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110TH YEAR
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No. 115
1987, The Washington Post Company
MONDAY,
Moscow WALKABOUT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher greets woman during a walking tour in Moscow yesterday. Story, Page A13.
Civil Rights Documents Backdated
Action Enabled U.S. Aides to Falsely Certify Compliance With Order
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
High-ranking Education Depart-
ment officials have acknowledged
repeated backdating of key docu-
ments to make it appear that they
complied with a court order for
quick reviews of civil rights com-
plaints, according to department
reports.
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the government was obeying strict
court-ordered deadlines for the civil
rights reviews, department officials
acknowledged in interviews last
week. The department has been
fighting the court order for more
than a year.
The backdating, which took place
in at least six of the department's
10 regional offices, was most prev-
alent in the Boston office, where
seven officials, including the former
dating allegedly ranged from on
day to two weeks.
The admissions are detailed in
report by the department's inspec
tor general, a copy of which wa
obtained by The Washington Post
By comparing papers with log book
and other records, investigator
found dates altered in 23 of 3
cases in Boston.
:IA RDP9600789R0040006Bu09343nent's Office of Civ
edged to department investigators
that they participated. The back-
Rights (OCR) has reported evi
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25
Hussein
Weighing
U.S. Visit
Progress Toward
Mideast Peace Talks
Seen as Critical Issue
By Samira Kawar
Special to The Washington Post
AMMAN, Jordan, March 29-
Jordan is sending two top officials to
Washington next week to discuss
whether a visit by King Hussein
would succeed in making progress
toward an international peace con-
ference on the Middle East, a senior
Jordanian official said today.
Jordanian Prime Minister Zeid
Rifai and Foreign Minister Taher
Masri will go to Washington April 5,
the official said.
ler.
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Such a visit by Hussein would
represent a sharp change in the
Arab leader's attitude. Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and Hus-
sein, two of the United States' clos-
est Arab allies, were invited last
December and January, respective-
ly, to visit Washington. But both
turned down the invitations at the
time, in large part because of anger
over the Reagan administration's
sale of arms to Iran.
Jordan and Egypt, both con-
cerned about Islamic extremism,
are two of Iraq's most active sup-
porters in its war with Iran.
In Washington, a State Depart-
ment official said the Jordanian
prime minister is scheduled to meet
KING HUSSEIN
... rejected latest mvitation
"The king wants to see if this is
an appropriate time to come,
whether he should come this
spring," the official said. The king is
anxious to "get things moving" in
the peace process again, he said.
Hussein, still angered by an
American retreat from an arms sale
to Jordan in 1985, had worked
closely with U.S. officials in trying
to stem the flow of arms to Iran and
thus was among the most outraged
Arab leaders after disclosure of the
secret sales to Iran.
Some of the weapons sent to Iran
were the same as those denied to
Jordan, one of Washington's most
stable Arab friends in the region.
In an interview in the Arab press
in the aftermath of the Iran arms
sales disclosure last November,
Hussein said "U.S. credibility is
zero as far as I am concerned." In
an interview last year with Egyp-
tian journalists, he called the arms
deal "an insult to all Arabs."
The king also sent a letter to
President Reagan expressing bit-
ApprovedicorRelease.2001/03/07s:a@1A RDR96-00789R0020006800033country's in-
Civil
evi-
State George P. Shultz and Secre-
tary of Defense Caspar . W. Wein-
arms sales.
"King Hussein is not interested in
Indicted
Israeli
Resigns
Col. Sella, Pollard's
Alleged Contact,
Cites U.S. Relations
By Glenn Frankel
Washington Post Foreign Service
JERUSALEM, March 29-Is-
raeli Air Force Col. Aviem Sella,
who is under U.S. indictment for his
alleged role in the Jonathan Jay Pol-
lard spy affair, today resigned his
post as commander of one of Is-
'rael's largest air bases, citing his
concern about relations with the
United States and American Jews.
Sella's appointment to the new
post late last month just days before
his indictment helped touch off a
new storm of controversy over the
spying scandal. In his one-page let-
ter of resignation to the Air Force
commander, Gen. Amos Lapidot,
Sella said: "The deterioration in Is-
raeli-U.S. relations and my concern
for the future of ties between the
two countries and for relations with
American Jewry have induced me to
ask you to relieve me from my du-
ties as commander of the Tel Nof
base.
"I had made it clear to you a long
"time ago that whatever role I am
assigned must not constitute a bur-
den or obstacle to the Air Force or
the IDF [Israel Defense Force] . . .
and I noted that should my appoint-
ment constitute an obstacle of any
terest above my own and resign."
Israeli leaders reacted with relief
.