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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (UPI)
Eight American amateur ar
cheologists headed for the
Ecuadorean capital yesterday to
meet with U.S. Embassy officials and
discuss the 73-day ordeal following
their arrest in a mixup over digging
up Indian artifacts.
"We feel just. great, we're all In
good health," said Clyde Nickelsen,
57, of Sanford, Fla., at a Guayaquil
hotel where the group passed the
night after being released from
prison Saturday in Portoviejo, 120
miles to the north.
Asked if members of the group had
been mistreated after their arrest by
army soldiers in the village of
Pedernales in the tropical coastal
area Oct. 25, Nickelsen said, "Yes,
but I don't want to talk about that
until we get back to the States."
The five men and three
women plus three Ecuadorean
guides were initially taken to Quito
and interrogated by military in
vestigators about alleged implication
in an assassination plot against an
Ecuadorean presidential candidate.
No attempt was actually made on the
life of the candidate, Jaime Roldos,
and the military government cleared
the Americans of any involvement.
They were sent back to Manabi
Province, where they had been
searching for Indian artifacts when
arrested. The province has numerous
burial mounds of the Montena culture
that died out about 500 A.D., leaving
valuable ceramic work.
1 4merican says poison gas killed tribesmen
BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) Some
1,200 Laotian hill tribesmen were killed
in a air attack by government planes
believed to have been carried out with
poison 'gas, an American researcher
reported yesterday.
Communist forces blockaided a string
of villages and fired artillery and mortar
rounds to keep their intended victims
penned inside a limited area during the
attack, survivors told the researcher.
Thomas Stearns, who describes
himself as a free-lance researcher and
vagazine writer, said survivors of at
lacks during the past three years have
been interviewed in refugee camps in
northern Thailand.
The Atlanta man said no proof yet
exists that the substance used in a string
of attacks against Meo tribesmen is
4 , 7lctuatly poison gas. ,
But he, refugee camp doctors and
reporters have been unable to find
another explanation for the stories from
refugees from different Villages and
refugee camps.
Survivors of attacks have told similar
Aries of "gas" fired by small war
planes, and persons coming in contact
with the substance developing red eyes,
diarrhea and vomiting. In many cases,
they have died.
At least 2,000 Meo are so far reported
to have been killed in the attacks, which
Oy inference would have to be by Pathet
ists released from jail
Amateur archeologists from the U.S. wait inside the doors part of an eight member group that was htld for 68 days
of the Manabi Province Penitentiary in Portoiejo, for illegal digging.
Ecuador, Saturday before their release. Those shown are
Manabi Province Police Chief Juan theological sites.
Ramon Cevallos was instructed by Cevallos took testimony from all
th'e government to prepare a possible eight Americans, found them in
trial on the minor charge of nocent of any crime, and they were
unauthorized digging at ar- released from the Manabi Province
Lao or Vietnamese forces trying to
stamp out a hill tribe rebellion in central
Laos north of the capital of Vientiane.
The worst incident so far reported was
at a three-hamlet village near Phu
Kongtao, a mountain near the Plain of
Jars, where most of the Meo live.
One survivor, Tsia Xiong, told in
terviewers chiefs of the villages even
tually compiled a list of the dead with
1,200 names. The attack took place
March 1, 1977.
He said 20 flights of L-19 light planes
used by both Vietnamese and Laotian air
forces fired rockets containing red,
green and white "gas" during the at
tacks.
The villages then were blockaded
inside a Communist troop cordon for 15
days, following which Pathet Lao forces
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attacked and surviving villagers fled.
Because of the hardships of the trek
from the Laotian mountains to Thailand,
no one inflicted with the suspected gas
has yet ,been examined by competent
medical authorities.
Diplomats have been slow to in
vestigate refugees' charges that poison
gas has been used against the Meo, who
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after Cevallos conferred with a
special delegation from the Defense
Ministry in Quito that called on him in
Portoviejo.
once formed the core of the so-called
"secret army" of the CIA in Laos.
But other investigators familiar with
herbicides, pesticides, riot control
agents and war weapons such as white
phosphorus say they believe the
suspected gas produces symp
toms including death which are not
similar to any of these.
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Middle East leaders
say U.S. key to talks
By United Press International
Egypt sent a letter to Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance giving its position on
the stalled peace treaty talks with
Israel, and said yesterday it is up to the
United States to arrange the next move.
Israel also said it is ready to revive
negotiations.
"The United States will play an im
portant role by offering a new
framework for these negotiations,"
Egypt's acting foreign minister, Butros
Ghali, said in Cairo.
"There are problems, but one thing
has happened both countries want to
negotiate," Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said in Tel Aviv.
"Now . it is up to the United States
government to take the initiative by
bringing the parties together," Begin
told reporters after a meeting with
visiting members of the House Armed
Services Committee.
Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper
reported President Anwar Sadat told the
Iranian rioting ends
string of calm days
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Hundreds of
protesters set fires and smashed win
dows in Tehran yesterday, renewing
demands for Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi's abdication and ending four
days of relative calm in the capital.
Anti-shah rioting also was reported in
at least six other cities and four persons
reportedly were killed.
In the capital, heavily armed military
police dispersed protesters with tear gas
and gunfire, and one person was killed,
officials said. The official Pars news
agency said a policeman was killed in
the western city of Hamadan and that
two protesters died during a demon
stration in Baneh, in western Iran.
The official Iranian state radio said
thousands paraded in Qom and bank
windows were smashed in Tabriz. Op
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same delegation earlier in the weekend:
"Although there are obstacles now,
peace will become a reality."
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil gave
U.S. Ambassador Hermann F. Eilts the
detailed letter for Vance late Saturday,
the Middle East News Agency said.
Sadat reportedly expects a reply from
the United States early this week. •
Khalil and Eilts met again yesterday
morning to discuss certain clarifications
requested by the United States, officials
said.
One part of the letter reportedly af
firmed Egypt's readiness to continue
efforts toward a peace treaty with
Israel, and the other half explained the
Egyptian position on several issues
which have snagged the talks since mid-
November,
On the future of the Jordan West Bank
and Gaza Strip, Egypt suggested an
exchange of identical letters setting a
target date for the establishment of
Palestinian autonomy in the two regions,
the sources said.
.position sources reported demon
strations in Abadan and Khorramshahr.
Thousands thronged to a Tehran
hospital where movies and photograptt
of previous demonstrations were shown.
The four days of comparative calm
that prevailed while Prime Minister
Shahpour Bakhtiar formed a new
government halted after Paris-based
Ayatullah Khomaini, the shah's chief
religious opponent, denounced the new
government as "illegal" and called for it .
to be overthrown.
Many shops in Tehran were shuttered
and black flags of mourning hung out
side. Opposition groups declared
yesterday a day of national mourning in
memory of victims of past riots in which
an estimated 1,500 persons have died. A
similar observance was set for today.