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-LATEST- RUPIMR Dow tumbles in wake of peace try failure 'NEW YORK Prices on the New York Stock Exchange today suffered their worst pum-meling in more than four months following the collapse of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's Middle East peace mission. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average was down 17.28 points to 745.78 late in the day with blue chips and high-priced glamor stocks taking the brunt, including such investors' favorites as General Motors, IBM and Eastman Kodak. STOCKS BONDS Miami, Monday Afternoon, March 24, 1975 Price 10c is i (Br i itps Associated Prest Israeli troops patrolled their country's borders in a state of alert today amid rising tension generated by the failure of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's peace mission. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy predicted that the tension would get worse. However, Israel, Egypt and the United States all indicated that they were prepared to attend Middle East peace talks in Geneva to seek a settlement.

President Ford welcomed Kissinger back to Washington from his 16-day mission and pnased him for making "maximum efforts" to achieve an agreement between Israel and Egypt. He said the U.S. quest for peace in the Middle East was ended only "on a temporary basis." U.S. officials told newsmen accompanying Kissinger home that the secretary of state is convinced his personal diplomacy is dead after running into "irreconcilable" differences between Israel's and Egypt's terms for a new withdrawal of Israeli forces in the Sinai desert. The officials said the Arab-Israeli peace conference in Geneva is likely to get under way in May.

At the conference Israel would have to face all her Arab adversaries, including probably the Palestine Liberation Organization, instead of ne- gotiating with them one by one, the strategy that Kissinger devised. The United States and the Soviet Union are co-chairmen of the conference, which has met only once, briefly, and did nothing then. Its resumption has long been demanded by the Russians, the Syrians and the Palestinians, but until la: weekend Egyptain Piesident Anwai Sadat stuck with Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy. Taiimy torn newsmen his govern-ment would make a formal request "within days" for the return to Geneva. "We are willing to go to Geneva." said Israeli Premier Yitzhak ivabin.

Fahmy said the collapse of Kis- shuttle negotiations left a "very dim" situation, and he did not exclude the possibility of new fighting. "The tension is there and it will be much higher," he said. Egypt and Israel blamed each other for the deadlock. "Dr. Kissinger felt it sterile to continue because of Israel's behavior," said Fahmy.

Rabin in a news conference confirmed that Israel had refused to modify its demand for a nonbelligerency p'edgp from Egypt in exchange for the Mitla and Gidi passes and the Abu Rudeis oilfield. Sn na mum 6ii i a FAA cites air tower's tissue trt I A 1 It cyi''i fatal error VST'. Jr Auocittri Frtu SEATTLE, Wash. An Air Force C-141 jet transport with 16 persons aboard crashed in the Olympic Mountains after an air traffic controller gave it descent instructions intended for another plane, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said today. The federal agency said 'an air traffic controllerat the FAA's Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center had both the C-141 and a navy A-6 jet under his control last Thursday night.

Both aircraft were at 10,000 feet, 60 miles apart. The Air Force plane was heading south, the Navy plane north, the spokesman added. The unidentified air traffic controller "inadvertently radioed descent instructions to the Air Force plane" instead of the Navy plane, the spokesman said. "The controller identified the Navy, plane, on his radar scope and wanted to instruct it to descend to 5,000 feet," the spokesman said. "But instead of calling 'Navy he radioed 'MAC 0641' (the Air Force plane).

Soon afterward, the controller realized his error, but the C-141 already had crashed." The plane piled into the side of Mt. Constance at about 6,000 feet. The mountain rises 7,900 feet. The FAA statement came as Army and Air Force personnel attempted to establish a base camp for recovery of the remains of the J6 men who died in the crash. The plane crashed shortly before midnight Thursday, only minutes before its scheduled arrival time at McChord Air Force Base near Taco-ma.

The wreckage was sighted Friday, but winds and poor visibility prevented rescuers reaching the site until Saturday, when they found no survivors. The jet carried a crew of 10 and six Navy passengers. Associated Press Wire photo One of many industrial buildings demolished by tornado in Atlanta Tornado kills 3 in Atlanta and rips governors mansion Associated Freis WASHINGTON President Ford ordered today "a total reassessment" of American policy in the Middle East which a State Department official hinted could result in reduced U.S. aid to Israel. At the same time, the President's chief spokesman said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger does not consider his step-by-st'ep efforts to achieve a Middle East settlement exhausted.

Ford's order to reassess the nation's Mideast policy was reported by press secretary Ron Nessen, who told newsmen the reassessment would include "all aspects" of the policy. The Senate, meanwhile, unanimously adopted a bipartisan resolution supporting the efforts of Ford and Kissinger to achieve peace in the Middle East and urging that they continue. At the State Department, spokesman Robert Anderson said there was no question that U.S. military and economic assistance for Israel would continue, but he indicated the degree of support could lessen. Under questioning by reporters, Anderson acknowledged that the over-all U.S.

attitude toward Israel would be reviewed. He said a reassessment would be made of American relations with Arab countries as well. When asked if the administration would cut back on its multi-billion aid program for Israel, Anderson said the aid level would "go through the normal congressional process." But he did not, as in the past, repeat that the administration would unequivocally support a request submitted earlier for aid to Israel. Nessen said both the President and Kissinger were "hopeful of resumption, in some form, of peace talks. "The door is open for talks to continue in whatever forum the two sides think best," Nessen said.

"There certainly was a momentum toward a peaedful settlement, and the President and the secretary hope it will continue." Asked whether there was a chance for resumption of Kissinger's step-by-step effort, Nessen emphasized that the talks "have only been suspended" to give the two countries a chance to reassess plans. Ford and Kissinger met with congressional leaders of both parties for 80 minutes this morning to discuss the Middle "East. Kissinger, who returned from several weeks of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East yesterday, briefed the congressman on his efforts. At the State Department, Anderson was asked about a report that Ford sent a harshly worded note to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week. Anderson said the note could not be characterized as harsh and added that it contained "no threat to Israel at all." He said the United States has never been opposed to reconvening the Geneva conference.

"In the light of what has happened," Anderson said, "we would have no objection." Nessen said the President decided on the re-examination of Middle East policy after meeting with Kissinger last night. At the meeting with lawmakers, Nessen said, "the President did not intend to assign blame" for suspension of Kissinger's efforts although Ford said he was "greatly (Earlier story on Page 1A) Associated Press ATLANTA A tornado which whipped through Atlanta during the morning rush hour today claimed three lives and injured dozens of others and caused extensive damage to the Georgia governor's mansion, At least 50 persons were treated at hospitals and dozen of others suffered cuts and bruises when the twister lifted roofs, flattened buildings and shattered windows. Mayor Maynard Jackson declared a state of emergency and issued a call for volunteers. He also said he would make a request for federal diaster aid. Some 200 state troopers were called in to help prevent looting and relieve traffic congestion.

Gov. George Busbee reportedly was in the shower when the tornado thundered across the two-story Greek Revival mansion, and he shouted a warning to his family. The twister knocked down the huge fluted columns in the front of the $1.4 million mansion and tore off most of the roof. One of the columns crashed into an unoccupied bedroom, "We heard a roar and knew something was hitting," Busbee said. "It had to be a tornado.

Some of them; I think, saw it coming before it hit. It was about 60 or 70 feet above the ground. "All the front part of the mansion has been destroyed. The main walls are intact but all of the colur-ns have been blown off the front." Rescue workers, toiling in a heavy rain, dug into the rubble of homes and businesses throughout the day, searching for additional victims. A U.S.

mail terminal was flattened when the twister wiped out a two-block industrial area. More than 30 huge tractor trailers used to haul mail were overturned or crushed. Tires were ripped from some of the trucks, and huge strips of aluminum from the trailers were hanging from trees. the victims were identified as Arthur Harold Sausmer, 29, of Do-raville, crushed in his car; Mark Howard, 24, of Atlanta, who in the warehouse, and Catherine Hunken, about 55, of Atlanta. A Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.

employe, Jim Scott, said he saw the tornado coming. "It wasn't a funnel. It was a low, black cloud blacker than black. I thought it was a bomber in trouble." The twister spun out of storm c.louds that rolled across the metropolitan area in a northeasterly direction. It demolished a shopping area and flipped cars and trucks ipside down as it hit a nearby commercial district.

Rescue workers said the hardest hit area was an industrial business district, where they said at least 60 buildings had been either demolished are severely damaged. Daily Double pays $50.40 My Darling Finisia ($8.40) and Wash Belle ($10.80) combined for a 5-9 Daily Double that paid $50.40 this afternoon at Gulfstream Park. Scale tips in Communists' favor New coalition formed in Portugal Buddhists urge Thieu to resign Associated Prtis SAIGON An opposition group today urged President Nguyen Van Thieu to resign because of the deteriorating military situation in the country. It was the- first such call since the North Vietnamese offensive began earlier this month and the first time the group cited military setbacks as a reason for Thieu's ouster. Sen.

Vu Van Mau, chairman of the predominantly Buddhist Forces for National Reconciliation, said at a news conference at Saigon's An Quang pagoda: "Thieu has lost more land recently than in the past 20 Ntwi iirvict LISBON Portugal's armed forces movement and the civilian political parties have -reached general agreement on a new provisional government, Information Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino said today. 1 The new government probably will be announced in the next 24 hours, he said. The coalition will have the same Three PPD offices in Faro and Oporto were wrecked over the weekend in clashes between PPD and Communists and extreme leftists. Although Jesuino hinted that the political balance of the reshuffled government would be similar to the present one, the inclusion of the MOP tips the scales in favor of the Communists. They have been in the jjwnrisrnt with the Socialists and the PPD since it was formed last May.

Jesuino said the main purposes of the reshuffle were to increase its efficiency and reorganize responsibility for economic affairs. Jesuino confirmed that the tary revolutionary council set up after the abortive rightwing' military coup 13 days ago was the supreme authority in the land. The government's present role is to executerthe council's decisions. political balance as before, except that the Portuguese Democratic Movement (MOP), a close ally of the Communists, will be included for the first time, he told a press briefing. This confirms previous reports that the center-left Popular Democrats (PRD) will remain in the gov-iernment desnit? strong opposition' from the Communists, who have cused them of being linked with fascism.

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