Since Israel refuses to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization (and vice&#8208;versa), there was a certain logic to Prime Minister Menachem Begin's offer last week to talk peace with the Lebanese Government of President Elias Sarkis while Israeli troops were attacking the Palestinians again on Lebanese turf. That Mr. Sarkis refused the offer was hardly surprising, since the Syrians control most of Lebanon except for the south, where the Palestinians seem to answer to no one&#8212;least of all Mr. Sarkis.

Mideast Peace A Lot Like War

Long Island Symphony cancels subscription concerts scheduled in Huntington and Hempstead because of deficit of $50,000; orchestra's board of directors president Esther Pivnick says orchestra will disband (M)

L.I. Symphony Ends On Discordant Note

Article profiles electronics indus giant Texas Instruments Inc; chief exec J Fred Bucy por; chart shows mkt performance (M)

Winning and Losing at Texas Instruments

US and China reach oral agreement to initial trade treaty, which will be initialed within day in Canton by Kreps and Chinese Foreign Trade Min Li Qiang; agreement reached after intervention by Deputy Prime Min Deng Xiaoping; accord seen leading to most-favored-nation treatment for China and may lead to expanded US Govt credit through Export-Import Bank, and may enable Americans to play larger role in supplying technology to China (M)

U.S.‒CHINESE ACCORD ON TRADE REPORTED SET FOR INITIALING

article on Package Building Systems Inc's use of prefabricated steel frames in home building; vice pres Carl de Stefanis says steel frames are less expensive than wood-frame construction; illus (L)

The Cost‐Saving, Steel‐Frame Solution

Members of Congress, squeezed between pleas to keep atomic reactors going and demands to &#8220;shut 'em down,&#8221; seemed inclined last week to put them on hold.

The Nuclear Inquest Proliferates Too

THE specifics of General Motors&#8217; new X&#8208;body cars &#8212; the Chevy Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark &#8212; are available almost everywhere these days. thanks to

About Cars: G.M.'s X‐Bodies

Summer travel plans of millions of American motorists are being thrown into turmoil by growing uncertainties over availability of gasoline; survey indicates that resorts within a gas tank or so of great Northeast metropolitan concentrations are in for good season, while less accessible attractions are already experiencing falloff of visitors; map shows routes to vacation areas within easy driving distance of NYC, with estimated gasoline use (M)

Fear of Gasoline Shortage Causing Changes in Vacation Travel Plans

RUMMAGING through my files during spring cleaning, I find a few folders of memorabilia from my pediatrics internship in Connecticut. A Kodacolor photograph slips out. A child I will call Bobby Gammer, 4 years old, sits in front of the family Christmas tree, hands loosely clasped around a fluffy white blanket. He beams at me with bright brown eyes, full dimpled cheeks and an inviting curl at the edges of his lips. His shiny brown hair is trimmed with bangs lying neatly over his forehead. In his flowered shirt, checkered pants and navy blue vest, he is decked out as lustrously as the tree behind him.

Speaking Personally: A Child Dies

Lake Placid: Tickets First, Rooms Later

WASHINGTON &#8212; Since early last year, they've been saying &#8220;it couldn't be done&#8221; as President Carter sent one difficult foreign policy measure after another to Congress. Now, with the new strategic arms limitation treaty, he tackling the most difficult of them all.

At Arms Length

The Administration jumped the gun last week on the long&#8208;awaited SovietAmerican treaty to limit long&#8208;range nuclear missiles and bombers, announcing &#8220;basic agreement&#8221; before final details were complete. President

Finally, Agreement On Treaty ‐and Long Debate Opens

TRENTON IN 1977, toxic waste &#8212; 1,343 barrels of it &#8212; was found abandoned in a shed on the docks in Jersey City. The authorities hired the Chemical Control Corporation of Elizabeth to dispose of it.

Toxic Waste: Costly Health Hazard

article on GM's new front-wheel drive X-body cars (M)

Car of Tomorrow Runs Well Today

Article describes restoration of Old State House in Hartford; illustration of restoration director Wilson Faude (L)

Uncovering 1792 Behind the Plaster In Old State House

BAYVILLE, L.I. &#8212; &#8220;It's not even the middle of the month and I've already used up nearly half my gasoline allocation for May,&#8221; said Eddie Burke, who as operator of the corner Texaco station here has, at one time or another, pumped gas into the car of nearly every resident of this small village on the north shore of Lone Island.

A Texaco Dealer Tries Living With Cutbacks

HUD Dept study says that tenants in government-subsidized housing are happier without integration of different social, economic and cultural groups and recommends that such integration should be avoided; Asst HUD Sec Donna E Shalala comments; illus (L)

Tenants Oppose Economic Mix, Study Finds

Alvy Singer, the fellow played by Woody Allen in &#8220;Annie Hall,&#8221; is depressed by live lobsters and almost everything else you can think of, including the concept of the expanding universe. Alvy is the sort of fellow who dwells on the knowledge that if he just sticks around long enough, Coney Island will be five billion light years from Brighton Beach.

FILM VIEW

Article on various ticket and package tours available; illus (L)

The Great Race for Olympics Tickets Begins Now

Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat converses with Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Sydney Gruson and correspondent Christopher S Wren at Sadat's home village Mit Abul Kom, in Nile Valley (S)

SADAT SAYS SAUDIS ARE UNLIKELY TO BUY U.S JETS FOR EGYPT

Article on efforts by US refineries to balance need for summer gasoline with need for winter heating oil; also discusses longer-range question of whether refiners should spend millions of capital dollars to expand sections of refineries that process unleaded gasline, boosting its octane; Mike Geehan, processing superintendent at Shell Oil's Norco, La, refinery, comments; graph shows percentage of various products that can be derived from crude oil; graph of US refining capacity '70 to present (L)

Shell Juggles Molecules At Its Louisiana Plant

JOHN V. N. Klein, the Suffolk County Executive, says he plans to be on hand tomorrow morning when the first sale of gasohol is made on the Island. Like other motorists, he says he would like to try some out in his car.

Alternatives Eyed if Gas Takes a Holiday

article on changes in Jersey Meadows; notes developers have erected $674.2 million in commercial and residential buildings since '69 when Hackensack Meadowlands Development Comm was created to oversee development; future plans discussed; illus; map (L)

The Long, Rocky Journey From Marsh to Meadowlands

ARMONK PEOPLE in this little hamlet refer to it as &#8220;a community of quality.&#8221; It is a neat little shopping village with historic buildings and churches and a park with resident geese and an attractive gazebo, and it is set in a hilly countryside sprinkled with expensive single&#8208;family homes.

Sylvan Armonk Troubled Over Contaminated Wells

FORKED RIVER  ITEM: Last Jan. 15, vibrations in a steam pipe triggered the automatic shutdown system in the nuclear reactor at the Oyster Creek plant of the Jersey Central Power and Light Company The incident went practically unnoticed, and the reactor was restarted three days later.

Close Watch on Nuclear Plants

Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Duke of Värmland is the only son and the second of three children of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. As of 2022, Prince Carl Philip is fourth in the line of succession, after his older sister, Crown Princess Victoria, his niece and goddaughter Princess Estelle, and his nephew Prince Oscar. He lives with his wife, Princess Sofia, and four children in Villa Solbacken in Djurgården, Stockholm.

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May 13, 1979

Headlines from May 13, 1979

Mideast Peace A Lot Like War

L.I. Symphony Ends On Discordant Note

Winning and Losing at Texas Instruments

U.S.‒CHINESE ACCORD ON TRADE REPORTED SET FOR INITIALING

The Cost‐Saving, Steel‐Frame Solution

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Breakfast In America

Desolation Angels

Spirits Having Flown

Notable Births

Historical Context for May 13, 1979