NATIONAL BRIEFS
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Baker working to resume talks
W ASH INGTON (AI’) Secretary of State
(antes A Baker HI. Irving lo rekindle Slide.is!
pent e talks. has prnpoM'd Arab and Israeli delega
lions resume negotiations April .!'* in Washing
ton, I S and diplomatic Miurt its said Sunday
The satin es said letters of suggestion' front
[taker proposing a resumption of negotiations
were sent to Israel. Ionian. Syria. Lebanon ami
Palestinian Arabs l.ile Iasi week
Details were ex peeled to be announi ed at the
Stale Department on Monday
The diplomatic sources, who spoke only on
condition they not he identified bv name, said
Ibiker urged the Arabs to send him .1 11st of possi
b.le sites outside Washington for the round of
talks that would follow the Washington mix-ting
Baker first made the request a month ago, but
only Israel has responded, the sourc es said
Jordan's foreign Minister Kamel Abu jaber said
he had received a letter Hannn Ashruwi. spokes
woman for the Palestinian delegation, also said
her group had received an invitation Roth said
no decision on participating would tie made until
after an Arab foreign ministers meeting, tentative
ly set for Wednesday.
Lebanon has invited the foreign ministers of
Syria, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organ!
zation tn moot in Beirut to discuss the usefulness
of holding another round of peace talks before Is
raid's June 2:i national elections All promised to
attend.
Throe provions roun(is of pom e talks hove
fuiled to produce progress on the three mam
goals limited self-rule for I’alestlnlan Arabs, reso
In lion of Israel's territorial dispute with the Arab
nations and Arab ret ognltlon of Israel
In Israel, foreign Minister David Levy, the cabi
net's strongest champion of the U.S brokered
peace talks, announced his resignation Sunday
Levy has frequently been at odds with Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir for his efforts to push
aside procedural roadblocks and get the peat e
talks going
Shakespeare portrait questioned
NLVVAKK, N.J (AP) A famous image of Wil
liam Shakespeare the engraving on the first
edition of his collected works w as based on a
portrait of Queen Llizabeth 1, a computer expert
has concluded
The engraver. Martin Droeshout, may have
used the queen as a model to at knowledge her
patronage of the theatre and perhaps her inspirit
tion to Shakespeare, says i ompuler artist Lillian
Si hwartz
Si hwartz. who suggested in ptMt> that Leonardo
(i.i Vint ■ vt is his i'M n Hindi-1 for tin- Mona I.isa.
used computers to. compare the portrait on the
!(-.M I irst Kollo edition of Shakespeare s Colin I
etl works with other images of Shakespeare mid
other ! Jl/abethan notables
The photo m.lit fled tfir ISftf' portrait of Klt/a
both by her si.if! artist. (leurge (lower, she s.iiii
She s.iiif the eyes, cheeks ,md nose in.itch .mil
the distance between Ihe eyes is the same
With I h i s its so perfi’i I th.it there's no
doll fit. s.i id Schwartz Voti could lake the two
porlralts. si ale them to the same st/e on a Xerox
iiiai lime and i.i\ them on lop of eat li other and
sis- for yourself "
s< hvx art/ attributed the different es heard,
mustache, javx lines and forehead to an attempt
by Droeshnul to add mast u I me features for
Shakespeare, like a child painting on a mils
tat he ", ,
Si h wart/, a i orisuitant to A 1 A 1 hell Labs is ho
has won an (kt ar and an Kmmv for her computer
art work, published tier findings in the Mari h
April edition of/’/A/-./, maga/ine
Shakespearean scholars disparaged the find
ings
"Absolute garbage." scoffed haul Hertnim of
Rutgers University, wilt) has written studies of
Shakespeare's portraits "It s astounding what
is invisible to the naked eye is only visible to the
i omputor
Shuttle mission extended
CAI’KCANAVKKAI., i hi (AIM AthmtU' «*n
vironmontul mission whs extended Sunday from
oight lo nlnn days so its i rew can maki* extra
measurements of Karth's endangered o/one layer
and other parts of the atmosphere
The shuttle's ( revv of six men and one woman
had done everything possible to save enough
power for an additional day in spa< e, including
turning off the cabin lights and galley equipment
when not In use
Atlantis was supposed to return Wednesday al
ter eight days in orbit, hut scientists involved in
the mission asked for a ninth day Landing is now
scheduled for just after sunrise Thursday at Ken
nedv Space ( enter
As Atlantis whi/zed around the world lor the
sixth day, the astronauts trust again to (omnium
cate by radio with the two cosmonauts aboard the
Russian spar e station Mir
Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, who speaks a little
Russian, said she thought she heard a return \lg
mil as the spar et rail passed within l>.t miles id
one another just south of New Zealand Hut she
said the signal Was "very weak anil garbled
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