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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1978
Soviets celebrate
human rights day
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MOSCOW — Human rights day
was marked for five minutes in
Moscow by Soviet dissidents, some
of whom were arrested for their
trouble.
The Soviet press said Americans
have forgotten the Declaration of
Independence.
About 30 or 40 dissidents
gathered Sunday on Gorky Street
near Pushkin Square, a traditional
site for human rights demon
strations, for a peaceful and silent
vigil in commmemoration of the
30th anniversary of the U.N. Decla
ration of Human Rights.
It broke up after about five min
utes and police and volunteer militia
guards moved in to clear the area.
Yelena Bonner, wife of dissident
leader Andrei Sakharov, said about
20 dissidents in all were detained by
police but many were later released.
Earlier in the week the dissident
community held a news conference
at which violations of human rights
in the Soviet Union were itemized
for western reporters.
Officially the Soviet press noted
the day with the newspaper attacks
on the United States record on
human rights. The newspaper
claimed millions of Americans were
the victims of unemployment and
racism.
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The newspaper Soviet Russia said
the Declaration of Independence
was “a great achievement at the time
but most Americans have forgotten
it.”
It claimed the CIA and the Pen
tagon have victimized “not only
some persons or governments but
whole countries and peoples.’
The newspaper Red Star charged
the United States has failed to ratify
some 25 percent of all of the interna
tional treaties on human rights.
Mideast
progress
reported
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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
reported progress Monday in his at
tempt to bridge the gap between
the Egyptian and Israeli positions
and said he was striving to wrap up
their peace treaty by the end of this
week.
Vance spoke in Cairo as President
Carter, in a message delivered to
Tel Aviv by his piother, said a treaty
between Egypt and Isreal would be
a “wonderful memorial to former
Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Vance spoke to reporters after a
75-minute meeting with President
Anwar Sadat — their second in two
days — at the president’s Nileside
Barrages residence, north of Cairo.
Vance said progress was made
toward resolving two outstanding is
sues, but more progress was needed
before agreement could be clinched
by the target date next Monday.
Vance said he is prepared to stay in
the Middle East as long as this is
necessary.
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WASHINGTON — Director
William Webster said Monday that
the bureau and the Secret Service
are cooperating in a review of their
planned responses to any future at
tempts on the life on an American
president.
Webster testified at a House as
sassination committee hearing
called to review the preparedness of
the nation’s major intelligence pro
tective and law enforcement agen
cies in the event of the murder of an
American public figure.
The committee is winding up a
two-year review of the murders of
President John F. Kennedy and
civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr.
Panel chairman Louis Stokes,
D-Ohio, told Webster that if past
performance in the aftermath of an
assassination is any indication, the
“prospects for an imporved re
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prevent the assassination of another
president or public figure or track
down those responsible.
Webster reminded Stokes that
protection of the president is up to
the Secret Service. The FBI he
noted “is not regularly informed of
the president’s movements.”
But Webster said his agency is
“currently conducting a periodic re
view of a formal agreement between
the FBI and the Secret Service."
The review is designed to “define
areas of activity reguarding the Se
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traordinary situations.”
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situation" hut the FBI hasallij
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channeled from the field post
headquareters in Washingtt
Webster said.
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SAUDI ARABIA — Oil prices
will rise about 5 percent next year
the Saudi daily Al Bilad predicted
Monday.
In a report from Abu Dhabi
where the 13-member Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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prices and policy for the coiniii
year, the Jeddah newspapers
OPEC was “likely to increase
prices by 5 percent for 1979,
Quoting “well-informed source!
the Saudi daily said there is
near-unanimous agreement onl»
increase.”
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tinue to he the “dominant curreno
in the OPEC transactions but ana
pricing formula may be laid own
be implemented in the even oflu
ther deterioration of the dollar.
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prices 10 percent in 1977. a®
Arabia and the United Arab *
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Monday, the newspaper Sau i
said the oil price increase *
confined within two limits,
will not rise to such an extent as
harm the world econom) "
would eventually reflect on
interests of the oil expor ers
second, this moderate increas
be applied in stages of uneq
centages in 1979.
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