The weather Fair, warm today, high mid 80s. Clear, cooler tonight, low mid 50s. Tuesday, sun- i ny, low humidity, high near 80. iEupmng Jlprali MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, AUGUST i8, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 271 Manche$ter—A City of Village Charm twenty-four pa g es - two sect ions PRICES FIFTEEN CENTS Israel’s Rabin defends proposed peace accord By United Press International In Jerusalem, police officers erected Egypt is accepted because of our clear crowd barriers today around the Knesset, will to reach an interim agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin other government buildings and the King benefits for Israel and Egypt as a step in went before a special session of parliaT David Hotel where Kissinger is expected the progress towards peace.” ment today and defended the proposed in- to stay. The police commander at Ben- Rabin added, “I can now say with terim peaqe agreement with Egypt Gurion International Airport Was called forcefulness that our position in the against angry charges from the right-wing back from an overseas trip to supervise process of negotiations to reach an in- Likud party that the United States was for- the precautions. terim agreement is better now than it was cing it down Israel’s throat. The newspaper A1 Hamishmar said the in March.” l^ ile the Likud was demanding Rabin's opposition was seeking to create “an at- Opposition leader Menachem Begin Wi resignation, some 50 women gathered out- mosphere of internal crisis on the eve of opened the special Knesset session with an side the Knesset building in Jerusalem and Dr. Kissinger’s arrival.” appeal to the Rabin government to resign. demonstrated against the government’s "The brutal campaign being prepared “This is an example not of an agreement policies. They carried signs reading "No by them — one of which will stress Dr. in stages, but a' surrender in stages,” Munich here,” and "We are not dogs to Kissinger’s Jewishness — necessitates a Begin said. jump through Kissinger’s hoop.” massive counter-campaign on the part of “The interim agreement is endangering A few of the women parad^ about the the more moderate majority,” the the security of Israel and therefore it is i. plaza wearing dog collars and leashes. newspaper said. bad in its roots an(j its foundations and we They were led by a woman carrying an ef- It warned against “nationalist hysteria oppose it,” he said. figy of Secretary of State Henry A. and irresponsible acts which may cause Kissinger. great harm to the state.” Begin said the three-year term of the. Kissinger, after talks with President agreement would be “an invitation to ad- Ford in Vail, Colo., said he was optimistic The Israeli parliamentary session was ditional pressures and concessions without about the resumption of his Middle East one of the angriest sessions in memory peace.” shuttle mission. He- arrives in Israel and jeers and catcalls frequently in- Thursday and Egyptian reports said he terrupted Rabin’s half-hour presentation. In his reply Rabin said “any attempt to would meet President Anwar Sadat in “Kissinger’s arrival does not mean that characterize our position as a catastrophe Alexandria on Friday. there is a finished pact at hand, and it does must be seen as an irresponsible A wave of anti-Kissinger feeling not give final approval to an agreement characterization, one which doesn’t fit the appeared to be bpilding up in Israel over which is already achieved,” Rabin said. reality.” the right-wing charges. Right-wing groups “We •will sign an interim agreement Today’s session was forced by the Likud planned a series of demonstrations for the Only if we will be convinced that it will be period of the Kissinger visit and police to the betterment of Israel’s needs,” which gathered the required 30 signatures sources said unprecedented security Rabin said. to force a special session. However a for- mal debate was postponed unll later. measures would be taken during his visit. “The anticipated visit in Israel and Ford trip accents politics VAIL, Colo. (UPI) — President Ford is not economically feasible, “ a White Tuesday afternoon rord has more 'IC..- embarks today on a whirlwind two-day, House aide said. political gatherings. He was scheduled to four-state trip to spotlight his domestic After tournihg the oil shale develop- attend a GOP luncheon and reception policies and to drum up Republican sup- ment, Ford will fly to Des Moines for what before flying to Pekin, 111., to dedicate the port for his presidential candidacy in 1976. his aides term a “significant speech on Everett M. Dirksen Congressional Because the emphasis was heavy on farm policy,” to farmers in the drought- Leadership Research Center, named after politics during the swing .in which Ford stricken area. Ford’s appearance there the late Senate Republican leader. On will make seven speeches and eight and at the Iowa State Fair comes at a time hand to greet him will be Sen. Howard appearances, White House press secretary when his popularity has been lagging with Baker, R-Tenn., who is married to I Ron Nessen said the RraublicaniVational thq farmerSt,alt()ough rising with the rest Dirksen's daughter. Committee will pick up Ford’s expenses. of the population in the state. Senior-Junior picnic had fun andTserious games The one exception wastoday.’s trip to Ri- His appearance also was designed to From Pekin Ford will fly to Peoria to •fle, Colo., to inspect an' oil shale help bail out the Iowa Republican Party, address the Central Illinois White House Ann Pillard kibitz. In a more serious game is an impen- $70,000 in the red. He will address a fund- Despite an overcast day, there was no dampening of par- demonstration project. Conference on Domestic Affairs and the ding tie in a checkers game between Loreen Pillard and Ford’s other travels will take him to raising dinner of Iowa Republicans before Economy. ticipants or spirits at tee second annual Senior-Junior James Cumins, right. The event was sponsored by SAM Iowa, Minneapolis and Illinois. Sen. Gary going to Minneapolis. picnic Sunday in Center Springs Park. In tee top (Summer Activities in Manchester) and the Manchester Hart, D-Colo., will be on hand to greet him On Tuesday morning Ford meets with Ford will fly back to Vail Tuesday photograph, Alice Pitkin, left and Majorie Dickinson, Human Services Department. when he flies by helicopter from nearby regional newspaper and broadcast evening and spend the remainder of the right, play "sockey” while Abby Keene, kneeling, and Avon to Rifle, and Sen. Hubert Humphrey, representatives, then with Republican v/eek there until Sunday when he heads / DMinn., will be there when Ford arrives leaders before going on to the Minneapolis back to Washington on a trip that will in- in Minneapolis tonight. Convention Center to deliver a speech clude spending the night in Chicago and a The President will walk through 1,200 before the American Legion. stop in Milwaukee. feet of an underground mine at Rifle to stress his interest in future energy Refinery fire kills three resources. A White House aide said there are 1.8 billion barrels of shale oil poten- PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - An oil Smoke still poured from the refinery bridge also was closed for today’s morning tial in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Lufkin suggested refinery fire is a fearsome thing. '.'We early today. Mayor Frank Rizzo,’ the fire rush hour traffic into the city. Colorado alone has 84 per cent of the en- thought we were in pretty good shape,” commissioner’s brother, said, “We have Burke said the fires could burn for “two tire U.S. supply. Gulf Oil Co. refinery manager Jack Burke to let it burn out because if vapors build up or three days.” “The potential is so fantastic but the for Interior job said. “Then it flashed — and that’s when and become locked we get explosions. technology has not yet been developed and we lost control.” We’ve still got a live fire.” To keep the blaze contained, firemen Before it was over, two multiple alarm *jutkin, a New York investment banker, hosed down other tanks which Rizzo said HARTFORD (UPI) - Sen. Lowell P. fires ripp^ through the huge Gulf Oil had been mentioned earlier in the year for contained “hundreds of thousands of Weicker, R-Conn., said today he has refinery in south Philadelphia within the number two spot in the Interior barrels of napthalene And gasoline.” News tidbits,,. suggested Newtown millionaire Dan W. seven hours Sunday, destroying seven Lufkin for the first or second spot in the Department, but the nomination storage tanks and sending balls of flame Assistant Deputy Fire Marshal Edward federal Interior Department. reportedly was scrapped because of an- and smoke soaring 200 feet. Stevens said the second fire began when a Judge silting in wing demonstrators attending the funeral Lufkin, former Connecticut en- ticipated trouble in getting it approved by Three firemen died in the fires and three tank containing crude oil burst into flames of Lt. Antonio Pose Rodriguez, who was BOSTON (UPI) — U.S. District Judge vironmental commissioner, was recently the Senate. others were unaccounted for. and two smaller tanks of napthalene killed by Marxist guerrillas, tore tne pen- W. Arthur Garrity Jr. sits in today on a cleared by the state’s, attorney of conflict Weicker termed Lufkin’s nomination Thirteen more firemen were injured in erupted, followed by four mqre crude oil nant from a minister’s car today and meeting of the Boston School Committee of interest charges brought by the possibility “very much alive.” battling anil-alarm fire which broke out at tanks.