July 30, 1977

July 30: Vance says he will present specific US proposals to Israeli and Arab leaders during his forthcoming Middle East trip in effort to overcome obstacles to new Geneva peace conf, news conf; participants at recent closed-door Sen and HR com meetings say Vance noted that Begin said he would allow 'Palestinian Arabs' but not PLO officials to participate at Geneva; Vance reptdly said he would explore possibility of arranging low-level Palestinian presence; said he would also urge Arab leaders to try to get PLO to issue some statement accepting Israel's right to exist; reptdly suggested formation of trusteeship for West Bank under Israel, with population eventually being allowed to vote on who should govern them; Vance illus (M)

Pres Carter intervenes personally in treaty talks for 1st time by calling chief negotiators for both sides to morning session at White House; announces he is sending personal lr on talks to Torrijos Herrera; Torrijos schedules meeting in Columbia, Aug 5-7, to discuss status of negotiations with Presidents Alfonso Lopez Michelsen (Columbia), Carlos Andres Perez (Venezuela), Jose Lopez Portillo (Mexico) and Daniel Oduber Quiros (Costa Rica) and Jamaican Prime Min Michael Manley; Carter urges negotiators Ellsworth Bunker, Sol Linowitz, Romulo Escobar Betancourt and Aristides Royo to try to conclude work promptly and restates his commitment to early achievement of new treaty; Escobar describes meeting as 'very positive' (M)

Oil reaches trans-Alaska pipeline terminal at Valdez on July 28; Alyeska execs William J Darch and Henry Mowl comment; map of oil's progress from Prudhoe Bay, indicating time and place of accidents and other setbacks during transit; terminal illus; Darch illus with 1st bbl of oil from pipeline (M)

HR Dem leaders work out compromise on energy pkg that would impose 5c per gal increase in gasoline tax as of Jan 1, '79, proceeds of which would be evenly split between mass transit and hwy repair; Speaker O'Neill wins support of Repr Howard and his colleagues by increasing share of proceeds to hwy repair; plan is endorsed by Carter Adm (M)

article on roundup, undertaken by Interior Dept's Land Mgt Bur, aimed at corraling as many as 10,000 wild horses and burros in drought-stricken areas of Western US and turning them over to interested individuals under Wild and Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of '71; highlights roundup at Owyhee Desert, northeast of Winnemucca, Nev, where officials nope to herd 1,200 horses and burros; Land Mgt area mgr Bill Harkenrider, wranglers Dick Read and Mike McLellan and local farmer Hank Angus comment; illus; map (M)