July 5, 1976

Natl Safety Council estimates that 530 persons will be killed and 25,000 injured in traffic accidents throughout US during July 4th weekend (S)

July 5: Israeli commando unit arrives in Israel with hostages it released; officials say 103 hostages were flown to Israel; say 4 Israelis, 7 of 10 hijackers and 20 Uganda soldiers were killed; success of operation, which surprised most Israelis, electrifies country; Rabin hails operation; of 4 Israelis killed, 3 were hostages and 1 was comdr of assault force, identified as Amer-born Lt Col Yehinatan Nethanyahu; 11 other Israelis, civilian and mil were wounded, 1 seriously; 1 Israeli woman was left behind as patient in Kampala Hosp, where she was taken by Ugandans for treatment shortly before raid; Defense Min Peres charges that Amin cooperated with hijackers; denounces hijackers, especially 2 Ger nationals reptdly among them, for separating Israelis from rest of hostages; Rabin says his Govt decided unanimously on need for mil operation when it became obvious that internatl efforts to free hostages had failed; also accuses Amin of 'fully cooperating' with hijackers; illus; map (L)

NYC's Bicentennial celebrations, including Op Sail, Internatl Naval Rev, fireworks, and series of festivals, described; illus of spectators and ships, including Gloria, Amerigo Vespucci, sailing boats, Esmeralda and Glucksburg (L)

New Yorkers and their friends poured into lower Manhattan yesterday and compressed 200 years of their history and varied ethnic heritages into a day‐long birthday party crammed with prayer, martial music, high spirits and good fellowship.

The Fourth of July celebration in New York City yesterday was as American as a patchwork quilt—tall of joyous order in disarrayand a series of ??????? improbable juxtappositions.

highlights of Independence Day Bicentennial activities in Phila and Valley Forge detailed; estimated 1 million people visit Phila; Pres Ford recalls 1st July 4 in address at Valley Forge; Liberty Bell is softly sounded, while hundreds of other bells ring out in Phila's steeples and towers; more than 30,000 other Amers, most of them members of 2 radical coalitions, stage their own peaceful Bicentennial celebration near Phila; no disorders reptd; illus of Ford at Valley Forge

Jimmy Carter invites Sen Edmund S Muskie to confer with him July 5 at his home in Plains, Ga, on Muskie's qualifications as running mate; Carter says there is no significance in Muskie's receiving 1st invitation; Muskie comments; he and wife will spend night in Carter home before all-day conf; Carter confirms that previously published lists of possible running mates are 'substantially accurate'; confirms that 2 others have accepted his invitations to confer, 1 in Plains and other in NY; says he is planning to ask at least 2 more; says major influences on his decision will be his 'own judgment,' compatibility and balance on ticket; Carter discusses his conference with Charles Kirbo on prospective running mates; Muskie, Sen Walter F Mondale chances assessed (M)

Officials and released hostages say in Paris that they have substantial evidence that Amin was in collusion with hijackers in seizure of plane as well as after it landed in Uganda; French source says Amin refused to allow French Amb Renard or special envoy to deal with hijackers directly; while Amin was in Mauritius for OAU meeting, messages from Israel had to be passed by French Govt reprs through Somalian Amb Hashi Abdullah Farah to hijackers; when Amin returned, he told Renard that demands for releases of 53 pro-Palestinian prisoners in Israel, Kenya and Eur must be met by July 4 or all hostages would be killed; released passenger Michel Cojot describes airport scene (L)

ed hails raid

JERUSALEM, July 4 (Reutersq—Foltowing, in an official translation, is the text of an address delivered in Hebrew by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Parliament here today on the Israeli oneration to rescue hostages in Uganda:

Colombian Govt has canceled accreditation of UPI to operate in country because of erroneous rept that Pres Alfonso Lopez Michelsen had been assassinated; UPI apologized for rept (S)

JERUSALEM, July 4—When the hijacked Air France airliner landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda last Monday, most people. Israelis among them, concluded that the sheer distance from Israel precluded the kind of military operation that had been employed against terrorists in the past.