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terwoven,” he said. “Being able
to speak the language greatly
improves the assistance you can
give them.”
Latin Americans have a diffe
rent view of their “personal
space,” Howell said. While an
American will stand about four
or five feet from someone they
talk to, the Latin Americans he
came in contact with felt compel
led to stand much closer. Under
standing this is important, he
said, because they might inter
pret the distance as unfriendly.
center and a camp for the phy-
three
sically handicapped. After three
years, they went to Venezuela,
where Belcher served as associ
ate director for two years. He
served as the Peace Corps dire
ctor in Honduras for two years
before leaving the group in
1972.
Belcher said one of the
greatest things about his work
was that he lived with the people
and was able to identify with the
lower economic classes of the
Donald Belcher, director of
International Services, spent
seven years in the Peace Corps
and was among the first 1,000
volunteers when the organiza
tion was established in 1961.
As a Peace Corps director, he
and and his wife worked in Chile
establishing a girl’s camp, a nut
rition program and day care
country.
“If you only deal with foreign
diplomats or the corporate
structure, you don’t understand
the people,” he said.
Since his return, Belcher said
he has more respect for things
people in America sometimes
take for granted.
Things like quality education,
fresh water supplies and sewer
services are luxuries in underde
veloped countries. Standing in
line waiting for a chance to fill a
pail with running water can
make a person really appreciate
a shower, he said.
Dr. Ted Gronowsky, a profes
sor in the Department of En
tomology, said: “When you eat
their food, talk to them every
day and work with them side by
side, it provides a different
image.”
Gronowsky worked with the
Peace Corps in Paraguay from
1969 to 1972. He set up an en
tomology lab for third-year uni
versity students at the National
University.
Gronowsky said the Peace
Corps provides a way to experi
ence the real world.
“It’s an opportunity to extend
yourself and your knowledge
and at the same time gain better
insight and understanding ab
out other cultures and problems
in their daily life,” he said.
“It’s not a vacation,” he said.
“It makes you know we live in
the lap of luxury.”
Court OKs Amoco
development plan
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SANTA FE, N.M. — A Taos
District Court judge has upheld
plans already approved by the
state for development of carbon
dioxide reserves on more than 1
million acres in Harding, Quay
and Union counties.
Judge Joseph Caldwell up
held a decision by the Oil Con
servation Commission giving
Amoco Production Co. the au
thority to explore and develop
the huge field at an estimated
cost of more than $1 billion.
Carbon dioxide is used to
help revitalize marginal oil fields
and to extract otherwise un
obtainable oil.
William Monroe Kerr, a Mid
land, Texas, attorney represent
ing opponents of Amoco’s plans,
said Tuesday he is sure his
clients will appeal the decision.
If there is an appeal, it will go
directly to the state Supreme
Court.
plan, claiming it would penalize
landowners whose acreage con
tains large carbon dioxide re
serves.
The plan approved by the Oil
Conservation Commission
would prevent the waste of a
natural resource, and allow all
landowners to share in the pro
fits, Amoco said.
However, Clayton-area ran
cher J. Heimann opposes that
Heimann also contends that
because of the wording in the
lease agreement with Amoco,
the company could tie up leases
in the entire million-acre area by
producing carbon dioxide from
a single well.
He says such minimum pro
duction would maintain the
company’s leases, while it pre
vented the landowners from
bargaining with other cor
panics.
Record cold blizzards
blast into Yankeeland
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A rare April blizzard blasted
the Atlantic- Seaboard with 20-
inch snows, 83-mph winds and
record cold, paralyzing cities
from Maine to Maryland. A ship
was missing off the New Jersey
coast Wednesday and four cam
pers were feared lost in the Cats-
kill Mountains.
And a new storm churned
east from the Rockies, threaten
ing the battered Midwest and
Northeast with more stinging
record cold and snow.
At least 75 people died and
hundreds were injured in a
week of storms packing the
worst winter has to offer — bliz
zards, tornadoes, hail and ava
lanches.
“The robins are over their
heads in snow,” Vermont High
way Department dispatcher Ray
Burke said.
As much as 2 feet of snow
choked western Massachusetts
and Maine braced Wednesday
for another foot and a half.
Winds gusted to 83 mph at Nan
tucket, Mass., Tuesday, while 10
inches of snow — the most ever
for an April day — blasted
Boston.
A fishing vessel with eight
people aboard was presumed to
have sunk off the New Jersey
coast in 30-foot seas whipped by
60-mph winds. The Gemini, in a
Mayday message, reported to
the Coast Guard it was taking on
water Tuesday evening — be
fore its radio went dead.
Advisories for more snow and
cold also were posted from Mon
tana through Illinois, where
Chicago shattered a 46-year-old
record with a 15-degree low
reading Wednesday. Freezing
temperatures dipped as far
south as the Carolinas.
A Harrington Park, N.J., bus
driver saved the lives of his 16
passengers Tuesday when he
ordered them off the bus, which
slid down an icy hill and stalled
on railroad tracks, moments be
fore a freight train split it in two.
“It could have been quite a
catastrophe if he hadn’t had the
presence of mind to get them off
that bus,” said Police Chief The
odore Anderson.
Forest rangers searched
Tuesday for 20 campers feared
lost in the Catskills, where 18 in
ches of snow fell, and accounted
for all but four of them. The
missing — four young men from
Long Island — probably could
survive the night’s 10-degree
cold if they were experienced
campers and well equipped,
officials said.
Tens of thousands of resi
dents along the Eastern Sea
board were without electricity
and thousands of motorists were
stranded by the century’s first
April blizzard in the Northeast.
Connecticut Gov. William
O’Neill called out 300 members
of the National Guard to help
motorists and clear stalled cars.
Airports had to be shut down
in New York City, Newark, N.J.,
Cleveland, Boston and Connec
ticut, while many schools,
businesses and governmental
operations were closed.
Record low temperatures also
froze the Midwest, which was
suffering for a third day today
from hefty snows and high
winds from the same storm that
blasted the East. More snow —
up to 4 inches — was expected
from a Rocky Mountain storm
moving into the Northern
Plains.
New York City was virtually
closed down Tuesday and one
weather-related death was re
ported. Record-low tempera
tures of 22 degrees combined
with howling winds to drop the
wind-chill factor to 25 degrees
below zero.
Snow levels reached 10 inches
and a force of 1,000 sanitation
workers used 700 snow plows
and 250 salt spreaders early to
day, trying to clear snow from
streets and prevent ice from
forming.
The weather service said the
temperature had dropped to 22
degrees by 8:50 p.m., breaking a
' ' 23 dei
record of
egrees set 101
years ago.
“This blizzard is a life-
threatening blizzard,” said
Harold Gibson, the meteorolog
ist in charge of the city’s Nation
al Weather Service station. He
warned residents to stay in their
homes except in dire emergen
cies as winds gusting up to 49
mph reduced visibility to near
zero.
Connecticut had a record
snowfall for April and record
low temperatures. Albany, N.Y.,
set a record for the heaviest
snowstorm ever irt April with
14'/2 inches. Visibility was near
zero from Pennsylvania to
Maine.
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