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•'Mi. Nation/World Scientists sunken Titanic ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (UP!) -- A team of French and American scientists testing a new robot sub­ marine found the wreck Of the Ti­ tanic, the "unsinkable" ocean liner that struck an iceberg and sank in the frigid North Atlantic in 1912. "We came on it early this morn­ ing," Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographlc Institution in Massachusetts said Monday. "It was Just bang, there it was right on top of it." In a ship-to-shore interview with Canada's CTV network from the U.S. Navy oceanographlc survey ship Knorr, Ballard said pieces of the Titanic were located about 370 miles south of Newfoundland. Ballard led ttW U.S.-French expe­ dition, funded bf the U.S. Navy and the National Geographic Society, which was mounted to test a new remote-controlled submarine equipped with video and still photog­ raphy cameras. The team's initial reaction "was excitement, then a coming down off that to realize that we had found the ship where 1,500 people had died," Ballard said. "(For) a lot of us who had re­ searched it for so many years, the Titanic has (become) more than a shipwreck. It's a true disaster," he said. "To finally put those souls to rest was a very nice feeling." The London Observer earlier re­ ported the submarine had been probing 100 square miles of odean floor in water 2 miles deep since the beginning of July. CTV, based tnToronto, reported the expedition did not plan to raise the wreck but would ask the United Wreck of Titanic Found LAND Southampton^ .CANADA Newfoundland EUROPE UNITE STAT© Route of Titanic AFRICA Atlantic Ocean Nations to declare the site an inter- pert, told the Observer he planned to national memorial. try to raise the Titanic with a new "As far as I am concerned, that salvage system using inflatable can- ship is finished," said Eva Hart, an vas bags. MKyear-old British survivor. John Eaton of the Titanic Histori- The Titanic was en route from cal Society told "The CBS Morning Southampton, England, to New York News" the salvors would find a "de- on April 14,1912, when it struck an bris trail." iceberg, taking 1,503 of the approxi- "At the moment, it Just appears to mately 2,200 passengers and crew to be fragments of the ship which their deaths. broke up as the ship impacted with The Titanic was believed to be the bottom of the ocean bed," he "unalnkable" because of its double said. "Based on some tests that the bottom and reinforced bulkheads. ' U.S. Navy did a couple of years ago, Ten millionaires were on board they "found that at that depth the when the ship sank. Its strongroom vessel would strike at the equivalent was filled with valuables, Including of about 100 mph and that would diamonds valued at 97 million in mean Just total destruction of most 1912. of the equipment and mml&hlngs Three attempts have been made to and things of that sort. locate the ship and Walt Disney pro- "There may be techniques devel- auctions once spent $70,000 on a fea* oped in some future period that sibility study. "•» would enable them to get down there John Pierce, a British salvage ex- and work." thosc&already suffering from the disease, and to ensure that they ana the millions of 'silent* carriers avoid spreading the virus still further," It said. through education and information campaigns, the United Nations organization said. "By the end of August, some 14,000 people were reported as having the disease and several million more carriers of the virus who are symptom-free but capable of infecting others," the agency said. "The immediate task is to provide moral support and whatever treatment Is available to A number of antivlrals are being tested, the agency said, but "scientists are not optimistic about the chances of developing a vaccine In the immediate future." BILL BLASS for k / . f Itw M. tiillh "The Continental Traveler" * 14JOO with any Ultima II®purchase Includes: Advanced Formula Lipstick, natural cerise Advanced Formula Mascara, perfect black. Nearest to natural. Make-up, most natural beige. .02 oz. of Bill Blass perfume & purse mirror. All in a lovely corduroy cosmetic bag. mm Cosmetics w SPRING HILL CRYSTAL LAKi ST CHARLES Ocean Monday after staking claim to being the "World's CHARGE IT' Use your SPIESS CHARGE. Visa. MasterCard & American Exc/ess •/ * ' • r . • f NQHTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday. September 4, ltSS p«g« «