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The Weather Today Sunny High In mid-73 Glance of shower or thun-derstorms tonight Low in up-per 50s Tomorrow: Partly cloudy Afternoon showers likely High in the 70s Local Data: Page A-2 130th Year No 137 State Newspaper Richmond Virginia 23219 Friday May 16 1980 25 Cents Egypt Reverses Talks Decision Vjr jU: MM foreign minister Gen Kamal Hassan All: The communique charged that the Israeli Knesset had created "a very dangerous Wednesday by passing a draft law that made Jerusalem an integral part of Israel and enjoined the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin from concluding any agreement on the status of the city as long as the Knesset did not abrogate that law: The Knesset action was contrary to international law of (C) New York Timet Service CAIRO Egypt The Egyptian government reversing a statement made Wednesday by President Anwar Sadat declared yesterday that it will not resume the stalled negotiations with Israel and the United States on Palestinian autonomy unless Israel "reconsiders its position on Jerusalem and other The new Egyptian stand was announced in a communique issued after a strategy meeting held by Sadat and attended by key officials including his new Suit Photo Dr Edmund Ackell of Your Corporate Job May Present Conflict AP Laserphoto Refugee Boat Stopped with refugees but many boat captains said yesterday that Cuba had jammed their radio receivers and that they did not know about the order (Story Page A-2) A Coast Guard cutter draws near a private boat jammed with Cuban refugees in the Straits of Florida about 50 miles south of Key West Coast Guard craft have ordered all such boats not to return to the United States' the framework of the Camp David agreement and the spirit of peace the communique said It added that recent measures in the occupied an apparent reference to thedeporta-tion of three West Bank leaders Were a violation of the principle of The key passage said actions have made it difficult to create the atmosphere needed for resumption of the negotiations atthe present moment and in these circumstances It is necessary for Israel to reconsider its Deputy Foreign Minister Butros Ghali at a press conference later said that the timing of the Knesset action was of-fensive Informed Egyptian sources said Sadat felt offended by the Israeli move which cameatex-actly the time Wednesday morning when he was going to Parliament to announce that he had decided to resume the stall- ed negotiations in response to a telephone appeal from President Carter Ghali said Sadat did not know of the Israeli move when he made his announcement Deliberate Attempt Other officials described' Sadat as being deeply angered over- what he considered a deliberate Israeli attempt to embarrass him before his own public in the Arab world and in his relations with Carter Ghali said he called Alfred Atherton the US ambassador yesterday to Inform him of the decision The Israeli ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar wu pot notified Ghali said adding: am sure like any good-am- bassador he listened to the radio and heard the Egyptian sources later said it would have been inappropriate to inform the Israeli ambassador since Israel had not seen fit to warn the Egyptians of the Impending Knesset action Ghali -though reflecting Continued on Page i CoL 5 West Germans to Skip Games my personal business and none of your affair LOOKING into my personal business and I'm going to raise an issue about that he added The reaction of the Dalton administration meanwhile was quite different: place is buzzing" with conferences going on between Gov John Dalton and Attorney General Marshall Coleman and also lesser officials frankly concerned about how the administration ought to react one source repor-ted Dr Ackell was in hot water with his board before and he may have to a source told The Times-Dispatch He said reports were widespread that Dr Ackell was in California on Whittaker business on two occasions when the VCU budget was suffering cuts at the hands of key money committees of The House and The Senate He added that in his view the Whittaker connection disclosures '-will certainly damage his Dr credibility not only with the V-' CU faculty and students but also with the legislature can be sure the legislature is going to take a look at t- The main point in question relates to Whit- taker's recent acquisition of the Richmond-based General Medical Corp and Dr Ackell's membership on the board of directors of the California company According to a Whittaker spokesman the Continued on Page 7 CoL 1 By Joseph Gatins and Charles Cox Times-Dispatch Staff Writers VCU President Edmund Ackell gets at least $17500 on retainer per year from a private California conglomerate whose new subsidiary in Richmond does about $15000 worth of business with the university every week That led to two separate and apparently contradictory actions yesterday First the Virginia Commonwealth Univer-stiy board of visitors acting in response to routine inquiries from The Times-Dispatch hastily asserted after a closed-door session that Dr Ackell's position with the Los Angeles-based Whittaker Corp did not pose a conflict of interest for the university or tot its president SECOND the attorney general's office decid- ed to review the situation to find out if the confluence of Dr Ackell's private interests and public responsibilities posed a potential for conflict under Virginia law "It looks like it could be a problem "said Chief Deputy Attorney General Walter Ry land who requested the full-blown review af- ter being informed of the board's unusual and unexpected action Dr Ackell for his part has spumed requests for interviews on the matter since Tuesday and 1 firmly rejected renewed calls for comment following the board's conflict decision While generally satisfied with the board's move and a companion "vote of he said of his association with the Whittaker Corp German Sport Federation Daume Insisted that rejection of a boycott would be of courageous patriotism" He said "I am serving my country and the world but when I make this opportunity for peace the Olympics more Participation he argued would Improve relations between East and West Germany and the situation in Wat Berlin -Weyer responded that anyone who could not see the relationship between sports and politics wu living "on an island of A choice not to participate In Moscow he Mid wu a decision for freedom and solidarity with the United States: In the lut month Chancellor Helmut' Schmidt called on the Wat Goman Olympic leadership to boycott the Gama and renewed his pressure the vote approached Wed- nesday President Karl Cars tens the titular head of state emphasized the im-v portance of the boycott in a meeting with committee members From Wire Dispatches' The West German Olympic Committee voted yesterday not to send a team to the Moscow Olympics It wu the strongest endowment yet for President Carter's call for a boycott He termed the 56-40 vote a courageous decision but a spokesman for the Soviet organizers said it would have no effect The government in thanking the committee for its endorsement of the official position noted the sacrifices of athletes who have trained only to see their Olympic hopes shattered by the world reaction to the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan The vote followed a four-hour national-' ly televised debate Committee chairman Willi Daume in announcing the secret vote uid mutcarry itout together sWe must live with it The debate within the committee broke down to a confrontation between a faction in favor of participation led by the Daume and Industrialist Berthold Beitz and a group that recommended a boycott head- ed by Wilil Weyer president of the Governments generally have been more favorable to the boycott than their Olympic committea and the German decision could carry much weight with groups that have not decided whether to attend The committea of Australia Japan the Netherlands and Portugal are among -those that have uid they would follow the German lead They have until May 24 to notify the organizing committee whether they plan to send teams Kurt Moeller president of the Danish Olympic Committee reacted with bitterness to the Wat German decision and said he realized may be forced to do the Lise Oatergurd minister of culture and sports reiterated the stand that it should be up to the athleta to decide whether to go to Moscow or not But she also rreiterated that a situation could arise in which the government Continued on Page 5 CoL 1 Local Firm Gets Permit 2 Who Died in WTVZ have offered movies syndicated programming and sports In recent years however production com-pania have become aware of the growing number of indepa-dents and have created programming specifically for them Hudson know what the cost of bringing an lndependat to Richmond would be Stations elsewhere he Mid cat $2 million to $4 million depending upon how much of the system must be built A tower aloe could cost $1 million he said Acquiring Channel 35 is an important step in Neighborhood move to expand into related fields Neighborhood Communications Corp already owns two radio stations in Lynchburg and one in Knoxville Tenn the 1930s radio was run by networks Then independent stations started up in the '40s and today network radio Is secondary to the independats He wasn't predicting that in-' dependat television stations will replace the networks but he did My Independats offer an alternative to viewers used to the formats also an opportunity to do local things at a better time period" said Hudson mation-Ing the possibility of a local prime-time talk show And he Mid an opportunity to offer first-runprogramming was a product shortage but not any more" Special Programming Traditionally Independats such as WTTG and WDCA and Norfolk's new covered only about $20000 of property But Assistant Com-monwealth's Attorney Phillip Keith said this week that both men in very specific that they felt they were in danger Thou fears were expressed to Keith shortly after Byrd and Ellenburg had bea extradited to Virginia a charga that they had stola a 1978 Lincoln Con-tinatal from the Blacksburg area Com One Day The automobile was recovered in Rutherford County NC March 18 the day after it had bea involved in a minor hit-and-run' accident in Christiansburg Police in Christiansburg have charged Jerry DeHart in thatin-cidat which involved $50 in property damage It was DeHart a county building contractor who filed a report the Continued on Page CoL i however that the deaths have generated a Several person interviewed by The Times-Dispatch in North Carolina and Virginia begged anonymity citing fears 'that their liva would be endangered if their nama were made public are people involved in this thing who stop at a friend of said Activitia Not Detailed Neither Barber nor Montgomery County Attorney Patrick Graybeal would corn-mat about the specific nature of the criminal activitia Byrd and Ellenburg were aware of or about the individuals they were prepared to ldatify Barber indicated however that some information passed on to him by Byrd proved to be entirely and dealt with stola property and fraud Barber Mid the entire scope of allegations APLuerptaoM The Inside Story i Four Sections 50 Pages Sen Edward Kennedy Gestures to Los Angeles Crowd He Had Issued Two-Part Challenge to His Opponent By Bill McKelway Times-Dispatch Staff Writer CHRISTIANSBURG Two North Carolina men 'who apparently were prepared to implicate a number of Montgomery County businessmen in criminal ac-tivitiu told author! tia they fared for their liva jut days before they were found dead lut month in a small car repair shop Relativu of Jama Preston Byrd 38 and John Ellenburg 28 both of whom were from Rutherford County NC say meanwhile that they arebaffled by the deaths even though they tentatively have been ruled accidental A battery of tats showed that the men died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the early morning hours of April 14 and that small traca of alcohol were presat in blood samples tats show absolutely no evidence of foul said Montgomery Couhty Sheriff Lewis A Barber Both men -were found early that morning in Price's Body Shop near Christiansburg where they had occasionally worked Byrd was found in a car that had its ignition on and that had run out of gasoline Ellenburg wu in a nearby office lying on the floor There wu no sign of a struggle No no way you'll ever convince anybody here that those two boys died by said a relative of Byrd's in North Carolina who asked not to be idatified "Those two boys had ban around cars ail their liva They wouldn't have died like But Dr David Oxley chief medical examiner for watern Virginia said is the presumption at this point Autopsia failed to turn up any sign of drugs sedativa or barbiturates some new evidence coma up things are pretty much at a standstill" Barber Mid One law enforcement source in Christiansburg said By Douglas Durden Times-Dispatch Staff Writer The Federal Com: munications Commission has grantedapermittoconstructan independent local television station to Neighborhood Communications Corp a subsidiary of Neighborhood Thaters Inc The permit coma two yars and four months after' Neighborhood -Communications' original application was filed After the station is built the company will apply for its broadcast license Neighborhood Com-munications' vicepresidat and general manager Harvey Hudson atimated that it could take two years or more before UHF Channel 35 is in operation It will cover Richmond Petersburg and Hopewell The lengthy process started shortly after Neighborhood Communications filed for the license to operate Channel 35 The Christian Broadcasting Network of Virginia Beach also applied for it -Since then CBN has dropped its requat for Channel 35 but not for a station in Richmond It currently ha an application before the FCC for the remaining UHF channel Channel 61 Because so much time has passed Hudson said his company will have to do new studia to determine what the market needs and wants from an Independent station A further delay may be expected in the delivery of equipment which could take more than a year Hudson explained that there Is currently a "gold on Independent stations causing equipment demand The industry also is seeing constant technological advances including the lmprovemat of UHF reception Mtellite reception and Earth receiving stations "All these technologia are changing the way you operate" Hudson whose work in the Richmond communications business goa back 40 years likened the state of independent television stations to radio In President Spurns Debate Deal The World PAKISTAN SAYS no to offer of normalization talks as long as Soviet troops remain in that country Page A-ll 1 The Nation CONGRESS MEETS deadline votes more money for food stamps Page A-2 The State JAMES RIVER watermen set to fish the Kepone-cataminated lower Jama pull back again following latest order banning commercial fishing Page B-l From Wire Dispatches President Carter rebuffed through his aida yaterday a proposed deal by Sen Edward Kennedy that wu intended to lure Carter into a debate Mid he would withdraw from the Democratic presidatial race if Carter debated him and then won the popular vote cut in the eight-state primary season finale on June 3 If Carter lost Kennedy would continue his campaign in the expectation of winning the nomination thing's all over" uid White House spokesman Ray Jenkins should we debate him for heaven's Standing firm a Carter's refusal to debate Kennedy deputy press secretary Rex Granum responded that position regarding the conduct of the campaign is well-known and remains unchanged" Granum Mid Carter is the "clear and choice of the vut majority of primary voters so far and remain confident that after June 3 the president will have secured the Democratic nomination by a wide The latest Associated Press count gives Carter 1 delegate votes at the conven-tion with 1666 required for nomination Kennedy's total is 770 GEORGE BUSH campaigned for Oregon's primary Tuesday In his tireless battle to keep alive his challenge to Ronald Ragan who leads Bush 821-186 in delegate strength with 998 votes required for the nomination In Portland Bush Mid he wu not trying to divide the GOP but to "offer an alter- to Ragan He Mid that role wu underscored by former Gerald Ford's advice last week to Bush to stay in the race Ford hu not endorsed any GOP contender but Mid he would support whoever' wins the nomination REAGAN campaigned in Michigan which also will hold a primary-Tuesday and attended a fund-raising event a Lag Island His aida Mid his plas to poll thousands of Republicans Democrats and independents lnthe sarch for a running mate The aida who asked not to be identified Mid the poll would attempt to determine the relative strength for a Reagan ticket of such Republican notabtes Bush Ford John Connally Sen Howard Baker of Tennessee Gov Jama Thompson of Illinois Sa Richard Lugar of Indiana and Rep Jack Kemp of New Yorjt Baker Mid Wednesday he had told Ragan that he did not want the job Reagan told the Economic Club of Detroit that the automobile industry is being regulated to and cm recover with halthy competition by whimsical bureaucratic changa in energy environmental and Mfety regulations" 1 JOHN ANDERSON the Republican congressman from Illinois who is running for president an Independent plans to file suit today in federal cart in Ofiio challenging provisions of that state's election law that serve to keephisnameoff the ballot in November Area Business Classified Dur Abby Doonesbury Editorial.