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Govt. rehires 3 air controllers
Not a policy reversal, administration maintains
By MERRILL HARTSON
AP Labor Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan adminis
tration acknowledged yesterday it has rehired
three air traffic controllers to the nation's flight
system, but insisted that it was not reversing a
general policy barring reinstatements.
White House communications director David
Gergen said he assumed that any controllers
being rehired were found to have been victims
of harassment during the strike. "I am not
aware of any change in policy, certainly," he
said.
The Federal Aviation Administration ac
knowledged that it rehired Joan Plummer, an
air traffic controller from San Antonio, Texas,
who was among 11,500 striking controllers Rea
gan fired early last August for ignoring the
president's order to return to work within 48
hours. It also confirmed that two others have
been rehired.
FAA spokesman Fred Farrar also said the
agency is reviewing 1,000 such "hardship
cases" and that "some of" these fired control
lers might be reinstated.
At the White House, Gergen said, "Shortly
after the incident (strike) occurred, we said
that individuals who had been subjected to
harassment and were not able to meet that 48-
hour rule were allowed to come back in."
Leftists attempt to disrupt election
By SOLL SUSSMAN
Associated Press Writer
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Leftist
guerrillas launched hit-and-run attacks near El
Salvador's election headquarters and outside
the capital yesterday in a new drive to.disrupt
upcoming elections.
The guerrillas fought to within a few hundred
yards of the Central Elections Council building
in a six-hour attack that began about midnight
and ended with the rebels withdrawing under
government fire.
Guerrilla troops returned to the same area
last night and had a 15-minute shootout with
soldiers, officials said. There were no injuries
reported.
Shooting also erupted for a second day on a
mountain overlooking the principal air base
outside the capital, 'and the government con
firmed a rebel radio broadcast that guerrillas
had captured the town of Yoloaquin and three
17 convicted in Dozier kidnapping
By.CLARA HEMPHILL
Associated Press Writer
VERONA, Italy (AP) An Italian
court yesterday convicted 17 Red Bri
gades terrorists of kidnapping U.S.
Army Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier,
and sentenced them to prison terms
ranging from 26 months to 27 years.
Antonio Savasta, ringleader of the
gang • that abducted Dozier from his
home here Dec. 17, was sentenced to
16 1 years in prison 2 1 / 2 years more
than the prosecution had demanded.
He had turned in state's evidence and
police said his information led to the
arrest of 200 terrorist suspects.
The lightest sentence two years
and two months went to Ruggero
Volinia, who led police to the Padua
hidedout where Dozier was being
held.
Sweet victory
Guatemala's new Junta leader, Gen. Efrain Montt, celebrates his takeover of the
country following a news conference Wednesday. President•elect Gen. Angel
Guevara was ousted Tuesday after a coup.
Linda Gosden, spokeswoman for Transporta
tion Secretary Drew Lewis, declared, "There
has been absolutely no change in President
Reagan's or Secretary Lewis' position on rehir
ing the striking controllers."
In a telephone interview from San Francisco,
she said, "From day one, we have said we will
always look at those cases where the people
may have been harrassed or intimidated" into
joining the Aug. 3 strike by the Professional Air
Traffic Controllers Organization.
Farrar emphasized that Plummer would not
be returning to her flight tower job at the Fort
Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center. He said
she would work at the Houston Air Route
Traffic Center, one of several such facilities
across the country that direct airplanes in flight
corridors between airports, but not at the air
ports themselves.
The other two reinstated controllers had
worked in the Great Lakes region and in the
Atlanta area, Farrar said. He did not identify
the others.
Transportation Department officials, de
clining to be named publicly, said they expected
no more than "a couple hundred" reinstate
ments among the 1,000 controllers whose hard
ship cases are being reviewed.
These officials said they could talk only off
the record because of litigation pending before
the Merit Systems Protection Board.
surrounding villages in Morazan province, 100
miles east of San Salvador.
The Defense Ministry spokesman, Col. Euse
bio Coto, said eight soldiers were killed, that the
rebels remained in control of the Yoloaquin
area and that the army had dispatched re
inforcements for a counterattack.
The National Guard said the guerrillas also
marched through three villages near the town
of San Sebastian and had occupied a radio
station in Santa Ana, the country's second
biggest city, and broadcast warnings to the
people not to vote in the elections Sunday.
"In different parts of the country, the guerril
las are committing all kinds of sabotage and
harassment to intimidate people against vot
ing," Coto said. "There is no pattern to this
subversive campaign. It's like a lottery. No
body knows where they will hit next."
In Washington, State Department spokesman
Dean Fischer said the attacks were "a very
clear example of the kind of concerted effort the
All defendants will be eligible for
parole after serving half their terms.
After seven hours of deliberation, a
three-judge panel of the Verona tribu
nal returned to the hushed courtroom
and Chief Justice Francesco Pulcini
delivered the verdict without com
ment.
The defendants, held in steel cages
in the 13th-century courthouse, were
quiet and serious as the sentence was
read out. Savasta appeared nervous
and shook his head.
The only sound was the clicking .And
whirring of photographers' cameras.
Members of the kidnappers' fami
lies paced the wooden floor or leaned
against the rail separating the public
from the judges, lawyers and de
fendants.
The convicted men and women tried
to console each other with pats on the
back. They waved and blew kisses to
their friends and families in the court
before being led out, handcuffed, to
jail.
"This trial was just like ours a
political trial in which everything was
decided beforehand," defendant Ce
sare di Lenardo later told the Italian
news agency ANSA.
Di Lenardo apparently alluded to
the Red Brigades "people's court," a
summary process the gang has used
to decide the fate of kidnap victims
such as former Premier Aldo Moro,
who was "sentenced" to death before
being murdered in 1978.
Eight defendants charged in the
Dozier kidnapping remained at large
and were tried in absentia.
One of the defense attorneys said all
the defendants would appeal.
Shuttle's mechanical arm
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Astronaut C.
Gordon Fullerton nudged the shuttle closer to its
future as a space freighter yesterday, waving Colum
bia's robot arm and demonstrating it has the muscle
to lift a payload and eventually place it in an orbit of
its own.
"If there were any surprises, they were all pleas
ant," the pilot said. "I'm really impressed with that
piece of machinery."
Said Mission Control: "We were impressed too."
Columbia, sailing smoothly, neared the halfway
point of its seven-day voyage. Fullerton and com
mander Jack R. Lousma apparently had overcome
their motion sickness and got some needed rest.
But in mid-afternoon Fullerton requested a medi
cal conference on a private radio channel. Mission
Control said he complained of an upset stomach and a
flight surgeon suggested he take an.antacid pill.
The grab-and-lift was the first test of the Cana
darm's capacity to do the job it was built for:
depositing and retrieving satellites in space and
waving scientific instruments into place outside the
orbiter. The arm is assigned its first for-hire duties on
Flight 7, currently scheduled for April 1983, when it
will release a German scientific satellite.
Canadian developers of the arm were "ecstatic, or
at least as ecstatic as engineers can be," a spokes
man said.
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The arm acrobatics occupied most of the day. The
pilots shot electron beams at the instruments while
Mission Control measured the effects, and they used
the elbow camera to take one more look at this
Jeff Miller, a spokesman for Lewis, said
yesterday that "in a small number of cases,"
the government might choose to reinstate fired
controllers rather than risk losing appeals filed
with the merit review panel.
"We want to avoid adverse decisions," Miller
said. "We want to avoid back pay awards. The
legal burden of proof always rests with the
agency."
In a gesture to the AFL-CIO, Reagan agreed
last December to waive a three-year debarment
period so that the 11,500 air traffic controllers
could apply for other civil service jobs.
At the time, both Reagan and Lewis em
phasized that they opposed reinstating control
lers to airport tower jobs. They said that would
be unfair to controllers who remained on the job
during the strike.
Reagan, Lewis and FAA Administrator J.
Lynn Helms said at the time of last summer's
strike that the controllers had forsaken their
jobs by violating a no-strike oath.
Gary Eads, president of the decertified PAT
CO, said he viewed the rehiring of some control
lers with caution "because of the circumstances
involved."
"I don't personally know of anyone who went
(on strike) against their will," Eads added.
don't buy that argument. The government ob
viously will, because they need air traffic
controllers back in the system."
guerrillas" are making to disrupt the elections.
He said it shows the left "fears the electoral
process and is willing to resort to still more
violence in an attempt to destroy it."
The elections pit the centrist Christian Demo
crats of President Jose Napoleon Duarte
against five rightist parties that oppose land
reforms and other measures instituted by the
civilian-military junta Duarte heads.
They, blame Duarte and the Christian Demo
crats for the economic decline El Salvador has
suffered during a 2 1 / 2 -year war with the guerril
las in which some 32,000 lives have been lost.
Duarte says the rightists would return the
country to the conditions of oligarchy which
spawned the guerrilla movement.
The left is boycotting the elections, claiming
it is a "farte" during a civil war, and that even
if they wanted to compete they would face
murder at the hands of rightist death squads
linked to the security forces.
Soviets denounce NATO position
MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union
yesterday denounced NATO's deci
sion to continue plans for deploying
nuclear missiles in Western Europe
and repeated threats against the Unit
ed States.
The official news agency Tass, in a
commentary by military analyst Vla
dimir Bogachyov, said NATO defense
ministers showed a "negative atti
tude" in accusing Moscow of trying to
"consolidate the Russian monopoly on
missiles" in Europe.
"It is difficult to say whether igno
rance or deliberate falsehood prevail
in such a statement," Tass asserted.
Bogachyov said the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization "would be well
advised to remember" that Moscow
intends to put the West, particularly
U.S. territory, "in an analogous posi-
missing thermal tiles on the ship's nose
Columbia was flying yesterday with its nose to the
sun, its tail in the cold shadows. On Saturday, after 80
hours in that position, the astronauts are to fire three
sets of engines in the tail to determine if they have
been affected by long exposure to temperatures down
to 215 degrees below zero.
The 116-orbit mission would be half over by bed
time and National Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration workers were putting the last logistical
touches on the burgeoning spaceport being erected on
the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The arm test was a turning point for Flight 3,
because it had been delayed by a video failure on
Tuesday and there were some fears that the impor
tant demonstration might be impossible without it.
In exercising the Canadian-built arm yesterday,
Fullerton was handicapped in his exacting task by
the malfunction. The TV picture was to have guided
him to his target.
Using a pair of binoculars and video from fixed
cameras in the cargo bay, Fullerton maneuvered the
arm gingerly. over a package of scientific instru
ments in the cargo bay, lowered it onto a grappling
fixture, and locked on with the crane's wire-snare
hand.
Flexing the spindly arm's metallic muscles from
his post at the rear of Columbia's cockpit, Fullerton
lifted the 353-pound payload from its berth, moving it
around the cavernous bay, careful not to hit other
experiments stored there. (Eventually the arm
should be lifting up to 65,000 Earth pounds a test of
mass more than weight since gravity is near zero at
that altitude.)
Then he lofted it high out of the cargo bay. Tele-
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A woman prays at the Metropolitan Catherdral in San Salvador . during a Mass on the
anniversary of the death of Archbishop of El Salvador Oscar Arnulto Romero. Romero was killed
two years ago Wednesday.
tion" if the alliante adds to its arsenal
aimed at the Soviet Union.
Some observers have said the
"analogous position" warning may be
a Soviet threat to send nuclear mis
siles to Cuba or Nicaragua.
The NATO defense ministers, meet
ing in Colorado Springs, Colo., said
they will continue their schedule to
ward deploying 572 U.S. medium
range Pershing 2 and cruise missiles
in Western Europe late next year.
The original decision for deploy
ment, made in 1979, also called for
U.S.-Soviet talks on restraining de
ployment of nuclear weapons in Eu
rope. The talks, started in November
in Geneva, Switzerland, are now in
recess as both sides discuss the first
round offers.
The United States has proposed a
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vision showed the arm extended toward earth, a
cloud cover over the southeastern United States
providing a spectacular background to the diagnostic
package.
"The predictions were close to the real McCoy," he
told Mission Control. "Everything was absolutely
straight forward as far as command and response."
sickness," said astronaut physician Ellen Shulman.
"I think they are better today than yesterday."
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there would be no new NATO deploy
ments if the Soviets dismantle their
Western Europe-aimed arsenal.
• Soviet President Leonid 1. Brezhnev
last month said the Soviets were
freezing deployment of their triple
headed SS-20 medium-range missiles
in the European part of the Soviet
Union until NATO starts deployment
or an agreement is reached with the
United States. He made the "anal
ogous position" warning at the same
time.
The NATO defense ministers said
the Kremlin's offer was inadequate
since the Soviets would be able to
continue their missile buildup east of
the Ural Mountain range well with
in range of Western Europe.
They reaffirmed support for Presi
dent Reagan's' zero-option offer.
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state news briefs
, Philadelphia hoagie orbits earth with shuttle
PHILADELPHIA (AP) How better shuttle is the first attempt to make space
to spice up space travel than to sandwich travel more like air travel, with a more
a Philadelphia tradition the hoagie normal environment," said Widener Uni
imid the freeze-dried and dehydrated versity professor Richard St. John. "I
fare aboard Columbia? assume people would rather eat a hoagie
With the reuseable shuttle aloft on its than K-rations."
third mission, a suburban hoagie shop St. John took the hoagie challenge from
owner, a university biologist and two of Fred Catona, who owns Swarthmore's
his students are busy purifying hoagies, Country Grocer Hoagie Shop. Catona has
a project that could add a new taste shipped his hoagies to 49 states and 18
sensation to future space flights. foreign countries, but he'd like to,signifi-
They, want to come up with a hoagie cantly extend the range of his long-dis
that meets NASA's microbiological spec- tance catering business.
ifications but is still, in essence, a Phila- Astronauts have fiozen turkey or ham
delphia hoagie: a tangy concoction of on two slices of rye available during the
meats, cheeses, lettuce and peppers on a mission's first hours.
long, hard roll. "I know I could beat that," Catona
"Obviously the idea is that the space said.
„ Pittsburgh approves sex education courses
PITTSBURGH (AP) The,Pittsburgh submitted an outline to the instructor.
School Board has voted 6-3 to approve a Board member Jean Fink, who voted
controversial sex education curriculum against the proposal, said she didn't
for the sixth through 12th grades. disagree with biological aspects of the
The vote occurred at Wednesday's program.
legislative meeting without discussion "But I don't like outside agencies corn
!. and happened so quickly that opponents ing into the schools. Last year one came
of the measure didn't realize what hap-. in with contraceptive devices. That is one
pened until the meeting was half over. thing that many parents cannot go along
"Parents have rights! Parents have with," she said.
rights!" a small group of protesters Board President David Engel said sex
shouted in unison. education is necessary because it coun-
The protesters were escorted from the teracts misinformation children are ex
meeting by a security officer. posed to.
The new curriculum supercedes one He said he believes most parents sup
created in 1967. But the revised version port the curriculum. "We had a good
allows outside agencies, such as Planned indication of that at the last public hear-
Parenthood, to give lectures if the group ing when more people testified in favor
has received district permission and has than against it," he said.
nation news briefs
Democrats challenge Salvadoran aid plan
WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats tance to El Salvador.
yesterday challenged President Rea- "Let me assure you that is wrong;
gan's $350 million Caribbean Basin aid there is no such intention," U.S. Trade
package, questioning why war-torn El Representative William E. Brock told
Salvador is to get almost 36 percent of the Zorinsky.
funds though it has no Caribbean coast- Walter J. Stoessel, deputy secretary of
line. state, said violence and economic sab
"Many in the Congress and the country otage in El Salvador have brought its
at large see the Caribbean initiative, economy to the point of collapse.
I rightly or wrongly, as little more than a Despite misgivings about El Salva
cover for increased assistance to El dor's $l2B million share, most members
Salvador," said Sen. Edward Zorinsky, of the committee said they supported the
D-Neb. main thrust of the initiative. Some, how-
Two Reagan administration officials, ever, said they fear that trade conces-
however, denied in testimony before the sions designed to stimulate the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee economies of Central American coun
* that the emergency economic relief pro- tries could hurt industry and labor in the
gram is a "cover" for stepped-up assis- United States.
Democrats propose radical rule changes
WASHINGTON (AP) With an unusu- the changes adopted in the 1970 s to in
al degree of harmony, Democrats set crease grass-roots participation at con
*, aside their differences yesterday and ventions. Now the party is moving to give
cleared the way for adoption of new rules elected and party officials a stronger role
that will radically change the makeup of in choosing the 1984 presidential nomi
the 1984 Democratic National Conven- nee.
tion. Discussing the need for unity, Lynn
The full Democratic National Commit- Cutler, vice chairman of the party, told
tee will meet today to complete action on the women's caucus, "It is critical that
the proposed new rules. we form a firing squad, for once, in a
The new rules would roll back some of straight line, not in a circle."
world news briefs
4 Conservatives lose British parliament seat
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) Roy Jen- have offered," Jenkins, 61, declared to
kins, co-leader of the young Social Demo- wild cheering supporters as the result
cra tic Party, won a special was announced.
parliamentary election today in Glas- Jenkins desperately needed a victory
gow's Hillhead district, taking a seat at Hillhead to become, as widely ex
'held by the ruling Conservatives for 63 pected, alliance leader in the fall and
years. take the new 12-month-old centrist
His victory in yesterday's vote could movement into the next general election
determine the future of a new alliance due in two years' time. Hillhead was his
that is pledged to change the face of last foreseeable chance of returning to
British politics, the Commons before fall.
The former chancellor of the exche- SDP co-leader Shirley Williams, 51,
'quer polled 10,106 votes, a victory margin cast aside walking sticks she has used
of 2,038 over his Conservative opponent, since a Christmas tobagganing accident
reversing a 2,002-vote Tory edge in the and declared: "I shall walk home on air.
last election. We've got back into Parliament the man
"The outcome is a triumph for the new who will lead the alliance and will be
deal of sense, moderation and hope we prime minister in waiting."
Latin Americans ready for talks with U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Nicara
guan junta leader Daniel Ortega told the
Kirkpatrick told reporters later she did
Security Council yesterday his Sandinis-
not want to comment on Ortega's peace
to government, Cuba and leftist Salvado
proposals until she had time to study
ran rebels were ready for immediate
them. In her address to the council, she
• talks with the United States to settle
called Ortega's charges of an impending
differences.
U.S.-backed invasion of Central America
Ortega, who has repeatedly accused
"as extravagant as they are baseless."
Washington of plotting a Central Ameri
can invasion, addressed a special council Ortega demanded that the Reagan
session convened at his urgent request. administration "voice its commitment
U.S. Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpa- not to attack Nicaragua" and stop what
trick, president of the council for March, he said was the U.S. policy of aiding
aid Washington was skeptical about armed Nicaraguan exiles in Honduras
Nicaragua's avowed interest in peace and the United States. Nicaragua has
while it serves as "an active conduit" for accused the CIA of supporting and fi
the flow of war material to El Salvador nancing armed bands of exiles operating
and its other neighbors. Nicaragua has inside neighboring Honduras.
U.S. consulate in Bombay attacked by 50
BOMBAY, India (AP) Fifty people day.
attacked the U.S. consulate with rocks Police said they arrested 30 of the
and gasoline bombs yesterday. Authori- attackers and identified their leader as
ties said one attacker was shot dead by Bandu Shingre, head of an offshoot of the
police. militant group of the Shiv Sena, a Born-
Police and consulate officials said at bay organization named after the Hindu
least eight cars belonging to the consul- god Shiva.
ate staff were burned. No injuries were "I did it to become famous," police
reported among the American staff and quoted Shingre as saying.
officials said the consulate would be open
today. "They would have liked to gain access
Vice Consul John R. Malott requested a to the building and burn it down," Malott
oaeeting w ith Chief State Minister Baba- said. "But it was difficult to make out
saheb Bhosale to protest what he called a what their beef was against the United
lack of police protection for the consulate States .. . I would conclude they were
and slow response to the attack yester- basically looking for publicity."
denied the American allegation
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