PAGE 12, THE HERALD, Tuesday, June 6, 1978 _ Stability to Zaire PARIS (AP) — Four Eu- ropean countries and the United States open two days of talks today on how to bring slability and security to Zaire and other western- oriented African states. France called the meeting in the wake of the recent invasion of Zalre's Shaba province by exiled -Lunda tribesmen opposed. to President Mobutu Sese Seko. Also attending are Britain, Belgium and West Germany, which like Franee built up huge African colonial em- vires in the 19th century and still have - extensive economic, cultural and political Ilnks with their former colonies. France rushed 400 Foreign 4 Legion paratroops to Shaba last month to help drive out the Lunda rebels, On Sun- day, the US. Air Force began flying 1,-500 Moreccan troops to southern Zaire to replace the French troops, The Moroccans are the nu- cleus of a Pan-African peace foree which France {5 - sponsoring aa the Weat's answernto Soviet-backed Cuban troops in Africa. France expecta the force also to include contingents from Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Gabon and the Central African Empire, all former Fretich colonies. FRANCE PROMOTES FORCE The French government, which ls committed to giving military aid to more than a dozen African countries, Follies to WASHINGTON (AP) — For Helmut Sonnenfoeldt, sitting alongside Henry Kisalnger in the -Kremlin, Jan, 21, 1976, waa a day to remember, As he-tells the story there he was, idly fiddling with his wrist watch across the table from Leanid Brezhnev, while an Interpreter droned through a Rursian statement on nuclear arms control, n Suddenly the Soviet leader leaned across and, Son- nenfeldt recalled in an in- terview, remarked: Let me look at your watch.” Sonnenfeldt, then a U.S. state department special counsellor, passed it over and Brezhnev tried It on his own wrist.. “J like it,” he said. “I'd like to keep It.” Sonnenfeldt replied he was honored to see his timeplece on 80 eminent a wrist but added: “I'm akraid I shall be’ Inntrouble with my mother-in-law, who gave this to me as a gift,”’ Brezhney sald he would give Sonnenfeldt his own in exchange. ADMIRES WATCH “Td seen General Secretary Brezhnev's fine pocket watch for years at - various meetings,’’ Son- WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people at- tacked by bears in the United States’ national parks dropped substantially last year, a reduction in part attributed to new efforts to stop bears from mauling campers. John Dennis, a National Park Service biologiat, said black and grizzly bears injured 26. persons jn 1977, compared with “44 the previous year.nThere were no fatalities last year; two persons were killed by bears in 1976, he said, Dennis noted the park service is giving ‘more management attention ta closing campgrounds and trails" where humans are likely to encounter bears. The service also is closing garbage dumps that attract bears. and enforcing regulations requirins campers to store focd properly, so that bears cannot get to It, ' The service also live-traps and transplants bears that nose armuind campsites and hiking trails, bears that one day might lose their fear of humans and cause trouble, he said.n TRANSPLANTED BEARS The service last year transplanted 17 grizzlies and 287 black bears, he said. In! addition, it killed one grizzly and 25 black beara that proved especially troublesome. Part of the bear problem results from increasing numbers of visitors In U.S. parks, he said, The greater numbers increase the likelihood of a bearhuman encounter, would like the other Western powers to endorse the idea’of the PanAfrican force and to promise their material help for any future operations by such a force, The French want the U.S, in particular and the other former colonial power to acknowledge that they have a special respon- sibility for the security and ecanomic development of the Western-oriented African countries. In line with this, France has advanced the idea of a apecial fund to help improve _ the economies of African countries with security problems. U.S. officials have warned the French colleagues nat to expect deployment of U.S. troops in Africa under any foreseeable circumstances. They said, however, that the United States may be prepared to help with the transportation, logistics and financing of a Pan-African force, RAIL CENTRE RETAKEN In Zalre, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua visited President Mobutu and the government arfnounced that -its army has recaptured Mutshatsha, a railway centre jn Smaba, from the invaders, The Chinese minister de- toured through Africa on his way home from the UN General Assembly in New York. Mobutu received him in Lubumbashi, the capital of Shaba. AZAP, the Zalre govern- ment’s news agency, said a force of about 350 Zairian troops recaptured Mut- shatsha after ‘‘severe" fighting Saturday in which one soldier was killed and three were wounded. The report said the: rebela fled toward the Zambian border, but it made no mention of thelr casualties, Mutshatsha is about 130 kilometres west of Kolwezi, the copper-mining centre which the invaders occupled ~ for a week in mid-May until the French drove them out. AZAP said Mobutu delayed attacking it because the - rebels were reported holding about 60 European hostages. He ordered the attack when intercepted radio measages about a week ago indicated the hostages were being © killed because their captors were running short of food, the agency said. No confirmation of the report was available, and AZAP did not say whether the bodies of any of the Europeans had been found. ANSWER THE KANGAROO VANCOUVER (CP) — It thay be you thought you would go through life without ever owning a kangaroo telephone, but telephone salesmen think such at- titudes can be changed. At least Northern Telecom thinks so—the firm is marketing a telephone . shaped like a kangaroo with asecribble pad cradled in the statue's arms, of detente prove be valuable - nenfeldt reflected, "It had b gold chain attached, 1 told him that would be nice but it atili would not solve problems with my mother: in-law.” At that point Brezhnev ex- cused himeelf, left the roam and secon rteturned with another watch, Swisa-made, and handed it too to Sm- nénfeldt.- “] wasn’t about to agree, wanting to lead him on a bit, but then Henry Kissinger kicked me under the table. He was signalling to me to_ -lay off and so I did.” Brezhnev thereupon wrote anotein Rusalan saying that gomeday,. perhaps, the two ‘would reexchange their ‘watches,. Word of the incident got around after the talks, suggesting Brezhnev had swapped his homemade, cheap tin watch for Son- nenfeldt's valuable time- Piece. “The affair became akind ch af allegory illustrating the follies of detente,’ Son- nenfeldt related, ‘There were suggestions that Brezhnev, who always saw meas a hardliner, had taken me to the cleaners,” , STORY NOT TRUE Grizzlies are considered more dangerous because of their size. A mature grizzly may weigh up te 1,000 pounds. A black bear, by comparison, rarely. reaches be far from the truth. recalled that when he got § home he had Brezhnev's two 4 watches and gold chain & appraised for insurance ff purposes—and found they were worth at least three times his mother-in-law’s gift. . Ae. “So, actually, Brezhnev #4 the aif took himself to cleaners," Sonnenfeldt said. § There were two sequels to this tale: : First, state department § pretoco) officers cited laws telling Sonnenfetdt. that government men must turn over any valuable gifts they receive in conducting foreign business to the treasury department—or pay duty on them, n . ‘y “T got over that one," Son- nenfeldt sald. ‘I explained § the watches weren't outright gilts but a contingent gift af . because Brezhnev's note made clear some day we may re-exchange the wat- ches, Secondly, on getting home, ‘Sonnenfeldt discovered - he had not been wearihg the i a } watch his mother-in-law had given him after all—but one 5 he had bought himself for | $110 at a Munich military § post exchange some time § before, a weight of 500 pounds. — A. To reduce the chances of 9 (FH bear attack, park rangers We"), advise hikers to travel in,} groups and make noise to jf avoid surprising a bear. if APRIL x real Acvording to the Aztec calandar, a week lasted 20 days. Black squatters’ tear gassed | CAPE TOWN (Reuter) — South African police used fear’ gas against black squatters in a raid on-a shanty town near here early today, witnesses said. About 60 blacks were reported arrested. The raid was Crossroads squatler camp, which houses about 20,000 blacks and is the last of the big shanty towns following demolition of two others as health hazards. Crossroads residents said police, some armed, surrounded the camp before dawn and stopped people on their way to work, Those without officlal permits to live in the area were arrested, Community leaders said that at one point, a crowd protested against the arrests . On . ‘ ‘Two nearby black squatter and police fired tear gas. Reporters said they saw fj). children throwing rotks at a van driving out of the camp. § which ig on scrubland south § _ of Cape Town. A spokesman for the local black affairs authority said { many people had been " arrested, but he refused to give numbers. Squatiters § said some of those detained jf had simply forgotten to carry their passes with them | but were not allowed to go 4 home and get them, A earmps, Modder and Unibel, 4 have been bulldozed during # the past nine months, 43y; Because of South Africa's apartheld laws which contral’j Wy the movement of blacks, * many. of their occupants had been working in the Cape Town area illegally. cf . ae The former U.S. diplomat ¥% i Se EE \ No proposals for Israeli peace plan JERUSALEM (AP) — The Tsraeli cabinet has put off for at least another: week a decesion onnhow to respond to U.S. questions about Preme Minister Menachem Begin's proposals for an Arab-Israeli, peace agree- ment. The cabinet met for four hours Sunday. Cabinet Secretary Arieh Naor said no proposals to amend Israel's peacé plan were made althdugh the American-. nquedtlons were discussed. | Sellal x Kx 4 , ae * name OF FUNCTION PLACE * nM Tme United States wants to know what Israel has in mind for the occupied West Bank. of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip after the five-year transition pericd.of limited autonomy which Prime Minister Menachem Begin has proposed for the territories, The U.S. state department hopes that Israel’s answers will help it get fhe stalled peace talks with Egypt going.n - Washington also wants Is- KKKKKKKKKK rael’s suggestionf on how the Palestinians can participate in deciding their own future. Radio Israel said State Secretary Cyrus Vance urged the government last week not to delay its response to the questions. The cabinet had put off the discussion twice, first to dis- cuss the U.S. decision to seil jet fighter planes to Saudi Arabia -and last week because Begin was iil. URGE GREATER ROLE Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan is reported pressing the cabinet to agree to a greater role for Jordan, which seized the West Bank in the 1948 war and held it until Israel captured it in the 1967 war. Israeli news reports say Dayan believes that if Jordan were offered in- creased influence on the “West Bank, King Hussein would join Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in negotialing directly with Israel. Local Clubs or Organizations or : simply Local News or Call us will be happy to print your story. dk AA IK Begin, who iad a fever bast weekend. led the cabinet meeting and alsa attended festivities marking the Lith anniversary of the capture of Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 war. 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