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San Antonio Express from San Antonio, Texas • Page 52

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22 -D Antonio Sunday, Aug. 22, 1965 CONFERENCE COMING Faisal of Saudi Arabia, left, and President Go mo I Abdel Nasser of United Arab Republic will meet in the next few doys to talk over conflict in Yemen. Nasser left Cairo Saturday en route to the conference. PERSOINAL MENTlOxV Nasser, Faisal Set For Crucial Meet COMPILED FROM WIRIE SERVICES The.se persons rated mention in news reports Saturday PRESIDENT fiAMAL ABDEL NASSER set sail from pJro for a crucial meeting with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Nasser will make his most serious bid in three years to bring an end to the "war by in Yemen between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The trip has been interpreted by some observers as acknowledgment by Nasser that, unlike last fall when they met in Alexandria, Faisal is now in a stronger position in Yemen. The press, however, has hailed mission as a "prilgrimage of which is certain to succeed. Even the Saudi ambassador in Cairo exudes optimism. The meeting will bring together the two leading symbols of conflicyng trends in the Arab the protagonist of striden insurgent Abrab nationalism and exponent of revolutionary change, and Faisal, representing the traditionaJ monarchies of the Arab world whose rule is based on tribal loyalties and who want to modernize at their own pace. When an army coup toppled the former Imam Mohamed AI Badr in September 1962, Saudi Arabia raced to help the imam regain power and Egj'pt sent to bolster the wobbly republican regime.

A civil war of the Arab world was joined. Last fall, Faisal and Nasser decided they bad had enough and agreed to in trying to end the Yemeni civil war and create political stability. But within a few weeks, the agreement collapsed. Egypt never withdrew its army from Yemen, Saudi Arabia steadfastly refused to recognize the Yemeni government, and fighting resumed between the followers of the deposed imam and the Egyptian-backed republican regime. Military setbacks, divisions within the ranks of the republicans and the heavy drain of the war on Egypt in terms of both money and manpower have persuaded Nasser to make another attempt at a peace compact with his Saudi has been able to harass the by merely supplying Yemeni royali.sts with guns and money without getting directly involved.

JACK L. lIAWKINSf 42, of Wayne, a self-styled steeplejack and painter who told Capitol police that he planned to suspend himself by a rope from the statue atop the Capitol dome as a protest demon.stratinn, was arrested in Washington. Hawkins was taken into custody without difficulty as he crawled from a door leading to the roof of the Capitol from the dome. He was to St. Hospital, a federal mental institution, for observation.

The man told police he wanted to tie himself from the Goddess of Freedom statue, some 235 feet above street level, as a protest against working conditions. He said he was inside the dome Thursday and Friday but it became too hot and so he slept in his car, parked near the Capitol. Hawkins said he had been treated in Michigan mental hospitals after climbing atop a 13-story building in Detroit several years ago. He said he had a wife and four children in Wayne. PRINCESS MARGARET of Britain spent her 35th birthday quietly, touring and Taranto provinces in southern Italy.

Princess Margaret and her husband. Lord Snowden, arrived at Oria two days ago after spending two weeLs on luxury Emerald Coast as guests of the Aga Kahn. CAROL RYAN, a statuesque coed from the University of Kansas, has been selected as Miss Yellowstone Park of 1965. The Burlington, beauty sang her way to the title with selections from "My Margaret Miss Ryan is five feet nine inches tall and works as a laundry maid at Yellowstone Lake Lodge. BOBBY FISCHER, the 22-year-old American chess grandmaster, announced that he would participate by telegraph in the Capablanca Memorial tournament at Havana.

Fischer was refu.sed a visa by the State Department to go to Cuba for the match, which begins Wednesday. Subsequently, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was reported to have said that the State action was a "propagandistic for his country. On Aug. 12, in protest of the alleged remark, Fischer announced that he had withdrawn from the tournament. The next day, however, Castro replied to protest and said he had been misquoted.

According to Andrew P. Davis, the moody grandmaster's law 7 er, Fischer decided on EYiday' that this was an acceptable reply and said he would play if arrangements could be made. The arrangements were completed Saturday. Fischer will play the first of his 21 matches in the international tournament on Wednesday at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City. His moves, and tho.se of his opponent in Cuba, will be exchanged by telegraph.

The tournament, which includes many of the top players, ends on Sept. 25. ROBERT MANRY and his family arrived in London by train from Falmouth on the first stage of a trip home to Cleveland, Ohio. Albert Davidge, head barman at the London hotel, concocted a brand new cocktail for ibe occasion and christened It Tinkerbelle, after sailboat that took him all alone from Falmouth, to Falmouth, England, in 78 days. The Manrys will stay in London until Thursday, then sail for New York.

Davidge said his Tinkerbelle cocktail is a three-deck affair in green, red and blue. The lower level is fresh lime juice and vodka, then comes vermouth and campari and finally curacaoo and the white of an egg. The whole is topped with a slice of fresh pineapple and packed with crushed ice. FIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS taking part in the "Operation program for children have been named "distinguished teachers of for 1965. They are Mrs.

H. H. Dorris Deer Park; Mrs. Clarence Swenson, Austin; Mrs. J.

L. Willard, Corpus Christi; Mrs. Tom Howorth, Fort Worth, and Mrs. Burton Burrus, Baytown. They were selected by a committee of former Texas elementary school teachers, appointed by the National Board of Education.

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