Israelis suspend peace negotiations
JERUSALEM (AP) — The two and a
half-month-old Egyptian-lsraeli peace
drive, caught in a cross-current of distrust
and bitterness, came to a virtual stand-still
Sunday as Israel decided to suspend the
talks on a troop pullback in the Sinai Penin
sula.
The Israeli Cabinet met for three and a
half hours and voted not to rejoin the Cairo
talks, which had begun earlier this month
after the Christmas day summit meeting of
Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat and Israeli
Prime Minister Menehem Begin in Ismailia,
Egypt.
The Israeli action, coupled with Egypt’s
Mideast talks reach low point
withdrawal last Wednesday from parallel
political talks in Jerusalem, brought the
peace campaign started by Sadat last
November to its lowest ebb, and it seemed
to leave the United States with the task of
trying to resuscitate the talks.
That job appeared to fall to U S. Assistant
Secretary of State Alfred Atherton, who ar
rived here Saturday for talks aimed at per
suading both sides to rein in their rhetoric
and resume serious negotiations.
Begin, reading a statement to reporters,
left room for later resumption of the Cairo
talks, and the Defense Ministry said there
were no plans to recall lower-level Israeli
military officials already in the Egyptian cap
ital for the negotiations.
Begin indicated Egypt would first have to
soften the tone of its public statements.
He said Sadat made "ultimatums that are
totally unacceptable" to Israel in his speech
Saturday to the Egyptian Peoples' Assem
bly.
In that speech, Sadat accused Israel of
sabotaging the Jerusalem talks and said he
would not back down from demands for
total Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab
lands and for establishment of a Palestinian
state.
Begin accused Egypt of waging a “cam
paign of vilification” against Israel, and said
he hoped the Cairo government would “act
to prevent repetition of statements injurious
to the dignity of the Jewish people and the
Jewish state."
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From Associated Prssa rsports
Fewer deductions proposed
WASHINGTON — Pres. Carter, while calling for income tax
reductions, is asking Congress to take away deductions for state
and local gasoline, sales and personal-property taxes and to
reduce the allowance for medical expenses.
But even with those changes, the Carter administration says,
the president’s total program proposals would mean lower taxes
tor virtually all taxpayers earning less than $100,000 a year.
Wilmington 10 topic televised
RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. James Hunt will go on statewide
television Monday to announce a decision on pardoning or reduc
ing the sentences of the Wilmington 10, whose case has drawn
attention internationally and become politically volatile at home.
The case of those charged in a firebombing during a 1971
racial disturbance puts the first-term Democratic governor be
tween international opinion and his constituency at home.
Big Bird goes to Rome
ROME — “Sesame Street,” the world's most popular
children’s program, makes its debut on Italian television Monday
— and program directors are braced for criticism.
In a country where one in every three persons voted Com
munist in the last national election, the commercialism associated
with the program here and its Madison Avenue-style teaching
techniques are expected to anger leftists.
Anita begins purge
of TV homosexuals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anita
Bryant brought her campaign
against homosexuals to the
nation's capital Sunday, saying
she wanted to purge commercial
televising of shows that portray
homosexuality as an alternative
lifestyle.
Bryant told a news conference
that television should have more
wholesome family entertainment
“to replace the gross perverted
sex and violence which is subtley
undermining the family unit in its
presentation of alternative life
styles as natural and normal."
The news conference was in
conjunction with the National Re
ligious Broadcasters Association
convention.
While Bryant spoke, gay protes
ters massed nearby. A spokes
man for the religious broadcas
ters, Carl Richardson, said con
ventioneers had no plans to con
front the protesters, who were is
sued a parade permit to conduct a
candle-light vigil near the hotel.
Security for the convention and
for Bryant’s news conference was'
tight, however.
Bryant, who last year won the
repeal of a gay rights ordinance in
Dade County, Fla., said her or
ganization, Protect Our Children,
planned to form a legal task force
with a watchdog committee to
monitor the media.
She said the committee would
seek, ' especially to insure that our
Judeo-Christian heritage and its
leaders are portrayed in a positive
way.”
Arab hard-liners rap U.S.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Arab
hard-liners and moderates alike
shaiply criticized the United States
Sunday following the break-off in
Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, and
some looked toward Washington
for the next move in the Mideast
deadlock.
"It is up to the Americans now to
speak to the world," said the
ACLU backs away
from high court
NEW YORK (AP) — Six months after he snared an angry young
attorney s dream job — legal director of the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) — Bruce Ennis has sounded an echoing retreat —
keeping ACLU cases out of the U S. Supreme Court.
“It was a very conscious decision,” said Ennis. “We are doing
everything we can to keep away from the Supreme Court. What I want to
do is cut our losses.”
Last year the ACLU was involved in 95 cases before the Supreme
Court. If Ennis has anything to say about it, that number will dwindle this
year.
He urges attorneys to argue ACLU cases on the basis of state law
because, "If you win on state grounds, it insulates the case from
Supreme Court review.
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Saudi Arabian daily newspaper
Al-Riyadh, echoing Egyptian
Pres. Anwar Sadat’s appeal in a
speech Saturday for a massing of
public opinion against Israel.
A Kuwaiti newspaper called for
reactivation of the Arab oil
weapon.
The conservative Arab monar
chies of the Persian Gulf refrained
from open attacks on Sadat’s solo
peace initiative, saving their
editorial censure for the United
States, which was accused of fail
ing to extract sufficient conces
sions from Israel.
“If it (the United States) wants to
be a friend of the countries in the
area that are not influenced by
Russia, then it must break the
hand that insists on aggression
and usurpation, using American
supplied rifles,’’ Al-Riyadh said,
referring to Israel.
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