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Tuesday, December 6, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Egypt severes diplomatic relations with Arab nations
CAIRO (AP)—Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen yesterday in retaliation of their decision to form a "resistance and confrontation front" against President Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives with Israel.
The move produced the most serious political division in the Arab world in years.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry summoned the diplomatic envoy of the four nations and gave them 24 hours to leave the country, Egypt's Middle East News Agency
It said Egyptian diplomatic officials in the
four countries were instructed to return home immediately.
CAIRO'S ACTION came after the four nations and the Palestinian guerrilla movement, meeting in Tripoli, Libya, denounced Sadat's one-man peace campaign as "high treason" and said they freeze their diplomatic and political ties with Israel, on its own, had already broken relations with Egypt when Sadat made his visit to Israel.
Earth, the harsh rhetoric, however, the anti-Egypt summit, at Syria's insistence had carefully kept the door open for renewed Geneva peace talks or other forms
THE HARDLINERS also had stopped
declaiming an irreparable break with
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of negotiations with Israel, with or without Sadat.
Sadat said Sunday that the Soviet Union was behind the "rubbish" of the Tripoli summit and that Egypt could punish the Russians.
During the weekend, it was reported that Egypt was recalling its ambassador to Moscow, but there was no immediate indication whether Sadat was considering severing his already cool diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union.
In Washington, the State Department said it would have no immediate comment on the legislation.
THE UNITED States yesterday appeared to be trying to reclaim the initiative as a goal, but the U.S. in Washington said Secretary of State Cyron R. Vance would visit Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia to assess the situation and seek settlement. The trip is to begin this weekend.
Sources said that Vance might also Syria and that Egypt's mass cutoff of diplomatic relations would not affect the trip.
Vance visit to encourage Arab-Israeli negotiations
Officials said the Vance mission next weekend also will be aimed at showing U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance is going to the Middle East to urge the Arabs to keep an open mind on direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt, the State Department said yesterday.
support for those talks, scheduled to take place in Cairo in mid-December.
place in Cairo his birth to三蹄 the troubled area On the train is third to the troubled area in a year, Vance will make stops in Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as in Egypt and Israel. Arrangements for visit to Syria are still up in the air for technical reasons, U.S. officials said.
Miners begin strike early while negotiations continue
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of the nation's coal miners went on strike yesterday without waiting for the midnight expiration of their contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA).
But bargaining continued on a new contract, although Umlined Mine Workers President Arnold Miller vowed the miners would endure a strike "until we win it."
No natural gas to be connected to new homes
But Salome said that Kansas Public Service Co. would have to abide with last year's Federal Power Commission order forbidding new connections.
There will be no new natural gas connections to area residences after Dec. 31, despite last Friday's Kansas Corporation Commission ruling, William Salome, vice president and general manager of the Kansas Public Service Co., said yesterday.
"We have to do this because if the federal order is upheld we would be subject to retroactive penalties for any hookups we had in fist, 1. "Saliame said. We couldn't afford it."
"The state order does not affect us," Salome said, "so we are still under the federal order until we hear different this spring."
The KCC Friday rejected a proposal by the Gas Service Co. and Kansas Power and Light Co. that would have ended new connections after Jan. 1.
According to Salome, the Federal Power Commission has scheduled hearings beginning today, to determine the legality of the connection ban. Another session of hearings will be held in April, and a final decision would not be made until late May, he said.
Fred Adam, director of the utilities division for the KCC, said that last Friday's ruling was not surprising and the conflict between state and federal orders eventually fell.
Salome said he would meet with the city commissioners next week to get their approval.
The Public Service Co. is able to defy the KCC ruling, Salome said, because it is not regulated by the KCC but is governed by the Lawrence City Commission.
"But right now we are in limbo," Salome said. "We can't risk the expense of defying the federal order and we don't know what to tell area builders and lenders who want to know what the status of local gas hookups are."
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Most of the early walkouts occurred in September. Kentucky mines reported full crews on the job.
Miller, who left the negotiations and announced plans to go to West Virginia where many of the miners live, said he had been swarmed whenever he saw snares of real progress.
Industry negotiator Joseph P. Brennan said he would avoid "pillow posturing" as the negotiations continued, but added, the situation things are much more difficult."
Morris Felbush of the coal operators association said 28 of the approximately 1,800 mines operated by BCOA companies were closed yesterday. Only a few of Ohio's 10,000 union members were on the job as coal miners turned back the few who wanted to work.
Dan Fields of the West Virginia Coal Association estimated that 4,800 miners in that state got an early start on the strike. Most of the early strikers were in southern West Virginia. Other industry officials said the strike was the job in the state's northern pannhandle.
Miller has said privately that he foresees a three-month strike, and sources said the coal industry was prepared to accept a work stoppage of at least a month.
The effects of the strike are not expected to be felt outside the industry for some time. The worst damage is expected to be in the
"It is not our objective on this trip to get them to change their minds," department spokesman Hadding Carter said of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Those three countries were the direct respite with Israel undertaken by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
But clearly, U.S. officials said, while showing support for the Israeli-Egyptian talks, Vance will try his hand at patching the split caused by Sadat's dramatic
NOR WAS THIS "an attempt on our part to seize the stage" from the parties directly involved in the Arab-Arabie conflict, Carter said of the Vance trip.
They said Vance intends to emphasize U.S. interest in a comprehensive set of policies.
And while prospects for a Geneva conference have dimmed, Vance will urge the Arab states he visits to follow Sadiq's advice.
So far, Syria has not responded to American overtures for a Vance stop in Damascus. But U.S. officials said this was entirely because Syrian President Hafez Assad was occupied with the just-conclude meeting of so-called "rejectionists" in
VANCE WILL GO TO the Middle East even
she does not win up on his itinerary,
they say.
Meanwhile, Philip C. Habib, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, is holding talks in Moscow with Soviet experts on the Middle East. He is due to join Vance on Wednesday in Brussels, where the secretary will attend North Atlantic Treaty Organization meetings before heading for Cairo on the weekend.
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The last serious break in Arab ranks occurred in 1971, when Syria and Egypt broke relations with Jordan over King Faisal of Palestinian guerrillas from his country.
The Egyptian decision exempted
staunably anti-Iraeli Iraq, apparently because it walked out of aripoli meeting
The Iraqis, for years Syria's main Arab rivals, denounced Syrian President Hafiz Assad in Tripoli for what they called his continued faith in "surrender solutions."
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