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3 p.m. STOCKS Up 13.24 The Pittsbur 3-31 gh Press TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1981 20 Cents TOMORROW Windy, showers. Isrt VOL. 97, No. 277 S(((g uod 111 3 Jokes With Doctors; Brady Improving WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan, recovering rapidly from a gunshot wound in the chest, met with his family and aides today, joked with his doctors and nurses, brushed his teeth and resumed his duties as America's chief executive.

Vice President George Bush, top White House aides, Nancy Reagan and the president's four children visited his bedside and reported imw I ftc Jin 4 1 'z'f fir tfofottU i.imi'- i Muni a' v. President Reagan waves Other Stories, Pictures, Pages A-4, 5, 6, 7, 13 An editorial, "Reagan's Close Call," Page B-2 UPI Telaphoto to wounded James Brady. Secret Service agent tends bullet had gone into Brady's brain, didn't think he was going to make it was told it had, and said, "Oh, dear." at all." He then asked for a prognosis on "Ob, dear, we must pray," Baker Brady, and Ruge reportedly told Reagan as saying, him, "There may be some weakness Reagan was shot by a young on the left side, and last night people (Continued on Page A-8, Column 1) A Silent Hinckley Awaits Mental Test lllll.IIJ.lllj. limp mvvwmeselmgm toss Reagan to tie lively ana in good spirits. The first lady said that after her husband was shot, the thought "kept running through my mind I just can't believe it happened." "I am sure he can attend to the important matters of government today," said Dr.

Dennis O'Leary of the George Washington University Medical Center, where Reagan is hospitalized. O'Leary reported that Reagan's first official act following the attempted assassination was the signing of a bill that blocks an increase in dairy price supports. The bill was broaght into Reagan's hospital room on his breakfast tray. President Reagan's signature (top) on the bill he signed today, compared with his signature on a bill he signed on Jan. 20.

Reagan, sits in car between for the Medical Rescue Team South in Mt Lebanon yesterday afternoon when he saw his uncle on television crumple to the sidewalk. "I heard the shots. The camera was panning. Different people were getting up and my uncle didn't," he said. "I didn't know right away, but I had a bad feeling," he said.

He called home and warned his mother, then decided to stay on the job until his shift was finished. "I come from a long line of Irish cops," he explained. "I know my Uncle Tom wouldn't want me to leave the area short-handed. "That's what's expected," he said simply. Delahaaty joined the D.C.

force in September 1963. Married, he lives in Hyattsville, Md. The couple has no children. His wife Jean learned her husband was hurt when she watched the videotape of the assassination attempt The son of Thomas K. Delahanty a Pittsburgh policeman from 1916 to 1944 he attended Connel-ley Vocational School.

He worked at Jones Laughlin Steel Co. and then joined the Navy. "Tom didn't have a high school diploma," his nephew said. "That's why he went to Washington. He had it in his mind that he was going to be a cop because it's been such a tradition in our family." Delahanty's grandfather, Thomas Delahanty, was a captain assigned to the District fo the The doctor said Reagan was in "exceptionally good condition," despite a restless night during which he was awake most of the time, joking with doctors and nurses.

"If I'd gotten this much attention in Hollywood, I would have stayed," he was quoted as telling them. Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, who was shot in the head by the same gunman who wounded the resident outside a Washington boil yesterday, was reported to be "much improved," but O'Leary would not speculate on possible brain damage. "We believe he is going to live," said O'Leary, who earlier said the 40-year-old aide was fighting for his life after undergoing five hours of surgery to remove the fragmented, small-caliber bullet from his brain. "Oh damn, ob damn," a teary-eyed Reagan said today when he learned his press aide had been shot in tbe brain. James Baker, the White House chief of staff, said Reagan first learned of Brady's wounds shortly after noon today from his personal physician, Dr.

Daniel Ruge. Baker said the president was not told earlier because of his physical condition. Reagan reportedly asked if the UPI Telephoto policemen after hearing. THOMAS DELAHANTY Could have taken day off. Baltimore and Chesapeake Railroad, his sister said.

Their greatgrandfather, Nicholas Delahanty, was the city's first police lieutenant, she added. He has been cited several times for bravery under fire, most recently daring a jewelry store robbery two yean ago, Mrs. Crist said. "He went down on the ground and took several shots," she said. "He lucked out that time.

"He would not pull his revolver and return the fire because he was afraid he might hit a pedestrian." A spokesman for D.C. Mayor Marion Barry said the mayor spent about 15 minutes with the wounded officer at the hospital last night. WASHINGTON (UPI) The stocky college dropout and drifter charged with trying to kill President Reagan was held without bond today at the Quantico Marine Base, awaiting psychiatric tests that may be the key to his defense. John W. Hinckley 25, son of a wealthy Evergreen, oilman, was charged with trying to assassinate a president and assaulting a federal agent with a pistol.

Federal law enforcement sources today said Hinckley refused to discuss the assassination attempt or possible motives when interviewed by FBI agents last night. "He talked, but not about the shooting," said one source. An FBI spokesman said the agency had no indication of a motive for the shooting or of a conspiracy. Stuart Johnson, Hinckley's court-appointed attorney, declined comment on his client's mental state. "I don't want to say.

Obviously, in a case like this, his mental state will be very important," Johnson said. Johnson said defense lawyers may ask for a court-appointed psy UPI Telephoto seconds before being shot. chiatrist to examine Hinckley to see if a defense of mental illness is warranted. FBI Director William Webster said psychiatric exams had been ordered for Hinckley. A spokesman at the Quantico base, about 40 miles south of Washington, confirmed that Hinckley a former neo-Nazi with a history of psychiatric care was in the Marine jail.

Sources said Hinckley might be transferred to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington for a mental examination to make sure he is competent for a preliminary hearing set for Thursday. "There is absolutely nothing at this point to indicate either motive or conspiracy but you'd be foolish if you write that in stone at this point," said FBI spokesman Roger Young. Hinckley, who sources said had only been in Washington for one day, has spent most of his life in Texas and was described by acquaintances there as a quiet, friendly young man who became a loner in (Continued on Page A-7, Column 4) labor confrontation since the Gdansk strikes last August, reviving fears in the West that Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers were a prelude to invasion. Solidarity also accepted part of the blame for the Bydgoszcz incident, saying it might have been avoided if tensions had not surrounded a union-supported sit-in by farmers and a union propaganda campaign.

The government negotiating team, led by Deputy Premier Miec-zyslaw Rakowski, apologized for the beating of three unionists, who had to be hospitalized, and ordered the incident investigated. The government also relented in its opposition to Rural Solidarity, allowing members of the farmers' organization to "act as if they are a legal organization until the fate of (Continued on Page A-12, Column 3) Hoosiers Win It The Knight Way: Page B-5 John W. Hinckley accused of shooting President Wounded D.C. Cop A City Native Tensions In Poland Eased By Agreement By LEE HOTZ Four generations of Pittsburgh's Irish policemen are embodied in the jutting bulldog jaw of Thomas Dela-hanty, the District of Columbia officer shot and wounded while trying to protect Ronald Reagan from an assassin's bullets. Born in Brookline, Delahanty is the son of a 30-year veteran of the Pittsburgh police force, the grand- Index Bookshelf.

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There's an 80 percent chance of showers continuing. Tonight's low will be between 50 and 55 degrees. Tomorrow's high will be between 60 and 65. National Weather Service details: Page B-16 son of a railroad police captain, tbe great-grandson of one of the city's first police lieutenants. "He's toe fourth police officer in a straight family line," said bis sister, Mrs.

Joseph Crist of Mt. Lebanon, last night. "He's the first to go down but not tbe first to be shot at "He's a good cop, a tough cop. If anybody can pull through, he will." A K-9 Corps officer, Delahanty, 45, was wounded in the lower neck. The bullet lodged near the spinal column, police said.

He is listed in fair condition at the Washington Hospital Center, where doctors said they had no plans to operate to remove the bullet Reagan's daughter Maureen and son Michael visited Delahanty this afternoon after the officer was transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular room. The 17-year-veteran of the D.C. police force found himself at the side of the president yesterday only because his police dog, Kirk, was ill with heartworms. Normally, he could have taken the shift off, his partner, D.C. officer Winston Smith said, but he agreed instead to join the presidential security detail for the day.

"If he doesn't pull through," Mrs. Crist said, "he went down with his honor doing his job. Delabanty't nephew, Joe Crist 21, is a paramedic for the Wolf Ambulance Service in Bridgeville, but be was filling in as a volunteer ,1" WARSAW, Poland (UPI) Poland's independent Solidarity union has suspended a general strike threatened for today and has won a government apology for a police attack on union members in Bydgoszcz. After seven hours of intense negotiations yesterday, Solidarity and government representatives reached a compromise, which was hailed by union leader Lech Walesa as a "great achievement." Solidarity said its national commission was scheduled to meet in Gdansk today to "decide on the general strike's fate" and whether it should be postponed further or canceled in light of the agreement As part of the compromise, the government admitted that a March 19 police assault on union activists who occupied the city council building in the northwest town of Bydgoszcz "was clearly against the rule of solving all conflicts through political means." The police beatings pitted the independent labor movement against the government in the worst A.