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Monday July 25, 1977 Vol. 110, No. 35 Iowa CitY's © 1977, Student Publications, Inc. 10 cents ·Morning newspaper Democrats Libya victim of controlling more raids; S,adat energy plan WASHINGTON (UPI) - House says war's over Democratic leaders were 10 flnn1y In control of President Carter's energy package last week that the heretical idea By United Pre.. International were "totally destroyed," a militarY of doubling the federal g.soline tax official said. sailed through a special committee. Egypt said Its bombers smashed two Arab diplomatic sources In Beirut said The special panel was designed as a radar stations and two key airfields In Egypt's bombing raids since Friday have massive raids against Libya Sunday, and killed several Soviet technicians serving parts melting pot for the two major of the President Anwar Sadat announced In In Libya, which has received an energy package - tax matters that were CaIro his troops had ended the sIx-day estimated ,1 billion in military first handled by the Ways and Means border war. assistance from Moscow during the past Committee and nontu matters from the But acrosa the desert separating the 18 months. ' Commerce and Banking CommIttees. two Arab nations, Ubya made no Egypt said it lost two planes during the But most of the decisions were made In mention of a cease-fire. attacks Sunday. Ubya said it shot down advance, either In leadership meetings, The Tripoli government's news 15 of CaIro's bombers, including one WhIte House conferences or In a caucus agency, which said it was "crushing" the Soviet-made SukhoI~20 bomber shot down invasion force, reported Ubyan an by the mllltia over a border village. of committee Democrats Tuesday, the tiaircraft gunners, fighter pUots and "The popular resistance of men and day before the ad hoc energy committee militia shot down 15 Egyptian planes. A women Is now engaging the enemy In began deliberations. military official appealed to civilians to combat and destroying it a group at a The Democratic leadership was so take up weapons and fight "to the very time," the Libyan news agency said, fInn1y In control, In fact, that the ad hoc The DIlly lowon/R .C, arondo" last one." quoting a mllltary official. BuiJcIIDg. The demonltraton took over Blanket run a secoad committee completed its work far ahead One of over 401 protesters at Kent State University FrIday Sadat declared a truce during a Observers In Cairo said the fighting 11ft, a clenched fist In froat of the Rockwell Administration time to protest the coaltructioa of a pbylical education facility meeting with Algeria's President Houarl of schedule Friday night and quickly oa the site. See picture and story, pale two. since Tuesday was the climax of a bitter, became excess congressional baggage. Boumedienne, who had just arrived from four-year feud between Sadat and TrIpoli and and ta1ks with Ubyan leader Khadafy. Sources said they believed Advocates of natural gas price Col. M6ammar Khadafy, cairo radio deregulation, seeing the panel stacked Sadat was bent on forcing Khadafy's said. overthrow by more moderate elements In against them, chose to Ignore it and in SEC probe of Gulf and Western , Egypt announced no details of Its Libya. stead carry their fight to the House floor, cease-fire. But the Palestine Liberation where a week of debate begins Aug. 1. Organization (PLO) said Boumedienne PoliticallOurces In Israel said the Tel The committee thus spent Its time in focuses on 'financial concealment' brought ~ Egypt Khadafy's acceptance Aviv government promised Sadat , it unstructured debate over amendments, of a proposal by guerrilla chief Yasser would not "exploit in any fashion the NEW YORK (UPI) - A SecurIties and financier sought by Italian police on company resources for the private gain Arafat for "halting military operations mllltary tension," a development that such as doubling the federal gasoline tax left Egypt free to move troops away from from four cents to eight cents a gallon. Exchange Commission (SEC) in charges of embezzling $225 million from of senior company officials, including by both sides and getting ta1ks started Mr. Bluhdorn." It said details would be between them for the stabUzation of a the Suez Canal and concentrate on Libya. But the fate of the tax - favored by vestigation of Gulf and Western an Italian bank, the article said. Industries, Inc., Is focusing on whether The Times said another charge under published today In the second part of a cease-fire. " Sada~ who has branded Khadafy a Carter and the House Democratic the conglomerate's financial practices Is three-part series. "madman" In a nationwide speech, said investigation the ." unreported use of As Egypt's truce was announced over leadership - was a foregone conclusion. were "designed to conceal the true . Cairo radio, Libya's Arab Revolution Friday Egypt was "forced to repel Republican frustration Willi such that financial condition of the company," the News Agency reported "the enemy Is Libyan aggressions." Rep. Clarence Brown, R.()hio, asked at New York Times reported Sunday. Khmers holil Thai territory now trying to occupy the village of Jagb "Egyptian strategic warplanes are one point, "Is there any reason for The article, by Seymour M. Hersh and BAN KOK, On the ThaI-Cambodla along a three-to four-mlle front. boub by dropping paratroopers from bombing civllian targets in Libyan towns Republicans to spend any time In here?" Jeff Gerth, based on a four-month Border (UPI) - Entrenched Khmer For the moment, it's a stalemate. For helicopters." and vll1ages," the Libyan news agency And Rep. John Anderson, R-m., spoke inquiry, said the SEC Investigation has Rouge forces Sunday held a mile4eep the Thais, at least. The agency said a Libyan military said Sunday night. "Egyptian warplanes of the "utter disdain the majority has raised "questions and Issues about strip of Thai territory, their gain In six official appealed to villagers to "carry are being shot down Inside Ubyan ter corporate conduct that go beyond the For the Communists, the creeping rltory, while our forces are not engaged shown throughout these proceedings." months of quiet infUtration and a few encroachment goes on - little by little, weapons in defense of their soU and honor Rep. Bill Mber, R-TeJ:., stood around • specific qperations snd management of days of bloody righting. to the very last one." In any military activity on Egyptian the p.4 billion company." day by day. In a committee room while Democrats That strip Includes the rice-grow!ng Military officials In cairo said waves 01 soU," the Ubyan official said. The Timet said Gulf and Western's "The regime of President Anwar Sadat caucused nearby behind closed doors. "If hamlets of Ban Noi Paral, Nong Dor and The hamlet of' Ban Nol Para! is little Egyptian bombers launched major fonner general counsel, Joel A. Dolkart, Kong Kor, where cambodian raiders more than a mile from the nearest for airstrlkes Sunday against two key has declared war against the Libyan the Republicans were In the majority and who pleaded guilty to a forgery charge people - and without any excuse except we were making all the decisions In massacred 30 Thai villagers last Jan. 28. ward Thai army outpost, a circular Libyan airfields and two radar stations, after a 1974 embezzlement indictment, Oug In against sporadic artillery fire emplacement that holds 80 soldiers, four smashing antiaircraft missUes, a half his black hatred for the Libyan people," secret like this," he said, "we'd be has been cooperating with the 18-month and marauding ThaI warplanes, they armored cars, a scattering of thatched dozen planes parked outside their the news agency said. It also reported an hearing from Ralph Nader and Common SEC investigation and probes by other show no signs of leaving. shelters and two trees. bombproof hangars, tanks and a air strike against the Kufra desert oasis Cause and everybody." federal authorities and the Manhattan The Thai government is not saying But that mile is strewn with mines and reported training camp for saboteurs. 500 roUes lOuth of the Mediterranean Rep. William Steiger, R-Wis., asked, district attorney. whether it intends an attack to retake the booby traps, a no man's land under Two radar stations, one 30 roUes and killed a number of "innocent Jtalian "Where Is the bipartisanship that was Officials of G&W, the nation's 57th cambodian beachhead, which stretches nominal Cambodian control. the other about 100 miles lnaide libya, workmen" at a consVuction pro)ec\. supposed to characterize the national , largest industrial company, "have strongly denied any wrondgo!ng" and energy policy?" one charged Dolkart has "a motive to Committee Chairman Thomas Ashiey, lie," the Time. said. D.()hio, lOught to coun,ter the criticism. Dolkart, in a sworn affidavit, says Too many campers cro~ding into area 'pa;ks "On no issue, to the best of my G&W chainnan Charles G. 8luhdorn did recollection, has the majority acted with not tell the truth when he denied in a 1973 By MARTHA GROTE Overcrowding In specific areas of a un~ity," he said. lawsuit deposition that the conglomerate Staff Writer lake is a concern facing both Coralville had prepared a detailed study of the A&P Reservoir and Lake Macbride. Public financing supermarket chain, the Time. reported. Deterioration of park lands, once a Refinement, not expansion, is needed The suit concerned whether or not G&W problem only near large metropolitan for the Coralville Reservoir, and was attemptlqg to take over A&P. areas, has Increasingly become a major redistribution of campsites Is part of the shall pass: Byrd The SEC also is investigating the ·problem at the Coralvll1e Reservoir and refinement needed, Osche said.