state/nation/world Theodore Bundy got Hinckley letters .By JAMES ROWLEY 'Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON,D.C. Triple murderer The odore Bundy told Secret Service agents that he 'received three or four letters from presidential :assailant John W. Hinckley Jr. during an ex :change of mail last year, prosecutors said yester day. Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Adelman said in 'court that Bundy, awaiting execution in Florida for three 1978 killings, told the Secret Service that Hinckley began writing him in May, 1986. "The Bundy letters... certainly bear some simi larities" with Hinckley's previous obsessive writ : ings about the movie "Taxi Driver," Adelman told U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker. Prosecutors and psychiatrists say Hinckley shot President Reagan in 1981 to impress actress Jodie Foster, who played a prostitute in the violent movie. Bundy "claimed that in 1986, he received three or four letters from Mr. Hinckley," Adelman said. "He claimed he wrote to Mr. Hinckley two or three times," Adelman said. The correspondence "was initiated by Mr. Hinckley in May, 1986, Mr. Bundy stopped writing last October, 1986," he said. Bundy told the Secret Service he threw out the letters he received from Hinckley, Adelman said. r , • f, lict. . 1 ,3,% ,, t>41, 4 ' A • • • ' , N l 4`<,N; • • s - Y~ X 35 I:f'k3 tic . 1 . I • • ;13... • In Texas By EVANS WITT AP Political Writer AMARILLO, Texas Gary Hart declared yesterday that every "se rious leader of either political party" believes new federal revenues are necessary to cut the budget deficit and that to say otherwise is irrespons ible. "I am unalterably opposed to any income tax increase for middle and low-income Americans," Hart said. But he said a combination of an oil import fee, luxury taxes, user fees and perhaps a temporary surtax on Americans in the top income tax bracket would raise a needed $lB billion to $25 billion. Last Thursday, the Democrat-dom inated House approved a $1 trillion budget proposal, without Republican support, featuring a call for $lB bil lion in unspecified new taxes, plus $1 billion in increased tax enforcement Judge asked to force open records By JAMES ROWLEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON,D.C. The Sen ate urged a skeptical federal judge yesterday to order retired Air Force Maj. General Richard V. Secord to release foreign bank re cords believed linked to the Iran- Contra arms deals. U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. said he would rule in the case, but he called the order the Senate was seeking "a charade," said the Swiss might reject it and suggested whatever decision he makes will surely be appealed. Senate attorney Michael David son said the Tower commission, appointed by President Reagan to investigate the Iran-Contra affair, had identified Secord's "promi nence in global arrangements with Hart begins campaign and $2 billion in fees and premiums for government services. As Hart, the Democratic front-run ner, kicked off the first official trip of his 1988 presidential campaign, he tackled the tax issue that bedeviled the Democratic ticket in 1984. The former Colorado senator also plunged into other issues, talking about such matters as AIDS, arms control and agriculture. At a barbecue on Roy Walls' farm in the shadow of a grain elevator in this Texas Panhandle town, Hart pledged emergency debt relief and reforms of the farm credit system "to turn the credit system into a system to help the farmers and not help the speculators and help the land grab bers." Facing a 30-knot wind, Hart said he would do his best for the farmers, "if I don't get blown off this platform." Hart saved his harshest rhetoric for President Reagan and his insistence respect to shipment of arms to Iran." The commission's report also said Secord was involved in a net work supporting the Nicaraguan rebels known as Contras. It said contributions appear to have been routed to the Contras through a series of private organizations, some of them linked to Secord-con trolled bank accounts by a chart found in the safe of fired National Security Council aide Oliver North. In another development Tues day, a Justice Department spokes man said North received an FBI investigative report last year on a criminal probe of alleged gunrun ning to the Contras. The document was written by an FBI agent working in Miami, said federal law enforcement sources, speaking on condition they not be identified. It allowed North to keep The judge convened the emergency hearing after Hinckley's lawyers complained that Secret Service agents served their client with an unautho rized subpoena earlier in the day. Federal prosecutors, who Monday night ob tained two letters Hinckley received from Bundy, are seeking more evidence of correspondence with the Florida death row inmate, who is linked to 36 other murders. During a hearing Monday, a psychiatrist unex pectedly revealed that Hinckley had written Bun dy, had sought the address of mass killer Charles Manson and had received a letter from Manson follower Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, impris oned for trying to kill President Ford in 1975. The government is seeking the letters to docu ment its opposition to Hinckley's bid to make an unescorted family visit from St. Elizabeths Hospi tal, where he was sent for shooting President Reagan in 1981. The letters "bear directly on his state of mind," Adelman said. Hinckley was acquitted by reason of insanity in the March 30, 1981 shooting of Reagan, presi dential press secretary James S. Brady,•a Secret Service agent and a city policeman. Adelman said the two Bundy letters, dated July 21 and Aug. 7 of last year, indicated a more extensive correspondence between him and Hinck ley. Gary Hart :: . :.:,]•;i.,. , ':,!i!?,0.: , • , i5'i . :1.3!;: - .:. :;.: i ...k - ,.!1 . 4i' . '? , .;J'4 . 41! . i?