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United Press International
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
Controversy has erupted
long the wealthy and famous
era proposed $90 million re-
irt hotel and residential com-
Jex, with residents Frank
jinatra and former President
'ord squaring off on the issue.
The Houston-based Feder-
ted Development Corp. prop-
ises to place a 250-unit hotel,
60 hotel villas, 80 townhouses
ind 55 single-family homes on
i acres in Rancho Mirage, a
T £XP£CT *501 wealthy desert city which hills
WMAMED Bllh tself as ptayground of Presi-
A T/^ x ilents and stars. The balance of
he 460-acre site in the foothills
if the Santa Rosa Mountains
vill he used for streets or left
ipen for recreation and a wild-
r life preserve.
Although a majority of the
ity’s councilmen favor the de-
elopment, called the Miranda
Project, the proposal was re
jected by 54 percent of the vo
ters when it was put on the bal
lot as an advisory measure last
November.
Opponents like Sinatra and
his wife Barbara, who live in
Rancho Mirage, and Susan
Marx, widow of the late come
dian Harpo Marx, cite environ
mental concerns. They say the
project is a threat to the rare
native desert bighorn sheep and
apes
the sheep’s nearby lambing
area, and note the project
would be a blight on the un
spoiled Santa Rosas.
Proponents such as Ford,
who is a limited partner in the
project, say the developers will
provide protection for the
sheep and the project will fatten
city coffers by about $800,000 a
year.
Ford winters in Rancho Mir
age and was given part of his
share in exchange for his agree
ment to support the develop
ment and to act as a spokesman
for it.
Despite the advisory ballot
measure, the council gave the
project preliminary approval in
a series of 4-1 votes last month,
and it seems certain to get a final
go-ahead Sept. 22.
The city likes to boast that,
with the exception of Jimmy
Carter, every President since
Dwight Eisenhower has visited
Rancho Mirage, home of such
diverse celebrities as tennis pro
Chris Evert Lloyd and former
Vice President Spiro Agnew.
The major thoroughfares in
clude Bob Hope, Gerald Ford
and Frank Sinatra drives, and
the city street index also lists
Barbara Stanwyck, Bing Cros
by, Burns and Allen, Claudette
Colbert, Danny Kaye, Greer
Carson and Jack Benny.
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United Press International
, KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The
cancer-stricken 12-year-old
daughter of a fundamentalist
ifj minister was ordered hospitalized
Thursday by an appeals court de
spite her protests she wanted to
rely on God to heal her.
, Pamela Hamilton, of La Follet-
te.Tenn., was ordered to Undergo
diagnostic tests, but the court
stopped short of ordering doctors
to proceed with chemotherapy
freatment. The child is suffering
from Ewing’s Sarcoma, a form of
cancer that begins in the hones
and spreads to the lungs.
The girl and her parents want to
place their faith in God for a cure.
But the state Department of Hu
man Services argued she will die
in less than six months if the dis
ease goes untreated.
The appeals court ordered a
“full-blown evidentiary hearing’
Press International
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Tlie consum
er products division of a tele
phone company has introduced
ipew device that automatically
lials for help when a lire breaks
The American Bell
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Corporation chosen
to deliver aircraft
United Press International
DALLAS — The General
Dynamics Corp. apparently has
been chosen to deliver $4 billion
worth of its F-16 fighter planes to
the Turkish Air Force, a spokes
man said Thursday.
In addition, the spokesman re
vealed the firm will conduct a “roll
out ceremony” for the first of 24
F-16 aircraft ordered by the Gov
ernment of Venezuela on Friday.
The ceremony will be attended
by Venezuelan officials at General
Dynamics Forth Worth head
quarters at 11 a.m. Friday.
“We have heard nothing offi
cial, but we understand an
announcement has been made in
Turkey that the F-16 has been
selected and that additiional nego
tiations and studies will be made
over the next three months,’ the
company’s official statement said.
“If this is true, then we are
extremely pleased that the Re
public of Turkey has selected the
F-16 Falcon to serve as its top-of-
the-line fighter aircraft for the
Turkish Air Force,” the spokes
man said.
Once the sale is official, Turkey
would become the sixth North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
country operating the sophisti
cated F-16 interceptor bomber,
the General Dynamics spokesman
said.
Additionally, five air forces in
other parts of the world also have
selected the F-16 to meet their
defense requirements in coming
decades.
“General Dynamics has made
very substantial commitments to
Turkish industry for comprehen
sive co-production and offset
programs which will provide a
large number of jobs for Turkish
workers and export sales for many
Turkish companies in a variety of
fields for years to come,” the
spokesman said.
Negotiations to begin
again for Continental
United Press International
HOUSTON — Negotiators for
Continental Airlines and the In
ternational Association of Machin
ists return Thursday to the bar
gaining table in an attempt to set
tle the stalemated, three-week-
old strike.
The union wants the company
to rehire 800 employees whose
jobs were eliminated alter the
strike began. Continental closed
its flight kitchens and gave those
and other jobs to contractors the
day the walk- out began.
Continental officials said the
financially-troubled airline
appears to be weathering the
strike well, operating 99 percent
of its regular flights on schedule.
when the diagnostic tests are com
pleted to determine whether the
state would he allowed to force the
girl to take chemotherapy against
her parents wishes.
Pamela told Juvenile Judge
Charles Herman at a hearing
Wednesday she did not want to
undergo radiation treatments.
However, attorneys for the
state said they believe the girl is
under the domination of her father
and "doesn’t have any indepen
dent thoughts or feelings about
this on her own.
Cancer specialists have told the
state Pamela has no longer than six
months to live if she does not take
the chemotherapy. With the
treatment, she has a “50-50
chance of survival.”
Hamilton said he would take
the case “all the way to the Sup
reme Court” if necessary to pro
tect his family’s right to practice
their religion.
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