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I . x t . Cr. i .. . . i .... ..,. t 7-- t-l, Yrnr - No. 6 ; ol loniin! Il iiiicIm. Srpi- mlN-- r l. I2 " Sections - 60 laie - nts Hundreds of Palestinian refugees killed BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were massacred in two refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut, ap-parently by Lebanese Christian militiamen given control of the camps by Israeli occupa-tion forces, reporters at the scene said Satur-day. Three United Press International report-ers saw bullet- tor- n bodies piled in groups of ten or more scattered through the Sabra and Chatila camps. The rampage apparently began Friday. Reporters who tried to get into the camps early that day discovered the Israelis had turned them over to the militia of the Pha- langis- ts, the Israeli- allie- d Lebanese Chris-tian group that has repeatedly threatened the Palestinians. With Israeli soldiers manning a hill less than a quarter mile away from the Chatila camp, the Phalangists apparently rounded up and killed everyone they could find. At the United Nations, Palestine Liber-ation Organization representative Zehdi La- - bib Terzi claimed that as many as 1,500 civil-ians had been killed. He was still attending a U. N. session late Saturday and unavailable for further comment. The U. N. Security Council, after two hours of private consultations, convened an urgent meeting Saturday night to consider sending troops back into west Beirut to prevent fur-ther bloodshed. Arab nations planned to ask that 5,000 U. N. troops in south Lebanon, members of the earlier peacekeeping force, be sent in to pro-tect civilians and that the Council's five per-manent members then send additional forces, according to Jordan's ambassador, Hazem Nuseibeh. Earlier, U. N." Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar agreed with an urgent ap-peal from the United States, France and Italy to send additional U. N. observers to west Beirut. The Italian government asked that the French, Italian and U. S. peacekeeping -- force be reinstated, but the State Department said WBkE& vMk ' - irWPFyft JiBBBWillwiMHBMiMTiBlBgWBBr Ptnto by Coiln Kackly Enid Fink, 70, above left, her sister Alice Thompson, 61, and Dick Cook, 85, stand in front of their home next to Sky Rim Sta-bles on Wagon Trail Road. They are opposed to the, city landfill proposed for the area surrounding the lake at right, which lies directly south of their property. The sitef. is one of two " proposed as landfills. there was no contemplation " at this time" of sending U. S. forces back to Lebanon. In Jerusalem, a senior Israeli official said the Lebanese army had agreed to move into the Chatila, Sabra and Fakahani Palestinian refugee camps on the outskirts of west Bei-rut at 10 a. m. this morning. ( 1 a. m. CDT). The massacre of the Palestinians in the two camps spurred negotiations that had been scheduled between the Lebanese and Israeli army officers, the official said. He also said the Israelis turned over the main financial street of west Beirut to the Lebanese Saturday " by Israeli initiative alone." The official stressed, however, that this did not signal the start of an Israeli withdra-wal from west Beirut, as demanded by Pres-ident Reagan and the U. N. Security Council. It was impossible to get an accurate esti-mate of the total number of Palestinians shot to death at the camps because the bodies were strewn across several acres. It ap-peared the final toll would be well over 1,000. A spokesman for the Phalangist Lebanese Front, who asked not to be identified, said, " The Lebanese Front were never in the camps." Western reporters, however, saw Phalangists in the camps Friday. Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, in an interview from Damas-cus, said intelligence reports showed Israelis not militiamen massacred the civilians. " They ( the Israelis) sent special comman-dos with guides only from Lebanese army Maj.) Saad Haddad," he said. Israeli officials expressed shock but said they had prevented an even greater mas-sacre. One senior Israeli official said, " The mo-ment we heard what was going on, we moved to stop it," but admitted he didn't know what time that was. In Washington, Reagan expressed " out-rage and revulsion" at the slaughter and said Israel had failed to carry out its prom-ise to prevent such incidents. At the Chatila camp Saturday, there were no guards or gunmen anywhere in the camp and no one left alive to tell what happened. The camps had been under the control of the regular Lebanese army until the Israeli advance on west Beirut three days ago in the aftermath of the assassination of tebanese President- elec- t Beshir Gemayal, leader of the Phalangists." The Israeli officials said an investigation of the massacre will be made. The I Lebanese government radio, in its first comment on the massacre, blamed it on the Christian militias of renegade Lebanese army Maj. Saad Haddad, who controls a strip of territory on the Lebanese- Israe- li bor-der in the south and whose troops had been reported seen in the camp Friday along with the Phalangists. Under the U. S.- sponsor- ed agreement to evacuate Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut, guarantees were provided for the security of the refugee camps, which also had served as bases for the PLO. Neighbors oppose potentiaMahdfill site By Bob Rose Missourian staff writer They don't make men like John Neihardt any more. That is the sentiment of several people who live north of Columbia and Gnd their homes and Neihardt's as potential neighbors for a new city landfill. The poet laureate of Nebraska and former University professor died in 1973, but for his daughter, Alice Thompson, Neihardt's home on Wag-on Trail Road off U. S. 63 N. has served as a lasting memory. Now she is ready to share that memory with others. Mrs. Thompson, 61, is working on restoring the home of her father, who was the author of books and po etry about the American Indian. She says she would like to open the home to the public, but she fears that the city's plans to locate a landfill on property adjacent to the Niehardt place would cause havoc. This location is the so- call- ed " western" site, and while another site east of Route B is being consid-ered, the city has indicated this one is the preferred location for the land-fill. The existing landfill will reach capacity next year. Mrs. Thompson says the noise, odors and debris from a landfill would ' upset the beauty of the area surrounding the Niehardt home. " Other people said it's like a heartache," Mrs. Thompson says. People now use the area at the land-fill site to fish, swim, hike and ride horses. " It would be great if I had enough money," she says. " I'd buy the thing ( landfill site) and call it Neihardt Park." Mrs. Thompson says she is wor-ried that many Columbians will not even realize that her father's home is in the area. She says the city is ig-noring the merit of Neihardt's works and concentrating too much on eco-nomics. " It seems almost unbelievable that they can do that sort of thing," she says. " If we could just think a little more about the great things men do and not about the material things." Jo Sapp, one of Mrs. Thompson's neighbors, agrees. As a graduate student in the University's English department, Mrs. Sapp is aware of Neihardt's prominence. She has posted a note near the English de- partm- erit offices seeking support from other teachers in an attempt to save the land near Neihardt's' prop-erty. A local attorney and an official from the state Department of Natu-ral Resources admit. the Neihardt preservation plea is not a strong one legally, but it may carry some politi-cal clout. Mrs. Thompson says she doesn't worry about the political end. In-stead, she wants to alert people to the significance and beauty of the land which faces the possibility of becoming a city dump. A Columbia man at one of the lakes on the dump site shares that wish. He pulled his two sons out of school for a day last week so they could join him fishing. " I've come out here since I was a kid," he says. " It would be a shame if anything happened here." But just as the city has had to search for a new place to dump its trash, the man soon may have to search for a new place to take his boys to fish. The Columbia Missourian will re-port on the other proposed landfill site on Tuesday. The star on the map at right indicates the location of the ' western' landfill site Randolph Audrain " sCounty County Howard Counry Boone t'ount r"" ix tf County Columbia X r ?" nfew J CaBmmtg Gouty I C ) CMy I Gusty I Ballot buster Experts question effect of 48 voting decisions ByJimHirsch Missourian staff writer You walk into the voting booth. There you confront nuclear weapons , and beverage containers, building- cod- e fees and cost- of- livin- g adjust-ments, reapportionment and obliga-tion bonds, square dancing and di-vorces. It's Nov. 2, and you're double- parke- d. You gaze at your 12- pa- ge election ballot, a 48- decisi- on journey through bureaucratic legalese. Voting is your indispensable input into the political process, your demo-cratic duty, the ultimate expression of public will. So you sift, through the proposals' Jungle- gy- m . wording: the " applica-ble provisions" and " user fees," the " cost impacts" and " per diems," the " increases in bonded debt au-thorizations" and " allowances for costs in inflationgrowth," trying to understand While the large number of items on -- November's ballot may reflect de-mocracy in action, some area ex-perts question the practicality and effectiveness of a ballot which in-cludes 24 referenda and decisions on 24 public offices. " What it probably means is com-plete confusion," said John E. Bal-lard, state specialist in governmen-tal affairs and a member of the University Political Science Exten-sion Division. " It's an ungodly amount to ask voters to decide on. Some' may just throw up their hands." David Leuthold, a political science professor at the University, also worries thai voters, facing this spate of issues, will not have adequate time to study them. " Many voters are responsible and intelligent, but this may wear them out," he said. Both Ballard and Leuthold said voter " drop off" may occur. " Re-search shows ' that voter interest trails off as the voter goes through the ballot, and the issues at the end get less attention and are voted on less than the issues at the begin-ning," Ballard said. The first item on the ballot is the U. S. Senate race, matching Republi-can incumbent John Danforth against Democrat Harriet Woods. The nuclear freeze proposal is at the end of the ballot. " People will have to know how they're going to vote before they go in," said Director of Elections Wen-dy Noren, who said this will be the longest ballot in recent memory. But Carolyn Leuthold, president of the League of Women voters, won-ders, " Will you have to bring in a cheat- she- et just to remember what to vote for? If people are less in-formed, they'll just stop voting." One possible consequence of the long and complex ballot is that vot-ers may- - skip its-- less publicized parts; most agree that the turnout win not be affected significantly. Leuthold says he believes that it will be important for campaigners to make an extra effort in disseminat-ing information to clarify the issues for voters. Mining interests dig at wilderness- are- a bill By Sara Grosvenor and Ellen Hosmer Missourian staff writers There's a battle raging over a patch of ground called Irish Wilder-ness which lies among the hills of the Ozarks. It's not like the Civil War conflict that destroyed a settlement there in the 1860s. Nor is it reminiscent of the logging efforts in the late 19th cen-tury that left the landscape riddled with scars. This is a battle of ideologies. Its weapons are words delivered in vol-leys of congressional bills, letters and rhetoric. Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed bills to incorporate the 17,562. acres of Oregon County's Irish Wil-derness and 6,888 acres of Texas Insight County's Paddy Creek in the Nation-al Wilderness Preservation System. Both areas are in the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missou-ri. The full Senate is' expected to pass the bills this week. But if the mea-sures dont win approval in the House before the congressional re-cess in October, the process will have to begin again when Congress reconvenes in January. Reclassification of the Irish and Paddy Creek areas would raise to 72,455 acres (. 16 percent of the state) the number of Missouri acres in the preservation system six other Missouri wilderness areas already are protected. The Paddy Creek proposal has drawn little opposition. But rep-resentatives of both the Reagan ad-ministration and the national mining' industry have decried inclusion of the Irish area in the wilderness pres-ervation system. The qualities which make Irish a prime target for conservationists are the same ones that make it so attrac-tive to industry. Since logging opera-tions there concluded more than half a century ago, timber has been al-lowed to reclaim the land. And be-neath 100- fo- ot trees lies the promise of extensive mineral deposits. The Irish is 40 miles south of the Viburnum Trend, one of the largest known lead reserves in the world. The trend produces about 85 percent of the lead mined in the United States, according to Clayton Johnson of the University's geology depart- - ment. Though the trend contains a 50- - to 100- ye- ar supply of lead, mining com-panies look to the future and to the fringes of the Irish Wilderness. They think that the trend might extend within the wilderness, and they would like to conduct mineral explo-ration there. Mining company officials decline to comment, but Johnson is willing to speak for those searching the wilder-ness soil for hidden mineral deposits. " We know there are the same geo-logical formations inside the area," Johnson says, " and there is no rea-son to believe that they were not the same geological conditions that pro-duced the Viburnum Trend." Groups seeking protection- o- f the Irish Wilderness believe there's ( See SIERRA, Page 8A ) J5 Chinee Vibaneeiion From Chinese students attending local institutions to Co-lumbia residents, visiting the world's most populous country, the connection between China and Columbia is a far- reachi- ng one. Today's Columbia Missourian explores this influence in a special section, The Chinese Connection. Ill town today Noon Museum of Art and Ar-chaeology, 25th anniversary, tours, films, live music and free refreshments. Noon Last day of Energy Expo-sition, Biscayne Mall, sponsored by the County Energy Project. Free and open to the public. 1 pjn. Jazz Festival, Shelter In-surance Gardens, 1817 W. Broad-way, free and open to public. Monday 7 p. m. City Council meets, Coun- ty- Ci- ty Building. 8 p-- m. " On Golden Pond," Uni-versity Theater, Fine Arts Build-ing. Tickets: $ 5 general admission, $ 4.50 -- faculty and staff, $ 2.50 for students and senior citizens. 8 p-- m. Faculty recital by flutist Steven Geibel, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Index r Business ................ .5- 7- A Classified . C Opinion 4C X UUJIttr Xv
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Item.Transcript | I . x t . Cr. i .. . . i .... ..,. t 7-- t-l, Yrnr - No. 6 ; ol loniin! Il iiiicIm. Srpi- mlN-- r l. I2 " Sections - 60 laie - nts Hundreds of Palestinian refugees killed BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were massacred in two refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut, ap-parently by Lebanese Christian militiamen given control of the camps by Israeli occupa-tion forces, reporters at the scene said Satur-day. Three United Press International report-ers saw bullet- tor- n bodies piled in groups of ten or more scattered through the Sabra and Chatila camps. The rampage apparently began Friday. Reporters who tried to get into the camps early that day discovered the Israelis had turned them over to the militia of the Pha- langis- ts, the Israeli- allie- d Lebanese Chris-tian group that has repeatedly threatened the Palestinians. With Israeli soldiers manning a hill less than a quarter mile away from the Chatila camp, the Phalangists apparently rounded up and killed everyone they could find. At the United Nations, Palestine Liber-ation Organization representative Zehdi La- - bib Terzi claimed that as many as 1,500 civil-ians had been killed. He was still attending a U. N. session late Saturday and unavailable for further comment. The U. N. Security Council, after two hours of private consultations, convened an urgent meeting Saturday night to consider sending troops back into west Beirut to prevent fur-ther bloodshed. Arab nations planned to ask that 5,000 U. N. troops in south Lebanon, members of the earlier peacekeeping force, be sent in to pro-tect civilians and that the Council's five per-manent members then send additional forces, according to Jordan's ambassador, Hazem Nuseibeh. Earlier, U. N." Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar agreed with an urgent ap-peal from the United States, France and Italy to send additional U. N. observers to west Beirut. The Italian government asked that the French, Italian and U. S. peacekeeping -- force be reinstated, but the State Department said WBkE& vMk ' - irWPFyft JiBBBWillwiMHBMiMTiBlBgWBBr Ptnto by Coiln Kackly Enid Fink, 70, above left, her sister Alice Thompson, 61, and Dick Cook, 85, stand in front of their home next to Sky Rim Sta-bles on Wagon Trail Road. They are opposed to the, city landfill proposed for the area surrounding the lake at right, which lies directly south of their property. The sitef. is one of two " proposed as landfills. there was no contemplation " at this time" of sending U. S. forces back to Lebanon. In Jerusalem, a senior Israeli official said the Lebanese army had agreed to move into the Chatila, Sabra and Fakahani Palestinian refugee camps on the outskirts of west Bei-rut at 10 a. m. this morning. ( 1 a. m. CDT). The massacre of the Palestinians in the two camps spurred negotiations that had been scheduled between the Lebanese and Israeli army officers, the official said. He also said the Israelis turned over the main financial street of west Beirut to the Lebanese Saturday " by Israeli initiative alone." The official stressed, however, that this did not signal the start of an Israeli withdra-wal from west Beirut, as demanded by Pres-ident Reagan and the U. N. Security Council. It was impossible to get an accurate esti-mate of the total number of Palestinians shot to death at the camps because the bodies were strewn across several acres. It ap-peared the final toll would be well over 1,000. A spokesman for the Phalangist Lebanese Front, who asked not to be identified, said, " The Lebanese Front were never in the camps." Western reporters, however, saw Phalangists in the camps Friday. Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, in an interview from Damas-cus, said intelligence reports showed Israelis not militiamen massacred the civilians. " They ( the Israelis) sent special comman-dos with guides only from Lebanese army Maj.) Saad Haddad," he said. Israeli officials expressed shock but said they had prevented an even greater mas-sacre. One senior Israeli official said, " The mo-ment we heard what was going on, we moved to stop it," but admitted he didn't know what time that was. In Washington, Reagan expressed " out-rage and revulsion" at the slaughter and said Israel had failed to carry out its prom-ise to prevent such incidents. At the Chatila camp Saturday, there were no guards or gunmen anywhere in the camp and no one left alive to tell what happened. The camps had been under the control of the regular Lebanese army until the Israeli advance on west Beirut three days ago in the aftermath of the assassination of tebanese President- elec- t Beshir Gemayal, leader of the Phalangists." The Israeli officials said an investigation of the massacre will be made. The I Lebanese government radio, in its first comment on the massacre, blamed it on the Christian militias of renegade Lebanese army Maj. Saad Haddad, who controls a strip of territory on the Lebanese- Israe- li bor-der in the south and whose troops had been reported seen in the camp Friday along with the Phalangists. Under the U. S.- sponsor- ed agreement to evacuate Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut, guarantees were provided for the security of the refugee camps, which also had served as bases for the PLO. Neighbors oppose potentiaMahdfill site By Bob Rose Missourian staff writer They don't make men like John Neihardt any more. That is the sentiment of several people who live north of Columbia and Gnd their homes and Neihardt's as potential neighbors for a new city landfill. The poet laureate of Nebraska and former University professor died in 1973, but for his daughter, Alice Thompson, Neihardt's home on Wag-on Trail Road off U. S. 63 N. has served as a lasting memory. Now she is ready to share that memory with others. Mrs. Thompson, 61, is working on restoring the home of her father, who was the author of books and po etry about the American Indian. She says she would like to open the home to the public, but she fears that the city's plans to locate a landfill on property adjacent to the Niehardt place would cause havoc. This location is the so- call- ed " western" site, and while another site east of Route B is being consid-ered, the city has indicated this one is the preferred location for the land-fill. The existing landfill will reach capacity next year. Mrs. Thompson says the noise, odors and debris from a landfill would ' upset the beauty of the area surrounding the Niehardt home. " Other people said it's like a heartache," Mrs. Thompson says. People now use the area at the land-fill site to fish, swim, hike and ride horses. " It would be great if I had enough money," she says. " I'd buy the thing ( landfill site) and call it Neihardt Park." Mrs. Thompson says she is wor-ried that many Columbians will not even realize that her father's home is in the area. She says the city is ig-noring the merit of Neihardt's works and concentrating too much on eco-nomics. " It seems almost unbelievable that they can do that sort of thing," she says. " If we could just think a little more about the great things men do and not about the material things." Jo Sapp, one of Mrs. Thompson's neighbors, agrees. As a graduate student in the University's English department, Mrs. Sapp is aware of Neihardt's prominence. She has posted a note near the English de- partm- erit offices seeking support from other teachers in an attempt to save the land near Neihardt's' prop-erty. A local attorney and an official from the state Department of Natu-ral Resources admit. the Neihardt preservation plea is not a strong one legally, but it may carry some politi-cal clout. Mrs. Thompson says she doesn't worry about the political end. In-stead, she wants to alert people to the significance and beauty of the land which faces the possibility of becoming a city dump. A Columbia man at one of the lakes on the dump site shares that wish. He pulled his two sons out of school for a day last week so they could join him fishing. " I've come out here since I was a kid," he says. " It would be a shame if anything happened here." But just as the city has had to search for a new place to dump its trash, the man soon may have to search for a new place to take his boys to fish. The Columbia Missourian will re-port on the other proposed landfill site on Tuesday. The star on the map at right indicates the location of the ' western' landfill site Randolph Audrain " sCounty County Howard Counry Boone t'ount r"" ix tf County Columbia X r ?" nfew J CaBmmtg Gouty I C ) CMy I Gusty I Ballot buster Experts question effect of 48 voting decisions ByJimHirsch Missourian staff writer You walk into the voting booth. There you confront nuclear weapons , and beverage containers, building- cod- e fees and cost- of- livin- g adjust-ments, reapportionment and obliga-tion bonds, square dancing and di-vorces. It's Nov. 2, and you're double- parke- d. You gaze at your 12- pa- ge election ballot, a 48- decisi- on journey through bureaucratic legalese. Voting is your indispensable input into the political process, your demo-cratic duty, the ultimate expression of public will. So you sift, through the proposals' Jungle- gy- m . wording: the " applica-ble provisions" and " user fees," the " cost impacts" and " per diems," the " increases in bonded debt au-thorizations" and " allowances for costs in inflationgrowth," trying to understand While the large number of items on -- November's ballot may reflect de-mocracy in action, some area ex-perts question the practicality and effectiveness of a ballot which in-cludes 24 referenda and decisions on 24 public offices. " What it probably means is com-plete confusion," said John E. Bal-lard, state specialist in governmen-tal affairs and a member of the University Political Science Exten-sion Division. " It's an ungodly amount to ask voters to decide on. Some' may just throw up their hands." David Leuthold, a political science professor at the University, also worries thai voters, facing this spate of issues, will not have adequate time to study them. " Many voters are responsible and intelligent, but this may wear them out," he said. Both Ballard and Leuthold said voter " drop off" may occur. " Re-search shows ' that voter interest trails off as the voter goes through the ballot, and the issues at the end get less attention and are voted on less than the issues at the begin-ning," Ballard said. The first item on the ballot is the U. S. Senate race, matching Republi-can incumbent John Danforth against Democrat Harriet Woods. The nuclear freeze proposal is at the end of the ballot. " People will have to know how they're going to vote before they go in," said Director of Elections Wen-dy Noren, who said this will be the longest ballot in recent memory. But Carolyn Leuthold, president of the League of Women voters, won-ders, " Will you have to bring in a cheat- she- et just to remember what to vote for? If people are less in-formed, they'll just stop voting." One possible consequence of the long and complex ballot is that vot-ers may- - skip its-- less publicized parts; most agree that the turnout win not be affected significantly. Leuthold says he believes that it will be important for campaigners to make an extra effort in disseminat-ing information to clarify the issues for voters. Mining interests dig at wilderness- are- a bill By Sara Grosvenor and Ellen Hosmer Missourian staff writers There's a battle raging over a patch of ground called Irish Wilder-ness which lies among the hills of the Ozarks. It's not like the Civil War conflict that destroyed a settlement there in the 1860s. Nor is it reminiscent of the logging efforts in the late 19th cen-tury that left the landscape riddled with scars. This is a battle of ideologies. Its weapons are words delivered in vol-leys of congressional bills, letters and rhetoric. Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources passed bills to incorporate the 17,562. acres of Oregon County's Irish Wil-derness and 6,888 acres of Texas Insight County's Paddy Creek in the Nation-al Wilderness Preservation System. Both areas are in the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missou-ri. The full Senate is' expected to pass the bills this week. But if the mea-sures dont win approval in the House before the congressional re-cess in October, the process will have to begin again when Congress reconvenes in January. Reclassification of the Irish and Paddy Creek areas would raise to 72,455 acres (. 16 percent of the state) the number of Missouri acres in the preservation system six other Missouri wilderness areas already are protected. The Paddy Creek proposal has drawn little opposition. But rep-resentatives of both the Reagan ad-ministration and the national mining' industry have decried inclusion of the Irish area in the wilderness pres-ervation system. The qualities which make Irish a prime target for conservationists are the same ones that make it so attrac-tive to industry. Since logging opera-tions there concluded more than half a century ago, timber has been al-lowed to reclaim the land. And be-neath 100- fo- ot trees lies the promise of extensive mineral deposits. The Irish is 40 miles south of the Viburnum Trend, one of the largest known lead reserves in the world. The trend produces about 85 percent of the lead mined in the United States, according to Clayton Johnson of the University's geology depart- - ment. Though the trend contains a 50- - to 100- ye- ar supply of lead, mining com-panies look to the future and to the fringes of the Irish Wilderness. They think that the trend might extend within the wilderness, and they would like to conduct mineral explo-ration there. Mining company officials decline to comment, but Johnson is willing to speak for those searching the wilder-ness soil for hidden mineral deposits. " We know there are the same geo-logical formations inside the area," Johnson says, " and there is no rea-son to believe that they were not the same geological conditions that pro-duced the Viburnum Trend." Groups seeking protection- o- f the Irish Wilderness believe there's ( See SIERRA, Page 8A ) J5 Chinee Vibaneeiion From Chinese students attending local institutions to Co-lumbia residents, visiting the world's most populous country, the connection between China and Columbia is a far- reachi- ng one. Today's Columbia Missourian explores this influence in a special section, The Chinese Connection. Ill town today Noon Museum of Art and Ar-chaeology, 25th anniversary, tours, films, live music and free refreshments. Noon Last day of Energy Expo-sition, Biscayne Mall, sponsored by the County Energy Project. Free and open to the public. 1 pjn. Jazz Festival, Shelter In-surance Gardens, 1817 W. Broad-way, free and open to public. Monday 7 p. m. City Council meets, Coun- ty- Ci- ty Building. 8 p-- m. " On Golden Pond," Uni-versity Theater, Fine Arts Build-ing. Tickets: $ 5 general admission, $ 4.50 -- faculty and staff, $ 2.50 for students and senior citizens. 8 p-- m. Faculty recital by flutist Steven Geibel, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Index r Business ................ .5- 7- A Classified . C Opinion 4C X UUJIttr Xv |