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WASHINGTON (UPI) — Henry Kissinger departs today for a Middle East tour that will include “private” meetings with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but aides deny a return to “shuttle diplomacy” for the former secretary of state.

Kissinger, according to aide Peter Rodman, is "trying to keep the trip private and low key."

But Rodman said the former secretary of state had discussed his travel plans with both President-elect Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State-designate Alexander Haig and "they have no problems with it."

The stalled Egyptian-Israeli peace talks "will likely come up," Rodman added.

An Egyptian diplomat in Washington said Kissinger had described the visit as "private," but told embassy representatives he would be reporting on his discussions to the new administration.

But whether Kissinger actually represents the new administration "remains to be seen," the diplomat said.

During his two-week tour, Kissinger plans to meet with five heads of state. On Monday, he will meet Sadat at his boyhood home in the Nile Delta, 50 miles north of Cairo.

Kissinger later will go to Israel to meet Begin. He also will see Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and the heads of state of Morocco and Oman.

State Department officials said Kissinger is receiving "logistical support," but nothing more for the trip.

Kissinger was scheduled to fly from Washington to New York Saturday, then take a private jet to an undisclosed European city to spend the night. He plans to fly to Cairo Sunday.

Rodman said Kissinger will return to Washington in time for Reagan's inauguration Jan. 20 and "probably will discuss the results of the visits with Reagan and Haig."

Rodman would not say who was paying for the trip or supplying Kissinger with a private plane.

## *Larry Phyllis Brown*

Times Tribune staff

EAST PALO ALTO — This community, long thought to be a black enclave, may now have as many white residents as it does black, according to a recently completed study.

Though he cautioned that the data are "very raw," Marty Boat, an economist with the planning division of the San Mateo County Department of Environmental Management, said there is a difference of only four percent between the proportions of black and white residents of East Palo Alto.

The study, done by Menkin-Luero and Associates of Oakland, shows an approximately 10 percent increase in the number of white residents, and about a 14 percent decrease in the number of black residents, since the 1970 census.

The count for white residents includes Hispanics.

The consulting firm did its own census counts for East Palo Alto then residents and county officials complained in June that preliminary 1980 census figures were inaccurate.

Revised census and consultant's findings put East Palo Alto's population at approximately 18,000, virtually the same as 1970 census findings.

The consulting firm based its findings primarily on school enroll-ment figures from the Ravenswood City Elementary School District and the Sequoia Union High School district, Boat said.

He said the increase in the white population probably took place mostly in the area of East Palo Alto that is west of Bayshore Freeway. The area is composed largely of partment buildings inhabited primarily by whites, he said.

Most construction in East Palo Alto has been in the west of Bayshore freeway area, where almost 100 new housing units have been added since the 1970 census was taken, the study shows.

Reflecting the increase in the partment-dwelling population, the community has experienced a 17 percent increase in the 15 to 19 and 20 to 24-year-old age categories.

The area east of Bayshore Freeway has "experienced a net out-migration," Boat said.

The preliminary 1980 census figures show a decrease in the average household size and number of housing units in that area.