Israel opens peace door;
Egypt asks for support
Israel opened the door Thurs
day for the resumption of Israeli
Egyptian military negotiations
next week and Egypt launched a
diplomatic offensive seeking
world support for its Mideast
stand.
Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat
told visiting officiate Israel s re
fusal to "recognize the Palesti
nians’ right to self-determination”
is the major road-block to peace.
Assistant Secretary of State
Alfred Atherton, acting as go
between, said in Israel he has
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From Associated Press reports
Soviet satellite emits radiation
EDMONTON, Alberta — Defense Minister Barney Danson
said Thursday debris from a Soviet satellite that fell from orbit
probably is on the ground in the Northwest Territories emitting
“extremely dangerous” levels of radiation.
Canadian and American nuclear emergency specialists
headed toward a remote trading post in Canada's far north where
airborne scanners found unusually high radioactivity.
Cambodians mount offensive
LAEM SING, Thailand — While Vietnam has made a big
push in its border war with Cambodia in the Parrot s Beak, west of
Saigon, refugees arriving here say the Cambodians have penet
rated into the southwestern corner of Vietnam, inflicting heavy
casualties and forcing evacuation of the coastal town of Ha Tien
Their accounts could not be independently confirmed, but
the radio Voice of Vietnam on Wednesday referred to a Cambo
dian attack an Ha Tien and a nearby village on Jan. 18. It gave no
details.
Severe blizzards kill 16
A deadly blizzard devastated much of the northern part of the
United States on Thursday, while hurricane-force winds swept
through the South. At least 16 persons were killed in the storms.
The northern blizzard was so severe — “one of the strongest
in many years,” according to the National Weather Service—that
saving lives was the top priority of thousands of rescue workers
activated across the North.
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made “good progress' with the Is
raelis on drawing up a draft decla
ration of principles and will fly to
Cairo next week.
The official Middle East news
agency quoted Sadat as saying
he is in “constant contact with
U.S. Pres. Carter who fully under
stands the dimensions of the situ
ation and the role the United
States should play in order to de
fine the next step in the peace
process.”
Foreign Minister Mohamed Is
mail Kamel told .eporters after
meeting in Cairo with representa
tives of the Palestine Liberation
Organization and 13 Arab states
that peace talks would resume if
Israel’s proposals, to be outlined
by Atherton, are acceptable to
Egypt
Kamel met with ambassadors
of Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan,
Qatar, Oman, the United Arab
Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Somalia, Lebanon, Bahrain,
Maritania and Sudan.
Transit plan
requested
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres.
Carter asked Congress on Thurs
day to authorize a five-year,
$50-billion program he said would
make federal aid to highways and
mass transit systems “simpler
and more manageable.”
In a special message, Carter
said he wants to consolidate more
than 30 federal programs and give
state and local governments more
flexibility in deciding how to spend
the money.
Low unemployment projected
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional
economists say the nation s persistent unemploy
ment problem is likely to be solved within the next
several years by sharply lower growth in the labor
force.
Such a radical development, they said in a re
port released Thursday, could result in startling so
cial changes: less migration from the cold North to
the Sun Belt; more-flexible working conditions; more
automation; greater opportunities for under-skilled or
older workers and perhaps, a moving away from the
“materialism" of the 1970s.
Because of a decline in birth rates since 1960,
the study said, annual growth in the number of
Americans working or looking for jobs will drop to less
than one percent by the 1980s. In fact, the report
said, labor-force growth peaked in 1977.
"Barring further major disruptions that prevent
normal economic growth, today’s labor surplus
gradually should give way to labor scarcity, except in
sectors and regions with heavy structural unem
ployment,'’ the staff of the Joint Economic Committee
said in a study based on hearings last November and
on 41 research papers.
The nation’s labor force has been growing at a
rate of 2.25 percent a year. That high growth, cou
pled with sluggish business investment and thus
fewer available jobs, resulted in unemployment of
more than seven percent of the labor force for sev
eral months during the last few years.
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