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I 115 BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 31,1981 FINAL 20 CENTS Uh 30 55 0 '9 old snis gM.sMois rady badly injiFd. rL Shots fired outside D.C. hotel Secret Service man, capital policeman are also wounded mm aid 'it f- -v' Jrri TV mm AP Two Secret Service agents push President Reagan into his limousine after he is shot. By Ernest B. Furgurson Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington A gunman pushed through newsmen to shoot President Reagan in the left chest and wound three other persons yesterday as the president left a Washington hotel after speaking to a labor group.

Last night, after surgery that lasted about two hours, Mr. Reagan's prognosis was described as "excellent." A physician said the president had "sailed through" the operation. Mr. Reagan was able to walk into the hospital after being rushed away from the scene, and joked cheerfully as he was wheeled into the operating room for Related stories on Pages A6, A7, A8, A9andAlO. removal of a bullet that passed near his heart and partly collapsed his left lung.

James S. Brady, the president's press secretary, was critically wounded by a bullet in the head. A Washington policeman, hit in the shoulder, also was in serious condition, and a Secret Service man was hit in the chest. Secret Service agents and police, suddenly bristling with pistols and submachine guns, wrestled the assailant to the sidewalk. They later identified and charged John Warnock Hinckley, 25, of Evergreen, an affluent mountain suburb 20 miles west of Denver.

Early today, the subdued, puffy-faced defendant was brought to a tightly guarded courtroom where a U.S. magistrate ordered him held without bond for a hearing Thursday at 10 a.m. Authorities in Nashville reported that Mr. Hinckley was arrested there carrying three handguns when President Jimmy Carter was in town last October for a campaign meeting. Federal agents said records show he bought two more handguns the kind used yesterday at a pawnshop in Dallas four days later.

Mr. Hinckley's father is president of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, an oil and See SHOOTING, A6, Col. 1 4h Three men tie wounded after assassination attempt on President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel. In the background, Secret Service agents subdue the suspect in the shooting, John W. Hinckley, Jr.

Press secretary James S. Brady (right) lies injured on a sidewalk. The man at left has not been identified. At! Suspect Hinckley said to have received psychiatric care, faced Tenn. gun charge 4 Mil By Sandy Banisky pv vri But two members of a self-described Nazi organization said last night that Mr.

Hinckley had corresponded with the group later severing his relationship with the Nazis because he felt they were not militant enough. Meanwhile, the FBI in Nashville confirmed that a man named John Hinckley was arrested October 9 as he tried to carry three handguns aboard a Nashville-to-New York flight. President Carter had been campaigning that day in Nashville. Four days later, Mr. Hinckley reportedly bought a pair of revolvers See HINCKLEY, A8, Col.

3 Denver. Yesterday, in a statement from a neighbor's home, the Hinckleys said they were heartbroken by the news from Washington. "John has been recently under psychiatric care, but the evaluation did not alert us to the seriousness of his condition," the statement said. It was unclear last night how long Mr. Hinckley, 25, had been receiving treatment and what he was being treated for.

Mr. Hinckley's movements over the last few months also were unclear. He attended Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, during the 1980 summer semester. John Warnock Hinckley, accused of shooting President Reagan yesterday in Washington, has "recently" been under psychiatric care and reportedly was arrested last year on a gun charge in Tennessee. The son of a wealthy oil man who is a Republican, Mr.

Hinckley grew up in the most exclusive area of Dallas. The family moved to Denver after their son's 1973 graduation from Dallas's Highland Park Senior High School. The i Hinckleys now live in a luxury development in Evergreen, about 20 miles from A John W. Hinckley, arrested after yesterday's assassination attempt, ap- pears here in Colorado Highway Department driver's license photo. sffiw 1 A reporter who witnessed the attack recalls the 'bloody the chaos Inside Kamka resigns Gordon C.

Kamka, state public safety sec-J retary, and Edwin R. Goodlander, commissioner of correction, resign CI Poland settlement Poland's Communist Party and Solidarity, the independent labor union, reach a last-minute pact averting a strike A2 Sunny and warm Sunny and warm today, high 75. Chance of showers late tonight, low 50. Yesterday's high, 68; low, 58 C2 Index Business A13 Movies Bo Comics B7 Obituaries Crossword B7 Shipping. A17 Editorials A18 Sports C5 Gardner 1.B6 TV-Radio B2 3 Sections .1 sity of the Washington Hilton, be it for presidents or paying guests.

Why, just after Mr. Reagan had warned that the price of expecting government to run our lives instead of "protecting" them was a 10 percent increase in violent crime? Why should that young man with short, straight fair hair, the tan raincoat, the light blue shirt, the dark blue trousers, bis hands now cuffed behind him, be bundled -no, almost thrown-into the police car? Why should someone here have murder in mind? Why? Why? Why? There are no answers here as the cameras and microphones are poked into the faces of anyone who saw anything, recording their bewilderment, their shock, their See WITNESS, A3, Col. 1 gle at the foot of a 15-foot-high stone wall above which bloom the first flowers of spring. A president, welcomed so properly and so warmly just moments earlier, now pushed gracelessly into his limousine and whisked away with textbook speed as immediate assurances are given that he is not hit All too quickly we learn the truth. And now-everywhere screams, shouts, panic.

This is what that ceaseless vigil reporters keep on a president is all about: the awful climax of that most morbid of journalistic body watch." Why here on street? It is a nondescript service road between the main arteries of Connecticut and Florida avenues the most discreet point of entry, for whatever purpose, into the white immen By Gilbert A. Lewthwaite Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington Already it is a frozen moment of sharp sound, soft smoke and sudden chaos. A sidewalk dripping a friend's blood and possibly life into a rusty grating, a gaping wound in his temple. Two other victims motionless on the rain-soaked pavement, their clothing becoming as limp as their bodies in the endless rain. Dark figures bending solicitously over them all.

A knot of men so entwined and locked in intense life-and-death struggle for a deadly weapon that it is impossible to attach arms to shoulders and legs to hips. The protectors and the alleged assailant are one grunting, steaming, pulsating tan Secret Service Agent Timothy J. McCarthy reacts as a bullet strikes him..