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The Salina Journal Friday, April 15, 1983 Page 5 World Police question Walesa's wife WARSAW, Poland (UPI) Gdansk police Thursday interrogated former Solidarity leader Lech Wa- lesa'a wife about her husband's secret rendezvous with fugitive underground leaders, but she said she refused to answer any questions. A bulletin issued by the Solidarity fugitives defiantly confirmed they had held talks with Walesa at the beginning of the week and called on Poles to show their opposition to "the apparatus of terror" in demon- strations May 1. Walesa, who was taking a cautious line in his public statements following his own five-hour appearance before police interrogators Wednesday, had little to say about the bulletin, signed by the five-man committee in charge of the outlawed union's clandestine activities. "Those who signed it support it," Walesa said. "But you must understand I am not distancing myself from it." Iran, Iraq battle to a standstill BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Fighting between Iraq and Iran raged for the fifth straight day Thursday, with both countries claiming major victories and refusing to halt hostilities.

Each side claimed to have inflicted massive casualties in the latest battle of the 31-month-old Gulf War. Iraq said 9,832 Iranians died since the first wave of "Operation Dawn," a new offensive, advanced late Sunday and Iran said Iraq suffered 6,400 casualties. Combat raged some 200 miles north of the head of the Gulf, while both Iran and Iraq claimed the upper hand. Iraq called on the United Nations to condemn the new Iranian military onslaughts, charging the world body had so far turned "a blind eye." "The United Nations, by virtue of its charter, is called upon to condemn the new Iranian aggression and to prevent its continuation, in order to maintain international peace and security," Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz said in a letter to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuc-1- lar. All calls from the U.N.

Security Council, which has met three times since the war erupted, for a cease- fire and troop withdrawals have been ignored. American businessman freed BOGOTA, Colombia (UPI) Texaco executive Kenneth Bishop, held captive by guerrillas for 38 days, left Colombia on Thursday only hours after his kidnappers released him in exchange for $1 million ransom. Bishop, 57, and his Colombian wife, Bertha Cuellar Bishop, left El Dorado Airport aboard a private airplane at noon bound for Miami. Colombian national police officials said a $1 million ransom was paid to the People's Revolutionary Organi- zation, a previously obscure guerrilla group, for his release. Texaco officials in New York and Bogota refused to comment on the ransom, but issued a statement on the release from New York saying the firm was happy Bishop had been reunited with his family.

Bishop, who began working for Texaco in Colombia as a geologist in 1956, was kidnapped by a band of armed guerrillas March 7 as he traveled to work. Salvadoran air force mutiny put off SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) El Salvador's air force chief Thursday put off a threatened mutiny against Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia and hinted the beleaguered military leader would resign next week. Garcia, who has been defense minister since 1979, has been accused by younger officers of imcompetence in the war against leftist rebels. Col. Juan Rafael Bustillo told reporters at Ilopango air force base in San Salvador that he would wait until next week to under- Bustillo take any protest against Garcia, whose resignation he is demanding.

Bustillo spoke to reporters at an impromptu news conference at the capital's air force base, where he attended the graduation of 769 paratroopers from jump school. He said there have been talks between members of the top command in the armed forces about Garcia and "I believe that in this moment that they have taken decisions that you will know about in the future." Asked about when a resolution to his complaints might occur, Bustillo said "I believe that you must have patience. The president (Alvaro Magana) is the one who has the authority to be able to determine the suitability or no on the acceptance of the minister's (Garcia's) resignation. I think that you will have an answer next week." Asked about his remarks to The New York Times that he would begin disobeying Garica's orders Friday, Bustillo said, "I don't think it is convenient because it would hurt the stability of the armed forces. I think that with a little patience, the problem will be resolved." He said he has not met with either Garcia or Magana to express his complaints or to try to reach an accord.

Bustillo convened an emergency session of the 90-man air force officer corps in the morning, and met with them for several hours. "The majority of the (air force) officers are supporting Col. Bustillo," said an officer requesting to remain anony- mous. Another officer said that during a similar mutiny by army Lt. Col.

Sigifredo Ochoa in January protesting Garcia's handling of the war, the defense minister "promised to resign within a 90-day period that expired on April 11." Bustillo was a staunch backer of Ochoa's week-long uprising. Younger officers charge Garcia has refused to follow U.S. advice to mount small, active patrols against rebels, instead preferring large operations of 4,000 to 6,000 troops that guerrillas easily elude. Bustillo and Col. Adolfo Blandon, commander of the First Infantry Brigade, were the only top officers who refused to sign a loyalty oath to Garcia during the Ochoa mutiny.

Moral Majority seeking to place 'right' books in children's hands WASHINGTON (UPI) The Moral Majority announced Thursday a campaign against banning books in an effort to place more books with a conservative and Christian slant in the nation's public and school libraries as well as secular book stores. "This is not a campaign to take any book off the shelf of any library," the Rev. Jerry Falwell told a news conference. "Rather, it is a campaign to get books containing conservative and traditional moral views and philosophies on the shelves." As part of the campaign, the organization's state and local chapters are being asked to survey libraries in their area to see if they carry a number of conservative books on such issues as abortion, national defense, law, economics and creationism. The campaign is being launched with the publication of "Book Burning," (Crossway Books) by Cal Thomas, Moral Majority's vice president for communication.

Thomas told a news conference announcing the campaign that he found a "prejudice that serves the same end as a conspiracy" that keeps conservative books out of libraries. "Modern censors don't show up at our doors with a book of matches, a can of gasoline, and a list of books that must be burned," he said. "In fact, some of those who are the most vocal in denouncing censorship today actually pose the greatest threat to free speech. They manipulate and redefine language in a way that makes any challenge to their rule- setting appear intolerant and narrow-minded." It is, Thomas said, a "subtle repression" of alternatives to "secular humanism." "There is a presumption that people of our (conservative) perspective have nothing of importance to say," he said. Thomas told the news conference "it is wrong for conservatives" to engage in the kind of censorship campaigns some of them have been associated with.

"Only people who are unsure of their philosophy want" to suppress books. He said the prejudice against conservative points of view ran the gamut from book reviews to book stores to librarians. "The best seller lists don't really tell you the best selling books," he said. "They are the result of a gerrymandered system that virtually assures that no book with a Judeo-Christian world view will ever vault to the top 10, no matter how many books are sold." GAO says Pentagon erred on cost of B- IB WASHINGTON (UPI) The General Accounting Office said in a letter made available Thursday that the Pentagon understated the projected $20.5 billion cost of the new B-1B bomber and should make a more accurate estimate. The congressional investigative agency said in a nine-page letter to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that at least $1.4 billion in costs had been omitted from the total price tag of the bomber estimated by the Air Force's B-1B program managers.

The discrepancy in price estimates results from different interpretations by the GAO and the Air Force about what should be included in the cost of developing and building the B-1B. For example, the Air Force does not include $300 million for B- 1B simulators as part of the total cost of the bomber. The aircraft, part of President Reagan's $180 billion modernization of the strategic nuclear forces, is to replace the generation-old B-52 and is to be the backbone of the bomber fleet until a radar-elusive "stealth" plane is developed in the early 1990s. The B-1B, manufactured by the Rockwell International is to become operational in 1986. THESE GOOD GIBSON AD SPECIALS THRU SUNDAY OPEN DAILY SATURDAY 9-6 SUNDAY AFTER CHURCH 12-6 DlStou NT CENTER BROADWAY SOUTH STREET-SAUNA GARDEN CENTER NOW OPEN! COME SEE SAVE ON SEASONAL NEEDS 10:30 a.m,3:0fl p.m.

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