European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday september 30, 1977 Plo must give recognition Carter Renews Israel vow Washington up preside Tcarter said thursday Israel should not be forced to Deal with the Palestine libera Tion organization unless it recognizes is Rael s right to exist. Asked at his news conference about to Convene a Geneva conference on the Middle East Carter said if the Plo recognizes . Resolution 242, we would then begin to meet with an to work with the Bui he said we have pledged and i have renewed that pledge not to Deal with the Plo until they adopt . Resolution 242 and recognize the right of Israel to said negotiations Are still in Prog Ress to find a Means for palestinians to be represented at the proposed Geneva con Ference. We have no National position As to who represents the he said the arabs and the israelis were to be congratulated already for their Prog Ress saying they had come a Long Carter said he has received More help from republicans than democrats in con Gress in several areas. That statement came in response to a question on whether following a meeting with Republican con Gressman Early thursday he Felt More comfortable with them. He cited the sales of the sophisticated away airborne radar system to Iran his government reorganization and particularly what he called the extreme in advise vilify of Congress in putting controls on the government s International financial activity. Carter said congressional restrictions on . Support of the world Bank were an unprecedented the republicans see the matter More clearly than the democrats Carter said but added that his party loyalty had not been diminished by his occasional conflicts with congressional democrats. Most of the news conference was taken up by his Energy program which has not been doing Well in Congress. He said that although America does not have an Energy crisis yet one is Immi nent and he urged the Senate to pass his program. Carter said that with every passing Day . Energy problems Worsen. He said. We have almost unbelievably spent $23 billion this year so far on imported Oil and that $45 billion will be spent before the year is Carter said the . Has been fairly encouraged recently in strategic arms Limi tation talks with the soviet Union but there is no indication of any Early Salt agreement. They have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match that cooperative stance Carter said. He said we Are making some Progress but an immediate agreement is not introspect and he is not optimistic about an Early settlement. He also said a Summit with soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev is not a sure thing at he noted it is Brezhnev s turn to come to the . And he has a standing invitation Carter thanks gop for Aid on some issues Washington a president Carter whose relations with congressional democrats have been less than Ideal told a Republican congressional group thurs Day that they work More closely with him on defense and International matters than do the members of his own party. Carter s most recent setback came wednesday when the House appropriations committee refused to change the Pentagon budget to comply with the presi Dent s proposal that construction of the break in Gas filibuster lets tired senators rest continued from Page i were not party to the agreement worked out primarily by sen. Henry Jackson. D wash., during a Long Day of haggling with colleagues from Gas producing states but said we would t necessarily stand units sen. James Pearson a Kan. A sponsor of measures to deregulate new Gas prices immediately or at least keep them regu set continued rom Page 1 we be been waiting the appeals court in an earlier Deci Sion had urged the port authority to hasten its decision on whether the concorde would meet its noise standards. Thursday the court again told the authority to meet its admittedly heavy responsibility by adopting a fair noise Rule within a reasonable period of in the unanimous ruling by the three judge panel chief judge Irving r. Kauf Man emphasized that the court was Dis solving the port authority s ban and that the concorde could serve new York under conditions detailed in Federal operations those Are the guide lines under which the concorde has operated at Dulles Airport outside Washington. Kaufman added that the decision do snot deny the port authority the Power to adopt a new. Uniform and reasonable Nois Standard in the he said the setting of any new noise standards however As lated at a higher Price than the Carter administration wants urged colleagues to defeat the Compromise. In a test of sentiment last week the Senate voted 52-46, against killing a move for immediate deregulation of newly Dis covered onshore Gas. Backers of the agreement apparently Felt the necessary four votes would switch from the deregulation Side faced with a threatened presidential veto of the Bill to the Jackson Compromise which keeps fed eral controls on new Gas prices but at a higher level than the filibustered want. The administration proposal called for extending controls to currently unregulated intrastate Gas but raising the Price ceiling from the current $1.46 per thousand cubic feet to $1.75. Metzenbaum and Abourezk want prices kept under Federal control and at current Levels. The Jackson Compromise would extend controls to intrastate Gas but set the Ceil ing on new Gas at $2.03, letting it Rise gradually with inflation. Byrd s proposal is essentially the Jackson plan plus a Pear son proposal redefining new Gas to make More of it available at the $2.03level. Between the time the Bill came to the floor sept. 19 and Byrd s plea for the com Promise there had been 100 Roll Call votes a record 38 of them in the session begin Ning tuesday morning and another 25since breakfast wednesday. Except for a 2-hour, 15-minute break after Dawn wednesday and a 1-hour dinner recess the Senate had been in continuous session for 37 hours and 17 minutes. It was controversial by bomber be halted. See Story Page 2. Rep. Jack Edwards of Alabama the committee s ranking Republican said the committee procedure was the president told Republican members of the House at a Coffee and Sweet Rolls breakfast that while some elements of partisanship remain in the government you be been helpful to me on crucial one of Carter s chief critics House re publican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona was sitting in the first Row of the White House state dining room where Carter spoke. While the democratic controlled House and Senate have walked at going along with some of Carter s major programs and his Energy program is being nearly Dis mantled by the Senate the republicans have not been Overly Friendly either. But said Carter on International and defense affairs i think you work with me More closely than perhaps the democratic i am genuine in my thanks to you he said. It s obvious your constituents Are also Carter urged the republicans to feel free to approach him with any problems telling them not to be reticent about talk ing to him about personal problems or those affecting a single constituent. Most of the issues that come before me and you Are Best addressed in a nonpartisan Way Carter said. High ranking British prelate first to take balloon ride York England a archbishop of York Stuart Blanch second ranking prel ate of the Church of England has entered the record books As the first known Arch Bishop to Fly by hot air balloon. Blanch 59, a world War ii Raf navigator Rose from the grounds of his Palace at Bishopthorpe on a 35-minute flight an came Down 10 Miles away. Blanch and balloon Pilot Geoffrey Beck with 29, were greeted with Champagne by of the York hot air balloon club. Europe turned that a Long standing port authority the longest filibuster since the civil rights noise Standard which the concorde con debate in 1964, and More grueling because ced edly can meet is deemed to be invade of the need by All senators to answer the quate. Loud Roll Call Bells every 20 or 30 minutes. Mostly Cloudy Friday and saturday with occasional very Light rain. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 65, Low x. Sunset thursday 6 08 . Sunrise Friday 6 26 . Temperatures recorded thursday get 4am 4pm 4am 4pm 64 82 57 61 Frankfurt p 61 57 Athens it 52 65 London p 48 61 Aviano p 6t 77 Madrid p 52 61 Berlin Al 54 57 Munich cd 54 63 Brussels p 52 65 Paris p 50 57 Copenhagen p 46 68 Rome p cd Cloudy p partly Cloudy. Del 25,3ist weather so hijackers to get their demands continued from Page 1 army guerrillas. There was no word on the condition of the hostages still aboard the dc8 Jet which sat on a floodlit runway surrounded by troops armed with automatic rifles. Both Japan and Bangladesh held Emer gency Cabinet meetings to plan their response to the Hijack situation. In Tokyo one of the nine radicals whose release the hijackers demanded said he would not take up the offer of Freedom. Toshio Omura was quoted by his lawyer As saying i have a different ideology from them the hijackers. I am not suited to militaristic institutions like theirs i have no intention of going to Omura is a former student activist who was deported to Japan from Canada last year. Air vice marshal Abdul Gafur Man mood a Deputy chief martial Law adminis Trator with no. 2 ranking in Bangladesh s Hierarchy kept in Contact with the Hijack ers by radio but he would not say whether they were willing to extend their deadline. The plane was refuelled at the hijackers insistence but authorities said they had no idea if the hijackers were planning to move to any other location. Officials at the Airport said the hijackers had five pistols and four hand grenades aboard the plane and warned they had rigged the Craft with plastic explosives to blow it up if their demands were not met. Kurt Krueger 31, of los Angeles was led out of the hijacked plane with his hands bandaged. Officials said he was distraught and refused to allow reporters to speak to him. The nature of his injuries was not known but authorities at the Airport said they believed they had occurred before the Hijack ing. Krueger was identified in California As a former Junior High school teacher who was flying Home after a visit to India. The freed actress was Carole Wells 28, wife of Walter Karabian a lawyer and former assemblyman in California. She told reporters the ordeal aboard the Jet was a terrible Sadat asks russians for debt Grace period Cairo a president Anwar Sadat has publicly asked the soviet Union for a 10-year Grace period on Egypt s military debt estimated at $4 billion. And he indicated that if Moscow refused Egypt would unilaterally halt payments for 10 years. The request came in a speech in which Sadat castigated Moscow for allegedly fomenting unrest in Egypt and for refusing thus far to reschedule Egypt s nonmilitary debt estimated at $500 million. Egypt s monumental debts Stem from purchases of soviet arms in the 1950s and 1960s and soviet Aid for industrialization including construction of the Aswan dam mystery plane is famous Workhorse Rhein main Germany is Amateur plane spotters got a treat and a Puzzle thursday evening when a Gray c47 with no identifying markings visible flew Over Darmstadt on a northward course apparently headed toward Rhein main air base. It took a couple of phone Calls to the air port and finally a Quick trip to Rhein main by a stars and stripes staffer before the plane s identity was pinned Down Accord ing to air base personnel it belonged to the Argentine air Force. During world War ii the plane was nicknamed the Workhorse of the air corps and the name continue today
