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Thursday, January 19, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Over readmission of Egypt 1 Islamic Conference divided United Press International CASABLANCA, Morocco — Islamic Conference leaders were badly divided Wednes day on key issues ranging from the readmission of Egypt to the dispatch of a team to Tehran to win over the absent Iranians. Participants in the fourth Islamic summit — 25 heads of state, 16 lesser representatives and Palestine Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat — worked late into the night in search of accord. Talks at the 45-member Islamic Conference Organiza tion were scheduled to end Wednesday, but conference sources said it could be ex tended to reach an agree ment. Egypt’s re-entry was brought up at a closed session Tuesday by Guinea and Pakis tan. King Fahd of Saudi Ara bia promoted the idea, but only behind the scenes, leav ing the presentation to the Asian and African members. At Wednesday’s session, Sudan and Somalia joined the others in support of Egypt, in a departure from other Arab members — Syria, Libya, Algeria, South Yemen and Tunisia, who all opposed Egypt’s readmission. Conference sources said the moderates were pressing for Egypt’s inclusion in the hope it would reinforce their confrontation with the hard liners led by Syria and Libya. Egypt was excluded from the group in response to then- President Anwar Sadat’s 1977 trip to Jerusalem and Cairo’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel. Fahd’s efforts to bring together Arafat, Syrian Depu ty Prime Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and Leba non’s Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan were deadlocked. Arab delegates said they felt pessimistic about any break through on Lebanon. Talks on a common approach to seeking an end of the 40-month-old Gulf war between Iran and Iraq also were stalemated because Pakistan insisted Iran, which refused to attend the Islamic summit, should join the dis cussion. A Pakistani-Malaysian move to send a “goodwill mis sion” to Iran was being de bated without any outcome. “The problem seems to be that Iran’s stand is unpredict able. There is no telling if they will receive the delegation at all,” said an Asian delegate, who asked not to be identified. The ministers did manage to pass resolutions on less con- troversial issues, such as Afghanistan, but a conference source said a “meaningfully strong stand” was being thwarted by the left-leaning Arab states’ insistence that the language be softened. The summit, which opened Monday, followed four days of apparently fruitless work on draft resolutions, ranging from Egypt’s readmission, to Lebanon and the Palestinian ties with hard-line radical and conservative countries. It is the first gathering of the Islamic group in more than two years. Downed chopper survivors soy they weren't spying Jury selected in Jones trial United Press International GEORGETOWN, Texas — I seven-woman, five-man jury l-all but one of them parents -— ■as chosen Wednesday to hear the murder trial of pediatric lutse Genene Jones, and a pro- cutor predicted the “bizarre” ileof a baby’s death soon would gin to unfold. It took three full days to seat thejury, which includes a medic- J microbiologist, a minister’s Bfe, two grandmothers and two ■andfathers. Most of the jurors ■cover 40 and all are white. 1 District Judge John Carter iranted defense motions ■ednesday requiring hearings lutside the presence of thejury lefore prosecutors can intro- luce certain evidence during the trial. I The evidence included a guicide note allegedly written by Bones after Chelsea’s death and ■Oiiija board — an occult-type levice some people believe can Be used to receive messages Rom spirits — reportedly used jythe nurse while she still work ed at the Kerrville clinic. | Defense attorney Jim Brook- lire spent most of the day ques- loning prospective jurors, who could spend as long as five weeks hearing evidence in the drug in jection death of 15-month-old Chelsea Ann McClellan, who was a patient at the Kerrville pediatric clinic where Jones worked in 1982. Kerr County District Attor ney Ron Sutton said he hoped to call eight witnesses after giving “an unusual” opening argument early Thursday that would re veal few details of the case against Jones, a 33-year-old mother of two. “I want the jury to see this drama unfold like they were reading a book or seeing it on television,” Sutton told repor ters. “If I lay it out cold all at once, it’s going to produce disbe lief. It’s bizarre.” The slate expects to prove Chelsea died after being in jected with a deadly muscle re laxant. Traces of the drug were found in the child’s exhumed re mains last year using a recently devised test developed in Sweden. The defense is ex pected to challenge the accuracy of that test. In making his initial remarks to potential jurors, Brookshire urged them to set aside the labels of “defendant” and “accused” placed on Jones and to think of her as a fellow human being. “It occurs to me that as she sits here today she is innocent just like you or just like I,” Brook shire said. “Simply because someone says she did something does not take away her human ity. She is human just like the rest of us.” In addition to the murder charge in Chelsea’s death, which carries a maximum penalty of life or 99 years in prison on con viction, Ms. Jones faces eight counts of injury to a child in Kerrville and San Antonio. Those children survived. United Press International PALMEROLA, Honduras — Two U.S. Army survivors from the Nicaraguan gunfire that kil led an American pilot denied Nicaraguan charges Wednesday they were on a spy mission but conceded they may have strayed over Nicaraguan territory. Capt. Robert Green, 39, and Capt. Christopher B. Maitin, 27, both Army engineers, gave their first public account of the attack last Wednesday that killed Chief Warrant Officer Jeffery Schwab, who was piloting the helicopter. The three were “on a routine administrative flight, we had no knowledge we were lost and the pilot gave no indication,” said Maitin at a news conference at the U.S. military base at Palmer- ola, 60 miles north of Teguci galpa. The base is U.S. headquarters for the Big Pine II maneuvers, in which Schwab was participating when killed. They said they were 4,000 feet above an open valley when the firing first started, coming from light automatic weapons and a small machine gun, and the first shot hit the helicopter at 3,000 feet. “We saw the tracers and heard rounds popping. When it hit, it felt like it stopped us in air,” Maitin, of Enos, Mont., said. _____ “The pilot (Schwab) executed a superb, basically miraculous, landing without power on a road we later discovered to be in Hon duras,” Maitin said. 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