vehicles on the coast of occupied France at the start of the Allied invasion. ...Many of the cosy terraced streets were flattened by war -time bombs but the east-en -ders thought their com- munity would be resored, They did not suspect that planners would finish the job of transforming dockland out of recognition. MARKETS GONE Today a stroller through Rotherwithe, home of the defunct Surrey timber docks, sees no colorful markets, jellied-eel and whelk stalls and friendly streets with a pub on each corner, Willowherb, the persistent weed of the Thames bank, is reclaiming parts of the 14 kilometres of largely deserted: docks. : The Greater London Council (GLC) and the Brilish government have drawn up plans totaillng &1.75 billion to breathe new life into the rotting hamlets, but so far only a hotel and exhibition hall have been built. Construction of the Jubllee subway, to link the east end with central London, Is ham- pered by shortage of funds. . There are still visionaries. lytyd Harrington, deputy leader of the GLC, says the Jubilee line may launch ‘the greatest act of urban renewal in the history of modern Europe.” The Port of London authority concedes that progress has in some im- nant ways left the old port nd, EQUIPMENT OUTDATED Its operations have not mover with the times. Shots and equipment are poorly adapted to modern needs. Trade union militancy. is strong and restrictive practices persist. For example, on some wharves cargo has to be checked by two sets of tally clerks, because they belong to separate unions. Under protective agreements negotiated by dockers’ unions, some 1,500 men are likely at any time to ba getting paid although there is no work for them to lo. ‘ At the tlme of the French Revolution some 40 sea voyages a day started from the Thames. By the 19th century, the Port of London had become the hub of the world's sea lanes. Lumber, rum, jute and hamp, tea and spices, gold, furs, carpets, potash and oranges poured into the Thames docks, In the streets around dock- land, sail and rope makers were established, It was a cosmopolitan and rough- andtumble world. The Chinese congregated in Limehouse, Europe's first Chinatown. Later, Jews poured in, fieeing from Russian pogroms. Few traces of this remain. Traditional imports, such as New Zealand lamb, discharge at container ports, Trade with Europe, once the preserve of London, today causes ports like Dover, on the south coast, to flourish, ' bicentennial “and got . our coricern and the concern of the people of the United States in these trials.” The U.S. state department in a statement Friday ap- proved by President Carter warned that the fate of the two human-rights activists will have an impact on the “constructive development” . of Soviet-U.S, relations. Shcharansky and. Ginz- burg were active in the Helsinki human-rights group formed to report on Russian violations of the human- rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accords on European security and ¢o- operation. Oddities U.S.S.R. Begins Trial Of Human Rights Dissidents The founder of the Helsinki group, Yuri Orlov, was sentenced May 18 to seven years at hard labor plus five years of Siberian exile, Shecharansky, who turned to active dlasidence after he was denied permission to emigrate to Israel in 1873, Is accused of feeding in- formation to the U.S, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA via diplomats and news correspondents. The maximum sentence for. high treason Is death, Sut he is expected to get a long term in a labor camp. Police barred charansky's mother and “Bicentennial” Is A Dirty Word PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia, stil] hung over from the U.S. bicentennial, is about to have another bir- thday party. It's the city’s tricentennial and it's only four years away. It's happening because Billy Penn stepped ashore from his ship, Welcome, at the foot of Dock Street, convenient’ to the Blie An- chor Tavern, on Oct, 29, 1682, historians say. But it's not surprising that tricentennial planners are a bit worried. Philadelphia's celebration drew only half the predicted 20 million tourists, with New York City stealing the show with an appearance by the tall ships, Edwin Wolf, director of the -Philadelphia Library Co., and a member of the steering committee putting together plans for the latest bash, has suggested that it might be wise to we the word tercentenary instead of tricentennial, something he figures might put some verbal distance between 1076 and 1982. “Bicentennial has become a something of a dirty word around here,” he said ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP( A clerk at the. Bernalillo County marriage license division thought of getting into the advice to the lovelorn business after receiving a letter that began, “Dear lonely young lady." The letter, addressed to the Matrimonial Clerk, came from a man who said he was separated from his wife and “will consider divorce if I meet the right young lady, but I don't want to get into it again until I'm sure it will work.” Hesent along a picture and a description anc asked for some guidance in finding a mate. The marriage licence clerk, Sally Alderete, said. she considered sending him a brochure but decided against it. KANSAS CITY, mo, (AP) - It took three sets of wedding invitations - one by regular mail, one by mailgram and one by telephone - but Kevan Staples and DeAnon Latimer were finally married. The first set was lost in the mail, The postmaster in Houston, where the couple | will live, felt so bad about it he used $173 of his own money to send aut mailgrams, The invitations, “‘smudged a bit, showed up the next day. Meanwhile, the mather of the bridegroom, Jowilla Staples, telephoned friends and.relatives to invite them to the wedding in Kansas Sh- . brother from the Proletarsky Regional People’s Court today, but when they insisted said they would transmit their request to the three-judge court. About 100 policemen _ manned the barriers around the court building, keeping back about 35 reporters, a dozen members of the dissident movement and the embassy represen- tative. ; Ginzburg, who managed the fund exiled author Alexander Solzhenitsyr finances to aid the families of Russion _ political prisoners, faces a maximum sentence of 10 years plus exile because it will be his second conviction, He was convicted on the same charge in 1969 and served five years. Tass said Gineburg was being given an ‘open trial.” Dissident sources said Andrei Sakharov, — the physicist who won the Nobel Peace Frize for his leadership of the dlasident movement, and other friends of Gimburg are believed to have gone to Kaluga, but it was notimmediately learned whether they were admitted to the courtroom. Ginzburg was arrested in February 1977 and Sh- charansky the month after, Both haye been held in- ‘gommunicado. In Israel, Prime Minister Menachem Begin sald Sh- charansky's trial was “a great shock” and his only crime was his desire to emigrate to Israel. He ap- pealed to “all free nations" to press for his release. Our Dead Are Botter Off? SACKVILLE, N.B. (CP) - Progressive Conservative MP Heath MacQuarrle says Canada spends more money burying its dead than countless other areas spend to sustain life. In a speech to the Atlantic United Nations Conference here Saturday, the MP for Hillsborough, P.E.I. criticized Canadian com- placency in world affairs. 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