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Show Vol. 215, No. 32 Salt Lake City. I'tah MAMMA r ? I .' t t v ,r TfPSjJ SMM vjSj V T . xV '' v". 's- a r. v s . v 5i ' f J 4, ... . , ,, , 'v' Y , '7?. JiSfWv iVa s ' 'i&rtssK s4' . , .. ,s v' (( .dyj' V ' .' t !- Hi. 1977 PruT Outs ! On T ongh, New African Policy Mondale, Yoim Huddle 1 v ' .May s , ', Monday Morning '' ;, :' 'Tr Reuters News Agency LISBON Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young held talks hole Sunday on a tougher U.S. policy over President said he would gie him a detailed appraisal of the new hard-linpolicy tow ai d South Africa that he will explain to Vorster in Vienna e Mondale has told reporters traveling with him that he will tell Vorster that the Carter administration bciievox it N ilai for South Africa to scrap its radical segregation jKilicy. the problems of southern Africa. Mondale moots South African Prim Minister John Vorster in Vienna on Thursday, and Young Sunday confirmed that he himself would make a controversial visit to South Africa next and said he hoped it would weekend contribute to peaceful change. Before meeting Young, the Vice last-minu- J Graduation ., .4 jg SecGENEVA, Switzerland (UPD of State Cyrus Vance met with his chief arms negotiator Sunday on renewed talks with the Soviet Union g comand then boarded a mercial flight to the United States to watch his son graduate from college. Vance arrived in New York at 4:17 p.m. EDT and left immediately for New Haven, Conn., without making any statement. Vance returns here next Wednesday to confer with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko on the deadlocked Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the Middle known as SALT II East. Eliminate Frills The flight aboard a Trans World Airlines jet was apparently in keeping with the Carter administration bid to do away with government frills. It was the first time a Secretary of State of the United States crossed the Atlantic on a scheduled carrier. Vance met here for 90 minutes with Paul Warlike, who resumed the SALT li cost-cuttin- z 7 w IF. ' ,M SBrfT- V'il -- In - - . .& Ml 5S, liffisSSSf- Associated Press Wireohoto Carla Blair, 22, relaxes after ordeal as gunman's hostage. She freed her two children, dropping them both from a window. No Hard Feelings , Says Hostage After Ordeal by Earni Young Associated Press Writer - A young YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio mother, telling of her ordeal with a intruder, said Sunday she has no hard feelings against the man who held her and two children hostage for more than 20 hours. He didnt harm me and my children," said Carla Blair, 22. an unemployed seamstress. "And as for pressing charges ... I feel he will do enough time for the bank rob- bery." Miss Blair and her children. Isaac. 5. and Danielle, months, were resting Sunday at her mothers home in Youngstown after the ordeal that ended Saturday night. Archie The gunman Reginald Nelson of Youngstown was in the Mahoning County Jail awaiting arraignment. The FBI said he faces possible charges of bank robbery, kidnaping and extortion. Siege Began Friday The siege began early Friday afternoon when Nelson, armed and wearing a mask, robbed the Lincoln Knolls branch of the Dollai Savings and Trust Co., police said. Police said he fled into Miss Blair's apartment complex behind the savings and loan office with a guard in pursuit. Nelson apparently tried several doors until he spotted Isaac playing with a friend outside townhouse the family's apartment, officers said. I was upstairs sewing, Miss Blair said, "when I heard a man downstairs talking to my boy." Miss Blair said she went downstairs and saw Nelson inside with her son and Emmett Moore. 4, a neighbor. "1 asked him why he was here, and he told me. don't want to hurt anybody. 1 just robbed a bank and need to stay here awhile.' Nelson filed once at police, but no one was hit. That was the only shot fired during the siege. Wc siient the night talking," she 18 two-stor- y 1 1 vw said. "He told me he robbed the bunk because he had four kids, his wife was pregnant and they needed the money. But he lied to the police so much about his name and everything, dont know il that was true "Even when he told the police, 'I'll kill the woman and kids. he'd turn and wink at me." She said Nelson did not watch her closely. "1 was free to move around." she said. "I cleaned up. w ashed up and did some other house work." At about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Nelson released the Moore boy for $2,000 in cash. His demands, as well as the names he used, varied. At one point, he demanded a Cadillac-driveby two FBI agents dressed only in undershorts to take him to freedom. At another point he demanded a jet plane. Early Saturday afternoon, the young mother threw her two children to safety from an upstairs window. Slips From Hands' "He was out in the hall and saw the chance to get my kids out," she said. "They were asleep. 1 woke them up and carried them to the window. I had to push Isaac off the ledge. But Danielle slipped from my 1 hands." Both children were caught by an FBI agent below the window, negotiations with Soviet chief negotiator Vladimir Semenov last Wednesday, and then flew to New York on his way to attend his sons commencement at Yale University. Vance arrived in Geneva -- from Tehran, where he attended the annual meeting of the Central Treaty Organization and met with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahla vi to discuss U.S. arms sales and human rights. official said A State Department Vances commercial flight home "may-savsome money, depending on how we do the bookkeeping, but not . very-much- His predecessor, Henry Kissinger, insisted on using U.S. Air Force planes even when he flew to the Carribean on vacation. Commercial airline officials estimated it would have cost about $04,000 to fly Vances Air Force Boeing 707 from Geneva to the United States and s back. Instead, air fare for him and his security guards will run about $5,000 and hotel rooms for American officials awaiting his return will cost about $9,000. Guard Costs In addition, the cost ol an idled airplane that has to be guarded here must be deducted from any saving. The United States had asked the o talks begin with a discussion of the Middle East, but the Soviets said they would prefer to start with a resumption of SALT. first-clas- a By Mike Shanahan Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Senate votes ibis week on creation of President Carter's proposed Department of Energy, the first element of the administrations tough energy plan to come before either chamber of Congress. While hearings on details of the plan continue in the House and Senate, the full Senate was expected to debate extensively how much authority the new secretary of energy should have to set oil and natural gas prices. The vote was expected by midweek which would on the reorganization, consolidate functions of the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Ener JERUSALEM lAP) Whether Israel should keep or surrender the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River was the key point in a crucial television debate Sunday by the two top cold coders for prime minister. National elections will be held Tuesday and the Labor coalition, which has ruled Israel since its independence in 1918. is tignting to stay in control. The debate between Shimon Peres, defense minister in the and Menachem Labor government, Likud Begin of the right-win- g one of Israels longest and most bitter campaigns. Public opinion polls indicate some 500.000 voters out of the 2.5 million electorate have not decided whom to support. One poll predicted Labor would win 44 seats in the Knesset (parliament) with the Likud trailing by five or six scats. Another gave each party 38 or 39 scats. Labor won 51 seats in the 1973 election. Likud 39. Monday's Forecast Begin said "Wc should explain to the United States that this is not only a danger for because a IIS hut to the I fee world, Inside Tin Tribune T ribunc Telephone Numbers, Page Blair said Nelson wasn't angry when he found the children A-- 2 gone. She said he was digging a hole through one of the bedroom walls and was planning to escape through the hole into the next apartment. It was while Nelson was digging that Miss Blair ran to freedom. C-- .is still iii Islt saying be was completing arrangements for the visit, which has lieeit the subject of a tug-of-w- ar be Administration and the Energy Research and Development Administration, plus parts of 50 other agencies, into the new department. Board As approved by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the proposal would give ultimate authority for g to a three-perso- n board. Carter had proenergy posed that the Cabinet-leve- l secretary control ceilings on natural gas and oil. Several committee members said the President should be given final authority to decide on energy prices. There is a chance the Senate may-votbill late on a second energy-relate- d in the week, a tough strip mining gy price-settin- Israeli Debate Eyes West Bank Return Salt Luke City and vicinity Cloudy with occasional showers, thundershowers; continued cool. Weather details on Page Vance-Gromyk- Miss Agents waiting just outside the door of the apartment pulled Miss Blair to safety. Five minutes later. Nelson surrendered, throwing down his two handguns. statement Vole fop PartyIsrael, citizens vote for a party, not a candidate. Each party draws up a list who arc elected in of candidates proportion to the number of votes their party receives. The head of the list of the winning party becomes prime minister. In the debate. Peres pledged to continue the government policy of exchanging some occupied Arab territory for a Midcast peace. Begin said Israel must keep all of the West Bank, which it took from Jordan War of 1957. during the he is (i.3 and recently Although suilered a heart attack, Begin appeared more aggressive them the Peres. Begin accused the "defense minister of trying to satisfy lettwts within the Labor party down from his earlier position against giving up the West Bank. Artillery Range "We would all be within artillery range of the Soviet weapons that would he supplied to a Palestinian state" if one were created on the West Bank, unhurt. W tween Washington and Pretoria tor the past week lie said "1 understand that the South African Government has now announced that il lias no objection to my v isitmg South Africa from May 21 to 22 We are therefore moving ahead to con ipieic detailed arrangements for the "1 am confident that these will be concluded 111 a mutually satisfactory manlier. We believe that the visit will promote a kind of See Page 2, Column 1 people-to-peopl- Ill Six-Da- y Palestinian state would become a central Soviet base in the Middle East." he added. Peres charged that Begin s policy would "block any possibility ol while the Labor negotiating peace, partys platform was "at least aimed at getting talks started. Labor's policy, he said, was that no Arab armed forces should he allowed into the West Bank. No direct mention was made of official corruption, a key issue in the election, but Begin promised an holiest government." measure that would require coal protax to ducers to pay a lie spent on restoring land torn up by surface mining operations. The Senate also will vote this week on a $3ti billion military procurement bill, which includes money for a fourth 90. 900-to- nuclear-powere- d n tion does not want to build. While the $81 (i million for the currier does not require its construction, the Senate bill would require the Pentagon at least to restudy whether carriers should be included in the Navys plans for construction of future warships. chairman Sen. John Stennis, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said if the administration makes a final decision against building more carriers, the $81.0 million in the bill could lie used for parts for those already in the fleet. The procurement bill also requires a reduction of the number of general officers in the military and a general cutback of 17,i90 military slots and 19.800 civilian jobs in the Pentagon work force. Vote Scheduled Votes are scheduled in the House ths week on a $1.56 billion youth training and jobs bill, $3.2 billion in military aid to U S. allies and a proposal to install experimental solar energy devices on the roofs of the three House office buildings. The youth jobs bill would make the Youth Conservation Corps a year-rounprogram to hire 35,000 young people for national parks and forests work. Another section would provide funds to train and find jobs for about 138.000 persons between the ages 10 to 19. d Baltimore Blaze Kills 3, Hurts 30 Others 9-Ala- rm A nine-alarBALTIMORE (APl fire raced through a downtown hole! and a small adjoining apartment building Sunday, leaving at least three persons dead. Firefighters continued to search the rubble late Sunday night, hut said they did not expect to find anymore bodies. AM I'nidc Offered To Nnnluekel New NANTUCKET. Mass. 1AP1 Hampshire Gov. Mcldrin Thomson has offered residents of this island a trade if Nantucket secedes from Massachusetts and becomes part of his state. New Hampshire needs Nantucket's 88 miles of beaches for recreation. and Nantucket needs New Hampshires favorable tax situation. Thomson said Saturday night. The island has voted inlormally to secede from Massachusetts because it will no longer be guaranteed its own state represent, five. Thomson said Nantucket could expect to have two or three New Hampshire state representatives and po.isihlv a senate scat. Nine firefighters and 21 residents of the New Sherwood Hotel were treated at local hospitals for injuries. Three were admitted in fair condition with smoke inhalation Seven residents of the which catered mostly to brick hotel transients were still unaccounted fer at noon Sunday. Officials identified the latalities as Joseph Rosen, 77. a permanent resident of the hotel; George Mills, 45, a merchant seaman ol no fixed address and Margaret Pennington, 04. of Scottsdale. Ariz. Others Trapped "1 thought was the last one to leave, hut quite a few were trapped. said William Mitchell, the hotels early morning clerk. "The fire was right at my shirttuils. Mitchell said about 75 people were in the building at the time of the fire. Officials were uncertain how the blaze started but members of the police arson squad were among the first at thefour-stor- 1 se ene. Deputy Fire Chief Todd Hancock said charred furniture, collapsed debris was piled up paneling, toppled walls to four feet high in the building, much ol which, was divided into small rooms The the cost for the United Nations and its agencies, Americans are underrepresented cm the U.N. staff, a congressional study says. And the U.S. influence on the way these international agencies operate is in danger of being diminished further, the General Accounting Oil ice warns. Americans make up only 13 per cent of U N. employes hut pay 25 per cent of the organization's laists. the study said 'Bows to Pressure' Developing nations me pressuring U.N. ollicials to hue more of then (ilicns. while the U.S. government tali-to "aggress cly ecru it " qua lit led I Americans to work in the U.N agencies, the GAO said. Last fall the United States accused Kurt Waldheim ol Secretary-Genera- l bowing to political pressures in hiring U.N. staff members. A U.S. delegate charged that under the guise of seeking equitable geographic distribution, the U.N. was hiring underqualified staff members. At its tipper reaches, the U.N. stall includes some of the world's highest paid hurciiuci ats Professional salaries range up to $7I.UOO, with thousands ol dollars more in lienelits. Abraham Rihicotl. HU,. nn. Sen whose Senate Governmcul.il Allan's committee released the GAO report Sundav, said the Mate ilepaitinent should conduct a nationwide recruiting to find more Americans suited for U.N. service and encourage them to apply for jobs. Spent $1 Billion "Wc spi.d ever $1 billion in 1975 tor all iutcrualionul organizations In add! i ioi to providing these hinds, the U.S should he contributing as much Amcri can expertise and know how ,is pos-- i hie. " Rihit oil said dfort i He warned that unless the United States makes the recruitment cflort now. there is a very real chance that there will he even lewer Americans working for the organizations in a lew years." The GAO report anl the U.S. government's efforts to tind candidates for niteruational atlairs are m altered over ai ions ugem ies ill, Uu i .if rat coordi nation or record keeping c Organizations Today" Chuckle We just heard about a tree siirceoil who's working on an ant idrpiovsanl bn W eeplllg vc illow s ( ileil The study, wlueh follows a similar leport by Ribiculf's panel in February, was one of f.. e released at the same tune on the I .3. role ... international organizations. Their findings generally bowed that tbe Uniied Slates l.ig. badlv in showing leadership or initia- tive in world agencies. The reports dealt with the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the World health Organization, the World Food Program and the Internationa Labor Organization. The studies found shortcomings m cadi ol the agencies that make it ddiicult for the Uui't-- States to play a larger role or to lurnish expertise, but merkan efforts also were said, to be lacking or misdirected One report said, lor example, that inadequate auditing in the World Food Program makes it impossible tor tile United Sta'es o other major eon tribh'.ir- - to judge the neciirney ol t.jiorl eil el o losses ilniif Collapsed ol the hotel roof collapsed, firemen to remove it belore a more thorough search lor center loreing U.S. Role Lags in United Nations, Study Says - aircraft carrier which the Carter administra- starting WASHINGTON (APl Aitlu ugh the Uniied Slates pays Hit largest share of e Senates Vote Due on Proposal T o Create Energy Department Vance Flies Home for retary ? Monday to attend ills visit to South Afi lea doubt until Sunday. But liefore lieginning Ins talks with the vice president. Young issued a Mondale gave instructions to Young the ambassador left on a trip to southern Africa. Young leaves United Nations conference in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. Young has just returned irom a visit to w est Atrica. He conferred in Abiu.ian w ith America's ambassadors in Alrica. and briefed Mondale about it Sunday. bodies said the first alarm w a Fire oitu-ialsounded at 0:53 a. in. It took more than wo hours to control thi- blaze, which sent a tower of smoke over Baltimore Tlie hotly ol a man was tound in the entrance ol the building by the first Bremen to arrive. O'her residents were hanging out of windows and screaming for help. Bill Bowers anti Dan Hicks, who lived in the adjoining apartment building helped some of the hotel residents to safely across their roof before the fire torved them out of the building, I kept telling the people on the hack ol the building to come next door across the root, but some of them were too scared." Hicks said. know is woke up and ran like licit out tin door. There was already lire and smoke." said William E. Kinsey lit slept on the first floor near w lu re Bremen said the blaze started in a laundry room "All 1 . 1 |