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Show KBWX i:tii IK W mutemeoti 17 n Comics 11 Editorial Obituaries Societ) it through percent Tursda t rnlral 4 Ml MHJ 106TH YEAR. NO 96 d!!'.!0?.-!!!By United Press International President Carter has assured Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev the United States will not interfere in Iran and warned the Soviet Union to likewise keep its hands off the troubled, nation Brezhnev said Sunday the Soviet Union would feel its "security interests" affected if the United States sent military assistance to the shah of Iran Brezhnev's remarks were carried on the front page of the party newspaper h Pravda. Carter, in a statement issued by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, responded that the United States "does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of any other country, and reports to the contrary are totally without foundation." The statement said the United States expects "other countries to conduct themselves in similar fashion." Carter conferred with Vance from Camp David on the response as Vance met at the State Department Sunday morning with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the ?' Israel Sets Forth Its Position By United Press International Israeli sources said today the Cabinet was likely to approve a draft treaty with Egypt if President Anwar Sadat dropped demands for a timetable implementing Palestinian autonomy on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. But there were reports from Cairo that Sadat had hardened his position, and revived a joint Arab military pact that would obligate Egypt to fight alongside any country attacked by Israel. The Israeli Cabinet was to resume debate Tuesday on the draft treaty and was likely to endorse Prime Minister Menachem Begin's rejection of timetable and an Egyptian presence in Gaza, the sources said. The sources said it appeared likely the Cabinet would endorse the treaty as presented to it by Defense Mi.iister Ezer Weizman on U.S.-drafte- d Oct. 25. Foreign Minister Mcshe Dayan, supported by Begin and Weizman, Sunday recommended the Cabinet approve the draft even though the ministers questioned some of the language, the sources said. Israel should tell Egypt it is ready to sign the treaty and then begin negotiations on a timetable after the pact is signed, the sources said Dayan told the Cabinet. He said he thought Egypt would endorse this. "There is reason to hope the U.S. administration will stand behind the paper (draft) inspired by President Carter," one source said. "We don't think the Americans will renounce their own draft after three weeks." Asked what would happen if the Americans backed off from its own draft because of Egyptian demands, the source responded, "Then we'll be in trouble." suicide ceremony that left Now You Know The name MiG, for the Soviet jet fighter, is derived from the initials of its designers, Arten Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich The lowercase "i" between the two initials stands for the Russian word for "and." Charles Bilogora, 19, of Belgium. Of the 44 wounded. 37 persons were hospitalized, nine of them from England and three from Sweden, police said. None of the few American on the bus was killed or wounded. The bombing of the bus occurred at the Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Jericho, nine miles from Jerusalem. The bombings toon place exactly one year after the Egyptian leader's dramatic peace initiative, which was strenuously opposed by Palestinian Arabs and radical Arab states. In Beirut, the Palestinian news agency WAFA said "the general command of the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces was responsible for the blowing up of a bus near Jerusalem" as well as the bombs in the commercial districts of Jerusalem and Jaffa. "These attacks were carried out on the anniversary of the traitor Sadat's visit to Jerusalem to show our condemnation of his actions," WAFA director Ziad Abdel Fatah said in Beirut. A British tourist, who had boarded the bus at the Dead Sea, told reporters from his hospital bed in Jerusalem that the passengers were knocked to the floor of the vehicle bv the blast. REP. LEO RYAN is shown in photo taken in Guyana by cameraman Gregory Robinson of the San Francisco Examiner who accompanied Ryan on his mission to check m - Incumbents BUFORD, Ga. (UPI) and newly elected governors praised President Carter's economic actions and peace efforts at a weekend retreat the National Governors Association sponsored for winners of the Nov. 7 elections. A bipartisan group of about 30 chief newcomers barely outincumbents, spent the weekend in closed-doo- r classroom sessions. They reviewed such unpleasantries as how to fire a predecessors' appointees, how to say no to their own political handymen, how to keep peace with city and county officials and how to make their case with the now in the White executives, numbering post-electi- House. They heard from White House aide Jack Watson, who was warmly received Sunday despite a warning that the states will be asked to assume some ars traordinary concern and compassion and served his constituents well" in 24 years in Congress. He said Diggs' showed voters in the veteran lawmaker's district are "asking that he be allowed to continue to serve them well." Diggs told the judge in a steady voice: "This has been a very devastating experience ...a very painful experience for me personally and professionally." He urged Gasch to "permit me to be (Continued on page 3) of Carter's attempt to reduce the federal deficit by another of the burden $10 billion They said Carter came through the midterm elections in good shape and should gain strength if the Middle East settlement works and the economy cools by 1980. "If he succeeds in the Middle East, if he succeeds with the economy and succeeds in cutting the size of the federal bureaucracy, he's going to be a formidable candidate," said Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll, chairman of the association. Carroll predicted the Republicans will renominate former President Gerald Ford in 1980, but Carter's victory will not be so narrow next time. He said midterm Republic"gains were not impressive. "It was a washout ... there weren't any significant gains on the part of the party out of power and that is a little unusual," Carroll said. "Most often, there are significant gains for the party out of power, so the fact that the Republicans did not have any such gains is a tribute to President Carter and his leadership." "I don't think there was any radical change from what's a normal pattern in an off presidential year," said Gov elect Richard Riley of South Carolina, an early Carter supporter Riley said the GOP still is strong in such stalwarts as the South, &nl (Continued on page Strom left Diggs' of the REP CHARLES DIGGS 3) Pres. Carter Saddened By Slayings - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter said Sunday he was saddened by the death of Rep. Leo J. Ryan, who was killed in a jungle ambush in Guyana while investigating reports that a religious commune was holding persons against their will. "Congressman Ryan had taught in the Watts ghetto to gain an understanding of educational issues in the slums, and once spent a week as a voluntary prisoner to examine penitentiary conditions," Carter said in a statement released by the White House. "It was this drive to get his information at first hand that led to his tragic death. Rosalynn and 1 join his family and his constituents in their shock and grief." Carter telephoned Leo Ryan's administrative assistant Joe Holsinger and Holsinger said the president "was very gracious and expressed deep regret "He said he had a high regard for Leo and for Leo's activities in environment and education and energy matters and he said anything he can do personally, or the government can do for the fami" ly, thev would do. he said ATLANTIC OCEAN J guyana JT Northwest ' power to tens of thousands of homes and fanned out on high winds into the central mountain states today. Following an icy blast of Arctic a;r that dropped temperatures well below zero in the Plains states, the storm moved ashore in Washington early Sunday and spread south and west into Oregon. Northern California, Idaho and Montana Within hours, it dumped 13 inches on the Washington capital of Olympia and smothered Montana s capital. Helena, under 18 inches J spotlights South American sector where U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan and four members of his party were slain in an ambush northwest of the Guyana capital of Georgetown. Cayenne FrenchA Guiana O BRAZIL MAP "N- - .w I UPI Paramaribo SURINAM : y storm buried the Pacific Northwest under more than a foot of snow and near blizzard conditions, cut electrical release date to the discretion U.S. Parole Commission. GREGORY ROBINSON, 27, photographer for San Francisco Examiner, another of the five Americans who died in Guyana ambush. (UPI Telephotos) -- By United Press International The season's second major snow- sentence concurrent three-yea- r terms for each of 29 counts charging Diggs with mail fraud and filing false NBC WRITER Don Harris, 42, one of the victims of the massacre 150 miles northwest of Georgetown, capital of Guyana in South America Field-Ridle- reported the mass suicide, said Guyanese troops today captured the headquarters of the Peoples Temple in Jonestown and found that some of the victims apparently were murdered. She said some 400 of the commune members had been found dead and authorities estimated 600 others were missiing. The bizarre case blazed into violence late Saturday when an ambush by members of the sect at a jungle airport and killed Rep. Leo J. Ryan, four other Americans when Ryan was leaving with 20 members of the sect after investigating reports that many Americans were being held against their will. Killed with him were NBC television reporter Don Harris, 42; NBC cameraman Robert Brown, 36, both of Los Angeles, San Francisco Examiner photographer Gregory Robinson, 27, and Patricia Park, 18, an American settler. Lane, who had accompanied the investigating party to the jungle commune said that after Ryan and his group left for the airport, he and Garry attempted to calm an atmosphere of panic that swept through the commune He recalled that months earlier Jones had been accused of suggesting a mass suicide. Just before the suicide ceremony, Lane said, he and Garry encountered two armed black members of the commune en route to the auditorium where others had assembled. "They said to us with smiles on their but Thurmond, "President Carter is a moderate who represents what the new South's spirit is and I would expect the South would be solid for him again in 1980." Gov. elect John W. Carlin of Kansas said Carter's farm policies hurt him in the Midwest, but "he's more popular than he was a year ago" because of the Camp David accords Sen. In term for the Diggs presumably will keep his seat until an appeals court acts on his bid to overturn his conviction. He avoided reporters after the hearing and a spokesman said Diggs would have no statement on his future plans until later in the week. Diggs' lawyer, David Povich, asked Gasch fcr leniency during the hearing, stressing Diggs has "demonstrated ex jungle of shooting. " Lane said he and Garry fled into the bush near the commune settlement after the massacre Sunday night. He said they heard lots of gunfire and people screaming, including children, fleeing through the jungle. The attorney told newsmen at an impromptu poolside hotel news conference that in a statement to Guyanese police he suggested that Jones may have escaped from the commune. The commune was known to possess a launch Earlier, Guyana Minister of Informawho first tion Shirley Major Storm 120 Gasch a religious commune. Ryan and four other members of his party were slain in an ambush. Robinson also was killed in the massacre. (UPI Telephoto) Carter Gets Praise At Governors Meet Gasch stressed he has "wide latitude" for reducing sentences if the defense seeks such a reduction within vouchers. held prisoner at reports that Americans are being 3-Ye- - . them mass suicide rite The American lawyer said he had heard that the doctor and nurse of the commune carried a tub of poison to the auditorium prior to the mass suicide Lane said the Rev. Jim Jones, a former San Francisco city official who heads the religious comunity. had sent him and fellow attorney Charles Garry away from the scene. "Jones had sent me (and Garry) " said Lane. away to the East House, We could hear him speak of the dignity of death, the beauty of dying Jones shouted mother, mother, mother, mother! ' Then there was the first burst Jail Judge Gives To Congressman Diggs A federal WASHINGTON (UPI) judge, rejecting Rep. Charles Diggs' bid for freedom and a chance "to redeem myself," today sentenced Congress' senior black member to three years in prison for taking payroll kickbacks. The sentence, imposed by U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch before a packed courtroom, could eventually force the Michigan Democrat to give up his seat despite his landslide two weeks ago. But Gasch left open the possibility he might trim Diggs' sentence if the congressman reduces the large personal debts that allegedly led to the payroll kickback scheme. 400 of dead Six hundred others were missing Lane told a news conference he counted 85 bursts of semiautomatic weapons fire when the Peoples Temple sect gathered at an open air auditorium of its commune at the Guyanese jungle town of Jonestown, presumably for a near Tel Aviv. A third bomb, set to go off on Jerusalem's busiest intersection, was dismantled safely by a policeman. Police identified three of the dead as Israelis, all men ranging in age from 26 to 64. The fourth was identified as payroll lNTS 25 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (UPI) -Lane Mark said today a band Attorney of American religious fanatics who massacred a California congressmen and four members of his party apparently used a tub of poison in a mass security interests." Western specialists in Moscow speculated Brezhnev's words may have been a response to White House reports that a special State Department planning group had been set up to review Iran's problems The Soviet press has claimed the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency are working on plans for (Continued on page 3) days. There is no minimum ut - PRICE PER MONTH $4 50 Cult's Mass Death Rite Fatal to 400 national security adviser, and Defense Secretary Harold Brown The Vance statement said U.S. officials "firmly support' the shah in his struggle against a coalition of Moslems and leftists " He added: "We have confidence that Iran can solve its own problems. We intend to preserve and pursue with Iran our strong bilateral political, economic and security relationship." Brezhnev said in Pravda that "any interference, especially military ina terference in the affairs of Iran state which directly borders on the would be regarded by Soviet Union the U S S R, as a matter affecting its Terrorist Bombings Mark Anniversary of Sandat Visit to Israel - ha..t of 4 Congressman, Party Killed in Guyana Ambush 4 Killed; 44 Hurt Arab terTEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) rorists marked the first anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem with bombings that killed four persons and wounded 44 others in the worst violence to hit Israel in five months. The four were killed when terrorists hurled a bomb under a bus carrrying 50 persons, including Americans and other tourists, from the Dead Sea to Jerusalem The bombing occured as the driver stopped to let off two passengers at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank of Jordan. Earlier, a small explosive device slightly injured two persons when it went off on a crowded boulevard in Jaffa Tut-d- SOs PROVO. UTAH. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1978 Carter Assures cluudmrss .. b with a 40 showers is forerasl tor the I (ah area K.pe t oermght Ions in the mid 30s and highs Tursdav in the mid 12 Sports a 100 JOO 2 The congressman was on a mis- sion to check reports that Americans were being held prisoner at a jungle religious co- (UPI Telephoto) a A |
