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Tales of Abuse in Laos Prison Camps Bangkok, Thailand -Harsh concentration camps and a network of labor farms holding tens of thousands of political prisoners have sprung up in Laos since the Communist takeover two years ago, released inmates and Indochina analysts report. Laotian communism, once dubbed revolution with the gentle face" for its seemingly soft-line approach, has spawned more political prisoners per capita than in almost any other country, these sources say. Prince Souphanouvong's regime admits to holding 40,000 persons in "reeducation" camps dotted around the nation of 3.4-million people. Informed western sources estimate that there are as many as 60,000 people, many with little hope of release, in about 50 camps. Last month, Laos, in a goodwill gesture to its pro-western neighbor, Thailand, released five Thais, mainly former U.S.

government employees, who were held in camps in the remote AP Photo Prince Souphanouvong, who admits holding 40,000 persons in his "re-education joins some of his countrymen in digging a trench in a northern Laotian village. they saw killed was a ate everything we found in the trying to escape. jungle -flowers, leaves, shoots," said Theoyoo, a former electrician Khong Khetsakhorn, 43, who spent 14 mission in Laos, estimat- months in a camp of 500 to 600 prison15 per cent of the prison- ers at Ban Na Pokh, about 350 miles malaria, malnutrition north of the capital, Vientiane. ailments during his 15- Khong, who worked on U.S. conin the Phong Saly camp.

struction projects in Thailand and Aid Rebuff Called a Gambit -Continued From Page 7 ten agreement with unions for four years. unique," he admitted. "I've never heard of four-year agreements before. Bellamy, who had been in Washington last week lobbying for federal commitments to the city and who had told an aide later that "I feel like I've been selling washing machines," blasted the report for its "negativism." She argued that the four-year financial plan Koch has proposed had already answered some of the committee's criticisms. She took issue with the committee's failure to note that the city has laid off one-fifth of its work force, imposed higher subway fares and was under scrutiny of a number of sophisticated financial watchdogs.

But she also said she felt that in the end the city's case would make sense both to the White House and to Congress. City Comptroller Harrison Goldin said he thought the Proxmire report "well intentioned," but that "I cannot believe it is the final word." Goldin said that without long-term federal help the city would stay alive "only as a permanent invalid." In Albany, John Marchi, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, requested that Koch and top aides to Gov. Hugh Carey appear before the committee Thursday to provide details on the agreement between Carey and Koch that the state would provide $200 million in new state aid for the city from Carey's budget. Marchi (R-Staten Island) criticized the governor for not keeping Republicans abreast of city developments such as that agreement, and said, "I hope that this practice does not continue. It runs counter to the spirit of cooperation with the Legislature enunciated by Mayor Koch and cited by the Governor every time he needs help with New York financial City officials now say they are within $83 million of balancing their budget for fiscal 1979, which starts July 1.

This figure, however does not include $643 million in operating expenses in the city's capital budget which have traditionally been listed in the operating budget. But they still need $1.8 billion to help meet short-term needs caused by irregular patterns of spending revenue receipts. New York has been unable to meet those short-term needs since 1975 because it could not sell short-term municipal securities. Congress approved a $2.3 billion seasonal loan program for the last three years to plug that gap, but that loan program expires June 30. The Koch administration and U.S.

Treasury officials have been haggling over details of the Carter administration's proposed federal aid plan. There is agreement on seeking some form of short-term seasonal aid, but Treasury officials have said they opposed long-term guarantees Koch has requested. The package is to be presented later this month before the House Banking Committee. Laos, recalled the time a puppy belonging to an officer wandered into the camp. Lao grabbed it and smashed its head so quickly it couldn't make a noise he said "We roasted and ate it" Khong added that guards threatened to kill 10 prisoners in retaliation, but actually dropped the matter after holding two Laotian prisoners for several days in a black wooden punishment cage.

The three former prisoners reported a strong Chinese presence in the area. They said they saw Chinese medical personnel at the camps, as well as Chinese soldiers, workers and equipment, and that Chinese aircraft often flew over the area. The prisoners' accounts could not be independently confirmed But several western analysts familiar with Laos said that, judging from other available information, the reports were believable. In Cambodia, which also came under Communist rule in 1975, many thousands of persons were forced to move from the cities into rural areas, and there have been numerous reports of mass killings. In Vietnam, prisoners were put into re-education camps, and there were also reports of population transfers from the cities to the country.

northern Phong Saly province. In interviews, three of the group, the first-known prisoners to be released only prisoner and to provide eyewitness accounts, de- man shot for scribed assaults, scant rations and Yiam clothing, and being threatened by with the U.S. guards that they would be forced to ed that 10 to "confess" to being CIA agents. ers died from They said there were almost no po- and other litical indoctrination sessions and the month stay Specifically, the Senate committee report recommended: that the State Legislature increase the borrowing authority of the Municipal Assistance Corp. to $3 billion and extend its life as well as some form of an emergency control board to monitor city spending; that city employees' pensions be invested at their present 35 per cent level to provide long-term financing; that New York banks extend a $600 million line of credit for seasonal borrowing; that pay raises that increase the budget deficit be countered with budget cuts saving from high productivity; and that any shortfalls be met by standby commitments from the state or the state pension system.

That long list of recommendations merely emphasized the congressional resistance to any effort to help New York, said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D- N.Y.) in a speech to New York bankers last night. report of the banking committee makes it shockingly apparent that we, in fact, have fewer friends in Congress than we thought and, worse, that nothing that the city and its advocates have said has been believed." Brooklyn (AP) -The chief union negotiator predicted another cliff-hanger windup as negotiations on a new transit contract opened yesterday against an April 1 strike possibility. The prediction came from Matthew Guinan, the president of the Transport Workers Union, as he presented demands to the Transit Authority and got back what he labeled "a book of counterdemands." The exchange with Harold Fisher, the chairman of both the Transit Authority and its parent Metropolitan Transportation Authority, took place at the Transit Police Academy against a background of continuing fiscal crisis. The only note of accord between the parties was on continuing co-operation in pressing for greater subsidy support at the federal, state and city levels.

Fisher- -declaring that both an increase in the present 50-cent fare this and further service cuts "should not be contemplated" said that the only other source for money to pay higher labor costs would be cutbacks on certain economic terms in the current contract. But Guinan, speaking to reporters after Fisher held a news conference, rejected that solution out of hand. He insisted that "substantial" wage increases were needed, besides catchup payments, to restore a loss in the workers' purchasing power in the past three years that he put at 15 to 16 per cent. And he added that Mayor Edward Koch had managed to raise the salaries of close associates by considerably greater amounts. "We're not going to sit at the bargaining table to negotiate away what we've negotiated in the past 35 years," Guinan said.

OBITUARIES Warren King, 62 New York -Cartoonist Warren King, whose work appeared on the editorial page of the Daily News for more than 20 years, died Wednesday at his home in Wilton, Conn He was 62 years old. King was born in New York City in 1916, and graduated from Fordham University and the Phoenix Art Institute. He started as a free-lance book illustrator, and also worked in advertising and magazine illustration. He worked for a time as an aide to cartoonist. Rube Goldberg, and later was a cartoonist for the National Association of Manufacturers.

King joined the Daily News in 1955, and his cartoons during the next two decades frequently reflected the day's editorial. He won awards from the Freedom Foundation, the Newspaper Guild, and the Society of Silurians. King's paintings have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pentagon and the Air Force Academy. Besides being an artist, he won distinction 88 an athlete. He was an undefeated swimming champion at Fordham University.

He is survived by his wife, Nadine, a son, Dennis, and daughters Patricia and Suzanne. Andrew C. Ivy, 84 Chicago (UPD- were conducted yesterday for Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, a long-time cancer researcher who for a time promoted the controversial cancer drug krebiozen.

Ivy, 84, died Tuesday in his home in suburban Oak Park of an undisclosed illness. He had been ill for nearly two years. He became involved in the krebiozen controversy in the 1950s when he was introduced to the drug by Dr. Stevan Durovic, who said he had developed it in Argentina with his brother, Marko. Ivy contended the drug was derived from the liver and blood plasma of cattle and horses, but the Food and Drug Administration labeled the drug a fraud, claiming it was mineral oil.

Ivy is survived by his wife, Emma; five sons, 18 grandchildren, a sister and a brother. More Obituaries, Next Page.