House proposes ending economic sanctions against Rhodesia WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House approved House did not insist, as the Senate Prime Minister Ian Smith on Rhode- diplomat Orlando Letelier. a $1 billion foreign military aid did, that Rhodesia also enter an sia's four-man Executive Council, The amendment carrying that pro- bill yesterday after adopting an "all parties" peace initiative aimed the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, vision was sponsored by Congressman amendment for lifting U.S. economic at ending the African nation's war joined in pledging the elections will Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. sanctions against Rhodesia. with Black Nationalist guerrillas. be held in December, as scheduled. The sanctions would be repealed Also, the Senate measure did not de- In approving the foreign military It was passed by voice vote, but at the end of this year only if, by mand that a new Salisbury government aid bill, the House did an about-face several hours later a roll call vote then, Rhodesia has installed has in- first must be installed. Its bill concerning Chile. was ordered and the House balloted stalled a new government chosen in called only for "clear progress" to- It first approved, and later re- 243-166 against using arms aid to free elections. ward black-majority rule. jected, an amendment that would have, force extradition of the trio. The vote on the overall aid bill Meanwhile, two members of Rhode- provisionally, cut off all U.S. arms Chile's President Augusto Pinochet was 255-156. The Rhodesian amend- sia's transition government declared shipments to the Santiago government. declared that the murder indictments ment was approved 229-180. yesterday that universal suffrage The provision would have had Chile against the three former Chilean se- The legislation nows goes to a elections leading to black majority turn over to the United States three curity officials are only accusa- Congressional conference for ironing rule will be held in December. men indicted on murder charges here tions. He said no one will be ex- out of differences with a military This, they insisted, even if the in the 1976 bomb slaying of Chilean tradited without proof of guilt. authorization measure approved ear- African country's six-year-old guer- lier in the day by the Senate. rilla war is still raging at its cur- The House action on Rhodesia dif- rent bloody pace. *fers from the Senate approach. The One of three blacks who sit with House votes to end all Syrian aid WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted day. The vote was 280-103. last night to cut off all U.S. for- The amendment would suspend all eign aid to Syria because of the economic aid to Syria for the fiscal killing of Lebanese Christian civil- year beginning Oct. 1. ians by Syrian peacekeeping troops The action will be considered a in Lebanon. second time when the bill is sent The aid cut off was in an amend- to a conference with the Senate to ment to the foreign aid appropria- work out a compromise between House tions bill passed earlier in the and Senate versions of the measure. Greece voices displeasure over U.S. U. S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA end to arms embargo against Turkey ATHENS (AP) -- * Tthursday, August 3. 1978 The Greek government the House-Senate conference commit- made known its displeasure yesterday tee that will meet on the issue soon Vol. 33 No. 146 1 a t t over the lifting of the U.S. trade will tighten the conditions attached embargo against Turkey. to ending the embargo. It charges in a formal announce- A Greek opposition party leader, ment that the action by Congress Andreas Papandreou, was even more could create new dangers in the Cy- critical. He called the Congression- prus situation. al votes "a complete reward" for * Hearst asks for sentence revocation The Athens regime says the U.S. Turkish aggression and declared the decision to lift the weapons embargo only solution now is for Greece to SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Patricia Hearst support of the motion says, in part, exhibits inconsistency in American detatch itself from the West. has asked a federal judge to set that she noticed during the trial policy and renders the solution of Meanwhile, apparently due to a aside her bank robbery conviction for that Bailey needed to ingest what she Cyprus' problem "ever more diffi- fear of possible violence, extra which she now is serving time. considers "hangover" medicine. cult." Greek police guards have been posted * The motion on behalf of the newspa- She goes on to say his hands were The statement expresses hope that around the U.S. Embassy. per heiress alleges that Attorney F. shaking and that he seemed to be suf- Lee Bailey's counsel was ineffective fering from the effects of insomnia. and reduced her trial to "a mockery, The statement adds that "his judge- news agency claims CIA is to a farce and a sham." ment seemed impaired." Cuban The motion seeks to have Miss She also contends that she was con- Hearst's sentence set aside or vinced by pre-trial publicity that changed. A companion motion asks a she would not get a fair trial. She blame for death of John F. Kennedy reduction in sentence. Both were added that she testified at her trial filed yesterday in U.S. District against her will and judgement and HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba's national news mony from an official serving at the Court by her present attorney, George that she was talked into signing an agency claims the 1963 assassination Cuban Embassy in Mexico City at the Martinez. He replaced trial counsels agreement concerning a book Bailey of President John F. Kennedy was time of Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged Bailey and Albert Johnson by agree- was to write about the trial. part of a conspiracy to destroy the visit there in Sept. 1963. ment last May 1. Miss Hearst is serving a seven-year image of the Cuban revolution. The witness, Eusebio Azcue Lopez, A statement filed by Miss Hearst in sentence. The claim is contained ina report testified that the man he met in the that says the forces that planned, Mexican capital was not the same man financed and ordered the killing of who killed President Kennedy. He Jaworski says Korean scandal probe Kennedy believed they could turn the offered the testimony as part of a world opinion against Cuba and cre- Cuban presentation intended to show ate a pretext to launch an attack that Kennedy was killed by the CIA against it. and that the spy agency tried to is over due to lack of cooperation An 18-member tribunal heard testi- blame Cuba for Kennedy's death. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leon Jaworski the probe, and the investigation is says he was sometimes frustrated by over. he State Department in his inves- State Department officials had no Begin says Israel could be destroyed igation of alleged South Korean in- immediate reaction to Jaworski's fluence-buying in Congress. statements. Jaworski, who is special consel if he accepted Egypt's conditions In an AP interview, Jaworski said to the House Ethics Committee, says the agency resisted his efforts to the investigation remains incomplete JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Prime scribed as "distortion" and "traves- compel former Korean Ambassador Kim because he has been unable to ques- Minister Menachem Begin said yes- ty" efforts to make Israel appear as Dong Jo to testify in this country. tion the former envoy on charges terday that the conditions demanded the main obstacle to Mideast peace. Waworski told the House yesterday that he tried to give money to Con- by Egypt before new face-to-face Begin's remarks were delivered on- he had gone as far as he could in gressmen. peace talks can be held would put ly a few hours after U.S. Envoy Al- Israel "in direct danger of being fred Atherton arrived from Cairo and destroyed." reported to Begin on his discussions Detroit mayor threatens to fire city workers Begin was responding to Egyptian with Sadat. President Anwar Sadat's recent as- Atherton told reporters that the sertian that further direct talks U.S. no longer expects direct Egypt- if illegal work stoppage continues are impossible unless Israel agrees Israel peace talks to follow Secre- DETROIT (AP) -- betroit Mayor Cole- The mayor's ultimatum was directed the return of all occupied Arab tary of State Cyrus Vance's forth- man Young has told striking city at 3,500 city workers who began a territory is non-negotiable. coming trip to the Mideast. workers they will be fired unless wildcat strike Monday in support of Addressing an Israeli bonds rally, A top Egyptian policy-maker says they end their wildcat action. dissatisfied garbage collectors. Begin said the world now better un- Egypt is willing to continue peace Young said in a statement yester- However, operators on emergency po- derstands Israel's position. He de- talks, but through the United States. day the Municipal Workers union is lice and fire telephone lines, along engaged in an illegal work stoppage with electrical workers, returned to which a court ruled Tuesday is their jobs yesterday. Chinese and Vietnamese exchange fire causing the city irreparable damage. was the first offi- The court order also directed the They had walked off the job to TOKYO (AP) -- China and Vietnam ac- shooting. It shooting inci- workers to return to work. support the other protesters. cused each other yesterday of firing cially acknowledged warning shots in an incident involv- dent on the border between the two ing more than 3,000 ethnic Chinese Communist neighbors since they be- Comedian Totie Fields dies of heart attack residents of Vietnam.