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Begin accepts
mandate to form
gov't coalition
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JERUSALEM (AP)-Prime Minister
Menachem Begin accepted the official
mandate yesterday to form Israel's
next government and launched an in-
tense schedule of talks with the parties
he needs to form a majority coalition.
While saying he hoped to assemble a
new Cabinet by July 27, Begin sum-
moned his outgoing Cabinet to approve
an agreement with the United States
and Egypt on a multinational force to
monitor the Sinai Peninsula after
Israel's final withdrawal next April.
THE THREE countries are to initial
the agreement in London Friday before
it is submitted to their legislatures for
ratification.
Begin went immediately to the
Wailing Wall, Judaism's most impor-
tant shrine, to pray and kiss the ancient
stones after State President Yitzhak
Navon gave him the official invitation
to form the next government.
The 67-year-old Israeli leader held
talks with the Liberal Party faction of
his Likud Bloc and scheduled formal
consultations today, Friday, and Sun-
day with the three religious parties with
enough seats to give him a bare
majority of 61 seats in the 120-member
Knesset, Israel's Parliament.
THE CONSULTATIONS will lead to a
division of Cabinet portfolios-an area
where Begin acknowledged there is
conflict-and to a declaration of gover-
nment policies.
In 1977 Begin's first coalition was
bound by an eight-page policy
statement, and the same kind of pact is
likely to emerge this year since the
coalition partners are virtually the
same.
The Likud's 48 Knesset seats will be
buttressed by the six of the National
Religious Party, the four of the ultra-
Orthodox Agudat Israel and three of the
TAMI North African faction which
broke away from the NRP before the
June 30 elections.
Cicago Transit
loses poker ace
CHICAGO (AP) - The room looked muters were choking subway and bus
like "the dice tables in an old World fare boxes with dollar bills, rather than
War II movie" - hundreds of thousan- tokens. More commuters have been
ds of uncounted dollars scattered on using the bills since the basic fare and
tables, near garbage cans and all over transfer was boosted to $1 on July 6 in
the floor. an effort to provide more money for the
But the setting was the counting room system. Maurer said he was "astoun-
of the Chicago Transit Authority, which ded" by what they found.
has been down to its last dollars in Dollar bills, he said, "were in the
recent days. And officials of the finan- corners, under machines, where people
cially struggling agency say up to $1 walk. There were even shredded bills in
million may have been lying unrecor- the parking area. . . It looked like the
ded in the office. dice tables in an old World War II
"It was just a security disaster," Jim movie."
Maurer, director of the Mayor's Office Maurer said he was not accusing any
of Municipal Investigation, said yester- employees of stealing but he said, "You
day. could easily pass money out of a
The piles of money were found during second-floor window if you want. The
two inspections conducted Tuesday by opportunity is just glaring."
Maurer, CTA board member Howard He said in one of the two visits, he
Medley and other investigators. walked through an unlocked door and
Medley had complained that com- was not stoppedshy anyone.
A CTA spokesman, Hill Baxa, said
that the agency has its own security at
TONIGHT the building and protection is adequate.
SECOND AHe declined further comment.
Since the visit, the Police Depar-
PSn t vsEe oetment temporarily has assigned two of-
A" Eficers to guard the facility on the out-
56 E. Liberty 9944535 side, but Maurer said that will not help
inside.
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In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
California fruit flies spread
as pesticide spraying lags
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Destructive fruit flies spread closer to rich California
farms yesterday as the effort to destroy them by spraying pesticide from the
air fell further behind schedule.
Officials of a joint state, federal and local eradication program had expec-
ted to spray 45 square miles with the pesticide malthion by early yesterday.
But after two nights of spraying, only 7/ square miles had been covered
with the sticky mist while the area infested by the Mediterranean fruit fly
grew by twice that much.
Aerial spraying of malathion, a commonly used backyard pesticide, was
begun in the hopes of halting the medfly in the residential neighborhoods of
the Santa Clara Valley, south of San Francisco.
If it spreads to nearby commercial farms and south to the fertile San
Joaquin Valley, some agriculture officials predict doom for the state's $14
billion farming industry, which produces half the nation's fruit and
vegetables.
Senate opens debate on taxes
WASHINGTON-The Senate
opened debate on President
Reagan's tax bill yesterday with
a key Republican predicting that
efforts to load it down with
amendments opposed by the ad-
ministration will be defeated.
"I think we have the votes lined .
up already to defeat the amen- -
dments," Sen. Bob Dole (R-
Kan.), chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, told repor-
ters.
Senate leaders hope to finish
work on the bill within a few
days-well before the measure is
to be taken up by the Democrat-
dominated House. All sides want
a bill passed in time for the first
individual tax reductions to take
effect Oct. 1.
At the White House, deputy,
presidential press secretary
Larry Speakes said Reagan
called House Speaker Thomas P.
O'Neill Jr. yesterday morning House Budget Committee
and elicited from O'Neill an ex- Chairman Jim Jones, left, talks
pression of "willingness to have with Senate Budget Committee
Congress complete action" on Chairman Pete Domenci at the
both the tax and budget bills start of a joint committee
before the summer recess next meeting.
month, "even if it means staying
in town for a few days."
Vatican urges local churches
to help share annual costs
VATICAN CITY-The Vatican, running deep in the red with a $25 million
annual deficit, is urging local churches around the world to share the cost of
running the Roman Catholic Church's central administration.
After a two-day meeting of a special commission of cardinals, the Vatican
yesterday announced the single year's budget deficit for 1981, some $4.8
million greater than the $20.2 million annual deficit announced in 1979.
Mother-in-law, mistaken for
raccoon, slain with hatchet
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A Texas mechanic told police he mistook his
mother-in-law for a large raccoon when he hacked her to death in her
garage, according to a detective's testimony yesterday at a preliminary
hearing.
Orvall Wyatt Loyd, 33, of Dallas, told police, however, that after he
struck the woman once with a hatchet he realized it was his wife's 49-year-
old mother, Margaret Wise - and then he hit her again.
"I . . . snapped or something," Loyd said in his statement to police.
Under questioning yesterday by Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney
Robert Morecock, Chappell testified that Loyd said he awoke at 5:30 a.m.
and went with his wife's grandfather to find a raccoon that had wandered in-
to the garage.
When he couldn't find it, he went back to bed, Chappell quoted Loyd as
saying.
Two hours later, Loyd said, he went into the garage with his mother-in-
law, picked up a small hatchet from a bucket, and hit the woman before
realizing who it was.
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