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Tide, Sun, Temp. Weather Forecast Tide 85813 2 Lowh tde 8 3pm INM Rcloudy. Showers Sun~ize--763pm andthunderstorms High --- 93 AA Bay conditions Low ------- 75 1 The Navy'. ont hoAe-ba ed dit2y4 nt in Vol. 32, No. 135 U.S. Naval Base,Guantanamo Bay ,bT U . 0 . IIMV - -C 9 VUaLl LaLlaMU D y I UUUCI -1 - -- I I 1 11 1-11 IN- -=-Y9 VUL-IUU hurday, July 14, 19777 Sadat won't end state of war with Israel Nurses convicted Asked about the Israeli demands for exchanging diplomatic and trade on six of eight charges relations with the Arabs as part of an overall settlement, Sadat said: (UPI)--Two Filipino nurses were The three-month trial of the "After 29 years of bitterness, war convicted Wednesday of six of the nurses stemmed from a wave of 52 and conflict, the two sides have no eight charges against them for the sudden breathing failures at the confidence in each other. Borders poisoning of patients at a Veterans Veterans Administration Hospital in cannot be opened and diplomatic and hospital in 1975. Ann Arbor, Michigan, in July and trade relations cannot be set up all Each charge could get them life August 1975. at once, because these are matters in prison. Twelve of the victims died from related to sovereignty. Filipina Narciso, 31, and Leonora the seizures, blamed on injections "But five years after ending the Perez, 33, stood without showing e- of a powerful muscle relaxant drug, state of war, signing the peace motion in the U. S. district court- pavulon. Only one of the deaths treaty and the stabilization of se- room as the nine women and three figured in the trial. curity, the road can be opened to men in the jury announced their de- The verdict came five days short everything," Sadat said. cision after two full weeks of de- of the second anniversary of the Sadat's statements were the most liberations. first of the breathing failures at comprehensive he had made so far, Miss Narciso was found innocent the hospital. outlining his concept of a Middle of the only murder charge in the In addition to the poisoning East settlement. case and another poisoning charge, charges, the nurses also were found It was the first time he declared but both women were convicted of guilty on one count of conspiracy (UPI)--President Anwar Sadat said readiness to set up relations with six poisonings. encompassing all the incidents. Wednesday he will not end the state Israel, if only five years after a The defendants arrived in the During the trial, prosecutors ad- of war with Israel until the last peacy treaty is signed, and also the packed second-floor courtroom at mitted their case was circumstan- Israeli soldier evacuates Arab land. first time he made it clear he would 10:29 a.m. about six minutes before tial but alleged the nurses could He offered to set up diplomatic and not end the state of war except af- the verdict was read. There was no not explain why they were near each trade relations with the Jewish ter all occupied lands were evacu- reaction from the defense team or victim just before a breathing sei- state five years after a peace ated. the crowd, which included friends zure occurred. treaty is signed. The timing of the statements ap- and relatives of the nurses. The defense had hoped for an ac- Speaking to a delegation of Amer- peared significant, coming only a "I can't believe it," an ashen quittal because the government of- ican congressmen in the Mediterra- few days before Israeli Premier Miss Narciso said as she left the fered no motive and presented no nean city of Alex~ndria, Sadat de- Menahem Begin was scheduled to vis- downtown Federal Building. Mrs. direct evidence against either de- manded American weapons to defend it the United States for talks with Perez started crying as she walked fendant. Egypt against the Soviet infiltra- President Carter about Middle East away from the building. Sentencing Defense Attorney Thomas O'Brien tion in Africa. peace was delayed four to six weeks. said he and the defendants were The four-man delegation, which ar- "stunned" by the verdict. rived Monday as part of a Middle "I can't believe it is possible to East tour, is led by Representative convict innocent people in this Lee Hamilton (D-IN). Begin wins support for Israeli peace plan country," O'Brien said. "I can't "As long as there is a single Is- believe that with the scanty evi- raeli soldier on our soil, I cannot dence the government presented that end the state of war, or else I (UPI)--Prime Minister Menahem "This is the plan of, the Israeli the jurors could convict them." would be inviting the Israelis to Begin Wednesday won cabinet support government for establishing true O'Brien said Miss Narciso and stay on our territory," Sadat said. for an Israeli peace plan and said peace in the Middle East," he said. Mrs. Perez were "overwhelmed and in He said the "time was ripe" to he is going to talk with President Newspaper reports said Israel shock." conclude an Arab-Israeli peace Carter next week "with good hope in would tell the U. S. administration The defense attorneys said they treaty at the Geneva Conference, my heart." it is willing to give up chunks of will file routine motions with U. S. calling for: Israeli withdrawal Begin declined to disclose any the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan District Judge Philip Pratt, who from all occupied Arab lands; ter- specifics of the plan, saying, "out Heights, while holding on to the presided over the case, to overturn mination of the state of war; ex- of respect for the President of the West Bank of Jordan as long as pos- the decision. Prosecutors said they tending "guarantees," such as the United States he should be the first sible. consider the entire matter involving creation of demilitarized zones, the to hear from me about the decisions the hospital breathing failures stationing of U. S. troops and the of the government of Israel. There was further speculation closed. setting up of early warning stations "I go with a good hope in my that Begin's proposals included a to both Israel and the Arabs. heart," Begin told reporters before series of alternatives such as in- his departure for the United States terim agreements with individual PREVENT and talks with Carter July 19. Arab countries. U.S. After a 2 1/2 hour debate, the But the Prime Minister asked the and Soviets meet SLIP cabinet voted unanimously to approve Israeli public to pay no attention UPs! the plan, which government spokes- to the reports. (UPI)--The United States, the So- man Arye Naor said would be given viet Union and Britain began new to Carter in writing "to make mat- "When the time comes, the details talks Wednesday in Geneva in an ef- ters more exact." will be made known," he said. "The fort to break a 20-year deadlock on various publications are unauthor- a total ban against nuclear tests. ized and inexact." Arms control negotiators from the three leading nuclear powers began Newsman has unexpected interview with Amin He said the Washington trip was exploratory consultations on whether serious, "but I would not use the there is now sufficient common (UPI)--Canadian newsman Gerald have used invisible bullets," he expression fateful. ground to start drafting such a com- Utting, 20 pounds lighter from a said. prehensive test ban agreement. 20-day detention in Uganda's Utting said he had been treated "The fate of the eternal Jewish The preliminary round of talks Makinde Prison, arrived in London reasonably, although he lost 20 people does not depend on one meet- will probably last about two weeks, Wednesday, and said he had inter- pounds during his detention. ing or another," he said. western officials said. viewed President Idi Amin in the He was never charged or tried, he "If these exploratory talks are prison's "massage parlor." said. Western diplomats said Begin kept satisfactory, we can move ahead with- Utting, 46, a reporter for the "I don't know who ordered my re- the details so secret that they had in a reasonably short period of time" Toronto Star, was arrested June 22 lease. They just decided to let me no idea what would be discussed. on full-fledged negotiations, said when he flew into Kampala without go. I was only arrested because I U. S. delegation leader Paul Warnke. a visa. He was placed in a cell in didn't have a visa, but I thought "This is an almost leakless soci- Warnke, Director of the U. S. Arms Makinde Prison, given a straw mat- Commonwealth citizens didn't need ety," one said. "Especially com- Control and Disarmament Agency, said tress, a blanket and two meals a one to visit another country. They pared with the previous government, the banning of all nuclear tests is day of boiled beans and maize cake, simply arrested me because they the lid is really on." a "highly desirable objective." he said. wanted to," he said. "It could have the greatest signif- His prison interview with Amin Utting vanished after flying into "Carter expects specifics from icance as far as halting the further was unexpected, Utting told report- Uganda from Nairobi. The first Begin," another foreign observer development of nuclear weapons is ers on arrival at Stansted Airport word on his fate came from Kampala said, "but it might not be anything concerned," he told a news confer- aboard a Ugandan-owned Boeing 707 Radio Monday when it announced more than the two of them feeling normally used to ship English live- Utting had been released to "go on each other out." On questioning, Warnke conceded stock to Uganda.