European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday september 16, 1978 vote set on Energy measure from press dispatches Washington Senate majority Leader Robert c. Byrd said Friday that the logjam on president Carter s 17-month old Energy program appears to have been broken and expressed Hope that an Energy tax proposal might be revived. The West Virginia Democrat said that the Senate s decision to set up a showdown vote next week on the Gas pricing Compromise thus averting a possible filibuster appears finally to have cleared the Way for Progress on the Long delayed Energy program. Byrd got unanimous consent to have a vote at 3 . Tuesday on the Bill s first big test a motion to Send it Back to committee for major repairs. If that motion fails and Byrd predicted it will the Senate is schedule to vote on the Bill itself on sept. 27. The agreement accommodated both opponents of the Bill who wanted considerable time to talk about it. And backers who Felt they had the votes to end a full fledged filibuster if it came to that. Confrontation avoided the agreement also prevented a direct confrontation Between the Bill s supporters and those who were considering filibuster if All else failed. That confrontation could have turned into a hell of a fight said sen. James Abourezk d-s.d., who wants the Bill recommitted. The measure worked out during Long sessions by House Senate conferees Calls for passing out Price controls on natural Gas by 1985. Byrd said that Progress on the natural Gas pricing Compromise could shake Loose the Long bottled up Energy tax portion of the Energy program i Byrd told reporters that although the Senate conference committee on the Energy tax part of Carter s plan has Only met once this year there s still plenty of time to fashion a tax Compromise. Byrd said he did not subscribe to widely voiced belief on Capitol Hill that Carter s proposed Energy tax package including a controversial tax on crude Oil is dead. Opponents of the natural Gas Compromise having yielded their right to filibuster now say their strategy is to rally senators behind a rival plan. But sen. Henry m. Jackson Senate manager of president Carter s Energy proposals contends that opponents seem to be fighting a losing Battle against White House forces. Mideast Summit will continue into next week Camp David my. Up the Camp David Summit continued its secret intense and detailed bargaining Friday and a spokesman said the three nation conference will last at least until Early next week. Conference spokesman Jody Powell repeated thursday s assessment that More flexibility and More Progress is needed before the meeting can produce an agreed framework for further negotiations. He denied reports which had appeared in egyptian newspapers that the Confer ence had reached the Point of stalemate or near collapse. But he refused to describe the current situation in the tightly secluded compound at this presidential Retreat. He said there is no Chance that the con Ference will end Friday or saturday and other sources said that a conclusion would of Lely come on monday. The conference was to go into another weekend pause beginning late Friday. Nicaraguan troops launch big push on rebels in Leon Leon Nicaragua up National guards stiffened by crack Black Beret units Friday threw a steel cordon around Leon then launched a major offensive with War planes tanks and heavy artillery to wrest Nicaragua s second largest City from sandinista guerrillas. Rocket fire from Low flying planes crashed into the City and witnesses said tanks and heavy artillery blasted indiscriminately in the Dawn attack against guerrillas fighting to depose president an Astasio Somoza. Of the Moon tonight meanwhile in Washington a state department spokesman urged Somoza to accept immediately a United opposition Call for a cease fire and mediation to end the violence and bloodshed. Given the mounting bloodshed Vio Lence and suffering and the growing disruption of National life we believe this a peal by All anti Somoza factions should be urgently heeded said Hodding Carter. In Leon no vehicles were allowed in or out of the City and newsmen were kept at roadblocks on the outskirts. Only a trickle military weathermen in the dark on eclipse of pedestrians was permitted to leave. One woman walked out of Leon under cover of a White Flag and told reporters National guardsmen were firing indiscriminately. The guerrillas Are burying bodies in the trenches where they Tore up the Street to build barricades she said. They Are killing a tractor trailer carried a Large steel a tread tank to Leon and trucks moved 501 fresh troops and several .30-caliber machine guns into the Battle zone. Guard planes firing rockets strafed the j Northern Section of Leon still held by the sandinista. Other Low flying planes broadcast a warning to citizens to observe the 8 . To i 5 . Curfew that was imposed along with nationwide martial Law. Terror by Thea Abbott staff writer history has it that ancient astronomers accurately predicted eclipses. But when i called a military weather unit to get the particulars on the full lunar eclipse saturday night the party on the other end of the line said what eclipse the eclipse of the Moon this us wait a second. Hey Guys do you know anything about the eclipse what eclipse i heard shouted in the background. Could you hold a am. I la Call Aneth judge prevents former spy from publishing Alexandria a. A a Federal judge refused Friday to allow Frank w. Snepp Iii a former Cia agent to publish material based on his experiences with the Agency. Judge Oren r. Lewis denied the request to lift an injunction saying to do so would mean he sanctioned Snepp s violation of the confidentiality pledge he signed whence left the intelligence Agency. In a Brief filed with Lewis Snepp had contended that the injunction is i Permis Sibly Over Road As applied to two articles he has written. Two magazines have expressed an interest in those articles. Snepp s Book decent interval was published late last year. Lewis later granted the Federal government s request for an injunction impounding Snepp s profits and enjoining him from other writings on thecia unless the court approved. Snepp and his attorney Mark h. Lynch asked Lewis to lift his injunction at least to cover the two articles. Northern Greece flooded Larisa Greece a parts of nor Thern and Central Greece were placed in a state of emergency thursday after Torren tial Rains flooded scores of villages and thousands of acres of Farmland police re ported. The floods have caused extensive damage to Cotton Fields and vineyards. Resi dents of the villages of Sik Ouri Kaloc Hori and Himadi 15 Miles West of this City were being evacuated by troops As heavy rain continued to fall and with floodwaters rising to half afoot. Police said no lives have been lost but thousands of head of livestock were in danger of drowning or being swept away by the floodwaters. Or number finally came the reply. Waited. Us a am they Don t know anything about it maybe you should Call Greenwich England figuring that some military weather Type closer than Greenwich could fill me in on the particulars i gave it another whirl and called another group of military weather types in Germany. The party on the other end of the line sounded familiar like an Echo. What eclipse he asked. After my explanation which was improving with my on going practice i was asked to please Call Back in about 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes later i called Back. From what we have found out the eclipse should be at 8 .," i was told. Of i said i d been told it was going to Start around 6 30 ." there was a pause. A am us we re just getting this organized. Could we Call you Back about 20 minutes later i was told that yes the eclipse would Start at 6 20 . Saturday could be seen in All of Germany and would last about five hours. Can i attribute this information to an official military weather spokesman asked. Well i just got this information from the almanac and. There was another pause. Should i attribute it to the almanac asked. There was an embarrassed laugh no Why Don t you just attribute it to whoever you want so in the name of honest journalism according to an unnamed voice at a military weather unit in Germany if it in t Cloudy saturday night starting at 6 20 ., you should be Able to see a total eclipse of the Moon. The voice also said that the Moon should be completely concealed by 8 30p.m. Postal. Continued from Page 1 $500 per year retroactive to last july 21 when the old agreement expired. On july 21, 1979, employees would get a 3 percent increase and another $500 per year effective a year after that. I will not make any comments about the contents of my decision Healy told reporters although he termed it a very fair and equitable he said he had not discussed the Settle ment with anyone other than Legal specialists with whom he consulted on certain Points. Continued from Page 1 the arrest in Milan of Corrado Alunni 30, wanted in connection with the murder of j former italian Premier Aldo Moro earlier this year. Alunni was arrested wednesday night after police surrounded a ground floor Middle class Flat in a suburb of Milan they had been keeping the Flat under Obi ser Vatish for several Days and they seized a Cache of weapons ammunition and explosives As Well As false passports Ana identity cards. Alunni was ordered Friday to attend an oct. 12 hearing on arms Possession charge i is. The 30-year-old Alunni will be facing the first in a series of criminal charges against him since he purportedly took Over Leader ship of the gang when its founder Renato Curcio was caught in 1975. Also in Germany a second woman has been arrested in an intensive search for members of a West German terrorist group calling itself revolutionary cells Federal officials said Friday. The West German attorney general s of Jice said Silvia Herzinger 33, of Frankfurt was suspected of membership in a terrorist group and involvement in bombing Inci dents in the Frankfurt area. She was believed to have ties officials said to Leila Bocook a 25-year-old woman with both German and american citizenship whose formal arrest was announced thursday. Bocook born in West Germany but daughter of an american father and Turk ish Mother was one of several suspects detained in Wiesbaden after police uncovered terrorist arms caches in that City Andin Dusseldorf. Meanwhile in Stuttgart it was announced Friday that three Ultra right wingers suspected of belonging to a Mili Tant Neo nazi splinter group were formally arrested after police found arms and am munition in their Homes the Baden Wurt Temberg state prosecutor s office said. A spokesman said the men aged 17 to 20, belonged to the Deutsch vol Kische Gemeinschaft German National association. The chairman of the Neo nazi group was arrested in Karlsruhe aug. 23 after allegedly trying to buy sub machine guns and several thousand ammunition rounds Ille Gally. Al a be Giai Europe partly Cloudy saturday with Gusty winds in the after noon. Partly Cloudy sunday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 70, Low 48. Sunset saturday 6 39 . Sunrise sunday 6 0-1a.m. Or to p
