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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 The White House confirmed tonight that President Carter had sent his brother Billy a copy of a cable received from the State Department about Billy Carter's visit to Libya in 1978, along with a note from the President telling him that he had done "a good job" while there.

MOSCOW, Aug. 1 Miruts Yifter, a 36-year-old Ethiopian, joined an elite group of renowned distance runners today at the Moscow Olympics when he won the 5,000-meter race and completed the classic Olympic distance double.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 A House-Senate conference committee has agreed on a bill that would postpone for a year, until 1983, the mandatory inclusion of either airbags or automatic seat belts in automobiles.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 President Carter vowed today to oppose an "open" Democratic convention this month and said the drive to release delegates from their pledges to vote for certain candidates was a "travesty" of the nomination process.

A majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who are pledged to support President Carter say they remain firmly behind him and favor a rule that binds their vote on the first ballot.

A four-year Federal and city undercover investigation into corruption among New York City marshals, coupled with a campaign by Mayor Koch to reform a system dating to the city's 17thcentury Dutch origins, has led to 10 criminal convictions and cut the marshals' ranks by nearly 20 percent.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1--The nation's unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged in July, the Labor Department reported today, leading some economists and Government officials to say the economy might be preparing to pull out of the recession.

CAIRO, Aug. 1 Egypt said today that it would not suspend the talks with Israel on autonomy for the occupied areas nor would it recall its Ambassador from Israel in reponse to the passage of an Israeli law formalizing the annexation of Jerusalem.

CAESAREA, Israel, July 29 Teams of divers and archeologists have begun underwater excavation of one of the mighty feats of Roman engineering the ancient harbor of Caesarea, completed by Herod the Great in 10 B.C. as a crossroads of trade on the Mediterranean.

LIMA, Peru, Aug 1 (AP) President Fernando Belaunde Terry, in his first act as the head of the new democratic Government, returned newspapers seized by the country's former military rulers to their original owners this week.

TOKYO, Aug. 1 (Reuters) Seven planes, including three from the United States Navy, were dispatched to the China Sea today to search for a South Korean freighter missing on a voyage from Australia, the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency reported. The agency said the 55,860-ton Hae Dang Wha, with a crew of 29 Koreans, was last heard of nine days ago 430 miles southeast of Luzon.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 For the second consecutive year the Carter Administration faces the prospect of having to operate a foreign aid program well into a new fiscal year without a Congressional appropriation.