FLIOsvases MNeCall Their Ordeal ppoo/osigy 4 o5Fact6s Woather ‘arlable Cloudiness Today Fatr, Cooter Tonight High Today 54 Low Tonight 29 See B-2 YearNo.27 ° APITAL Ronald Reagan’s speech z home the freed Americans ina warning tothe world that abuse of American diplomats ure isnot likely to go ed. A-d se Reagan's freeze on federal snt angera and frustrates -sand employees who have J by the government since the 2 freeze date of Nov. 5, A-1 lent of elocat avned bus service says the -eceived and followed from Business Administration has 30 broke‘he can’t eve pay alary. A+ -p. Richard-Kelly of Florida is. ty of bribery and conspiracy -mming from the FBI's vestigation of political A-4 me Court unanimously « televising of some criminal a that the presence of levices and cameras does not jeopardize the right toa fair OREIGN connate leader Lech Walesa meets | sz ngouthwestern Poland »ged a sit-in since dan. 2, in n discourage new strikes in heir effort to obtain for their farmers’ union. in the murder trial of Jean rris tells the jury that the erman Tarnower prescribed ributed to her confused ‘the day she shot and killed 4-2 Supreme Court ruling tronic media to cover state he door for wider use of seras in Maryland and vedings. Bel vericans will receive a ae to Washington with an torcade along . Avenue followed by a reception. Bel bean farmer is awarded ra D.C. Superior Court ice used “excessive force” sted him in the face with nding him in his left eyv at aarch in 1979, Bel >/FINANCE ores Inc., based in un, plans ta buy Drug Fair quiring the 47 percent ¥isberg and Gerber GTON LIFE Women's Political - luncheon honoring the bers of Congress. C+1 «freed Americans’ monies in Washington \BC'a television ay. Tonight, Anthony « Adolf Hitler in CBS' co _ day on Solidarity's demands, and an. - The Wanhingion Star Oe, Sear teat Walesa Tries To Put Off Meets With Peasants Seeking Recognition — Star Wire Services ~ WARSAW, Poland — Sotidarity la- bor leader Lech Walesa has gone to a southeastern Polish town-in an at - tempt to head off new strikes in su port of a farmers' union sittin which: began Jan, 2. , : vf work soppages are called, they probably will begin tomorrow, which has been designated a day of solidarity with the farmers,.  ~.. Solidarity said there was a possi: bility that a key meeting of the Soll- darity leadership, scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday in Gdansk, would be held insteadin Rzeszow, where peasants occupied govern: ment buildings to support a demand that negotiators meet with them to discuss recognition of their farmers’ union. The government has said dt is against such recognition... The Solidarity. meéting .would elect delegates for talks with the goy-. ernment on demands for a five-day, 40-hour workweek. The ruling Com: -_ munist Party Politburo met yester- Official statement emphasized that. the government was willing to nego- tlate a compromise with the labor confederation to end the recenh&<. wave of strikes, The statement’sa as the party "is open tg discussion" on . variants for shortening the six-day workweek... - : an Meanwhile, more than 2,000 stu- dents held a sit-in yesterday at Lodz University, and a leader of the dem- onstration sald the polytechnic and film schools in Lodz would jolm the protest today, The students sent a delegation to Warsaw to discuss their complaints with student lead- ers ard government officials, The students are demanding that compulsory classes in Marxism be made optional, autonomy for some student groups from the Education Ministry, the barring of police from campuses unless permitted by unt- versity officials and access to printing facilities. See WALESA, A‘? ~ Careers Melt As Job Freeze Takes Its Toll By Philip Shandler Washington Sur Steff Writer Charles Gossett, 29, of San Francts- £0, Spent about $800 to buy new feder. ia? vednesday, in Chicago, he got word that he could hang up the clothes drive here for * clothes and fix up his car so he could 0 fro Bias DORs RUNE Rae SE | and turn his car back toward the 7 * WASHINGTON, D.C. lve Be ale Former hostage Gary L¢€ and hie’ wife, Patsy, g6 for Flooding Routs 200 in SE After Break in Main Two hundred persons were evac- uated from their homes this morn- ing when a water main in Southeast Washington ruptured, flooding base. ments and streets and swamping cars In more than six feet of water in some places, No injuries were re. ported. . Evacuation of residents in two apartment complexes and 25 homes at 12th and I streets SE was ordered by fire department officials when {t was feared the water would inun. date furnaces and hot water heaters and cause explosions. Firemen reported that two gas nes to private dwellings ruptured under the pressure of the water and that there was fear the Southwest Freeway might have been under: mined by the tons of water that Swept up against {t from the rup. tured main. There were no reports of injuries as many of those evacuated left their ought to the scene for the evac- uation. See WATER MAIN, A-4 # ’ TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1981 on ¢ nest Po at The Lees live in Falls Church. Hostages Try to Catch Up ton Star Phiame (202) 484-6000 Cinaniiiend 484-6000 Giroulation 484- $000 aa On ‘Missing’ 14 Months By Maureen Dowd ‘ and Suzanne Bilello Washington Star Staff Writers WEST POINT, N.Y. — Protected by this stony fortress of a campus and acadre of milttary police, the $2 re- turned hostages emerged from their 14-month time werp yesterday. From dawn until early this morning, they played catch-up. + They jogged in the cold morning mist, read magazines painting them as the new American heroes, traded more fomily gossip with their rel. atives, gobbled up smorgasbords of gourmet food, got hatrcuts, visited an elementary school and played yideo games. “We're all just walking around with silly grins on our faces,” said Elizabeth Swift of the District, “soak- ing it all in” ough dark tales of beatings, de- .pression and éven an attempted suicide during the captivity contin. ved ta leak out from the former hos- tages, it was the good cheer that was - the §2. Ak William Gallegos, the 23-year-old Marine corporal from Pueblo, Colo., FURR OdbORG was so eager to talk to his mother that he woke her up three times, starting at 7:15 am. to urge her te hurry down toa lavish meal of cham- pagne and smoked salmon. ary Earl Lee of Falls Church and Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann of Krakow, Mo., talked with their fam- ilies so long and so loudly at the hos- tage hideaway in the stately Hotel Thayer that by mid-afternoon they "had laryngitis. Gregory Persinger, the 23-year-old Marine from Seaford, Del., roamed through the record section of the campus canteen, asking sales clerks to catch him up on the latest albums by Kenny Rogers and other record- ing artists. Sickmann said he spent his first evening back on native soil “drinking a lot of liquor and chasing * women.” 1 . Richard H. Morefield, the S1-year- old diplomat from San Diego, con- fessed that it was difficult to believe he had returned to a life of domestic- ity until he saw his wife's tooth: brush -cr if with his in the , fOr all t ¢ hostages turned beroes, it was a belated See 52 AMERICANS, A-t? CAPITAL SPECIAL 7 eT Reagan Sets. ‘Warning on | Kidnappings ‘Low-Key Reception And a Firm Stance - ‘By Lisa Myers _ Washington Sar Stell Weiter President Reagan today will use @ White House ceremony honoring the freed American hostages to warn the world: that any such abuse of American diplomats in the future is not likely to go, unpunished, Senior White House officials say. The president also will seek to Teassure the 52 released’ captives, ’ some of whom reportedly are suf. fering from severe mental problems, * ; - that their professional careers are in no way jeopardized by their 14 month ordeal. Concern over resum- ing their military and diplomatic careers was the most widespread worry expressed by the hostages during debriefings prior to their re- turn Sunday to the United States, pecording to press secretary James rady. Reagan yesterday received an in- depth refine on the condition and concerns of the former hostages, as . well ag thelt mistreatment at the hands of the Irantans, He was told, for instance, that Thomas L. Ahern, . whom the Iranians thought was the embassy's CIA station chief, was beaten not long before the hostages’ Telgase, sources sald. so! 4 eagan apparently was not tald, however, that one of the eight Ma- Tine hostages was sexually. abused by his captors, as reperted by a senior former Carter administration official. ' Tears formed in the president's eyes while advisers, led by Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr, re- counted the ordeal of the former hostages and reported that a dozen or so of them are suffering from “severe problems,” mostly mental. The most common affliction is “ex- treme guilt,” according to adminis- tratfon sources, for some action committed under duress or for in- ability to perform thelr duties at the time of the embassy seizure. Reagan was cautioned to avoid la- beling the former hostages as “he- See REAGAN, A-12 52 ‘Punished For Vietnam,’ Hostage Says WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Freed hostage Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr. said yesterdaythat the Iranian mill- tants who captured the hostages told them repeatedly they were being - punished for America's role in Viet- nam. . In an interview with the Associ- ate Viper ae th $e data.
Appro q baaker, 15 “a pit ink of Markazl,” he “accustomed to : billfons,’ was and for $18 milllon. In Tehran, meanwhile, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad A)i Rajal yesterday said the United States was forced to unfreeze Iranian assets in order to free the 52 American hos- tages because the U.S, economic sanctions and boycott of Iranian oil nile For Lost Time ‘Continued From At” in Expected to Warn st Hostage Taking nad ae of turning the guilt vnistration officials ag told that the 52 { hero status.and be- ly were doing thelr while public ac- of the hostages’ ser- on Is appropriate, a ‘aganza” should be 3 advised, . ya festive occasion,” dded that although cals will be attending come for the return: te House South Lawn there would be no ng or a formal parade evetsof Washington. f residents were €x- che Toute of the mo- Andrews Air Force te House, but federal mployees have not leave. to watch the _ by advisers was de- t Reagan in his-first ‘he hostages: as. well tall aspects of today's te tallored with ‘the being tn mind. Ken re president's senior: sat in on the brieftng, agical considerations into account in draft: rief remarks he plans the South Lawn, 2 precise wording was out, White House ‘agan has decided that ve-minute speech dur- ceremonies on the ill include a warning n that choses to emul vities risks American zeply that this must again,” said a White ent Zablocki, D-Wis., sroomfield, R-Mich. — members of Congress Reagan yesterday — dent was giving the ” Weinberger, “vlously. © overall problem of terrorism highest priority and would send pro als to Congress soon for combatin it. Beginning at 11:55 a.m. today, Jour planes carrying the 52 former bos tages and their families will begin arriving at Andrews Air Force Base at 1$-minute intervals. They will be rested by Vice President George sh, Defertse Secretary Caspar v Haig, congressional Yeaders and others, then bused along “the motorcade route to the White House. - - ; President and Mrs, Reagan will be Introduced privetely to each of the hostages before a formal 3 p.m. ceremony on the Soith Lawn. “The 53-hostages — their number fricludes Richard Queen, who was released last July because of illness — will be given mintature American Nag gift sets ao mementoes of the occasion, Brady sald. 2" After the 1S ception will be held for the hostages, their families, the rescue force that nusuccessfully' tried: to free them, families of the eight soldiers: who ‘dled {n the Iranlat desert durin Yast April's aborted mission, and 19 . former ‘hostages released pre- “s Also inivitéd 1s Kenneth Taylor, dhe former Canadian ambassador to fran who helped three Americans escape, ang officials from Algeria, West Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britaln <— countries that in one way or another aided in the hostages’ release. Former President Carter, who met with the hostages in West Germany soon after thelr release, will not at- tend the ceremonies. “He felt strongly that the sole honor of greeting the returned Americans be- longs now to the sitting president,” Brady said. _ Reagan yesterday proclaimed Thursday a national day of thanksgiving for the safe return of Americans who “have shown by ex: ample that the spirit of our country will never be broken.” ses Told They Were Being - ned’ for U.S. Vietnam Role im A-i 1, not panicking, was * he said. , ined ure gave us ould have restrained {1 through. Our very 2 put us in a good post- has improved {ts he world because of nducted itself during crisis, Kennedy said. 2 all the damage that done to us.” wife, Lovisa, was the for FLAG — the Fam- tion Group — and she -es of several hostages with Buropean*ieaders apts to gain freedom es. The Kennedys have erview with ABC-TV, che thonght that while ity to escape he felt it i escape,” he told Wal- aarticularly, was very "he said, referring to r hostage Malcolm Kalp. IS escaped ~- tried to Walters bow he knew -aten, Kennedy repiied: ises which were later a he Ry lar of be : Sa ‘ Riehing him in the a _ Almost off-handedly, Kennedy said in his interview with Walters that one of the hostages had at. tempted suicide and the Americans’ Militant captors were “shaking us down for anything which might be used to help somebody commit sui- cdde,” such as belts, razor blades and neckties. . Kennedy, a native of New York City where his parents now live, said in the AP interview that he thinks America should honor its commitment to fran. “t's important that we maintain our moral leaderhip,” he sald. “We're a great nation because we're al] mor: ally strong, And in the third world, that's so Important.” Kennedy sald he is seriously con- sidering quitting the State Depart: ment, not because he feels bitter about his experience, but because he wants to open a new chapter In his Jife. “I don't feel bitterness,” he said. “I've spent 20 happy enrs in the State Department. If | leave the de- partment, it will be because IT want # different challenge... T pal my debt to the United States. I shouldn have tocontinue fffdon't want to.” He edded that he doesn't feel the, red for the ¢ ening they dined_on filet mi i$minute tribute, a re ' Thanksgiving Day, Inthe mornin) there was an interdenominations' service at the Cadet Chapel, a lovely gothic church with vaulted cellings and flags from every American war. Accompanied by the cadet glee . club, they’ sang the traditional thonksgiving hymn “Now Thank We All Our God,” and recited biblical psalms redolent with the joy of hib- eration. “In-my anguish, J cried to the Lord and he answered by setting me free,” they read from Psalm 118. “Tt was almost as if we had written the service ourselves,” marveled a radiant Kathryn Koob of Fairfax. “The scriptures were the same as the ones we used in our private medita- tlons” in captivity In Iran. In the ev non in the mess-hail with hundreds of ca- dets in dress grays, a5 the glee club serenaded them with the “Halls of -Montezuma” end the national an- them. ~ But the prevailing mood of exu- berance among those of the former hostages and thelr families who min- pied with cadets and the press did not eclipse the lingering specter of fama and-depression.. -Morefield was subdued as he strolled past the horde of reporters, his hands plunged into his raincoat eta: 2s 2. “"Glve me time, please, to come into this gradually,” he sald softly. “Ob-; vjously, I'm all wound up. It's impor- tant for. me to. share with all of Yous | what. happened, but give mea. chance to cope and you want me to do. cat , “Thave ta take it one step atatime,- coming backwards, reversing the. chain of support that went from my wife In San Diego to the U.S. to the rest of the world to me.” . - _ Clair Barnes, 35, of Falis Church, Ya, also had some’ disquieting thoughts. : ‘ “Ym depressed sometimes,” he said. “I did expect to get out of captiv- ity sometime or other, sooner or later, but [ didn’t know how long it would be." ' Many of the former hostages were preoccupied yesterday with the im- mediate future. “I'm ready for a var cation,” said Frederick Kupke of Francesville, Ind. . “Most others, however, said they are eager to go back to work. “I hope the powers that be send me back overseas," sald Joseph Hall of Little Falls, Minn.,’an Army warrant of fi- cer. “But not to the Middle East.” . Army officials were takin great care to see that cadets and Point em- ployees did nat inadvertently trig- ger any latent trauma; they were specifically-told not to ask any ques- tlons about the time in Iran. Others among the group tried to dispel the clouds of the ordeal. Wil- liam Gallegos’ parents indignantly dismissed the idea that their son was suffering aftereffects of his nightmare. . “why should he be depressed. That's buli—," Jose Gallegos said. “The Marines were gung-ho when they left and they're double ung-ho now,” insisted his mother, Theresa. She said the two toughest adjust- ments for her son and his friends were “getting used to wearing shoes again and sceing a lot of people all the time. Their feet are killing them, poor guys." After their morning jog, Gallegos and six other Marines took an hour out from the family reunion to visit the children at the West Point ele- mentary school. The second grade greeted them with a kitchen band of egg beaters. drums made of cereal boxes and rub- ber bands and kazoos and sang & spiritual called “Pree at Last,” "Gallegos, James M. Lopez from a hon vat ors and. several touch efi Tiphh Teettr Pte: bate cy ane: OTF _times and, near the beginning of “his imprisonment, p a do what Urhink. . rs on the floor with ta. aweasifter children and tugged Shon lant snd ened were Oal Try Making Up Harsh Treatment By Fred Hiatt Washington Star Staff Writer WEST POINT, N.Y..— They threatened to put aut his eyes. They kicked him in the ribs, stepped on his hends and banged his head against the wall. : "They treated us just like an ani: mal in the z00,” sald former hostage Charles Jones, the only black held for the entire 444-day- ordeal. Speaking out for the first tmé-— since his release, Joties, 40, told"ree porters yesterday of the ph ysiditend mental abuse he received from his ~ captors, speaking with calm some- times, with great anger at others. The Iranians who took over the embassy released all the black hos- tages except Jones soon after the selzure. Jones wouldn't speculate yesterday on why they Kept pim. ‘Captured in the U.S. ‘Embassy . vault on Nov. 4, 1979, as he finished destroying the embassy's classified records, Jones said he suffered for refusing to provide information and to say “publicly that he was well treated. . He said he wag “interrogated” flve . abused. 7 ee “As for rough treatment, 20° —~_ aside from being kicked in the ribs, having my. bands: stepped on, ty head bumped up against the walls _and a few little odds and-ends like . that, eyes put out — no, there was RO rough treatment,” he sald. Jones, a communications special- ist and teletype operator from De- troit, had a yellow ribbon pinned to his khaki Jacket when he talked,” with reporters on the snowy campus of West Point. He spoke with his wife, Mattl, at hisside, and he seldom let go of her hand. . Not only did the Iranians phys- ically abuse him early on, Jones fe- ported, but he was also forbidden to talk for more than four months: from the day he and the others were seized unti] — and he remembered the exact date — March 17. After that, he sald, he could speak occa- stonally — he was always kept with . five or fewer other hostages — but not too loud, too fast or too often. “One of their favorite things was, ‘don’t speak, don’t speak," he sald. “We got kind of tired of that.” - In addition to his anger toward his Iranian captors, Jones also showed some harsh feelings toward some Americans who visited Iran as “sympathizers,” as he called them. He said the 52 former hostages were reparing a statement on the sub- ct. . “There's something that's coming out about the people who did visit nao Despite the difficailty of his cay thy? “Jy, Jones sald that he peverdow ted that he would be rescued.” . .<" v Lee Ake 5 tages, was s:: ved ee __ Te Washington Sat, * BXHOSTAGE CHARLES JONES Wag licked, stépped on 4 that’s not very nice,’:he said, ‘His wife hushed him at that poiat and Jones would ‘not elaborate «xcept to say that many of them ‘were very, very sympathetic to. (the Iranians’) - “My faith was always: in'the Gnited id Ls always ee atte an A: “ t. 5 guns.put up against my head + hought. they. youll and being threatened to have my" ~ t us out,” he: a , for (the ‘Maringp: aye A OS Pere 4 “Jones Said that he slept on 2'sins-. ple mattress on the fldor during bis captivity, generally f{n-clean sur, roundings. He sald he, was. moved "15 or 20-times'. and kept: with’ up, to six fellow Americans at.& yime. | “News from the outside World was scarce, with."averything censored, including letters,” he said. Most of his outside news. came through sports and photography magazines, he said, and only once — when Time magazine named the Ayatollah Kho- “meini “Man of the Year” becatise of his great influence on world affairs — was he shown a copy of that news magazine. foi oo “The students made a big thing of that, they showed it around,” he said. “How would you like it if you can't talk and you're ‘treated: lke an animal, and then you have your Tose rubbed into something like that?” 2° at despite his ordeal, Jones was unwilling to label the Iraniens as barbarians. . “| consider them a little uncivi- lized, but barbarians? That's. litte strong,” he said. Star staff writer Mare “Kaufman contributed to this story. _ : Carter Deficit Would Be Higher By Hill Budget Office Projection By Sheilah Kast Washington Star Steff Writer Former President Carter's pro- posed fiscal 1982 budget would actu- ally result in a $33.2 billion deficit, Instead of the $27.5 billion deficit his administration projected, the Con- gressional Budget Office said today. The CBO said Carter had underes- timated, by about $5 billion, the amount needed to pay for the de- fense programs he proposed. “Fewer aircraft, ships and tanks would be procured at significantly higher costs per unit in 1982 than reviously planned,” the CBO said. The agency eaid inflation would add $2 biilian to spending for weapons, $3 pillion to the bill for fuet to be used by the militery and $1 billion for other defense supplies. jr compared. Carter's roposals Hem tee imcteor 8 caizagle. but - Feat SRE as je 1 which / favier dapre- fygline fog Weneneanes EATER REET Ae with lowe. ia effect and poll- _ Math eee ytacily approved by GoD dehaled the b lat The report sald the Increases in personal and excise taxes would re- duce economic activity, cutting GNP by 07 percent and raising unemploy- ment 0.2 percent compared to CBO's “base-case assumptions.” - Carter's proposed 10-cents-a- gailon gasoline tax would increase the Consumer-Price Index by 0.6 or 07 percent (n1982 and up to 1 per- cent in future years, the CBO said. At the same time, the tax would force conservation equal to about 100,000 barrels a day in fiscal year 1982, the report said. The office said (ts estimates of rev- enues proposed in the new budget are close to the $711.8 billion project: ed by the Carter administration. _ That includes $18.5 bitlton. in pto- | tax ted mostly tax iy tense ie and 3728 billion (p pre - dhe bullvof the pieenve woeld come tren Ue gan DK teed wiriholdls gor ef reece and Ao ibeteT “his treatme tasay, butn BIH, Lainge tent ts: p' spent £2 day About re hostages w: depression. a doctor. T Thences. ence ko with his dent at U napolis, 8 chapel. se Hymn of gusto,” -he above his For Cla year-old F first. day | treat, Wearit marked ‘\ ers, “k hac Snperbow .- Barnes chose Tot song 8s it Kalp—e and inte vantage made by tage rel The tt adorabl: hairdre: dohn off sow sine by ing wi Eliza Distric of Fair who wi hes pus sorry |