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United Press International
DENVER — Former astro
naut James Irwin has initiated
a third expedition aimed at
finding Noah’s Ark on a
mountain in Turkey, near the
Russian border.
A team of six men, some of
whom had been on two unsuc
cessful expeditions in August
and September, flew to the
eastern Mediterranean Tues
day to search for the biblical
ship.
Irwin said a new member
of the expedition had climbed
part of the way up 16,946-foot
Mount Ararat in August and
saw an unusual, large object.
The latest attempt, led by
Robbie Gowdey of Dallas, will
try to get permission to use a
helicopter to search, but prob
ably will be grounded by the
Turkish government because
of concerns about a possible
incident along the Turkish-
Soviet border, just 15 miles
away.
Irwin, who was injured in
August during his first ex
pedition up the massive
mountain, said the sighting
was made by Dennis Burchett,
an American who has been liv
ing in Turkey. Burchett
climbed Ararat before Irwin’s
first attempt.
“It wasn’t until I got back
from Turkey from the first
expedition that 1 found out
about his report,” said Irwin,
who walked on the moon as an
Apollo 15 astronaut in 1971.
i. “From what he said it looks
very suspicious. Its color is
black — much darker than the
surrounding rock. He was
only able to get 2‘A miles from
it, but it was large enough to
see from a distance.”
Burchett’s report indicated
an object of the dimensions
and shape of Noah’s ark, de
scribed in the Bible as 450-feet
long and rectangular. Bur
chett said the object was be
tween 12,000 and 13,000 feet
elevation and east of the base
camp of Irwin’s first expedi
tion on the north face of the
mountain.
“We didn’t see it (Burchett’s
object) because it is east of
Lahora Gorge,” Irwin said.
“We didn’t look there because
I thought the whole gorge had
been explored completely in
the past.”
Irwin, who couldn’t make
the third attempt because of
other commitments, said,
“Lahora Gorge is a gigantic
canyon. It isjust awesome and
rugged. It’s filled with glaciers
and rocks.”
Irwin said he would not be
disappointed if the latest
attempt found the ark.
“I will be delighted if they
find it,” he said. “Then it will
be available for me or anyone
else to visit.”
Irwin is a Baptist fun
damentalist whose High
Flight Foundation sponsored
the three expeditions. He was
in Turkey last week trying to
get permission to use a heli
copter. The Turkish govern
ment rejected his request.
Besides Burchett and Gow
dey, members of the third ex
pedition are: Doug Dean of
Las Vegas, Nev.; Ray Ander
son, of Shelbyville, Tenn.;
Bob Stuplich, of Gunnison,
Colo., and Marvin Steffans, of
Monroe, La.
Bank wins suit
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United Press International
I SAN ANTON lO — Wide re
ceiver Drew Pearson of the Dal-
jas Cowboys has been ordered to
Day more than $45,000 to Frost
Rational Bank for defaulting on
i loan, but a lawyer says Pearson
s'as an innocent victim.
District Judge David Peeples
tiled Wednesday that Pearson
Fust pay $37,000 plus interest
d! $7,800 because he failed to
respond to the bank’s lawsuit.
Pearson borrowed $75,000
last year with teammate Harvey
Martin and former Houston
Oiler quarterback John Reaves
o renovate four buildings in St.
Paul Square, a historical section
near downtown San Antonio.
The bank said only four pay
ments were made on the loan.
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Begin to visit
Dallas in Nov.
United Press International
DALLAS — Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin,
scheduled to visit Los Angeles in
November, as tentatively agreed
to stop over in Dallas to address
aGhristian rally and in turn rally
support for his country, spon
sors of the event said.
Evangelist Jerry Falwell of
Lynchburg, Va., who claimed he
is a supporter of Israel, said he
had agreed to co-sponsor the
event. He said he had been con
tacted about the sponsorship
several weeks ago by Dr. Jimmy
Draper, pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Euless, a Dallas
suburb.
“My support of Israel is well-
known, and my answer was yes,”
Falwell said.
Draper is president of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
but the organization was not a
co-sponsor of the event.
Mark Briskman, director of
the Dallas chapter of the Anti
defamation League, is helping
coordinate the Begin visit. He
said the first request that Begin
visit Dallas was made weeks be
fore the war in Lebanon.
“The arrangements (about
the Begin visit) are tentative,
based on the days and weeks
ahead,” Briskman said Wednes
day. “There was a growing frus
tration among some grass-roots
people for a reaffirmation of
Israel and its people.”
The scheduled visit to Los
Angeles is set for the second
week of November.
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Martin and Reaves re
sponded to the lawsuit but Peat -
son did not, so thejudgment was
entered against him, Peeples
said. The suit is still pending
against Martin and Reaves.
Attorney Kevin S. Wiley of
Dallas, who worked with St. Paul
Square in 1981, said the players
had paid back half the loan then
arranged with another business
partner to pay the rest. But the
partner backed out, he said.
“Drew and Harvey became in
nocent victims in the process,”
he said.
Because of the split partner
ship, Pearson believed he was
not responsible for paying the
rest of the loan to Frost Bank,
Wiley said.
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