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...Security Council has scheduled a series of private consultations to discuss the issue for late tomorrow afternoon. Sources in the U.N. Secretariat have stated they believe the council will hold a formal session next week, at the request of the Cambodian government...
...than $300,000 in cash and letters informing the Soviet embassy in Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane, who once represented the cult, says he also made such a request. Lane denied reports, however, that while he was in Europe last week he tried to collect some of the money...
...Sadat tilt. Said Irwin Goldenberg, president of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation-Council: "Carter is making out Begin to be the obstacle. That's not right or fair." Added Hyman Bookbinder, Washington lobbyist for the American Jewish Committee: "It was a mistake for Carter to scold Israel. We request that our Administration show some patience during these difficult days...
...example, that the U.S. Travel Service, set up under John Kennedy to lure foreign tourists, be scrapped completely. The saving would be only $14 million, and the travel industry is already lobbying against the cut. The budget bashers have also cut 1,100 men from a Justice Department request for 14,000 border-patrol officers to intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. Organized labor is expected to fight the recommendation on the theory that more border guards will mean fewer U.S. jobs lost to foreigners. OMB is pro posing to chop the Energy Department budget from $10.5 billion to $8.8 billion...
...recommends holding HEW'S spending to some $195 billion next year. That would be an 8% rise and has brought a strong protest from HEW Secretary Joseph Califano about cuts in or alterations to 115 separate items in his thick spending request...