Fighting continues in Mozambique
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) —
Rhodesian forces struck deeper
into black-ruled Mozambique on
Monday in search of black
nationalist guerrilla bases.
Mozambique claimed the invad
ers were attacking its army bases
as well.
A Rhodesian government
communique made no mention of
attacks against Mozambican
army bases but said at least 28
black guerrillas had been killed in
raids on three guerrilla camps,
used for strikes into white-ruled
Rhodesia.
According to the communique,
one of the bases raided was the
guerrilla camp near Mapai, some
60 miles into Mozambique. The
communique described the camp
as “the controlling center for all
incursions into the southeast of
Rhodesia.”
—World at a glance-v
From Associated Press reports
Libya denies paratroop landing
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya today denied news reports from
Tunisia that Libyan paratroopers have landed on an American oil
exploration rig in Mediterranean waters disputed by the two coun
tries.
Libya’s official Arab Revolution News Agency (ARNA) said a
military spokesman told it: “There is no Libyan soldier aboard the
ng”
Libya rejects Tunisia’s claims that the drilling rig is in
Tunisian waters. It said an offshore boundary now claimed by
Tunisia "could not be accepted by any law.”
Fire chief says all bodies found
SOUTHGATE, Ky —Fire Chief Dick Riesenberg said Mon
day he was "absolutely certain" no more bodies will be found in
the charred ruins of the Beverly Hills Supper Club, where 160
persons are known to have died in a raging fire.
Riesenberg said searchers have combed all but one of the
rooms of the massive complex. But owners of the night club said
that room was not in use Saturday night when the fire broke out.
First lady cheered in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Mobbed by a cheering, boisterous
crowd of school children. First Lady Rosalynn Carter launched
her first solo diplomatic mission Monday by endorsing what she
called Jamaica's democratic achievements.
During a 20-minute ride from the airport to Prime Minister
Michael Manley s official residence, a smiling Rosalynn Carter
got out of her car to greet hundreds of youngsters.
U.S. to help narrow rich-poor gap
PARIS — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said Monday the
United States will play an active role in narrowing the gap bet
ween rich and poor nations, but warned that changes will take
time and can t be brought about by industrial nations alone.
The speech, made at the 17-nation Conference on Interna
tional Economic Cooperation, disappointed delegates from 19
underdeveloped countries who are seeking immediate changes
m tl'r> international economic order.
V.
Energy dept. OK expected
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barring
a last minute change in the mood
of Congress, a new Department of
Energy soon will be at work carry
ing out a national energy policy
with James Schlesinger at its
helm.
The House this week is ex
pected to approve Pres. Carter's
proposal for the new Cabinet de
partment, which would take over
the work now performed by
energy programs scattered
throughout the government.
The House returns from its six
day Memorial Day recess on
Wednesday. It will be doing a solo
performance this week, with the
Senate not scheduled to come
back from its recess until Monday.
Carter has said he will nominate
Schlesinger, the White House
energy adviser, to head the huge
energy agency once Congress
creates it.
The Senate has already passed
the legislation. And although dif
ferences between that bill and the
one that emerges late this week
from the House will have to recon
ciled, all signs point to congres
sional enactment.
Several fights over the bill are
expected in the House, however.
One will center around an at
tempt by Rep. John Conyers Jr.,
D-Mich., to amend the bill to give
the government the authority to
kick the oil industry out of the bus
iness of negotiating the price of
foreign oil imports.
Aerosol spray extension approveo
SALEM (AP) — A Senate-House conference committee, after
often heated exchanges, decided Monday that retailers couid sell exist
ing stocks of aerosol sprays until Sept. 1.
The 1975 Legislature ordered a ban on aerosols containing
fluorocarbon propellants as of March 1, 1977.
SB 500, which has passed both houses this session in different
forms, would allow the Department of Commerce, after hearings, to
exempt certain industrial products for which no substitute exists.
The Senate-passed version would have postponed the ban until
July 1. The House Environment and Energy Committee removed that
provision, leaving the March 1 ban in effect, and the bill passed the
House 58-1.
The first conference committee meeting ended in a standoff after
an angry Rep. Nancie Fadeley, D-Eugene, objected to a proposal
advocated by Sen. Dick Groener, D-Milwaukie, that the ban be post
poned until Dec. 1.
Rhodesian military spokesmen
said their forces had suffered no
casualties and were meeting little
resistance in their biggest strike
ever against guerrilla sanctuaries
across the Mozambican border.
In Moscow, the Soviet news
agency Tass said the Mozambi
cans had launched “a wide coun
teroffensive” against “big con
tingents of racist troops.”
“Mozambique army units gave
a fitting rebuff to the racists and
inflicted telling losses on them,”
Tass said.
The Marxist government in
Maputo, capital of Mozambique,
said it had shot down three
Rhodesian planes and was rush
ing reinforcements to the southern
border area, where the
Rhodesians attacked Sunday.
Defense Minister Joaquim
Chipande claimed Rhodesian air
and ground troops had attacked
Mozambican bases at Chic
ualacuala, Chitanga and the
Nuanetsi River, but he reported no
casualty figures.
The Rhodesian communique
said: “In continuing follow-up op
erations, security forces overran
and destroyed two more terrorist
bases. A quantity of war material
was destroyed in both cases.”
Sources in Salisbury said the
strike force was being supported
by helicopters and Korean War
vintage jets from the Rhodesian
air force.
The attack is the third acknow
ledged penetration by Rhodesian
forces into Mozambique in the
past year and the first since last
fall.
Guerrillas of Robert Mugabe’s
Zimbabwe African National Union
(ZANU) use Mozambique as a
staging area. The other main
guerrilla army — Joshua Nkomo’s
Zimbabwe African Peoples Union
(ZAPU) — operates from Zambia
and Botswana. The two forces are
joined in a “Patriotic Front”
against Rhodesia's white minority
government.
T errorists
want to swap
60 hostages
ASSEN, The Netherlands (AP)
— Asian terrorists agreed Monday
to release about 60 hostages held
for eight days in a train and school
in exchange for a flight to an un
disclosed country, officials said,
but the government also wants
them to give up their weapons.
A spokesman at the Justice
Ministry in The Hague said there
has been no mention in the past
few days of the terrorists' demand
that Moluccans convicted of ter
rorist acts be freed and permitted
to leave the country, “but as far as
we know they still want the release
of their 21 comrades."
The surprise offer from the ter
rorists came after week-long
negotiations between Dutch offi
cials and the South Moluccan
gunmen, who at one time held
some 165 men, women and chil
dren captive in northeastern Hol
land.
The spokesman at the Justice
Ministry said the government in
sists the terrorists turn over their
weapons, adding that “the real
negotiations” are yet to come.
“We told them that if they give
up their weapons and if they re
lease all the hostages, then we ll
have a better chance to find an
aircraft crew,” he said. Asked
what might make the gunmen
do this, he replied, “That’s what
we re talking about now, but
there’s been no answer so far.”
Revealing
a quick course
in travel
economics.
I
SSffca simple tact. No matter where y< M
Sliver Spring Break, nobody can get \M '
i back for less than Trailways. As a mM
K right now, we'll take you anywhere S
;,KA for only $75.00 That's less than tHJprio
■good term p^pgr W
Snd talk about comfort Every Trailways fc
dHbte controfled and equipped with reclining
fofEseats. And unlike Gre}AK>und, we haw
adjustable headrests and footrests Vou 1 fal
asleep so fastyou’i think you’re stffl in class,
don’t bdeve us. Ask anybody who s
«|^ both a and a Greylwund
The^^wuthatttda^’ttakeaPh.Dto i
&gm outTraSwa^ gves you more.
aayourkx^MwwsTent^
complete schedules and information on al our
baigean fares. Because when it comes to sawing
Wsitwsys
Go anywhere we go for $75 or less.
FARE EFFECTIVE JUNE 1,1977