Vice President Mohammed Mubarak of Egypt will be in Washington next week to meet President Carter and other top U.S. officials, the State Department has confirmed without giving the precise date of his arrival. Asked if Mubarak’s visit was related to the Iraqi-Iranian war or the talks on West Bank-Gaza autonomy to be resumed here next week between Egypt, Israel and the U.S., Department spokesman John Trattner indicated that the autonomy talks would be “a better guess.” He acknowledged, however, that the Iraqi-Iranian conflict also would be discussed. Trattner denounced the shelling of the port of Sidon in south Lebanon in the past few days by Lebanese Christian forces headed by Maj. Soad Hoddodas “blackmail.”
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