European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 26, 1978 Carter to insist on planes for Sam i continued from Page it allies. The soviets have no use for a Neutron weapon so the offer by president Brezhnev has no significance in the european theater. He knows  Carter s remarks about the Middle East Jet sales came As House speaker Thomas p. O Neill warned it would be Foolhardy to submit the $4.9 billion proposal to sell 200 jets to Israel saudi Arabia and  at this time. The president does t have the votes to pass  o Neill said. And Carter spoke As israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan flew to Washington with the message that Israel is dead set against the i a. Sale of 60 sophisticated f 15 jets to saudi Arabia and 50 f-5s to Dayan said earlier in the Day Israel would even be willing to give up its pack age of fighters to scotch the Deal with the arabs. The i a. Has offered 15 f-15s and 75 f-16s to  House press Secretary Jody Powell said monday Carter plans to Send the package to Congress this week despite Calls for a delay and the president would cancel the whole Deal if it is tampered with , 1 would not Carter said when asked if he would withdraw the package in the Wake of Dayan s  an opening statement Carter said that dealing with the Federal bureaucracy is even worse than i had anticipated. Of All the Steps we can take to make govern ment More efficient and effective Reform ing the civil service system is the most important return civil service to some system of Reward and incentive. Carter said there is a need to Reward excellence Good service dedication and said his proposals to Reform civil service will protect employees vital and legitimate  he Saidi object very strenuously to weakening our proposals and to false accusations that this will intrude into the privacy of Public service. And damage those who serve the  expressing Hope Congress soon will pass his full Energy plan Carter said it is too Early to consider imposing an Oil import tax in the absence of the Domestic Van Gogh self portrait is sloshed Amsterdam. Netherlands a a self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh valued at More than $1.5 million was slashed with a knife in an Amsterdam museum tuesday in the second attack on one of the dutch master s works within three weeks. The assailant was identified by police As a 32-year-old dutch artist with a history of mental illness. He seriously damaged the painting called self portrait with a Grey hat by cutting through the Canvas with a pocket  spokesman for the Van Gogh museum said two knife Marks ran diagonally across the whole surface of the Canvas. Van Gogh completed it in 1887 during his parisian s period. Museum officials said it was one of at Reast 40 self portraits painted or drawn by i Van Gogh. The defaced work was taken to the museum s restoration department where experts will View the damage. A spokesman said the restoration would be a lengthy and costly process. Hoax Calls claim Kaoro executed Rome a a flurry of Anonymous Telephone Calls announcing that former Premier Aldo Moro had been executed by his red brigades kidnappers was received tuesday by the italian news Agency Ansa. The Agency said All had been proven hoaxes. The Calls were received by Ansa offices in Rome Turin and Milan. One caller said a communique was left in a trash Basket and a Surprise in the trunk of a car parked near the italian television production Center near the Vatican. But an Ansa reporter and police officers searched trash receptacles and cars on the Street and found nothing unusual. Young leftists chanting this is Only the beginning Aldo Moro is no More marched through Rome tuesday As Italy waited for news on the Fate of the sex pre Mier kidnapped and sentenced to death by the red brigades. Opponents scuffle other youths shouted Down and scuffled with the anti Moro demonstrators and president Giovanni Leone asked italians to stand firm against the red brigades perfidious and bloody  the government of Premier Giulio Andreotti rejected monday a demand that it free 13 imprisoned top terrorists in return for Moro s life. It ignored a letter inc 61-year-old states Man wrote from Captivity accusing his Christian democratic party colleagues of causing his death and saying he wanted none of them at his funeral. The assailant who was not identified in accordance with dutch policy slashed the painting just before the museum was due to close in the late afternoon. He was asked to leave the building with other remaining visitors but walked to the painting pulled out his knife and managed to deface the Canvas before being dragged away by guards and bystanders police officials said. He offered no further resistance and was taken away by police for questioning. Police said that the assailant had Only recently been discharged from a mental hos Pital and had subsequently been evicted from his studio apartment. The Man had asked to be re admitted to the mental Hospital but was refused. Apparently angered by the rejection and with no place to continue his painting he decided to attack the Van Gogh police said. He was held in custody pending appear Ance before a magistrate for a decision on his possible further detention. Vincent Van Gogh Brezhnev believes pact can be reached on Salt Moscow up soviet president Leonid Brezhnev said tuesday he believed that the soviet Union and the United states can reach agreement on a new strategic arms limitation treaty by sensible and realistic  the soviet president said that during negotiations with Secretary of state Cyrus Vance in Moscow last week some Prog Ress was made in working out an agree ment on strategic arms  Brezhnev added not All the problems by far have yet been resolved we can by no Means accept certain positions of the american Side. I believe however that by reciprocal efforts based on sensible and realistic Compromise we can Complete the drafting of an agreement that will justly take into account the Security interests of both Powers. This will enable us to substantially bridle the arms race and therefore also help to strengthen peace Brezhnev said. The 71-year-old soviet president made the remarks in a lengthy address opening a Congress of the Young communist league Komsomol in Moscow. Brezhnev s address was televised nationally. Brezhnev said the soviet i Nion radically opposed development of the Neutron weapon but has taken president Carter s postponement of production of the weapon into account. I can inform you that we have taken the president s statement into account and that we. Loo. Will not begin production of Neutron arms so Long As the United states does not do so. Further development will depend on  Brezhnev said. Brezhnev denounced the enhanced radiation weapon As a new and especially inhuman weapon of mass  our stand on this Issue is absolutely Clear and Radical before it is too late to conclude an agreement Between the coun tries concerned reciprocally renouncing manufacture of this weapon. May Mankind be delivered from it once and for All Brezhnev said. Brezhnev added unfortunately the United states which is poised to develop the Neutron bomb has not yet agreed to our proposal. President Carter has recently declared however that he has put off a final decision on beginning the manufacture of Neutron bombs. This of course does not Settle the matter and is at Best a half Mea sure the soviet Leader said. Brezhnev charged that some circles in nato have been raising a propaganda bowl and spreading fabrications about an allegedly threatening military superiority of the Warsaw treaty states Over the nato bloc in Europe and about alleged soviet aggressive intentions in  needless to say All this is nonsense Brezhnev said. Europe partly Cloudy