The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVI I, Na. 61s Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 9, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages PLO may accept Israel President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance indi- cated yesterday a breakthrough miay be developing in the Pales- tinian stance on recognizing Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Mena- hem Begin refused comment on the U.S. statements. A Vance spokesperson said the United States would accept the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a participant at Geneva peace talks if the guerrilla group would go along with a U. N. resolution recognizing Israel's right to exist. THE UNLTED STATES would drop its demand that the guer- rille organization change its charter which calls for dismantling of the Jewish state, Vance's spokesperson said in Saudi Arabia where Vance is on a Mideast tour. Begin met with top officials to dlscuss preparations for Vance's arrival today. After the meeting, he was approached by Israeli television cresvs in Jerusalem but drove off in his official car 'without making a statement. Other officials also refused coin- ment. Sources close to the Israeli government said the PLC) maneu- ver might be a "smell trick," giving the impression of modera' tion while still refusing explicitly to accept Israel's right to exist. NEGOTIATING EFFORTS centered on U. N. Security Coun- cil Resolution 242, which was approved on Nov. 22, 1967. It called; for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied during the June 1967 Mideast war ,a just solution to the refugee problem and the recognition of every state's right to live in peace within secure borders. The principles, confirmed in a second resolution after a Mid- east war in 1973, were accepted by Israel and its Arab neighbors and have served as the basis for U. S. efforts at reconvening the Middle East peace talks. A PLO spokesman said in Beirut that his organization was bound by policy not to recognize Israel or accept Resolution 242 but that changes could be recommended to the Palestinian Nation- See PLO, Page 10 City picks groups eligible to receive CDBG funds By GREGG KRUPA The city's Comiurunity t)evelopment staff last night mude public the list of public service agencies they certified to receive Com- munity Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the city. Laurie Wargelin of the Community Development staff ex- plained that certification "does not guarantee that any one agency will be funded," but merely that they are eligible for funding. Wargelin said the total dollar request by certified agencies is $1 million. The agencies are conpeting for $30tl,0l, total, from the CDBG funds earmarked for public service funding. -_TIlE ORGANIZATIONS certi- fied by City Council, last night at the recommendation of the Community Development staff include, Neighborhood s e n i o r Center, Center for Independent Living, Broadway Drop-In Cen- ter, Student Advocacy Center, The organizations that applied for CDBG subsidies, but were ten by research bureau agents not certified include, Washtenaw burned them with lighted ciga- C o u n t y Planned Parenthood, hey were asked who were their Child Care Referral Services, sponsors for studies abroad. Homemakers, Inc., P r o j e c t a said he named a resident of Transition, Forest Hills Coopera- k who in 1975 had visited Kam- tive, Drug Help, COPE, Project promised to find him a place in Grw Pi ake Cooperative - Second Baptist Day Care, anid American or Canadian univer- Dawntreader, Inc. bira said he subsequently receiv- Fourteen agencies were given he had won a scholarship at a conditional certification because, niversity. according to Wargelin, "one or ys after their arrest, the Research two things were not tip to par ummander, one Col. Francis Its- with the guidelines we set." HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS gather near the Fermi II nuclear power plant Satur- day to launch 100 balloons in a symbolic gesture protesting the widespread effect of radio- active material. See story, Page 6. tells of torture in . NAIROBI, Kenya (Irt - During his 14 months in Idi Amin's prisons, John Seka- bira says he helped bury the mutilated victims of mass executions and one time watched Amin dance after inspecting the grave of massacred soldiers. In an interview the 25-year-old medical student - one of htndreds of Ugandans to flee their na ive land this year - also wit- nessed the Turial of an elderly white wo- man last July 20. THE D5ATE INDICATED she may have been Dora Bloch, the British-Israeli grand, mother who was left behind when Israeli commandos staged their celebrated raid on Entebbe to free hostages held by the hijackers of an Air France jetliner. Bloch had been taken from Entebbe Airport to a Kampala hospital, and members of the. hospital staff have reported she was mur- dered by Amin's security police. . Like the many other stories of atrocities in Amin's Uganda, Sekabira's report can- not be cerified. But the young student claimed his ordeal was "mild" compared with those suffered by other prisoners. tHe said he was freed in June. "The world must knowe about the hor- rors of Uganda," he said. "PERHAPS THAT way they may be in- spired to do something about it." Here is his story. The ordeal.began Jan. 5, 1976, as Seka- bira and two student friends were waiting at the Estebbe airport for a flight to Can- ada. He, George Nsubuga and Mike Sebi- rimbi were ,seized by agents of Amin's feared State Research Bureau and told no students were allowed to study abroad. The next day, the three were driven to the security police headquarters in down- town Kampala with hoods over their heads. THElE, IN underground cells, they were bea who also rettes. T orerseas; Sekabir New Yorl pala and either an sity. Seka ed word Quebec U Twc dad Bureau c buka, visited their cell to find the three students lying wounded in pools of their own blood. SEKABIRA SAID the commander order ed his two fellow students, more critically injured than he, to another cell. Sekabira has not seen them since and fears they are dead. See STUDENT, Page 6 THE CONDITIONALLY certi- fied agencies will have until Septemberito comply with the guidelines and will be submitted to Council for final approval. If the organizations cannot meet the specific guidelines for CDBG funding for p u Ib i c service See CITY, Page 6