Page 4-Tuisday, July 7, 1981-The Michigan Daily Dayan seeks Begin coalitionl 4 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. (Continued from Page 3) "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." .