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Show 4A The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, January Officials Probe 2(J, l'JWi Peres: Hussein Serious About Closing THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AR) King Hussein is serious differabout bridging Arab-Israeences, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel said Sunday at the start of a three-natioWest European visit, Peres also told a news conference that the Soviet Union could take part in an international Middle East peace forum proposed by Hussein as a prelude to direct talks between a delegation and Isra- Jordans li y el. believe that King Hussein is I do serious in his attempt to bridge over the differences at the source of the conflict," said Peres, referring to Husseins efforts in the peace process. But Peres added that there remain "two burning issues, which are the international forum on one hand, and Palestinian representation on the other. He said efforts toward peace "have made some headway, but there are still some important issues to be resolved." One reason for Peres' tour is to gather world support for a peace process without the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Israel regards as a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. Peres will also visit Britain and West Germany. There were indications that the Middle East peace process would intensify this week. Peres met late Sunday with Richard Murphy, the U.S. State Department's top expert on the Arab-Israeconflict. Murphy, in Europe to arrange the li Gap proposed international conference, arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday after meeting Hussein in London, according to a Dutch government spokesman. Following the meeting between Murphy and Peres, a senior Israeli official said there had been a review of the Palestinian-Jordaniaquestion. But the official, who spoke with the condition that he not be identified, said both sides agreed "not to say a word about the contents of the n Mission in Laos ing place with the goal of quickly Lao BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) officials are investigating unconfirmed reports that American mercemisnaries staged a "Rambo"-typsion to rescue U.S. servicemen allegedly held in Laos, a congression al delegation said Sunday. i, The group, lead by Sen. Frank held nearly three hours of talks in the Lao capital of Vientiane on the fate of 563 Americans still listed as missing in action in Laos a decade after the end of the Vietnam War. The delegations weekend trip also visit to Hanoi, included a where Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach invited the group to make e investigations of reported sightings of U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam. Sen. Dennis Deconcini, said similiar permission to make congressional investigations in Laos was rejected by Foreign Minister Thoun Sipaseuth and his deputy, Soubanh Srithirath. Laos and Vietnam deny they are hold.ng U.S. POWs but Washington is investigating 95 unresolved "live sighting reports of Americans imprisoned in Indochina. Unconfirmed reports in Bangkok said a group of American mercenaries, emulating the Sylvester Stallone movie Rambo: First Blood Part II, went into Laos in December in a bid to free U.S. prisoners believed held there. One American was killed, another captured and a third one still is free, the reports said. The protagonist in Rambo" was a veteran who went into Vietnam and brought back American prisoners to Thailand. The foreign minister said they received information on the purported gaining direct negotiations between Israel and Jordan. "We are not on the verge of a major development or breakthrough," he said. The United States has in the past resisted a Soviet role in the Middle East peace process, and Peres statements Sunday appeared designed as a concession to Jordans desire for a Soviet role. Activists Assail Reagan For Racist Signals - Budget Bill Called Formula for Hollow Military By Eliot Brenner United Press International ' WASHINGTON The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, pounding out his steady drumbeat against the Gramm-Rudma- n balanced-budge- t law, charged Sunday the measure is a formula for a hollow military. also said Rep. Les Aspin, President Reagans fiscal 1987 budget, due on Capitol Hill early next month, was not dead on arrival but dead before arrival because of its expectation of growth in defense spending and huge domestic cuts. The new statute, passed last month, sets a 1991 target for a balanced budget to be reached with pron gressively lower deficits. If d targets are not met, cuts are automatically made in defense and domestic programs to reach that goal. Gramm-Rudmasaid Aspin, will reverse defense priorities by taking more money from readiness and personnel accounts than from research and development and procurement. This is one of the perversions of Gramm-RudmaAspin said in a statement. Its a formula for a hollow military. Over the next five will give us years, Gramm-Rudma- n weapons but without all of the people or repair funds needed to man and maintain them. - deficit-reductio- across-the-boar- n, n, mercenaries Associated separation. Iossel is among small group of Soviets allowed to join families in West summit meet. after Gorbachev-Reaga- n AmeriFRANKFURT, West Germany can Edith Luthi is reunited with her Soviet husband, Michel Iossel, after a three-yea- r By Lori Eickmann Knight-Ridde- r Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. You followed his historic journey in the newspapers. You watched his struggle to get home on the evening newscast. Now read his story. Well, have mom read it to you. Humphrey, the celebrity humpback whale who made headlines during his fall visit to the waterways of the Sacramento Delta, now is the subject of two locally produced paperback books for children. Its a perfect story for children, said John Heus, one of the authors. This curious whale gets into the bay, he's lost, and all these people help him get back home. The Tale of Humphrey the Humpback Whale is a rhyming story accompanied by colorful, cartoonish renditions of Humphreys wanderings. It was written by Heus, a documentary film maker from San Francisco, and Tom Robinson, an English teacher from Mill Valley. Victoria Brost, a landscape architect from San Francisco, drew the pictures. The other book, Humphrey the Wayward Whale is a straightforward telling of the whales tale, illustrated with graceful, realistic sketches of the mammoth visitor. Malcomb Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books of Berkeley, came up with the idea; authors Ernest and Christine Leefeldt of Berkeley wrote the story. San Francisco freelance illustrator Carl Dennis Buell made the drawings. Both books describe the humpback whales travels from the time he glided into the bay Oct. 10 and swam about 70 miles up inland channels un black-and-whi- te m need Chiropractic Care, We would like to try to help. m Office Call FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC CENTER 545 CALL SUPPLIES Vi FAST LOCATION FAST 2100 SOUTH 467-15- KST LOCATION VU.LKI FAIR M 3001 SOUTH 2700 SI GAHIIOl'SF 1().')7 969-630- 37 l. M KST 3 Manufacturer's Special ALL IN THE EAR HEARING AID Model appointment $295 Free hearing test With this ad. Limited time LOCATIONS CUS-- Hour? Fri 30 a m 5 p m. Salt lake City Murray 5554 300 South 262 1351 359 2241 Other Utah Offices: Ogden, Provo, logan 57 So Slate t E z 268-341- 1 Have your boots, shoes slippers, or galoshes RETREADED with these half soles! Save a bad fall! 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Hatch, Jackson and Berry, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, appeared on ABCs This Week with David Brinkley along with Harvard Professor Glenn Loury to review the status of the civil rights movement that King led. Hatch and Loury rejected the findPost poll ings of an in which 56 percent of blacks said they regard Reagan as a racist. Many polls, the most significant of which was the 1984 election, suggest otherwise, he said. Noting Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese have never concealed their views on affirmative action or other civil rights matters, Loury said, The American people have indirectly endorsed those policies through their electoral behavior. Hatch said, "I know Ronald Reagan very well and he doesnt have a racist bone in his body. e aide to King Jackson, a whose Jan. 15 birthday is marked by a federal holiday on the third Monday of January beginning this year said he would not call Reagan a racist but his signals have been powerfully racist. Jackson claimed there "has been a radical reversal of support for the civil rights movement under Reagan and the president has "exploited the racist tendencies of some Americans. He said the president has failed to provide moral leadership from the White House, particularly in regard to South Africa. He accused the administration of gross insensitivity to the fate of South Africas black majority. Berry addressed the hottest civil Meeses rights topic of the moment effort to have Reagan soften a 1965 affirmative action order signed by President Lyndon Johnson setting goals for the hiring of women, blacks and other minorities by federal contractors. Rejecting the view the goals are which she, tantamount to quotas Jackson and the others agreed were Berry said the order is a wrong short-tersolution" to historical job bias, which if applied effectively now eventually can be ended. e He said Murphy was expected to return to London, but he insisted Hatch Mounts Defense Civil WASHINGTON (ITI) rights activists Jesse aackson and Mary Frances Berry assailed President Reagan Sunday, the eve of the first Martin Luther King holiday, for sending "powei fully racist signals to the nation. deBut Sen. Orrin Hatch, fended Reagan as not having a racist bore in his body and asserted the administration, by encouraging economic growth, has done the best things that can be done for blacks and the poor. Under Reagan, he said, the government also has brought more civil rights suits . . . intervened in more voting rights cases, and you go right Hambo-Typ- Holladay 2367 Mm ray Holladay Ro.nl 146H0 South' 277 129 i Boots Included Higher til he finally was lured under the Golden Gate Bridge on Nov. 4 by rescue workers playing underwater tape recordings of feeding whales. Margolin asked Leefeldt and her husband and author of Ectopia, to write about Humphrey. Leefeldt said they were inspired to write the whale's story because, like the thousands of people who lined the delta levees to glimpse the creature, they followed his progress daily. The story had a special interest to me as an educator, added Leefeldt, who teaches humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Its very useful in explaining to children things they might not otherwise think about. The first book, Heus and Robinsons, the one with the more colorful drawings, takes a few liberties in presuming what Humphrey was think ing: The golden bri Ige that connects the hills made Humphrey dream of wonderful thrills. People of any age might enjoy the story of Humphrey, though, the authors said. Since Moby Dick, weve been fas- cinated by the mystery of whales, these creatures of the deep," Robinson said. His book, The Tale of Humphrey the Humpback Whale is 32 pages and sells for $6.95. Most of the 4,000 copies that debuted Dec. 17 in San Francisco Bay area bookstores have been sold, Robinson said. He expects 10,000 more to be printed this month. Humphrey the Wayward Whale is 24 pages and sells for $3.95. It appeared on local bookstore shelves Dec. 6, and 17,500 of the 20,000 printed have been sold, Leefeldt said. |
