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lO2ncI Year . . . . No. 260 1979. Washington Pose Co. w E D N E S D A Y , A U G U S T 2 2 1 9 7 9 SubscrIption Rates 15c
Carter
. By John lvi. Goshko
and Martin Schram
Washington Post S aU Writers
The administration's top i Iic1d1e
East policymakers advised President
Carter yesterday that the United
States, faced with vehement Israe [ i
Opposition, should abandon its pro
posed overture to the Palestinians in
the United Nations debate scheduled
to begin Thursday.
Reliable sources said the reconimen-
dation was agreed upon unanimously
at a hastily arranged White House
meeting to rectify the disarray into
which Mideast policy was plunged by
the Palestinian issue.
In an effort to gain support from
Advised to Drop
moderate Arab states and draw Pales-
tinians into the Middle East peace
talks, the administration tentatively
bad been planning to introduce a Uj .
resolution that would have made gen-
eral mention of Palestinanian “rights,”
i 'hul e reaffirniing existing resolutions
about the rights of all Mideast states to
live in peace and security.
However, when Carter's special Mid-
east ambassador, Robert S. Strauss, car-
ned the proposal to the Middle East
last week, it provoked a fiercely angry
rejection by Prime Minister Menachem
Begin's Israeli government. To the ad.
ministration's surprise, the idea also
drew objections from Egyptian Presi-
dent Anwar Sadat, the Arab partner
in the peace talks.
These rebuffs brought to the Sw-
face a noisy controversy within th
administration about whether Strauss
had opposed the idea of a Palestinian
resolution and had it forced on him
by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance
and national security adviser Zbig.
niew Brzezinski.
The Strauss controversy, coming on
the heels of U.N. Ambassador Andrew
Young's forced resignation and his
rebellion against l'dideast policy, had
caused widespread confusion about
whether the administration has a uni.
fled Middle East policy and who is in
charge of it.
That led to yesterday's meeting of
Vance, Strauss, Brzezinski and Vice
President Mondale. The object was to
COfl11)oSe their differences and carve
out a new policy recommendation for
Carter, who is vacationing on a Missis-
Sippi River cruise.
At the end of the 90-minute meet-
lug. Vance told reporters that the
g ) was in unanimous agreement•
on the advice it was conveying to Car-
ter, and later he telephoned the rec-
ommendations to the president. There
was no word on the president's re-
spons.e.
With Strauss by his side, Vance also
pointedly told reporters that he, as
secretary of state, is responsible for
Middle East policy and that Strauss is
in charge of the U.S. role in the peace
negotiations—implying that Strauss's
role is both subordinate and limited
in terms of overall Mideast policy.
But, even as Vance was making this
attempt at clarification, further confu.
Sian arose—temporarily—about who's
in charge. Talking with reporters in
Davenport, Iowa, presidential FCS5
secretary Jody Powell said Carter had
asked Mondale “to be responsible for
any questions or problems that arise
in the larger areas of the Middle
East.”
That sent the press and Washington
bureaucrats into several scurrying
hours of trying to sort out the appar-
ent contradictions. Finally, adminis-
tration officials announced that Pow•
eli simply meant to convey that Car-
ter wanted Mondale, as his constitu-
tional successor, to chair yesterday's
White House meeting and to act as
the president's surrogate until Carter
returns to Washington Friday.
Although yesterday's events seemed
to indicate that Vance is the top voice,
under Carter, on Mideast questions,
the policy recommendation forwarded
to the president clearly bore the im
print of the arguments . associated
with Strauss—namely, that the United
States should not get too far out in
front in efforts to woo the Palestini-
ans and their Arab-world supporters.
See MIDEAST, A4, Col. 1
Newsletter Editor Hogan Ally Given Sol e Sewer Hookiq.
Arrested in SE
On ‘Drug Charge
By Ton' Sherwood and Alfred E. Lewis
WasIi1ngtoi Post Staff Writers
Man Baron, the owner and editor
of a widely respected Washington
political newsletter and a long-time
liberal activist in the Democratic Par-
ty, has been arrested on a charge of
possessing cocaine with the intent to
distribute it.
Baron, 36, was arrested in a raid on
his Capitol Hill home Friday follow-
ing a two-day undercover investiga-
tion by District of Columbia police.
Baron owns the Baron Report, a
monthly i cwsletter that is considered
essential reading by both liberals and
conservatives in Washington and is
widely respected for its insights into
national Democratic party politics.
In a brief statement last night, Baron
told a reporter: “I categorically deny
ever having distributed cocaine.” 1-fe
declined further comment.
According to U.S. District Court
documents, Baron and one other man
were arrested after a police inform-
ant told detectives that lie had wit-
nessed the use and sale of cocaine
in Baron's home at 710 G St. SE dur-
lug a.two-day period early last week.
A search warrant for the home was
obtained shortly afterward.
Sources close to the investigation
said that police officers executing the
warrant confiscated a brown vial con-
taming half a gram of cocaine from
Baron's pants pocket.
An additional small amount of co-
caine found in a Chapstick tube was
confiscated from Ira S. Goldstein, 30,
a self-employed electronics engineer
who is a tenant at Baron's house, the
See BARON, A16, Col. 1
By Jackson Diehl
Washington PostS Staff Writer
The only major home construction
sewer hookup request supported by
Prince George's County Executive
Lawrence Hogan since lie took office
last December is for a multimiflion-
dollar housing development in Bowie
proposed by his former campaign
treasurer.
1 T1 jle rejecting the sewer hookup
priority requests of some 50 develop-
ers this year, Hogan made one excep-
tion by endorsing the plans of George
G. H. McDaniel Jr., a Hogan ally who
served as campaign treasurer and
fund-raiser in several of his political
campaigns.
Hogan recommended to the County
Council that McDaniel's sewer hook-
up request for 127 lots for $50,000 to
$70,000 homes in the Bowie area be
approved. But.at the same time, argu-
Jug that the county could afford only
limited growth, the county executive
urged the council t' delay or deny
sewer authorization for more than
8,000 single-family homes, 3,071 town-
houses and 996 apartment units.
Many of Hogan's recommendations
conflicted with those of his staff,
which recommended approval for at
least three other residential develop-
ments seeking the same priority as
McDaniel. Sewer hookup authoriza-
tion is a key step in development,
which cannot proceed without it.
Hogan said he planned to deny Me-
Daniel's request until McDaniel
called, arranged a meeting and “ex-
plained what he was planning to do?'
“George is a friend of mine and he
called me about it,” Hogan said. “He
got in the door because he is a friend,
but I think his proposal flies on its
merits.”
Hogan said McDaniel's request was
clearly distinguishable from those of
See HOGAN, A14, Cot. 1
Black Leaders See
Israelis aid Appear
To Softeii Staii -c. e
By Lee Lescaze and Thomas Morgan
Washington Post Staff Writers
NEW YORK, Aug. 21—A group of
black civil rights leaders seeking a
role in i'.Iiddle East peacemaking met
wifh Israeli officials and American
Jewish leaders today and then ap-
peared to soft-pedal the support they
had given a day earlier to Palestinian
‘self-determinatjon.”
Southern Christian Leadership Con-
ference President Joseph E. Lowery
refused to use the words “seIf.deter-
alination or “homeland” after his
meeting with Israeli U.N. Ambassador
Yehuda Blum today.
Lowery had announced support for
Palestinian “self-determination in re-
gard to their own homeland” after his
meeting on Monday with a PLO repre-
sentative to the United Nations.
“WTe make no apologies for our sup-
port of the human rights of all Pales-
tinians,” Lowery said after meeting
with Bluni today. He and SCLC chair-
man and D.C. . Delegate Walter Faun-
troy ducked the question of whether
they had changed their position after
meeting with the Israelis, and both
sought to avoid discussing any of the
technicalities of the longstanding Mid-
dle East problems.
“We are not political. experts . . . We
are messengers of. peace,” Lowery
said. Fauntroy added, “The issue for
us is peace in the Middle East.”
By Chris de Kretser
- Special to The /Vashington Post
TEHRAN, Aug. 21—Iran's revolu-
tionary authorities today ordered the
expulsions of five Western carve-
sporidents. stepping up an apparent
campaign to stifle foreign press cover-
age of mounting disorders in the Is-
lamic republic of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini.
The expulsion orders came as the
government made preparations to
diive Iran's rebellious Kurds from
their main stronghold in the western
part of the country following the exec-
utions by Islamic revolutionary courts
of 14 Kurds accused of taking part in
an uprising in the region last week.
Informed sources in Tehran said
there were indications that other for-
eign correspondents may soon be cx-
pelled, further limiting the flow of
news from Iran. So far the govern-
ment has ordered 12 American and
European reporters out of the country
and has been preventing others from
entering.
Among the reporters ordered cx-
pelled today were two Britons, An-
drew Whitley of the Financial Times
and Towyn Mason of the British
Broadcasting Corp. Both were resi-
dent correspondents. They were origi-
nally given 48 hours to close their bu-
reaus and leave the country, but the
‘ We came out of nur meeting with
the same position we went in with.
rinat position va not supporting
either side, but aslang both parties
to abandon the usa of violence, to
recognize eaôh other's human rights
and the right of self-determination.
ryhere was no soft pedaling,” Faun-
tray told areporte this evening.
At the same time that they met
with Lowery's group, israelis and
American Jews put out calls today to
other black leaders, seeking to make
sure they would not follow the SCLC
endorsement of self-determination for
Palestinians. ,
No black leaders here spoke up in
defense of the SCLC group. Urban
League President Vernon ,Jordan let
jt be known that he svould ñ iake no
public statement untilafteF his sehed-
uléd meeting Wednesday with the
leaders of severalblack organizations.
American Jewish leadei-s hanimei d
away privately and publicly ‘ on the
tlieñie that it was a. thistake for the
SCLC eveti to meet with Zéhdi Lábib
Térzi, the Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization's U.N. observer.
‘ Te think it was agrave error lend-
lug legitimacy to an. organization corn-
mitted to terrorism and violence,”
SeeBLACKS, A4, Col. 3
Israelis say. Young was ccinght in
dispute with. Washington. Page A5.
deac line was later extended to a
week.
The government also ordered three
visiting European newsmen to leave.
In a separate development in Teh-
ran, Revolutionary Guards forcibly
closed the offices of the Iranian Corn-
niunist Party as part of an intensify-
ing crackdownon l)OliticaJ opposition.
ln Kurdistan, revolutionary courts
said the 14 executed Kurds were
members of the outlawed Kurdistan
Democratic Party. The sentences ap-
peared to signal the start of a major
effort to stamp out resistance from
the autonomy-seeking Kurdish party.
Ayatollah Sadegli Ithalkhali, a Mos-
1cm clergyman who has earned . the
nickname “Judge Blood” for his fre-
quent death sentences, sent nine
Kurds to firing squads in the westerjj
Iranian border town of Paveh, where
fighting broke out between Kurds and
Revcilutionary Guards last week-.
Five Kurds were executed Monday
night in the nearby city of Kerman-
shah on the same charges of “corrup.
tion• on earth” and “waging war
against God” for their part in the Pa-
veh rebellion.
The executions brought to 25 the
number of Kurds sent before firing
squads since the uprising was crushed
Sunday. All of them have been ac-
See IRAN, A22, Col. 2
Iran Expels Five Journalists
FINAL
84 Pages—4 Sections
Bid to Palestinians
On tie Air
President Hosts
Radio Talk Show
. By Bill Peterson
Vashington Post Staff Writer
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Aug. 21—”Spike-at-the-
Mike” O'Dell's morning show was interrupted
today so the president of the United States could
get a tryout as a radio call-in host on KSTT-
Davenport.
The tryout stirted badly.
“Oh, hi. Who is this?” asked one of the first
persons who was called.
“I think you're Debbie Brown,” the new man at
the iñike said with a broad grin.
“I am,” she said.
“My name is Jimmy Carter,” the president said,
his eyes twinkling.
i or the next 45 minutes, the president talked
over the airwaves of the quad cities area of east-
em Iowa and western Illinois. It was quite a show.
It was, after all, the first time a president of the
United States had ever hosted a call-in show on
KSTT.
The last..time a presidentever visited the quad
cities area was in 1952 wheirHarry Truman passed
th ough on a whistlestop campaign tour for presi-
dentiàl candjdate Adlai E. Stevenson.
Wh½le today's show was. based on a classic call-
. in foiniat, iii reality no one called in. The station
:. selected those to whom the president would talk
from a list of 100 peOple who had indicated that
they vould . like to talk to Carter. Then the sta-
tion . called them.
Sitting behind two microphones in the small
news offices of the radio station, Carter was almost
an ideal talk show host. He was smooth. He was
folksy. He called everyone by his first name.
And when he saw his daughter through the win-
dow, he said, “I think I'll have to go. I see Amy
peeking.”
When he finished, Carter, who sat through the
show . in shirtsleeves, said, “I had some good
questions.”
Actually, there wasn't a tough one in the lot.
Several of the 13 persons who called simply
wanted to tell the president they thought he was
doing a good job. One man was so excited about
having Carter on the other. end of the line he -
couldbarely utter a word. So he called his wife
and child to the phone to say hello.
Another person, Jaye Cessar of Rock Island,
Ill., said she appreciated the sacrifices the Carters
See PRESIDENT, A6, Cot. 4
United Press International
Carter jogs with Dr. William Lukash, right, and two escorts along the bank at Le Claire, Iowa.
File on Pentagon homosexuals Seized in Spy Case
By Charles II. Babcock and Stephanie Mansfield
Washington Post Stall Writers
Federal investigators seized a file containing
the names of Pentagon employes with “homosex-
ual proclivities” when they arrested a Navy enlist-
ed man on espionage charges last week, according
to sources close to the investigation.
Military investigators are checking the names
to determine whether there has been any breach
of Pentagon security by homosexuals who might
be susceptible to blackmail threats, the sources
said.
Lee Eugene Madsen, 24, a security officer for a
sensitive Pentagon office run by a CIA official,
was charged last Tuesday, a few days after he
allegedly stuffed a “top secret” document down his
pants, walked past Pentagon security guards and
handed the document to an undercover FBI agent.
Sources said Madsen is a homosexual, a disclo-
sure that concerned Pentagon officials because
LEE EUGENE MADSEN
. . - accused of espionage
Defense Department policy is to discharge known
homosexuals from the military services.
It could not be learned how many names were
in the files in Madsen's possession or whether any
of the individuals were in jobs as sensitive as his.
A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on
the Madsen case, but said it is still policy to dis-
charge homosexual members o the military be-
cause their “presence in a military unit would
seriously impair discipline, good order, morale
and security.”
Justice Department officials emphasized in ar-
resting Madsen last week that they had no evi-
dence lie passed any classified documents to a
foreign power.
But intelligence officials privately expressed
special concern when they learned Madsen was a
homosexual because of his access to highly classi-
fled material, including supersensitive information
obtained by intercepting foreign government
communications.
The CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies
traditionally have disqualified homosexuals as job
applicants or dismissed them when discovered be-
cause of the possibility a foreign agent could black-
mail them into giving up national secrets.
Madsen, a yeoman third class, is accused of
taking $700 from FBI undercover agent William
Chapin and from another man, Richard Grant
Noble, who first alerted authorities Madsen was
willing to steal documents.
Documents filed in the case allege that Madsen
took Chapiri on a late-night tour of his Pentagon
office Aug. 10, casually signing him past two
guards by using a phony name.
Madsen then allegedly showed Chapin a “top
secret” report entitled “USSR/Warsaw Pact Gen-
ei'al Indicator List,” stuffed it down his pants and
carried it past the guards.
