Mideast Summit 'Shrouded in Secrecy' CAMP DAVID, Md
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Senate to work on natural gas pricing WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority and Senate leaders say re-submitting Leader Robert Byrd says the .Senate it could kill it. will resume work today on the The measure would end price con- troublesome issue of natural gas trols on natural gas in 1985. pricing. Senate Democratic leaders met yes- The controversy is holding up terday with Energy Secretary James President Jimmy Carter's energy Schlesinger and White House package. infla- U. S. NAVAL. BASE tion fighter Robert Strauss to plot Byrd says that a week from today strategy. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA the Senate may be ready to vote on Afterward, the chairman of the En- whether the pricing plan should be ergy Committee, Henry Jackson, D- sent back to the committee. Thurs. Sept. 7, 1978 Wash., said there would be "a lot It took more than eight Vol. 33 No. 168 months to of hard work on both sides regard- get the proposal out of committee ing votes." Mideast summit 'shrouded in secrecy' CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP/UPI) -- The agendas and ease into the issues first Camp David summit meeting be- conversationally. tween President Jimmy Carter, Is- Still, the three men eventually raeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin will have to deal with the meat of and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat the Mideast situation -- the fate of is now history. Israeli-occupied Arab lands on the Experts at the Library of Congress West Bank and Gaza Strip and the fu- say it's the first meeting ever be- ture of the Palestinians. tween the heads of three nations. Powell would say nothing else other What transpired, however, is than that the three leaders began shrouded in secrecy. their labors in complete privacy and The trio met for two hours yester- with none of their advisors present. day. Sources say the atmospere of Reactions to the Camp David summit Camp David is having the desired ef- were as diverse as their locations. fect on negotiations. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul I offered a prayer. News Secretary Jody Powell said He said he hopes the summit will Begin and Sadat met each other while lead to a Middle East peace that strolling the wooded grounds, shook would solve the Palestinian question, hands and exchanged pleasantries be- guarantee the security of Israel and fore continuing on their separate safeguard the Holy City of Jerusalem. walks. Arab hardliners reacted by denounc- In keeping with tradition, Commander Kenneth J. Jaskolski Aides say Carter plans to shun ing Sadat and burning him in effigy. (R) turns the VC-10 command flag over to his replacement, Commander Donald M. Snyder (L), who becomes the new command- Castro offers olive branch to exiles ing officer of VC-10. ANA (AP) -- President Fidel Cas- in a small reception room in the 'ro has offered an olive branch to presidential palace. VC-10 holds change of command Cuban exiles in the United States. American reports had indicated Commander Donald M. Snyder assumed He has also served with Attack Castro met yesterday with 11 ex- Castro would announce a major inni- command of Fleet Composite Squadron Squadrons Fifty-five, One Twenty- iles for the first time since he tiative yesterday, possibly releas- 10 (VC-10) yesterday morning, re- seven, One Sixty-four, and Forty- came to power in 1959. ing up to 1,000 political prisoners. lieving Commander Kenneth J. Jaskol- Four, flying more than 350 combat When asked about the reports, Cas- ski who had been commanding officer missions. The Cuban leader met with editors, tro replied, "Those numbers are not since June, 1977. writers Cdr. Snyder, who entered and television reporters in correct, but maybe it is significant Cdr. Jaskolski also received the the Navy Miami and New York in a typically as a seaman recruit March 2, 1959 that for the first time in nearly 20 Navy Commendation Medal during the informal, three-hour news has been awarded the Distinguished confer- years, we are willing to talk with ceremony which took place at Hangar Flying Cross, Air Medal (one Gold ence. personalities of Cuban communities AV-600 at the Naval Air Station. and 26 He told the exiles that while his abroad." Vice Admiral George E.R. Kinnear, Strike/Flights), the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" government has gone as far as it The Havana government has submit- commander of the Naval Air Force, can in patching up relations with ted the names of 48 former political U.S. Atlantic Fleet, spoke at the (six awards) and various service and the United States, ribbons. he was interested prisoners and some still in jail to ceremony and was introduced by Cap- campaign Cdr. Jaskolski, who served as in opening channels of communication the U.S. government with the view of tain J.E. Paganelli, commander of also VC-10's executive officer more than with Cuban exiles. allowing .them to go to the United Fleet Tactical Support Wing One. Castro said: "the first steps are States. Cdr. Snyder has served as execu- a year before filling the top posi- already being taken. tion, is leaving Gitmo We must take Another 30 names of relatives have tive officer of VC-10 since June 6, for duty with further steps to protect the Air Department of the USS Nimitz the child also been submitted for U.S. approv- 1977. He and his wife, Jana Jill, so that it does not die while being al, but Castro said no decision has live on Mobile Point. (CVN-68), homeported in Norfolk, Va. born." been made. The 11 visiting exiles traded ban- The Havana government has announced ter with Castro and were allowed to about 1,500 Cubans with dual nation- Newswatch, NEWS BRIEFS ask very detailed questions about ality will be permitted to leave for WASHINGTON (AP) -- Both sides claim Cuban policy. the United States, the first 150 5:30 to have enough, support as the House Several p.m. visiting American report- flying out by chartered plane Sept. prepares to vote on an override of ers also attended the session held 14. President Jimmy Carter's veto of a defense spending bill. The vote, set for today, is the first time Congress has tried to w Brazil prepares to hold elections override a Carter veto. He objected to the $37 billion The world's fifth largest country The reforms are likely to be adopt- picked Figueiredo, former head of 1bill because it contained a $2 bil- is in the midst of an election cam- ed regardless of which presidential Brazil's equivalent of the FBI, to lion nuclear aircraft carrier. paign for everything from state leg- hopeful wins: the ruling Arena Alli- succeed him as president. Carter says the money for the car- islators to president, but no one's ance's Joao Baptista Figueiredo or Arena quickly rubberstamped Figuei- rier could be better used in other caught "campaign fever." the opposition Brazilian Democratic redo and that should have been the However, there ways. are indications Movement's Euler Bentes Monteiro. end of the race since Arena has a that the presidential election A two-thirds vote is needed in both on Both are conservative retired solid majority in the 590-member H Oct. 15 Houses to override the veto. and the legislative elec- four-star army generals who wear college that will elect the presi- tions a month later may start to glasses. dent on Oct. 15.* ATLANTA (AP) -- Today's editions of pave the way to return of civilian Monteiro takes his off in public. To pull an upset, Monteiro will tthe Atlanta Constitution report that government control in Brazil. The major features of the contem- have to corral all of the 231 oppo- a federal grand jury has subpoenaed Elections have been a matter of plated reforms are restoration of sition votes in the electoral col- bbank records on financial transac- some indifference in Brazil to direct elections at all levels of lege and steal 65 Arena votes to getttions involving President Jimmy Car- everyone but the candidates ever government and a change to an elec- a 296 vote majority-plus-one. tter and his campaign advertising man- since the military took over in 1964 toral that allows as many political Few observers give him even a re-aager, Gerald Rafshoon. and began making all the key deci- parties as politicians are willing mote chance at this point. The newspaper reports the subpoenas sions that affect the nation's 125 to form. Senator Jose de Magalhaes Pinto, accame in the grand jury's investiga- million people. Under the military regime, the leading Arena dissident and a presi-ttion of the financial affairs of Bert But this time it could be differ- only parties allowed are Arena and dential aspirant himself until a few LLance, Carter's former ent, not so much because of the budget direc- the MBD, both created by the mili- weeks ago, has the biggest block ofttor. elections themselves, but because tary from the ashes of the system possibly available votes, but doesn't of the effect they may have on Bra- abandoned in 1964 with the ouster of like Monteiro. NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials zil's political system in the fore- civilian President Joao Goulart. So the political calendar should say Legionaire's disease has taken seeable future. It is unlikely that either of go off without a hitch. one life and possibly two others. Both presidential candidates have these parties would survive in a All the victims had worked in the suggested changes that will forever ayatem that allows the formation of The Nov.