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Archaeologist discovers legendary
Legends of the stone city in the interior of Brazil have
circulated for centuries, said Aurelio Abreu, vice presi
dent of the Sao Paulo Archaeology Institute, but his
find was the first public mention of the ruins outside
the towns in the remote region.
United Press International
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A Brazil
ian archaeologist said Sunday he has
discovered in the country’s remote
interior ruins of a legendary stone
city dating from Incan times and
sought by explorers for centuries.
Aurelio Abreu, vice president of
the Sao Paulo Archaeology Institute,
said he and two researchers found
“ruins of a structure of stone giving
the impression of a fortress and dat
ing from remote times” in the moun
tains of Bahia state 700 miles north
of the capital.
The ruins — known by local resi
dents for decades as Ingrejil — were
constructed with “precision-cut
stones fitted without mortar in the
style of the Inca architecture of
Peru,” Abreu said. Ingrejil is the
name of the mountain region where
the ruins were found.
Legends of stone cities in the inte
rior have circulated for centuries,
Abreu said, but his find was the first
public mention of the ruins outside
the towns in the remote region. The
nearest town is Brumado, 25 miles
away^
“We believe there must be other
structures like Ingrejil in Brazil’s in
terior, much of which is still fearful
and unexplored,” said Abreu, who
inspected the site for the first time
Aug. 31 to Sept. 2 upon request by
state authorities.
The ruins “are nothing like struc
tures built by Indians known to in
habit Brazil in pre-Colombian
times,” he said. “Ingrejil may have
been built by refugees from Incan or
pre-Incan Peru who found there the
mountainous terrain and cool cli
mate that suited them.”
Inca Indians, who began ruling
Peru in the 12th century ami ex
panded into Bolivia, Ecuador and
much of Chile by the 15th century,
were conquered by the Spanish in
1532.
Known for their sophisticated ar
chitecture, irrigation, mining and
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HOLLYWOOD — Gary Collins,
TV’s Mr. Nice Guy and host of the
Miss America Pageant, says de
throned Miss America Vanessa Wil
liams will not cast a pall over this
year’s beauty pageant.
Collins, who will host the 63rd an
nual Atlantic City pageant Sept. 15
believes the contest can and will sur
vive the scandal.
Williams, the first black Miss
America in pageant history, shocked
much of the nation six weeks ago
when nude and sexually explicit
photographs of her and another
woman were published in Penthouse
magazine.
After a couple of days of agonized
soul searching by Miss America offi
cials, Miss Williams was asked to ab
dicate. She did, perhaps because
there are still other photographs,
supposedly more graphic, that will
be published in January.
Moralists denounced Williams,
enraged that she had betrayed the
role model Miss America represents
for little girls the world over.
Kinder citizens thought she
should be forgiven for making a mis
take. After all she was only 19 when
she posed.
Hard core feminists heaped abuse
on Penthouse publisher Bob Guc-
cione and the photographer for ex
ploiting a tender and innocent girl.
“It’s devastating to think the Van
essa Williams problem might blow
the top off the pageant,” said Col
lins, who came to know and admire
Miss Williams during last year’s
beauty contest.
“Everyone is speculating about
what sort of damage the whole thing
might cause.
“But I’m the kind of guy who
looks for a silver lining. Maybe more
people than ever will tune in this
year out of curiosity, just to see what
all the uproar was about.”
“I think the manner in which the
situation was handled demonstrates
the strength and standards of the
pageant,” Collins said. “It gave some
comfort to parents of the 80,000
young women involved in the pag
eant from its grass-roots contests
around the country.
“Personally, I think it was wonder-
West Texas vineyards should make it big
United Press International
LUBBOCK — Some of that
new Texas wine is just about re
ady for liquor store shelves.
Industry officials in the state
are optimistic, both about their
product and also about financial
interest in it from French wine
makers.
West Texas vineyards, started
years ago primarily by research
ers experimenting for alternate
crops, are expected to help fulfill
a growing market because na
tional wine sales are projected to
double by 1990.
“There’s not the capacity in the
California market to double their
production,” Australia wine Au
thor and lecturer Alan Young
said during a recent interview.
“The whole thrust of the in
dustry here (West Texas) has
been to fill the middle-priced
white wine market ... yes, they’ll
got every chance of selling,” he
said.
“People here have the philo
sophical attitude of expansiveness
and they’ve got the financial re
source. I don’t think you’ve got
this in the Northwest or the
Northeast,” Young said.
Young is the president of In
ternational Wine Academy, a pri
vate company teaching a sensory
evaluation course about wine’s
taste and color. He said some
Texas wines would be included in
the some 1,000 labels used in his
course.
He was in Texas recently on a
tour of several cities to give the
$55 per person seminars. Inter
national Wine Academy has no
ties to any wine company or trade
association, Young added.
“I think the biggest thing
they’ve got in Texas is their pride
to make this come true,” he said.
A good sign for the Texas wine
industry was investment into it by
major French marketers and pro--
ducers, he said.
A group including the French
companies Ricker and Cordier
has leased a 1,000-acre vineyard
belonging to the University of
Texas. The Tony Sanchez family
of Laredo and Dick Gill of Austin
also iire involved in that consor
tium, calling itself SGRC Corp.
ful that Vanessa’s replacement, who
was runner-up, was also black.
There was an element of divine
providence in that Suzette Charles
took over.”
Collins, whose wife is Mary Ann
Mobley — Miss America of 1959 —
refuses to pass judgment on Wil
liams, although he was as shocked
and baffled as anyone by the photo
graphs.
Last month he telephoned San
Francisco where Miss Williams was
working in an episode of a TV se
ries, and invited her to appear on his
daily “Hour Magazine” TV show.
“I told Vanessa she could discuss
anything and everything she
thought about her situation and her
future plans,” he said. “She told me
her attorney had advised her not to
do any interviews.
Collins, however, is bringing to his
show a model who has posed nude in
explicit and suggestive shots along
with a psychiatrist to explore why
s^me women choose to expose inti
mate parts of their bodies lor nudie
magazines.
“A good many people have no
idea why they do this,” Collins said.
“I certainly don’t. Hopefully we’ll
discover some of the whys and
wherefores of their motivations.
“One of the interesting points will
be what these young women have
been promised as opposed to the
reality of what they get.
Doctors remove tumor
lodged between eyes
United Press International
CLEVELAND — A Texas woman
who underwent 18 hours of surgery
to remove a disfiguring cancerous
tumor from her face returned home
this weekend unused to her new ap
pearance but happy that the painful
tumor is gone.
In an 18-hour operation Aug. 15,
doctors at Mt. Sinai Medical Center
removed the tumor, which had
pushed apart the Jasper, Texas
woman’s eyes and formed a lumpy
bulge across her nose and cheek
bones.
She has lost her sense of smell and
has blurred vision in her left eye, but
believes that is a small price to pay.
Doctors in Texas told her four years
ago that the cancer would probably
kill her, and the Ml. Sinai surgical
team had feared they would have to
remove her eyes.
Dr. Bahman Guyuron, who led
the Mt. Sinai surgical team, said she
will need only minor cosmetic sur
gery, and he plans to reconstruct her
cheekbones and palate when he is
certain the cancer is gone. Post-oper
ative tests have found no more can
cer.
The tumor had caused Parker to
fall into semi-comatose states and
had given her violent, painful head
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