March 1, 1979

US forced to evacuate secret electronic base at Kabkan, northern Iran, that was used to monitor Soviet missile tests (M)

Heavy fighting reptd intensifying around Lang Son; operations elsewhere along border involve fewer troops; fighting detailed; illus (M)

Scientists studying Nubian artifacts find evidence of oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, dated at 3300 BC, and pre‐dating earliest Egyptian monarchies; discovery is expected to stimulate new appraisal of origins of African civilization, raising question of to what extent later Egyptian culture may have derived advanced pol structure from Nubians; Chicago Univ research assoc Dr Bruce Williams, who is studying artifacts, and Prof Keith C Seele, who initially recovered them, comment, artifacts described; illus; map (M)

NEW YORK CITY people don't know how hard we try, out here in the country, to dress up our days. While city life is a supermarket of ready‐made symbols, events and occasions, country people have to create their own. We are engaged in an eternal Easter egg hunt for something to respond to, something that will enable us to believe that we have not rusticated our sensibilities.

New strains have developed in Israeli‐US relations over differences holding up peace treaty; Begin, Dayan and other Israeli officials say recent talks at Camp David worsened situation (M)