NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1984
Page 13
Ark explorer detained in Turkey
By United Press International
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Police detained an American explorer at Istanbul's airport yesterday and accused him of trying to smuggle out clay and rock artifacts from what he claims is the site of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat.
At a press conference in Ankara, Turkey's culture and tourism minister said there was a "mystery" behind the recent surge of archaeological activity on Mount Ararat, located just 11 miles west of the
Soviet border and reputedly used for Western intelligence purposes.
one minister, Mukerrem Tascioglu, said explorer Marvin Steffens was be detained at Istanbul's Yesikiloy international airport until the 'mystery of Noah's Ark' was solved.
LAST SATURDAY, STEFFINS claimed he had found a "boat-shaped figure covered with soil" on Mount Aranre as resembling the Biblical Noah's Ark, and was taking wood and clay samples back to the United States for analysis.
of one of three U.S. exploration teams hunting for the Ark on the mountain, was detained as he was about to leave on a flight with his wife Marge and daughter Marianna.
Early yesterday, Steffins, leader
"The group was about to leave Turkey on a flight to Amsterdam but a search of their suitcases revealed 3.9 kilograms (8 1/2 pounds) of clay and rock pieces from the alleged site of Noah's Ark which they were smuggled to the United States," an airport police officer said.
in support. Steffins, from Monroe, La., said he wanted to take the artifacts to the United States for analysis.
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa's apartheid government, blaiming low non-white voter turnout on "intimidation," vowed yesterday to carry through with the installation of a segregated Parliament that excludes blacks.
Final results showed that fewer than 20 percent of mostly Indian ethnic Asians turned out Tuesday in violence-marred elections to seat a three-chamber, segregated Parliament that will be dominated by 178
South Africans avoid polls
minority white legislators.
The poor showing, coupled with a less than 30 percent turnout by mixed race "colored" voters in similar elections last week, was seen as a sharp rejection of the new constitution scheduled to take effect Monday.
INTERIOR MINISTER F.W. de Klerk said, however "the government considers (both) polls . . . high enough to accept them as a mandate to go ahead with the tri-camaral dispensation."
Superpower South Africa's 870,000 Asians will have 40 representatives and the mixed-race population — known as
"coloreds" in South Africa — will have 80. The chambers will have virtual autonomy.
White lawmakers will retain effective control of government, even when matters of common concern are difficult to handle or dispute are jointly discussed.
Final election results showed the National Peoples Party of Armichand Rajabians surged to a last-minute win, capturing 18 of the Asian seats. The Solidarity Party took 17 seats, four went to independents and one went to the Progressive Peoples Party.
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$ \pi = 4! $
That would make Math easier!
In 1897 the Indiana General Assembly passed a law making $ \pi $ equal to 4. (Maybe that explains something about Indiana).
Science and knowledge grow by challenging assumptions and conventional understandings.
BUT making $ \pi $ = 4? or $ \pi $ = 3? (cf. 1 Kings 7:23)
It would make things easier and simpler, BUT ...
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