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Leftists free executive
after 38 days captivity
By TOM WELLS
Associated Press Writer
BOGOTA, Colombia Leftist
guerrillas freed Texaco executive
Kenneth Bishop from 38 days' cap
tivity yesterday, and a relative said
his family paid a ransom of several
hundred thousand dollars. Bishop
and his wife left immediately for
the United States.
The 57-year-old production man
ager for Texas Petroleum, the Co
lombian subsidiary of Texaco, was
kidnapped ,March 7 by three men
and a woman, who ambushed his
car and killed his two bodyguards.
He was released just after dawn.
A wealthy member of Bishop's
family paid the ransom, a relative
2nd rebel group enters Nicaragua
'By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER
Associated Press Writer
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Eden Pastora, the
• ' Nicaraguan revolutionary hero who defected
after helping put the Sandinistas in power,
• was reported yesterday to be back in his
• homeland leading a rebel force against the
leftist government.
- A spokesman for the Democratic Revolu
tionary Alliance, of which Pastora is a leader,
said Pastora was in or near Chontales in
• southern Nicaragua to take command of a
new rebel group organized in recent months.
The spokesman, Anibal Arana, said in an
• interview that Pastora better known as
Commander Zero took a small group of
followers with him from Costa Rica. Arana
refused to give details for security reasons,
' but said Pastora left sometime after March
• 28, ostensibly bound for Mexico City.
Tax resisters
give money
to hospice
By LEE LINDER
Associated Press Writer
PHILADELPHIA Brother
Stanley stood at the door of St.
John's Hospice, where the hungry
and the homeless can get a free
meal and a bed, and thanked a
group of tax resisters yesterday
for a check for $242.69.
Bill Strong, a member of the
• Friends Peace Committee who led
• about 40 men and women under a
•
• banner that urged, "Transfer Pen
tagon Tax $$ to Human Needs,"
said he expected to return later
with another $3OO.
• " "This money represerfts federal
- taxes we are refusing to pay as a
protest against military spend
ing," Strong said following a City
. Hall courtyard rally by the War
Tax Concerns Committee of the
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends,
the Quakers.
• "More and more people are re-
' fusing to pay a portion of their
taxes as a protest of the huge
. • American defense budget," said
Strong as followers waved signs
that read "Your Tax Dollars Arm
' the World" and "61 Cents of Your
Tax Dollar Pays for War."
Many wore buttons carrying the
slogan, "Taxes for Peace Not
War."
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By SCOTT KRAFT - spread flooding to Louisiana, the system AT&T and the government are studying Warning System which alerts the public to computer building in downtown New Or-
Associated Press Writerfailed. ways to switch long distance calls through , nuclear attack or accidental missile launch. leans. Officials cut Commercial power to the
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"I've never been through a set of circum- smaller phone offices in cases of emergen- The Federal Emergency Management building before dawn. •
NEW ORLEANS A flooded basement stances like that and I thought I'd seen cy, which is not now possible, Ammon said. Agency office in Baton Rouge, La., used An emergency diesel-powered generator,
and the failure of as 2 fuse crippled the long everything," said Art Ammon, manager of Last Thursday, an intricate system of single-band radio backup to keep in touch test-run only two days before, automatically
distance telecommunications system of this the Network Operations Center at AT&T backups failed. The worst-case scenario with New Orleans. started but shut itself off 43 ininiltes later
• city for 10 hours last week and severed its headquarters in Bedminster, N.J. "We've unfolded. • . "That old radio came before television, when the oil overheated.
link with a nuclear attack warning system: never had anything quite this devastating." South Central Bell Telephone's $l2 million satellite and microwave but it works An electrical fuse the size of a cigar had
The breakdown demonstrated the vulner- Technology and centralization have made long-distance switching computer, called a when everything else is out," said Al Ben- blown and fans used to cool the engine oil
ability of centralized telephone systems in telephone systems more efficient bid also 4ESS, had to be shut down, knocking out 30,- nett, FEMA state communications and never started, said T.E. Lindsey, operations
90 U.S. cities where similar computer more vulnerable to floods, $2 fuses and 000 telephone circuits into and out of south- warning officer. He called the warning manager for AT&T Long Lines in New
switching machines sit in guarded, win- terrorism or nuclear attack, according to eastern Louisiana. Some of the circuits system's four-hour outage "extremely rare. Orleans. The engine could not be restarted
dowless buildings, according to AT&T offi- Ammon. carried high-level government traffic, Am- I can't think of when a circuit has been down until the oil cooled.
cials. "There is concern on the part of govern- mon said. that long." The second backup system, huge batteries
The core •of the long-distance telephone ment and it's probably a legitimate one The FAA airport control tower lost its The airport control tower also used a kept on an upper floor, became the power
system a computer carrying thousands of about the reliability of the communications computer link to Houston and outlying tow- single-band radio to contact Houston for source for the building and its vital switch
' circuits, including priority government switch network," Ammon said. ers. Shipping operations were paralyzed. clearance to let planes take off from New ing equipment.
- lines has survived floods, hurricanes, "It's a fact that if you lose one of those The mayor couldn't telephone the governor. Orleans. Conference calls were set up among engi
tornados and blackouts across the country. control units, as we did last week, that some And for 3 hours and 56 minutes, southeast It all began with heavy rains flooding the neers on the scene, in Illinois, New Jersey
But when 11 inches of rain brought wide- critical lines are going to be lost." Louisiana was cut off from the National basement of South Central Bell's 16-story and Alabama.
told The Associated Press. The
relative declined to say exactly how
much the ransom was, but said it
was several hundred thousand dol
lars. The relative asked to remain
anonymous for fear other family
members might be abducted.
Texaco had refused to negotiate
with the kidnappers.
The Bishops were whisked to the
Bogota international airport after
his release and put aboard a Texa
co executive jet bound for Miami, a
Texaco source in Bogota said. Bish
op has relatives in Denver and
Bishop, Calif.
The company source asked not to
be identified because of an order
that employees were not to talk to
the news media about the kidnap
"He never arrived in Mexico. The Mexican
destination was given for security reasons but
Pastora went to Nicaragua and he is in the
mountains there," Arana said. "We have been
working all these months to build up a follow
ing among the people, including members of
the popular militias and the Sandinista
army."
If true, this would open a second front in
southern Nicaragua by rebels trying to
overthrow the country's leftist, 'three-man
junta. Pastora is reputed to be a tough guerril
la fighter. •
The alliance, apparently based in Costa
Rica, is made up mostly of disenchanted
Sandinistas or people who had, supported the
Sandinistas in the bloody 1978-79 revolution
that toppled rightist President Anastasio So
moza.
Another group called the Nicaraguan Demo
cratic Front, based in Honduras; is mostly
Saying they have refused to pay their taxes as a protest against U.S. military spending, demonstrators in Philadelphia
yesterday march to a downtown soupd kitchen to donate money.
' The source also said that Texaco,
which has bulletproof cars for three
of its top employees in Colombia, is
ordering three more bulletproof
cars for Colombian executives.
The People's Revolutionary Or
ganization, a group claiming to be
anti-imperialist, said it had ab
ducted Bishop. The guerrilla group
sent a communique and a photo of
Bishop holding a guerrilla flag to a
Bogota newspaper two days after
Bishop was kidnapped.
The communique said Bishop
was to be executed March 29 if
Texas Petroleum did not meet the
kidnappers' demands. The de
mands were never made public.
Texaco executive Kenneth Bishop, released after 38 days in captivity by leftist
guerrillas in Bogota, arrives in Miami a free man yesterday.
comprised of officers and men from Somoza's
former National Guard and has been fighting
the Sandinista army in northern. Nicaragua
for the past three months.
Sandinista authorities claim 800 people have
been killed in the fighting during that period.
The officials also estimate the number of
guerrillas in northern Nicaragua at 1,200 but
say there could be as many as 5,000.
Nicaraguan officials accuse the Reagan
administration and the Honduran government
of secretly arming and training the front, as
part of an overall effort to overthrow the
Sandinista government. The United States has
neither admitted nor denied'the charges.
As Commander Zero, P.astora launched the
revolution against Somoza in 1978, seizing the
National Palace in Managua and holding
some 1,200 people including foreign diplomats
and top government officials hostage for days.
Somoza was forced to pay ransom, release a
group of political prisoners and give them safe
conduct to Cuba.
. Pastora slipped back into Nicaragua, com
manding the Sandinista forces in the south,
and served.as Deputy Defense Minister when
the Sandinistas took power in July 1979, until
he becUme disenchanted with the govern
ment's Marxist and pro-Soviet tack and its
failure to hold elections.
. He disappeared from public view in Nicara
gua in 1981 and surfaced in Costa Rica 10
months later, in March 1982. •
Yesterday's announcementis the first time
the alliance 'has publicly committed itself to
fight for the junta's overthrow. Until now, the
alliance has claimed to be solely a political
organization. .
Alliance leaders accuse the Sandinistas of
straying from their original goal of a free
press, a free political system, a mixed econ
omy and a non-aligned foreign policy.
AP Laserphoto
Avoid transfusions,
health expefts say
By JANET STAIHAR
Associated Press Writer
`The incubation
WASHINGTON Federal period (for AIDS)
health experts said yesterday it is may be quite a long
best for people to avoid blood
transfusions at this time because time a month or
of the risk of contracting a mys- even a year.'
terious new disease that ravages
the body's immune system.. —Dr. William H. Foege,
Dr. William H. Foege, director director of the Centers
of the national Centers for Disease for Disease Control
Control in Atlanta, told a congres-
sional panel that one way the
disease, Acquired Immune Defi
ciency Syndrome (AIDS), may be Foege said there is no way at
this time of detecting AIDS in the
passed along is through blood do
nated by persons who don't know blood of donors. So, he said, "we
they have the illness. are encouraging (people) not to
"The incubation period (for get blood transfusions "unless ab-
AIDS) may be quite a long time solutely necessary."
a month or even a year," he said. If a person chooses to have elec-
Foege said the agency has asked tive surgery, he pointed out that
high-risk AIDS groups to stop do- "it's always possible to give your
mating blood at least until more is own blood in advance."
known about how the disease is The disease has stricken 1,300
spread from victim to victim. Americans, and each day five or
He identified those groups whi - ch six new patients are found to have
have a higher percentage of AIDS AIDS, he told a House appropria
occurrences as homosexual tions subcommittee which held a
males, intravenous drug users, hearing on the financial needs of
and Haitian immigrants. the centers for next year.
He said cases also have been Of those 1,300 AIDS patients, he
found among hemophiliacs, het- said, 500 have died. But he pre
erosexual partners of AIDS pa- dicted that the mortality rate
tients, • recipients of blood would eventually soar much high
transfusions, and children of par- er because 44 of the first 50 cases
ents with the disease. detected have already died.
Friday, April 15
Smaller
artificial
heart . is
coming
By DONNA ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY As doctors
prepare for the next artificial
heart implant, researchers are
making strides toward developing
a heart for small people and an
implantable electric motor to re
place the bulky air pump now
required. •
Work began in November at the
University of Utah on a heart with
oval instead of round ventricles
that ; researchers say could be crit
ical. in making a heart compact
`enough for smaller adults and still
have,adequate pumping capacity.
"It's just an improvement of the
output of the heart with smaller
size and better fit," said Walter
Rohloff, head of the school's Artifi
cial Organs Division machine
shop.
Furthermore, doctors anticipate
implanting in five to 10 years a
heart carrying a tiny motor that
would be powered by a battery
pack worn on a recipient's belt.
The motor would replace the
375-pound • air-compressor that
powered the heart of Barney
Clark, the first permanent artifi
cial heart recipient. Clark died
March 23 after 112 days on the
Jarvik-7 heart.
Neither the oval heart nor the
motor will be available for the
next several implants, since they
still require years of .laboratory
and animal tests, RohlOff said.
Meanwhile, other researchers are
preparing a typewriter-size power
unit that could be ready in two
years.
state news briefs
Erie cop's death is ruled murder
ERIE (AP) Attorney General Leßoy Zimmerman said yester
day the 1980 death of an Erie police officer was murder, not suicide,
and 'the police department's investigation had been riddled with
errors.
Zimmerman, who had been asked to investigate the case last
spring by Erie County District Attorney Michael Veshecco, said the
police erred in judgment, evidence collection, documentation and
analysis.
Zimmerman gave Veshecco a 93-page confidential report and
urged the district attorney to continue the investigation. Zimmer
man offered his help, but noted may no longer be possible to find
and convict the killer or killers" because of police errors.
"The report's conclusion is inescapable: homicide is the only
plausible explanation," Zimmerman said.
Police Cpl. Robert Owen was shot to death with his own gun while
• on duty Dec. 29, 1980. His body was found in the snow near his patrol
car in a warehouse parking lot.
4 people die from arson, homicide
TOWANDA, Bradford County (AP) A woman who told authori
ties she was trying to burn pictures of another woman and her
children was charged with homicide and arson yesterday following
a fire in which at least four people died, officials said:
Diane Carol Clinton, 20, of Towanda, was arrested following
yesterday's 3:16 a.m. blaze at the Blast Building apartments and
was ordered held without bail in an arraignment before District
Justice Jack Huffmah, police said.
Clinton'was charged with two counts of criminal homicide, arson
and related offenses and faced additional charges for the /other
deaths, state police said.
The four'who died in the blaze were tentatively identified as Andy
Grover, his wife, Jenny, and two of their children, Angela and Andy
Jr., according to an affidavit filed with Huffman.
nation news briefs
OSHA still looking for cancer agents
WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration official
responsible • for protecting workers' health says his agency will
continue a strong lookout for cancer-causing substances. A long
itmmering plan to abandon that mission, he concedes, was "off the
track."
Thorne G. Auchter, chief of the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, denied the turnaround was prompted by the
congressional uproar over allegations that the Environmental
Protection Agency had favored industry on the same issue.
His aides, said Auchter, had simply gotten "off the track" in their
review of OSHA's responsibility to identify and classify suspected
carcinogens in the workplace. •
Auchter stressed that OSHA had never reached the point of
proposing a formal revocation of the cancer policy, which was
implemented by the Carter adniinistration in January 1980.
Possible gonorrhea outbreak stopped
ATLANTA (AP) An intense prevention program has con
trolled an outbreak of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea in LOs An
geles, the first such outbreak in a major U.S. metropolitan area,
federal health officials say.
The outbreak in Los Angeles County was first ideritified in August
1980, and reached an average of 50-cases each month through
March 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said
yesterday.
By last month, after the program, cases averaged less than 15 a
month, the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Specialists criticize space missiles
WASHINGTON (AP) With administration officials noticeably
absent, a Senate foreign relations subcommittee yesterday heard
several specialists criticize President Reagan's call for a stepped
up drive to develop missile defense weapons in space.
George Rathjens, a political science professor at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and former arms control official, said he
found Reagan's announcement of the effort last month "deeply
troubling."
"Notwithstanding the optimism of the president and (Secretary
of Defense Caspar.W. Weinberger), we had all better realize that
security in the nuclear age is not to be found through technical
fixes," he testified.
world news briefs
Japan to look at national security
TOKYO (AP) Claims by a former Soviet intelligence agent
that Japan is a "paradise for spies" have impelled the government
to reassess its ability to keep state secrets and technological
advances from falling into unfriendly hands.
• The charge by ex-KGB Maj. Stanislav Levchenko in a magazine
interview that Moscow has a string of agents among Japan's
political and media elite made huge headlines in this open,
relatively lenient society.
The Foreign Ministry declined to comment in detail but said it
was studying how to•tighten security. It' said two senior officials of
the French Foreign Ministry, which recently expelled 47 alleged
Soviet agents, will arrive April 24 to discuss security and Soviet
relations.
Iran agrees to oil capping operation
KUWAIT (AP•) Iran agreed yesterday to a joint operation by
all Persiam Gulf nations to cap leaking offshore Iranian oil wells
feeding a vast slick in the gulf, but representatives of other
countries doubted that Iraq would cooperate while the Iran-Iraq
war continued.
Ministerial delegations, meeting within the framework of the
Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environ
ment (ROPME), continued unofficial consultations until after
midnight.
stock report
Stocks rebound;
post 6th gain
NEW YORK (AP) Stock
prices rebounded from some
early selling to post their sixth
straight gain and another re
cord high yesterday as Wall
Street's eight-month-old pull
market continued.
Auto stocks led the market
higher for the second straight
day, along with several big
name issues responding to fa
vorable earnings reports for
the first quarter of the year.
The Dow Jones average of
30 industrials finished with an
OM gain.
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