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Page 4-Thursday, August 6, 1981-The Michigan Daily
Reagan won't
bud ge on PLO
in Sadat talks
WASHINGTON - Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat yesterday
achieved one of the principal objectives
of his visit to the United States - a
commitment by the Reagan ad-
ministration to remain a full partner in
Middle East peace talks.
But Sadat apparently did not achieve
a second aim, to change the American
policy against negotiating with the
Palestine Liberation Organization.
THE EGYPTIAN president said
before meeting Reagan for the first
time that he wanted to win an American
promise to retain a full role in the
negotiation process set up by President
Jimmy Carter.
Reagan gave a clear answer to that.
"We will walk that road together and
we will not be deterred from reaching
our destination," he said. "Although
the Americans have changed presiden-
ts, we have not altered our commitment
to peace or our desire to continue
building upon the achievements of
Camp David."
SADAT TOLD reporters the United
States should drop a commitment made
to Israel not to negotiate with the PLO
until the PLO recognizes Israel and
abides b.y United Nations Security
Council resolutions that call for secure
borders for Israel.
A senior administration official, who
declined to be identified, said the
United States would not change its
policy as long as the PLO is a terrorist
organization that refuses to recognize
Israel's right to exist.
The official said that in their two-hour
meeting, Reagan and Sadat both ex-
pressed concern over dangers to the
Middle East from the Soviet Union and
its proxies, East Germany and Cuba.
Sadat suggested, the official said,
that another summit may be necessary
toward the end of the year after Reagan
has heard the views of the leaders of
Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, also
scheduled to visit Washington.
"We will be patient," Sadat was
quoted as saying.
Irish nationalists set
off 11 car bombs
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
PLO leader shot in Warsaw
WARSAW, Poland-A Palestinian guerrilla leader suspected of master-
minding the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre was shot and critically wounded
in an assassination attempt in a Warsaw hotel, the PLO said yesterday.
The PLO blamed Israeli agents for the attack on Mohammed Odeh, better
known by his code name Abu Daoud. He was shot five times at close range
Saturday in the coffee shop of Warsaw's Victoria Intercontinental Hotel by a
young man was escaped.
Fouad Mohmoud Yaseen, a spokesman for the PLO office in Warsaw, said
two Polish women also were wounded in the attack.
In Jerusalem, a spokesman for Prime Minister Menachem Begin denied
Israel was involved, calling the charge "absolute nonsense."
Fruit flies found in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Gov. Bob Graham yesterday promised swift ac-
tion-including possible aerial spraying-to protect Florida's $4 billion
produce industry if three Mediterranean fruit flies trapped near Tampa are
found to be fertile.
The flies, two males and one female found Tuesday by a U.S. Department
of Agriculture inspector, were being hand-carried today on a plane to Los
Gatos, Calif.
Experts there were to determine-probably by this morning-whether the
dead flies were fertile, said Betsy Adams of the USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service in Washington.
Agricultural officials and citrus growers charged the flies could be from
California and their presence here might signal the start of an infestation
like the one in three California counties.
But it was not known where the flies came from, federal officials said. And
it was possible they were placed in the trap as a hoax, Ms. Adams said.
Pope's surgery is successful
ROME-Pope John Paul II's surgeons yesterday successfully reversed
the intestinal bypass performed after he was shot almost three months ago
and said the pope might leave the hospital in 10 days.
The pope regained consciousness quickly after the one-hour operation, his
doctors said in a medical bulletin. He had been readmitted to the hospital
June 20 suffering from pleurisy and a virus.
"There are no signs of any problems," said Dr. Emilio Tresalti, chief
medical officer of the Gemelli hospital. He told reporteors the pope should be
able to leave the hospital around the middle of August and could carry on a
nearly normal work schedule during his convalescence at his summer home
in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.
The reverse colostomy was expected to have been performed in July but
waa postponed because oil the difficulties the pope experienced in his
recuperation.
Newborn girl stolen in Atlanta
ATLANTA-Police relased a composite sketch yesterday of a woman who
toured hospital rooms, complimenting new mothers on their babies, and
may have slipped away with a newborn infant who is missing.
The infant girl was taken from Grady Memorial Hospital Tuesday after
her 28-year-old mother, Sandra Alexander, put her into a bedside crib and
left the room, police said. Mrs. Alexander returned moments later to find
her baby missing.
The infant, who had not yet been named, was a 6-pound, 8-ounce black girl,
"absolutely normal in every way," said hospital spokesman Mike Yelton. He
said she "could subsist on almost any commercial baby formula."
Police believe an unidentified young black woman may have put the baby
in a shopping bag and walked out of the hospital. Mrs. Alexander told police
the woman had entered her room and chatted for a few minutes.
More drug busts in Miami
MIAMI-Police smashed a "white collar" cocaine network yesterday in
the second major crackdown on Miami drug operations in as many days.
More than 100 persons were being rounded up and authorities said the
crackdowns could have a telling effect on drug traffic through Miami, one of
the major east coast pipelines.
The FBI Tuesday broke a money-laundering operation that allegedly
washed $200 million in drug money. Miami police followed up yesterday with
the smashing of the cocaine ring.
The roundup of suspects included 61 allegedly involved in the laundering
operation and another 51 linked to the cocaine ring.
Miami police code-named their cocaine crackdown "Operation Tick-
Talks" because an electronic listening device, placed behind a clock in a
suspect's home, helped break the case.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -
IRA guerrillas exploded 11 car bombs
in quick succession yesterday across
Northern Ireland, causing heavy
damage in eight cities, cutting a main
railway line and injuring seven people,
police reported.
All the bombs were hidden in stolen
cars parked outside business premises,
and detonated over a time span of little
more than an hour, police said.
THE OUTLAWED Irish Republican
Army claimed responsibility for the
bombings in Belfast, Londonderry,
Newry, Lisburn, Armagh, Omagh,
Bessbrook, Portadown, and at the
main-line railroad bridge at Kilt-
nassagart Bridge south of Belfast.
The explosions were seen as an
escalation of the IRA's fight to end
British rule and unite this Protestant-
dominated province with the mostly
Roman Catholic Irish republic.
POLICE SAID a British soldier, a
part-time Northern Ireland soldier, a
policeman and four civilians suffered
minor injuries in the blasts. All the ex-
plosions caused widespread damage,
they said.
Theyalso said a 19-year-old youth
was seriously injured when security
forces fired plastic bullets earaier Wed-
nesday to disperse rioters after the
funeral of IRA hunger striker Kieran
Doherty.
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