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WASHINGTON.
D.C., TUESDAY, JANUARY
27,
1981
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Ronald Reagan’s speech
i home the freed American*
in a warning to the world that
abuse of American diplomats
are is not likely to go
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Reagan's freeze on federal
-nt angers and frustrates
$ and employees who have
J by the government since the
a freeze dale of Nov. 5, A-
lent of a local
wned bus service says th e
received and followed from
Business Administration has
so broke"he can’t evert pay
alary. A* 1
;p. Richard-Kelly of Florida ia
ty of bribery and conspiracy
.-mining from the FBI’s
vestigation ofpolitical
.
A-4
me Court unanimously
e televising of some criminal
§ that the presence of
ievices and cameras does not
jeopardize the right to a fair
QREIGN
leader Lech Walesa meet*
in south western Poland
:/.ged a sit-in since Jan. 2, in
n discourage new strikes in
heir effort to obtain
for their farmers’ union.
in the murder trial of Jean
ms tells the
-jury that the
erman Tarnower prescribed
-i buted to her confused
•the day she shot and killed
V-2
Supreme Court ruling
ironic media to cover stale
he door for wider use of
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neras in Maryland and
t-edings. B-l
lericans will receive a
nc to Washington with an
torcade along
, Avenue followed by a
reception. B-l
bean farmer is awarded
r a D C. Superior Court
ice used "excessive force”
sted him in the face with
tiding him in his left e>t at
larch in 1979. B*1
t/FINANCE
ires Inc., based in
• !>», plans to buy Drug Fair
fquiring the 47 percent
Eisberg and Gerber
itonlife
Women's Political
. luncheon honoring the
ibers of Congress. C«1
•• freed Americans'
monies in Washington
\ BC'a television
ly. Tonight, Anthony
Adolf Hitler in CBS'
Walesa
To Put Off
New Strikes
Meets With Peasants
Seeking Recognition
Star Wire Service* -
WARSAW, Poland — Solidarity la-
bor leader Lech Walesa has gone to
a southeastern Polish town in an at-
tempt to head off new strikes in sup-
port of a farmers’ union sit-in which
began Jan.
2.
•
, If work stoppages 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 Soli-
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 meat with them to
discuss recognition of their farmers'
*
union. The government has said it
is against such recognition.
The
Solidarity, meeting -would
eminent on demands for a fivfSay,
40-hour workweek. The ruling Com-
munist Party Politburo met yester-
day on Solidarity's demands, and an
official statement emphasized that
the government was willing to nego-
tiate a compromise with the labor
confederation
to
end
the
rece
wave of strikes. The statement sa
the party “is open to discussion” on
variants for shortening the six-day
workweek.
Meanwhile, more than
2,000
stu-
dents held a sit-in yesterday at Lodz
University, and a leader of the dem-
onstration said the polytechnic and
film schools in Lodz would join the
protest
today, The students sent
a
delegation
to Warsaw
to
discuss
their complaints with student lead-
ers arid 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 uni-
versity
officials and
access
to
printing facilities.
See WALESA, A-7
Careers Melt
As job Freeze
Takes Its Toll
By Philip Shandler
Washington sur Stiff Writer
Charles Gossett. 29, of San Francis-
co.
spent about $800
to buy new
clothes and fix up his car so he could
A
drive here lor ihe-federaljob, that
ppn©veefo b#or twel&as
Wednesday, in Chicago, he got word
that he could hang up the clothes
and turn hts car back toward the
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
It
was feared the water would inun-
date furnaces and hot water heaters
and cause explosions.
Firemen
reported
that two
gas
lines 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
it from
the rup.
tured main.
There were no reports of Injuries
as many of those evacuated left their
mmsMmmmb
brought to the scene for the evac-
uation.
See WATER MAIN, A-4
Hostages Try to Catch Up
On 'Missing' 14 Months
arp yesterday. From
1 this morning, they
By Maureen Dowd
and Suunne BUello
Wahlnitw stir Sufi wni.ri
WEST POINT, N.V. - Protected by
this stony fortress of a campus and
a cadre of military police, the 52 re-
turned hostages emerged from their
14-mooth time war
dawn until early
played catch-up.
They jogged In the cold morning
mist, read magartnes painting them
as the new American heroes, traded
more family gossip with their rel-
atives, gobble!) up smorgasbords of
gourmet food, got haircuts, visited
an elementary school and
played
video games.
-We're
all
just
walking .around
with silly grins on our faces," said
Elizabeth Swift of the District, -soak-
ing
it all In."
Though dark tales of beatings, de-
, pression and even an
attempted
Bulclde during the captivity contin-
ued to teak out from the former hos-
tages, It was the good cheer that was
xifMUttfe.'
.
aft;
the 52.
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,
•
William Galtegos,
tlje 23-year-old
Marine corpora! from Pueblo, Colo.,
was so eager to talk to his mother
that he woke
her up three times,
starting at 7:15 a.m. to urge her to
hurry down to a lavish meal of cham-
pagne and smoked salmon.
Gary Earl Lee of Falls Church and
Rodney
"Rocky" Stckmann
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 Persineer, 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."
,
Richard H. Morefield, the 51-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
crossed
with
his
in
the
j
1!
.
lor
all tEe hostages turned
heroes,
it was
a
belated
See 52 AMERICANS. A-l!
Reagan Sets
Warning on
Kidnappings
Low-Key Reception
And a Firm Stance
By List Myera
WuhlngtoB Sur Stiff Writer
President Reagan today will use
a 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
reassure 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
durlog debriefings prior to their re-
turn Sunday
to the United
States,
according to press secretary James
Brady.
Reagan yesterday received an ln-
depth briefing on the condition and
concerns of the former hosteges, as
well
as
their mistreatment
at the
hands of the Irenlans. He was told,
for Instance, that Thomas L. Ahern,
whom the Iranians thought was the
embassy's CIA
station
chief, wns
beaten not tong before the hostages’
release, sources said.
Reagan apparently was not told,
however, that one of the eight Ma-
rine hostages was sexually abused
by
hts captors, as reported 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 n dozen
or so of them are suffering from
Severe problems,
- mostly mental.
The most common affliction is -ex-
treme guilt," according to adminis-
tration
sources,
for some
action
committed under duress or for
in-
ability
to perform
their 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) - Free
hostage Moorhead C. Kennedy
Ji
said yesterdaythat the Iranian mil
tants who captured.the hostages tot
them
repeatedly they were
bein
punished for Americs's role In Vtei
nam.
In an interview with the Assocl
ftted
I 1 *.-”
}'
r
if.!.,
.
Appro @ banker, is “a pit ink of Markazl," he ‘accustomad to : billions, was and for $15 million. In Tahran, meanwhile, lrantan Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai yestarday sald the United States was forced to unfreeze Iranian assets in ordar to free the §2 American hos: tages because the U.S. economic eae and boycott of Iranian oil ‘aile in Expected to Warn st Hostage Taking — nA-t sy ee of turning the gulll iinistralion officlals ag told thal the 52 Thero status and be dy wera doing their whila puhiig ace of the hostages’ ser- on Is appropriala, a ‘aganza” should be 3 advised: - ya festive occasion,” sdded that allhough cals will beattending come for the return: te House South Lawn thera would be no ag ora formal parade vets of Washington. f residents were €x- che route of Ihe mo- Andrews Alr Force te House, but fedarél mployees have not leave to watch the _ by advisers was de- Reagan in his first *he hostages: as well SE er rn "s re tailored with the being in mind. Ken re president's senior. sat in on the briefing agical considerations into accountin draft. rief remarks he plans the South Lawn, 2 precise wording was :d out, White House agan has decided that ve-minute speech dur: ceremonles on the il include a warning n that choses to emu- vities risks American eeply that this must again,” sald a White ent Zablocki, D-Wis, sroomfield, ReMich. — pembers of Congress Reagan yesterdey — dent was giving the " Welnberger, _ leedersand others, then hused along overail problem of ‘terrorism highest priority and would send proposal Jo Congress soon for combating it. Beginning et 11:55 a.m. today, four planes carrying Ihe 52 former hos tagea and their femilles will begin arriving at Andrews Air Forca Base at 1S-minute inlervels. They will be preeted hy Vice President George sh, Defertue Sacretery Caspar Haig, congressional the motorcade roule to the Whila * a ‘ House. : : . President and’ Mra. Reagan will be Introduced eel to each of the hostages before a formal 3 p.m. ceremony on the Soith Lawn. " ‘The 53 hostages — their number {neludes Richard Queen, who was released last July because of iliness — will be given miniature American Nag gift sets a$ mementoes of tha occasion, Brady sald. + * ‘After the 1$minute tribute, 4 re- ception wili be held for the hostages, their families, the rescue force t at unsuccessfully tried to free them, families of the eighl soldiers who dled {n the franlan desert durin, last April's aborted mission, and 19 former “hostages relaased pra- viously. e “- Also invited is Kenneth Taylor, the former Canadian ambassador lo iran who helped three Americans escape, and officlals from Algeria, West Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain = countries that in one way or another alded in tha hostages’ release. Former President Cartar, who met with the hostages in West Germany soon after their Telease, will not at- tend the ceremonies. "Ha felt strongly that the sole honor of greeting the returned Americans be- fongs now to the sitting president,” Brady said. _ Reagan yestarday 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 mm A-1 1, not panicking, was " he said, . ined ure gave us ould have restralned 11 through. Our ve 2 put ua in a good post- has improved 11s he world hecause of nducted itself durin srisis, Kannedy sald. 2 all the damege that done to us.” wife, Louisa, was the for FLAG — the Fam- tion Group — and she ‘es of several hostages 4ith Europeansleaders upts to gain freedom es, The Kennedys have erview with ABC-TV, . he thought that while ity to escape ha felt It i escape,” he toid Wal- valticularly, was very ” he said, taferring to s hostaga Malcolm Kalp. TS escaped —- tried to Waitars bow he knew -aten, Kennedy replied: ises Which were Ister be his beating ge i ae ! kicking Bir in the Asi RO00/ OS/ AE _ Almost off-handedly, Kannedy said in his Interview with Walters that one of the hostages had al tempted suicide and the Americans’ , Militant captors were “shaking us down for aayining whlch might be used Jo help somebody comm] sni- cida,” auch as belts, razor biades and neckties. ; Kennedy, a nativa of New York City whera his parents now live, said in the AP interview Ihat he thinks America should honor Its commitment to Iran. “It's important that we maintain our moral feaderhip,” he said. “We're a great nation beceuse we're all mor: ally strong, And in the third world, that’s so Important.” Kennedy sald he is serlously con sidering quitting the State Depart- ment, not because he feels bitter about his experience, but becausa he wants 10 open a new chapter In his {lfe. “] don’t feel bitterness,” he said. "I've spent 20 happy years in the State Department. ff ] leave the de- partment, It will be because 1 want a different challenge... T id my dabt to the United States. I ahouldn have to continne if Idon’t want to.” He added that he doesn’t feel the, State Department was prepared for the em ‘takeover end that be "hopes tha govertiment learpo from aghves during vheir cepuivity and Try Making Up For Lost Time Continted From A-t Thanksglving Day. In-tha mornin there waa an interdenominations! service at the Cadet Chapel, a lovely _gothic church with vauited caitings and flags from evaty American wer. Accompanied by Ihe cadet glee. cluh, they’ sang the traditional thanksgiving hymn “Now Thank We Ali Our God,” and reciled biblical psalms redolent with the fy of Hib aretion. “In-my angulsh, J cried .to the Lord and he answered hy aetling me frea," They read from Psalm 148. . “It was elmost as if we had written the sarvice ourselves,” mervaled a radiant Kethryn Koob of Feirfax, “The scriptures wera the same 8s the ones we used in our privale medita- tions” {n captivity In Iren. in the ev: ening They dined on filet mignon In . the megs-haii with hundreds of ce- dets In dress grays, as the giee club serenaded Ihem with Ihe “Halis of Montezuma” and the national an- them. — . But the prevailing mood of exu- beranca among those of the former hostages and their families who min: gled with cadats and Ihe press did not eclipse the lngering specter of frauma and depression... Morefiald was subdued ¢8 he strolled past the horde of reporters, his fan s plunged into his raincoat ets. 7 Give me tlma, plaase, to come Into thts graduaily,” he said softly, “Ob-, vjously, I'm al wound up, It's Impor- tant for me to share with all of you, _ what. happened, but give me a. chance to cope and you want me to do, a . “Thave ta take it one step at 4 time, | coming backwards, reversing tha. chain of support that went from my wife in San Diego to the US, to the rest of the world to me.” . . _ Clair Barnes, 35, of Falis Church, Ve, also had some’ disquieting thoughts. ; “I'm depressed sometimes,” he sald, “1 did expect to get out of captiv- lty gometime or other, sooner or later, but i didn’t know how tong {t would be." ‘ Many of the former hostages were preoccupied yesterday with the im- mediate future. “I'm ready for @ va- cation,” sald Frederick Kupke of Francesvlile, Ind. . “Most others, however, said they are eager to go back to work. “] hope the powers that be send me back overseas,” sald Joseph Hall of Little Falls, Minn, an Army warrant offi. cer, “But not to the Middle East.” . Army officials were taking great care to see that cadets and Point em- ployees did not inadvertently trig- ger any {latent Irauma, they were speclficaily told not to ask any ques: tions about the time in Iran, Others among the group tried to dispel the clouds of the ordeal, Wli- ilem Gallegos’ parents indignantly dismissed the idea that their son was suffering aftereffecta of hia nightmara. . Why should he he depreased. That's buil—," Jose Gallegos said. “The Marinea were gung-ho when they left and they're double ung ho now,” insisted his mother, Theresa. She sald 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 og, Gallegos and 3lx other Marines took an hour out from the family reunton to visit the chitdren at the West Point ele- mentary school. The second grade greeted thei with a kitchen band of egg beaters. droms made of cereal boxes and rub- ber bands and kazoos and sang 4 spiritual calied “Free at Last.” ‘Gall dames M. Lopez from Globe, Ariz, Johnoy McKee Jr., of Balch Springs, Texas, and several others rolled on the Moor with tha awe: % children and hy Tiphh Teetcs Lb ade 2 anne, PF “his Imprisonment, p do what Pthink™ +. gfesalseady tacitly opproved b Gale cies ype tdehated the ’ Oa Harsh "By Fred Hiatt Washington Star Staff Writer WEST POINT, N.Y. — They threatened to put otit his eyes. Thay Kicked him in tha ribs, stepped on hia hands and banged his head against the wail. , "They treated us just ilka an ani- mai In the zoo,” sald formar hostage Charles Jones, the only hlack he for the entire 444-day- ordeal. Speaking out for Tha first timé i since his release, Joties, 40, told"re- porters yeslerday of the physidkkend menial abuse he receivad from his ~ captors, speaking with calm some- times, wilh great anger at olhers. The Iraniana who took ovar the emhassy relaased ell the hiack hos- lages except Jones soon after the seizure, Jones wouldn’l speculale yesterday on why tne ep im. Capturad 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 wes well treated. He said he was “interrogated” fiva .. nning of ysically ty FA times end, near the beet abused. ‘ eerie “As for rough treatment, no’ —. aside from being kicked in the ribs, having my hands:stepped on, my head bumped up against tha walls _and a few little odda and ends like . that, guns put up against my head and fing threatened to have my* eyes put oul — no, there was no rough treatment,” he sald. Jones, e communications special. ist and teletype operator from De- troit, had a yellow ribbon pinned to his khaki Jocket when he taiked ” with reporters on the snowy campus of West Polnt. He spoke with his wife, Mattt, at his side, and he seidom fet go of her hand. , Not only did the Iranians phys- ically ahuse hint early on, Jones re- ported, but he was also forbidden to talk for more than four months: from the day he and the others wera selzed until — and he remembered the exact date — March 17. After that, he said, he could speak occa- sionally — 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 aiso 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 comng out about the people who did visit Treatment . tages, Was s*. r) Hb tell them 3: 1 We knew quoted didn't know + Lee, Uke + America of the othe dey at hom: don’s respo: famlty, foot ol talked s : , Steyearald | “Lee suid t i time with h told him ‘he ea a litt me subj ‘yy a = vedo t sais ‘The Washington Bur, EX-HOSTAGE CHARLES JONES: - 1 Wag kicked, atépped on. Ihat’s not vary nlee,”"he said, ‘His wife hushed him'at thet point and Jones would ‘not elaborate. except to say that many of them ‘were very, very 1 sympathetic 10, (the Iramans’) - case es “Despite tha difficulty of his ce hy: ‘ity, Jones sald that he never-dou ed that he would be rescued.’ ..-”" “My falth was always in tha Unit States governmént, and We awags 5, thought they, would. do egmething to get ys out,” he: “\ 1d, “We were “Jodking’ for’ (the Merine?) eve! day Ee Jones said that he slept on d sins. ple maltress on the flgor during his captivity, generally in-clean auty, roundings. He said he was moved "45 or 20 limes’ and kept. with’ up, to six fellow Americans at .@ time., News from the oytside World was scerce, -with “everything censored, including letters,” he sald. Most of his outside news came through sports end photography magazines, he sald, and only onca — when Time: magazine named the Ayatollah Kho- “meini “Man of the Year” becatise of his great influence on world affaits — was he shown a copy of that news magazine. a ° a “Tha students made a big thing of that, they showed it around,” ha sald. “How would you like it if you can’t tak end you're treated like an animal, and then you have your a rubbed Into something Itke that?” © | ut despite his ordeal, Jones was unwliling to iabel the Iranians as barbarians. ’ i “| consider tham a little uncivl- lized, but barbarians? That's ¢ little strong.” he sald. Star staff writer Mare ‘Kaufman contributed to this story. | i Carter Deficit Would Be Higher By Hill Budget Office Projection. By Shellah Kast Washington Star Steff Writer Former President Carter’a 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 sald 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 alrcraft, ships and tanks would be procured at aignificantly higher costs per unit in 1982 than reviously planned,” the CBO said. The agency eald inflation would edd $2 billion to spending for weapons, 83 billion to the bili for fuel to be used by the military and St plilion for othar defense supplies. qt compared Carter's oposals with laws. ia effect and poll- Ls These incinde a “sizable bul GORSODU RM Se. Sr fester dapre- ayqienn Pop cote: Tara eet te The Teport sald IHe increases in personal and excise taxea would re duce economic ectivity, cutting GNP by 0.7 percent and raising unemploy- ment 0.2 percent compared 10 CBO's “pase-case assumptions.” ° Carter's proposed 10-cents-a- gallon gasoline tax would increase the Consumer Price Index hy 0.6 or 07 percent In 1982 and wp to t 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 sald. The office sald its estimates of rev- enues proposed in the new budget are ctose to the $711.8 billion project: ed by the Carter administration _ That includes $18.3 hillton. tn pto- pet tax rednctlons — mostly tax tives for business and an ¥ pet _ Gent income tax cred: rf y ad oe oot viftion Is re dhe bulk of the revenue woeld come tren Ch? et DEK deed wT OTAT 8 OF, eeecert art fader! ing In, taiki “pis treatme to say, buts By contre Of Bethesd American spoke ont ¢ Looking what tense | Bili, Lainge ment isp! spent 12 day About re hostages w depression, a dector. T rlences, lence ko women, tha . Might baci strength. us,” he sa here: of MD will, 1 happiness, ingen back stro with his: dent at U napolls, a chapel se Hymn of gusto,” -he above his For Cle year-old F first day | treat. Wearlr marked ‘\ ers, “I ha Snperbow « Barnes chose Tot song 8s it hostages them. TI Days.and Fender, | Like m Barnes 3 to his he “Not fo fike a he: who can . 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