7K The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVII, No. 5-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, May 10, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages arter, Assad confer GENEVA, Switzerland A') - President Carter met yesterday with Syrian President llafee Assad to search for ways to end the decades-old Arah-Israeli conflict. A Syrian source said Assad pre- sented Carter with an Arab concensus plan for creation of a Pales- tinian state. A government source in Damascus, Syria, told reporters the plan had the approval of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pales- tine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasir Arafat. THE SOURCE indicated thse proposal called for a Palestinian homeland on the West Bank of the Jordan* River and the Gaza Strip, Israeli - occupied terri- A- tories. He said Arah leaders had resolved their differences over o n l the links the new state would have with Jordan, but he gave no details. There was no imme- diate comment from the Car- - ter party.cuts sewag9 Carter and Assad were hoth optimistic on their arrival here, hut Israel viewed their talks e undunilin 6 s:"I believe it is the year of p n + sE X ishope for substantial progress," Carter said as he as Assad met By GREGG KRUPA each other for the first time and spoke briefly with reporters be- Ann Arbor City Council voted fore their talks. unanimously last night to pro- hibit the dumping of sewage is- THE SYRIAN leader said he to the Huron River by commer- saw no ,"magic wand" at hand cial septic tank cleaners. The but that he hoped the meeting motion was made in response to would prove to be a "turning a ruling by District Court Judge point in the history" of efforts Robert Fink that Ann Arbor's to reach a settlement in the local sewage treatment plant Middle East. was violating its state Environ- Carter flew here from Lon- mental F r a I e c Ii a a Ag ocy don after a weekend summit (EPA) license. tconference with the leaders of - six other major industrial na- The city had admitted to tiaas, dumping two million gallons of He was scheduled to return to improperly treated sewage into AP Photo London last night to attend to- the river daily. The move by SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ Assad and President Jimmy Carter leave an elevator in a Geneva day's ministerial meeting of the Council will reduce the amount hotel where they held talks on the situation in the Middle East. After the talks yesterday, Car- North Atlantic Treaty Organi' of illegal waste by 500,000 gal- ter left for London for today's NATO conference. See CARTER, Page 10 See COUNCIL, Page 10 f C. r f a t 37 k'lled in Rhodesia clash SALISBURY, Rhodesia (/P' -'Security forces and black na- tionalist guerrillas clashed in what apparently was the first major battle of a new government counteroffensive, official sources re- ported yesterday. At last 37 black civilians were reported killed. The sources said 31 other black civilians were wounded in the fighting, believed to have aken place Sunday in the Ndanga tribal trust land, 200 miles south of here and 78 miles from the Mazom- bique border, the main infiltration route for insurgents. IT WAS NOT clear whether any guerrillas were among the black casualties, and there was no immediate report of dead or wounded among the security forces. Further details on the fighting were not immediately available. In other clashes in the first nine days of May - the beginning of the government's annual dry season counteroffensive - au- thorities reported 18 g'cerriilas and one security force member were killed. Military planners call the six dry months the "culling season," when thinni g ground confer lakes it easier to hunt down insur- gents who for four years have been fighting to bring down the white minority regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith. GOVERNMENT COMMANDERS have stepped up army and police patrols and have increased the number of ambushes laid on infiltration trails from Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana. "The weather is now on our side," a security official said, "and we're pulling out all stops to destroy the terrorists, halt the insurgency and seek out arms caches." The rainy season helped the two nationalist armies-Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and Robert Mugabe's ZimbabweAfrican National Union (ZANU) build up their See 37, Page 10 Daily Photo by ALAN BlUNSKY Average white person The Average Vhite Band pleased the crisler' Arena audience playing their own special brand of music Sunday night. Here Alan Gorrie displays his vocal and instrumental talents as an intri- cate part of the band's character.