Begin attacks Egypt’s‘chutzpah’
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister
Menahem Begin lashed out at Egypt
Thursday for “chutzpah” — brazenness —
in its demands and unreasonableness in its
peace talks. But he said Israel stands ready
to resume the negotiations.
Speaking to a group of French Jews,
Begin also said it was “inconceivable” that
the United States would pressure him to
make concessions to Egypt.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, trying to
revive the negotiations, later conferred with
Begin and is to fly to Cairo on Friday to meet
with President Anwar Sadat.
Begin told a joint news conference after
their talks that Vance would “try to convince
President Sadat that the negotia
tions ... should be renewed. We wish him
Godspeed and good success. ’
Vance said he would report to Begin after
his meeting with Sadat “and then we shall
determine how to proceed from there.”
In Cairo, Sadat heard a report from
Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel, the
chief negotiator he summoned home ab
ruptly Wednesday from Jerusalem after
only two days of what were supposed to
have been comprehensive talks on political
aspects of a peace settlement.
Sadat, considering his next move in the
fast-developing situation, rescheduled an
emergency session of the Egyptian Parlia
ment from Saturday morning to Saturday
evening.
"If the Egyptian government should at
any day decide to renew or resume the
talks, the government of Israel will be pre
pared to do so as well,” Begin said in his
speech to the French audience in the Israeli
Parliament building. "We hope the talks will
be resumed. It is up to Egypt.”
Though Begin said the next step is
Egypt’s, the Egyptians have said Israel
must change its position if the Jerusalem
conference is to resume.
Begin gave no indication whether he
would accept Sadat’s proposal that the
separate military negotiations in Cairo be
reopened Saturday. Those talks focus on
an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Penin
sula.
The Egyptians have said Begin s tough
public pronouncements while the talks
were under way were one reason for
Sadat's abrupt suspension of the negotia
tions. The Israeli’s speech Thursday of
fered no hint of apology for his previous
remarks, however.
,-World at a glance
From Associated Prsss reports
Last Beetle rolls off line
EMDEN, West Germany — The last Volkswagen Beetle
sedan, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's legacy that helped West Ger
mans beef up their post-war economy, rolled off a German as
sembly line Thursday.
Since Daimler Benz made the first 30 prototype Beetles
designed by Ferdinand Porsche 40 years ago, Volkswagen built
19.2 million Beetles to surpass the previous production record of
15,007,034 set by Henry Ford’s Model T in the late 1920s.
The Beetle continues to be produced in Mexico, Brazil, South
Africa and Nigeria. Models sold in Germany from now on will bear
a “made in Mexico" tag.
Hijacked plane returned
QUITO, Ecuador — An Ecuadorian commercial aircraft hi
jacked to Cuba after leaving Quito returned here Thursday.
Aboard the Saeta Airlines were its pilot, Patricio Mosquerra,
five crew members and 21 passengers. All were reported in good
condition. The plane, with 60 passengers and six crew members,
was hijacked 20 minutes after leaving Quito Wednesday.
Squatters dismantle homes
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Black squatters racing to stay
ahead of government bulldozers hurriedly dismantled their flimsy
homes at the Unibell shantytown Thursday. The camp that
housed 20,000 blacks just a week ago was expected to be flat
tened by the weekend.
Before the demolition of the illegal camp began Monday,
defiant squatters had vowed to stay in their shacks even when the
bulldozers arrived. But on Thursday they were working with
makeshift crowbars to pry apart the corrugated iron, cardboard
and wooden structures.
Economy grows at slower rate
WASHINGTON — The nation’s economy grew at its slowest
rate of the year in the fourth quarter, the government reported
Thursday, but Commerce Department officials termed the full
year’s pace strong and likely to continue so.
Gross National Product expansion of 4.2 percent in the final
quarter brought the year’s average down to 4.9 percent, or only
slightly below the administration’s target of 5.1 percent.
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Oswald file dates to ’59
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
FBI file on Lee Oswald prior to the
assassination of Pres. John F.
Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, goes
back to 1959 and contains 69
items.
A list of the file’s contents fur
nished to the Warren Commission
on May 4, 1964, was among the
FBI documents made public
Wednesday. The list begins with a
newspaper clipping from the
“Corpus Christi Times” dated Oct.
23, 1959, about Oswald’s defec
tion to the Soviet Union.
Then in chronological order, the
inventory of the FBI’s file has
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another news account about Os
wald going to Moscow, a notation
that FBI files at the time had no
information on him but there was a
military service fingerprint card
apparently related to Oswald and
a State Department telegram say
ing Oswald had appeared at the
U.S. embassy in Moscow to re
nounce his American citizenship.
The file also refers to an inter
view with Marguerite Oswald, his
mother, regarding his plans to at
tend the Albert Schweitzer Col
lege in Switzerland. The FBI’s at
tache in Paris advised that Os
wald was not enrolled in the Swiss
college. Naval Intelligence ad
vised on Nov. 15, 1960, that Os
wald had been given an undesira
ble discharge from the Marine
Corps Reserve Aug. 17, 1960.
Then in 1961 there were checks
about Oswald s passport and in
quiries in Dallas about him, includ
ing an interview with his mother
regarding his plans to return to this
country.
It goes on: an FBI check of
Marine Corps files on Oswald,
background information sent to
the naval attache in Moscow on
Oswald and an FBI memorandum
of Nov. 4, 1959.
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