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STATE-IOfflOl 'Holidays on the Way your gift guide, is in today's Star College Football Army 17, Navy 14 Jacksonville State 35, NAU 0 Penn State 15, Pitt 13 Alabama 48, Auburn 21 BYU 68, UTEP 19 Colorado 13, Utah State 10 Texas 57, Texas 28 Baylor 48, TCU 9 Georgia Tech 16, Georgia 7 Tennessee 42, Vanderbilt 7 101ST YEAR STATE VOL 136 NO. 331 TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1977 35 CENTS 182 PAGES top of the news weather Syria rejects offer; militants to convene Wire Services w' vV I i jr -v i 5 1 a I v' I Compiled from CAIRO, Egypt President Anwar Sadat yesterday invited Egypt's Arab neighbors, Israel, the United States ani the Soviet Union to Cairo to prepare for a return to the Geneva Mideast peace conference. The call was promptly accepted by Israel and rejected by Syria. Sadat said later that he would negotiate "with the Israelis alone" if the other Arab countries refused to send representatives to Cairo. Following up on his dramatic visit to Israel a week ago, Sadat told the Egyptian parliament in a major address: "Cairo is ready, starting from Saturday next, God willing, to receive all the parties of the (Mideast) conflict." In an emotional, 80-minute speech punc-" tuated by table-thumping and bursts of applause, Sadat also declared that he was "proud" of his visit to Jerusalem, blasted the Russians and assailed Arab critics of his Israeli mission.

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin in Jerusalem said that as soon as Israel receives a formal invitation, "The Cabinet will decide who to authorize to represent it at the Cairo talks." In Damascus, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam said it was impossible for Syria to attend a Cairo meeting "because the road to peace is not through the Knesset." The reference was to Sadat's speech last Sunday before the Israeli parliament, which Syria bitterly denounced as treachery. In Beirut, preparations were said to be under way for a conference of Arab mili Slippery SlOD6 Tom Jasworski of Cas- Nevada. The biggest winter storm in three years in the tro Valley, takes a tumble while sliding down a Sierras brought big crowds to California ski slopes and snow-covered trill near Heavenly Valley in the Sierra resorts over the holiday weekend. (AP) Woman abducted in a sack comes home HIGH CLOUDS. The forecast is Tor variable high cloudiness accompanied by a slight cooling trend.

The high should be near 75 and the overnight low in the 40s. Yesterday's high and low were 82 and 47. A major storm brought snow and wind to the Northeast, while another storm produced extremely high winds along the central Rockies. The South and the Northwest were dry. The forecast calls for snow in the middle Mississippi Valley and scattered flurries over New England.

Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 92 at Northridge, and 21 below zero at International Falls, Minn. Details on Pages 4A and7A. local "SHARE YOUR HOLIDAYS." Many people in Tucson can't go home for the holidays. Others are in their homes but have no one with whom to share the festive season. Tucson also has many families and individuals who would enjoy sharing the hospitality of their homes for Hanukkah, Christmas or New Year's.

The Arizona Daily Star would like to help make the introductions. Page 1-1. MERRY MERCHANTS. The Christmas shopping surge kicks off, and Tucson's main retail centers experience an onslaught of traffic. All but one of six stores contacted in a spot survey report that sales are up over last year for the two days after Thanksgiving.

Page ID. FATAL PLANE CRASH. Two persons, one a captain at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, are killed when their light plane crashes in a westside neighborhood. Witnesses say the pilot was attempting an emergency landing on a street and apparently swerved to avoid a car backing out of a driveway. Page ID.

anzona SERVICES PLEDGED. Ed Crowley, the new Department of Economic Security director, outlines goals "to achieve and maintain the maximum level of human services" in the department and to make courtesy "the byword of DES employees" in dealing with the public. Page 2A. "DIPLOMA MILLS." The Board of Regents expresses concern about private educational institutions that do not require traditional academic work. The board will seek tighter controls on such institutions from the Legislature and from the main U.S.

college-accrediting body. Page 3A. national HONESTY TESTS. Written tests to gauge potential employees' honesty are far cheaper than lie detector tests, and consequently more popular with industry. But to pass them, a reporter finds, an applicant must take as rigid a view of others' honesty as he does of his own.

Page 1C. SNOWY GAME. Fiesta Bowl-bound Penn State turns back a two-point 'conversion run by Elliot Walker of Pittsburgh with 12 seconds to play on a slick, snowy field to give the Nittany Lions a 15-13 victory over the Panthers. Page IB. SHOPLIFTING PROS.

Every morning, a group of as many as 50 Chileans gathers in a 24-hour coffee shop in midtown Manhattan to discuss the day's work shoplifting. Police and private investigators estimate that as many as 1,000 South Americans are now operating in major, professional shoplifting rings in the New York area. Page SD. global ROMANIAN REVOLT. More than 2,000 Romanian troops patrol the coal-rich Jiu Valley where miners briefly held three government ministers hostage in August and forced President Nicolae Ceausescu to come to their village and hear their complaints about food, housing and pensions.

"For two weeks, things did improve," a miner says now, "then the troops came." Page 8A. comment COMMENT. Inner-city revitalization, once loudly heralded as just what Tucson needed, has quietly lost energetic support in government circles even though the city still needs it Page IF. EDITORIALS. An investigation into safety standards for mobile homes in Arizona by a special state House committee can do much to determine whether undue hazards exist and what can be done about them.

Page2F. index ActuaBdades 5D Lifestyle Bridge Names, IA Classified 5D-1IE Public Records MF Sports MM MC Travel 2-JJ Tucsoa 124 Financial tants to counter Sadat's policy of peace with Israel. Palestinian sources reported that the heads of state of Syria, Algeria, Libya and South Yemen as well as the head of the. Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasir Arafat, are to meet in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on Thursday at the invitation of Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader.

An Algerian official flew to Baghdad yesterday to persuade Iraqi president Ahmed Hassan Bakr to attend the meeting, the sources said. Ahmed Taleb Ibrahiml, a Mideast Utopia envisioned if lasting peace is reached. Page 50. political adviser to Algeria's president. Col.

Houari Boumedienne, had first held talks in Damascus and reportedly obtained Syrian President Hafez Assad's approval for a reconciliation with Iraq. i Iraq is still reluctant to set its differences with Syria aside, thus obstructing efforts to create a strong "resistance front" against the Egyptian president. The United States issued a statement saying a Cairo preparatory conference "could be helpful and we are consulting with the other parties." The cautious U.S. response to Sadat's invitation may have reflected statements by Syrian officials Friday that they see little or no hope for reconvening the Geneva conference this year. U.N.

Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim said in New York that he, too, was confer-(See SADAT, Page 2A) George Lewis His original offense was trespassing; Lauer had refused to leave an ice cream parlor. An autopsy failed to reveal a cause of death, and toxicologists are still evaluating the Since his death, a lot of people in the county correctional system, the courts and the mental health community have been asking themselves some hard questions. uia Marx Lauer aeserve to oe jail? Was he crazy? Should his death be blamed on an uncaring society that has ignored the needs of brain-damaged adults like Lauer? Is poor individual judgment to blame? Or was his death no one's fault? Judges with the City Court, which ordered Lauer jailed, are wondering whether locking him up was a ghastly mistake. Was there an alternative? They met last week to discuss the possibilities of preventing outer such occurrences, jail psychologist Kevin Gilmartin said. Lauer's mother and his attorney believe Lauer was sick and didn't belong in jail.

They say he was sent to jail because there was nowhere else to go. "He had a mental disorder. He wasn't dangerous or commitable, but at times he wasn't with this world. Talking with him, within four or five minutes, you knew he. wasn't with you.

He'd ramble on like a child or sure out into space and he just wasn't listening," attorney Garveo Videen said. "Incarceration wasn't the answer, but he did require some sort of supervision," he said. Gilmartin, who evaluated Lauer through the Pima County Court Clink, has a differ-(See SYSTEM, Page U) 4. 'Madness' alternative to abortion By MICHAEL PUTZEL The Associated Press WASHINGTON The head of the Carter administration task force on alternatives to abortion has disbanded the group after concluding that the only real alternatives are "suicide, motherhood and, some would add, madness." In a memorandum sent to Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Connie J.

Downey said her panel didn't have the direction, scope, authority or money necessary to attack the underlying problems of unwanted pregnancies. Califano, who like President Carter personally opposes abortion, has pledged to come up with alternatives. He received the memo several weeks ago but apparently has not responded. Califano's department attempted to keep the memo from the public. Downey, acting HEW director of special project planning, confirmed she had written the paper when she was asked about it.

But she said it was intended as "an internal working paper with no substantive proposals or program suggestions intended for the public." Eileen Shanahan, assistant secretary for public affairs and Califano's spokeswoman, denied a reporter's request for the memo. (See ABORTION, Page 7A) TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) An Ohio woman returned home yesterday after being held captive for two weeks by a man who kidnapped her, brought her to Florida in a sack and apparently planned to "set up housekeeping" with her, police said. Linda Sharpe, 29, told authorities that she was abducted from her Mid-dleburg Heights apartment near Cleveland about two weeks ago. She said she was tied up and stuffed in a canvas or cloth bag for the trip to Florida in the back seat of the kidnapper's car.

She was kept tied to a bed or in the bathroom of the man's rented trailer in Holiday, near Tarpon Springs, for a week and a half, she said. Her first chance to escape, she said, came when the man took her with him to a local store to purchase some bottled' gas. She said she managed to whisper to the store clerk that she was being held against her will, and the clerk summoned police. Officers scuffled briefly with the became tragically entangled in a solitary confinement cell half an hour after he was wrapped in a straitjacket to restrain him from smashing the window of his cell door. Sweating and in tears, the short, obese Lauer had been screaming for his mother death makes system a suspect Linda Sharpe Inmate's By GAIL YOAKUM and BOB SVEJCARA The Arizona Daily Star Why did a 22-year-old man with a brain disorder die in Pima County Jail? Was he a criminal? Was he a lunatic? Or was he a pathetic outcast of society who man, identified as George Lewis, 27, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, and then arrested him on charges of kidnapping, robbery, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

He was being held in Pinellas County Jail without bond yesterday. Sharpe, a teacher, spent Friday night at the home of police dispatcher Sandy Rogge, 30, and returned to Ohio yesterday. "She couldn't wait to get back home," Rogge said. "It had been such an ordeal. She just wanted to go home." After the abduction, Rogge said, "As time went on, he gave her more freedom.

He was apparently planning to set up housekeeping and, as time went on, have a relationship with her." Police said officers who searched Lewis' trailer found a note pad with the names of 30 women from Florida and Ohio. Detective John Danapas said Sharpe's name was on the list, but he declined to elaborate. and pounding his head against the wall begging for release, jailers said. He had been jailed for breaking probation making a threatening telephone call to his probation officer six days earlier, jail officials said. Health Services, which monitors in-, fluenza, said Dr.

Philip Hotchkiss, director of epidemiology. The same mild varieties that settled over the country last season are expected to return this year, predominantly A Victoria and Hong Kong strains, Hotchkiss said. The Hong Kong, which first appeared in 1968, has been relatively unchanged since 1972 and is less likely to produce epidemics although children are more suspectible to the strain. But the two might not be alone this year. They are expected to be joined by a new Texas-bred strain a "kissing cousin" of the A Victoria strain that has caused substantial outbreaks (See FLU, Page 2A) Influenza march joined by new Texas strain By GAIL YOAKUM The Arizoaa Dairy Star The influenza viruses are on the march again.

This season's invaders are not expected to be any worse than last year's, but they may be joined by a new strain. The germs have already appeared in Jamaica and Puerto Rico and are poised to enter the wintry United States to deliver sneezes, coughs and headaches, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports. Arizona's flu season usually lags behind that of colder regions, but the state's official flu watchers have been on the lookout here for several weeks. The Sunbelt flu season normally gets under way in mid-December and lasts through March. So far, no cases have been reported to the Arizona Department of TV Week precedes Secttea.