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NationWorld Page 3 Tuesday, November 14, 1978- tail an Arabs, Including timetables, the authoritative Al Ahram newspaper reported, In related developments: Israeli armed forces radio said Begin would propose to the cabinet that the talks be moved from Washington to the Middle East, where Israeli officials could have closer access instead of being 6,000 miles away. In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat Monday called for Moslem volunteers to join in a holy war to liberate Jerusalem, the Saudi Press Agency said. Proposals that the linkage Issue appear In the treaty preamble have been dropped, the conference sources said. Begin told reporters In Israel Monday, "The expression 'linkage' Is to my estimation artificial and has no meaning. Of course, there is a connection a connection of continuation," BUT EGYPT HAS called for both a general clause In the preamble of the treaty and an exchange of letters spelling when and how Israel will negotiate autonomy with Palestlnt- gin postponed a full cabinet review of the talks until Thursday to await the arrival from Washington of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, In Washington, conference representative George Sherman said: "There has been no decision taken to suspend the talks.

Both sides are considering the American proposals." Press secretary Jody Powell said Monday at the White House that "there have been no secret commitments, and our positions have been made public on these matters." THE DEBATE IS over tha degree of lin WASHINGTON Egypt and Israel recalled their top negotiators from Washington Monday as President Carter said on television that "It would be horrible" if a Mideast peace agreement were not reached. The negotiators went home to discuss what has been called "linkage" of issues. Carter was interviewed onva Public Broadcasting Service program, He said that both sides were being "stubborn" and that "little, tiny technicalities, phrases, legalisms" had bogged down the talks, In Israel, Prime Minister Menachem Be kage between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and future steps toward resolving the Palestinian Issue. Also, the status of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip, as called for In the Camp David accords, remains controversial. Carter telephoned Sadat and Begin Sunday to present his ideas on reconciling the opposing positions, Conference sources in Washington said the compromise called for a side letter to the treaty that would confirm Israel's commitment to negotiate Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza strip, That is stipulated in the Camp David accords.

Carter plains to upgrade civil defense WASHINGTON (AP) Th Carter auiiixiiisii auuu acuu muuuay mat more than half of all Americans would die in a nuclear war, many of them because of outdated fallout shelters. The administration approved a plan to save 146 million people if an attack occurred. They would survive because of large-scale evacuation of urban centers. The shelters now available in U.S. cities are not sufficient to meet the modern nuclear threat posed by the Soviet Union, said Bardyl Tirana, U.S.

civil defense director He said the Soviets were better prepared to protect their people during nuclear war. Tirana confirmed that President Carter had given his approval to the new evacuation plans on Sept. 29. No explanation was given about the delay between the approval and announcement of it. Civil defense officials estimate that 90 million people in the U.S.

population of 220 million would survive a nuclear attack. The aim of the new program is to increase the number of survivors to 146 million. Millions who live in cities would have to rely on makeshift shelters in subways or the basements of public buildings. Those shelters are viewed as becoming increasingly inadequate. "Times have changed and the needs have changed," Tirana said.

"A shelter is valuable against fallout. But unless you have a very expensive blast shelter, which we don't have, there's little protection in the area of orb Fiery mer over fishermen heading home near Charleston, S.C. The intricate patterns weave in and out of the water's delicate texture. In contrast to the grey days of late autumn, this early evening setting provides a spectacular burst of light. Cascading ripples of fading sunlight shim Egyptian coffin may hold John the Baptist discover without the collapse of the entire altar." Samuel said the manuscripts detail church history and date to the fifth century.

HISTORIANS SAY that John the Baptist, a Jewish prophet born about 4 B.C., was a cousin of Jesus. According to the Bible, his birth was miraculously foretold. John began a mission of preaching to the people of the Jordan Valley, calling on them to repent in preparation for the appearance of the Messiah. He adopted baptism as a symbol of his reformist campaign, and the early Christian church later transformed the symbol into a sacrament. John the Baptist's preaching and great popularity enraged the aristocracy.

century by Christians fleeing the oppression of Roman authorities. The Christians brought the remains to Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, the manuscripts indicate. The remains were moved tos the monastery during the early 11th century. The Cairo newspaper Al Ahram quoted the text of the manuscripts as saying: "The altar of John the Baptist. It was named thus because the body of John the Baptist, which was borne from Palestine in the days of Pope Theophiles XXIII, was buried in Alexandria.

And then he was transferred from it and buried in the monastery of St. Makarios during the days of the oppression." The text, Al Ahram reported, also states that the body "is buried at a distance of three qamat (about 18 feet), which is impossible to the native Christian church of Egypt and Ethiopia, have set up a committee to examine the find and report on it to the church. "The priests couldn't move the walls before for fear the building would collapse," Samuel said. The bishop is an assistant to Pope Shenuda II, spiritual leader of Egypt's six million Coptic Christians. They are doctrinally related to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

A Vatican official, the Rev. Romeo Panciro-li, said he had not known of the discovery. THE MONASTERY was founded about the fourth century during a period of Christian expansion in Egypt. According to the monastery's manuscripts, the remains of John the Baptist were spirited out of Palestine during the fourth CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Workers renovating an ancient Christian monastery in the desert north of Cairo discovered a coffin that church officials say may contain the remains of the prophet John the Baptist. John, according to Christian belief, baptized Jesus Christ.

"There are lots of bodies buried out there, and we have to be sure," Bishop Samuel, an official of the Coptic Christian Church, said Monday. Samuel is organizing an investigation of the discovery. "What leads the priests to think it is John the Baptist is a reference in church manuscripts, which says he was buried 18 feet from the altar," he said. The wooden coffin was found under the walls of St. Makarios monastery, 60 miles north of Cairo.

Officials of the Coptic Church, which is a striKe. He said planners had not decided how many Americans could be transported from their communities or where they would stay in the countryside. White House representative Jody Powell said that the new civil defense effort would not be a "new crash Dro- gram" and that spending increases would be moderate. Veterans Nationworld From page 1 '-7 f- -It: fi. i 'lautf'' A linn II ii n.liijii I ill i Mini I I viewed did not know that Leon County employs a veterans services officer, John Eubanks, to help them file claims with the VA.

Eubanks, whose office is located in the Leon County Courthouse, said Vietnam veterans sometimes are hard to deal with. "We've had more than one come In and tell us the solution rather than explain the problem," he said. "They have been somewhat negative at times." In a message to Congress last month, President Carter promised to add $90 million to the federal HIRE program, exclusively to help private companies hire Vietnam-era veterans. Not all Vietnam veterans feel that no one really cares about their problems. Some are working within the bureaucracy itself In an effort to change it.

Many veterans have been encouraged by the appointment of Max Cle-land, a triple-amputee as a result of injuries he received In Vietnam, to direct the Veterans Administration. A leader of the Disabled American Veterans said he very much wants to show Vietnam veterans that his organization can help them. lut unless Vietnam veterans become more willing to deal with the bureaucracy and political system, their problems with that bureaucracy may continue. "Vietnam veterans not participating in the established veterans' lobbies are missing a golden opportunity to channel input in the direction of Congress," Eubanks said. He suggested that special units might be created within the national veterans' lobbies for the veterans of Vietnam.

Almost every day, he said, he sees Vietnam veterans who need counseling. And he said veterans whose emotional problems surfaced more than a year after they left the military cannot receive government-paid treatment. But many veterans remain alienated from the political system they blame for the difficulties they experienced in Vietnam and upon their return home. Ardies said he long ago stopped expecting understanding from non-Vietnam veterans for the moral conflict he faced in the war and difficulties in readjusting to society. "It's like trying to tell somebody how it feels to be burned if they have never been burned," he said.

4 banks boost prime lending rate The prime lending rate a widely watched indicator of credit conditions was raised to 11 percent by several banks Monday. But none of the big New York banks followed suit. Analysts predicted that the industry would be cautious in adopting the new rate. The prime is the rate that commercial banks charge on loans to their best corporate customers. Because it is an indicator of general credit conditions, the prime often signals either higher interest rates on other loans or stricter loan conditions for certain consumer or mortgage loans, First National Bank of Chicago raised its rate Monday from 104 to 11 percent and was followed by two other Chicago banks and one in Philadelphia.

Coal pulverizer blows up, hurts 24 MORG ANTOWN, W. Va, A eoal pulvtrlzer exploded at a power station Monday, blowing out the building's sheet metal sides and injuring as many as 24 persons, authorities said. One ptrsen with severe burns was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital. Eight others were taken to Monongalia General Hospital in Mergantown. Officials said the accident started with a small fire and a small explosion in a coal pulverizer, which set off a larger explosion.

Coal pulverizers convert coal into highly volatile dust to create a quicker-burning, hotter fire in the boilers. Plains snowstorm strikes Canada A storm that unloaded heavy snow over the Reeky Meun-: tains and northern Great' Plains during the weekend drifted into Canada Monday, but Upper Mldwesterners were told not to expect an immediate respite from the cold. Temperatures were at the freezing level from the northern Rockies to Lake Superior, leaving scant chance that the snow accumulation would melt. And In other news. TRIAL LAWYER Percy Foreman testified Monday in Washington that jailhouse interviews convinced him James Earl Ray alone assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.

in the of becoming a white hero. Foreman testified before the House assassinations panel. Ray admitted in one lawyer-client interview that his conspiracy story on a mysterious contact named "Raoul" was a fake, Foreman said. A PAKISTANI businessman who revolutionized the Dallas disco scene by writing $2 million in checks for tips and prizes says the lavish spending was a gimmick to get publicity for his anti-Communist views. F.

Masood Khan, an official of the National Construction Co. of Pakistan, the government's overseas investment arm, told the Washington Star he had hoped to mobilize public opinion against the Carter administration's denial of military and economic aid to Pakistan. "The Vietnam War wasn't even a real war to them anyway," he said. Rightmlre takes medicine dally for lung damage he suffered when he was gassed In Vietnam. He claimed VA employees had Ignored his letters telling them the condition was getting worse.

Nevertheless, he has taken advantage of some VA benefits. For example, the agency paid for three years of schooling. Rightmlre was working toward a master's degree In geology at Florida State University when he dropped out last year partially because he could not support himself, his wife and two children on the 1448 a month he received. The educational aid Is one of several tax-paid programs available to Vietnam veterans. A federal vocational rehabilitation program pays for training of disabled veterans.

The VA guarantees mortgages for veterans go they can purchase homes without making down payments. Veterans can get free medical treatment at VA hospitals for service-related problems. And those judged qualified can receive tax-free disability payments for the rest of their lives. A VA spokesman In Washington defended the agency's performance in responding to the needs of Vietnam veterans. "We're dealing with almost 30 million veterans (including those of other wars)," he said.

"That's a lot of records, Sure, sometimes things fall through the cracks. But most veterans are satisfied." One dissatisfied veteran Is Bob Ar-dies, a former Marine who is studying hotel and restaurant management at FSU. "We're getting more money than the World War II veterans but you're lucky if you have enough left over to eat, he said. Ardles gets $592 a month in education and disability benefits. "But when you take out the tuition, books, fees and try to live like a human being, you just can't make it," he said.

The problems of some veterans may boil down to their impatience or unwillingness to deal with a bewildering, impersonal bureaucracy. For example, some veterans inter AP Nuclear foes Opponents of Kerr-McGee, a manufacturer of nuclear power equipment, take their protest to the street literally. They were In Wash-Ington Monday to partly block the entrance to the firm's headquarters. Visitors to the building still stepped over the protesters to get In. Swamp gas or close encounters, flying saucer accounts are rising If so, Kuwaiti Security Chief Brig; Mohammed al Hammad said Monday, it would be a first for the Arab state.

The Kuwait report wasn't the only recent saucer sighting around the world. South America seems particularly tuned in to the cosmos according to an Associated Press survey, UFO yarns have been spun this month in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Colombia. Prom Democrat wlrtt KUWAIT The first flying saucer in oil-rich Kuwait came without sound. It was as large as a Jumbo jet, cylindrical, with a huge dome and a flashing red light. After seven minutes in a Kuwaiti oil field, it took off without a trace.

That is the testimony of seven Kuwait Oil Company technicians, including one American, who said they saw it..