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          102nd Year . . . . No. 258 © Washtngton Post Co. M 0 N D A Y , A U G U S T 2 0 , 1 9 7 9 8Ub30!IDttOfl Ratei
          - See Box A3
          Young Criticizes
          .U.s. PLO Policy
          As ‘Ridiculous'
          U.N. Ambassador Calls
          J ewish Leaders ‘Stubborn'
          By Don Oberdorfer
          Washington Post Stafl writer
          Ambassador Andrew Young was at logger-
          heads again yesterday with both the State Dc-
          partment and Israel in the latest chapter of
          the controversy that brough.t about his resigna-
          tion last Wednesday. - .
          . still in office as ambassador to the United Na-
          tions pending selection and confirmation of his
          successor, and still expressing strong views on
          Mideast issues, Young told a national television
          audience that the U.S. policy of not talking to the
          Palestine Liberation Organization is “ridiculous”
          and that the Israeli government is “stubborn and
          thtransigent” as well as expansionist.
          On “Face the Nation” (CBS, WDVM), Young re-
          peated a charge made earlier to The New York
          Times that the State Department, while claiming
          to be in the dark about his meeting with a PLO
          representative in New York City July 26, actually
          had a detailed, almost verbatim account of the
          conversation in its possession within four days.
          “1 don't know how they got it. but I have seen
          stich a report.” Young told his television inter-
          viewers just before noon.
          At 6 p.m., after consultations with Young and a
          check of classified documents, the State Depart-
          ment issued a terse denial of the ambassador's
          charge.
          The State Department had insisted since the
          controversy came to light that it first learned
          of Young's meeting with the PLO's U.N. observer,
          Zehdi Labib Terzi. on Aug. 11, when Newsweek
          magazine began asking about it. Newsweek is Fe-
          ported to have received its tip from israeli sources
          in Israel.
          State Department spokesman Thomas Reston
          said that, on the basis of a careful check of records
          at the department and its United Nations mission,
          “we have determined that prior to Aug. 11 there
          was no account available in the State Department
          of Ambassador Young's meeting with Mr. Terzi
          on July 26.”
          Reston added. “There was information available
          on July 30 that on July 26 a suggestion was made
          that Ambassador Young meet with Mr. Terzi but
          not that a meeting had been agreed upon.”
          Informed sources indicated that Young had been
          given access several days ago to the July 30 intelli-
          gence report. But the sources said that a reference
          See YOUNG, A16, Col. I
          Stalemate in Ulster After Decade ol Strife
          By Leonard Downie Jr.
          Vashinrton Fo t P'oreign Service
          LOXDO/, Aug. 18——Since last weekend.
          the streets of Northern Ireland anti the
          newspapers and television screens of the
          rest of Britain have once again been uI1
          of sectarian marches and rallies, rioting.
          mass arrestr, raids and disarming or
          bombs by security forces. It all marked a
          macabre annivcrsary. -
          Ten years ngo this week. after several
          days of battle between riating Catholics
          and equally v( Ient Protestant police ann
          reservisis in Northern Ireland, an euler-
          gency British Army peacekeeping force
          was sent there “to help out the police for
          a few weeks.
          Today, there are still 13,000 British
          troops iii U1S E'1. The decade of sectarian
          warfare has claimed the lives of 301 Bnt-
          ish soldiers. 222 Ulstcr 1)011Cc officers and
          reservists. an:l 1.413 civilian men, wonlen
          and children. Nearly 21.000 people have
          been injured ‘l'housands of buildings have
          been damaged by 6,500 bomoir.gs.
          ‘l'he taxpa e S of the rest of Britain have
          Spelit flloI-e S5 million a day to sup-
          1)011 the trt)OpS atiti other security niea-
          SIUCS ill Northern 1 'lnnd and to help its
          dying econonty and jobless fandlies with
          industrial sub iUics and wet fare paynients
          Yet unernpii'yrnent in Ulster is twice as
          high as in toe rest of Britain. a quarter o
          the families live below Buitain's official
          i)overty lint'. tic1 a third of the housing
          is substandard. Furthermore, continuing
          economic stagnation in Britain and Prime
          1 i inistel- Margaret Thatcher's across-the-
          board government spending cuts -are ex-
          peeLed to make tIle economy of Northern
          Ireland even worse.
          Despite generally efficient British rule.
          an overall lowering of tile violence since
          the vorst yctrs in the mid 1970s and the
          eerie norinal it:.' wi th wh iCil I he niaj ority of'
          Ulster's Protestants and Catholics live
          among the s&'iiers, checkpoints, bombed-
          out building and shadowy danger of death,
          there is. as little optimism as ever about
          the future.
          See ULSTEJ , A17, Col. 1
          Strauss Finds
          Little Support of
          Middle East 1-lan
          Israelis Reject PropOsal
          To Alter U.N. Resolution
          By Edward Cody
          Washington Post Foreign Service
          JERUSALEM, Aug. 19—Special U.S. envoy
          Robert Strauss said today he has found “very
          serious questions and reservations” in Egypt
          and Israel about an American proposal for a
          new U.N. resolution on the Middle East peace
          negotiations.
          “I shall faithfully report these questions and res-
          ervations to the president and the secretary ol'
          state,” Strauss said after a two-hour meeting here
          with Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
          Earlier today the Israeli Cabinet rejected the
          U.S. proposal.
          Begin strongly suggested that he expects the ,Car-
          ter administration to go back on its announced in-
          tention to propose the new Security Council resolu-
          tion, designed to draw Palestinians into the Wrest
          Bank and Gaza autonomy talks among Israel, Egypt
          and the United States.
          “I do believe that this difficulty will soon be re-
          moved as a result of reconsidertng the problem b ,,
          our American friends,” lie told rc-porters after the
          talks with Strauss.
          Taken together, their remarks cast a negative pall
          on the U.S. initiative and raised questions about
          whether it might be abandoned. israeli sources said
          Begin is counting on Strauss to persuade President
          Carter to abandon the plan, and the U.S. envoy's
          aides went out of their way to put distance between.
          Strauss and the new U.S. proposal.
          Strauss received final instructions on (he initia-
          tive in an envelope handed to him only after he
          boarded his U.S. Air Force plane for the three-day
          trip to Israel and Egypt, sources in Strauss' party
          said. He opposed the idea when it was discussed e.a ' .
          her in Washington, they added, parUy because he
          foresaw the vehement Israeli reaction.
          Begin's Cabinet, whkt'i met for four hours earlier
          to(lay, accused the United States of trying to renege
          on commitments to Israel under the Sinai with-
          drawal accord of 1975, the Camp David accords of
          last September and the Egyptian-Israeli peace
          treaty of March 26.
          Fienry Kissinger, then secretary of state, pledged
          as part of the 1975 accord that the United States
          would not recognize or negotiate with the Palestine
          Liberation Organization until it acknowledged Isra-
          el's right to exist. The Israeli Cabinet, reportedly
          with rare unanimity, apparently believes the U.S.
          See MIDEAST, A16, Col. S
          Federal Loan Guarantees
          Arouse Economic Concent
          By Bradley Graham
          Washin tOU Post Staff /Vriter
          ‘rhe Carter administration's offer to
          rescue troubled Chrysler Corp. with
          I'ederal loan guarantees spotlights OflC
          of' the little-noticed but most impor-
          taut of all the federal government's
          activities: its dominant role in borrow-
          ing and lencliitg in America.
          ‘i'he govei-nment is now responsible
          fur a fourth of tile borrowing and a
          sixth of the lending in this country.
          The most comiiion form o jnvo1 'e-
          meat is loan guarantees, which is the
          way the government helped Lockheed
          Corp. and New York City. But these
          are just the best known examples of
          federally backed loans.
          The government has co-signed $1 of
          evei y $12 in supposedly private loans
          made in the United States. All told,
          the government's guarantees added
          up to $254 billion at the end of last
          year, about twice what the govern-
          inent had loaned directly.
          Use of these loan guarantees is
          growing. The value of the guarantees
          last year was double what they were
          in 1970 and six times what they were
          in 1 5O. And much of the growth, ac-
          cording to one study, has been unpian-
          tied and uncontrolled.
          Govei'nnient officials regard the
          guaranteed loans as a free good, in-
          volving only negligible jute l'vcntion in
          the economy and costing taxpayers lit-
          tie or nothing—inst Uncle Sam's sig-
          nature on a loan application promis—
          ing to make the l)aYfllents if the pri-
          vat.e borrower defaults,
          But the guarantees, in fact, are not
          free, and their increasing popularity'
          has prompted serious concern for
          their economic impact.
          By co-signing tens of millions of dot-
          Jars worth of special-interest loans
          each year, federal agencies distort i'd-
          ationships among potential borrowers.
          They help boi'i'owei's who are loss
          CI'edit-WOFthy move to the front of' the
          lending line, white more credit-worthy
          ones, particularly small businesses
          atid unaided home buyers, get forced
          to the rear.
          See CREDIT, Al2, Col. I
          Maryland Steel Plant Deaths
          Up Sixfold in Last 18 Months
          By Saunclra Saperstein
          V 'ash neton Post StaIt Write:
          BALTIPsIORE—James Anderson Jr.
          backed his 15-ton truck tip to a slag
          1)011(1 filled /%‘ith plant wastes and
          stopped just sliot't of the edge. A
          I1ell)Cr signaled him forward, but the
          ti-tick lurched back and plunged into
          tile murky water, carrying Anderson
          to his death oil I/'Iat-ch 13. 1978.
          ‘l'hat was just the begitining.
          A IllOlitil later a foreman was
          scalded to death in tile tin mill. Then
          a man ‘as yanked onto a giant spool
          of wire as it spun round and round in
          the steel plant.
          ‘There was death by heat stroke, by
          electrocution, and twice by carbon-mo-
          IloXide poisoning. One maii plunged to
          his death when a piece of sheet metal
          gave vay, and another fell through
          tin open manhole, A train struck a
          Li uck and killed yet another man.
          ‘i'hen ]ast veek, a crane atop an 80.
          foot towel' crashed to the ground like
          a l'eiled tree, crushing the operator
          and a helper below.
          ‘. It has been an extraordinary p c-
          nod, unprecedented,” said 1-larvey Ej,-
          Stein, conlmissioner of Maryland's Di-
          vision of Labor and Industry. “We've
          searched for a reason, tried to find a
          common thread through the deaths.
          But we have never found an answer,”
          I ndeed, thei'e is no pattern apparent
          in the 12 deaths at the Bethlehem
          Steel plant and shipyards. wei-e 25,000
          ilidU and women work. Tile reddish-
          brown forest of pipes and towers and
          gargantuan bi ast furn aces covers 3,000
          acres on Sparrows Point, jutting into
          tIle Chesapeake Bay southeast of Bal-
          tiniore.
          Between 1975 an I 1978, four work-
          ers were killed at the plant and ship-
          yards i'uti by 1/lat'yland's largest pri-
          vate employer.
          ‘rliat death rate, which workers had
          learned to expect as the risk OflO must
          take. has increased sixfold In the last
          18 fllOflthS.
          After eight of the most recent
          deaths, federal or state officials inves-
          ‘ tlgàting the accidents cited the corn-
          See STEEL, A14, Col. 1
          Khomeini Orders
          Offensive Against
          Kui'disl.i Capital
          By Chris do Kretser
          Stecial to The Wasninnon Post
          TEHRAN, Aug. 19 — Ayatollah Ru-
          hOllall Khomeini ot-clered a general
          nlobihzation of Iran's security forces
          today to crush a rebellion in the
          Kurdish provincial capital of Sanan-
          cla.j, but the govel-not- genet-al of the
          city said there was no revolt.
          The state radio broke into its aftei'-
          noon news bulletin to broadcast the
          mol)ilizatton order. ViliCh gave the na
          tion's armed foic'es an hour to set up
          an “air bridge” to transport troops.
          police and Revolutionary Guards to
          Sanandaj.
          The radio said the city's military
          garrison had been besieged and that
          unless reinforcements reached Sanan-
          daj within half an hour the Kurds
          vould seize all the al-ms in the bar-
          rae ks.
          But the govel-nor of Kurdistan, Mo-
          hanlmed Rashici Shakiba. con tacteci by
          telephone in Sanandaj, said the radio
          repoi'ts were “a complete fabrication”
          and there was total calm in Sanaudaj.
          “1 wish Ayatollaii Kiìoii eini would
          contact me fit-st to find out the true
          situation before he issues orders for a
          mobilization on tile basis 0 lies,”
          Shakiba said.
          He said there had been one minor
          disturbance in the city today and it
          had not led to any violence.
          “‘i'lwee truckloads of Revolutionary
          G uards wet-c d isarnled and prevented
          from leaving Sanandaj by i)eOPle in
          the city,” he said.
          Kurdisi-i sources in Sanandaj agreed
          with tile governor's statement that the
          city was calm.
          ‘I'iie Kurdish Democratic Party,
          which the i'adio reported ‘as laying
          siege to the garrison, said it , had no
          knowledge of any such action.
          The party, which has been fighting
          for autononly for Iran's 4 ulillion
          icurds, ‘as banned yesterday by Aya-
          tohiab Khonieini. It vas accused by
          the governnient of being involved in a
          Kizi-dish rebellion in the town of Pa-
          ‘eb that ‘as quelled Satui'clay aftei-
          Khomeini had ordered the ai-med
          forces to crush it wiihin 24 hours.
          Tile government also nullified the
          election of the party's seci-etary gen-
          et'al, Abdlurallnlan Qassem Lu , to I he
          assembly of experts reviewing li-an's
          draft constitution that opened its vorlc
          in Tebran today.
          Khomeini yesterday called for ban-
          ning the pal-ty, saying the party /viis
          “like poison to tile health of the revo-
          “Their activities should be stopped.
          their publications banned anti no
          trace of thcnl should be left in tile
          COUIltl.y,” lie said.
          Eleven Kul'ds who ‘CI'C captured
          See iRAN, A16, CoT. I
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          Israeli Prime Minister Begin. left, and U.S. special envoy Robert Strauss meet in Jerusalem to discuss the U.S. plan.
          Trappings of a Campaign
          Spe echmaking, Haiicishaking, B aby-Kisshi. g
          Intrigue President's Fellow Passengers
          By Bill Peterson
          Washington Post Staff Writer
          ABOARD TFIE DELTA QUEEN,
          Aug. 19 — President Carter's vacation
          on the waters of the Mississippi is tak-
          lug on all the trappings of a campaign
          trip.
          During the last two days, he IlaS
          made nine speeches with this stately
          old steamboat arid the bluffs of the
          Mississippi as a backdrop. He has
          shaken thousands of hands. He has
          kissed at least a dozen babies. And lie
          has had his pictuie taken with eveiy
          one of the 150 passengers aboard this
          steamboat as it wends its way past
          rvlinnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa — all
          early political states important for his
          renomination.
          This morning Carter was up at 3,
          shaking hands among the hundred
          people who had gathered in the fog at
          a lock at Genoa, Wis. Hour. later,
          wearing a baseball cap and jbgging
          shoes, he was out shaking hands with
          another group of people in a driving
          downpour.
          “It's a campaign, no doubt about it,”
          said one passenger, Dr. Walter Balzei.
          as he watched Qarter leave the Delta
          Queen Witil a cli-enched crowd at
          Lynchville, Wis. “1 think it must be a
          terrific ego trip. He can't help but
          think people are for him.”
          Carter's 150 fellow passengers
          aboard the Delta Queen think it is a
          strange way to spend a vacation. They
          aie both baffled and intiigucd. They
          can't get over a piesident weating jog-
          ging shoes and blue jeans. Fle isn't
          getting much sleep,” said Richard
          Dodge of New Hope. Minn. “But 1
          think he's having a good time.”
          More than half of the boat passen-
          get-s appear to he Republicans, solid
          Midwestern doctors, businessmen and
          retirees. Their average age is about
          60. They aren't won over easily.
          “He's so common it's hard for me to
          believe lie's that important — which
          is to his credit,” said Baizer, a Daveti-
          port, Iowa, physician, adding that he
          didn't think he'd vote for Carter in
          1980. “I admire hint and like him. But
          he hasn't produced.”
          The America that Carter is seeing is
          a beautiful slice of the nation's heai-t-
          land. Majestic bluffs rise from the
          See PRESIDENT, A8, Col. 1
          Associated Press
          Smiling faces greet Fresideut Carter as he makes his way into a crowd at Prairie tIn Chi n, Wis.
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          Sirli.aii Sirhan,
          ii Years Later
          On June S, 1.968, Sit-hail
          Sii'han shot Hobeit Ken-
          iledy ill a Los Angeles hotel.
          Eleven yeah's latci', Sirban says
          he has macic peace “with my-
          self and vith God.” The first of
          a tWO-l)flrt interview begins on
          Page Bi.
        

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