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Dayan seeks
Begin coalitionl
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Moshe
Dayan, whose independent party won
only two seats in Israel's election, held
talks yesterday with Prime Minister
Menachem Begin on bringing the for-
mer foreign minister into a coalition
government.
Begin earlier negotiated with Agudat
Israel leader Avraham Shapira, who
told reporters, "We want to make a
coalition first and foremost with
Begin."
NEAR-FINAL results of the June 30
elections show Begin's Likud Bloc
leading Shimon Peres' opposition Labor
Party 48 seats to 47 in the 120-member
Knesset, Israel's Parliament. ,
Begin is considered certain to return
for a second term as prime minister if
he can form a coalition with splinter
parties that will give him 60 or more
seats in Parliament.
Political observers say his most ob-
vious option would be to unite Likud's 48
seats with the orthodox National
Religious Party, six seats; Aguda
Israel, four seats; and TAMI, an NRP
offshoot expected to win two or three
seats.
HE HAS A better chance of forming a
government than Peres because the
NRP has indicated it will not go into op-
position against Likud.
However, the NRP, still rankled by
the TAMI defection, has said it is reluc-
tant to join a coalition with the party,
and has asked Begin to invite Dayan's
TELEM faction to join the government
instead.
Dayan, who resigned as Begin's
foreign minister in 1979 in a dispute
over policy toward Israel's occupied
territories, was reported demanding a
role in modifying the terms of Israel's
14-year-old occupation of the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank of the Jordan River.
BEGIN'S SPOKESMAN, Uri Porat,
said the prime minister's meeting with
Dayan yesterday stuck on the same
issue.
"Dayan made some difficulties,
disagreeing with the prime minister on
Palestinian autonomy," Porat said.
Dayan's campaign platform ad-
vocated imposing administrative
autonomy unilaterally on the 1.2 million
Palestinians in the West Bank and
Gaza. Begin opposes this position.
The daily Davar newspaper reported
that Begin had asked Interior Minister
Yosef Burg, leader of the National
Religious Party, whether he would ac-
cepta vice-premiership and give
Dayan his present job of Israeli
negotiator in talks with Egypt and the
United States on Palestinian autonomy.
Israel Radio said that one NRP har-
dliner, Rabbi Haim Druckman,
telephoned Begin to protest the idea of
giving Dayan the autonomy post, and
Begin responded that he had made no
promises.
If Dayan returns, it will be the 66-
year-old former general's third
political comeback.-
In 1964 Dayan resigned his post as
agriculture minister in the Mapai Par-
ty.
New drug may be
Herpesvirus cure
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
N.Y. slasher arrested
NEW YORK-A slasher slit the throats of six derelicts, killing two, on a
rampage through Manhattan early yesterday, and the attacks stopped after
police arrested a man carrying a bloody straight-edged razor.
The 33-year-old man, who reportedly once was imprisoned for robbery on
the testimony of derelicts, was suspected in the six latest attacks as well as
in nine earlier non-fatal assaults on down-and-out men in Manhattan, sour-
ces said.
The attacker apparently traveled from place to place by subway, seeking
victims in the city's seedier areas.
Police said the first vagrant slain, Michael Fiorentino, was found about
12:20 a.m. yesterday.
An ambulance driver who picked up the body said Fiorentino's throat
"was open so wide blood was running down the sewer system."
The man was arrested by two uniformed officers who said he wa. acting
strangely and matched the description of the wanted attacker. He was said
to have fled when approached, but was overtaken.
The bloody razor was found in his pocket, police said, and he wore a sweat-
shirt and bloodstained trousers.
Moscow may allow Poland
to solve political crisis
WARSAW-Government officials and the Polish press yesterday said a
communique issued after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's talk
with Polish leaders indicates Moscow will allow the nation to solve its
political crisis.
The communique issued after Gromyko's weekend visit stressed Poland's
allegiance to the Soviet bloc and to socialism, stressed theneed for detente,
and outlined a long list of foreign policy areas in which the two states were in
agreement.
Members of the independent union Solidarity declared a rike alert for
today at the national airline LOT and a one-hour warning4trike in all ports
tomorrow. /
The separate announcements came several hours after Polish officials, in
an interview yesterday, said they were "relieved" after Gromyko's visit.
Husband charged with
setting fatal blaWe
SYRACUSE, N.Y.-A fire so intense at firefighters could not get near it
swept through a home early yesteray, killing seven people, including a
pregnant woman whose husband was later charged with murder and arson,
authorities said.
Police charged Lee Hanks, ?2, the husband of Patricia Hanks, who was
nine months pregnant, with sven counts of second degree murder and one
count of second degree arson.
"In my 35 years as chief, this is the riost tragic fatality I've witnessed,"
said Fire Chief Thomas Hanlon.
According to policeHanks had told investigators that he was staying with
his mother and arrived on the scene when the house was in flames. The fire
was reported at 2:25 a.m.
Mediators conduct talks
with IRA hunger strikers
BELFAST, Northern Ireland-Roman Catholic mediators conducted a
fourth round of talks yesterday with eight hunger strikers, then made un-
disclosed proposals to the British government aimed at ending the 4-month-
old protest, sources close to the talks said.
The five-man delegation from the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace
emerged from Belfast's Maze Prison after one hour and then met with the
hunger strikers' relatives and supporters, according to Sinn Fein, political
wing of the Irish Republican Army.
Both the British government and the commission refused comment on the
Maze talks. But the negotiations that began Saturday were widely seen as
the most promising hope yet for ending the crisis, now entering its fifth mon-
th.
Isabel Peron released
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Former President Isabel Peron was freed
yesterday after more than five years under house arrest, the official news
agency Telam reported.
The agency said Mrs. Peron, at her own request, was being flown back to
the Peron family villa at San Vicente, 20 miles southwest of the capital,
where she has spent the last two years of the detention that followed her
ouster ina 1976 coup.
It was unclear what her next step would be. There has been conjecture she
would travel to Spain, where she spent 13 years in exile with her late
husband, three-time president Juan Peron.
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"THERE HAVE been cases of autop-
sies performed and the virus was
isolated intact even five days after
death," said Shipman.
According to Shipman, the disease is
easily transmitted once in the infec-
tious stage, and may be particularly
dangerous to women as studies have
shown a possible link between the virus
and cervical cancer.
"Its presence in the birth canal can
kill or seriously damage an infant,
which would make caesarean delivery
a necessity," Shipman said, adding that
the virus is congenital and is easily
passed on to dnewborn through the bir-
th canal.
"TYPE I AND II are almost always
transported through lip, vaginal,
penile, and eye membranes," Shipman
said, "and they almost always require
entry through a break in the skin. The
virus cannot penetrate intact skin, but
can readily cross the semi-permeable
mucous membranes."
According to the virologist Shipman,
the main problem facing physicians is
the proper diagnosis and treatment of
the condition, adding that even though
the virus cannot be treated effectively
as of yet, guidance and education is
available for those stricken with the
disease process.
THE NEW drugs - substituted 2-
acetylpyridine thiosemicarbazones =
are currently being tested on animals
and show either no or minimal side ef-
fects, although it will be at least five
years before they are available for
human use due to Food and Drug Ad-
ministration experimental guidelines.
"Our better compounds show ab-
solutely no side effects in guinea pigs,"
said Shipman, adding that the new
drugs have shown preliminary effec-
tiveness against bacteria that cause
leprosy, meningitis, and gonorrhea -
until now impossible for an anti-viral
drug.
In its current form, the drug will be
applieddirectly to the lesion area as a
topical ointment either during an at-
tack or just before one begins and
preliminary results show that the lesion
will not develop and progresses no fur-
ther.
SHIPMAN AND Dr. Daniel Klayman
of Walter Reed Army Research In-
stitute in Washington, D.C. are curren-
tly applying for a joint patent to con-
duct more research on a cooperative
basis.
According to recent literature, the
virus is closely related to
mononucleosis and the "varicella-
zoster" or "chicken pox" - "shingles
virus."
The only drug now available to com-
bat the virus is "Ara-A," manufactured
by Parke-Davis, but it cannot be proven
totally effective and requires in-
travenous administration thus making
an inpatient hospital stay necessary for
each treatment.
"The drugs seem to penetrate the
skin whereas other potential anti-her-
pes drugs do not," said Shipman, "and
if our current successes in animals are
any indication, these drugs should
prove to be very effective in treating
both the type Iand type II herpes." .