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No. 288 PRICKi FIFTEEN C»:NT8 African peace shuttle to be launched Monday HAMBURG, West Germany (UPI) Tt looks as if we are going,” the He said it was possible tbe secretary official said. — Secretary of State Henry A. might pause in Dakar to consult with Kissinger will ".y to Africa Monday Apparently the only development some African leaders not directly in­ at the latest to begin a shuttle that might now block Kissinger's volved in the Southern situation. diplomacy designed to avert a racial flight to Africa is a negative report The senior U.S. official rated warfare in Rhodesia and South West from Assistant Secretary of State Kissinger's chances of success on his Africa, a senior American official William Schaufele, dispatched by forthcoming African shuttle as about Kissinger to survey the atmosphere said today. even. at Dar es Salaam Tanzaniia. Kissinger won Vorster’s agree­ With an invitation already in hand Southern African black leaders of ment lor the negotiations in weekend from South African Prime Minister countries bordering white-ruled talks in Zurich. Switzerland. He then John Vorster, Kissinger today Rhodesia and South West Africa and spent Monday conferring with received an invitation to open the of the liberation movements in the British and French officials, Middle East-style diplomacy from two nations ended a two-day meeting awaiting a signal from Dar es Teachers get preschool briefing Tanzania, a senior U S. official in the Tanzanian capital tc^ay. Salaam that his African shuttle traveling aboard the secretary’s The senior U.S. official said would be welcome by blacks. He got plane told reporters. Kissinger was expected to fly from the signal in a message from Tan­ Asst. School Supt. Wilson Deakin (back to camera, at right) “em cees” this morning's back- Washington no later than Monday. zania's foreign minister. to-school meeting for teachers and teacher aides at the Manchester High School cafeteria. At the one-hour session, School Supt. James Kennedy (seated at left, looking at camera) warned teachers of the possible impact of declining student enrollment. Soviet pilot given asylum TOKYO (UPI) — A Soviet air force The Japanese government also The request was denied on grounds Manchester schools begin new year officer who defected and landed his refused a Soviet request to im­ the pilot did not want to see his coun­ top secret MIG25 Foxbat fighter mediately returri the MIG25, con­ tryman and had sought asylum volun­ plane in Japan will be flown to the sidered to be the world’s most ad­ tarily. on Relatively well-budgeted’ basis United States Wednesday, the Tokyo vanced aircraft. y y The national police agency quoted Metropolitan Police Agency an­ Foreign Minister KiichrMimawa B^nkth^s saying he had bwn plan­ ; handle of By DOUG BEVINS organize our elementary schools,” doing our job,” Kennedy said, “I nounced today. said the Japanese govennmem ap,- ning for two years to seek asylum in Kennedy said, indicating that fewer think we're doing well," he said, but 1st. Lt. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko, proved the pilot’s request from a ' the United States. Herald Reporter 29, was whisked secretly to Tokyo Manchester public schools begin a students and less money may mean he added that many people in the “humanitarian standpoint.” "Life in the Soviet Union today is Tuesday in a Japanese military ally made new school year tomorrow, closing of more schools and possible community think otherwise. The Foreign Ministry said one of like that of the czarist regime and ieler, then abandonment of Manchester's Among areas of special attention in transport aircraft, escorted by its officiais interviewed the pilot and there is no freedom,” he was quoted “relatively well-budgeted” but fighter planes of Japan’s Air Self r areas of facing future problems in gaining neighborhood school concept. the coming year, Kennedy said, wiil confirmed he made the decision as saying. Defense Force. resources. School Supt. James Kennedy also warned that school be a school personnel evaluation voluntarily. Belenko said he flew out of a Soviet Police said he was in a secret Kennedy told returning teachers staff may have to be reduced, but he program, revision of secondary Moscow, which also demanded the air base in Siberia Monday, intending hideout in the Tokyo area awaiting a re finding today. said administrators hope to keep on school curriculum, and a greater return of the pilot, said it wanted one to fly into Chitose, a Japanese airport flight to the United States. re” with a Speaking to more than 500 school the staff and beef up some focus on services for the gifted and of its diplom ats to interview in northern Japan used by domestic educational programs that have been for the handicapped. Belenko, who outwitted Japan's Belenko. airlines and Japan's Air Self-Defense employes at the Manchester High radar screens to land his plane at School cafeteria, Kennedy warned of weak in the past. Kennedy’s remarks to teachers Force. fish away Kennedy said educators have met were the most serious discussion this Hakodate City 500 miles north of the anticipated decline in student Tokyo, won permission eariier in the e catch is enrollment and sought th% teachers’ with limited success in recent morning. The one-hour session in­ day to seek political asylum in the help in determining the future of attempts to expand special areas of cluded brief comments by other ad­ local schools. elementary education such as art, ministrators, with the usual an­ United States. Carter holds rally (In Paris, U.S. Secretary of State rong place Kennedy said town schools begin music and physicai education. nouncements of teachers’ social ac­ Henry A. Kissinger told reporters he dry haul. the 1976-1977 year in good shape, with “Maybe we can do more,” he said. tivities, professional association believed the United States woulij peace between the Board of Educa­ Kennedy aiso mentioned the meetings, and scheduling of the first at Groton shipyard tion and most labor groups and with possibility of future expansion of schooi year payday. grant asylum to the defecting pilot.) nearly enough money in the budget. alternate education programs at the "We’re relatively well-budgeted,” secondary levei, although the com­ GROTON (UPI) — Democratic munity may not be ready for such coalition was built — With a Kennedy said. ‘Tm not saying we presidential nominee Jimmy Carter lunchtime speech to the thousands of programs now. flew to the scene of his naval taining should be content, but we're not workers at one of the nation’s largest facing any traumatic cutbacks this He said administrators had thought Hanoi lists 12 fliers today for the first of what is expected of using South School, which was delense plants. elp is if he year.” to be a number of campaign Virtually the entire state ates one in But in the next five years the local closed this year to cut costs, as an appearances in Connecticut. alternative junior high school. The killed during war Democratic leadership, including schools will face a critical test, Carter flew in and out of Gov Ella T. Grasso, was expected to idea was discarded, though, because Groton’s Trumbull Airport for a noon because of Kennedy said, which will determine PARIS (UPI) — In another gesture talks "to settle problems specified in attend the rally in this community educators haven't made the com­ rally outside the main gate at itrated via what the future of education in designed to improve relations with the Paris agreement, especially that which bills itself as the “nuclear sub­ munity aware of the need, he said. General Dynamic's Electric Boat Manchester will be. the United States, Hanoi has given of carrying out the American under­ marine capitol of the world.” The critical test, he said, will stem Noting that fewer high schooi Division, which makes the nuclear lut the fish graduates go on to further education, Washington a list of 12 American taking to contribute to binding up the The visit was a homecoming of from substantial declines in student submarines he once skippered. sorts for Carter, who went from Kennedy suggested a re-examination fliers it says were killed during the wounds of war and the reconstruction enrollment and the accompanying Vietnam War. The former Georgia governor of­ relative obscurity a year ago to a 10 find the of the high schooi's mission and a of Vietnam and that of seeking infor­ difficulty in maintaining resources. Washington welcomed the infor­ ficially opened his campaign with a first-ballot win in the Democratic king with a strengthening of career-oriented mation on Americans missing in ac­ It becomes more difficult to gain mation but said the United States had tion" Labor Day speech at the home of National Convention in July. programs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in necessary funding every year, no intention of normalizing relations White House press secretary Ron Carter, an Annapolis graduate, was "We have to be sure we are Warm Springs, Ga., aimed at itained CB Kennedy said, and the anticipated with the newly reunited country Nessen said Monday publication of stationed in the Groton area in 1948 providing the kind of schooiing reuniting the coalition that gave ck-packing drop in student enrollment will make before Hanoi had accounted for all the the list was a welcome gesture, but when he spent six months taking a necessary for graduates to survive in FDR four terms in the White House.