November 27, 1977

Egyptian Says a Conference Could Prepare Approach to Geneva Negotiations

Israel accepts Sadat's inv to go to Cairo following meeting attended by Begin, Dayan, Deputy Prime Min Yadin, Defense Min Weizman and other Cabinet officials; Govt says Sadat's demand for total Israeli withdrawal and Palestinian state contradict Israeli Parliament resolution, which remains crux of any peace negotiations; Arab affairs expert Prof Shlomo Shamir and Prof Shlomo Avineri comment on Sadat's speech; illus of Sadat with Defense Min Gamasy (M)

Nov 27: Sadat extends inv to all parties in Middle East conflict, including Israel, US, USSR and Waldheim, to send reprs to Cairo for talks aimed at removing obstacles to Geneva conf, speech to Egyptian Parliament; attacks Syria and USSR for having opposed his Israel trip; avoids mention of PLO; asserts Jerusalem visit removed psychological obstacles and won Egypt new internatl and Israeli respect; says he has not budged on total Israeli withdrawal, including from E Jerusalem, and creation of Palestinian state; says potential clash between Israeli and Egyptian forces was averted in Sinai less than 2 wks ago; confirms existence of 3 secret US-Egyptian agreements related to '75 Sinai agreement, but says they were intended to protect Syrian and Palestinian interests; says 1st 2 accords entailed US commitments that Israel would not attack Syria and that disengagement would be worked out on Syrian front, and 3d promised that there would be no overall settlement without Palestinians; repts that Dayan told him that only hrs before '73 war Israeli suspicions were allayed because Egyptian trucks were not hauling ammunition to Suez front; says he told Dayan that ammunition was sent up 5 mos in advance by train rather than by truck to elude detection; Acting Foreign Min Ghali says PLO will receive inv to Cairo meeting; illus (L)

35,000 miners in Jiu Valley staged massive strike and demonstration at Lupeni in early Aug; returned to work after Pres Ceausescu made number of promises dealing with retirement system, working conditions, quality of food and consumer goods and new housing; they charge now that changes were short-lived, and some plan other action; soldiers have been sent to valley, some miner leaders have been removed, and there has been pay retaliation by Govt, which refuses all public comment on events; worker unrest is said to be moving to other industries, and econ impact of Aug protest is still being felt; illus (M)

1st in series on US men and women finds that more than 50% of all mothers with school-age children and more than 33% of mothers with children under age 3 work outside home; cites changes in work patterns, with many more mothers and wives holding outside jobs, as major upheaval in family style; diverse reasons for mothers to seek outside jobs noted (M)