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Carter praises Middle East leaders WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter -- ers and at the same time address the tween the Arabs and the Israelis. of State Alfred Atherton would rep- Wednesday praised the leaders of major problems of energy conserva- "I want to provide my congratula- resent the United States. Egypt and Israel for making a "his- tion and production. tions and my support for these two But he said it is too early to toric breakthrough in the search for The president also confirmed he strong leaders." tell if the United States will par- a permanent, lasting peace" in the has re-scheduled a trip abroad, al- He said the meeting met "two of ticipate in a proposed U.N. confer- troubled Middle East. though he said details would not be Israel's most cherished desires" -- ence on the Middle East. Carter told a news conference that officially released until today. Face-to-face meetings and recogni- Despite the sharp attacks by the recent face-to-face dialogue be- Administration sources say it will tion by Sadat of Israel's "fight to Syria and Libya on Sadat's overtures tween Egypt and have led to a begin Israel around Dec. 28 and end about exist." to the Israelis, Carter stressed in reduction of the fear and distrust Jan. 5, with visits to Poland, Iran, But he warned that in the past, answer to a question that: "Presi- amoung Arabs and Jews. India, Saudi Arabia, France and "expectations have sometimes been dent Sadat is speaking for the Arab He praised the courage of Egyptian Belgium. exaggerated" and noted that the world." President Anwar Sadat in a recent Carter said that Sadat's visit is problems of a Palestinian homeland Carter said he felt the Soviet trip to Jerusalem and "the gracious "already a tremendous accomplishment and the return of captured Arab Union has moved "to a much more reception of him in Israel by Prime .an initiation of direct person lands have not been resolved. balanced" attitude toward the Mid- Minister (Menahem) Begin." to-person negotiations" between Is- dle East, and that although the rael and On energy, Carter warned Congress "the strongest Arab coun- Carter said the Cairo conference two superpowers disagree in many I' that he is not ready to back down on try." called by Sadat is a "very construc- areas on the explosive area, "I be- his original energy plan and that he "The fact that this strongest tive step," and said the United lieve the Soviets will follow. will veto any House-Senate compro- Arab country and Israel are now con- States would "participate at a high any constructive steps toward mise which does not protect consum- ducting direct negotiations" be- level." He said Assistant Secretary peace." Cuban-American Friendship Day Cuban American Friendship Day will be celebrated locally on Monday, De- cember 5 at Phillips Park from noon to 4 P.M. Tickets to the gala event ~Te*uutunt are $3.50 for adults and $1.00 for The Navy's onu aho e-baysed (aitzt children six fo 12 years of age. dailh There is a limited amount of tickets, Vol. 32 No. 229 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba finursday, December 1, 1977 so get yours now. No tickets will be sold the day of the event. Longshoremen Prime Minister U.N. talks look doomed ordered to end UNITED NATIONS (UPl) -- Outright re- At a news conference Wednesday, Vorster wins jection by Israel and an uncertain Carter gave the Waldheim proposal reception by President Carter Wed- a luke warm reception at best. "I nesday apparently doomed U.N. Sec- don't know what position our coun- wildcat strike retary General Kurt Waldheim's pro- try will take," he said. in S. Africa posal for a round of preliminary "It's too early for us to decide," BAL'J'IMORE (AP) -- Longshoremen in JOHANNESBURG (UPI)--Prime Minister Middle East peace talks at the he added. Baltimore have been ordered by a John Vorster led his Nationalist United Nations in December. There was no official reaction federal judge to end their wildcat Party to victory Wednesday in South Waldheim floated the proposal from Waldheim immediately, but the strike. Africa's fifth general election since Tuesday to try to bring together rejection by Israel alone appeared A maverick union official pulled since the country became a republic. "all parties" involved in Middle enough to kill any idea of prepara- his 24000 men off the job this The polls closed at 9:00 P.M. after East discussions -- including the tory talks at the United Nations, morning, even though the new dock- a spate of heavy afternoon voting. Soviet Union and the several Arab diplomatic observers said. workers' contract already had been The South African Broadcasting Corp. states who have refused to attend Israel has consistently refused approved by most East and Gulf reported voters in urban areas turn- upcoming talks in Cairo. to sit at the bargaining table with Coast longshoremen. ed out in droves after 5:00 P.M. A foreign Ministry spokesman in the Palestine Liberation Organiza- Judge Joseph Young signed a 10 Voting was light early in the day as Jerusalem said, "No purpose will be tion, and this could be one reason day restraining order. rains threatened over wide areas of served by an additional preparatory for Israel's lack of interest in Dockworkers at three other ports the country. conference" to pave the way, as the suggested U.N. meeting. -- Philadelphia, New Orleans and The National Party, which has ruled Wladheim said he hoped, to full- The PLO has "observer status" at Baton Rouge, La. voted on the South Africa for the past 29 years, -- fledged Middle East negotiations in the United Nations and sits in on three-year agreement today. immediately picked up 42 seats for Geneva. its proceedings. National union chief Thomas Glea- the next parliment in uncontested son says opposition to the accord in constituencies. three ports isn't great enough to The Liberal Opposition Party, the upset the settlement reached yes- progressive federal party, won two terday at most other ports from Palestinians discuss strategy uncontested seats. Maine through Texas. DAMASCUS (UPI) -- Palestinian lead- of the Popular Front for the Libera- ers met Wednesday to discuss strate- tion of Palestine, has offered to Philip visits gy on the eve of an Arab summit in end the PFLP's long-standing feud Rhodesian demands Libya called to counter Egyptian with the PLO. But he made the offer President Anwar Sadat's push for conditional on the umbrella guerril- peace with Israel. la organization becoming more mili- cattle farm no more massacres The hard-line Palestinian Rejec- tant and renouncing all efforts to tion Front boycotted the Palestine achieve a negotiated settlement with SALISBURY, RHODESIA (UPI) -- Black Liberation Organization (PLO) cen- Israel. in Jamaica nationalist leader Abel Muzorewa de- tral council meeting, which was Palestinian sources say that even LYDFORD, JAMAICA (UPI)--Prince manded Wednesday that Prime Minister headed by PLO Chairman Yasser Ara- within Arafat's Fatah Organization Philip Wednesday toured Ian Smith permit no more "massacres" fat. there has be-n rising militancy as an experimental cat- such as the raids that the military At one point, the PLO leader left a result of Sadat's trip and many tle farm in central Jamaica in his role as honorary president of the command said killed more than 1,200 the meeting for consultations with PLC rank and file members have be- Royal Agriculture Society of the guerrillas in Mozambique. Syrian President Hafez Assad. come increasingly impatient with Com- In a letter to Smith which he re- Both Syria and relatively moderate diplomatic maneuvering around the monwealth. The Duke of leased to the press, Muzorewa said leaders within the PLO, such as Ara- Palestinian i= sue. Edinburg was attending last week's raids in Mozambique "ad- fat, have been placed in a difficult Today Syria and the PLO will join the second session of the Society's versely prejudice" the prospect of position by Sadat's dramatic opening other Arab opponents of Sadat's move annual meeting at nearby Ocho Rios, a tourist success at the forthcoming constitu- to Israel. at a summit in Tripoli, Libya. Iraq, resort on the north coast of Jamaica. He returns to London tional conference aimed at producing Syria has come under heavy pres- Algeria, South Yemen and Palestinian a one man, one vote majority rule sure from rejectionist Arab states rejectionists were also invited. today. settlement. such as Libya, Algeria and Iraq to Only the United States, Israel and "I want to refer to the informa- renounce ties with Egypt, as long as the United Nations have said they tion released that well over 1,000 Sadat is in power. will attend the pre-Geneva Cairo Tongsun Park Zimbabwean men, women, and children The radical leader of the largest talks. The Soviet Union, Syria and have been killed in cold blood by rejection front group, George Habash the PLO all rejected the offer. Rhodesian forces in the last few may return to days in Mozambique," said Muzorewa, president of the United African Na- tional Council. Explosive classes studied "Our information is also that: many QUEBEC (UPI)--The Quebec Education ther research into Molotov cocktails United States of those killed were living in refu- Ministry will investigate the case as part.df a chemistry experiment SEOUL, S. KOREA (AP) -- There's word of a gee camps, non-combatants in the of six chemistry proffesors who that used a screnario of a school possible breakthrough in the present conflict.