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No decision reached on end to oil ban VIENNA (AP)--Arab oil ministers could not Some ministers left the conference room with- reacn agreement yesterday on lifting the ouut making any comments while others remained oil embargo against the United States and b behind to continue discussions. Knowledgeable scheduled another meeting for today, a ininformants said some of the ministers wanted to spokesman said. cc intact their governments for further instruc- "The meeting is not finished but is con- ti ons. They mentioned Syria in particular, tinuing tomorrow," said Algerian Oil Min- b it could not say what position Syrian Oil Min- ister Belaid Abdesselam. "Tonight's ses- is ter Jaber 1:1-Kori had presented at meeting. sion is over." The Libvan State Radio last Thursday report- He refused to say how the meeting went e(d that Syria had said any Arab government or to comment on previous remarks by other t hat proposed lifting the oil ban would be ministers that a decision would be reached ccconsidered treacherous. yesterday. The sources said Libyan Oil Minister Ezzedin lie specifically refused to comment on a axruk made relatively little opposition at report by the Algerian Press Service that y yesterday's meeting to the desire by Egypt and the ministers had decided to lift the S audi Arabia that the boycott be lifted in five-month-old boycott. latitude for iU.S. political efforts to settle ic conflict with Israel. "I don't know where this report came from," Abdesselam said. Libya has adamantly insisted in public that The ministers, representing nine Arab t he boycott be maintained. host countries, met for 5 1/2 hours in a The ministers assembled half an hour late in Vienna hotel. Most of the meeting was ti he conference room at the Hotel Imperial. One held without aides--an indication of top- hc or later they sent out all their aides and level disagreement over the issue. ,See VILNNA, Page 2) Sadat comes out against impeachmnt of Nixon NEW YORK (AP)--Impeachment of U.S. Pres- "It would indeed be a terrible tragedy - ident Nixon would be a "real tragedy" for American people lost sight of the global pic- the Middle East and the rest of the world, ture for the sake of narrow domestic political says Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. considerations," Sadat said. In an interview published in the current issue of Newsweek "My talks with Dr. Kissinger convinced me that magazine, Sadat said he rejects the simplistic notion of some of the Nixor administra- your strategists who see--or saw--Israel as the tion had "revolution- American gendarme in this part of the world." ized the trust of U.S. Asked in the interview if he felt that Israeli policy in our area policy was changing, Sadat said: and before that in the rest of the "If we witness a successful disengagement on world." the Syrian front--as I think we will--then you can say that there is a new look in Israel. Sadat said Secre- It is not disengagement in itself that is im- tary of State Henry portant, but what it signifies. The signifi- A. Kissinger was "the cance, quite simply put, is that expansion has c first U.S. official come to an end." who has dealt with ANWAR SADAT Z. r0 our problems who has .in Newsweek intern iew Disavowing any intent to dismantle the state proved himself to be of Israel, Sadat said: a man of integrity--direct, frank and far- "I pledge real and honorable peace. If I sighted. We have suffered a lot with were interested in dismantling the Israeli American officials in the two decades." (See SADAT, Page 2) Page 2--LATE NEWS POUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Monday, March 18, 1974 VIENNA- GAZETTEER (Continued from Page 1) 16--.1a digest of late news continued the session alone. Some sources said the meeting would continue for an- other hour, but 90 minutes after that Abdesselam emerged to say the conference would continue today. No hour was set but it was understood the meeting would be in the morning. NEW YORK (AP)--Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said yesterday that Israel ~vill not be dogmatic about Despite its public hard line, the sources said, procedure in its current drive to negotiate a disen- Libya had to defend itself at the meeting against re- gagement pact with Syria. "I can't imagine we can ports that its oil had been reaching the United States arrive at a settlement without negotiations involving through third countries. the heads of government on the spot," said Eban in "Many people have had the near-certainty of this for an interview on ABC-TV's "Issues and Answers" program. some time," one source with knowledge of the meeting But he said his government would nbt be pedantic about said. "Thus the Libyans could not really insist that the procedures used, saying, "We want any procedures Arab oil remained cut off from the United States." that will bring about a meaningful agreement." Eban underscored the announcement earlier yesterday by Syria has been reluctant to give its consent to re- Israel's Cabinet that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan moving the boycott until there is tangible progress in will meet soon in Washington with Secretary of State efforts sponsored in Washington to disengase Sri n Henry Kissinger. and Israeli 'orces in the Golan Hecig!1hts. Israeli and Syrian officials were scheduled to meet SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)--The Hell's Angels have separately with U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kis- launched an advertising campaign against the use of singer in Washington later this month to get the disen- hard drugs, saying they have renounced dope and want gagement talks underway. Until it has assurances that to set others straight too. The motorcycle gang has the United States would do all it can to make Israel leased three billboards here. The ads are emblazoned take a conciliatory line. Syria was understood to refuse with a skull and crossbones over a hypodermic needle dope." to anction an end of the boycott. and each carries the admonition: "No hope with Phil Cross said the club is also printing up anti- drug brochures and making its members available for SADAT- speeches to high school and college groups. (Continued from Page 1) SALT LAKE CITY (AP)--Researchers at the University of Utah are working on plans for an Artificial eye state, why didn't I use my ground-to-ground missiles that someday may give sight to the blind. In an during the war? Even few Egyptians know that my long- article for Electronics Magazine, researchers for the range missiles were targeted against three main cities Institute for Biomedical Engineering say the device in Israel. And why didn't I give an order to launch so far exists only on paper. They say more that 30 an all-out attack against tneir pocket on the west people in the university's College of Medicine and bank of the canal? Just a simple, short order. We College of Engineering have been working on the project. had rockets zeroed in on every one of their 400 tanks, In the theoretical design, the artificial eye would be which at night were dug into static positions. .we attached to a blind person's eye muscles and would be also had 800 of our own tanks around their pocket, able to pick up light. The light, in turr, would be ready to roll over the rest of the Israeli force." transmitted to electrodes resting on a person's brain. after status Guantanamo Local Forecast Gazette A . .urph A. A-,emAy id.ichael . I A Water figures for yesterday: Mostly cloudy with scattered rainshowers today and tonight. Affai Ofrt. WATER PRODUCED: I, 096, o0 Visibility unrestricted. Winds L. S . Pblin N 4-6 knots, becoming SE,10-14 JEa red DA t . WATER CONSUMED: 1,127,000 knots with gusts to 24 knots. SL..~ .~AA . SA A . M. r High today 84. Low tonight JoS P " . , ner WATER LOSS: 31,000 70. Bay condition 2-3 feet. JosN andya r.n. .I * * .- * * . Ipo High tide 0627. Low tide 1249. WATER IN STORAGE: 18,697,000 nu, fe,. N-tte51 p.bAh act.riu toI, o AtCn p ruIon d.,.AsasCg=. t A5.,.4A.t.the.AAC5t5~~ .A~t.CC.C,,.ACs.CA.I,,.t 5. .5 LAt .AEtAt AnCC f r.55. ,th t-t- f~5A St 0 Monday, March 18, 1974 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 Gitmo's Minefield Maintenance Section commended Gitmo's Minefield Maintenance Sec- ordnance maintained in an effective reemplaced in the field. The sec- tion was presented the meritorious state, was a continuing task under tion maintained a four-man emergency unit commendation from the Secre- a difficult and dangerous environ- team on 24-hour duty to immediately tary of the Navy in Wednesday morn- mental situation. investigate the numerous random ex- ing ceremonies at the Miarine Bar- plosions and to ensure that the ex- racks parade deck. "Seasonal rainfall, erosion, un- plosion had not been caused by a Accepting the award for meritor- usually high temperature with equal- person or persons who unknowingly ious service in support of the ly high humidity and excessive vege- entered the field. Ground Defense Force from Jan. 1, tation in the fields all worked to 1968 to May 31, 1973, for the sec- magnify the perils associated with "Through their continuous display tion was Minefield Maintenance Of- handling live ordnance and increased of determination, resourcefulness ficer First Lieutenant Jackie L.