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making the news
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has
repeated the United States' support of the Shah of Iran while
warning other countries to refrain from military intervention in that
country.
Vance issued the statement Sunday in response to com
ments from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev.
Vance said that while the United States maintained a
hands-off policy militarily in Iran, it expected “other countries to
conduct themselves in similar fashion. ” He noted that Russia had
made that pledge.
The secretary of state also said U.S. support for the shah’s
regime does not amount to an attempt to intervene militarily in
Iranian politics.
"As President Carter has indicated, the United States does
not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of any other country,"
Vance said. “Reports to the contrary are totally without founda
tion."
WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Diggs was ordered
Monday to serve three years in prison for mail fraud and making
false statements after a judge brushed aside arguments that his
re-election this month meant he should be in Congress, not jail.
Diggs, D-Mich., was found guilty Oct. 7 of inflating the
salaries of staff members and then accepting kickbacks from
them to pay business, personal and congressional expenses.
Diggs was re-elected Nov. 7 to a 13th term in the House of
Representatives with an 80 percent vote margin in his Detroit
district, despite his conviction.
TOKYO — With the appearance in Peking of a wall poster
directly attacking the late MaoTse-tung, Chinese leaders seem to
have taken a crucial step in a campaign to debunk the myth of
infallibility wrapped around the venerated leader. But the move
could bode ill for Mao’s successor, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.
The poster, spotted by Japanese correspondents in Peking
on Sunday, accused the father of China's communist revolution
of backing the purged Gang of Four rebels during a 1976 power
struggle within the Communist Party.
Posters are often used within Chinese society to presage
official changes in party policy.
The poster was believed to be the first to directly name Mao,
who died in September 1976 at the age of 82.
Zealots dead in mass poisoning
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Troops
swept through a steaming jungle Monday in search
of American religious zealots who fled their remote
compound and left behind a scene of horror and
death — the bodies of at least 383 fellow cultists,
some shot, most apparently poisoned by their own
hands in a mass suicide.
Among the bodies found at the camp were those
of the sect's fanatical founder, the Rev. Jim Jones,
Ns wife and one of their children, said Police Chief C.
Augustus.
Soldiers counted 163 women, 138 men and 82
children among the dead. They all were believed to
be Americans. Many reportedly had lined up to take
doses of poison from a tub.
The mass deaths apparently occurred about an
hour or more after members of the California sect,
People's Temple, ambushed a visiting investigative
group led by Congressman Leo J. Ryan, killing Ryan
and four others.
Still unaccounted for were between 500 and 900
of Jones' followers, who fled into the jungle around
the agricultural commune, 150 miles northwest of
this South American capital.
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Israel wants rejected treaty
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
wants to turn back the dock in
negotiations with Egypt and is
ready to accept a U S.-sponsored
draft of the peace treaty that his
government rejected four weeks
ago, sources familiar with the talks
said Monday.
Begin is prepared to accept a
vaguely-worded clause linking the
treaty to the development of
Palestinian self-rule on the
Israeli-occupied West Bank of the
Jordan River and the Gaza Strip,
the sources said.
The point of linkage in the treaty
has been the obstacle that has
threatened the progress of the
talks in recent weeks.
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat said in a television interview
aired on French television Mon
day night that he was willing to
meet again in a summit with Begin
' anywhere but” Jerusalem to try
to resolve the remaining “10 per
cent” of problems over a peace
treaty.
In the interview, filmed Satur
day at Sadat’s residence outside
Cairo, Sadat said he would “in
sist" that the final treaty be signed
with Begin “on the top of Mount
Sinai, on my land” and that he
would refuse to go to Jerusalem
again.
“I have already gone there once
and I’m not going to start again.
But I am ready to meet Mr. Begin
anywhere else,” the Egyptian
leader said.
Sadat also insisted that no
peace treaty would be signed that
failed to deal with the Palestinian
problem.
“If Gaza and the West Bank are
not treated in an overall settle
ment, no one should count on us
to conclude peace,” he said. “It is
serious, because it is a point of
fundamental principle.”
Sadat revealed that he received
a personal message from Presi
dent Carter dealing with the status
of Jerusalem, which he said was
"quite satisfactory.”
"Although the issue of
Jerusalem will be a point of con
troversy and difficulty, I believe we
Egyptians have demonstrated
good will and we declared that the
city will not be divided again and
that Jewish holy spots — the Wail
ing Wall — can be under their
control,’’ Sadat told Ns interview
ers.
Replying to Sadat's television
interview, Begin said in Jerusalem
that he was “happy" Sadat wants
r
to conclude the peace treaty soon.
But he appeared to ignore
Sadat's wish not to travel to
Jerusalem, by repeating his offer:
“Let us sign the peace treaty in
both Jerusalem and Cairo."
The prime minister was seeking
the help of U.S. negotiators in per
suading Egypt to reverse the
tougher posrtiong it adopted ear
lier this month, particularly the
demand for a timetable establish
ing Palestinian self-rule in the oc
cupied lands.
Begin is scheduled to con
venehis cabinet Tuesday to re
sume negotiations, the debate
was adjourned Sunday.
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