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16A TODAY, Thursday, April 2f, 1178 CDAp Panama Vote Demanded CPSDlp The World General Amnesty Declared in Chile TODAY wtrt ttrvlc! SANTIAGO, Chile The military government decreed a general amnesty Wednesday for Chileans condemned bymilitarytrlbunalj since the 1973 overthrow of the late Marxist President Salvador Allende. The amnestry directly affects about 1,200 persons now In exile who were convicted of politically related crimes, and roughly 280 persons serving sentences in Chile for such crimes Each of the condemned persons in exile must ask permission of the Interior Ministry to return 'home Informed observers also interpret the decree to mean many thousands of exiles who fled Chile In feaf of being charged with violations of security laws may apply to return without fear of detention Strike Ended Unanimously jfi SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A unanimous union vote 'Wednesday ended a violence punctuated 1 day strike of "Jtectncal workers against the government After nearly four months and more than 200 reported acts of sabotage causing an estimated $4 million damage, about 5,400 employees covered by the union crowded Into Roberto Clemente Coliseum and voted. The four year contract was worked out by negotiators for the government and electrical workers union Union President Luis Lausell Hernandez said the 6,200 union members would get a $200 a month raise spread over the four years, hiking average pay near $13,000 by 1982. It now stands at about $10,000 annually. Problems Remain for SALT MOSCOW Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said Wednesday "difficult problems" remain In the path of a new Soviet strategic arms agreement.

He arrived on an evening flight from London and will meet with President Leonid I. Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andre A Gromyko went to Vnu kovo Airport to meet Vance and Soviet television showed them shaking hands warmly. Reading a prepared statement, Vance said that in four meetings over the past 18 months, he and Cromkyo have "made progress in bringing the two sides closer together on a number of issues." Israel Denies Appeal JERUSALEM Israel's Supreme Court turned down an appeal Wednesday to reduce the prison sentence of Terre Fleener, 'a 23 year old Texas woman serving five years for collecting information for Arab guerrillas. Justice Haim Cohen, reading the court's four page decision, said the ruling was Intended "to give expression to the utmost gravity with which the court views anyone who lends a helping hand to murderers and terrorists." What To Do With 'Goo'? BREST, France The Brittany coast of France has a new pollution problem what to do with more than 13 million gallons of coagulating "off spflTed by the tahSef Amoco Cadiz and cleaned up from 1 he beaches Supply Ministry officials here said Wednesday the goo, much of it mixed With sand, salt water and seaweed, is held in hastily dug plastic lined pits, railroad cars and tankers here Refineries don't want toMreat it becausHl can dam age expensive equipment, but burning it in special fur nances is a slow process, according to officials at cleanup headquarters near Brest Chinese Ponder Drought PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) Panama's four largest political parties called Wednesday for Gen. Omar Torrljos to submit the canal treaties to a new national referendum.

"The reserves, amendments and understandings made by the S. Senate constitute a clear rejection of the treaties. The gover ment is empowered to re jKtJhetreatiesJ1butja tlonal approval must be obtained as called for under our constitution if the treaties are to be accepted," the parties said In a joint statement. The first treaty guarantees neutrality of the canal zone while the second, approved Tuesday, turns the canal over to Panama by the year 2000. The parties also called for more political freedom and for guarantees for returning political exiles.

Torrijos said Tuesday he considered the treaties a. new plebiscite was not necessary. Panamanian voters approved the original versions of the treaties by a 2 1 margin In an Oct. 23 plebiscite. Speaking on a nationwide television broadcast shortly after the S.

Senate voted to ratify the canal treaty, the general also announced he was planning to let political exiles return "without any strings or conditions." He said he planned to allow political parties to resume an active roll In the politicaljifeofjhecountryu for the first time in 10 years. The parties' statement was read at a news confer ence here by Dr. Carlos Ivan Zunlga, a lawyer and member of the Independent Democratic Movement Party. He was flanked by 10 other persons, representing the Panamenista Party, the Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats. It was the first time leaders from the four political parties had met together since parties were banned In 1970 1 There are about 1 million registered voters in Panama, The Nation U.S.

Will Sell Gold" To Bolster Dollar TODAY Wtr Icrvtcn 4M i ii ii ii Tl wjt Canal Plans, His Secret CANAL, From 1A TOO AY UPI Tmnltr Florida Protest Students at Northside Christian School in Malt land raise the American flag to half staff and upside down in protest Wednesday to ratification of the Panama Canal treaties. the major Panamenista Party. "His comments were Irresponsible. The canal is our greatest asset. To even think about destroying it is inconceivable," he added.

Torrijos said Wednesday his plan to sabotage the canal was "a secret that 1 kept for 10 years." Interviewed on the "ABC Evening rijos said the disabling of the canal would have been "a lesson to those conservative men that humiliate weak, countries like ours." The chief Senate strategist for anti treaty forces. Sen Paul Laxalt, said the Torrijos statement indicates Panamanian relations may be difficult during the 22 years before the canal is placed under Panamanian control "I'm not surprised," Laxalt said of the Torrijos statement. "But it was a hell of a way to start a shotgun Carter called Sen. Howard Cannon, one of the last to declare himself in fas or of the treaty1 switch. A Cannon aide said the senator told Carter "he was dumbfounded that Torrijos would make such a statement.

He told the president he" was very distressed But the White House and State Department shrugged off TorrijosL statement Tuesday night, as did Democratic congressional leaders The Pentagon said flatly that no alert had been implemented. The State Department sought to minimize the significance of Torrijos' widely reported statement, saying Panama now has a "paramount interest" in keeping the canal open and secure. State Storms Kill 1, Hurt 20 STORM, From 1A three touchdowns in the Ocala area Six persons were reported slightly hurt north of Gainesville Sheriff's deputies reported 21 trailers destroyed at the Sunlight Mobile Homes Sales lot near Belleview, 10 miles south of Ocala And Police Chief Jim Willis of the town of Lacrosse, north of Gainesville, said five or six homes were destroyed and 20 25 damaged by three different tornadoes there. "It was pretty bad here for a while," Willis said "We had extensive damage over a 7 square mile area, I'd say. There were three separate tornadoes We had about six DeoDle hurt, most of them just cuts and bruises In Marion County, one twister touched down north of Ocala and two others when the storm struck, said, "I could see the stuff hitting the trees It was moving so damn hard you couldn't tell what was going on until you got right on it His wife, Janet, a book vard measured 1 inches There were reports of precipitation In Central and North Brevard during the day, but no rain was measured at official recording stations Brevard has now re keeper at the Sunlight ceived ,46 Inches of rain WASHINGTON The United States will begin selling gold next month In an effort to reduce the country's trade deficitandbolsJter the dollar, the Treasury Department said Wednesday night.

7T The last time that some of the country's gold was placed on the public market was in 1975. After the announcement, the dollar rose In active trading In Tokyo's money exchanges, increasing in value from 222 00 yen at the start of trading to as high as 223.70 yen within a few hours. The Treasury Department said it has asked the Gen era! Services Administration to begin a series of six monthly gold auctions beginning May 23 with about 300, 000 ounces of gold to be sold at each auction. Escapee Faces 6 Charges An escaped prisonerheldjwo persons at gunpoint for 22 raped one of them and forced theni" on a 200 mile journey before he was arrested at a Seattle motel, police said. Police said Michael Anderson, 24, of Kennewidk, Wash was booked for investigation on six charges, including kidnaping, rape, assault and robbery.

Anderson was awaiting trial on charges of armed robbery and rape when he escaped Sunday from the Franklin County Jail in Pasco, Wash police said. Seattle police spokesman Gary Flynn said a 47 year old Pasco housewife in satisfactory conditidn at, Harborview Medical Center here after being raped and beaten. The Other hostage, Doug manageLoLa KennewjckWashdrutstoretWas unhaci med, Flynn said. Gas Leak Injures Firemen MONTEREY, Calif. Nine firemen were injured and five city blocks were roped off after a broken gauge alj lowed ammonia gas to flood a fish processing plant here Wednesday, Joe Lopez, plant engineer for Royal Seafood Co said" he "may have backed into" and broken the small glass gauge which measures the amount of ammonia in a stor age tank feeding the plant's refrigeration system, Pulitzer Goes to Wrong Man NEW YORK A Pulitzer Prize awarded earlier thf week to a United Press International photographer was given to the wrong man, the administrator of the prize said Wednesday, Through what a UPI spokesman called "an honest mistake," a picture taken by John Blair, a free lance photographer from Evansville, Ind jwas creditedto Jin Schweiker, a UPI staff photographer.

The photograph of a hostage being held at gunpoint in Indianapolis was awarded the prize in the spot news pic. ture category. "We're going to have to take the prize away and give the $1,000 to the man who took the picture," Pulitzer ad ministrator Richard T. Baker said Wednesday around Belleview. Fred Shull, who was driving toward Belleview trailer lot, was one of the injured She was pinned under the wreckage and suffered back injuries.

The line of thunderstorms passed to the north orthtTSpace Coast Vera Beach reported .14 inch of rain, and South Bre since the beginning of April, and conditions are still considered very dry. There is a 20 percent chance of rain early today, but the official forecast "calirforparliycldudykter with highs in the mid 80s and lows in the 60s. HONG KONG Chinese officials have held urgent meetings in an effort to prevent a severe drought in four Chinese provinces from killing crops, according to provincial radio broadcasts monitored here According to broadcasts from Yunnan and Kweichow proincesJn.JheSQuth.AahweXinthejeast and Shensijn HOLOCAUST FromJA Tj the northeast, the droueht has reached a "crucial do int." and more dry weather is forecast for the rest of the month German: Series Meant To Shock They Said It Poles did all they could to help the Jews during World War II, said Januz Wieczorek, head of a Polish veteran's group "We know there is some propaganda in the West charging the Polish community with passive acceptance of the Nazi 'final solution of the Jewish he said "But we are not ashamed of anything We know what we have done Kianu, the four ton Califorman killer whale that has taken up residence in a Japanese animal park, was imported for a reason, said park official Masaki Sujlshl. He said "We took the costly toruble to get the whale all the way from the United States to match the size an scale of the new park which will have 2,400 animals Lebanese Health Minister Ibrahim Shuaito said Premier Salim el Hoss resigned because technical experts had decided to "clear the way for politicans to take over responsibility under the current trying circumstances Holocaust No "Roots' But Network Pleased NEW YORK (AP) NBC was happy Wednesday with preliminary ratings showing more than half the nation's viewing audience watched "Holocaust" though the audience was far smaller than that of ABC's breaking "Roots" mini series. NBC has resisted a comparison of "Roots" with "Holocaust," a four part documentary drama about the Nazis' campaign against European Jews.

But network officiaTs certainly were aware as they waited for reports on the final Wednesday night chapter of "Holocaust'1 that It was the last installment "Roots" which drew the biggest TV audience ever. In fact, a comparison of "the" two programs is not necessarily appropriate. "Roots" was shown in January, when TV viewing generally is higher. But Paul Klein. NBC's executive vice president for programming, said "Holocaust" was timed to air "before the Passover, the, period between Easter and Passover, in a time when Christians and Jews can come together inthe spirit, of good will." Bantam Books, said, meanwhile, it had gone into a 10th printing of Gerald Green's novelization of the Bantam spokesman said 1,753,000 copies of the book are now inpnnL A Nielsen Co.

figures showed more than half the nation's television audience, watching the second chapter of "Holocaust" Monday night, and Tuesday night ratings for three big cities indicated NBC would hold onto that share through Part III. tion as to why few Germans seemed to be watching the program. "I think they all will have sort of the same attitude," he said "Try to be in their shoes," Alexander Boblnski, 27, a German native who has lived in Brevard for four years, said, "I don't know why I didn't watch it Maybe. 1 really didn't, want, to see it Reaction by students to the program varied dramatically an at9 least two Brevard high schools "Some of the students have brought it up and mentioned it," said Mrs. Rebecca Penwell, a teacher at Satellite High School She added, however, that "they don't seem to pursue it much It's nothing especially new to them.

As a whole, the students haven't been discussing that it's old hat to them It's not pursued with any interest at all However, Bernard Cove ney, a teacher at Rockledge High School, said students in his classes are "extremely interested the most shocking thing is they cant believe that man would do this to man "They can't realize the brutality being shown," he said "That seems to get to them more than anything I've tried to impress them that what is on the program Isn't as brutal as it actually" was The stu dents are asking, 'Why didn'tjhe. ShelpiWhy didn't they let the Jews come "Some of the kids told jne4heir dads sat down to talk with them about it," Coveney said "A couple of others told me their parents made them turn the program off but they didn't say why." Rabbi David Jessel of Satellite Beach said his wife cried during one of he programs but that he felt he had to watch it. "There wasn't a time I wanted to tunj the television set off because it was too he said. "I wanted to see it. If It is a shock effect it a positive shock effect "The thing that hit me the hardest," Jessel said, "was the way the Germans went on enjoying their lives havirigno remorse: irwar like they were a bunch of schizophrenics; they had one life at home and another one where they witnessed the massacres." Ben Ross, 15, who is Jewish, said he watched most of the series, missing only part of the first show.

The Merritt Island teenager he bears no ill feeling toward the German people 4or the things he's seen on his television screen "It wasn't the Germans' fault," Ross said "4t was just the Nazis, not the German citizens If they knew, they had to keep their mouth shut because they didn't want to die the same way." His brother David, 14, said that he'd learned about the concentration camps in Sunday school. "I knew they faked them (the Jews) out with showers and gassed them," he said "It was kind of Mrs June Ross said she wanted her children to watch the program so they could be aware of what took they, kept asking me was, 'Is it she said. Rabbi Jessel said programs such as "Holocaust" may be valuable tn preventing a recurrence of such atrocities "If we don't bring it up we may not recognize the signs should it ever begin again," he said. jjjjjjstjjSfiBfFV insiBjp sjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjs aSMsaBMrf'' MiVaiVaH LVLHaVfiisLwLwMiHRpsfiBBHVI HsHKi TODAY AP LdMrptwf Ready for Test The 154 foot long external tank for the Space Shuttle stands in a test tower at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama after engineers hoisted It Into place Tuesday night. The Shuttle Orbiter will be attached today for vibration tests.

Mayor Blocks Train Tracks SELMA, Ala. Fire trucks and police cars blocked Louisville Nashville railroad tracks here Wednesday Under Mavor Joe Smitherman's orders to keep trains out of Selma. One train, westbound from Montgomery, crept up to within 80 feet of the blockade Wednesday night, but Smitherman said the train would stay there until today, when he would confer with railroad officials. Smitherman said the cars and trucks will stay there until he gets written assurance that tracks in the switching yards in the city will be repaired. The mayor blamed bad track conditions for three derailments in the past week Court DismissesLibel Suit PORTLAND, Ore.

A $14 million libel suit against The Eugene Register Guard involving the series of stories by investigative reporters about the killing of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles has been dismissed in U.S. District Court. Peter Licavoli Jr, of Tucson, Ariz Med the suit In May 1977 after publication of the Arizona Project series prepared by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. The investigation involved the bombing death in June 1976 of Bolles. They Said It A bureaucratic snag delayed a $150 state payment forthree years one week afterthe Rhode Island cancer patient who was to receive it died.

Sen. John Chafee, called the delay a "phenomenal example of the myriad of bureaucratic paperwork that you have to endure before a decision is made Saying she and her husband will appeal a Massachusetts court ruling that requires their son to continue chemotherapy for leukemia, Diana Green explained. "We are disappointed. The worst kind of side effect is Internal damage. You can't see that." Richard Sedor got a standing ovation from the Connecticut Legislature after It passed a bill he had fought two years for that bans discrimination against the mentally retarded.

Said who Is mentally retardedC'lt means I can sleep good now." 'No Concessions on Shuttle SHUTTLE, From IA satellite systems discussed. will be "But, we understand that the Russians will bring lip the issue that theSpace lasr year the capabililyTlo: order to obtain concessions from the Soviets on their anti satellite program. The Russians 'are well advanced in their killer satellite program, having demonstrated several times Shuttle falls into the anti satellite category," the official said The May talks are expected. JoseL ground work for possible higher level negotiations between the two countries on the antj satellite question. No dates or meeting site have been selected for the initial low level discussions.

U.S. officials said they have no intention of trading away Shuttle capabilities in destroy one of their test sat ellites by using a killer The U.S., which is lagging far behind the Soviets, has just put aside about $450 million to develop a killer satellite program for this country; An anti satellite system permits the destruction of a satellite operated by another nation. Because satellites move jpeeds between 6,800 and atspc 17,000 miles an hour the destruction can be accomplished by having a killer satellite crash into the spacecraft to be eliminated. A second method calls for a spacecraft acting like arToutenspace guiLtoJlast" pieces of metal at the sus pect satellite. U.S.

officials, along with top NASA representatives, have Insisted the Space Shuttle will not be used as part of a killer satellite program. NASA officials said the Space Shuttle is designed for the peaceful 'development of space. However, the Shuttle will carry Department of Defense payloads under an agreement NASA has with the Air Force. The majority of the Defense Department space payloads 'are considered secret by military Officials. The first Space Shuttle is scheduled to be launched next, year Jrorn Space Center.

I The Space Shuttle's Orbiter spacecraft, which resembles a large jetliner, has a huge cargo bay where the satellite payloads 'will be stored until the Orbltej reaches outer space. The Space Shuttle systemsystem is designed to place satellite payloads into Earth orbits or by of additional rocket jiyjr terns to boost the payloads Into higher orbits or on, Interplanetary missions. 8.