Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - November 17, 1977, Midland, Texas HOME EDITION THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLAR DIAL Box TEXAS Daily Sunday 35C NOVEMBER 6 52 PAGES Carter compromise on rates expected WASHINGTON AP President Carter is realistic and probably will accept a proposed compromise setting national guidelines for electric even though he had asked Congress for mandatory the chairman of a congressional conference committee said Harley said that despite major House concessions on the portion of the presidents energy he ex Carter to take the compromise as the best he could hope I think he is Staggers told Energy conferees were expected today to approve a version of Carters plan that would leave the setting of electric rates to the Carter and the House to force utilities to revamp their including requiring them to offer electricity for lower prices late at night and to end discounts to big industrial Staggers on Wednesday had termed the decision of House conferees to abandon Carters plan for mandatory standards almost but he backed off that claim He said the compromise now under consideration by conferees is stronger than the the Senate While the mandatory standards are the measure still would require states to consider such steps as lower nighttime rates although adopting them would be The guidelines at least provide a first Staggers He said Energy Secretary James him today to find out what was going He said he told the Cabinet official the House conferees had no choice but to yield to strong Senate objections to the mandatory Hes in agreement with what were Staggers House negotiators gave up their fight for the mandatory federal standards on yielding to Senate demands to leave the rate setting authority with state regulatory The House negotiators sacrificed the section to break an impasse that threatened to deadlock the com which is trying to resolve differences in energy bills passed by the two Their retreat was a setback to Carters hopes of salvaging in the conference committee those parts of his energy program that were rejected by the conferees on tax por tions of the energy program agreed Wednesday to drop billion to billion in tax incentives passed earlier by the Senate by making four business tax credits available only through 1982 rather than through Shah OPEC stand welcome news at White House WASHINGTON AP The White House today hailed as welcome news a statement by the Shah of Iran that the oil exporting cartel should give a break to consumer countries and forgo any increase for at least a President Carters press Jody told reporters that the decision by the shah to work against an oil price increase is an encourag ing one and one we appreciate and find welcome Powell said Carter made no pledge to meet Irans requests for permis sion to buy additional quantities of ad American military equip The who earlier this week said his country would remain silent on the question of raising oil told a news conference late Wednesday that Carter had talked him into changing his position from one of neutrality to openly opposing a price After perusing the world economic we have come to this con to give you a the shah told Iran wields considerable influence in the 13nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting which meets 20 in to discuss proposed price Most other producing countries favor some price Iraq has proposed raising the current world oil price of about a barrel by 23 Experts calculate that the price of gasoline in the United States rises one cent for every 8 percent increase in the OPEC The shah said eventual increases are inevitable unless the consuming nations begin strong conservation measures and new sources of energy are The Iranian monarch outlined his WEATHER Mostly clear through High Friday in the low Complete details on Page INDEX Tankers leaving at rate of one a day to deliver Prudhoe Bay Page Classified Oil and Womens position during a news conference as he ended his 32hour state visit On the shah told inter viewers that Iran would let other OPEC members carry the ball at the Caracas He noted in that interview that Iran has been called a hawk on past Continued on Page 2A Discord By The Associated Press President Anwar Sadat of Egypt will visit Jerusalem for 36 hours star ting Saturday night and will address the Israeli Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin announced But Sadat will make the which he has described as a sacred without the support of Syria and ap with major opposition within his own His foreign minister resigned In Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat condemned the planned visit and urged Sadat to cancel In his address to the Israeli Sadat is expected to call for Israeli evacuation of all lands cap HANDS AND FEET get into the act as chimp quartet enjoy banana The chimps are with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey and their in addition to includes cookies and AP Laser photo as Sadat visit set tured in the 19G7 war and establish ment of a Palestinian state stan dard Arab demands that Israel has previously But the visit in itself will represent unprecedented recognition by an Arab leader of the state of Begin announced the visit shortly after Sadat returned from where he failed to win President Hafez support for the Assad called the visit a source of deep The trip has also come under fire from Iraq and Egypts official Middle East News Agency said that when Sadat returned to he received the official Begin invitation for the visit through Ambassador Hermann It was accompanied by a message from President the contents of which were not Sadat The am to Samuel then called who made the an to visiting con At the same Egypts official Middle East News Agency announced that foreign minister and key aide since the 1973 Ismail had a move that could indicate deep opposition within the country to the Jerusalem The agency said letter of resignation cited new elements which affected the an ap parent reference to I feel that I cannot continue in my post and that I cannot continue to share in shouldering responsibilities in these Fahmy In Begin told a group of American congressmen in the presence of reporters that Sadat would arrive Saturday and would pray in the A Mosque in Jerusalem Sunday before addressing the Israeli parliament Begins office confirmed that the prime minister was referring to Saturday The announcement came as a surprise to most Israelis who had not expected the Egyptian visitor before Begin said he hoped Sadat would also visit Yad Israels na tional monument to Nazi victims and a regular stop on all visits of foreign The prime minister said he expected to converse with Sadat in Speaking to reporters in Damascus after their Sadat and Assad allies in the October 1973 war acknowledged that they had failed to reach agreement on the Jerusalem Assad said It is really painful to me that I was unable to dissuade and to convince him of the seriousness of this trip to Israel and its reflection on the Arab cause and on the Arab situation as I see Despite the open Sadat denied there was any rift between himself and The Syrian leader greeted Sadat Wed Continued on Page 2A NOW Dial Direct TO PLACE CLASSIFIED Want Ads 6826222 Terrified cob rider to turn to scripture The Los Angeles Times CHICAGO The Good Book to the there may soon be something new under the sun Bible excerpts in The American Bible Society Wednesday asked its regional offices in Los New York and Atlanta to study the feasibility of placing portions of the Scriptures in thousands of taxicabs It would be a sort of mobile version of the Gideon Societys effort to place Bibles in every hotel and motel Were thinking in terms of said Edward an East Coast Regional Official for the nonsectarian Bible The kind of thing people going to an airport would throw down their attache case to pickup and A private program to test public and taxi company ac of the concept will begin in within the month when more than 50 cabs are stocked with portions of the New Right now were only studying the said Nelson in a telephone Before any decision is he fleet cab drivers and church groups who would be expected to finance the project will have to be sounded The idea originated with an Asheville lecturer and Claude who found his inspiration in a Chicago taxicab more than a year I was getting into a taxi and noticed the driver had a Bible lying beside Im used to seeing racing forms and magazines but not I said to God is letting me know through you that were going to have Bibles in taxicabs across the doctor recalled in a telephone 1 felt like I was being that God had spoken to me through the Frazier contacted the Bible Society and later began drum ming up support in a letter writing campaign to church organizations coast to coast His first success came last month when local church groups agreed to pay for placing Bible booklets in Asheville There is some doubt that the idea will be accepted in major but Nelson thinks it will succeed in smaller communities he there are con centrations of people of a more religious Nelson said the booklets used would probably contain portions of todays English Version of the popularly known as the Good News One candidate is a Bible Society publication called Justice which contains the books of Joshua and Another is entitled Wisdom for Modern and contains the Proverbs and Others contain readings from the New Cuban presence in Africa may hurt chances of renewed ties By BARRY SCHWEID WASHINGTON AP Prospects for full restoration of diplomatic relations and business ties with Cuba appear dimmed following a secret Carter administration study showing that Havana is stepping up its military intervention in The based on intelligence does not quarrel with the steps taken by the administration so far to end 16 years of hostility between Washington and But its judgment is that the pace should be Sources here said an estimated Hospital certificate OK delayed Approval of a certificate of need for renovation and an addition to Midland Memorial Hospital has been delayed until the Texas Health Facilities Commission announced The delay in the certificates ap proval will force postponement of hospital construction until after the Mickey president of the hospitals board of Wednesday had predicted a minimum depending on the commissions decision today of them are now in where the Marxist government is fighting to suppress insurgents who keep a civil war The New York Times in todays editions quoted ad ministration officials as saying that Cuba has a military presence in 11 other African countries as well and has suffered hundreds of combat deaths in The Times said one administration policymaker said the Cuban actions make restoration of full diplomatic relations The buildup in Angola as described in the administration study con promises given by Cuba during the Ford administration that there would be a general decrease in Cubas military presence in the former Portugese the Cuban strength is on the bolstering President Agostino Maligned donkey has champion in society A like the has no equal unless you consider the human these braying creatures of work and leisure have long been the butt of many a You sometimes get the impression that they are mere quirks of Come to think of the mule Think strange or there is an organized group that is endeared to these Its called the American Donkey and Mule which is holed up at The society puts out a quarterly which gives dignity to the the donkey and the The world knows that to these creatures has been long in ROUSTIN ABOUT with The publication tells of the luck and intelligence of the donkey and the of their the depth of the and recounts a cam to nave the wijd burro from extermination in the Grand relates the role of the ass in Biblical on Page
