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That conference began Dec. 14 Begin said his first round of talks at Sadat's villa went well, and the Egyptian president said they had achieved "a push forward" in this historic sequel to Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last month. The leaden prolonged their meeting with a second round of talks Sunday evening The complete Israeli and Egyptian delegations were present. A news conference and Begin return flight to Tel Aviv both originally scheduled for Sunday were delayed until Monday morning, spokesmen for both sides said. The first meeting lasted 70 minutes, the second 2li hours.

"We have good hope to reach agreement," Begin said as the two emerged smiling from the evening session at Sadat's pink-brick villa in this Suez Canal city. "I quite agree." Sadat added. The Egyptian president shook Begin's hand as the bespectacled Israeli leader got into a decade-old black Cadillac limousine for a short drive to a Suez Canal rest house, where the prime minister was to spend the night. Just before shutting the car door, Begin smiled broadly and said: "We had Preservation areas identified by Thompson SPRINGFIELD (AP) Gov. James R.

Thompson announced Friday the designation of 31 Illinois communities and counties as preservation areas, which will entitle homeowners in those areas to obtain government loans and grants for home rehabilitition. The areas in north central Illinois are DePue, Mark. Maiden, Tiskilwa, Bureau Junction. Arlington, Buda, Ladd, Wyanet, Manlius. Spring Valley, Princeton and Stark County.

Illinois is one of four states selected to conduct the demonstration program. il troops leave the West Bank, but the Israeli papers reported that under Ik-gin's plan soldiers would remain in the West Bank and Gaza for at least five? more years, Israeli settlements in the West Bank would be permitted to stay. Pantagraph photographer Bob Rlngham TrtCk' ffVllCnon caught Santa Claui at he was finishing I 1 1 1 3 1 1 hi, rounds of housetops and chimneys in the early-morning light. Santa waved "ere he drove out of sight," and exclaimed a "merry Christmas to all." wonderful talks." Aides called the discussions cordial. Although there was no word of a breakthrough on the issues that have fueled four Arab-Israeli wars since Israel's independence in 1948, Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak said there is progress." The central issue is thought to be the political fate of Palestinians displaced in 29 years of fighting.

Two Israeli newspapers, quoting a parliamentary source who had heard a secret Begin briefing, reported Sunday that the peace proposals he brought to Egypt call for Israeli withdrawal in 3-5 years from two-thirds of the Egyptian Sinai, save for Israeli enclaves; and an elected civilian council to replace the Israeli military government in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza Strip. Mubarak said an Israeli plan for a phased withdrawal from the occupied Sinai territory was presented at the meeting but that it was not discussed in detail. Sadat has said he will demand Israeli Hijacker arrested Margin of Marcos popularity down MANILA. Philippines (L'PI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos won an overwhelming mandate to continue his martial law rule as president and prime minister but final referendum results released Saturday showed his popularity declined slightly.

Official results announced by the government Commission on Elections showed Marcos polled 20.062.782 "Yes" votes. 89.30 percent of the more than 22 million votes cast in the referendum held a week ago. "No" votes totaled 2.104.209 and abstentions numbered 299.663. ATLANTA (AP) An incoherent man who wired a radio to his leg and claimed it was a bomb hijacked an Eastern Airlines jet with 36 persons aboard Sunday and held it for three hours before FBI negotiators overpowered him at the airport here. All 32 passengers and four crew members were freed without injury during the drama that began in the air 50 miles south of Atlanta and was played out after the plane landed on a far runway at Hartsfield International Airport.

Agents identified the hijacker, who also flourished a toy pistol, as Nikolai Wischnewsky, a landscaper who was born in Austria and had been living in Pearl River, N.Y. They said he purchased a ticket in Jacksonville, under the name Nick Roland. The FBI said Wischnewsky was carrying papers indicating he was on parole from New York. After his capture, Wischnewsky was taken briefly to a hospital because he complained of some problems and appeared to go into some kind of shock." He was later moved to the FBI office for questioning, and the U.S. attorney's office authorized a charge against him of air piracy, which carries a maximum life sentence.

The FBI said he would be held in the Fulton County Jail pending a hearing before a magistrate. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jack Barker said Wischnewsky had boarded Flight 688 at Jacksonville, Fla. The flight originated in Miami and was bound for Indianapolis. Barker said shortly before the plane Town sends Christmas greeting to Kennecott Copper Corp. was due to land in Atlanta, the man handed the flight attendant a note.

"The note was somewhat incoherent, as was the man, but he said he had a bomb wired to himself," Barker said. He said Wischnewsky "mentioned something about wanting to go to Cuba to free the children." But FBI Agent James Dunn said that once the plane was on the ground, "he said he wanted to be taken to Miami." Agents said the man claimed to be wired to an explosive device and displayed what appeared to be a pistol. They said later the gun was a plastic toy and the device was an AM-FM radio wrapped in black electrical tape. "There was no reason to be afraid," said Roosevelt Hendon of Jacksonville, Fla. "Really and truly, the man didn't want to hurt anybody.

He first said, 'All women and children get Then he came back and said, 'Anybody with heart trouble, pacemakers and all that, get Tom Walkley of Jacksonville said he sat near the hijacker, who "seemed very nervous" and incoherent, starting to make threats but not finishing his sentences. Walkley said he helped FBI agents overpower the hijacker after "the FBI rushed the guy and yelled, 'Get off the plane LARK. Utah (AP) About 100 residents of Lark sent a Christmas card to Kennecott Copper Corp. this year. The message was "Good will to man," but the card depicted the firm as a huge Inside today Air turbulence forces jet down they would ask Kennecott to pay "fair value" for private homes "and not low prices, since homes in Lark are not worth anything anymore." They also said that although Kennecott probably has the legal right to force residents to leave the town, it should do humanitarian thing" by helping evicted residents relocate.

Company officials have said that by the year 2000 the townsite will be part of the firm's Bingham Mine, described as the largest open-pit mining operation in the world. They said the company may not need the recently acquired townsite for several years but didn't want the financial burden of running a town until then. Santa Claus stomping on houses and carrying off squirming residents in his bag, laughing "Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho." Less than two weeks before Christmas, Kennecott ordered Lark residents to vacate company-owned property in the town within eight months. Fifty-four of the town's 133 residential units are privately owned. The eviction notices affect about 650 people, many of them longtime residents.

About 100 residents signed the Christmas card delivered to the company. A committe of six was elected to convey townspeople's concerns about the eviction notices to the company. Committee members said Saturday Abby C- 1 B-10 Births B- 6 Classified D- 4 Comics D- 3 Deaths Farm D- 4 Heartline B- 8 Opinion A- 4 D- 5 Shulsky C- 6 Sports D- 1 B-U Today C- 1 Weather. D- 4 Yearend A- 7 altitude at which the plane was flying at the time was not immediately known. "The pilot landed at Miami (International Airport) as a precautionary measure" about 35 minutes later, Cox, said from the airline's Dallas headquarters.

"The seat belt light was on" during the turbulence, he said. About 18 passengers and two crewmembers were injured Aug. 7 when another Braniff jet encountered air turbulence over Cuba and made an emergency landing at Miami. Comedian Charlie Chaplin dies MIAMI (AP) At least 10 passengers aboard a Braniff Airways flight from New York to Panama were taken to a Miami area hospital Sunday after the plane encountered air turbulence south of Bimini and made a "precautionary" landing here, a Braniff spokesman said. The plane was carrying 153 passengers.

The exact number who were injured and the extent of their injuries was not immediately known, but a hospital spokesman said there were no serious injuries. "Most are here just for a check-up," said Howard Andersen, assistant administrator for Hialeah Hospital. Jeri Cox, spokesman for Braniff, said the DC-8, Braniff Flight 709, destined for Panama City, Panama, encountered clear-air turbulence about 4:45 p.m. The Iranian general CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) Charlie Chaplin, whose silent movie misadventures as the shuffling, cane-twirling Little Tramp became part of the world's comic folklore, died Christmas morning. He was 88.

A brief family announcement said Chaplin "passed away peacefully" in his sleep at 4 a.m. (9 p.m. CST Saturday) at his secluded 18th century mansion here overlooking the eastern end of Lake Geneva. At his bedside were his 52-year-old wife, Oona, daughter of the late American playwright Eugene O'Neill, and seven of their eight children. Daughter Geraldine, 33, was reported working on a film in Spain.

Confined to a wheelchair in recent years, the British-born comedian, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, had been gradually losing his strength but suffered no specific illness. Asked about the cause of death, family physician Dr. Henri Perrier said: "You can say he died of old age." Born into a theatrical family in South London on April' 16, 1889, Charles Spencer Chaplin made his stage debut as an infant carried in his mother's arms. Funeral services will be strictly private and limited to members of the family, a brief statement said. Corsier municipal officials said Chaplin will be buried here on Tuesday.

executed TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Gen. Ahmed Mogharrebi, a 54-year-old former general staff officer who admitted spying for the Soviet Union, was executed by firing squad Sunday, the government said. The officer, who was arrested in August, admitted during his trial that he spied for the Russians for nine years. His appeal for clemency was rejected by the Shah. During his trial, Mogharrebi admitted being in league with 11 officers who were shot in 1953 for allegedly plotting against the government and organizing a ring of the outlawed Communist Party.

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(AP Laserphoto) Famed comedian Charlie Chaplin is shown as he appeared, from left, in 1914, 1944 and 1975. Chaplin died in his sleep Over the years.