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Cyprus (UPI) - Egypt Ahram who was attending a meeting unexpected and unacceptable viola­ bargaining for the moment, sought and Cyprus exchanged angry ac­ of an Afro-Asian Solidarity group. tion of the island nation's sovereign­ the advice of key congressmen today cusations today over what caused an Police put the death toll today at at ty how to end the record 77-day strike Entebbe-style hostage rescue by least 15 — 12 of them Egyptian com­ The Egyptians had modeied the by 160.000 coal miners. Egyptian commandos to degenerate mandos— and 22 wounded, including raid after the Israeli foray into Ugan­ At the same time, one Independent into a tragic airport gunbattle that seven Cypriot troops and two jour­ da's Entebbe airport July 4, 1976. to coal company reached a tentative killed 15 persons and wounded 22. nalists. a West German and a rescue more than 100 hostages settlement of its contract with the most of them Egyptians. Cypriot The bodies of three of the hijacked by Palestinian and West United Mine Workers, apparently the Eyewitnesses said that in the midst Egyptians were discovered today in German terrorists The Israeli raid first crack in the record-long of the confusion, two Palestinian wreckage left by the shootout went off without a hitch walkout. gunmen who began a weekend of The harshest criticism came from The Palestinians shot Sebai at the Carter himself spoke with Senate terror Saturday by murdering one of Cypriot President Spyros Kyprianou. Nicosia Hilton Hotel during a Middle Democratic leader Robert Byrd of President Anwar Sadat’s close who was in the airport control tower Elastern diplomatic conference, took West Virginia, who said he told the friends, surrendered with the 16 when it was peppered by Egyptian about 80 hostages and later (reed president the best recourse was con­ hostages they had seized. machine gun fire. He had been there tinued negotiations. most of them in exchange for a The terrorists had commandeered negotiating with the terrorists when minibus that took them to the air­ Labor Secretary Ray Marhall and FJm a plane and forced it to fly to Djibouti the Egyptians attacked. A Cypriot of­ port. Carter sounded out lawmakers on — and back — in a fruitless search for ficial said he did not believe the what administration officials in­ asylum. placement of the shots was acciden- The gunmen freed five hostages in dicated were three options; Egypt called an emergency cabinet tal. exchange for the DC-8 and took the —Ordering the miners back to meeting and dispatched cabinet The Palestinian gunmen — iden­ other 12 hostages and four crewmen work under the Taft-Hartley Act — a minister Butros Ghali to Cyprus to tified as Samir Mohamed Khadar. 28, on a 24-hour odyssey through the Mid­ move which UMW President Arnold try to avert a rupture in diplomatic of Jordan, and Zayet Hussein al-Ali. dle East during which even the most Miller warned would provoke relations between the two nations 26, of Kuwait — appeared in court radical Arab nations refused them bloodshed at the mines. enmeshed in a web of terrorism that today charged with assassinating permission to land —Submitting the soft coal industry began Saturday when the gunmen Sebai. one of Sadat's advisers The and the UMW to binding arbitration. raided a Middle East diplomatic con­ court set Feb. 28 as the date for a Only the tiny nation of Djibouti on —A federal takeover of the mines, m ference. preliminary hearing, effectively the horn of Africa allowed the plane under which the government would t^priot officials blamed the 50- ruling out an Egyptian call for their to land and refuel, and the plane set "fair ' wage and profit levels minute rocket, machine gun and extradition. headed back to Cyprus. while the bargaining continues. mortar battle on the 75 or moie Cyprus agreed to let the 75 Egyp­ Congress would have to approve Egyptians and said they tried to tian commandos who were captured Cypriot officials said the Egyp­ either of the last two options. stage the raid in violation of Cypriot or surrendered, including their com­ tian's Hercules transport carrying Administration officials said sovereignty just as the Palestinians mander, go home as soon as they can the commandos arrived at Larnaca Marshall was shuttling between the were about to surrender to the get transportation. The U.S.-made about 30 minutes after the Cyrpus House and Senate today to present tK-'' Cypriots. Hercules C-130 they used to fly into Airways jet returned from Djibouti the options. Cairo said the Cypriots opened fire Larnaca was hit by a Cypriot ar­ and back. Marshall scheduled a midday after the Egyptian commandos tillery shell and destroyed. A jeepload of Egyptians stormed meeting with Chairman Harrison rushed the Cyprus Airlines DC-8 Ghali, who is the Egyptian Deputy out off the Hercules and drove Williams. D-N.J.. of the Senate labor hostage plane and captured the Foreign Minister, arrived in Nicosia toward the jetliner, spraying it with subcommittee. Chairman Frank killers of Youssef Sebai, ^ ito r of the today to meet with Cypriot officials, bullets and, according to British pilot Thompson of the House labor- influential Cairo newspaper Al who have called the Egyptian raid an Bill Cox, almost blowing it up. management subcommittee was also to be briefed on the “definitive" course of action. Pittsburgh and Midway Coal Co., a You have to go up^ too subsidiary of Gulf Oil. climaxed These two lads hold tightly to the rope that will tow them to District to ask CCLU weeks of independent bargaining by the top of Northview Ski Slope where, with luck and good reaching a tentative settlement with a bargaining team made up of UMW balance, they’ll make it back down to the bottom of the slope. national negotiators and local union Jon Hubley of 264 Hackmatack St. leads off with Michael Or- leaders. Although headquartered in fitelli of 110 Comstock Road following closely behind. They about merger voting Denver. Pand-M has mines in were the only two youngsters at Northview by mid-Saturday. western Kentucky, Kansas and (Herald photo by Dunn) Missouri. By GREG PEARSON townwide referendum on consolida­ With this year's revaluation, he Herald Reporter tion would not include a separate expects a mill of taxes on the Grand vote from the district on the topic. List to be worth $450,000 to $500,000. Representatives of the Eighth Votes from both the district and Thus, it will take one mill of taxes on Utilities District will contact the non-district areas would be included all town properties to meet the cost Panama debate resumes Connecticut Civil Liberties Union in one town wide vote total, according of operating the firehouse, calculated Tuesday to discuss “ basic con­ to the state’s Home Rule Act. The WASHINGTON (UPI) - The The de'oate is not yet much beyond tion. on an average property value of $20,- Treaty backers argut that whether stitutional questions” about the pre­ Town Charter, however, says that 000, Cummings said. Senate was resuming debate on the the opening statement stage, but will sent consolidation effort, a district Panama Canal treaties today, with heat up this week with arguments or not the information is damaging to the district must vote itself out of A mill on this year's Grand List spokesman said. existence. an unusual secret session schooled over whether the charges of drug the Torrijos family or to some U.S. will generate more revenue than past Meanwhile, Ted Cummings, one of This also will be brought up to the for Tuesday to consider allegations trafficking are relevant to the ques­ officials, who may have tried to con­ years because of increased property the leaders of the consolidation state’s Civil Liberties Union, the dis­ of drug trafficking by the family of tion of canal treaty ratification. ceal it, it has nothing to do with the values resulting from revaluation. canal treaties. move, has challenged district trict spokesman said. Panama’s leader Omar Torrijos. Opponents hope the evidence District residents now pay a tax of statements that consolidation of the “Can something be taken away The treaties were called up in the revealed behind closed doors two mills for fire protection, he said. district with the Town of Manchester from us without our making the Senate Feb; 8, but only three days of Tuesday will be damaging enough to Secret sessions are rare in the “Since only one mill of tax is would result in a tax increase of as decision?” the spokesman ask^. debate were held on them before the doom the treaties. They believe it Senate, and are called only for the needed under the proposed consolida­ much as seven mills to district The district’s committee opposing Senate adjourned for a week-long could help swing several currently most sensitive intelligence and tion plan, the Eighth District proper­ residents.