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5ft TODAY, Monday, July 18, 1177 TODAY News Analysis U.S. Walking A Tightrope By WILLIAM F. SCHMICK tOOAY WaiKlmtsn aiirtail rwTT WASHINGTON American diplomats in the Middle East are' forid of. comparing their task to that of a man trying t6 walk while balancing water on both shoulders. It's not easy, and if they tilt in one direction or the other or he Arabs they losirthe water and get soakedrln the bargain The United States isjhe chief water carrier or power broker in the Middle, East.

The current "US. peace" Initiative now "faces 'wliafiias come: to be" regarded as its greatest test the. first face to face meeting between President Carter and Israel's Prime Minister Menahem Begin on Tuesday. The stakes in America's involvement are huge, involving: Oil: Recurring energy crises have made. Arab oil that Important to the U.S.

and the U.S. that much more, vulnerable to an oil embargo. The 1.973 74 Arab em bargo cost the economy several billion dollars in lost production' and threw nearly half a million Americans out of Since then, the dependence on Arab oil has increased daily consumption now is roughly two times as great. Disarmament: U.S. pleas" for general disarmament ring hollow as' it continues to be the major arms supplier to the Middle.

East, single handedly fueling an arms face of alarming proportions. Largely because of supplies, the number of Middle East nations deploying supersonic w'arplanes has risen in the Heat Grills Natidn HOT, From 1A in a row, the Department of Water Resources declared a citywide water alert. Police and firemen were dispatched ULclpse ire. h'ydr ants left open by people playing in the water. At Jones Beach, about 25 miles east of Manhattan, Guy.

LombardO and his Royal Canadians drew a record crowd of 8,442 to their production of "Fini an's Rainbow" Saturday night and a record gross of $54,342, the highest amount collected in the 24 years the Marine Theatre has been in operation. One reason tor the smash, Lombardo said, was that the temperature there was in the 60s. The blanket concessionaire made record rentals 346 blankets at a blanket. In Utah, three firefight ersdied when a forest fire abruptly shifted directions, trapping' them behind a wall of flames. Only 40 acres had burned when the" men were killed Saturday, but by Sunday the fire had consumed 1,200 acres in the Ashley National Forest in northeastern Utah.

In Arizona, people swarmed to lakes and riv ers Sunday to escape desert temperatures soaring past the 100 degree rVlarkIt was 103 in Phoenix. Boston posted a record 97. at p.m The old ejprd Jor. July 17 waV, set in i.953. In drought stricken western Montana, a forest fire burned over 2,000 acres of land hear Missoula as temperatures there hit the 90s for the first time 'this summer.

Hundreds of people were evacuated' and Lfou houses were destroyed, but no injuries were reported as firefighters tried to halt blaze. In Philadelphia, tem jperatures on the AstroTurf floor of Veterans Stadium reached 120 for the second straight day as the Phillies played the Cubs in an afternoon baseball game, About 30,000 chickens have died during the past of 95 degree' heat "at Perdue Farms in Salisbury, Md while more than 50,000 have died so far this summer at Holly Farms in Crete, Vaj traditional communisnf. America hi lationsVf managlT(f with Egym past decade from .5 to 13. number vith anti air CTafMnissilesfrorn td2 9 and those with anti shippingshipping missiles from 1 to 8.. Since 1972, Iran has contracted for $11 billion worth of arms, Arab countries for $10 billion, and Israel for $4 billion.

East West stability; A. Middle East that is stable and relatively friendly to. the U.S. Hs essential to a peaceful power balance between the United Statesjmd. Soviet Union.

Conversely, a Middle East war inevitably challenges competitive US. Scf Interests and larger war. This was clearly demonstrated In 1973. Israel has no relations 'with Russia, In fact, a principal jsraeli argument agaTnst establishing ahlh dependent Palestinian state is that it might become a ussian surrogate, armed and hostile to IsraCVs Most Arab states have a antipathy to Since 1973, is. kept good re Jordan and better those and Syria, thanks mainly to their relatively moderate Money: The continue ing instability in the Middle East is costly and using, money that might be spent better elsewhere, Israel's defense costs last year alone cost U.S.

taxpayers about $1 .8 billion. Through bond sales and gifts, individual Americans sent Israel roughly $2 billion more. Amerlca's foreign aid program is strapped by try. ing to keep peace in the Egypt and Israel alone absorb $1.7 billion of the $1.8 billion budgeted for "security support assistance" a program designed, according to its director, quite simply "to persuade the' Israelis, and the Egyptians to back" out pf Jhe.Sinat:Desertarid Stop killing each other. U.S.

trade' with the Middle EasT involves scores'" of American Companies and is growing rapidly from $1 billion in 1971 to $6.9 billion in 1976 and an expected $40 billion by 1980V Mexicans Fire At Policemen GUN, From 1 A the following account: Three' members of the task force, including' the supervisor, Sgt. Jesus Lopez, were' conversing across the border fence with two Mexican nationals in Tijuana about 1 a.m. Sunday "when a marked Tijuana police car containing two uniformed police officers pulled up and ar rested the Mexican "Sgt. Lopez and the other officers then left the area of the border fence and went approximately 20 yards further into the United States. "One of the.

Mexican officers shined a light on them and ordered them to return to the, border. When they failed to do' so he pointed his revolver at" them andstated "that if "they would not return he would kill them. "When, Sgt, Lopez, and, his men hid in the bushes both Mexican, officers crossed the border into the United States walking under a washed outrsection of the fence. One (Mexican) officer then advanced toward the area where Sgt. Lopez was hiding.

"At which time Lopez exited from behind the bush and holding his badge in his hand identified himself as a San Diego police officer. The Mexican officer continued to advance and then struck Lopez in the chest with his guns. The ser geant ducked and then turned just as the Mexican officer 'ired one shot" which the sergeant uninjured after it glanced off his. bullet proof vest covering his right shoulder, "At (hat time Lopez and other members of the task force returned fire and the Mexicans continued Chacon. I Ittttttttttttfl A32Hirrttttttttti 'dtffffW nmH HP ru Jlft AY A i HHv III' JJ" iBlllkV today Stan Piwtoi ln Mocior CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN, STATE REP, GWEN CHERRY, CALtS FOR ORDER IN ORLANDO she adjorned convention without a vote on ERA or abortion resolutions Hr aHI WSmB ANTI ERA LEADER UPSET i Shirley Correll: vote illegal PRO ERA WOMEN CONFER AT MEETING SUNDAY many hollered 'E Ai E.R A In unison Sen.

Wilson: ERA Victory WOMEN; From 1A day's balloting for delegates; but adjourned the convention once and' for all at 1 p.m. without Sole on ERA abortion resolutions. Cherry said the delegates to the national 'conference1 'will carry those and more thanL30. other resolutions to that body anyway. Aali RA anti abortion leaders restated previous complaints that they were blocked from "placing all buf aTiatidfiirbf their candidates on the bal: lot for Saturday's voting.

"We had no opportunity to put up a full slate, but. we did the said Shirley Correll, a Lakeland housewife and head of the. Florida Action Committee for Education. She called the voting' "Illegal'. Another antL ERA leader.

Rani Davidson of Clearwateiv said. Jier. group will urge' the Pisiv dent and Congress to investigate the conference: Klan Cardholder Wanted to Help By BOB SCHWARTZMAN TODAY Staff Writer ORLANDO On the first night of the Florida Women's Conference he stood as doorkeeper at a conservative women's "group's hospitality ropm on' the top floor' of an Orlando hotel. "I'm just checking to see who comes in," said George Higgins Jr. "This is private The next day and the day after he was visible at convention sessions, mingling among the anti made UP' largely of Morrnon and Catholc women and members of Right to Life and Stop ERA groups." "I haven't Really told them who I'm with," Higgins admitted on the closing day of the weekend conference.

"I've been wai.ting till the last day, really, because a lot of people say they don't want any part of you if you're with the Klan." Higgins, carries calling card identifying him as, Grand Dragon of, the Realm of Mississippi, United Klans of America, rnc, Knights of the Ku Klux TODAY was unable to contact Klan leader? late Sunday to confirm the association. On the back of the card, a slogan reads, "The only reason you are White today is because your'ancesters practiced believed in segregation Yesterday." He came all', the way from his home in tiny. Liberty, to the Orlando convention to fight the "socialists" he claims were running the "I've never'seen an act of socialism as strong as I've seen it at this he; said "I don't believe, the Nazis were even this bad." Higgins says Klan lead in yariouVstates have "Correll the federally funded meeting was organized by a militant group of people who want to push for radical change in this country." Wilson, who called the conference a "victory" for the Equal Rights Amendment, charged 16 the contrary that "a very small, vocal set )utto: destroy the conference. The 'conference was paid for with $100,000 in federal funds, part of $5, million allocated by CongressCongress for conventions, in. each state; in connection with International Women's Year the convention, antifeminists.

complained that the conference co ordinating committee was dominated by ERA, supporters. They claimed that publicity about the' conference was so poor that many of their numbers knew, nothing about it unfTT a few days before it began. But the 'ERA loosely aligned with anti abortion groups as the "pro famjiy" faction, "undertook their own campaign to exert influence. Inside lillllttrrMMWWIi The Oval Off ice Prominent in their numbers were members of the Mormon church. Catholic women, evangelists and secular groups including Right' to Life and Stop ERA.

Though the ERA and abortion issues overshadowed the other purposesof the. conference some; non controversial, events did take place. More than 20 womeri who attended. workshop on Child Nutrition, for in "stance; "found "IhaF despite" their disagreement on the (wo large issues, they had one thing in common all were anti junk food. "A lot of people are actually pro junk food," said Carolyn Aidman of Tallahassee, "but we passed Several unanimous resolutions, in favor of better nutrition, whether we were for or against ERA and abortion." Other resolutions on such "issues as child care centers and aging women were' the products, of more than 50 workshops held during the conference.

Carter 'Vacations At the White House By DON CAMPBELL; WolMtntMl irM I WASHINGTON It is ironic; that Jinirjiy Carter will tour several states of his nativeSouth ThiTwreTtlvlthoJutfjrngfiywfiereTnearhis in Plains. Thomas Wolfe's famous adrnQnitidn. does not apply: Carter can go bomeiagajTri it'sjust rtiat it's really not worth the hassle The tourists and! speculators who've talten; over Plains make the prospect unpleasant. enoughTbut the situatfon in the Plains Baptist Church is even more depressing to someone' whose religion runs as deep as Carter's. As a result of the ouster.

of JhJ, Rev, Bruce, Edwards because of his tolerant racial views, one segment of the church membership; led by has broken 'away from the. church. If Carter, who has transferred his membership to the First Baptist Church here, were'to end up In Plains on a Sunday, an aide speculated last week, he would worship at: the Old church and not withthe breakaway considers that his the aide said, But don't hold your breath until Carter shrijys, up in Plains on a Sunday morning again. In this respect. Carter is somewhat different 1 from other modern day presidents" in.

be seems to feel no Special urge to get out of the White House on the John Kennedy shuttled between Washington and Hyannis: Port and Palm Beach; Lyndon Johnson proved hard to Jive if he stayed away, from his Texas ranch.more than two weeks" running; Richard Njxori had elaborate vacation White. Houses at Key Biscayne and San Clemerite and visited each frequently. But Jimmy Carter has no vacation White. House, and his aides say it is questionable whether he ever will. vacations, such as they have been spent at a l300 acre plantation on St.

Sipions Is land, rented from anheir to! the Reynolds tobacco Bagiey. apparently likes St, Simons because" it is relatively isolated and. provides him the oppor tunity to fish and pjay tennis, two of his favorite' portSi He has also taken.a liking to Camp presidential: retreat in Maryland's Catpctin Mountains, again', according to an aide, because of the relative solitude of the place. He has been there five or six mostly relaxing, but spent the entire two days of thelast weekendln June there reaching his decir sion ta abandon the Bl bomber; There are plenty of things to do at Ca.mp David, if Carter is Inclined: A movie theater bowling lanes, tennis courts and a swimming pool and. even; enough staf rarouhd to get game of Softball, which Carter did over the July 4 weekend.

The. White House, of course, has all those things, and more. whether it is the novelty JLor to begetting bored with living there, He swims and bowls with daughter Amy frequently, an aide reports Weather permitting, he plays tennis most after noons'with political aide Hamilton Jordan. Delegates Vote for ERA ence to be held in Houston in November, Most states and territories, held their meetings last weekend. In Indiana, a coalition of, politician conservatives, religious fundamentalists and anti feminists dominated the Sunday meeting, winning 31 of the 32 national delegate seats frustrating the meeting's organizers.

By tin Attoclottd Prtit Delegates at a Kansas women's, conference voted in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment Sunday, then elected a slate of national representatives mostly opposed to the ERA. meeting was one of the last in a series planned to elect delegates and recommend resolutions for a national women's confer 3 Bodies to Leave Korea GEORGE HIGGINS JR. he waited to tell been in contact and have sent representatives to several women's conferences "We controlled the one in Mississippi," he said. Higgins, who wore a beige suit and wire rim glasses, at Sunday's sessions, said a few members of the Florida Klan were present in Qrlando. A scattering of mem "6f other 'right wing' 'groups, Including'the" John' Birch Society the.

American Nazi Party, were also among the anti feministfeminist forces, Higgins said, but. he had no contact, with. them. "Most of the John Birch Society people aren't here as Birchers, but as members of other groups who happen to be Birchers," he said. "AnlT in my personal opinion, the American Nazi' Party is just another Communist organization.

They believe in white and that's good," said Higgins, "but they have all those other things that kills them in my eyes." Leaders of. Mormon, Catholic and anti feminist groups expressed dismay when asked whether' they knew that, a selt professed Klan member had been aiding their i WORLD TODAY Wirt Svrvlctx South" Korea The bodies of three AmericansAmericans killed when their helicopter was shot down in North. Korea were 'to begin the journey home today, the U.S. Army announced. A fourth crew member of the twiri rotor Chinook' who survived without serious injury was being treated at a military hospital in Seoul.

An army spokesman said the bodies would be placed aboard a C130 transport that would leave Seoul's Kimpb in ternational airport at 1 a.m. (EDT). The plane is to fly to, Yokota air base in Japan where the bodies will be transferred to another plane for the trip to the United States, the spokesman said. The dead were identified as the pilot, CWO Joseph A. Miles, 26, of Washington, Sgt, Ron 22, of El Paso, Robert Haynes of Anniston, Ala.

'Soviets'. Launch Earth Satellite MOSCOW The Soviet Union launched a new satellite into orbit around the Earth Sunday, the offical Tass news agency announced, said, the Cosmos 929, carried "scientific instruments, to continue space research" and the instruments were "functioning normally." The Cosmos. sateK lit'es have been unmanned experimental craft. 25. Plane Passengers Rescued MANILA, The Philippines Fishermen In.

outrigger "'canoes rescued 25 persons from a Philippine Airlines do mestic flight that ditched in the sea a half mile short of its destination in' the central Philippines, authorities said late Sunday. Passengers said the twin engined plane developed trouble in the left engine and the craft quickly' tost altitude during the Sunday afternoon flight, passengers and four crew members. were taken to a hospital in nearby Cebu City, but doctors said none had suffered serious injuries, Tlreaccident happened as the plane approached Mac tan Airport', 360 miles southeast of Manila. NATION Looters Face PunishmenB TODAY Wirt Strki NEW YORK New York's political leaders called Sunday for heavy punishment of looters and arsonists who made last week's blackout a nightmare for millions of law abiding citizens. "They'll be given all constititional consideration," jjut there must be tough justice, Mayor Abraham D.

Beame. told a City" Hall news conference, I have no sympathy for the looters stuck in jail," and joblessness ar? "no excuse for said5en. Jacob Javits, N.Y., "and anybody convicted ought to be very drastically punished." Calls for hardline Justice, however, met opposition from the New York Civil Liberties Union, which attacked the mass arrests and slow arraignment of 3,521 looting and vandalism suspects. Bomb Threat Empties Plane i'iAT IO A bomb threat forced the evacuatiorTof 253 passengers and 13 crew' members from an American Airlines jet moments before it was to take oft for Los An geles Sunday. Investigators searched the DC 10 but found no expfi.

said plane was taxiing down "aV O'Hare International. Airport runway for takeoff When 2 woman passenger told a stewardess that a bomb wit aboard. Human Rights Stand Given Slap' NEW YORK The president of France ay, PrJi dent Carter has broken "the code of conduct of with his campaign calling for human rights in the SnvS, Union and elsewhere. 5ovt. In an interview with Newsweek magazine Ft PresidentValery Giscard d'Estaing thi cod.

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