Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 161, Ed. 1 Monday, February 20, 1978 Page: 1 of 29
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rijos told them,. he thought
allegations
amanian
in drug trafficking.
conditional
Enforcement
Oswald may have provided U-2 info to Russia, book says
foreigners
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African
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breakdown in the bargaining process,"
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APPRECIATION GIFT-Members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Tarleton
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Shoppers take
advantage of
First Panama Canal treaty
votes expected this week -
such
the
that
they
volved
The
contained
Adminis-
Ethio-
Soviet
Somalia
and
have
will . take
roles.
the
and
mili-
the
ex-
directly
involves
interests
Torrijos,
leader,
family I
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the
farewell
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discuss
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Ethiopian-Samolian conflict's-
implications involve her nations
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Egyptian commandos released
request for assassins denied
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or iadirectly the
a bewildering array
EARLY SHOPPERS-Cora Lee Cox, left, and an unidentified
shopper braved the 30 degree degree temperatures Monday to
take advantage of the Washington Birthday specials in
Stephenville. Mrs. Cox said “I saw the ads in the
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Interior Minister Christodoulos night. his island nation’s sovereignty. But he said
Benjamin told a news conference that the The hostages and the four members of his government would do what it could to
captured Egyptian soldiers would be the plane crew were unhurt. , “restore normalcy" to its relations with
allowed to return home with their arms. The Cypriot government today issued a Egypt.
But he said Cypriot and not Egyptian statement on behalf of the terrorists, who Egypt’s official Middle East News
courts would try the two Arab terrorists, claimed to be Palestinians, saying they Agency said Sadat's government was
Stephenville Empire
(93, .. - Monday, February 20, 197«
- from
Arab
Israel,
question
the basic
Sunday’s paper and made plans to be at full schedule in both houses, effors will
anmo’Mhondasssnywhsnsihoppnngaor repumeinreactacompromiseonenergy WASHINGTON (AP) - The striking Pam contract represented . compromise
children's and ladies items. _____ * United Mine Workers union today reached between what the UMW wanted and what
a tentative contract agreement with a ma- BCOA wanted. The UMW's bargaining
jor independent coal producer as council had previously rejected a BCOA
President Carter prepared to consult offer because the union objected to clauses
Congress on "definitive" action to end the imposing penalties on miners who go out
intervene.
The breakthrough in the PAM contract
came as administration officials were
exploring the possibility of encouraging
individual settlements between BCOA
companies and local UMW units. The
government could provide mediators for
such an effort, for example, although this
process would be time-consuming.
Carter is going to consult with Congress
on "definitive" action to end the 77-day
coal strike which already has forced some
power cutbacks and industrial layoffs and
is threatening mo e.
White House officials say the
administration will consult with the
congressional leadership on a series of
options including temporary federal
seizure of thescoal mines, binding arbi-
tration or invoking the TaftHartley Act
Sources said Carter is likely to
recommend a combination of these. “You
have to have a lot on tools in this bag,” said
one source.
The strike began Dec. 6 with most
utilities reporting 90-day emergency
stockpiles of coal, but those supplies have
dwindled and electricity cutbacks already
situation: •
Who are
Basically,
Ethiopian
in Drug
to Sen. Bob Dole,
Torrijos offered
It is only logical,
brother in
and answer
facts of the
pian Red Sea port of Assab.
This again gives the Soviets
the opportunity to blockade Red
Sea shipping lanes in any inter-
national crisis.
allegations are
regular troops
members treaties’
of his
scheduled because some
reports are classified.
Each side accuses the other This plan went astray when the
of using foreign troops and mil- Somalis told the Russians they
itary advisers. The U.S. State would not shelve their claims to
Department said Friday 5,000 the Ogaden in the interests of
Cuban troops now are helping international socialism.
Ethiopia in the Ogaden. Other
reports say there are also 2,000
South Yemeni troops, 1,000 So-
viet military advisers and oth-
ers from Eastern Europe in
An aide
Kan., said
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Greek were held as "military prisoners." It said Foreign Minister Ibrahim Kamel had
Cypriot government said today it is six Cypriot soldiers and a West German interrupted a visit to West Germany and
releasing the Egyptian commandos who television cameraman also were wounded rushed to Cyprus to confer with President
survived their abortive attempt at a in the battle. Spyros Kyprianou. But Benjamin told
Cypriot airport to capture the killers of one The two terrorists,who had been holding reporters later Kamel had not arrived, and
of President Anwar Sadat's chief 11 Arabs hostage aboard a Cypriot jetliner aides of the Egyptian foreign minister in
spokesmen. But it rejected Egypt's after a futile attempt to find refuge in the Bonn said he was not interrupting his visit
request to send the two Arab assassins to Arab world, surrendered to the plane crew to Germany.
an action
the use
not to
the fighting forces?. Addis Ababa believe the
an estimated 80,000 eigners at least are helping
militia are ag one side,
other are ethnic Somalis
Ethiopia.
Ethiopia says
are used only
to go into
Tuesday to
that Gen.
the Pan-
as the war
in the Ogaden, fighting under
the banner of the Western So-
mali Liberation Front, and So-
mali army troops, according to
that the Cnbans and .
Yemenis are fighting on
been in-
(AP) — The conflict between
Ethiopia and Somalia has grow-
ipg implications for the United
States and the Soviet Union as
well as the nations around the
strategic Horn of Africa.
The fighting is over Eth-
iopia’s Ogaden region, a semi-
desert area claimed by Somalia
and inhabited mostly by no-
mads of Somali origin. Either
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muean 265348 in a battle with Greek Cypriot troops who rael The two terrorists said they were
NN • foiled their Entebbe-style raid Sunday A pro-l ibyan newspaper in Zeirut said Palestinians. They were identified in court
Fm[dre-TrOww? and ma«V ■ pofat of being tn town rorty ” Many night at the Larnaca Airport 30 miles they had confessed they were ordered to as Samir Mohamed Qatar, 28, a Jordanian
of the downtown specials will continue through Tuesday. (Et southeast of Nicosia. kill Sebaei, chief editor of Egypt's semi- citizen, and Zayed Hosni Ahmed Alali, 28.
staff photo) A British Royal Air Force spokesman official Al Ahram newspaper, by Iraq- who carried a Kuwaiti passport.
reported the plane landed at the RAF’s based Palestinian renegade guerrilla Abu The two gunmen shot and killed editor
Akrotiri base, -miles west of Larnaca. It Nidal. Youseff el-Sebaei, a close confidant of
ws not known when it would leave. The interior minister said the battle Sadat, in the lobby of the,Nicosia Hilton
The C-130 that brought the commandos Sunday night was “one of the saddest Saturday morning. Brandishing pistols
to Cyprus Sunday was badly damaged in incidents” in the history of the Cypriot and grenades’ they seized 30 hostages but
the airport battle. republic. But he said Cyprus "continues to released 19 of them after the Cypriot
The government announced that in regard Egypt as a friendly country.” government supplied a Cyprus Airways
addition to the 15 Egyptians killed; 16 were Radio Cyprus and a government DC-8 and a crew of four to take them out of
wounded, two were missing and 41 others spokesman announced that Egyptian the country.
powers to
states and
'Here in
form are
taneously they signed an agree- APPRECIATION GIFT-Members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Tarleton breakdown in the bargaining process,
meat with the Kremlin to buy a State University late last week presented a bouquet of red roses to Wanda Langston in Powell said in a prepared statement
billion dollars Worth of arms, appreciation of her eight years as secretary of the militaryscience department at TSU. Asked asked whether he thought Carter .
The first Soviets and Cabans Making the presentation was LL Col Ritchie Carney, corps commander. (ET staff has made a final decision, Powell said.
started arriving in the country photo.) "My suspicion is he has not”
then.
communications equip-
might enhance
chances.
sunny skies Monday morning for the
George Washington sale being conducted WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate
by more than 30 Stephenville businesses, returns today to a full session of debate on
, , the Panama Canal treaties, with the first
Mrs. Cora Lee Cox told the preliminary votes likely to occur
Empire-Tribune she saw the ads in sometime this week. On Tuesday, with a
The Marxist Ethiopian
tary men that overthrew
The . Soviets have naval facil-
ities in Aden on the other side
of the entrance to the Red Sea.
They lost such facilities In So-
malia at the port of Berbera.
The latest intelligence reports
say that they are re-estab- ..
lishing facilities in the Ethio-
and possibly manning
el-Sebaei in a Nicosia hotel Saturday. They Die Palestine liberation Organization, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and
were formally.charged with murder today, which had deplored Saturday's with Kyprianou to clear up the
An Egyptian C-130 military transport assassination, charged in Beirut, Lebanon, "misunderstanding.” It said Egypt would
arrived in Cyprus today to pick up the four that the two acted for the intelligence ask for the terrorists to be turned over to
dozen surviving Egyptian commandos and service of Iraq, a hard-line Arab state it, dut Kyprianou said he would not release
tration reports turned over
the Senate Intelligence <
mittee. The secret session
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
first votes in the battle over the
proposed Panama Canal
as soonas the shooting started Sunday Kyprianou accused Egypt of violating
treaties are likely to occur this
week as opposing sides probe
each other’s strength, but the Supporters of the treaties say
decision on whether to give they know of no hard evidence
Senate consent to the pacts re- linking the Panamanian leader
mains a month away. with drug trafficking. And they
After a week-long recess, the say the allegations are a per-
Senate returned to another full ipheral issue with no direct
day of debate on the treaties, bearing on the merits of the
Because of the Washington’s pact. .,_ INTERNATIONAL
Birthday, holiday,, the House in.another development, A,.. Other shoppers agreed with Mn. Cok NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)- President
scheduled only the traditiona officials said Torrijos. told them saying they read the ads and shop Anwar Sadat rushed his foreign minister
, reading of the first president’ he would consider turning his accordingiy to Cyprus today after an abortive Egyp-
congressional address. brother over to the United tian commando attempt at a Cypriot
Senate plans to go into States to face narcotics One of the clerks said the store where airportto capture"the kilers of one of
session on Tuesday to charges. The officials said Tor- she works is receiving its spring Sadat’s chief spokesmen. Greek Cypriot leaders said they were hoping the tentative three alternatives: follow the PAM
merchandise and is offering specials on soldirsfiredon the Egyptian raiders who agreement with the Pittsburg and Midway contract pattern, continue negotiations
winter merchandise to give room for the landed Sunday night at the Larnaca Coal Co. would break the stalemate in the with the UMW or stand by and let Carter
springgoods.. e k__r Airport and tried to shoot their way aboard national strike.
Specials being offered by a number of the’Greek cypriot airliner on which two PAM, which is owned by Gulf Oil Corp, is
storesare.featured in azspecial tablois Arab terrorists held 11 Arab hostages and not a member of the Bituminous Coal
section in this edition of the Empire-Tri-, a crew of four Operators Association, which represents
-------—-------- the large coal companies. BCOA members
mine about half the nation’s coal.
PAM has 800 to 1,000 mine employees
and six mines in Kentucky, Missouri and
Kansas.
The tentative PAM pact must be
NEW YORK (AP) — Lee Harvey Soviet secret agent trying to dispel any "Fedora” — he could compete with the work is based on information from present appr ovedbtheuuni onns barga ining
Oswald may have provided the Soviet connection between Oswald and Soviet CIA, and that Hoover did not pass the and former CIA, FBI and other officials. ' °ytL 2 . ,. . ° 5 0 *5 P’
Union with secret information about the intelligence. ____________,___informetion on to the CIA and refused to In writing on Oswald and the U-2, Ipgwa 1 iP-1
American U-2 plane, enabling it to shoot And in an interview in the current issue disclose “Fedora’s” identity to the Epstein says that while Oswald was a Leinin‘‘tcsgshortesnn
down Francis Gary Powers’ spy plane in of New York magazine, Epstein says that agency. Epstein says that from 1962 until Marine radar controller in Japan in 1957, A p ' . . . 5,
1960, according to a new book by author in 1962 a Soviet official attached to the 1977, "Fedora" provided the FBI with he, frequently saw the U-2 take off and land ngreennt . ‘ . in.
Edward Jay Epstein. United Nations duped former FBI Director misleading information on a wide range of and heard its high altitude requests for J; th .Rf i 4 I /
Epstein also says in his book, “Legend: J. Edgar Hoover into thinking he haMe- subrects. ----- weather information on the radio. come to terms " "
The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald,”' fected as a Soviet secret police officer and Two excerpts of Epstein’s book are in Epstein suggests that Oswald provided ' . n ‘ .
that the FBI, anxious to support its finding fed Hoover false information about the March issue of Reader’s Digest, which Russia with information either then or wi"k r the tentati o PAM t 11
that Oswald acted alone in the Russian activities, information that was will publish the book in April. Epstein, who when he defected to the Soviet Union that Weiotedonltheminers c c o
assassination of President John F. passed on to the White House. had examined the Warren Commission’s enabled them to knock down Powers’ Meminpmoueuiospgtcgnmegdent
Kennedy, relied upon statements of a Epstein says Hoover believed that with investigation of Kennedy’s assassination plane while it was flying over the Soviet f icmttgmu’uun. —sEc Lh I
Russian defector who may have been a the help of the official — code named in the 1966 book “Inquest,” said his latest Union. -
surrender—of
December.
77-dayold soft coal strike. on wildcat strikes
Administration officials and union Breaux said other coal companies have
directing artillery at- late Emperor Halle Selassie
pelled U.S. military advisers
last spring, ending a quarter-
century ol’ dependence on the
United States for arms. Simul-
various diplomatic sources. the original Soviet intention
They are estimated to total was o persuade Somalia and
about 30,000. Ethiopia to form a Marxist fed-
Are .any .other .troops .in- eration, giving Moscow unchal-
volved? lenged influence in the region.
News in brief Coal talks continuing
30-degree weather temperatures under
are in effect in some areas. Mass
industrial layoffs are feared with some
government estimates saying the number
of those out of work could reach five
million.
* Carter has authorized Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky to temporarily relax air
pollution standards so that remaining coal
can be burned more efficiently.
Congress would have to enact special
legislation to permit a takeover of the
industry or to allow binding arbitration to
end the strike. In addition, administration
wdf sources say that invoking the Taft-Hartley
~ Act is unlikely because of the widespread
belief that the striking United Mine
—u Workers members would Ignore a back-to
work court order.
p The White House announced its intention
K to take “definitive action” after conceding
nuse that the collective bargaining process
failed to end the strike.
\ "The possibility remains for the two
forties to resolve their remaining
p differences," White House press secretary
I. Jody Powell said Sunday. “However, is is
1^’ clear that we can wait no longer to initiate
the process of resolving this matter by
• other means
“We hope that as the process proceeds
5 both parties will seriously reflect upon the
unfortunate consequences of this
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