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8 SYRACUSE POST STANDARD, October 12, 1974 Kuwait Envoy Sees Mideast Facts Emerging By LINDA R. MYERS Al Sabah pointed out American popular misconceptions about the Arab oil cartel last fall. Contrary to belief, he said, "the cartel started in Iran. Then the Arabs said, 'why In recent newspaper and magazine articles, a great deal of publicity has been given to the new Arab petrowealth, Kuwait recently spent $17.4 million of its oil money to purchase the coastal island of Kiawah, 20 miles off Charleston, S.C. "In your papers you read that the Arabs are buying your South Carolina island," the ambassador said.

"Yet you don't realize that one half of Los Angeles was bought by the Japanese. "We are not coming to buy American industry," he added. "We don't have the people to manage it. "We cannot take General Motors and run it," he said. The priorities of the Arab countries are not to drain the power of the West, he said.

"We are a rich nation," he admitted, "but we're going to use our dollars to develop our he noted. "Yet that doesn't mean we'll drive the Zionists into the sea. "Both should live together like the American nationalities," he said. "If they don't settle it peacefully, the only alternative is war," he claimed. Local organizations sponsoring the ambassador's visit and the NAAA meeting are headed by Mrs.

Helen Merri gan, president of Christians Aware of the Middle East and Hassan Kadah, president of the Arab American Association of Syracuse and an NAAA board member. Speaking in addition to the ambassador at the dinner at Hotel Syracuse's Persian Terrace, were the Rev. David F. Cunningham, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, and Msgr. John G.

Nolan, president of Pontifical Mission for Palestine and national secretary of Catholic Near East Welfare Association. A well organized blanket of propaganda has kept the facts of the Middle East situation from the American people, Salem S. Al Sahah, ambassador from Kuwait to the U.S. told The Post Standard last night. The ambassador and Madame Badria Al Sabah were honored guests as the National Association of Arab Americans conducted a dinner dance last night noting Arab Recognition Week.

At a reception prior to the dinner, the ambassador asserted, "They cannot hide the facts any more." A new objectivity towards the Arab situation has been engendered by America's thirst for oil. "I am happy and pleased that America now wants to know about the Arab peoples," he said, adding that the means was regrettable. country and other developing nations. "We give aid to all Arab countries except Saudi Arabia with no strings attached," he said. Aid given to the various small sheikdoms is left in the hands of the individual administrations.

Kuwait aid to Abu Dhabi has made that nation "as wealthy as us," the ambassador said. The new prosperity in his country has made many changes, Al Sabah said. "Now our people travel a lot. Our women are starting to wear mini skirts." He was firm about the Israeli Palestinian problem. "The Israelis should get out of there if they want to live," he asserted.

"The Palestinians have been displaced by the Israelis," Anti Pay Hike Views Mellow By DON LAWLESS Sentiment against granting themselves substantial pay raises has mellowed as Tuesday's vote of the county legislators on the 1975 county operating budget draws closer. Yesterday Minority Leader Michael J. Bragman, 3rd District, submitted four budget amendments to the County Attorney's Office that would reduce the budget and the projected $4.21 per $1,000 assessed valuation tax rate. An amendment to reduce or eliminate pay raises for county legislators was not among Motorist Charged Isom Wilson, 39, of 123 Bishop was arraigned yesterday in Police and Traffic courts on five charges stemming from an incident Wednesday in the vicinity of the 900 block of E. Colvin Street.

Policemen Paul D. Serbun and John Burns Jr. said they stopped Wilson in his car on the street after clocking the vehicle at about 50 miles an hour in the 30 mile an hour zone. The policemen said that Wilson drove away when they asked him for his driver's license. Wilson abandoned the car, leaving its motor running, on a lawn in front of 114 Bishop Serbun and Burns said.

the policemen said a pipe containing hashish residue was found in the car. Wilson pleaded innocent before Judge James R. Anderson in Police Court to a charge of seventh degree criminal possession of a controlled sab stance. The suspect pleaded innocent before Judge Joseph F. Falco Traffic Court to charges of speeding and driving without a driver license, veftfcfe registration and ftsurauce.

Bail for Wilson was set at iim. He is tttafofaJ to reap. OdL Traffic them. Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, led by Bragman, had opposed the pay raises during the committee's review of the budget. Bragman said Democrats would meet in caucus Monday evening and one of the subjects to be decided is the salary raises.

The proposed budget recommends salary increases for all county legislators from $6,400 to $8,500. The minority and majority leaders would go from $9,095 to $12,000 while the legislature chairman would jump from $13,375 to $17,000. In townMall Set to Open One hour inside parking for free will be offered Syracuse Mall shoppers. The mall will open Monday. The.

free parking will be in the former Edwards parking garage, now the Syracuse Mall garage. Another opening feature will be a quilt display, including antique quilts, by Jim Rausch on the "Village or lower level. There will also be a "grass roots" band conducted by Shanderkon Wood playing on the lower level. The quilts and the band music will be there all week and will be followed by other crafts exhibits and musical features. Including the restaurants, bakery and other retailing businesses that haven't ceased operating since the bankrupt Edwards store went out of business, the mall will open next week with about 15 stores.

A number of retailers are negotiating with the Sutton Real Estate management, a spokesman said, for space in the unique downtown "under one roof" mall operation. One possibility is a "boutique type" eating place offering snack foods on the lower level, in keeping with the village square atmosphere. The feasibility of a convenience banking operation is also being explored. Of Forgery Former Syracusan James A. Gokey pleaded innocent yesterday in U.S.

District Court to a charge of forging his parents' names to a financial statement and five counts of making false statements in a loan application here in May of last year. Standing before U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Port yesterday, Gokey was dressed in a neat blue shirt and black slacks and a rumpled hooded windbreaker. He told the judge he has no assets, no car, not even a stereo phonograph to sell in order to hire a lawyer. Port found him incapable of providing his own defense and assigned local attorney Morris B.

Swartz to handle his case. Gokey is charged with forging his names to a statement of their finances and five counts of misrepresenting his own financial status in order to obtain a $10,989 loan from the Oneida National Bank and Trust Co. inUtica. Gokey was brought to his arraignment here from Florida where he faces state charges in connection with the purchase of a $4 million yacht and a Cadillac with checks allegedly the Everett Emerson Construction Co. of Miami, where he worked as a bookkeeper for $119.84 a week.

But in some parts of Florida he wasn't known as Gokey, authorities said. He was known as J. Allen Durham, heir to a North Carolina tobacco fortune, who went on expense paid trips as the gtiest of the Lear Jet which was priming him to boy a fleet of planes, they sard. Gokey's itinerary is still quite hectic, shuttling from Florida, where he faces state charges, fo Sytaevse and California, where he faces federal charges. If convicted of the local cmh he eonld he sentenced to a of 14 yem jail The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Majority Leader Willis Sargent, 11th District, cancelled the raises out at the conclusion of their week long review of the budget.

But the raises were restored in a special session of the committee four days later after the County Attorney's Office notified legislative leaders that further discussions on pay raises would be prohibited by state law if they remained out of the budget after Oct 1. The committee's Republicans and Democrats voted unanimously to restore the raises for the purposes of discussion but not in a vote of approval or disapproval according to Sargent. Confusing the pay raise issue for legislators are proposed pay hikes for the sheriff and county clerk positions. Both jobs are up for election in November and almost everybody agrees both are underpaid. The sheriff's job presently pays $20,000 and the county clerk, $17,500.

Their salaries would go to $25,000 and $20,000 respectively if the budget is approved. Because both positions are constitutional officers," their salaries are fixed for the term of their three years. Once their terms begin on Jan. 1, there can be no local pay raises for the incumbents. The legislators, however, are not so restricted, and could legally vote themselves a raise annually if they wanted.

Almost every legislator agrees they are underpaid but are concerned about voting for increases at the same time county taxes are taking a substantial jump. Democrat Timothy Rice, 18th District, said he is opposed to pay raises beginning Jan. 1 but would favor an major increase after the election (November, 1975). Another Democrat, Donald Sullivan, 15th District, said pay raises now was "like stealing" from the taxpayers. Republican legislators Nicholas Pirro, 16th District, and Thomas Wallace, 5th District; attempted to have raises limited to 5,5 per cent but were defeated.

Another Republican Howard Hurst, 4th District, said he has never accepted a public office because of the salary and was not interested in the raise. But on the other side of the issue are a number of legislators, the majority, that interpret the lack of public outcry on the raise issue at the public hearing on the budget as tacit approval by the public of the pay raises. Others see a compromise increasing legislators to $7,500, the same as city as a possibility. But Bragman said he didn't believe his Democrats would support a compromise figure. "I think we would support the entire raise or reject it on principle and not on the dollars involved," Bragman said.

Tuesday's hearing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. in the courthouse chambers of the legislature. Bishop David Cunningham of the Roman president of the Arab American Associ Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, left, chats ation. The ambassador was speaker last with Salem S. Al Sabah, ambassador from night at a dinner dance at the Hotel Syr Kuwait to the United States, right, at a re acuse Persian Terrace, ception given by Hassan Kadah, center, Youth's In Shot ByJOHNWISNIEWSKI Michael D.

Piquet, 18, of 123 Colby charged with in 1 juring three youths Thursday night with a shotgun blast, entered a mandatory plea of innocent yesterday in Police Court before Judge James R. Anderson to a felony count of first degree assault. Investigators said a 19 year old boy told them that he, Piquet, and several other youths were sitting on Piquet's front porch when a truck carrying six other youths stopped at the curb. Riding in the truck were driver Thomas Feher. 17, of 207 Florida Road; Stephen Ci milluca, 17, of 749 Taft Lance Seyer, 17, of 6103 Taft Road, North Syracuse; and Nicholas Carno, 17, of 435 Kirsch Drive; Raymond Dreil ing, 17, of 405 Richfield and Thomas Wallace 17, of 107 Boston Road, all of Matty dale, investigators said.

The occupants of the truck shouted, threw pears and rode Out patient Center St. Joseph's to Expand A further expansion of facilities of St. Joseph's Hospital and Health Center, 300 Prospect was noted'yesterday. The city's Bureau of Safety inspection reported issuing the hospital a $132,700 building permit for construction of a frame out patient treatment center at 408 Hickory St. new building will be 48,1 by 70 by 19.5 feet and will be completely equipped with a sprinkler system.

The construction will be by Carpenter Northeast Min oa. Casey Goodwin, 101 Westcott took out a $1,400 remodeling permit for repair of the east wall of his one family dwelling damaged when it was hit by a car. New clapboards, a new window and a sheet rock wall will be installed. Huston Smith, 887 Salt Springs Road, was issued a $2,700 remodeling permit for a one family frame dwelling. He will construct a 16 by 18 foot addition.

Bail $2,500 gun Case away, the witness told investigators. According to investigators, the witness said Piquet got a shotgun from his house and when the truck returned to the scene Piquet fired once. The blast shattered the rear window of the truck's cab, investigators said. Carno suffered gunshot wounds of the left shoulder, left arm and back. He was listed in good condition yesterday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.

Feher and Dreiling suffered cuts from the shattered glass. They were treated at the hospital and released. Piquet was arrested about, 1:15 a.m. yesterday at the home of a friend in the 100 block of Peck Street, in Judge Anderson set bail for Piquet at $2,500. Piquet is scheduled to reappear on Oct.

25 in court. SU Gear Missing More than $3,000 worth of computer and television equipment yesterday was reported stolen from a Syracuse University building. Patrolman John Magdon said an information system computer terminal, valued at $1,650, and a video television camera, valued at $2,000, were reported taken from Link Hall. Magdon reported the door to Room 218, where the equipment was stored, had not been forced open and police had no clues as to how entry was gained. Link Hall is located in the Syracuse University quad and is used by the college's engineering department.

Christmas Trees in the Center of S. Salina St. planters that some people think add allure to Salina Street, but other people claim to be eyesores may be about to take new shape and have a new home. The rrew home would be plonk down the middle of S. Salina Street.

The new shape would be as containers for Christmas trees. in a letter dated Oct sent to members of the Common Council, Erwto G. Sehulfo, executive vice president of the that in the interest of making downtown lively for the holiday season, the Chamber had approved a recommendation of its Downtown Promotion Committee. The committee, Sehulte said, proposed moving the planters from the sides of the Salina Street roadway and lining them up down the center of the street, putting evergreens in them and decorating them appropriately for the Christmas season. For this to happen, it would be necessary fof the Common Council to amend fegfejatfeft to permit relocation of Deaf Pupils May Win By PAULA CATALDI State Commissioner of Education Ewald B.

Nyquist has granted an application to reopen a case against the City School District, thus apparently insuring a local program for deaf children. The administrative appeal, resulting in Nyquist's decision, was filed in April by parents of deaf children through Syracuse. University's Center on Human Policy, who argued that it was illegal to force deaf children to live away from home because of a physical handicap. Before September, almost all local deaf children had to attend special classes in Rome, Rochester or Buffalo. Classes are now being conducted by the Board of Cooperative Education Educational Services (BOCES) and by the City School District, partly as a result of the original appeal to Nyquist.

Commissioner Nyquist had dismissed the original class action suit in March with the understanding that the district had agreed to arrange an educational program. He assumed that a program was in process. In appealing his decision, the petitioners objected to his dismissal because classes had' not yet been initiated. In reopening the case, Douglas Biklen, coordinator of the Center on Human Policy's child advocacy program, said that a national precedent has been set. "It's the first time anywhere in the country that local education for the handicapped is being supported as a right," he said.

"It means that the State Education Department will look closely to make sure their (the children's) rights are insured." In his decision to reopen the case, Nyquist ordered the City School District to provide "special classes for deaf pupils residing within the district either through the school district itself or by contracting with another school district, or a board of cooperative educational services." He further ordered the Board of Education to report to him by Nov. 15 "as to the steps it has taken to comply with this decision." Biklen pointed out that the decision has more legal ramifications than educational since local programs for the deaf have already been instituted, both at Percy Hughes School in the city and at Stonehedge School in the West Genesee School District by BOCES. In Biklen's opinion the impact of the legal question is that the commissioner has pledged to monitor the program, thus insuring, by a precedent, a local program for handicapped children. In the original action, which was initiated in August, 1973, the case involved the Liverpool and West Genesee school districts as well as the City School District. The appli CC Wants Holiday Spirits in Planters Downtown Syracuse's controversial the big flower boxes.

If the Common Council would approve this legislation, the Chamber of Commerce will agree to put in evergreens and decorate them with bee The plan is approved by most downtown merchants, according to Schultz. He also points out that in the suggested centered position, the planters wonld take less space away from traffic lanes than they do now in their staggered positions along the cation to reopen the case against West Genesee was denied because the district has entered into a contract with BOCES for special classes. No further allegations were made in the case against the Liverpool School District. Biklen estimated there are 70 to 100 deaf children in this county. Ten of them attend the two classes at and eight others, who are multiply attend Percy Hughes.

Three city residents attend the BOCES program through a city contract. The term "deaf" here refers to the "profoundly" deaf, or those who' have art almost total hearing loss. Biklen said the major concern of the parents and the center was "the necessity" for the children to attend "large residential schools away from Home." The petitioners were listed as Carolyn Carulli, Angelo and Barbara Digati, Carolina Newton and Nancy Rogers, all on behalf of their children, and "on behalf on all others similarly situated." Rocky 9s Gift 'No Secret9 NEW YORK. Joseph H. Murphy, Jamesville, (near Syracuse) chairman of the state Housing and Finance Agency said Friday night he was "sorry" if Vice President Designate Nelson A.

Rockefeller's $20,000 gift to him "caused him any embarrassment." The former New York governor revealed here Friday that he loaned Murphy $20,000 in 1967, when Murphy was state commissioner of taxation and finance. Rockefeller said he later forgave the loan in 1970 after Murphy had acquired his present post. Murphy, 57, said he, himself was not embarrassed by the gift and said "there's nothing about it, the gift, that has to be kept secret as far as I know." "There was nothing to it except generosity," he said. Murphy said there was "absolutely" no conflict of interest between the gift and his public posts. He said the Taw against a public official receiving gifts "talks about a gift designed to influence his decision." Rockefeller also revealed he made a $15,000 gift on Jan.

14, 1965 to Former Chief Judge Fred A. Young of the Stale Court of Claims. Young, was then Republican state chairman. Rockefeller said "Mr. Young was experiencing a tragic and continuing problem involving one of his children." Young came from LowviUe.

"Subsequently, in December of 1965, I reappointed him to the Court of Claims and in January, 1966, designated him as presiding judge." Murphy's state salary at the time of Rockefeller's loan in 1967 was about $34,000. His present salary is about $25,000 annually. Murphy said he had not asked Rockefeller for the loan. As far as he can remember, Murphy said, the loan request was made "probably through a mutual friend." Murphy said the reasons for the loan were, as Rockefeller said, to help him with his children's education and (o take care of his aged and ill mother. "I have five children.

One was gtfng to csiJege at the Murphy said and his mothet was in het fate 7m and sometimes hting with fcte.