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Egypt announced today it Ghali told reporjprs the date can­ Police believe the 10 victims not be fixed uhtil Egypt has received was postponing President official replies from all the parties probably were killed by the same Ahwar Sadat’s Cairo peace strangler, or stranglers. A police invited to the talks. spokesmM said similarities in the conference until mid- Syria and the Palestine Liberation slayings' biclude bow the victims December, apparently in Organization have publicly rejected were molested and strangled, which hopes the hardline Arab the invitation, but Ghali said Egypt is have not been made public. nations would epd their still waiting for their official replies as well as that of Lebanon. boycott. The hardliners WASHINGTON (UPI) - Substan­ Asked whether he thought Syria tial tax reductions are planned by the themselves met today in and the PLO might have a change of Carter administration next year, but Tripoli, Libya to galvanize heart, he said: “So long as I have not long-promised major reform of the their opposition to the Sadat received their official replies, I ' tax system may have to wait. meeting. believe there is still a chance for them to participate.” Pruident Carter told a news con­ Diplomats in Cairo said the post­ Ghali indicated Egypt would be ference Wednesday Democratic ponement was to permit the Arab agreeable to U.N. Secretary General leaders in Congress have promised rejection group to change their Kurt Waldheim’s proposal for a rapid action on tax cuts, expected to minds. Israeli state radio said Presi­ follow-up preliminary peace con­ provide reductions of ^ billion to dent Carter asked for the delay to get ference at U.N. headquarters in New 922 billion to businesses and in­ the United Slates back into the Mid­ York. Israel rejected Waldheim’s dividuals. dle East picture. Moscow saw it as a The Wes^ Side Rec building on Cedar Street has completely disappeared and work is un­ ploy to permit Sadat to work out a proposal but Waldheim said he did not believe the rejection was final. settlement with Israel. Dockworkers in New Orleans have der way on a new recreation center and gymnasium to Jt>e shared with Washington School. Ghali declined comment on reports The Soviet Union, following Syria, rejected a three-year contract; The exposed section of the school is the former stair tower which was removed to make that Saudi Arabia is serving as an in­ rejected Sadat’s call for a pre- longshoremen in Philadephia have way for the renovations and new construction. (Herald photo by Pinto) termediary to heal the breach in the Geneva meeting in Cairo Dec. 14. approved the agreement, and defiant Arab world caused by Sadat’s visit to Israel,, the United States and U.N. dockworkers in Baltimore were Israel last month and his plan for a Secretary General Kurt Waldheim ordered by a federal court to return Cairo meeting. to work today. have agreed to send representatives to the meeting. Carter told a news conference Union officials in New Orleans said Wednesday in Washington that other Arab nations opposing the Cairo Wednesday they are not sure what Arab nations should follow Egypt’s School work on schedule meeting called their own “counter­ effect rejection of the master and lead and meet directly with Israel. conference” today in Tripoli — Iraq, local contracts with the New Orleans While praising Sadat’s initiative Construction work on the West Side said. All the construction on the project the Palestine Liberation Organiza­ Steamship Association will have on Carter said it was a major step in the Recreation Center and Washington The interior footings are scheduled is subject to the weather conditions, tion, Syria, Algeria and Marxist the port. right direction to have the United School project is on schedule, accor­ for completion by Dec. 16 and the Phillips said, but the expected com­ South Yemen. In doing so Iraq gave States give up its role of “dominant ding to a report from Town Building foundations should be poured by the pletion date is still next fall. up its own call for a meeting in Committee Chairman Paul Phillips first of the new year. The steel is intermediai'y” in the Middle East JOLIET, 111. (UPI) T Roy E. The $1.4 million project which was Baghdad and the PLO denounced dispute. Schultz, who escaped from a Kansas today. expected to arrive this month. Sadat as a “traitor.” approved by Manchester voters in Israel saw it differently. The prison where he was serving life The work began earlier this fall The stair tower on the south end of 1975 will provide joint use facilities Acting Egyptian Foreign Minister Israeli government radio said Carter sentence for murder, then kidnapped with the demolition of the old “Rec” Washington School has been tom for the school and a new recreation Butros Ghali told reporters in Cairo pushed for a delay in the Cairo talks a family to get blood from a v i r ^ — building on Cedar Street. With the down to make way for the center. the Egyptian-initiated preparatory in order to put the United States back the J a n e ’s &-year-old daughter— Rec completely razed, work has renovations. An emergency stairway Middle East peace talks will be held b ep n on the exterior footings, which has been installed on Ue front of the ■’’istom Concept Builders of in the picture and earn much-needed was~convlcted by a seven-man, five- Sin,..bury is the project contractor. in mid-December but that the exact woman jury We^esday. have been 50 percent poured, Phillips building. points in foreign affairs. Schultz, who pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, was convicted on seven counts of aggravated kldnap- pbig, two counts of deviate sexual assault, two counts of taking inde­ Land deals OK if firm gives pledge cent liberties with g minor and one count of armed robbery. By GREG PEARSON sion before the transactions can take at the trial, indicated that he will try mit some directional signs for J.C. be completed before the district place and did so this morning by a un­ residents vote. He is hopeful, STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) - Herald Reporter to issue his decision by Christmas. Penney that are larger than the park animous vote. A similar proposal will Another suit that challenges the however, that the vote can take place Rescue workers said they feared The Manchester Economic regulations permit. Alan Lamson, be presented to the Board of Direc­ sale price of property to J.C. Penney in January. Development Commission this mor­ town planner, said that the larger more bodies were buried under the tors at its Dec. 13 meeting. ning voted to purchase property from has also been filed, and attorney size signs permit three or four sites The EDC also approved the funding debris left by a giant mudslide J.C. Penney plans to build a two- of up to 95,000 to pay a firm to test Wednesday, which swept away 40 tbe state and sell property to the J.C. Anthony Pagano, who represents the to be listed on one directional sign Penney Co. once Uie firm guarantees million square foot catalog distribu­ plaintiffs in the Superior Court case, rather than having a separate sign samples from wells of residents who houses in Gothenburg and killed at tion center in town. The building least four people. "It looks like the it will build in town. has sent a letter to the administrator for each. The signs will still be about will neighbor the park. The testing is would be the major structure in the city dump, a muddy city dump,” Whether J.C. Penney ever makes of the federal Environmental Protec­ nine square feet, he said. part of an agreement made between town’s proposed industrial park in tion Agency that federal action also the town and the residents. Assistant Fire Chief ^ n g t Sjostrand such a commitment is contingent Town Manager Robert Weiss said Buckland. may be taken. Eastern Aquanalysis of South/ said. upon legal proceedings that have that the Eighth Utilities District is Killingly, which submitted a price off Officials said four bodies were develop^ involving the proposed ’The proposed J.C. Penney center is The EDC approved the lighting planning to vote on approving sewer $4,408 for 130 tests, is the^apparenj building. found Wednesd^ and more than 45 the subject of-a court case that was plan' for the J.C. Penney site. construction in the park site. The low bidder for the w ork.^*^ ' ■ people were Injured — 25 seriously The town will spend 92,141,714 to heard in the State Superior Court in “We have gone over every fixture aproval from the district voters is purchase about 95 acres from the Weiss recommended that the EDC enough to be hospitalized, the others October.

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