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Year No. 27 '
VITAL
Ronald Reagan's speech
home the freed Americans
no warning to the world that
abuse of American diplomats
tire is not likely to go
ed. A-1 ?
Reagan's freeze on federal
nt angers and frustrates ,
s and employees who have
bv the government since the
- freeze date of Nov. 5, A-1
lent of a local
ovned bus service says the
.cceived end followed from
Business Administration has
30 broke-he can't even pay
alary.
p. Richard Kelly of Florida is
ty of bribery and conspiracy
-misting from the FBI's
vestigation of political
A-4
me Court unanimously
televising of some criminal
z that the presence of
i Dykes and cameras does not
jeopardize the right to a fair
?REIGN
leader Lech Walesa meets ,
in southwestern Poland
.?-ed a sit-in since Jan. 2, in
r discourage new strikes in
heir effort to obtain
for their farmers' union.
in the murder trial of Jean
rris tells the jury that the
orman Tarnower prescribed
-inted to her confused
the day she shot and killed
1-2
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Iconic media to cover state
he door for wider use of ,
atlas in Maryland and
redings. B-1
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iota Washington with an
torcade along
. Avenue followed by a
reception. 13-1
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'a D.C. Superior Court
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sted him in the face with
citing him in his left eye at
larch in 1979. B-1.
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Walesa Tries.;
To Put Off
New Strikes
Meets With Peasants
Seeking Recognition
Star Wire Services -
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 pent,
bility that a key meeting of the Soli-
darity leadership, scheduled for
tomorrow and Thursday in Gdansk,
would be held hasteadin 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 it
is against such recognition._
The Solidarity meeting ovould
elect delegates for talks with thagov-.
eminent on demands furs five-day,
40-hour workweek, The ruling Com-
monist 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 race
wave of strikes. The atatementrsa
the party "is open to discussion" on
. variants for shortening the six-day
workweek.
Meanwhile, more than 2,000 eta-
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 add 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 star Stiff Writer
Charles Gossett, 29, of San Francis-
co, spent about $800 to buy new
clothes and fix uhis car so he could
drive here for 0 rgebiedaste
nnesday, in Chicago, begot word roug
that he could hang up the clothes nation.
and turn MS car back toward the
-
Former hostage Gary L91 and M
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 underc
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 1sose evacuated left their
o
to the scene for the eves-
See WATER MAIN, A-4
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,Hostages Tiy to Catch Up
On ',Missing' 14 -Months
- By Maureen DOwd
and Suzanne Hello
Wallitollos Star Stall Wrilero
WEST POINT, N.Y. ? Protected by
this stony fortress of a campus and
a cadre of military police, the, 52 re-
turned hostages emerged from their
14-month time warp 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 family gossip with their rel-
atives, gobbled up smorgasbords of
gourmet food, got haircuts, visited
an elementary school and played
video games
6,4 Associated Pens
int. 'The Lees live In nib Chtirch,
was so mir to talk to his mother
that he woke her up three times,
starting at 7:15 sm. 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" Sickmann of
Krakow, Mo., talked with their fam-
ilies on 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 Mtest albums
by Kenny Rogers and other record-
'We're all just walking .around ing artists. Sickmann said he spent
with silly grins on our faces," said .his first evening back on native soil
Elizabeth Swift of the District, 'soak- drinking a lot of liquor and chasing
? women.* ,
tages, it WAS ail load cheer that was
the 52.
mattomatorporoosonwith his in the
, premien and even an attempted old diplomat from San Diego, con-
inThgitottl:hincia'rk tele; of beatings, de-
suicide during the captivity contln-
ued to leak out from the former hos-
' .e ayear-old heroes, it was a belated
ity until he saw his wife's tooth-
brushthat it was difficult to believe
be had returned to a life of domestic-
Richard H. Morefield, the 51-year-
, or artYe hostages turned
?
William Geller, th
Marine corporal TOM Pueblo, Colo , See 52 AMERICANS, Alt
Reagan Sets
Warning on
Kidnappings
Low-Key Reception
And a Firm Stance
By Mu Myers
Within/WA Stal. thtfl ivrar
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
during debriefings prior to their re-
turn Sunday to the United States,
according to press secretary James
Brady.
Reagan yesterday received an in-
depth briefing on the condition and
concerns of the former hostages, as
well as their mistreatment at the
hands of the Iranians. 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'
release, sources said. .,
Reagan apparently VMS not mid,
however, that one of the eight Ma-
rine hostages was sexually abused
by his 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 a 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-s2
52 'Punished
For Vietnam,'
Hostage Says
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) ? Freed
hostage Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr.
said yesterdaythat the Iranian mili-
tants who captured:the hostages told
them repeatedly they were being .
punished for America's role in Viet-
nam.
In an interview with the Assori-
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e banker, is "a pit.
ink of Marked,' he
'accustomed to
; billions, was
and for $15 million,
In Tehran, meanwhile, Iranian
Prime Minister Mohammad All Raja'
yesterday said the United States was
forced to unfreeze Iranian assets in
order to free the 52 American hos.
sages because the U.S. economic
sanctions and boycott of Iranian oil
failed.
in Expected to Warn
4St Hostage Taking
n A.1 ? -
if turning the guilt
iinistration officials
-as told that the 52
hero status and be.
ly were doing their
while public ac.
of the hostages' set,
on is appropriate, a
-aganza" should be
;
advised.-? '
y a festive occasion"
Aided that although
.als will be attending
come for the return-
le House South Lawn
there would be no
ls or a formal parade
sets of Washington.
residents were ex-
he route of the me-
AndreWs Air Force
te House, but Weill
mployees have not
leave to watch the
. .
by advisers VIM do-
Reagan in his-first
be hostages- as well
tell aspects-of today's
:re tailored with the
being in Mind: Ken
le president's senior
sat in on thebriefing.
ogical considerations
into account in draft-
rief remarks he plans
the-South Lawn,
3 precise wording was
,d out, White House
agate has decided that
ve.minute speechdur-
ceremonies on the
ill include a warning
n that choses to emu-
vines risks American
eeply that this must
again," said a White
ent Zabiocki,
Woomfield, ft.-Mich. ?
members of Congress
Reagan yesterday ?
dent who giving the
overall problem of terrorism highest
priority and would send proposals
to Congress soon for combating it.
Beginning at 1155 a.m. today, four
planes carrying the 52 former hos-
tages and their families will begin
arriving at Andrews Air Force Base
at 15-minute intervals. They will be
greeted by Vice President George
Bush, Defeffse Secretary Caspar
Weinberger. Haig, congressional
leaders and others, then bused along
the motorcade route to the White
President and Mrs. Reagan will
be introduced privately to each Of
the hostages before a formal 3 p.m.
ceremony on the Soath Lawn.
' The 53 hostageS? their number
includes Richard Queen, who was
released last July because of illness
?will be given miniature American
flag gift sett at Mementoes of the
occasion. Brady said.
Atter the 15-minute tribute, a re-
ception will be held for the hostages.
their-families, the rescue force that
unsuCcessrully tried lo free them,
families of tbe eight soldiers who
died In the Iranian desert during
last April's aborted relation, and 19
former hostages released Pre-
viously. --
- Also invited is Kenneth Taylor,
the formdr Canadian ambassador to
Iran who helped three Americans
escape, and officials from Algeria,
West Gentany, Switzerland, and
Great Britain 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 their 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."
;es Told They Were Being
hed' for U.S. Vietnam Role
an A-1 Almost offhandedly, Kennedy
t, not panicking, was Said in his interview with Walters
" he said. that one of the hostages had at.
,ned posture gave us tempted suicide and the Americans'
mild have restrained , militant captors were "shaking us
11 through. Our very dawn for anything which might be
p0100 in a good post- used to help somebody commit sub
We," ouch as belts, razor blades and
has improved its neckties.
he world because of Kennedy, a native of New York
nducted itself during City where his parents now live,
;risis, Kennedy said, said in the Al' interview that he
all the damage that thinks America should honor its
done to us." commitment to Iran.
wife, Louisa, was the "It's important that we maintain
for FLAG ? the Fate- our moral leaderhip," he said. "We're
lion Group ? and she a great nation because we're all mor-
es of several hostages ally strong. And in the third world,
situ European.leaders that's so important."
opts to gain freedom Kennedy said he is seriously con.
es. The Kennedys have sidering quitting the State Depart-
ment, not because he -feels bitter
erview with ABC-TV, about his experience, but because
. be thought that while be wants to open a new chapter in
ity to escape he felt it his life.
"I don't feel bitterness," he said.
i escape,' he told WM- 'I've spent 20 happy years in the
.atticularlY, was very State Department. III leave the de-
lee said, referring to partment, it will be because I want
rhostageMalcolmKalp. a different challenge... I paid .my
na escaped ?tried to debt to the United States. I shouldn't
have to continue If [don't want to."
He added that he doesn't feel the
State Department was prepared fee
the Calmer takeover end Mit he
hopes the govertitneEt learns frore,
Walters how he knew
men, Kennedy replied:
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For Lost Time
Continued From A.I ? -
Thanksgiving Day. -In-the morning
there was an interdenominational
service at the Cadet Chapel, a lovely
. gothic church with vaulted ceilings
and flags from every American war.
Accompanied by the cadet glee ,
club, they sang the traditional
thanksgiving hymn "Nov/Thank We
All Our God,' and recited biblical
psalms redolent with the joy of lib-
eration. lathy anguish, I cried to
the Lord and he answered by setting
me free," they read from Psalm 1113._
"It 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 reedita.
lions' in Captivity in Iran. In the ev-
-ening they dined on filet mignon in
the mess hall with hundreds of ca-
dais in dress grays, as the glee club
serenaded them with the "Halls of
Montezuma' and the national an-
them.
But the prevailing mood of extk
L5erance among those of the former
hostages and their families who min-
gled with cadets and the press did
net eclipse the lingering specter of
trauma and depression. .
.Morefield was subdued as he
strolled past the horde of reporters,
his hands plunged into his raincoat
pockets.-
1"Giveme time, pdease,to come into
thie gradually," he said softly. "Ob,
vlously, I'm all wound up It's impor-
tant for me to share with all of you4:
What. happened, but give me a:
chance to cope and do what [think':
. 'I have to take it one step at a time,
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, 3$, of Falls Church,
Va., also had some disquieting
thoughts.
"I'm depressed sometimes," he
said. "I did expect to get out of captiv-
ity eornetime or other, sooner or
later, but I 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 vs.
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," said 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 trauma; they were
specifically. told not to ask any ques-
tions 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 bull?," Jose Gallegos said.
"The Marines were gong-ho when
they left and they're double gung-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 seeing a lot of people all
the time. Their feet are killing them,
poor guys."
Atter 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 mode of cereal boxes and rub
ber bands and kazoos and sang e
spiritual called 'Free at Last'
'Gallegos, James FL Lopez from
Globe, MIL, Johnny McKee' Jr., of
gj3 Springs, Texas, and several
othere Med on the floor with the
a children and he -
signed Amor!
oan a
Harsh Treatment in Iran
By Fred Hiatt
Warbler= Star Raft Writer
WEST POINT, N.Y.? They
threatened to put otit his eyes. They
kicked him in the ribs, stepped on
his hands and banged hls head
against the well,
'They treated us just like an ant.
mal in the zoo,' said former hostage
Charles Jones, the only black held
for the entire 444-day ordeal.
Speaking out for the first time
since his release, Jones, 40, told're.
porters yesterday of the phyaidand
mental abuse he received from his
captors, speaking with calm somb
times, with great anger at others.
The Iranians who took over the
embassy released all the black hos-
tages except Jones soon after the
seizure. Jones wouldn't speculate
yesterday on why they kept him.
Captured in the U.S. 'Embassy .
vault on Nov. 4, 1979, as he finished
destroying the embassy's classified
records, Jories said he suffered for
refusing to provide information and
to say publicly that he was well
treated.
He said he, wad 'interrogated" five
times and, near the beginning of
his imprisonment, physically
abused. ; ?
"As few rough treatment, no ?
aside from being kicked in the ribs,
having my hands stepped on, my
head bumped up against the wails
and a few little odds and ends like ,
that, guns put up against my bead
and being threatened toltaVe -My"
eyes Int out -- no, there was no
rough treatment," he said.
Jones, a communications special
1st 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, Matti, at his side, and he seldom
let go of her hand.
Not only did the Iranians phys-
ically abuse him early on, Jones re.
ported, but he was also forbidden
to talk for more than four months:
from the day he and the others were
seized 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 said.
'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
preparing a statement on the sub
ject.
"There's something that's coming
out about the people who did visit
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'
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that's
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that's not very nice; he said. His
wife hushed him at that point and
Jones would not elaborate , except
to say that many of them "were very,
very sympathetic to (the lrani,artel
cause?
Despite the difflculty of his Coq;
Ity, Jones said that he never doubted
that he would be reached,
? "My faith was always in'the had
States government, and .1 alwayi women th
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to ggt as out,' hie Aeld. 'Wa, went strength?
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pie mattress on the floor during WS
captivity, generally in dm mei,
roundinge He said, he was rncriOd
"IS or 20 times' and kept with up"
to six fellow Americans at ,a time.,
News from the outside World via
scarce, with "everything censored,
including letters," he said. Most of
his outside news `canie through
sports and photography Magazines.
he said, and only once ? when Time
magazine named the Ayatollah Kho-
meini "Man of the Tear" becaae of
his great influence on world affairs
? was he shown a copy of that news
magazine. -
"The students made a big thing
of that, they showed it around," he
said. 'How would poll hke It if you
can't talk and you're treated like
an animal, and then you have your
nose rubbed into something like
thM?"
But despite his ordeal, Jones was
unwilling to label the Iranians as
barbarians.
"I consider them a little uncivi-
lized, but barbarians? That's a little
strong," he said.
Star staff writer Marc Kaufman
contributed to this story.
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Carter Deficit Would Be Higher
By Hill Budget Office Projection
By Sheilah Kest .
Washmpon Sur Staff Writer
Former President Carter's pro-
posed fiscal 1982 budget would actu.
ally result in a S332 billion deficit,
instead of the $27.5 billion deficit his
administration projected, the Con-
gressional Budget Office said today.
The CB0 said Carter had underes-
timated, by about $S 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
previously planned,' the CEO said.
The agency said inflation would add
$2 billion to spending for weapons,
S2 billion to the bill for fuel to be
used by the military and Si billion
for other, defense
it compered C.artees propouts
with lintrealrendy in effect end
cicsairetatecl._ approved by `ftb?
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The report said die increases in
personal and excise taxes would re-
duce economic activity, cutting GNP
by 0.7 percent and raising unemploy-
ment 0.2 percent compared to C.BO's
"base-case assumptions."
Carter's proposed 10.cents-ae.
gallon gasoline tax would increase
the Consumer Price Index by 0.6 or
0.7 percznt in 1982 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 its estimates of rev-
enues proposed in the new budget
are close to the $711 .8 billion project-
ed by the Carter administration. _
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