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Show The Doily Utah Chronicle, Monday, December , Page Two Ita O :.1 TK3 INTERNATIONAL Marines manouvor in Oman MANAMA, Bahrain An estimated 2,500 U.S. troops are on maneuvers in Oman, testing defense capabilities in die event Persian Gulf of a Soviet or other foreign attack on die oil-riregion, Arab diplomatic sources said Sunday. Omani government officials who were not identified were quoted by several newspapers in Kuwait and Bahrain as saying that the maneuvers code --named Jade Tiger began Friday ' and will end Tuesday. U.S. diplomats in Muscat, the Omani capital, refused to answer reporters' questions about the exercise. In Washington, Pentagon officials have privately confirmed the exercises, but said that no formal announcement was made because Oman wants to play down its links with the United States to avoid criticism from Arab countries critical of U.S. policies in the Middle East. The maneuvers reportedly include a simulated attack by two U.S. bombers and six F-jetfighters on an Omani airfield defended by the sultanate's small air force. Muscat-base- d Arab diplomats, who asked not to be identified, said about 1,000 U.S. Marines are to land on the Omani coast aircraft from amphibious vehicles, with the nuclear-powercarrier Enterprise providing cover. Saudi Arabian-base- d Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes are also taking part in the military games, the diplomats said. Under an agreement with the sultanate of Oman, the United States has access to military facilities in Oman which U.S. forces could use in the event of an attack on the strategic gulf region. ch B-- 15 52 ed Rebels threaten Afghan town PLAINS OF KHOST, Afghanistan Moslem guerrillas are closing in on the government garrison town they call "Little Moscow." They hope its capture will be the key to gaining control of an entire province in southeastern Afghanistan. Their target is Rhost, on a stretch of plain 30 miles west of the Pakistan border in Paktia province. The town is the base for 1,000 Afghan government troops and 300 Soviet advisers and their dependents, as well as a high number of people sympathetic to die Communist government. The Moslem guerrillas already control the main highway linking Khost to Gardez, the provincial capital, and have knocked out two of a score of militia outposts strung out around the town. The town's only links with the rest of the country are the radio and an air strip, through which supplies are flown in daily from Kabul, the Afghan capital, 100 miles to the northwest. 1; the town is . Government troops outnumber guerrillas is ringed by a minefield and there no cover oh the surrounding plains, ruling out a frontal assault. From their mountain hideouts the guerrillas pound enemy positions with mortar fire. Their last victory was at nearby Leja, which they overran three weeks ago after a battle. anti-Commu- 2-- 14-we- ek reveals spy access Paper for last month LONDON 35 years Geoffrey Prime, jailed for spying for the Soviets, "continued to have access to sensitive material" even after resigning from Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, top-secr- a et British newspaper reported Sunday. The Mail on Sunday said Prime "frequently visited" the ATCCWICD Union to dismantle its force of approximately 600 SS-2- 0 mobile missiles which it has targeted on Western Europe. In exchange, the United States would not deploy 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in West Germany, Britain and Italy beginning a year from now. Year-lon- g talks in Geneva have failed to produce an agreement on the intermediate-rang- e weapons. The superpowers are also locked in negotiations on Reagan's drive for deep cuts in U.S. missiles and and Soviet arsenals of intercontinental-rang- e bombers. base at Cheltenham, 90 miles northwest of London, after quirting die headquarters in September 1977 following 18 months of service as a Russian linguist. The paper said this had renewed suspicions in British government circles that other Soviet spies are still active inside the base. Shortly after resigning, Prime joined a local taxi cab firm, Cheltax. The Mail on Sunday said that while working for the company, Prime went back to the base "often several times a week. One of the taxi firm's contracts, the paper said, was to transport local banking staff to a branch inside die complex where Prime worked. The paper quoted one former Cheltax driver, who it identified as Glynn Friday, as saying: "We did the nm several tunes a week. The security men on the gates knew the cabs and waved us past. Once inside we drove our . . way into the compound out of sight on the main security gates." Cheltax employees were also called upon, the paper said, to intelligence-gatherin- g Kids prooourod Ted, son days BOSTON Edward M. Kennedy Jr. says he, his brother and sister "came on strong" during Thanksgiving weekend to persuade their father not to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 1984. "I just saw my father as a guy who's really spent since 1979 flying around the country first running, then after he lost, trying to retire the debt, and then stroking people and getting Kennedy told the ready to do it all over again," the 21 ear-old Boston Sunday Globe. "This man, I felt, is missing out on some important things he'd like to do. So was the family." - On Wednesday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced he would not campaign for his party's nomination in 1984. The senator cited the wishes of his three children, Edward, 2 1 , Kara, 22, and Patrick, 15, and the pending divorce from his wife, Joan. "Patrick really is the one most affected by the divorce," young Kennedy told the Globe. "My own mind was open and I was willing to listen, and of course Kara and I are in a different boat being older. But Patrick just really was the most sensitive, and it meant so very much to him, having more time with my father and everything. "I'd like to see my father run," he said. "The country one day is going to come around to him, and probably some day he will drive computer tapes of intercepted codes between the satellites in the headquarters and its listening-po- st top-secur- ity west of England. It said the tapes consisted of "raw, uncoded material picked up from Warsaw Pact radio communications." . -y- NATIONAL Schultz begins Europeotttrip WASHINGTON Secretary of State George Shultz leaves European trip his first such Monday on a excursion since taking office aimed at forging a western strategy to deal with the new Soviet leadership and at settling wide-rangi- ng some nagging differences with America's European allies. Shultz and others in the Reagan administration have made clear they are looking for opportunities to improve relations with Moscow under the new leadership of Yuri Andropov, but will remain alert to any threat of Soviet aggression. A major chore expected during Shultz' two weeks in Europe will be consulting on how the allies should respond if the Polish government lifts martial law. Dec. 13 will mark the first Anti-M- X anniversary of the crackdown in Poland, and there are indications a decision to lift restrictions could come at any time. It will be Shultz first extended trip abroad since replacing Alexander M. Haig Jr. as secretary of state in July. He will travel to Bonn first, arriving Tuesday, then attend the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels Dec. 1. After that, he will go on to The Hague in the Netherlands, Rome, 20-mem- ber 'Zero option'option offered A leading Kremlinologist called on the administration Reagan Saturday to withdraw its "zero option'' and instead propose equal ceilings for U.S. and Soviet plan nuclear missiles in Europe. William G. Hyland, who served as deputy national security adviser to President Gerald R. Ford in the proposed the compromise in an article in Foreign Policy magazine. WASHINGTON . 0s, He urged the Reagan administration to shed its. tendencies" and to stop trying to win a resounding victory at the bargaining table in Geneva. Hyland said the United States "must demonstrate its ability to negotiate in good faith and to reduce the Soviet threat" to Europe. He called arms control the starting point in trying to break the "political stalemate" between the superpowers. President Reagan's "zero option" plan calls for the Soviet "neo-isolation- ist Temple concerns Geologists GLENVTEW, 111. One side claims a mission to spread the gospel and the other side a mission to protect nature. The courts will probably decide whose; design will prevail. The Mormon Church is set on building a new $3 million You know, at times like this I wish I stilllived in Salt Lake City ' so I could read the Chrony Christmas gift issue I group organized CHEYENNE, Wyo. Representatives of about 20 groups from eight western states met here Saturday to organize an anti-M- X missile coalition they have already dubbed "Western Solidarity." The Western Solidarity steering committee met all day Saturday at Seton Catholic High School to hammer out an organization and establish its policies. The lengthy meeting was closed to the public and press, but the participants promised to formally announce the formation of Western Solidarity on Sunday and outline its plans to block deployment of the MX in Wyoming. Citizens Alert representative Maria Painter of Reno, Nev., said about 20 representatives of Western Solidarity membet groups in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Nebraska were at Saturday's meeting. She said two other states were represented by observers. She said Saturday's meeting was held to decide "what kind of organization we will have, what its policy will be, how we will structure it and define what we are opposed to. We have to go through an enormous process," Painter told reporters. Paris, Madrid and London. mid-197- ' run." temple in this north Chicago suburb, and its religiously prescribed dimensions, says project coordinator John Sonnenberg, will inspire "reverence . . . awe . . ; beauty." The temple will be 43 feet, 4 inches high and 240 feet long, with six spires soaring to more than 100 feet. Gray tile will cover the steep roof, a stone fence likely will surround the temple and die entire structure will be illuminated at night. "We don't want to hide the temple," said Sonnenberg, a Glenview resident. "We want people to know this is ours, that we're proud of it." But village environmentalists are upset because the temple re will be built on a tract next to the Grove, a forested a with delicate ecological balance, prairie grasses nature preserve and rare flora that have survived undisturbed since the glaciers free-standi- ng 13-ac- receded 11,000 years ago. Foes of the Mormon undertaking fear that the temple's height will disrupt bird migration routes and that its illumination at night will play havoc with the feeding and predatory habits of numerous animals. The Glenview Village Board will vote on the temple this month, but the courts are expected to be the final arbiter in the - ' dispute. Coming ; December 10 REGION AL New legislators welcomed SALT LAKE CITY New legislators were told in a Capitol orientation session that the body to which they've been elected is "a fraternity just joined by you." The comment was by Senate President Miles "Cap" Ferry, who also said, "Some of the best friends I've met in the entire world I've met through the Legislature." When the Legislature convenes Jan. 10, it will have 45 new legislators in the 75 House seats, while 20 percent of the 29 members in the Senate will be new. Republicans control the House by a 58-1- 7 margin, the same as lasuession, and have added two to their Senate majority, making House officials announced committee chairmen, who are all Republicans because of that party's majority in the chamber. oi tne rwuuin w. ivnuwiion oi iayion wui oe Executive Appropriations Committee. 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