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A2 Pot-Star, Glens Falls, Y. Sunday, March 27, 1988 Shultz plans return trip to Mideast in April to an hour-long meeting at the State By Henry Gottlieb The Associated Press State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said. "We're intensely involved in this process and we're going to continue to push forward to do everything we can," Redman said. Asked if there had been any progress in getting other nations' approval of the plan since Shultz.

returned from his last trip, March 3. Redman asserted, "no one has said no our proposal is still on the table, people are actively and seriously considering it." Shultz's return trip "will give us a chance to continue to do what it is we've been try has rejected the plan outright, they have all expressed dissatisfaction with some of the proposals. One of the stickiest points has been arranging for representatives of the Palestinians to take part in the talks. The Palestinians want to be represented by the PLO, but Israel will not meet that group and there also is a U.S. law against dealing with the PLO, which the United States has declared a terrorist organization.

In what appeared to be a bow toward the Palestinians, Shultz invited two American members of the Palestine National Council the PLO's self-described legislative arm ing to do, which is to see if we can be helpful in getting this Middle East peace process underway' Redman said. He said Shultz decided to make the trip Friday night after meeting his chief Mideast envoy, Philip Habib, who recently toured the area. The U.S. initiative calls for interim negotiations beginning perhaps by May 1 and eventually more intensive talks designed to return the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinian control and to assure security for Israel. While none of the countries in the region Department Saturday.

Israeli officials denounced the talks as jt violation of a U.S. commitment not to meet with the PLO. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had protested the meeting to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering, negotiatoi on Mideast problems. i The guests, Edward Said, a Columbia? University professor and Ibrahim Aba Lughud of Northwestern University said they complained to Shultz about Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where 111 Arabs have been killed in recent demonstrations.

WASHINGTON Secretary of State George P. Shultz, trying to invigorate a Mideast peace plan, met Saturday with two members of a group affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization and will travel to Israel and four Arab countries next week to push the initiative. Shultz will arrive in Jerusalem April 3 for talks with Israeli leaders and move on to Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt before returning to Washington on April 8, Carter lauds meeting with Palestinians Afghan peace hinges on aid cut. GENEVA (AP) Pakistan's chief negotiator at the Afghanistan: peace talks said Saturday that an agreement could be clinched if the Soviets would agree with the United': States to suspend all aid to the warring parties. Acting Foreign Minister Zain Noorani said that since another out- -standing issue that of a transi- But Carter said Shultz "is not violating anything." Shultz conferred for one hour with the two Palestinian-Americans at the State Department to hear their views on Shultz's latest Middle East peace plan.

The two professors, Edward Said of Columbia University and Ibrahim Abu Lughud of Northwestern University, are members of the Palestine National Council, the PLO's parliament-in-exile. State Department spokesman Charles Redman stressed that Said and Lughud are U.S. citizens who did not characterize themselves as PLO members. He said the meeting was "not a negotiation" but "a very By Robert M. Andrews The Associated Press WASHINGTON Former Presi- dent Carter applauded Secretary of State George Shultz's meeting Saturday with two American members of the Palestine Liberation Organization's legislative body and said, "He should have met with them long ago." Israeli officials angrily charged that Shultz was violating a longstanding U.S.

commitment not to "recognize or negotiate" with the PLO as long as it refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist. useful exchange of views" that represented no change in U.S. policy toward the PLO. Carter, interviewed at a luncheon of business and government officials at Gannett Co. Inc.

headquarters in suburban Arlington, said he knew Said and Lughud personally. "They are very constructive in nature," Carter said. "They're American citizens. They're not radicals." "We don't have any obligation not to meet with Palestinian leaders," the former president said. "The obligation we have is not to recognize the PLO officially and not to negotiate with the PLO.

And Sec retary Shultz is not violating any commitment." Carter said Shultz "should have met with them long ago" as part of the Reagan administration's efforts to arrange Arab-Israeli peace talks. He said he hoped that Shultz's "belated effort" will succeed. Carter endorsed Shultz's proposal for a preliminary international conference on the Middle East convened by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Britain and France. Under Shultz's plan, a joint Jordanian and Palestinian delegation would attend the conference with Israel and other Mideast parties.

Reagan's civil rights record Jv-) Ml A i Indian activist discovered slain WAKULLA, N.C.(AP)- A Lumbee Indian activist running for judge in his racially troubled county was found shot to death Saturday at his home, officials said. Julian T. Pierce, who had complained to a friend of death threats, was shot three times at point-blank range with a shotgun, Sheriff Hubert Stone said. "It just looks like he was actually assassinated," the sheriff said, calling it "one of the worst" murders he had investigated in his 33 years as a lawman. Gov.

Jim Martin appealed for calm in Robeson County, where two Indians were charged with holding a newspaper staff hostage in February. He said the state had offered a $6,000 reward for information leading to the killer's arrest and conviction. Hundreds protest Contra policies The Associated Press Protesters opposed to U.S. policies in Central America marched in major cities Saturday with chants including "Hey, hey, Uncle Sam, not another Vietnam," and signs reading "No Contra Aid." The demonstrations were largely peaceful, but police in Boston had to break up a shoving match between the protesters and counter-demonstrators. The rallies were organized by a group calling itself the Pledge of Resistance, which claims 80,000 supporters nationwide.

About 1,500 people marched in the rain in Boston, saying they backed the signing last week of a ceasefire in Nicaragua between the leftist Sandinista government and the -backed Contra rebels. Star Wars said to be downscaling WASHINGTON (AP) -The Defense Department has scaled back its plans to develop a massive space security shield and instead has settled on a far less ambitious Immediate goal of protecting U.S. military installations, The Washington Post said in Sunday's editions. The newspapesaid the department five years and $12 billion after President Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program has abandoned plans to try to protect U.S. cities as well as its military centers from a Soviet attack.

The Post quoted senior U.S. officials as saying that the decision to concentrate on a limited defensive system reflects broad agreement within the administration that the president's dream cannot be attained. Agent: FBI failed him in race case WASHINGTON (API Black FBI agent Donald Rochon. an alleged victim of racial discrimination at the hands of fellow agents, was also victimized by bureaucratic foot-dragging and a possible cover-up by federal criminal investigators looking into the case, his lawyer says. A Justice Department spokeswoman, Deborah Burstion-Wade, declined comment Saturday on the specifics of Rochon's allegations.

But she did say that "it is not unusual for any thorough investigation to take" months to complete. tional government appears to have been resolved in principle, "we, feel that as soon as the two guaran- tors resolve the issue of the instruments can be signed." By "symmetry," he meant .3 Washington's position that it be a guarantor of a settlement only if the Soviet Union stops military aid to the Kabul government at the same time the United States ceases military aid to the Moslem rebels. Iraq admits loss but not defeat NICOSIA, Cyprus AP) Iraq on Saturday admitted losing ground to Iran in a major battle in its strategic northeast, and it reopened a deadly duel of the cities by firing two missiles into Tehran. Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council, assembled by President I. Saddam Hussein, acknowledged Baghdad had lost land to an Iranian offensive, which Iran claims has resulted in 11,500 Iraqi casualties.

The battle region is about 80 miles east of the Kirkuk oilfields, which produce about 1.5 million barrels of, oil a day more than half Iran's daily output. Despite the losses, the Iraqi command said it was resolved to fight "with all available weapons" until Tehran agrees to settle the 7 Ms -year-old war. Panama troops raid port area PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) Troops loyal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega raided Panama City's port area Saturday and cleared it of bar-, rlcades set up by striking dockworkers. The army threatened force to make the nation's banks reopen.

Banks ignored the threats, and dockworkers stayed away from work as part of a general strike called by opposition leaders. Troops also raided several flour mills and shut down a union hall. Noriega announced Friday that soldiers would seize flour from the nation's mills, apparently to distribute it to Panamanians who have been short of food. Mill owners announced they were donating the flour to the Roman Catholic church's food program Honduras troops continue training TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) The 3,200 American soldiers sent to Honduras on an emergency mis- sion 10 days ago are training up to the last minute before they begin an airlift home, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday.

Maj. Gary Hovatter, U.S. public -affairs officer at Palmerola air 4 President Reagan addressing young people from the Center for the Study of the Presidency late last week. (AP Laiorphoto) Colorblind, or just blind? By Jill Lawrence The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan's defeat last week on a major anti-discrimination bill demonstrates the chasm between his administration and the rest of America when It comes to civil rights, say those who fought for passage of the measure. Some conservatives counter that Reagan's positions are very much in tune with the American mainstream.

The enactment of the Civil, Rights Restoration Act over Reagan's veto was the latest skirmish in the administration's rocky seven-year attempt to redefine and some say erase the federal government's role in ensuring basic rights to all citizens. Reagan and his conservative allies contend they are committed to a "colorblind" society and reject the idea that they are less concerned about discrimination than those who support stronger remedies. But their vision has led to years of confrontation with Democrats and liberals and often with moderates, conservatives, Republicans and business people as well. "People simply don't want to go back and undo things that have been accomplished over the last 20 years," says veteran civil rights attorney William Taylor, who helped draft the restoration act. But some conservatives say the administration's victories have not drawn the attention they deserve and do, in fact, reflect the public's feelings.

"The picture is more mixed than perhaps some would have people about the Reagan administration and its civil rights policy and how much it's in sync with the public," said former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein, now a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Fein said the media has not fairly portrayed the administration's progress toward its civil rights goals. "On the victories, they end up with a little three-graf snippet on page 25," he complained. But Ralph Neas, executive director of the 185-group Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said the victories have been small andor temporary. "Congress and the Supreme Court have reined in the excesses of the Reagan administration," he said.

"The only time they (the administration) have been able to do anything or change anything is double blow to the administration in 1986, approving the Cleveland Fire ucai uuciii yiau iu icbcivc nail ui all promotions for minoritv can-n General William Bradford Reynolds, to associate attorney general. Those are the major defeats. Where are the comparable victories? Some point to the Supreme Court's 1984 decision narrowing protection under four civil rights laws to specific federally assisted programs, rather than prohibiting an entire institution from discriminating if any part of it receives aid. But that ruling was reversed last week with the veto override. There were also two Supreme Court rulings in which the justices found newer minority employees were improperly shielded from layoffs while innocent white workers with more seniority were let go.

But the Justice Department later was rebuffed when it asked 51 local jurisdictions to scrap hiring and promotion plans on the basis of the court rulings on seniority and layoffs. One Republican mayor, William Hudnut of Indianapolis, said he refused to comply with the because he felt it was wrong constitutionally, morally and didates and endorsing a labor union's use of racial quotas to help more minorities get jobs. Fein cited several lower court rulings that threw out racial quotas in government contracting and said the Supreme Court would review them. He also noted a federal appeals court decision this month striking down racial quotas used to avert "white flight" at an integrated Brooklyn housing development, Starrett City. The decision stemmed from a 1984 suit filed by the Justice Department.

Taylor and others in the civil rights community do say that Reagan has succeeded in dismantling much of the federal civil rights law enforcement machinery and has kept advocates busy for seven years with rearguard actions. On the other hand, they say, in their forced re-examination and re-evaluation of the nation's civil rights policies, Congress and the courts have deemed them essentially sound. "The basic threat the administration posed was turning the clock back, and turning the country in a different direction," Taylor said "They sure tried hard. They failed every time. To me, that is a very encouraging development." when they have acted by executive fiat." The administration provoked an uproar early in 1982 when it tried to reverse a longstanding policy of not giving tax breaks to segregated schools and caused more controversy a year later by firing three liberal members of the supposedly in-dependent Civil Rights Commission.

Among other things, the administration has also tried and failed to: Block strong economic sanctions against the South African government for its apartheid policy Dismantle or weaken ongoing school busing and affirmative action plans. End affirmative action goals and timetables for government contractors. Block a tough new extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 and win a different interpretation of it three years later in the Supreme Court. Dissuade Congress from enacting a. new holiday honoring Martin Luther King.

Elevate the architect of its civil rights policies, Assistant Attorney base, said the troops were training at four sites throughout this country of 4.5 million people. Palmerola is about 40 miles northwest of the capital. He said about 6,000 American soldiers currently are stationed in Honduras. mm COUNTRY MUSIC SINGER Charley Pride says the ribbing he took as a skinny Boys skirt the issue P1 Rid taugnt mm not to be afraid of life's challenges. Pride, in Oklahoma City for the taping of the ZOth anniversary show of television's "Hee Haw," said he was often teased and Fnday, "but what is it that isn't attainable? I was given incentive by my dad, who always says, if you're going to do it, get it So I had to prove something after hearing people keep saying that." THE YOUNGEST CHILD of Martin Luther King Jr.

plans to follow in his footsteps today, preaching from the pulpit at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. Bernice King, a student of law and theology at Emory University, is scheduled to deliver an afternoon sermon before the deacons and minister of the historic church, a step toward her ordination as a Baptist minister. She has been active in social causes and is a vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa. Ms. King has a degree in psychology and entered Emory's five-year joint law and theology program September 1985.

She turns 25 Monday. King, who was assassinated in Memphis; when Ms. King was 5, preached at Ebenezer, and her grandfather, the Rev. Martin Luther King was pastor there. SANDRA TSING LOH has a penchant for; publicity stunts.

Last year, during a downtown Los Angeles art festival she staged a piano concert atop a parking build-? ing next to the crowded Harbor Freeway. Her captive audience was gridlocked during rush hour. Her audience Friday had more freedom. While she played a 1't-minute piece she composed, titled "Self Promotion," an I-assistant tossed 1 ,000 Si bills to spectators: "I just wanted to see what would hap- said the avant-garde Ms. Loh.

26. JACKSONVILLE, Ark. AP) No knees is bad news, say eight male students who wore miniskirts toprotest a ban on shorts. "I would like to know what is wrong with the boys' knees?" said Alicia Williams, mother of Kennith Miller, sent home from Jacksonville High School on Friday along with classmates who wore miniskirts ith hems a few inches above their knees. "And why are they enforcing the dress code ton boys) when girls can wear skirts up to their hips she continued.

"If girls can show their legs, why cant boys?" Principal James Johnson said the school dress code allows skirts, but bars shorts and halter tops. He said he sends borne any girl who wears a miniskirt that is too short or revealing, but that he has bent the rules by allowing male students to wear "jams," or shorts that end below the knees. Ms. Williams said the style nowadays is to wear jams at knee level or a little above. The boys said they thought their protest was a humorous way to make a point.

"I don't find it humorous at all," Johnson said. They were interfering with the educational process parading around and disrupting classes." Johnson said the protest hurt his feelings. The boys shou'd have talked to him about the problem before wearing skirts to school, he said told, "You're so skinny. Pride you ain't going to be nothing." The singer, now a well-built man who has won nearly every award given by the music industry-, wears a gold astrological medallion of two fish swimming around the letters "G.I standing for "get it done." "It's a challenge when people tell you that you cant do something," Pride said.