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raw GtId first such statement on nuclear arms policy. In their letter, the congressmen who included William Carney and Ray McGrath, both of Long Island, Guy Molinari of Staten Island and George Whartley of Fayetteville, N.Y. defended the Reagan administration's general nuclear strategy. But it also noted that there are significant differences in Congress over aspects of U.S.. policy, especially the MX missile.

In unusually blunt language, the congressmen also questioned one of the main implications of the proposed church statement: That there are no values worth defending if the price is the risk of nuclear war. This view, the congressmen said, is "agnostic at best" about the existence of the immortal soul and the nature of good and evil. "We would hope that those who would disarm us in the name of peace might dwell more deeply on their responsibility for the moral character of the peace that would follow our surrender," the congressmen said. They also defended the right of the United States to build and deploy nuclear weapons something the bishops have condemned on grounds that this is the most effective means of dissuading Soviet aggression and bringing about meaningful disarmament negotiations. seem to differentiate between the in-' tent of nuclear weapons systems deployed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

As it now stands, in fact, we are condemned equally if not more than the Soviets for possessing huge weapons." THE LETTER WAS addressed to Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago, head of the special bishops' committee that is writing the document on nuclear policy. Much of the church document, as it now stands, rejects basic American nuclear strategy as immoral. The bishops are scheduled to vote next May- on the American church's By CHARLES W. BELL Rentiwi Editor More than 20 Catholic congressmen yesterday attacked a proposed U.S.

Catholic, bishops statement on American nuclear strategy on grounds that its over-all tone serves Soviet interests more than world peace. In an eight-page open letter signed by 24 members of the House, four of them Republicans from New York, the congressmen "warned that language in the proposed church document comes close to embracing atheistic principles. "In its present they said, "the draft letter (by the bishops) does not II I 3 vt I vjvs Tw: X': 3 ml fit pistol after trying to kill her, state police said. State troopers said there was no note. THE TROOPERS said a family member noticed the house was dark, discovered the tragedy and called police.

McMillin had been battling cancer the past few years and apparently had I lull ''II 1 a Entrance to the Rockefeltef compound at Bay Pond, N.Y., on Saranac Uke, where Miles McMillin, was found dead and his wife, Elsie, was found wounded Monday. IRA raps DeL's tale of links Dublin (UPD The outlawed Irish Republican Army yesterday denied any ties to auto manufacturer John DeLorean and branded the accused drug a "gangster" who helped Britain. undermine the terrorist group in Northern Ireland. "We do not take lightly Mr. DeLor-ean's lies, nor will we forget them should he ever bump into us," the IRA said in a statement released by the Irish Republican Publicity Bureau.

In Los Angeles Monday, an affidavit submitted in court by prosecutors said DeLorean, 57, had boasted of a "very tight relationship" with the IRA, which DeLorean reportedly said would help hira finance a cocaine deal to save his sports car company. The IRA said it had opposed-establishment of DeLorean's Belfast plant, set up 2Vt years ago with the help of British government grants and loans totaling $136 million. "In Ireland we treat as an offense anyone who falsely uses the name of the Irish Republican Army to impress people, abuse people or extricate themselves from situations of their own making," the IRA said. "The Irish Republican Army repudiates in the strongest possible terms that it has or ever bad any dealings with the gangster John DeLorean." It said the DeLorean "venture" was "part and parcel of a British government counter-insurgency project aimed at undermining our base in West Belfast through the bribe of jobs and prosperity." DeLorean was arrested Oct 19. if taken a turn for the worse.

He returned from a 10-day hospital stay at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, last week and confided to friends that he was in great pain. McMillin retired in 1978 as publisher of The Capital Times of Madison, and the couple moved to Bay Pond, N.Y., on the northern edge of Saranac Lake. Army Secretary John Marsh objected to the interment of Mayer's cremated remains at the cemetery last week, but said present rules made it impossible to refuse. Mayer, a partially disabled Navy veteran, was killed by police Dec. 8 while laying siege to the monument straps, a spiked ball and chain, pornographic materials, an occult library, statues symbolizing Satan, lizards, frogs and serpents.

Deputies found Odom and Scudder last Thursday. Both men had been shot repeatedly is the head with a pistol. wanted to be left alone so they could practice devil worship and homosexuality," a sheriff said New burial rules for Arlington? Paul Smiths, N.Y. (Combined Dispatches) A cancer-ridden retired newspaper publisher shot his wife, who is a member of the Rockefeller family, then killed himself in an attempted murder-suicide, police said yesterday. The wife Elsie Rockefeller McMillin, 58, a cousin of late Vice President Nelson A.

Rockefeller was listed in critical condition with a head wound yesterday at Champlain Valley Medical Center-Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh. She formerly had been married to Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire. The body of her husband, Miles McMillin, 69, was found Monday on a bed beside her in the family's home on the Rockefeller compound 22 miles northwest of Lake Placid. He had shot himself with a with human skulls, Satanic altars and medieval instruments of torture.

West, 27, then drove the devil worshipers' Jeep to a place near Vicks-burg, where he killed sailor Kirby Phelps and took Phelps car because the Jeep was running out of gas, police said. The mother of a second suspect in the slayings, Kenneth Lowrance, 17, called deputies Monday night, and Lowrance, jailed without bafl in the Charge fugitive in third Southern slayini Washington (UPD The Army said yesterday it would review rules on eligibility for burial at Arlington National Cemetery in response to the interment there of 1 Norman Mayer, who threatened to blow up the Washington Monument three killings, accused West of pulling the trigger, police said. Lowrance called his mother, Betty Lowrance, from a gas station and told her to report his whereabouts to police, she said. According to police, he said Wells had left him at a bar and he feared the fugitive might try to kill him. The house where Scudder and Odom 1 lived was filled wifli skulls at least two of them human whips, leather Summerville, Ga.

(UPD A fugitive wanted in the slayings of two homosexual devil-worshipers was charged yesterday with killing a sailor so he could steal a getaway car. A nationwide alert was issued for the suspect Tony Wells West, who allegedly killed former college professor Charles L. Scudder, 56, and his "servant" Joseph Odom, 37, in a backwoods, dungeon-like retreat cluttered.