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WASHINGTON, D.C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1981
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D.C. Welcome for Hostages
APITAL
Ronald Reagan's speech
g home the freed Americans
in a warning to the world that
abuse of American diplomats
ure is not likely to go
ed. A-1
Reagan's freeze on federal
ant angers and frustrates
's and employees who have
i by the government since the
freeze date of Nov. 5. A-1
lent of a local
wned bus service says the
received and followed from
Business Administration has
so broke he can't even pay
alary. A-1
:p. Richard Kelly of Florida is
ty of bribery and conspiracy
amming from the FBI's
vestigation of political
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me Court unanimously
· televising of some criminal
z that the presence of
levices and cameras does not
jeopardize the right to a fair
OREIGN
leader Lech Walesa meets
as in southwestern Poland
aged a sit-in since Jan. 2, in
n discourage new strikes in
heir effort to obtain
for their farmers' union.
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rris tells the jury that the
erman Tarnower prescribed
ributed to her confused
· the day she shot and killed
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tronic media to cover state
he door for wider use of
neras in Maryland and
redings. B. 1
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ne to Washington with an
torcade along
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roception. B-1
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r a D.C. Superior Court
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sted him in the face with
nding him in his left eye at
arch 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 posst,
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 it
is against such recognition.
The Solidarity meeting would
elect delegates for talks with the gov.
ernment on demands for a five day.
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 recent
wave of strikes. The statement say
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 and 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 Staff Writer
Charles Gossett, 29, of San Francis-
co, spent about $800 to buy new
clothes and fix up his car so he could
drive here for the federal job, that
Wednesday, in Chicago, he got word
that he could bang up the clothes
and turn his 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 Injurles
as many of those evacuated left their
homes on foot with firemen remov-
brought to the scene for the evac-
uation.
See WATER MAIN, A-4
Hostages Try to Catch Up
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
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.
"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
suicide during the captivity contin-
ued to leak out from the former hos-
tages, it was the good cheer that was
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William Gallegos, the 23-year-old
Marine corporal 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" Sickmann of
Krakow, Mo., talked with their fam-
flies 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."
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
And, for all the hostages turned
heroes, it was a belated
See 52 AMERICANS, A-12
Reagan Sets
Warning on
Kidnappings
Low-Key Reception
And a Firm Stance
By Lisa Myers
Washington Suur Steff 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
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 was not told,
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-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.
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In Tehran, meanwhile, Iranian
Prime Minister Mohammad Ali 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
failed.
in Expected to Warn
st Hostage Taking
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of turning the guilt
ministration officials
as told that the 52
t hero status and be-
ly were doing their
while public ac-
of the hostages' ser-
on is appropriate, a
aganza" should be
; advised .:
y a festive occasion,"
added that although
als will be attending
come for the return-
te House South Lawn
there would be no
as or a formal parade
eets of Washington.
! residents were ex-
the route 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
the hostages as well
tall aspects of today's
re talfored with the
being in mind. Ken
ne president's senior
sat in on the briefing
ogicel considerations
into account in draft.
rief remarks he plans
the South Lawn,
precise wording was
:d out, White House
agan has decided that
ve-minute speech dur-
ceremonies on the
ill include a warning
n that choses to emu-
vities risks American
eeply that this must
again," said a White
ent Zablocki, D-Wis.,
Broomfield, R-Mich. --
members of Congress
Reagan yesterday -
dent was giving the
overall problem of terrorism highest
priority and would send proposals
to Congress soon for combating ft.
Beginning at 11:55 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, Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger, Haig, congressional
leaders and others, then bused along
the motorcade route to the White
House.
President and Mrs. Reagan will
be introduced privately to each of
the hostages before a formal 3 p.m.
ceremony on the South Lawn.
The 53 hostages - their number
Includes Richard Queen, who was
released last July because of illness
- will be given miniature American
nag gift sets as mementoes of the
occasion, Brady sald.
After the 15-minute tribute, a re-
ception will be held for the hostages,
their families, the rescue force that
unsuccessfully tried to free them,
families of the eight soldiers who
died in the Iranian desert during
last April's aborted mission, and 19
former "hostages released pre-
viously.
: Also invited is Kenneth Taylor,
the former Canadian ambassador to
fran who helped three Americans
escape, and officials from Algeria,
West Germany, 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 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."
ges Told They Were Being
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all the damage that
done to us."
wife, Louisa, was the
for FLAG - the Fam-
tion Group - and she
es of several hostages
with European leaders
npts to gain freedom
es. The Kennedys have
erview with ABC-TV.
he thought that while
ty to escape he felt it
I escape," he told Wal-
articularly, was very
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r hostage Malcolm Kalp.
ers escaped - tried to
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! Fiching him In the
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 sut-
cide," such as belts, razor blades and
Decktles.
Kennedy, a native of New York
City where his parents now live,
sald in the AP Interview that he
thinks America should honor its
commitment to Iran.
"It's important that we maintain
our moral leaderhip," he said. "We're
a great nation because we're all mor-
ally strong, And in the third world,
that's so important."
Kennedy said 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 life.
"I don't feel bitterness," he said.
"I've spent 20 happy years in the
State Department. If I leave the de-
partment, it will be because I want
a different challenge .... I paid my
debt to the United States. I shouldn't
have to continue ff i don't want to."
He added that he doesn't feel the
State Department was prepared for
the embassy takeover and that he
bopes the government learns from
the experience."
the Goatsfer conducted their
telver during their captivity and
52 Americans
Try Making Up
For Lost Time
Continued From A.1
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 "Now Thank We
All Our God," and recited biblical
psalms redolent with the joy of lib-
eration. "In my anguish, I cried .to
the Lord and he answered by setting
me free," they read from Psalm 118.
"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 medita.
tions" in captivity in Iran. In the ev-
ening they dined on filet mignon in
the mess hall with hundreds of ca-
dets in dress grays, as the glee club
serenaded them with the "Halls of
Montezuma" and the national an.
them.
But the prevailing mood of exu-
berance among those of the former
hostages and their familles who min-
gled with cadets and the press did
not 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.
"."Give me time, please, to come into
this gradually," he said softly. "Ob-,
vjously, I'm all wound up. It's Impor-
tant for me to share with all of you.
what happened, but give me a
chance to cope and do what I think
you want me to do.
'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, 35, of Falls Church;
Va., also had some disquieting
thoughts.
"I'm depressed sometimes," he
said. "I did expect to get out of captiv.
ity sometime 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 va-
cation," sald 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 sald.
"The Marines were gung-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."
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 sub-
ber bands and kazoos and sang a
spiritual called "Free at Last."
Gallegos, James M. Lopez from
Globe, Ariz, Johnny McKeel Jr., of
Balch Springs, Texas, and several
others rolled on the floor with the
awestruck children and hugged
them tightly and sign ed autographs
touch and be touched.
Loan Black Hostage +
Harsh Treatment in Iran
By Fred Hiatt
Washington Star Staff Writer
WEST POINT, N.Y. - They
threatened to put out his eyes. They
kicked him In the ribs, stepped on
his hands and banged his head
against the wall.
"They treated us just like an ani-
mal in the zoo," sald 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 rer
porters yesterday of the physicstend
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
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, Jones said he suffered for
refusing to provide information and
to say publicly that be was well
treated.
He said he was "interrogated" five
times and, near the beginning of
his imprisonment, physically
abused.
"As for rough treatment, no'
aside from being kicked in the ribs,
having my hands stepped on, my
head bumped up against the walls
and a few little odds and ends like
that, guns put up against my head
and being threatened to have my
eyes put out - no, there was no
rough treatment," he said.
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, 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 sald, he could speak occa-
slonally - 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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EX-HOSTAGE CHARLES JONES
Was kicked, stepped on
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 Iranians)
cause.
Despite the difficulty of his coptly:
Ity, Jones sald that he never doubted
that he would be rescued.
"My faith was always in the United
States government, and I always
thought they would do something
to get us out" he said, "We were
looking for (the Marines) every
day.
Jones said that he slept on a sim ..
ple mattress on the floor during his
captivity, generally in clean sur -;
roundings. He said he was moved
"15 or 20 times and kept with up.
to six fellow Americans at a time.
News from the outside world was
scarce, with "everything 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" because 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 you like it if you
can't talk and you're treated like
an animal, and then you have your
nose rubbed into something like
that?'
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.
Carter Deficit Would Be Higher
By Hill Budget Office Projection
By Sheilah Kast
Washington Star Staff 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
previously planned," the CBO said.
The agency said inflation would edd
$2 billion to spending for weapons,
$2 billion to the bill for fuel to be
used by the military and $1 billion
for other defense supplies.
It compared Carter's proposals
with laws tirsody in effect and poll-
ctos already tacifly approved by Con-
*res when It debated the budget last
year, These Include a sizable but
Lint cut. which
The report said the 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 CBQ's
"base-case assumptions." .
Carter's proposed 10-cents-a-
gallon gasoline tax would increase
the Consumer Price Index by 0.6 or
0.7 percent 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.
That includes $18.3 billion in pro-
posed tax reductions -- mostly tax
Incentives for business and an i per-
cent income tax credit to dirmi the
schedule I facreese in Social Sacurt-
the bulk of the revenue would come .
frosi the gat tax and withholding on
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