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Begin invites Anwar Sadat
to address parliament
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime
Minister Menahem Begin took
Anwar Sadat up on his offer to
visit Israel and invited the
Egyptian president to address
the Israeli parliament.
Begin spoke Sunday as bombs
killed two Arabs in Jerusalem
and as a spokesman for the
Palestine Liberation Or
ganization endorsed the recent
joint Soviet-American declara
tion as a basis for a new Geneva
peace conference.
“If President Sadat wants an
official invitation from me, he
has it,” Begin told reporters
after the weekly meeting of his
cabinet. But “this gesture
should not be exaggerated;
President Sadat has not yet de
cided to come,” Begin added.
Twice last week, Sadat ex
pressed willingness to go to Is
rael if his trip would give im
petus to the Geneva conference
he and President Carter are so
anxious to have convened this
year. But he told visiting U.S.
congressmen Saturday that he
had not been officially invited.
Sadat also said Saturday he
had sent Carter the name of a
Palestinian-American profes
sor who would be acceptable to
PLO leader Yasir Arafat as the
representative of the Palestin
ians at Geneva. The Israeli
Foreign Minister rejected the
proposal, but Begin said:
“If it comes to a concrete
proposal, connected with a
name, we must first hear the
name in order to make a deci
sion.”
Sadat did not identify the pro
fessor but said he was a U.S.
citizen. However, informed
sources in Cairo said he was a
PLO member, and Begin reiter
ated Israel’s refusal to nego
tiate with PLO delegates at
Geneva.
The document, issued in New
York by Secretary of State
Cyrus R. Vance and Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko,
called for resumption of the
Geneva talks before the end of
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the year with Palestinian parti- i
cipation. The declaration did I
not mention the PLO. I
“The minimum basis that the i
PLO can accept for the partici
pation of the Palestinian people
...is the U.S.-Soviet statement,” i
Kamal said. i
“We agree to participate in i
the Geneva peace conference i
provided U.N. Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim, in the i
name of the two superpowers,
Britain firemen walk off jobs
By ED BLANCHE
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) Twelve
thousand hastily-trained army
firefighters manning obsolete
trucks and 16,000 civilian volun
teers went on the alert as Brit
ain’s 43,000 firemen prepared to
launch their first national strike
today.
Government officials said the
strike was expected to last at
least a week. No talks between
leaders of the Fire Brigades’
Union and government repre
sentatives were scheduled until
Wednesday.
The strike is the most serious
challenge so far of the Labor
government’s determination to
maintain its 10 percent, anti-in
flation ceiling on annual wage
increases, now in its third year.
The firemen, whose weekly
base pay averages slls, are de
manding a 30 percent increase.
Home Secretary Merlyn Rees
in a broadcast Sunday night
said the government is not
seeking confrontations over its
pay policy that “is for the good
of us all,” but it will not back
down.
Rees said he could not believe
“that anyone, for example,
would allow children’s and old
people’s homes to burn down
around their occupants.” But
Michael Brown, one of the
firemen at the station that pro
tects Windsor Castle, told re
porters: “We won’t turn out
even if the queen is trapped in
the castle.”
The biggest danger appeared
to be in strife-tom Northern
Ireland, where security author
ities expected the Irish Republi
can Army to intensify its fire
bomb campaign to wreck the
province’s commercial life.
Five bombs exploded in Belfast
Sunday night, gutting at least
three buildings. Four other
bombs were defused.
In London, where the force of
6,500 firemen get an average of
700 calls a day, only 1,600 in
experienced troops were on
call. Most of them had only a
few days’ training in fire
fighting.
“We can’t take over fire sta
tions and their equipment to
avoid confrontation with fire
men’s pickets. We’ll just have to
make do with what we’ve got,”
said Maj. Charles Fenwick of
the Grenadier Guards, com
manding 300 army firefighters
invites the representatives of
the Palestinian people as part of
the Arab delegation to the
conference,” Kamal added.
Marxist Palestinians of the
Popular Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine
claimed responsibility for the
two bombs that exploded Sun
day in Jerusalem and said they
were in retaliation for the Is
raeli air strikes that killed 110
Palestinians and Lebanese in
at London’s Chelsea Barracks.
What they had was a fleet of
25-year-old civil defense fire
trucks brought out of mothballs.
They have no radios or sirens
and will have to guided by
police cars because most of the
soldier-drivers don’t know the
cities’ streets.
The government put half-page
ads in all major newspapers
telling the public what to do in
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Lillian Carter
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Lillian Carter offered thanks
to her Irish hosts at the last formal event of her 10-day
“Friendship Force” visit to Ireland.
The event was a reception at a town meeting hall
Sunday.
President Carter’s mother jointed 250 lowans in the
friendship exchange program. After completing for
malities of the tour, Mrs. Carter and the lowa residents
planned to travel on their own around Ireland before
returning to the united States.
An Irish delegation is visiting Des Moines as part of the
exchange program started four years ago by Carter when
he was governor of Georgia.
Mamie Eisenhower
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Mamie Eisenhower planned to
observe her 81st birthday by visiting the Eisenhower
Center and the grave of her late husband, former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Mrs. Eisenhower’s birthday is today.
Last year, Mrs. Eisenhower began visiting the grave on
her birthday, rather than on the former president’s birth
day. On that day, Oct. 14, the Army lays wreaths at the
president’s grave inside a chapel at the center.
“She doesn’t like the crowds anymore,” said Edna
Eisenhower, 86, wife of the former president’s late
brother, Roy, who died in 1942.
A small birthday party was planned for Mrs.
Eisenhower at a country club in Abilene.
Prince Charles
LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles is 29 years old today,
but it’s not likely to be an entirely happy occasion for him.
He’s still suffering from a case of food poisoning picked up
last week in Australia.
Doctors said Sunday the prince was “improving.” He’s
still not planning any birthday celebration.
Three persons were hospitalized as a result of food poi
soning from a luncheon last Thursday in Darwin and
about 20 others were less seriously affected.
Guests at the luncheon said Prince Charles didn’t eat
very much, but was seen nibbling at some roast chicken
and potato salad and a slice of watermelon.
Vernon Presley
granted divorce
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -
Vernon Presley, father of the
late Elvis Presley, was di
vorced from his second wife,
Davada “Dee” Stanley Presley,
in the Dominican Republic on
Friday.
Mrs. Presley said Sunday that
Presley, 62, flew to the Ca
ribbean island on Elvis’ private
jet shortly after the couple
reached an agreement on provi
sions of the divorce.
They were married July 3,
1960, in Huntsville, Ala., but
have been separated for more
than three years.
Mrs. Presley said she did not
know why the divorce was made
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southern Lebanon last week.
One bomb, in the Old City’s
Christian quarter, ripped
through the top floor of a two
story building, killed an Arab
student and wounded four per
sons. The second bomb ex
ploded about three hours later
in the Jewish suburb of Talpiot
across the street from a nursery
school. An Arab teen-ager was
killed and a man was injured.
case of fire. “See if you can
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Families moved out of high
rise apartment houses in Bir
mingham to keep from being
trapped by fire; their elevators
were already out due to a
month-old strike by mainte
nance men.
final in the Dominican
Republic. She said that divorce
petitions filed in Circuit Court in
Shelby County last May were
withdrawn after the two were
unable to reach an agreement
on terms.
The marriage was the second
for both. They had no children.
Presley’s first wife, Gladys
Smith Presley, died Aug. 14,
1958, and is buried on the
grounds of Graceland mansion
beside Elvis, who died Aug. 16
of what has been ruled a heart
attack.
Vernon Presley could not be
reached early today for com
ment.
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Longshoremen
near agreement
NEW YORK — Tentative set
tlement of the 44-day longshore
man’s strike in North Atlantic
ports is expected to lead to set
tlements along the South Atlan
tic and Gulf coasts. But no
matter what develops, dock
workers are not expected back
on the job before next weekend.
Union and shipping negotia
tors for striking Gulf Coast and
South Atlantic Coast ports were
to meet today on the three-year
pact that was reached Sunday
between the International
Longshoremen’s Association
and the New York Shippers
Association.
The accord covers ports from
Maine to Virgina, but was ex
pected to set the pattern for the
remaining striking ports. The
agreement calls for a 30 percent
wage-benefit boost over the
length of the contract, raising
the current hourly wage of $8 to
$10.40 by the third year.
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Thomas Gleason, ILA presi
dent, said Sunday that no in
crease in shipping costs would
be necessary as a result of the
pay hikes because “productiv
ity has gone up 1,500 percent”
through automation. There was
no immediate comment from
the shippers.
Gleason said he hoped to have
the all ports ratify the
agreement by Friday.
About half the union’s 50,000
longshoremen have been in
volved in the strike that began
Oct. 1, and is directed only
against containerships. Ship
ping sources say the costs of the
strike so far run into the hun
dreds of millions of dollars.
Pre-Christmas deliveries by
importers and exporters have
been among the casualties of
the strike, which has caused
layoffs in trucking companies
and other related businesses.
i —Griffin Dally News Monday, November 14,1977
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