World News
Mideast disagrees on Israel withdrawal
JERUSALEM Al* Israel welcomed
Egypt's readmes* to make peace Sunday
but rejected ('aim's demand that IsraeJi
troop* withdraw from occupied Arab
territory
Cairo called the Israeli response,
issued after an all day Cabinet meeting, a
"flat rejection" of proposals offered by
U N mediator Gunnar V Jarring
The Israeli communique said the
C abinet viewed "favorably" KgypCs offer
to end the conflict, but said Israel would
never return to the borders that existed
before the six day war in June 1967
Premier (iolda Meir's Cabinet said it
wanted "meaningful negotiations"
with Egypt on al) subjects related to a
peace agreement
The communique said Israel is "ready
to discuss withdrawal of armed forces
toward secure, recognized and agreed
iMMindarirs to be established in peace
agreements,"
It added "The government of Israel
reiterates Its position that it will not
withdraw to the armistice line of June 4,
1967" the boundaries existing before
Israel raptured the Sinai I>c*sert in the
war
In Cairo, a Foreign Ministry
spokesman said the decision ‘reaffirms
Israeli expansionist policy, which con
tradicts the Security Council's 1967
resolution and violates the U N. charter.”
Cairo radio reported the Israeli
Cabinet announcement and described it as
a "twisted reply.”
The 1967 resolution, passed five
months after the six-day war, calls for,
among other things Arab recognition of
Israel’s right to exist within “secure and
recognized boundaries" and for Israeli
withdrawal from the occupied territories
Considerable world attention was
focused on the Israeli Cabinet meeting,
which was called to work out a reply to
Kgypt 's peace proposal given to Jarring in
New York last Wednesday
Joseph Sisco, U S assistant secretary
of state, described the meeting as “one of
the most decisive hours for Israel and the
United States.”
Hie communique called for a con
tinuation of discussions under Jarring's
auspices with ‘‘the aim of reaching an
agreed peace treaty between the two
states "
It said the Cairo proposition demon
strated the “concrete differences between
Egypt’s position and that of Israel and
particularly the substantial gap which
exists on the issue of borders and
refugees ’’
The Egyptian offer of peace was at
tached to the condition of total Israeli
withdrawal and settlement of the
Palestinian refugee problem
Foreign Minister Abba Eban,
commenting in a broadcast after the
Cabinet session, said the withdrawal
demand has no legal basis The U.N
Security Council resolution of November
1967 that forms the framework of the
Middle East negotiations, he said, calls not
for a return to the former borders but to
secure and recognized frontiers
“We cannot be expected to accept the
Egyptian positions in advance of the
negotiations and we don't expect Egypt to
accept the Israeli position before
discussion." he said
1^18 appeared to be an amplification
by Eban of the communique text, which
said “The negotiations should not be
subject to prior commitments on the
outstanding issues ”
There was no mention of March 7 in
the text This is the new deadline set by
Egypt for the Suez Canal cease-fire, in
effect since Aug 7 and already twice
renewed by Cairo
Reliable sources said that in the of
ficial reply through Jarring to Egypt the
Israelis would recommend that this
deadline be ignored so as to provide a
better atmosphere for continuing political
contacts.
There was no mention in the com
munique of possible direct talks now
between Israel and Egypt
Israel Galili, the information minister
and a close associate of Mrs Meir,
challenged Egypt on Saturday to prove its
intentions by face-to-face negotiations,
something Cairo always has refused
Observers pointed out that in previous
Jerusalem declarations in a Middle East
settlement, heavy stress was laid on the
formula of no withdrawal without peace.
Now that Cairo has indicated a
readiness to make peace, these observers
detect the emphasis switching to the often
declared stand of withdrawal, but not to
the old lines, which left Israeli populated
areas within easy range of Arab attacks
White House asks probe
WASHINGTON Al* The White
House has asked for a rrp«»rt on
Saturday's fain** alert from the
iimIIommI emergency wurninn
center One official said Sunday
“those rrspisisible at NORAO
will Mf thut It does not happen
again "
NOltADts the North American
Air Defense (omnimul within
Cheyenne Mountain near
Colorado Springs. Colo , that in
renponnihle for warning the
nation of any imminent nuclear
attack
'Die false warning wan a result
of the inner!ion of a wrong tape
into a teletype system that naid
the President had directed a
not I fit'a lion of emernency actual
and that all normal broadcasting
was to stop immediately and that
the warning was to tie broadcast
The White llouar. officials said
still wants to know just how this
happened and why They said
Secretary of Defense Melvin It
laud has asked for a report
Meanwhile, an official at the
Civil Defense National
Emergency Warning Center in a
1144 million underground for
tress in Cheyenne Mountain said
Sunday a slight change in
procedures has been made to try
to prevent a recurrence of
Saturday's mishap
W S Kberhardt, an Army
civilian employee who had
worked at the center for 15 years,
was supposed to have tran
smitted a routine test tape on the
news circuits Saturday
Hanging on three labeled hook*
above his transmitter were the
test tape and two other
emergency tapes that had never
been sent before Kberhardt
transmitted one of the
emergency tapes, later saying.
”1 can't imagine how the hell I
did It "
lx.ui* I Smoyer, the civilian in
charge of the center said the
emergency tapes no- have been
pot in a filing cabinet, oil* of
immediate reach The test tape
normally sent on Saturday
mornings will remaui an the
hook
"The emergency tapes have
been put in clearly marked
separate envelopes inside a filing
cabinet adjacent to the tran
smitting equipment so it is im
possible for the duty officer to get
hold of the wrong tape," Smoyer
said
Smoyer said that so far the use
of the filing cabinet is the only
change in procedures con
templated
"We still have to have the tapes
available for use in an
emergency, but we’ve got to be
sure the man working under
stress or strain can't reach for
the wrong tape," Smoyer said
"Now with the filing cabinet,
the man lias to pull open a door
and reach in and identify what’s
in the envelope before tran
smitting anything," he said "It
won't lake the man any length of
time and the cabinet won't be
locked
"It might take him 20 or 30
seconds longer, but he must know
he is reaching for the emergency
tapes "
Nader cites electric medicine
Nk W VOKK Al' Consumer advocate IUI|>h
Nader says Hi ImiI 1.300 Americans "are elec
trocuted annually" during cardiac care ami other
11raiment al hospitals twvauar of faulty equipment
and staff unprepared news
"A shock harard epidemic of critical proper
(ions rusts in our hospitals said Nailer con
tending most of the deaths imanahl) are listeil
as cardiac ideal Nearly all could t>r prevented
he said
Nailer commented in an article m tin* March
issue id 1 aulirs Home Journal
‘Since the advent of the heart pacemaker and
cardiac rather nation the hospital env ironment has
tiecome ao dangerous that today it is the site of more
electrical accidents than any industry except
:mnm^ " hr said
He cited one casr in v oi\ mu * My ear old heart
patient who was killed when an electr*c current
leak ml (rum an external pacemaker and became
It rounded in his rlectncaUy operated hospital bed
Moat electrocutions happen u» }us< this wav
said Nader " Most of the time the pxtient is ion
nes ted not to one t«ut to several electrical dev ares
In such an env ironment the risk is extremely great
that a stray current will complete a circuit to
ground through (hr patient
In must hospitals Nadrt said safety measures
that can reduce risks are grossly neglected or even
unknown among hospital stalls
“For years physicians operated these devices
without recognizing either their potential hazards
or the actual fatalities the caused." he said "Even
how that there is greater understanding,
precautionary measures are inadequate "
Natter said only three hospitals in the country
have biomedical engineers on their staffs to
supers ise the operation of complex machines
Ihiwnstate Medical Tenter in New York Oty. Sinai
Hospital in Haltimore and Ovaries S Wilson
Hospital in Johnson Oty. N Y
Natter also scored equipment manufacturers,
some of whom he said market devices "without
making them failsafe against even the most
common mistakew of operators "
often the grounding dexices furnished with
electncal equipment are weak easily broken and
not designed for rough handling." he said "They
are not remotely foolproof, not fail safe and not
exen reliable
Nader said few hospitals exen the newer ones
haxe adequate etectnc wiring systems
The estimate of 1,300 deaths annually was
cunserxattxe he said and "might be 10 times as
high "
1-tst Sox ember, a study prepared in the School
of Medicine at Wayne State tnixersily surveyed
cardiac care equipment at IS major American
hospitals and found significant deficiencies at all
IS The finding: were released at a cxmxrotion of the
American Heart Association No fatabties were
cited
| News Roundup
from AP reports
NEW YORK AP—For the first time, Soviet advisers are
fighting black Africans and helping the Arab government of
Sudan bomb black villages. Time magazine reported Sun
day In its March 1 issue, the newsmagazine said about 100
Russians have participated since September in ground
operations in three southern provinces It said that, besides
another 400 Soviet advisers, 50 East Germans are also ad
vising Sudan's Interior Ministry in Khartoum The magazine
claimed Russians have "almost certainly" flown helicopters
into combat against the blacks, and may have joined
Egyptian pilots on bombing missions The Russians are also
training pilots to fly Soviet MIG jets, Time said The six
million blacks in the south demand autonomy in a federation,
claiming they will never receive real authority from the
three million Arabs in the north, who seized 796 of the
available 800 government posts when the country gained
independence in 1956, the magazine said There are also
three million black Africans in the north The southern in
surgents are receiving arms and supplies from Israel and
sanctuary from Ethiopia. Time said
PHILADELPHIA Six policemen have died across the
country this weekend Two Philadelphia policemen were
killed in their patrol cars within several hours of each other
in separate incidents this weekend, while in Greenvile, S.C.,
an officer was shot dead in a gunfight Another policeman
died in Silver Springs. Md., when the service revolver of a
fellow officer discharged during a struggle with a kidnap
suspect In St John, lnd , the town marshal and a state
trooper were killed Saturday in a shootout with two men
found sleeping in a parked car behind a school building
LONDON AP Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson
claimed Sunday that Britain is heading toward a ^enous
economic recession "All the signs are that we are spiralling
into a serious recession and that unemployment will get a
giwd deai worse," Wilson said in a radio interview with the
British Broadcasting Corp
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