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White House denies deal cut for Cuban base From Combined Newi Reports WASHINGTON The White House and the State Department Saturday categorically denied reports that the Reagan administration is considering the return of the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo to Cuba as a means of solving the problem of Cuban undesirables who arrived on the Mariel boatlif t. White House spokesman Sue Mathis said the report, which originated with the Washington Star, was "absolutely false." State Department spokesman Joe Reap said, "The story is absolutely wrong and we are denying it. The return of Guantanamo to Cuba simply is not an option under any consideration at all." Another State Department official, who asked not to be identified but who is intimately involved with both U.S. policy toward Cuba and the problem of the Cuban undesirables, called the report "bull and "the wildest I have heard yet.

It's totally unfounded." The Star, quoting an unnamed Reagan administration official, reported that a plan under consideration involved sending over 1,200 Cubans who arrived during the Mariel lift and who are now detained at Fort Chaffee, and at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, to the 31-square-mile Guantanamo base on the southeastern end of Cuba. The base would then be returned to Cuba along with the undesirables. Many of the incarcerated refugees, among an estimated 125,000 Cubans who came to the United States by boat last year, remain in federal custody because of mental or physical problems or criminal backgrounds. Cuba's President Fidel Castro has been unwilling to take them back, and pending court suits may force the United States to release them into American society at large unless they are deported.

Although they came here illegally, U.S. officials said that the Cubans are under a special dispensation. Mathis said that some action on the special Cuban exile problem may be taken soon, possibly as early as next week. An administration task force headed by Attorney General William French Smith and dealing with overall immigration Eroblems presented its report to the White House last week. It i said to contain several options involving not only illegal Cuban immigrants but Mexican, Haitian and other nationalities.

There have been numerous suggestions that one way to return to Cuba the criminal element and other undesirables who arrived during Mariel would be to take them to Guantanamo and shove them across the fence. "But this twist (as reported by the Star) is absolutely incredible," said one official. "It has its virtue. You put them on the base then give the base back to Cuba. The simplicity of it is beautiful but it is so absurd as to have to be a joke." 0 VtjGl The Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland Irish nationalist guerrillas on hunger strike in Maze Prison said Saturday they are willing to compromise with the British government in an effort to avoid further starvation deaths, their supporters said.

British officials immediately responded by allowing a Roman Catholic delegation to visit the eigtit current hunger strikers, a government spokesman said. The delegation declined to make any comment alter leaving the Maze, where the members talked to some of the hunger strikers and other prisoners for four hours. The eight hunger strikers, one near death, are fasting for special privileges that amount to political prisoner status for jailed Irish nationalist guerrillas. "Comrades of ours have died and eight of our other comrades presently face death on hunger strike," the prisoners said in a statement. "Our people on the outside have died, and more may die.

That is why we seek immediate talks It is a reasonable request." The lengthy statement was issued through the Maze II-Block Committee, named after the prison's shape and acting as official spokesman for the hundreds of jailed nationalists. In it, the guerrillas conceded the British government's principal argument that they should not receive preferential treatment. They asked Saturday that the treatment they demand be afforded to all prisoners. The five demands include exemption from prison work, the right to wear civilian clothes and to associate freely among themselves, a 50 percent remission cf their sentences and more mail and visits. The British so far have repeatedly refused, claiming the privileges would give political legitimacy to the outlawed Irish Republican Army's campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

The IRA and its splinter groups seek to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite it with the independent Irish Republic in the south, where Catholics are in the majority. Catholics are a minority in Northern Ireland. The statement said that, by granting the five privileges to all inmates, the prison administration would not forfeit its authority. "But the prisoner could have his dignity re- stored and cease to occupy the role of establishment zombie," it said. A Northern Ireland Office spokesman said Michael Alison, the British minister in charge of the province's prisons, "readily agreed" to let the delegation of five Catholic priests and laymen visit the hunger strikers after reading the statement.

The five are members of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace, created by Ireland's Catholic bishops to advise on social issues. The commission has been negotiating for two weeks with Alison on ways to end the prisoners' fast. Prison officials said Saturday one of the eight hunger strikers, convicted IRA gunmen Joe McDonnell, 30, was on the verge of death after 57 days without food. The deaths of four Maze hunger strikers in May triggered widespread sectarian violence in this province. Police predict another surge of bloodshed if McDonnell dies.

Relatives of the hunger strikers met Fri- day with Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald of the Irish Republic in a bid to persuade him 1 to put pressure on London to make concessions. They rejected any settlement before "our loved ones are satisfied that their five demands have been met." The British government has promised to introduce some prison reforms if the hunger strike is called off. But, until Saturday at least, the eight fasters have stressed in state- ments smuggled from the Maze that they will settle for nothing less than all their demands being met The hunger strikers' statement came a day after IRA guerrillas bombed a British customs post near Newry on the border with the Irish Republic, police said. Earner Friday evening, members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a leftwing IRA splinter group, shot at Protestant extremist leader Rev. Ian Paisley as he was driven through a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast in a police car.

-4 tWUKv.v 1 AP CELEBRATES A Cuban-American child gets in the spirit of things in Miami's Little Havana as the district holds its first Fourth of July parade, just one of many celebrations throughout the nation and the world. See stories, page 8A. Candidates plu campaigning week Dowdy propels campaign with zest Williams floods 4th district during summer rainstorm minded of my position." With his move to characterize Williams as the big-money candidate, it is ironic that it is the 37-year-old Dowdy, who is the wealthier of the two candidates. He owns more than a quarter-million-dollar interest in broadcasting companies and earns from his law practice. He has pumped at least $78,000 of his own money into the campaign.

To supplement his advertising, the candidate has turned to frequent press conferences and has saturated communities in the 12 counties with less-expensive personal appearances and hand-pumping. At first taking a "hands-off" approach in talking about his opponent, now he is on both the defensive and offensive. He calls the move by the Williams camp to characterize Dowdy as a "liberal" who will follow Democratic Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. "underhanded." "Fiscally, I'm conservative," he explains.

"I would say I'm a moderate on matters other than fiscal." Dowdy was born and raised in Gulf-port where his father Charles was in the broadcasting business. Although his family is wealthy, Dowdy said he financed his own way through both college and law school. "Dad is very wealthy but he worked us the way that I'll work my children," Dowdy said. "They are going to work and learn the value of work. I'm not going to be the kind of father that provides a car and a gasoline credit card." Before arriving at the ETV studio Tuesday, Dowdy had already been awake for two hours, getting prepared for the television taping and a press conference scheduled for later in the morning.

When the cameras started rolling, Dowdy greeted the television viewers as if he were a talk-show host with a "Good evening, my name is Wayne Dowdy." Dowdy is long-acquainted with broadcasting, working in his father's radio studios as a teenager and working his way through college, he said, as a disc jockey and as television newscaster. On the television show, scheduled to be aired at 7 p.m. Monday, he brings up familiar topics. The program ranged from Social Security cuts opposed to the administration's plan to cut Social Security to education, which he said is taking a disproportionate share of the Reagan administration's proposed cuts money is investment money. We either spend money on education now or spend it later in Fifteen questions were asked and answered but the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which Dowdy has favored, was not even mentioned.

Dowdy is a sure bet to win a great percentage of the black vote and is now in a struggle to capture enough of the white vote to put him over the top. Asked if his obvious downplay of the voting-rights issue would insult black supporters, Dowdy said. "They know what my position is on it. They're intelligent, they don't have to be repeatedly re By JUDY PUTNAM Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer It's 8:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Wayne Dowdy, the Democratic candidate for Congress, is patiently sweating under sizzling camera lights at a Mississippi Authority for Educational Television studio. Three friends, who were there to ask questions of the candidate, sit with him on the studio set One of the three "panel" members, Bobby Darville, a friend from Dowdy's hometown of McComb and treasurer for the Dowdy for Congress campaign, is being made up by a make-up man as the three cameramen get ready to shoot a staged, talk-show style segment on Dowdy's stands. "Beau," Darville calls to campaign aide Beau Whittington who was standing off stage, "I'm going to jump up and ask for money right in the middle of this thing." "Just fall down on one knee and beg," Whittington calls back while a small group of campaign volunteers, including Dowdy's wife Susan, laughed. During the taping, Darville didn't desperately beg for money. The joke, however, illustrates Dowdy's concern that he is being outspent by his opponent Republican Liles Williams by $300,000 to $200,000.

To make up for it, Dowdy is trying to use money to his advantage charging that Williams is being bought by oil companies and shoved down the voters' throats through paid advertisements. For Dowdy, the campaign days have started early and ended late. By CLIFF TREYENS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer It wasn't exactly what you'd call an ideal day of campaigning with less than a week remaining before the election most candidates for public office might describe it as a nightmare. But for Republican Liles Williams by most accounts sitting pretty in his race against Democrat Wayne Dowdy to fill the vacant 4th Congressional District seat in Tuesday's runoff election it was just another day in what has become a grueling campaign. When things didn't go just right on Thursday's swing through the southern, rural counties of the 4th District, the businessman from Clinton was content to plug along, shake hands, make calls and hold the fort.

6:30 a.m. A sleepy-eyed candidate sips coffee at a 24-hour self-service gas station and begins to hands out the first of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of brochures with his picture, a brief biography and "His Message." "Sure you can make it in that car?" he asked a reporter, whose auto has obviously seen better days. Shortly after he leaves the gas station and heads down 1-55 a cloudburst breaks loose but the candidate, driven by a volunteer, rushes along at breakneck speed 65 to 70 mph over the wet concrete. 8:30 a.m. Williams arrives at the Western Auto store in Meadville.

A friend and supporter, store owner Win- ton Wicker, is not there. He is fighting his way through the torrential rains to escort the candidate through town, which is rapidly turning into a lake. At 8:35 a.m. the electricity goes out in Meadville. Williams, so far undaunted by this mishap in what will be a long day of campaigning, goes across the street to the weekly Franklin Advocate for an interview.

No one is there. What Williams does this day is largely superfluous. He is primarily making contacts with those who already support him solidifying his base of support and attempting to pick up a few more votes on the side. The heavy-duty campaign work is being done by television commercials, telephone banks and the distribution of tens of thousands of brochures, newspaper inserts and other campaign materials with which he has so effectively saturated the 12-county district He espouses nearly straight-line Reagan policy. And, based on the results of the June 23 election, it appears that is what a large share of the voting public wants.

He got into the runoff by winning 45 percent of the vote June 23 a figure his backers believe can do nothing but grow on Tuesday. It is a big step for the 45-year-old Williams, a relatively obscure man three months ago who can now taste victory See Williams, page 3A After high school Dowdy enrolled in Millsaps where he majored in history and met fellow history major Susan Ten-ney of Grenada, now his wife of 1 5 years. They have three children, Susan Dunbar, 13; Charles, 10; and Eloise, 7. During college, from 1961 to 1965, Dowdy worked as a radio announcer and disc jockey for the now-defunct WRBC radio station. He then entered Jackson School of Law (now the Mississippi College School of Law), working in the public relations department at Millsaps and working as an announcer and weekend newscaster for Channel 12 television in Jackson.

While in law school Dowdy met McComb attorney Joe Pigott, now a circuit judge, who offered him a job in his firm in McComb when Dowdy graduated in 1968. Dowdy worked for Pigott's firm for a year but in 1970, Dowdy formed his own See Enthusiasm, Page 3A INDEX Accent IF Perspective 1G Real Estate 1H Art 10G Suspect held in TcJxulci page 3B BFI plans to dump more than 56,000 tons of hazardous wacfp IE ID Classified 6C4H So. Style Crossword 12G Sports Editorials 2G State 3A Metro IB Sunday People 2A a year at landfill KlWdS Shelter BaiU-Sadr PAGE12A PAGE ID Travel 2G Weather Money Obituaries.