Source hints of jet sale compromise
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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