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Kissinger.In Syria; gets Sadat to help SSSrarf" 0 I Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Sniowi ae au the parties con- talking of withdrawiTM 4 KAFFIYEH FOR KISSINGER DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -Secretary if State Henry A. Kissinger gained Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's assurance today that he will try to rally support at the Arab summit for interim agreements with Israel. "There are positive indications that we are making progress toward a just peace in the area," the secretary said at Sadat's residence outside Cairo. Kissinger also announced he would return to the Middle East the first week of November, following visits to Russia and the Indian subcontinent. After his talks with Sadat, Kissinger flew to Damascus for talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad.

Later, he Hies to Algeria. Sadat, the key leader in Kissinger's Middle East diplomacy, seemed to be walking on eggs as he agreed to take the initiative at the Arab summit in Morocco on Oct. 26. "Why am I asked about guarantees?" he exclaimed when a newsman asked whether Egypt was prepared to offer them to Israel in return for a withdrawal in Sinai. "I myself, need guarantees Sadat said.

But he added that he was "very op- timistic" about the summit. The West German news magazine Der Spiegel quoted Sadat as saying he would be ready to sign a peace agreement if Israel pulls back from territories occupied during the 1967 war. As Kissinger arrived in Damascus, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy flew to Moscow for talks' aimed at improving Soviet-Egyptian ties, arranging a visit to Cairo by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and reopening The pipeline practically dried up after Egypt backed U.S. diplomatic initiatives to end last October's Middle East war. In Jerusalem, former Defense -Minister Moshe Dayan signed a petition opposing Israeli withdrawal from occupied Jordan.

The petition was circulated by the right-wing opposition Likud bloc, and Dayan's action raised speculation he would quit Israel's ruling Labor party and join Likud. Asked about the prospect of Palestinian participation in future Geneva peace talks, Kissinger said, 'Negotiations between Jordan and Israel should start first. But as I have out previously, Delude all the parties concerned. A key goal of Kissinger's current trip has been to initiate separate Israeli- ,1 acd talks rather than to press for a full-scale eV v- ar ev Newsmen travelling witn Kissinger were told Sunday the secretary hopes to have new peace negotiations under way by the end of the After five hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other Israeli leaders Sunday. Kissinger said they had agreed on "principles and procedures" in future Arab talks.

The Israeli-backed strategy also won the support of Saudi Arabia's King aisal during Kissinger's brief stopover Sunday in Riyadh en route from Israel to Egypt. The American secretary arrived in Cairo Sunday night and held a post- midnight meeting with Foreign Minister Jsmail Fahmy before talking to Sadat today. Sadat's reaction to the proposals Kissinger brought from Israel was not disclosed. Newsweek magazine reported that on the Egyptian front the Israelis are talking of withdrawing 31 miles from present disengagement lines if Egypt indicates willingness to end the 26-year state of belligerency. But Egypt reportedly wants a bigger pullback.

War Minister Ahmed Jsmail warned Sunday that Egypt was prepared to resume fighting if Israel refuses to withdraw from Arab lands. Such threats have been common since the October war. While in Riyadh, Kissinger also won Faisal pledge to push for lower oil prices among the Arab leaders Although Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, frequently has pressed unsuccessfully for lower prices, the pledge was given Kissinger personally by the king, who wields a powerful voice in Arab councils. After his Damascus stopover, the secretary of state leaves for Washington, with an overnight stopover in Algiers for a conference with President Houari Boumedienne. The Algerian president has opposed partial pullbacks by the Israelis as tricks to delay their total withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.

flu-Chronicle 38 Pages Today in the News TRIAL STARTS The prosecution opened its case in the Watergate cover- up trial today by telling the jury it would prove that "the most powerful men in the government of the United States even including the President" conspired to block the investigation of the Watergate break-in. Richard Be Veniste, an an assistant special Watergate prosecutor, told the jury of nine women and three men: "We'will prove to you in the course of this trial that the attempts-of legitimate law enforcement were met by an effort to cover up the facts and obstruct the investigations by the most powerful men in the government of the United States in a conspiracy that even involved the President of the United States himself." MOTHER, SON DROWN A Federal Way woman and her son drowned in the icy Green River Sunday, but another youth was rescued, Pierce County authorities said Monday. Mrs. Linda Shuck, 24, died while trying to rescue her 4-year-old son, Duane, who also drowned, authorities said. Mrs.

Shuck's nephew, Daren Raines, 4, was rescued. The two youths had fallen into the river. ARMED ROBBERY A Vancouver convenience food store clerk told police that an armed robbery forced her to drink barbecue starter fluid and then her with it before he was frightened away by a customer. Eddie M. Lawson, 42, said she was opening the store this morning when a black man, about 35, entered the store and forced her to open the safe.

She said he forced her to drink the fluid mixed with wine when she had problems working the combination. GUABD HELD HOSTAGE A Monroe reformatory guard was held hostage for a short time Sunday night by two prisoners who wanle-i sack lunches and a package of cookies. Their demands were met and the guard was released unharmed. Pete Delaunay, spokesman for the state Department of Social and Health Services, said Monday. CAMPAIGN IN CENTRALIA Texas Sen.

John Tower will be in Washington Oct. 20 and Oct. 21 to campaign on behalf of 3rd Congressional District candidate Lud Kramer, it was announced Monday. Tower will speak at two fund raising events Oct. 20.

and on Oct. 21 Tower and Kramer will campaign in Centralia and Longview. FORD VETOE5 President Ford today vetoed legislation to cut off U.S. military aid to Turkey, declaring the measure would force the United States to withdraw from Cyprus peace negotiations and jeopardize the NATO alliance. 8th year, 75th issue On the inside "The United Nations completely jcores God's eristesce." Page 2.

Also the page, the Democratically- octrclk-d Congress continues many BXigraras that have outlived their uefulaass ia the Depjrtaeat of Health, Sducatioa and Welfare, aud we centime be deluded by the environmental Mrs. Elizabeth Ghent gels a nuzile from her 150- pound cougar, Loki La Pumo. The has caused problems with her Seattle neighbors, who say the A caf's caress animal's cries are a nuisance. A judge hos withheld a ruling for six months fo see if howling and barking hove subsided. AP Wirephoto Pet cougar poses problem, Seattle woman likes big pets SEATTLE (AP) -'Mrs.

Elizabeth Ghent likes animals big ones. And the biggest one is causing problems with her neighbors. The pet causing problems is Loki LaPuma, 150-pound cougar, who is the third generation of his family born in captivity. Mrs. Ghent also has a 55pound Dobcrman and a 35 pound golden cat from Thailand.

Every night, Mrs. Ghent muzzles her Doberman, puts the Thia cat in his cage and leads Lokie into the house at the end of a chain. "Come on curious cat," she tells him, stroking his head. Loki purrs like an obedient tomcat. Many of Mrs.

Ghent's neighbors say Liki's howling sounds' like the automobile ads on television. They filed a complaint with the city, charging Mrs. Ghent with having pels that are making "loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise." The neighbors also complain that the pet's waste products make the entire block smell like a zoo. And, they say, they are afraid for the safety of children in the area if the anima! should get loose. Pro-tern Municipal Judge Robert 0.

Duggah heard Friday from neighbors and members of the Animal Control Department. He then told interested parties he would delay a ruling on the matter for six months. He said if the howling and barking hadn't subsided by then, he would find Mrs. Ghent guilty of the nuisance complaint. Mrs.

Ghent told the judge that since she has learned of court complaints, she has brought Loki in every night and the noise has ceased. Mrs. Ghent said the fear that Loki could harm children is unfounded. To help quell rumors, she quit taking the cat for walks around the neighborhood, although Loki had been declawed before the complaint. "Animals like people," Mrs.

Ghent said. "The four-footed ones learn love from those around them just as humans do. Humans who haven't learned love as a child can't return it later on in life. Loki was born in a private zoo in Maine, she said, and has been "imprinted with humans." She once put Loki in a cage with other cougars, Mrs. Ghent said, and "he didn't eat for two weeks.

He went into a trancelike state and just sat there like a dead form. It took him two months lo return to normal." So now she brings him inside, where he sleeps in a stairwell, near the kitchen. She uses chemicals to get rid of the smell. "I've always been interested in animals," shesaid. "You might say they are my children." Remains of two women found Farm and garden news.

Page 3. Lewis County 4-H'ers are honored. Page 10. YACOLT, Wash. (AP) The two persons whose remains were found by a hunter Saturday were apparently murdered, Clark County Sheriff Gene Cotton said Monday.

"We're still trying to get some answers but the circumstances are very suspicious," Cotton said. "I do, at this point," suspect homicide, he said. Cotton said he also thinks the remains were those of two young women and that their nude bodies had been in this wooded area for several months. However there was no immediate evidence linking the remains to the disappearances of several college-age women from Washington state this year. Cotton said a half dozen deputies were resuming the search of the area in an attempt to find more bones.

Cotton said a hunter discovered a skull in the area Saturday and sheriffs office searchers subsequently recovered a second skull, lower jawbones and other bones. Sheriffs Sgt. Chuck Brink said long, fine hair, both dark brown and light brown, was found in the area. He said the hair and other characteristics indicated the bodies were both females, possibly persons in their late teens or early 20s. Authorities say a vertebra found at the scene may be too large to match the two partial skeletons, suggesting the possiblityofathirdbody.

Six young women have vanished in Washington state this year. The partial skeletons of two of them were recovered in early September near Seattle under circumstances similar to the Yacolt findings. SUNNY AFTERNOON WARMER Night and morning fog or low clouo's with sunny afternoons. Warmer with highs in 60s and lows in upper 30s end low 40s. Winds northerly 5-15 miles per hour.

Complete weather on page Sullivan, 72, dies NEW YORK (AP) Ed Sullivan, the Great Stone Face whose "really big shew" entertained millions of American television viewers on Sunday nights for more than two decades, is dead of cancer at 72. He died Sunday night at Lenox Hill Hospital, with Carmine Santulb, his aide and close friend for more than 40 years, at his bedside. Sullivan had been hospitalized Sept. 6, but his illness was a closely kept secret. Bob Precht, Sullivan's son-inlaw and head of Sullivan's TV production company, said the performer-columnist did not know that he had cancer of the esophagus.

A warm but poker-faced newspaperman who got into broadcasting in 1930 with a radio variety show, Sullivan made his debut on CBS with his weekly TV show in May 1948. The program was called, "The Toast of the fn its 23 years on television, the popular Sunday night program introduced to viewers such now-famous performers as the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and Dick Van Dyke. Although the show folded in 1971 because of low ratings, Sullivan continued hosting several specials a year. Sullivan, born in Manhattan and raised in Port Chester, N.Y., began his newspaper career 53 years ago as a $10- aweek reporter on the Port Chester Daily Hem. He drifted into sportswriting and started his Broadway column in 1931 on the now-defunct New York Journal American.

Even at the height of his television success, he continued writing his syndicated "Little Old New York" column, which in recent years ran twice a week. His last column was in today's editions of the New York Daily News. At ease behind the typewriter, Sullivan's television style was stiff, his delivery' halting, his verbal fluffs frequent. Performers and critics variously referred to him as the Great Stone Face, Smiley, the Miltown Maestro and Rock of Ages. Although a gracious man in private, Sullivan often feuded with the New York critics who rapped his show, among them John Crosby, whose criticism of the first Sullivan show was Why? Why?" He also occasionally battled with performers, such as singer Frank Sinatra, who aroused the Sullivan ire in 19S5 by refusing to appear on Sullivan's show for less than 525,000.

Sullivan, who in recent years lived at the Delmonico Hotel, an old show-biz hostelry on Park Avenue here, said in a 1972 interview that he was severely depressed when his weekly show was cancelled after 23 years. "When you're off the air, it's like being sentenced to the death chamber. It's sort of like a newspaper where you're doing your column and all of a sudden the managing editor says, 'I've got news for you, boy. You're Sylvia, his wife of 43 years, died in 1973. His survivors include his daughter, Betty Prechl of Scarsdale, N.Y.; his brother, Charles Sullivan of Port Chester, N.Y.; three sisters, Mrs.

Hugh Murphy and Mrs. George Hegel, both of Port Chester, and Mrs. Piercy Culyer of Manattan; and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending. Berry fan An unusual strawberry -shaped like a fan was found recently in the berry patch at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Dennis Gatster. Randle. The berry, displayed by the Gol- sters' son, Scott, 16, measured inches across. Chronicle Staff Photo by Jock Thayer 13 killed on state highways A young Washougal couple ho died in a car-train collision were among 13 persons killed in traffic accidents'over the weekend, the Washington State Patrol reportedMonday.The deaths push this year's toll to 580.

The latest death reported was that of Roberts. Town of Tacoma, who was killed in a two-car collision at a Tacoma intersection Sunday night. Donald W. Evans, 19 and his wife, 18- year-old Lucinda, were killed Sunday when their car collided with a train on the Burlington Northern railroad tracks at 24th Street in Washougal. Three persons were killed Sunday in a two-car collision two miles south of Aberdeen on Washington 105.

The victims were identified as Jean Marie Posey, 18, and Joanne Lundgren, 18, both of Aberdeen; and George Batinovich, 68, of Cosmopolis. Hermann M. Hermann, 58, of Seattle, died after his car struck a bridge abutment on the Airport Way overpass just south of Seattle Saturday. A 21-year-old Washougal man, Ronald T. Walling, died Saturday after his vehicle rolled over while attempting to make a turn from southeast Evergreen Boulevard onto southeast 39th Street in Seattle.

Relus M. Wilder, 66, of Harrington, was killed Saturday night when his pickup truck rolled over about six miles south of Fruitland on County Road 25. A young Seattle man was injured fatally in a one-car accident on west Emerson Place in Seattle Saturday. Police said Michael Emery Lischka, 19, of Seattle, was dead on arrival at Ballard Hospital. Gerald D.

Carver, 42, of Tacoma, was killed in a one-car accident in Tacoma Friday. His car went off the road and struck a tree on Park Avenue near south 104th Street. Phillip Ivarra, 22, of Arlington was killed Friday when his car failed to negotiate a curve and struck a tree 2.3 miles north of Lakewood on Third Avenue N.E. in Snohomish County Oscar Rodriquez, 44, of Wapato was killed in a two-truck collision Friday two miles north of Othello on Washington 17. Two Bremerton men died in a one-car accident in Chelan County about 29 miles west of Entiat on a Forest Service Road Troopers said Charles Finney, 22, and Michael V.

Getavesky. 34, were killed when the vehicle's brakes failed. Last year $23 persons had died in traffic accidents through Monday. Fatality Count OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) The 1974 Washington traffic toll as reported Monday by the State Patrol: 579 1973: Weekend: 12.