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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER, N.Y., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1986 3A U.S. made secret military shipments to Iran in hostage A i CUB. thought wan Amnriran-numosl ViaA awrlaA i.ll. i thought was American-owned, had carried talk Details of the talks emerged yesterday in the wake of disclosures by Iranian officials Monday that McFarlane went to Tehran in September as a secret U.S. envoy to discuss the hostages.

Iran yesterday denied that McFarlane had gone to Tehran, saying that the man only "resembled" McFarlane. Other U.S. sources familiar with the mission said McFarlane also had urged Iran to halt its support of terrorism and work toward an end to the Iraq-Iran war. U.S. intelligence sources said McFarlane had been conducting talks with Iranians and their intermediaries for more than a year in European cities and Tehran.

The discussions included an Iranian need for "defensive" military equipment, sources said, along with long-term financial stability that would occur with a rise in world oil prices. On Sept 14, 1985, according to news service reports, Turkish sources said a DC-8 cargo plane flying from Tabriz in Iran to Spain had landed at Tel Aviv, Israel, after developing communications problems. Yesterday, informed sources said that the plane, which the Turkish sources a snipment of military equipment that originated initially in Israel and had been arranged after talks between the American officials and Iranians. That same day, Weir was quietly released, in Lebanon after 16 months in captivity by the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad group, which had been holding him and demanding the release of 17 terrorists in Kuwait prisons. First disclosure that he was free came from President Reagan on Sept 18, 1985, during a trip to Concord, N.H.

Reagan refused to discuss details. A similar shipment took place last July, another source said, around the time Jenco was released. It is not clear what kind of military cargo has been contained in the shipments, which sources said were purchased on the private arms market and eventually paid for by the Iranian government The United States, sources said, had agreed not to interfere with such purchases. When asked yesterday during a Cable News Network interview about reports the administration was seeking an accommodation with Iran, White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan said, "I don't want D'Amato says 'Potomac fever' doomed GOP losers Senators lost sight' of their constituents By Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle Republican Sen.

Alfonse D'Amato, fresh from a landslide re-election, said in Rochester yesterday that Republicans lost control of the Senate because some of his colleagues lost sight of the people at home. "I think it was Potomac fever. They became too imbued with their own worth and the trappings of the office," D'Amato said. "They lost sight of the people back home." That is one mistake that D'Amato has never made. Yesterday he flew to the state's major cities to thank his supporters for their efforts on his behalf.

Among the state's larger counties, Monroe County gave D'Amato his greatest vote percentage over Democrat Mark to anything about the Iran situation or go into any details ot how we re negotiating in order to get these hostages out." "There are lives at stake here," he said. "Opportunities can be lost by premature disclosure." Senior Reagan administration officials, including the president, have frequently said that U.S. policy precludes negotiating with terrorists or nations that support terrorism to obtain the freedom of American hostages. Some State Department officials yesterday expressed anger and resentment at what they claimed could be a reversal of that policy. The idea of opening a channel for U.S.

officials to discuss the hostages with the Iranians came last year from the Israelis, according to a report yesterday over Israeli Radio by its Washington correspondent Shimon Shiffer. U.S. officials found out as a result of the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner that the Islamic Jihad faction would not respond to Syrian demands to free the hostages, according to informed U.S. sources. It was only after a top Iranian official intervened and traveled to Dama Green.

D'Amato received about 66 percent of the vote in Monroe County, while his statewide total was about 57 percent. "Monroe County did it, and I thank you for it," he said. The leaders of his Monroe County campaign were with D'Amato at a news conference at the Page Airways terminal on Scottsville Road. They included Rochester lawyer Gerald DiMarco, County Legislator Joanne VanZandt of Pittsford, County Republican Chairman Barbara Zartman, County Conservative Party Chairman Thomas D. Cook and Joan Mueller, head of D'Amato's Rochester office.

Despite D'Amato's easy win in New York, the Democrats regained control of the Senate, 55-45, by winning 20 of the 34 seats at stake in Tuesday's election. He cited a 1985 Senate vote to freeze Social Security cost-of-living allowances as a crucial mistake made my some of his so-called Reagan revolution in the last six years. Another part of Reagan's long-sought partisan realignment has been the effort to put the Republican Party on a truly equal footing with the Democrats in the South. On that front as well, the news was bad, on balance, for the president. Against strong Republican gains in the governorship contests, with pickups in Florida, Alabama, Texas and South Carolina, the Democrats could point to larger successes.

Democrats ousted first-term Republican senators in North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Florida and held the Louisiana seat from which Sen. Russell B. Long is retiring. They gained House seats in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and Mississippi, and lost only one in Louisiana. Locally important issues, national in character but concentrated geographically, played a significant role in the Democratic capture of the Senate and in Democratic gains in the House.

Among the factors were these: Social Security: Especially in the South, which has a disproportionate number of elderly people, the Democrats were able to play on voters' fears of cuts in benefits under a Republican Congress. Arms control: Rep. Timothy E. Wirth in Colorado and Sen. Alan Cranston in California emphasized the importance of reducing nuclear weapons, and both won.

Wirth defeated a Republican, Rep. Ken Kramer, who waged a spirited defense of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly known as "Star Wars." Voters scuttle Reagan's revolution, don't buy his warnings ing immediately to Beirut That is not to be interpreted as meaning that my present mission has run into the ground," he said. "Hopefully I will be dropping out of public view and resuming contacts with a number of people." "When I have been able to resume those contacts that may mean that return to Beirut would be very much in the cards," he said. Waite said he knew nothing about alleged contacts between Iran and the United States aimed at securing the release of the hostages held by the Islamic Jihad, or Holy War, in Lebanon. Waite refused to comment on whether his contacts in the Middle East had been in touch with him.

He also said he was not sure if the chances of securing the release of more hostages had improved in the last 24 hours. "I need to have fuller consultations to see how they (the chances) have changed," he said. "I still remain hopeful and cautiously optimistic about it" Waite said he was committed to the men still held in Lebanon. "Whatever happens I am committed to them and I am going to see this through," he said. In answer to a reporter's question, Waite also said, "I have spoken once I think to Peggy Say, that was shortly after I arrived here, and also to Jean Sutherland." He did not reveal the content of those discussions.

shortfall, Dolin said. "We raised a half-million dollars." she said. The problem was the timing of it." Because of the earlier private polls showing Eckert with a solid lead, the major issue-oriented political action committees and the business community "did not feel that Fred was going to be in any real trouble," Dolin said. Assemblyman James Nagle, R-Pitts-ford, an Eckert supporter, said he believed a key factor in the race was Slaughter's campaign organization. "I think Louise certainly had one of the best-organized field operations that I've ever seen anywhere," Nagle said.

Slaughter also acknowledged the role of her organization. "I will tell you that all 3,800 of those volunteers I've got them engraved on my heart," she said. "I think what we showed in this community is that if a cross-section of people is willing to work and give everything they've got we'll make a great difference." Greer and Associates, the Washington-based consulting firm that advised the Slaughter campaign, enjoyed a successful Election Day elsewhere as well, winning 12 of the 14 races it managed. The victories included seven out of eight House races and four U.S. Senate races, including upsets by Democratic candidates in Georgia, Washington and North Dakota.

bargaining scus that the final four hostages from the airliner were freed. Pursuing the Israeli suggestion of a conduit to the Iranians, McFarlane met in London with David Kimche, who at the time was director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, to discuss how to open the channel, Shiffer reported. A secret supplying of military equipment to the Iranians by the Israelis in 1981-1982 has been publicly acknowledged by then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. His allegation that U.S. officials had been aware of details of the shipments was denied at the time by State Department spokesmen.

Since the public uproar over Sharon's disclosure, the Reagan administration has publicly declared a policy of barring any shipments of U.S. military equipment to Iran. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Larry Speakes had repeated the Reagan administration's longstanding public policy that "as long as Iran advocates the use of terrorism, the U.S. embargo will continue." colleagues who were Hefpatwf TYAmntn voted against the freeze, which was never agreed to by the Democrat-controlled House. "How they could have voted to freeze Social Security in 1985 was beyond me when we had promised in the 1984 election campaign not to touch Social Security," he said.

"Almost every one (of those who lost) voted to freeze Social Security in '85. Terrible. A mistake. Something that we promised to the people, and they went back on it." D'Amato, who will become ranking minority member on the Science and Transportation Committee, predicted President Reagan would be able to work effectively with a Democratic Congress. He said that as governor of California, Reagan worked well with a Democratic state legislature.

"Don't underestimate Ronald Reagan. He will not be a lame-duck president," D'Amato said. Nuclear waste: In Nevada and Washington, two of the three states on the short list of potential sites for the national nuclear waste dump, the Republicans lost Senate seats. The shift in the Senate was wrought by only a relatively small number of votes. Many races were very close: a change of about 50,000 votes in five states Nevada, Colorado, Washington, South Dakota and North Dakota would have made the lineup 50-50 instead of 55-45 and thus maintained Republican control through Vice President George Bush's vote.

As Rep. Jack F. Kemp, R-Hamburg, pointed out, many of the Democratic senatorial winners sounded a lot like Reagan adherents on the stump and on television, stressing fiscal responsibility, a strong national defense and so on. So if Reagan lost the battle, he at least defined the battlefield. Nonetheless, he has little to show for the years of the Reagan partisan revolution.

When he came to power, the Democrats held 277 House seats and 59 Senate seats; when he leaves, the Democrats will hold something like 260 House seats and 55 Senate seats. The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report. ri.Y. LOTTERY Yesterday's winning number was 295. The Win Four number was 8833.

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Jacobsen as well as the releases last July of the Rev. Lawrence Jenco and the Rev. Benjamin Weir in September 1985 came about after talks with Iranian representatives were conducted by Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan's former national security adviser, and others, including Lt Col. Oliver North, a member of the National Security Council staff.

The enigmatic North has also been cited in the past as a White House link to groups providing aid to Contra rebels fighting the Sandiniata regime in Nicara Waite delaying return to Beirut FROM PAGE 1A West Germany Monday, said he was leaving the country but would not be going back to Lebanon yet Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy in the drive to free the hostages, was returning to London, a spokesman for the archbishop said. Asked if his mission to obtain freedom for more captives had suffered a setback, Waite said, "It is not a setback, it's very typical of the whole process where you move forward a bit and then back." "Frankly I wish it had been different But that's not to be and so one continues forward," he added. Waite said a number of people had tried to get involved in his efforts to free the hostages but did not give details. "There are a lot of people trying to make political capital, there are a lot of people trying to sabotage honest and straight-forward efforts," he said. Waite told reporters yesterday he expected contacts in Lebanon to tell him within 24 hours whether it would be worthwhile for him to return there for talks involving Anderson and fellow American hostage Thomas Sutherland.

"It is my intention to leave Germany in the next few hours. I shall not be return- Louise Slaughter off to a fast start FROM PAGE 1A a television commercial depicting Eckert as "Congressman No." At the same time, she said, Eckert "didn't have the funds to be on the air" and was kept away from the district by the failure of Congress to adjourn on time. During that period, Dolin said, a 15-point Eckert lead in the campaign's private polls shifted to an 11 -point Slaughter advantage 10 days before the electioa "As soon as Fred came back from Washington and got the free media and we put our advertising back on the air, we made up 10 points," she said, adding that Eckert would have overtaken Slaughter if the election had been held four days later. Fran Weisberg, Slaughter's campaign manager, disagreed with Dolin's analysis, although she declined to cite figures from Slaughter's own campaign polls. "All I can say is we constantly moved forward.

We never lost ground." Although Eckert's fund-raising eventually topped $500,000 nearly equaling Slaughter's there was a period when Eckert experienced a severe fund-raising Beech-Nut chief indicted by U.S. FROM PAGE 1A in bottles labeled "100 percent apple juice," Maloney said. Beech-Nut "also moved 'apple juice' from its New York state facility to a warehouse in New Jersey when it learned of a potential seizure by New York state inspectors," the indictment said. In a prepared statement, the company said Hoyvald and Lavery denied the charges. The indictment also charges Zeev Kaplansky, former president of Universal Juice which, with two other companies he operated out of Riverdale, sold large quantities of bogus concentrate to Beech-Nut.

Also charged were Raymond H. Wells, former officer and owner of Food Complex Inc. of Woodside; Nina B. Williamson, former Food Complex employee and officer; Danny A. Shaeffer, an employee of Nameco Trading, a company allegedly set up by Kaplansky and Wells to purchase the ingredients for the phony juice; and South Orange Express Inc.

of Clifton, N.J., which allegedly was responsible for labeling, holding and shipping the phony juice. Beech-Nut said it recalled the counterfeit juice in the fall of 1982. The company blamed suppliers for misrepresenting the FROM PAGE 1A Republican strategist who asked not to be identified, "was that the president set no new agenda for this campaign, and the voters got tired of hearing him campaign against Jimmy Carter again." There was strong evidence in the poll that Reagan's campaigning, which became more harshly partisan, caused a backlash against the Republicans. About one person in seven said he or she took Reagan policies into account in voting, and almost three-quarters of them cast Democratic ballots. In the last week of the campaign, Reagan visited 10 states on behalf of 10 congressional candidates; of those, only Sen.

Steve Symms, R-Idaho, survived the Democratic onslaught Sen. George Mitchell of Maine, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committeee, suggested that the Republicans' "overwhelming emphasis on President Reagan in the final weeks had the effect of trivializing their campaign, making it appear that their candidates couldn't stand on their own." For some years now, the Democrats have been struggling with their image, attempting to convince floating voters that they were not the captive of minority groups, the elderly and the trendy. On Tuesday, they succeeded. A majority of all voters cast their House votes for the Democrats, as did a majority of middle-income workers, a majority of those who called themselves moderates and a majority of those who characterized themselves as independents. Perhaps even more important, among those who said they had cast their votes at least partly because they wanted someone who cared about the middle class, almost twice as many voted Democratic as voted Republican.

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