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OAS reviews Vance's call for Somoza's resignation

WASHINGTON (AP)-The Organization of American States is trying to decide whether there is a consensus in support of a surprise U S. call for an end to the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua. A seven-nation working group was named Thursday night to try to work out a resolution acceptable to a two-thirds majority of the 27-nation regional organization. The delegates were working from a draft resolution presented by the United States. OAS foreign ministers met for four hours Thursday and it was apparent sentiment against President Anastasio Somoza was running high. Another meeting was scheduled today. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. opened the deliberations Thursday with a call for the "replacement of the present government with a transitional government of national reconciliation.” •The five-nation Andean Pact said no solution is possible without the “definitive exckision of the Somoza regime.”

Investigative team to check defects

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Panama disclosed it was recognizing a five-member government council announced last weekend by the Sandinista guerrilla movement. Earlier, at Panama’s request, film footage was shown to the delegates of the murder Wednesday of ABC newsman Bill Stewart at the hands of a Nicaraguan national guardsman. Other countries said the OAS should pursue a hands-off policy and allow the Sandinistas to achieve an outright military victory. Asked whether he thought there was a two-thirds consensus for a resolution calling

team, consisting of a concrete inspector and an investigator, will be looking at the concrete walls of the reactor containment buildings as well as an auxiliary building. The inspectors will be on the site for at least two days, Strasma added. The twin-reactor plant is being built by Public Service Indiana near Madison, Ind., about 30 miles upstream on the Ohio River from Louisville. The first reactor is scheduled to go into service in 1982. A former construction worker

Carter to visit China in 1980

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just as Richard M. Nixon journeyed to China during his re-election campaign, President Carter is plotting a similar trip in 1980. But first he’s sending his vice president. Carter disclosed in an interview with a Japanese television network that he will visit the People’s Republic of China during the first half of 1980, following in Nixon’s and Gerald R. Ford’s footsteps. At the same time the president’s comments were released Thursday, White House press secretary Jody Powell said Vice President Walter F. Mondale will visit China as Carter’s

on Somoza to step down, a U.S. official, who asked not to be named, said, “It depends on how it’s worded.” It was clear the spreading opposition to Somoza’s rule in Nicaragua has led to a marked deterioration in his hemispheric support. Equally clear, however, was the determination of some member states to abide by one of the organization’s most hallowed principles: non-inter-vention. Mexico, for example, has been in the vanguard of antiSomoza sentiment in the hemisphere. But Mexican Foreign

at the site, Charles Edward Cutshall, has alleged that frequent voids in the concrete were ordered patched improperly so that NRC inspectors would not see them. An environmental group, Save The Valley, has called for a halt to construction at Marble Hill on the basis of Cutshall’s sworn statement. Inspectors will not provide a “blow-by-blow description” of their visit today or release findings to the media immediately, Strasma said. Results of the investigation

representative in late August. U.S. officials hope the trips will help speed up a variety of negotiations opened by lower U.S. officials and Chinese authorities in talks here and in China. Among these issues are trade and aviation discussions. The timing of Nixon’s trip in 1972, the first trip by a U.S. president to Communist China, had the effect of kicking off his presidential campaign. While the timing of a Carter trip remains uncertain, the closer it gets to key presidential primary elections in 1980, the more difficult it would be to schedule. Carter has made clear that he

President vows federal help to keep highways safe

By PETER MACKLER Associated Press Writer President Carter has pledged federal help to keep the nation’s highways safe and eight more states have taken emergency action following the worst day of violence yet in the independent truckers strike. He has also ordered an end to the federal rule that gave farmers priority in obtaining diesel fuel, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland announced today. “The president has asked me to announce today that he has agreed with recommendation to terminate the Department of

Illinois dispenses pot- for medicinal use

SPRINGFIELD, 111. (AP) - Illinois, which generally outlaws use of marijuana, is about to start distributing the weed to doctors for medicinal purposes only, of course. It looks like a regular cigarette, comes in cans of 300 and is grown on the grounds of the University of Mississippi, according to Thomas B. Kirkpatrick Jr., executive director of the Illinois Dangerous Drugs Commission. “It’s Mexico stock,” Kirkpatrick said Thursday. “It’s very carefully grown, just like a commercial tobacco crop. ”

Minister Jorge Castaneda, reflecting his country’s historical concerns about U.S. intentions, delivered an emotional appeal against any OAS intervention in Nicaragua. The Carter administration has never felt comfortable about the long U.S. friendship with the Somoza regime. Vance's speech amounted to U.S. abandonment of a government which, in 1961, lent its territory to help the United States launch the Bay of Pigs invasion. “The heart of the problem in Nicaragua is the breakdown of trust between government and the people,” Vance said.

will be made in a written report to PSI, which will have 20 days in which to request all or part of the report be withheld from the public, Strasma said. Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., last week said construction should stop until after a full investigation of the charges and assurances that all safety requirements in construction are being followed. PSI has maintained that federal construction criteria are being met and that “honeycombing” in the concrete walls has been properly repaired.

wants to visit China, but his statement to two correspondents of the Japan Broadcasting Corp. gave few clues as to exact dates. He said only that he had received an invitation from Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Guofeng (Hua Kaofeng) and from Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiaoping) and that he would like to accept it within the next 12 months, but not this year. Mondale’s trip stems from two invitations received over the last two years. Mondale will be the first U.S. vice president to visit the Communist nation.

Energy’s temporary diesel fuel priority program rather than wait until its July 31 expiration date,’’Bergland said. The president’s action followed his promise Thursday to make more diesel available to striking independent truckers, who have complained of fuel shortages. Bullets tore into more than three dozen rigs in 18 states Thursday. Other trucks were pounded by rocks, run off the road, set afire or plagued by nails strewn on roads. In Idaho, drivers had to make their way around two trees set across a highway.

Kirkpatrick said Illinois is the first state approved by the U S. Food and Drug Administration to distribute the pharmaceutically pure, govern-ment-inspected, pre-rolled and packaged marijuana to treat the side effects of chemotherapy. Marijuana reportedly alleviates the extreme nausea and discomfort that can accompany chemotherapy treatments for cancer. According to the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, at least 13 states now use marijuana in legal re-

A Technical High school student from Eindhoven, Netherlands, pilots his school's entry in a special economy marathon across the finish line at Enschede last weekend. The student designers claimed a world economy record for

Back in the U.S. Kavaja returns from Ireland in same plane he hijacked

MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. (AP) An anticommunist Serb who hijacked an American Airlines jet with 135 persons aboard earlier this week was returned to the United States today on the same Boeing 707 that he forced to fly him to Ireland. Nikola Kavaja was led off the plane in handcuffs shortly after his arrival here on a flight from Shannon, Ireland, where he arrived on Thursday and was ordered deported early today. Kavaja was not allowed to talk to reporters as he was taken to be arraigned on an arrest warrant issued because he failed to appear for sentencing Thursday for the 1975 bombing of the home of Yugoslavia’s consum in Chicago. His hijacking odyssey began Wednesday when he commandeered a jetliner on a flight from New York to Chicago, where he was to have been sentenced. U.S. Magistrate Stephen M. Orlofsky ordered Kavaja returned to Chicago and officials said he would be flown to Illinois aboard a chartered airplane after the arraignment was completed. Five Irish policemen guarded Kavaja and his American lawyer, Deyan Brashich, on today’s flight to the United States. The jet was flown by the same volunteer crew that took it to Ireland on Thursday. One of the Irish guards. Deputy Superintendent Pat Docey, said Kavaja was “very calm

There were no serious injuries reported. The truckers’ strike called to protest rising diesel prices and dwindling supplies, load regulations and the 55-mph speed limit, also tightened its grip on the nation’s supply lines for fuel and food. Five poultry producers cut back operations in Georgia, chickens were drowned and eggs smashed in Tennessee for lack of transportation. North Carolina’s cucumber crop was rotting, milk was dumped in Pennsylvania and cotton piled up in Louisiana warehouses.

search programs conducted under federal auspices. And a NORMAL spokeswoman, Alice O’Leary, said Oregon authorizes dispensing of the drug by doctors and use by patients under limited conditions. Kirkpatrick said the pot will be given to doctors throughout the state who have been approved by the Illinois Cancer Council, a private organization. Doctors who receive monthly marijuana shipments must have no criminal records and secure places to store the drug, Kirkpatrick said. When the Legislature first au-

Terrorists' bond revoked by judge CHICAGO (AP) Bond for the six Serbian terrorists convicted in a 1975 bombing has been revoked by a federal judge who blames himself in part for this week’s hijacking of an American Airlines jet. Judge Hubert L. Will Wednesday evening had revoked bond on Nikola Kavaja, the Serbian nationalist who allegedly hijacked a jet en route from New York to Chicago earlier in the day. Thursday Will revoked bond on the others convicted with Kavaja to ensure that no “similar incidents or problems occur.” Will also delayed sentencing of the six at least until today. Will said he “anguished over what might have happened because I let him out on bond ... many people might have been killed ... I was so relieved to hear that at least nobody got killed. “There was no question in my mind who was responsible for allowing that hijacking to occur,” Will said “ I set the bond.” Will noted that the U.S. attorney’s office had requested that bonds for the six defendants be much higher than the ones he set. Four of the defendants were in court, but defendant Bosko Radonjic was at his home in New York City. Will ordered him flown to Chicago under guard. The six were convicted in the 1975 bombing of the suburban Chicago home of the Yugoslav consul.

and relaxed. He might have dozed for a short time.” At his arraignment, Kavaja was asked if he understood his right to emain silent. Brashich, who translated for Kavaja, quoted his client as responding: “I know that and I will make no comments or any statements or answers to any questions.”

“At least half of the potato people up and down the East Coast aren’t even digging potatoes,” said Raymond Martin, a reporter for the U.S. Agriculture Department. “I don’t think they are doing anything because of the strike.” In California, air freight and railroad carriers were forced to turn away millions of dollars in orders for lack of space in the crunch to get to market. Some producers were paying premium prices to shippers who could deliver. “What transportation we’ve been able to find in the way of

thorized the plan last year, it did not specify how doctors were supposed to get the pot. Street sales obviously were not suitable, Kirkpatrick said, because the dosage is irregular and they often are contaminated by herbicides. For example, Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, is seeking comment from federal agencies on a study suggesting paraquat spraying to kill marijuana grown in Mexico may lead to lung illness in pot smokers. Paraquat is a herbicide.

the vehicle, which they said could go about 1,600 miles on a gallon of gasoline at an average speed of 9 mph. (AP Wirephoto).

When asked if he was tired, Kavaja said: “I have not slept for four days. What kind of country is this? America is not a communist country.” He asked that the hearing be rescheduled until Saturday morning, but Orlofsky rejected the request. The Irish government an-

trucks we have to pay almost double the price,” said Tom Powell, vice president of E.R. Albergotti Inc., a Salem, Va., producer. Meat packers asked President Carter for armed guards on their trucks and the head of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents half the nation’s grocers, asked him to give the protesting truckers some relief. Carter called Thursday for a quick end to the protest and said he had instructed the FBI to assist local law enforcement agencies in keeping peace on the highways.

'Never again/ says sheriff WILLIAMSPORT, Ind. (AP) Sheriff Loran Wilkie vows he’ll never do any favors for prisoners again. Thursday night Wilkie agreed to two inmates’ request to get them a pizza. (They gave him the money.) When Wilkie opened the cell door to deliver the treat, “both of them jumped me. They tried to take my gun away, but they couldn't." he said. To add injury to insult, they shoved him in fleeing, causing Wilkie to drop the pizza, he said. He stepped on it then, slipped and fell to the floor. Wilkie said Vincent Driskill, 19, Evansville, was captured by a hastily organized posse less than a mile from the Warren County jail here. Still at large was Mark A. Henison. 18. also of Evansville.

nounced early today that it was sending Kavaka and his lawyer back, even though Ireland has;, no extradition treaty with the United States. The pair apparently were deported as illegal immigrants. The two men spent the night in jail at Shannon, site of Ireland’s chief international airport, on the west coast. Kavaja, 45, and five otherSerbian exiles were scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. districtcourt in Chicago this afternoon for the 1975 bombing of thehome of the Yugoslav consul in • Chicago. It was not known ifJudge Hubert Will would delay the sentencing of the other five until Kavaja could join them. The FBI said Kavaja, free ofi $350,000 bond, was on his way from New York to Chicago Wednesday for sentencing when he hijacked an American Airlines Boeing 727 with 127 passengers and eight crew members aboard. He claimed to be carrying dynamite and demanded the release from a Chicago jail of the Rev. Stojilko Kajevic, a Serbian Orthodox priest convicted with him of the 1975 bombing. The priest was; the only one of the six who had been unable to make bond. The plane landed in Chicago, Kavaja released all of the pas-, sengers and five of the crew; members, and his lawyer came aboard. They were flown to New York, switched to a longecrange Boeing 707 and took off* early Thursday for Ireland.

“Violence and lawlessness will not be tolerated under any" circumstances,” he said. FBI Director William Webster said agents were already in : vestigating the shooting death of an Alabama trucker earlier this week. The president also said he would soon take steps to meet “legitimate grievances” of the nation’s 100,000 independent truckers. Leaders of several independent truckers met Thursday in Washington in an attempt to write a uniform set of demands and forge a coalition