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Monday, February 12, 1979
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Marines wait to aid embassy
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has ordered a detachment of 69 U.S. Marines to be sent to Turkey if additional protection of the U.S. Embassy in Iran is required.
At the same time, six Air Force helicopters are being flown to Turkey to be ready in case an urgent evacuation of Americans from Tehran becomes necessary.
Defense Department spokesman Thomas Lambert said there had been no attacks on the embassy by Iranian bombs. The detachment of Marines would be deployed to the embassy.
Pentagon sources said Ambassador William Sullivan had asked for the Marines and the helicopters and that the Pentagon update a contingency plan.
Lambert stressed that movement of the Marines and helicopters was "strictly on a precautionary basis."
Sources estimated there were still about 7,000 Americans in Iran, most of whom are employees of American defense contractors, and their wives and children.
Defense secretary in Mideast
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Defense Secretary Harold Brown met yesterday with his Saudi counterpart, Princess Sultan Abdul Aziz, the Saudi press agency
Brown is on a Mideast tour to assure pro-Western governments of continued U.S. support
The Saudi agency said the two discussed bilateral relations and strengthening of the Saud armed forces during a three-hour conference, but gave no details on the events.
There were unofficial reports in Jidda that Brown offered new arms aid to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have arranged to purchase 60 F-15 jets from the United States.
SALT aains public support
NEW YORK—Public support for a new Strategic Arms Limitations Talks agreement with the Soviet Union is the highest it has been in three years, an
Increased backing for a new treaty limiting nuclear weapons is based on a growing perception that such a treaty would enhance U.S. security and reduce
It comes as Soviet and American negotiators work on details of a new treaty.
No date has been set for signing an agreement.
New Orleans disputes settled
In a nationwide poll taken on Feb. 5 and 6, 81 percent of those interviewed said they favored a new SALT treat. The figure is six points higher than the backing in a December AP-NBC poll and 11 points higher than in a November poll.
NEW ORLEANS—POLICE returned to work yesterday after a two-day walkout and garbagened voters not to strike, heading off labor troubles that threatened
"The sanitation workers have met and they will be on the job this morning." William Cole, the union's business agent, said last night after a meeting of shop
More than 100 National Guardmen carrying unloaded M-16s and about 30 state troopers protected the city during the police strike, which took between 20 minutes to clear.
The union's decision not to strike followed action Saturday by the New Orleans Civil Service Commission to restore sick leave and annual vacation
The Civil Service Commission reduced many city employee benefits Dec. 28 to help finance pay rises of up to 20 percent. The reductions, coupled with the mayor's persistent refusal to recognize the Police Association as a bargaining agent for the department, led to the walkout.
Bhutto says he must not die
NEW DELHI, India- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister awaiting execution, was announced in a recently released statement that
"I was born to make a nation, to serve a people." Bhutto wrote. "I was not born to wither away in a death cell."
Bhutto, now on death row, was convicted of ordering the 1974 murder of a political rival.
The 20-000 word statement was addressed to the Pakistan Supreme Court and smuggled from Bhubuto's jail cell. It was published in book form after the court ruling.
Bhutto's chances of escaping the gallows are slim. Pakistan's Supreme Court last week confirmed 41 his conviction.
Neb. city to get disaster aid
HASTINGS, Neb. -Nebraska Gov. Charles Thone yesterday declared downtown Hastings a disaster area and a gas explosion and fire Saturday as he declared a state of emergency.
No injuries were reported in the blaze that encompassed an area of two to three blocks. Damages were estimated at $4 million to $5 million.
State Fire Marshall Wally Barnett said an initial investigation showed that gas 'followed the wall backwards and went under two buildings where a furnace exploded.'
Barnett said a few businesses may be open today, but none would be allowed open until they were declared safe. Hastings Mayor Robert Allen has declared a
Thone's proclamation allows the state to pay 75 percent of the repair costs. The other 25 percent will come from the city.
Clean-up same despite toxins
STURGEON, Mo.—Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday there was cause for concern over new information on a contaminant in a chemical spill in Sturgeon, but said the EPA would not change its clean-up procedures.
In a statement released by EPA's Region 7 office, the agency said Monasto Chemical Co. informed them that a shipment of chlorinated phenolic compound was in transit.
A team headed by Seifert is scheduled to meet today in Washington with an EPA administrator to discuss further activities and to assure continued
Joseph Seifter, medical adviser to the Office of Toxic Substances, said the presence of dioxane changed the scope of the OTR of study did not present a problem.
The compounds, tested at the University of Illinois, Champaign, were spilled when a train derailed in Sturgeon Jan. 10.
Immigration review ordered
WASHINGTON--Attorney General Griffin Bell yesterday ordered a "major overhaul" of the immigration and Naturalization Services because he was "very concerned about the potential effects."
Bell said his first look at the INS operations came after Iranian students staged a violent anti-sahsh demonstration in Los Angeles, and the administration pledged to review the immigration status of foreign students in the United States.
Bell said he ordered a Justice Department task force to begin reviewing INS operations, and he expected a report within a month.
Bell said he discovered the INS had no idea how many Iranian students were in the United States, or what their status was. He said the Justice Department found that 50,000 Iranians were studying at American colleges and universities with college and university in the country and asking how many were enrolled.
Weather ...
Skiers will be most cloudy today, according to the National Weather Service. The high will be from 30 to 35 degrees and the low tonight will be in the low 20s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny, windy and warmer with a high near 40.
Israel to step back to bargaining table
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel yesterday accepted an American invitation to resume peace talks with Egypt at Camp David, Md. It did not soften its stand on unresolved issues.
The Camp David talks are likely to focus on how an Egypt-Iraeli peace treaty should relate to the Palestinian issue and how to ensure that neither side can retreat from its commitments if difficulties arise in talks over the West Bank and Gaza.
Egypt accepted the invitation last week.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said there would be a break in the camp Dayan and Foreign Minister Moshe Davay and Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil could consult with their governments, an indication that the talks may last beyond the three or four days originally planned.
The meeting is expected to start in about
hour but no time has been officially
approved.
Egvnt accepted the invitation last week.
Egypt is demanding a target date for the beginning of Palestinian self-government in the areas now ruled by an Israeli military government. But Israel says it cannot agree, because there is no guarantee the Palestinians will cooperate.
Egypt also opposes an Israeli demand that a new treaty supercede any previous Egyptian defense treaties.
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