Page 6-Wednesday, May 9, 1979-The Michigan Daily Israeli attacks shake Lebanon for third day BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli jets attacked targets in southern Lebanon yesterday and buzzed Beirut during a speech in which Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasser Arafat said America was a "snake's head" that must be crushed. Arafat's command said three civilians were wounded when Israeli warplanes strafed the coastal highway between the Zahrani River and Abu al Aswad, 30 miles north of the Israeli border. Arafat said jets also raided the southern Lebanon town of Bissariyeh, 32 miles from Beirut, and his command reported later that at least three Israeli jets bombed and rocketed the villages of Aishuyeh and Reihan, 10 and 11 miles north of the frontier with Israel. No casualty reports were given. In Tel Aviv, the military command said its warplanes bombed "terrorist concentrations" twice yesterday, striking early near the Zahrani and in the afternoon near Reihan. It said all the planes returned safely. The third straight day of air raids brought the reported casualty toll of Palestinians and Lebanese to 66 dead and 143 wounded in reprisal attacks Israel has mounted since it signed its peace treaty with Egypt March 26. BOTH EGYPT and the United States attempted to pressure Israel into halting its attacks, but Prime Minister Menachem Begin was resolute to con- tinue them. Begin offered a peace treaty with Lebanon on Monday, which was im- mediately rejected. He threatened at the same time to continue attacking Palestinian strongholds. But while the jets buzzed Beirut, Arafat, speaking to guerrilla graduates in a hideaway south of the city, said: "Terrorist Begin should realize that he cannot challenge us. No one can challenge men of sacrifice, men who consider themselves living martyrs, men who carry their own coffins as they fight." ARAFAT ALSO urged foreign ministers of Islamic countries meeting in the Moroccan city of Fez to take collective sanctions against the United States. In Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat predicted the Arab boycott of Egypt over its peace treaty with Israel "will all be history" by next year. And in Jerusalem a top-level commit- tee began preparing Israeli policy for the opening round of talks with Egypt and the United States this month on the shape of Palestinian self-rule in Israeli- occupied territories. THE COMMITTEE of 11 Cabinet ministers was studying a 30-noint v proposal by Begin which reportedly safeguards Israel's right to continue Jewish settlement in the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. Government sources said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was planning trips to Cairo and Jerusalem later this month for initial contacts on the. autonomy plan for the 1.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Formal talks between negotiators of the three countries are to begin by May 25. 21 Iranians killed during bloodiest day since executions began TEHRAN, Iran (AP)-Tehran's revolutionary firing squads, in the bloodiest day since they began executing their countrymen in February, killed 21 persons yesterday, including two of the shah's former Cabinet ministers and an army general, Radio Tehran announced. More trials were reported under way and the total of known executions is ex- pected to rise from its current level of 191. Sobbing relatives gathered at the Tehran city morgue shortly after dawn to claim the bodies. Reporters said ony one body was handed over, it in a rough wooden coffin. Other families were told to go home and wait to be contacted about claiming the corpses. REVOLUTIONARY guardsmen out- side the morgue angrily told the vic- tims' relatives the executed were guilty of murder and deserved their punish- ment. The official charges against the victims included "warring with God and his emissaries," torture and killing, corruption and "insulting the imam." The charge of "insulting the imam" was a new one and apparently referred to revolutionary religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, known in Iran as the imam, or supreme leader. Khomeini was the architect of the Islamic revolution that toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's monarchy in February. THE VICTIMS were executed at 5 a.m. after trials that lasted all day Monday, ending at midnight, in three branches of the Tehran Islamic revolutionary court. The executed in- cluded 18 army figures and alleged members of the shah's SAVAK secret police, most notably Brig. Gen. Ali Fahti Amin of the former Tehran mar- tial law administration. He was the 30th of the shah's generals to be put to death. Before yesterday, the largest group of executions in one day was 11 when senior officials, including former Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari, were shot to death on April 11. Since then executions have been sporadic-none on many days and as many as four on others, usually taking the lives of minor officials and policemen. Tehran newspapers yesterday prin- ted front-page portraits of those executed and photographs of their trials. As before, the trial location ap- peared to be Qasr Prison, where some 4,000 prisoners of the revolution are believed held. Photographers were barred, however, from the city morgue, preventing the gory photographers of corpses that previously had been traditional on newspaper front pages after executions. FBI investigates attempted sabotage of nuclear plant (Continued from Page 3) Stallings added that in addition to the FBI, Vepco also notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the incident. T he fuel elements - uranium pellets inside tubes of zirconium - were to have been used to refuel Surry Unit No. 2, which has been out of operation since January for replacement of its steam generators. The pellets would not have become radioactive until they were in- serted into the reactor and subjected to the fission process, he said. STALLINGS SAID there was no danger of the uranium pellets being damaged because zirconium is unaffec- ted by caustic substances. Stallings said the fuel shipments were checked as they continued through March. On April 18, he noted, two of the 64 fuel units were inspected and they were found to be sound. Stallings said a preliminary in- vestigation indicated that between a couple of cups to a gallon of the caustic substance was dumped into each of the 62 fuel units. . , , "IT MUST HAVE been done over a period of time," he said. "He may have rolled in a wheelbarrow. I just don't know." He said he could not understand how the attempt was carried out in view of the security at the Surry plant. "We are told we have the best security system of any nuclear plant in the country," he said. GRADUATE RECORD NEW YORK (AP)-U.S. chemical- engineering colleges will award degrees in June to an all-time record number of engineers, notes Chemical Engineering magazine. Bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering will be awarded to 5,500 students, eclipsing last year's all-time high of 4,621. The publication says demand for chemical engineers will continue strong for the next three years. Growth, however, will not keep pace with the ",nslaught of gaduates."