Guerrillas
drop demand
for ransom
SANTO DOMINGO, (UPI) Guerrilla leader Radhames
Mendez Vargas, shouting from a window "it's time to end this
business." yesterday dropped his demand for a $1 million
ransom for -seven hostages and offered to trim the list of
political prisoners he wanted exchanged.
"As re\ olutionaries we respect the human being, and there
is no threat gepresent against the physical integrity of the
hostages." he said.
The ransom concessions were the first ones by the pro
castro Jan. 12 National Liberation Movement since it oc
cupied the consulate last Friday and asked for release of
ihree-dozen political prisoners andlt million.
The group set four different deadlines for executing the
hostages including American diplomat Barbara Hutchison
at two-hour intervals but let each pass.
The governmenti.maintained silence on the concessions
['resident Joaquin Balaguer has offered the guerrillas,
helleved to number only six, nothing more than-safe conducts
or leaving Santo Domingo in return for releasing the captives
unharnted.
Among the hostages are Hutchison, U.S. embassy public
public affairs officer; Venezuelan consul Jesus Gregorio and
ice consul Waldemar Alvarado; Spanish priest Santiago
Fuentes, and three Dominican employes of the consulate.
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Mendez Vargas suddenly shouted his retraction of the
ransom demand in, a hoarse monologue shortlyebefore noon
using a. makeshift megaphone apparently fashioned from milk
cartons.
"The government is drawing this affair out to try to wears
down," he yelled. "Well, it just won't work! Let there be 49
end soon!" ,
Mendez Vargas originally demanded freedom for 37 con
victed extremists, but a submitted list had only 33 names.
Other guerrillas in the consulate have spoken of 35 And 38
comrades.
"Attention, journalist!" he cried to newsmen a half-block
away at the police cordon. "Here goes an important com
munique: _
"In response to public opinion, newspaper editorials
and requests from members of families of the hostages
asking mediation to resolve this conflict, and whose re
quests have fallen on deaf ears of the government, the
Jan. 12 Liberation Movement has decided to desist in some
demands."
lie said the guerrillas were willing to talk with the govern
mrent about "a possible reduction of the list" of prisoners to be
released as well as dropping the 'dem& for payment of,Sl
million.
Mendez Vargas said Venezuelan vice counsel Waldemar
Alvarado was very ill and "worsening by the minute." He did
not say what ailed the diplomat.
Vargas said the situation in the consulate was "in
sufferable" and that there had to be an attempt to reach a
solution soon "or what happens will not be our responsibility
but that of the government."
U. 5..; ambassador Robert. Hurwitch and his Spanish and
Venezuelan counterparts asked the• government earlier to
allow a doctor to enter the captured building. The doctor was
to treat Alvarado and a guerilla suffering from a bullet
wound, apparently accidental:in the leg.
Archbishop Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito, presuma ly at
the request of the government withdrew as the food-supplying
mediator Tuesday, leaving the ,guerrillas and hostages
without food and water for 36 hours.
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Greeks raise $2,470
By PAMELA REASNER
Collegian Staff Writer
Two fraternity and sorority
sponsored campaigns raised
almost $2,500 for charity last
weekend.
The "rock for life" project
sponsored by Beta Theta Pi
fraternity and Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority raised $2,220
for the National Cystic
Fibrosis Research Foun
dation.
Fraternity and sorority
members collected money in
cans while two people rocked
in a giant rocking chair
across froM the Corner Room
Restaurant. The rocking
lasted 50 hours.
Chairman Ken Rawley said
the project ran "ex
traordinarily smoothly" and
the fraternity was con
sidering doing the same thing
or a similar project next year.
Rawley said fraternity
members were pleased with
the generosity of businesses,
students and townspeople.
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"We didn't plan on much
money from businesses, but
in two days we collected al
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Sigma Chi fraternity's
Derby Days netted $250 for the
Wallace Village for Children,
a rehabilitation center in
Colorado for pre-teenage
children with minimal brain
dysfunction.
Vella said Sigma Chi plans
to hold Derby Days next year
to benalf it the Wallace Village. ;
He said Derby Days was not'
as successful this year as had
been hoped because the car
wash and some Sunday af
ternoon games were rained
out and because of some
organizational problems.
Vella said the Derby
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