, .,/ ./ K_~.J ALE I ~___ ,H~-t\--H-a-U~R G '-~S S VOLUME 14 KWAJAlEIN ATOll, MARSHAll ISLANDS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1977 NUMBER 216 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SUN & SURF * U.S. REFUGEES RETURN TO THEIR HOMES * * * AS OF 0001 HOURS 8 NOV. '77 * * RAINFAll: .03 lnch * * MONTHLY TOTAL: 2.12 inches * FLOOD DEATH TOLL IS RISING * YEARLY TOTAL' 72.82 inches * ATLANTA (UPI) -- Hundreds of flood refugees plodded back to crushed or mud-scarred homes ln * TOMORROW * the southern Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains and searchers pokeo through debrls for more * Hi Tlde: 0312 5.2' 1533 6.0' * vlctlms of the deadly mountaln rains. * lo Tide' 0915 0.4' 2149 0.3' * The death toll from the weekend rampage by mountain streams cllmbed to 49. Resuce workers * MOONRISE: 0517 MOONSET: 1730 * search1ng a flood-ravaged Slble college campus at Toccoa, Georgla, found the body of Dr. Jerry * SUNRISE: 0639 SUNSET 1827 * Sproull, a professor at Toccoa Falls College. Sproull was the 38th victlm of the Toccoa floodlng. *.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Authorltles are contlnuing the search for another man st1ll mlssing and presumed dead. Governor George Busbee informed the White House he would seek federal disaster aid. * FINANCIAL NEWS * * * Searchers ln the Blue Ridge Mountalns of North Carolina found flve more bodles, boostlng the * DO~JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGES * state's weekend death toll to * 30 Indus. off 0.17 at 816.27 * 10. * 20 Trans. up 0.44 at 206.52 * HIGH LEVELS Of AID TO ISRAEL The bodles of two three­ * 15 Utils. up 0.33 at 108.71 * year-old brothers were found * 65 Stocks up 0.28 at 279.45 * yesterday a short distance * Volume: 19,210,000 Shares * AND EGYPT MA Y IMPEDE PEACE from where the1r mother's * Closing Gold Pnce $165.15 * WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Lavish ald promises to Israel and Egypt body was recovered Sunday. * Closing Sllver Pnce $4.90 * by the N1xon and Ford Adm1nlstrat10ns have locked the Unlted Authorlties sald the boys and * listlngs Avallable In llbrary * States 1nto costly programs that may even be an lmpedlment to their mother were thrown from * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * peace, Admlnlstratio~ offlclals sald today. their traller home, WhlCh was One hlgh officlal called the high levels of a1d commltted for dislodged and carrled off by the foreseeable future the "pnce of Henry Klsslnger's diplo'­ floodwaters near Ashevllle, Israelis Hit ryre macy," referring to the former North Carolina. BEIRUT (UPI) -- Israell gun­ Secretary of State. Flooding also clalmed one ners today pounded the lebanese A Military Study "It's the payoff for the life in Tennessee. A body was port city of Tyre, two nearby WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Actlng Klssinger peace approach in the found Monday near Erwln, Ten­ Palestinlan refugee camps and on a staff paper that questions Slnai II Agreement, and we nessee, where the Doe and No­ half a dozen Lebanese villages whether the military can re­ don't know how to get out of lichucky Rivers drove about in retaliatlon for a rocket spond effectlvely, Presldent it," he added. "If you try to 180 families from their homes. attack from lebanon on the Carter asked Defense Secretary cut lt, both sides claim you Flood1ng caused mlllions north Israell Clty of Naharlya. Harold Brown for a searching are twistlng thelr arms on a of dollars' damage in a wide Initial casualty reports orgalnzational reVlew of the peace treaty." area. from Palestlnlan and Lebanese Defense Department, a spokes­ He noted the hlgh levels of North Carol1na Governor sources ln the south sald up to man sald today. securlty supportlng assistance James Hunt estlmated damages 10 persons had been killed and Carter, ln a September 20 aid would fall lf a peace to his state's roads and at least 20 wounded ln the areas memorandum, sald some funda­ treaty were signed, and con­ bridges alone at $40 mlll10n. that had been shelled. mental reorganlzatlon problems cluded "In one sense, lt is Officials said some homes and The PLO news agency Wafa also 1n Defense resource management, a d1S1ncent1ve for them to come businesses ln North Carolina said that Israell gunboats defense management structure, to agreement on a peace were total losses. Hunt sald were sighted off the Lebanesf and the natlonal mllitary com­ treaty." he would seek federal ald. coast near Tyre, as well as mand structure have reslsted The securlty support pro­ Schools remaired closed warplanes flYlng repeatedly change for many years, desplte gram currently glves Egypt in portions of Tennessee and over target areas. Israel preVlOUS studies and previous and Israel a total of $1.8 bll­ Virginia by flooded hlghways clalms the ralds are in retalla­ recommendatlons. the spokes­ llon ln economlC asslstance. or bridges that had been tlon for the PLO-led shell1ngs. 'TIan sa1d. The total program to all other knocked out when the floods· hlt. Thlrd World countrles lS only $1.4 blllion. Vietnam Wants U.S. President Carter Is Worried John G1l1igan, adminlstra­ tor of the Agency for Inter­ natlonal Development, ac­ Military Out Of Guam About New Maior Arms Race knowl edged "It's frank ly a UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -­ WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Presldent Carter lS worried that develop­ polltical program, des1gned to Recalling the bombings of the ment of klller satellltes, capable of destroYlng other space carry out the Sinal Accords. Indochlna War, the Democratic vehicles, may plunge the Unlted States and the Soviet Unlon into The program can't be Justlfled Republic of Vietnam has ad­ a new maJor arms race. ln purely econom1C terms. It vised against the cont1nuat10n Presidentlal spokesman Jody Powell told reporters the Unlted lS done to buy peace; lf you of the Amer1can military base States has expressed concern to the Sovlets, who are believed wlll, to buy some tranquillty on the Paclfic lsland of Guam. to be ahead in developlng such technology. and stabillty ln the Middle Supported by three other "We are concerned about the prospect of the maJor superpowers East area." communlst nat10ns - Angola, being involved 1n an accelerated maJor arms race 1n this area," Cuba and Laos - V1etramese Powell sald. Ambassador Dinh Ba Thl intro­ He sa1d the United States LANDMARK DECISION duced a resolutlon 1n the U.N. Shooting flampage suggested llmitlng development NEW YORK (UPI) -- A federal General Assembly brand1ng the but no firm proposals are appeals court, 1n a landmark eXlstence of the base as an In New Orleans under cons1derat1on. dec1slon, has ruled that a impedlment to self-determina­ NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- Carlos "It would be unfortunate 1f publ1C figure seek1ng a libel t10n of the island's 110,000 Poree was tormented by the loss the Un1ted States and the Judgment against a Journal1st population. of his job and mar1tal problems, Sov1et Union became lnvolved 1n cannot lnqu1re lnto the Speaklng In the Assembly's but hlS mother-1n-law sa1d he competlt1on ln th1S area," he thoughts, op1nions and con­ Committee for Non-Self-Govern­ never gave a h1nt of the shooting sa1d. "We would llke to reach clus10ns that led to the ing Terr1torles, Thi sa1d the rampage that spread from a mlddle­ an agreement that avo1ds what wrlter's ed1tor1al Judgment. world knew that the bases on class ne1ghborhood to a downtown we conslder would be a desta~ In a Spl1t dec1s1on, the Guam were used aga1nst the brokerage flrm and the crowded b1l1z1ng area of competltlOn." 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of peoples of Vletnam, laos and streets of the French Quarter. The Russ1ans have conducted Appeals held that such an in­ Cambodla. The bomb1ngs, he Poree, 35, was charged w1th several exper1ments that ap­ qui ry woul d have "grave 1mpl 1- said, had caused much suffer­ wound1ng 10 persons yesterday. pear to 1nvolve successful cat10ns for the vital1ty of lng and devastatlon. He surrendered w1thout resistance slmulated attacks by one space the ed1tor1al process Wh1Ch Thi introduced a resolution and was charged w1th 10 counts of satell1te agalnst another. the Supreme Court and th1S on behalf of the four nations attempted murder. Powell sa1d the U.S. has a Court have recognized must be declaring that "The presence Police sa1d he began h1S ram­ research and development pro­ guarded zealously." of the Un1ted States bases page by shoot1ng hlS 34-year-old gram 1n that area WhlCh 1S The ruling appl1ed to the on Guam is preventing the estranged w1fe, D1ane, and hlS cons1dered adequate for the llbel SUlt filed aga1nst CBS people of the terr1tory from father-in-law. t1me being. But he refused to and Atlant~c Monthly magaz1ne freely exercising the1r r1ght _ H1S arrest. two hours after draw any compar1sons w1th the by Anthony Herbert, a much­ to self-determinat1on" in the fiJ:st shoot1nqs. took place Russ1an verS1on. decorated Lieutenant Colonel accordance with the United across the street from the stock Pentagon sources sa1d the who res1gned from the U.S. Nations' decolonlzat1on brockeraQe off1 ce when Poree was U.S.S.1., on October 26 con­ Army 1n 1972 after accus1ng declaration and the prinCiples confronted by two~llcemen. ducted the slxth test Slnce fellow offlcers of coverlng of the U.N. Charter. The reso­ Three of the vlct1ms rema1n 1n early 1976 of ltS k1ller up war cr1mes and atrocities lution reaff1rmed the r1ght of critical cond1t1on. satelllte system. commltted by U.S. troops. Guamanians to "lndependence." PAGE 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBiR 8, 1977 Britain Threatened B, Strikes Claxton, Sink ~I, O,er Iwa; Meck Island Met Rocktt LONDON (UPI) -- The government worked A meteorological rocket launch oper­ frant1cally today to end a power workers' On Tr, for Speed lecord ation from Meck Island lS scheduled for slowrlown Wh1Ch has plunged the country into (Ed.