November 24, 1977

Prospects for future of villagers in Indian's coastal regions assessed in aftermath of recent cyclone; notes reconstruction has commenced in Lakshamana but villages along sacred Krishna River, which bore brunt of storm, are unable to do so because of high death toll; relief pilots rept that isolated villagers are giving high priority to burying or cremating thier dead; map (M)

Comment on growing number of white males fighting affirmative action programs notes major area of continuing controversy is construction indus, where unions have agreed to accept more minorities under voluntary 'hometown' plans; notes construction unions are even more incensed at recent proposal to reserve 7% of all construction jobs for women; illus (M)

Vance arrives in Venezuela; completes 3-nation tour and returns to Washington, DC (S)

Price of farm land has turned downward in most of nation's major grain-growing regions for 1st time in many yrs, threatening troubled growers with new financial problems; plight of Kan farmers Charles Whitman and Charles Blau noted; illus (M)

Nov 24: Dayan says Israel must decide soon on its 'last-ditch' attitudes on ultimate borders, solution to Palestinian problem and nature of peace, int on Israeli TV; warns Sadat's calls for 'no more war' were predicated on Israeli return of all Arab lands; describes visit as 'earthquake'; says Sadat's concept of Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement is in context of UN Charter; says Sadat told him that as long as Israel holds Egyptian soil he does not want Israeli visitors in Egypt; says Sadat stressed that key to dispute is Palestinian state; says he disagreed with Sadat; scores some Eur and US criticism that Begin did not offer enough to compensate Sadat's visit; says Israeli concession to Egypt at this time would hurt Sadat in rest of Arab world; denies Israel compromised on Palestinian representation at Geneva and on Israeli-occupied Sinai; says Israeli-US working paper aimed at reconvening Geneva is not delaying Egypt from going to conf; Foreign Min sources say 1 area of agreement between Israel and Egypt concerned mutual disenchantment with Oct 1 US-USSR joint declaration (L)