WORLD
Do you know these faces?
Titanic treasures uncovered
Famous jazz trumpet
player Dizzy Gillespie
holds his breath before
blowing out the candles
on his birthday cake. He
was in Nice. France, for
his 70th birthday
ATI. ANTIC OCEAN
Il was
iu\t before midnight on April 14,
1912. The luxury ocean liner
Titanic was sailing from South
hampton. England, to New York
City Many of America's and
Britain's richest citizens were
on hoard lire sea looked calm
The night felt cold and clear Then
tragedy struck Ihe Titanic hit an
iceberg
The ship sank about 1,300
miles from New York, killing
1.513 people on hoard Only 24
per cent ot the passengers sui
vived
riie Titanic and all its treasures
remained untouched beneath the
sea for 73 years Then, in 1985 a
team of underwater researchers
discovered the ship about 400
miles from Newfoundland lheu
discovery started a debate over
whether the researchers should
explore the contents ot the ship
Most ot the shipwreck s sur
vivors wanted the contents lett
alone Ihey worried that someone
would try to make money In mi
their horrible experience I hey
also thought that it was disre
spectful to the people who died
Keith Routon. 16. sold
Oliver North bumper
stickers in San Jose,
California. The stickers,
which read "America has
a hero" and "Ollie for
President.' were popular
with passers-by. He sold
400 stickers in ten hours.
Sherry Lynn Biedrzyki. 12.
spent two weeks visiting
the Soviet Union. In 1985
she wrote the song We
Can Walk In Peace and
sent it to Russian officials.
She was the honorary
sponsor of a poster
contest prompted by her
song.
Eleanor Adams from Eng
land is racing Kenneth
Crutchlow in a 146- mile
foot race in California. The
race starts in Death Valley
at 282 feet below sea level
and finishes at 14.494 feet
above sea level on Mount
Whitney's summit.
MOSCOW SOVIE I UNION
Ihe Soviet Union and the
United States have eome one step
closer to a nuclear weapons agree
mem. making a summit between
the two countries even nxwv
likely
It all began last year when H r
sident Reagan made his "zen>
option" pn »pos.il to Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik,
Iceland Reagan proposed that
I1PI PHOTOS
C onor V a u g h a n , 9
O a k la n d , C a lifo rn ia
J a n e lle N e a l, 9
P o rtla n d , O re g o n z
I think they should give
it to the families or put it in
a museum I don't think they
should sell the treasures because
the families wouldn't want it to
be“ sold. If they keep it in the
water, it would be like a long lost
legend Blit it they bung it up. it
would be“ more real Mv dad
once found some necklaces and
money I le put an ad in the paper,
but nobodv called
I hey should put hall of the
treasure in a museum so people
could see what the treasure looked
like I want to see what it l»x>ks
like I he discoverers should keep
the other hall I hey should find
out first it the treasure belonged
to the |X‘ople on the ship ami try
to return it to their families II I
found something valuable. I'd
cheek the ok! books ami see w ho
might have owned the money
I think they should give
the valuable items back to the
families and not worry about it
because that’s who it belongs to
Ihey could buikl a museum ami
make a big plaque tot the people
who died ami put some ot their
things in the museum It's ix'al
the ship was found because it
sank a long time ago Some ol
the stuff they find might lv things
I have never seen before
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UPf PHOTO
An historic photo of the cruise ship Titanic — before it sank in 1912.
both the United States and the
Soviet Union get riel ot all their
intermediate i.tnge missiles in
Eun»pe
(iorbachev accepted Reagan's
proposal and later made one of his
own He suggested that the two
countries do away w uh their shot
tei range missiles in Eurnpe. to«»
Now Gorbachev has another
proposal lie has agreed I»' elimi
nate Soviet intermediate range
missiles in \sia Ihose missies
were one ot the biggest obstac les
to an arms agreement
I S off ic ials hop»* ( iorba
cliev's latest pniposal will deal
the wav lor a meeting between
Secretary ot State George Shultz
and Sov iet l-oreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze this tall
the last necessary step before a
summit
Who should keep the Titanic’s treasures?
Libby S o u le ', 1 0
P o rtla n d , O re g o n
• *'>
Recently the French liaux bed an
expedition to bring up the trea
sures of the Titanic Thoy say
items suc h as expensive china. »’Id
wine bottles and the ship's hard
ware have histone value and
should bc> displayed in a museum
Ihe French say they w ill not m.ike
money fn»m the operation How
ever, they have already started a
money-making video about tire
Titanic
Soviet/U.S. arm s agreem ent nears
Lou Diamond Phillips
played the famous rock
star Ritchie Valens in the
movie La Bamba. Phillips
visited students at
Pacoima Junior High in
California, the school Val
ens attended.
A T ISSUE
Hx‘ U S Congress agreed In
1986 they declared the Titanic an
undersea memorial and made it
illegal to "alter, disturb or sal
vage" any part of it Ihey allowed
an American research gnmp to
explore the Titanic but did not
allow them to bring up any of the
contents
The Titanic is not on United
States projxTty ( Xher countries
do not have to follow our law
D a v id B la n k e n s h ip 7
Concord, C a lifo rn ia
I he treasure should go back to
Ihe families ol the people who
were on the ship because1 the
items belonged to them But it
they 're not going to give the
things hack, they should |Ust
leave the ship alone amt not bung
any ot the Hems up I heaid about
the Titanic on telev ision news I
think it's neat they found Ihe ship
because it s been lost loi a long
tune
I hey should use’ it lordecoia
turn on a ship dial looks |tist like
the lit.line did flial wav I could
set* what the treasures look like
Ihey shouldn't be“ able to sell the
treasure because it d»x‘sn’t belong
to them I once found a treasure
at a baseball camp
they were
crystals
I felt like I was rich I
played with them and then acci
dentally letl them at the babysit
let s, but tfiev ic still outside