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Source hints of jet sale compromise i * f a r>i ■ <> ^ _ wasminu i UN (AP) — Pres- Carter and his opponents in Congress may be ready to compromise this week on his proposal to sell jet fighters to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. An administration source, who asked not to be identified, said Carter is willing to compromise, and Sen. Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., says he thinks congressional op ponents are also. “My guess is that when the proposal comes from Carter there will be accep tance,” Javits said. The terms of a possible compromise are unclear. The administration source said Carter is willing only to add a commitment to give Israel more planes in the future. Javits said Carter’s aides have not made that or any other offer to him and did not say what he and other opponents would be wil ling to accept such a proposal. Most of the congressional opposition is to Carter’s plan to sell 60 sophisticated F-15 jets to Saudi Arabia that Israel fears may be used against it. Israel would get 90 jet fighters — 15 F-15s and 75 F-16s—and Egypt would get 50 less sophiticated F-5s. Congress has 30 days, until May 28, to veto all or part of the sale, and administra tion officials who presented their case for the planes in Senate testimony last week go before House members this week. Elsewhere in Congress, Senate-House conferees may try again this week to ap prove an energy bill compromise and the House is to act on a $3.7 billion foreign aid bill. Conference leaders have agreed to a compromise on natural gas pricing that they hope will help get Carter's energy package through Congress. But two other compromise attempts have fallen apart when put to the conferees, and the leaders want to be sure not to put this one to a vote until they know it will be ap proved. The $3.7 billion foreign aid bill is for U.S. economic development assistance. The House may act on a $2.9 billion military aid bill later in the month. The House also hopes to complete action Tuesday on a resolution that would set $500.5 billion as Congress' target for fed eral spending for the fiscal year starting Carter proposed $499.4 billion. Con gress’ federal spending budget last year was $458.3 billion. rworld at a glance Prom AaiacloXd Proas roports 3 alleged Moro plotters nabbed ROME — Aldo Moro bid his family farewell in a letter saying “soon they will kill me,” a Rome newspaper reported Sunday, while police arrested three more suspected supporters of the politician’s Red Brigades terrorist kidnappers. The newspaper II Tempo said the letter was sent by Moro to his family on Friday. That was the day a message purportedly from the Red Brigades said they were carrying out their “death sentence” on the president of Italy’s ruling Christian Democrat party. Hundreds of police searched the hills north of Rome on Sunday, continuing the hunt that has failed to find Moro or the persons who seized the former premier March 16 in a Rome street ambush. Court readies for guilty pleas NEW YORK — The city’s criminal court system plans to accept possible guilty pleas from David Berkowitz, accused of being the Son of Sam killer who terrorized the city for a year. The pudgy, 24-year-old ex-postal clerk has admitted all six murders. His lawyers want him to plead innocent to each by reason of insanity. ‘Openness’ hailed after summit HAMBURG, West Germany — Soviet Pres. Leonid Brezh nev wrapped up a four-day summit Sunday with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who said the talks broke new ground in East-West relations. “The new thing is the complete openness of the talks on almost everything in the world...That is the real political result of the talks," Schmidt said. Brezhnev and Schmidt held three days of talks in the West German capital of Bonn before flying to this northern port for a final round Sunday. They discussed a wide range of issues includ ing arms control, weapons development, the neutron bomb, di vided Berlin, the Mideast and Africa. V J Policies aid black women more often than black men LOS ANGELES (AP) — Affir mative action programs have helped to nearly equalize wages earned by black and white women, but there is little indication the programs have done much for black men in that respect, accord ing to studies released Sunday by two Rand Corp. economists. The studies show that black men now earn about three-fourths as much as white men while black women have just about achieved parity with white women. “Because hiring a black woman met both race and sex quotas for employers, the affirmative action thrust may have given black women the advantage in the job market,” the economists said. They noted that in 1947, wages for black men were about half those for white men and wages for black women were about one third as much as wages for white women. Most of the gains for blacks came during the 1960s, partly be cause of improved education among blacks, they said. Im proved education was responsi ble for 47 percent of the gains for black men and 33 percent of the gains for black women, the e conomists said. In 1930, the average black en tering the labor market had 3.7 PLO claims credit for attack JERUSALEM (AP) — Yasser Arafat’s Palesti nian guerrillas claimed responsibility Sunday for the first rocket attack in Jerusalem since 1976, and said it was timed to coincide with this week’s 30th anniver sary of Israeli independence. Authorities here said one woman was injured in the explosion of a single Soviet-made Katyusha roc ket. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Beirut, Lebanon, said several persons were killed or injured in a “heavy rocket attack” and Israeli gov ernment buildings were damaged. It was the first time in two years that Arab guerril las had fired a Katyusha rocket into the holy city. Independence day celebrations have been tradi tional targets for Arab terrorism, and Israeli police and civilians were on alert against possible attacks. Israeli authorities said the woman was cut by flying glass when the rocket exploded in the court yard of an apartment house Saturday night, smash ing windows and pocking the stone walls of the build ing. “We heard the whistle, then this tremendous crash in our courtyard,” said Yehudit Danilov, the injured woman. Fearing more rockets might be fired, Israeli sol diers combed hilts and villages around Jerusalem for the launcher of the rocket, one of the heaviest weapons in the Arab guerrilla arsenal. You get 15 scandalous words for $1 when your ad is placed before 1 p.m. TODAY Then do it with a Spring Fling Want to renew old acquaintances? Make new acquaintances? Or just show your appreciation for what you’ve got? fewer years of formal education than the average white. Eighty percent of the blacks entering the labor market at that time had a grade school diploma or less, and 3 percent had gone to college. By 1970, the economists found, blacks and whites entering the labor market were separated by just 1.2 years of education, with only 10 percent of the blacks hav ing less than nine years of formal education and 20 percent having gone to college. Vote Today in the elections for Bookstore Board of Directors Monday-Wednesday, May 8-10 in the EMU or the Bookstore. The Bookstore is your bookstore so get involved and help make it better. 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