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El Paso Herald -Post The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers El Paso Texas Wednesday January 21 1981 Price 25 cents Vol Cl No 18 Irani been kept abreast by the previous admin-' istration but we know the specific he said be going into those JIMMY CARTER NOW president Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the hostages flew to West Germany early today from Plains Ga to greet the liberated Americans whose release he engineered in virtual all-night vigils the last two nights of his presidency On his first full day as a private citizen Carter called the Iranian behavior through the 14 month crisis But he said his main (Continued on Page A-2) WASHINGTON (UPI) A State Department dent Reagan will study it (the hostage agreement) spokesman today raised the prospect that the Rea- very gan administration may choose not to follow Earlier Treasury Secretary-designate Donald through on the commitments made by the Carter administration in the hostage agreement Acting State Department spokesman William Dyess stressing that he was speaking for the new team under Alexander Haig said Reagan administration want to commit itself with- out having had a chance to study the docu- Regan said that the general outline of the hostage agreement with Iran does not appear to present any HE SAID are many financial and legal problems but the administration will review the ramifications Secretary-designate Haig and Presi- specifics just in case Reagan presides over swearing in of White Cabinet choices orders The star goes out El Paso's famous star on the mountain and the flag on the side of the State National Bank building downtown have been turned off to celebrate the release of 52 Americans As the ceremony began to turn off the Christmas Star some 80 spectators huddled together in the Chamizal National Memorial parking lot in freezing temperatures and fog WE AMERICANS go about our daily routine we seldom pause to reflect on the freedom we enjoy But during these past 444 days a group of 52 Americans in Iran were held in Holland York senior vice president of El Paso Electric Co said keep the concern for the health safety and release of the hostages on the minds of the residents of this community we as a community dedicated the star to the fate of the hostages in order that they not be forgotten The star remained lighted until the 52 Americans were On a different note Mayor Tom Westfall ended with may not sound Christian but like to see the light go out someplace ABOUT 18 OF the memorial's National Park Service employees had worked overtime to decorate the area with yellow sashes The Rev Robert Young from the First Presbyterian Church of El Paso gave a prayer and York returned to the microphone great joy and gladness" York intoned darken the star on the He turned to his side and a man sitting inside a parked car activated a radio signal to the mountainside where workers flipped the switches that controlled the flow of electricity to the star THE STAR TWINKLED a little and then disappeared The bank turned off the red white and blue lights to its United States flag and immediately started work on the numeral on the east side of its downtown building to be lighted on Saturday The numeral will represent the 100th anniversary this year Of the founding of the bank hostage will return to the banks There are another $22 billion in Iranian deposits in US domestic banks but they cannot be returned to Iran until some 3000 lawsuits claiming damages from Iran are settled The claims totaling some $3 billion have legally encumbered the assets They cannot be transferred until the claims are settled It is expected to take six months for an international claims settlement procedure to be established AND WHEN THAT is done $1 receive WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan gave strict marching orders to his Cabinet choices today telling them to stick with his newly ordered federal hiring freeze and help him cut the government budget Reagan witnessed the swearing-in of a number of White House staff members then met with his Cabinet choices at mid-morning at a table dominated by a Vi-foot-high jar of jelly beans HE GAVE HIS prospective Cabinet a quick briefing on former President Jimmy Carter's mission to West Germany greet our returning POWs" Reagan said he could not get used to calling the 52 freed Americans believing it more correct to call them "prisoners of Carter designated a special envoy by his successor left for Germany on a presidential jet this morning accompanied by several top members of his former administration THE NEW PRESIDENT then settled into a brief discussion of the econ- House staff pToday Marriage fails WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen Edward Kennedy D-Mass and his wife Joan announced today they are seeking a divorce after 22 years of marriage They have three children The decision was announced today in a brief statement issued by Kennedy's Capitol Hill office It said Mrs Kennedy will continue living in Boston while Kennedy will live in McLean Va and seek rerelection in 1982 On the inside eee Amusements E5 Astro-Graph B3 Classified E8-F4 Comics B8 Contemporary A8-7 Crossword B8 Dear Abby B3 Deaths E8 Editorial B2 Markets DM People B6 Records D2 Showcase E5 Sports El-4 Sylvia Porter DC Talk of the Town BC TV B7 Women A6-7 eee On the outside El Paso Weather Service forecast: Sunny and warmer today through tomorrow Details on Page B-6 II Paso Sunshine The sun shone todaj for the fourth consecutive day The sun has failed to shine only 38 out of the past 6142 days iju mu II yovr piper If not detlvtrtd by 5:70 pm an wtfMeyt pkN call MUOI by 7 pm On Saturday! call baton am it yovr paper not delivered by 7 am Mate by Jerry Uftmen Giant yellow ribbon omy telling his advisers got to get control of the budget It's out of control" Reagan flanked by Secretary of State-nominee Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger conceded there may be some El Pasoans hold thoir own Inaugural ball Pago B-l exceptions to his new order but for the most part urge all of you to stick with that" WEINBERGER TODAY became the first Reagan Cabinet member to be sworn into office Weinberger was the only Cabinet member to be confirmed by the Senate yesterday and he was endorsed on a 97-2 vote Most of nominees appeared certain of confirmation including his controversial appointment of Haig Labor Secretary-designate Raymond Donovan has been cleared by the FBI of accusations he made payoffs to the Teamsters union and (Continued on Page A-2) "We had been up all night had kept the Treasury Department open all night and the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and the Bank of England up all night "The transfers took about 40 minutes electronically except for your odd $35 million in World Bank loans certificates and $30 million in custody accounts abroad have no knowledge of any assets" of the shah in this country "The (shah's) family probably read your newspaper stories uh Arturo Cisneros and Diana Jimenez both in eighth grade pulled a targe yellow bow to the top of Coldwell Elementary School's flag pole during a brief ceremony today expressing thanks that the American hostages are free See story Page B-l Iran's net from deal $3 billion billion of the $22 billion will go into a sinking fund to pay off claims as they are adjudicated As payments made out of the fund drop the level below $500 million Iran must put more Iranian money into the fund to keep it at $500 million The procedure worked out with Algerian negotiators acting for Iran was for the assets going to Iran to be transferred to the Bank of England pending release of the hostages then turned over to Iran final penny went at about 6:45 said one senior official furt plus interest paid on the assets for 14 months at 17 percent OF THE NEARLY $8 billion $37 billion already has been used to pay off loans Iran had from US banks Another $1418 billion remains on deposit with the Bank of England because some of the banks protested having to pay 17 percent interest Those protests which snagged the negotiations at the 11th hour before being resolved will be settled later the senior officials say adding that they expect most of the $1418 billion By RH BOYCE blMjknid 1 WASHINGTON Although the United States turned over to Iran $7977 billion of own assets as part of the deal freeing the hostages Iran net much more than $3 billion of it senior administration officials say The nearly $8 billion total represents Iranian assets held by the US government since it froze those assets in the wake of the 1979 hostage taking plus Iran's assets in branches of US banks in London Paris and Frank Brazilian wedding party goes wild in pregnant moment snacks that had been laid on for a reception There were shouts of put in overtime to buy my sister a pretty dress!" and character is a swindler and a By that time forgotten in a corner Miss da Silva went into labor and was rushed to the Sao Jorge Hospital "I did what I did because I could not really raise our two children Miss da Silva said later "But I still understand how he could want to marry such an ugly Father Gusmao gave the sign of the cross to start the ceremony Then Maria Francisca da Silva a 29-year-old domestic servant stepped out of the shadows with her 2-year-old son Erick in her arms you have to she said to Lacerda is either her or me" Then turning to Gusmao this man is mine I have lived with him for 10 years I have this one son and am expecting another He tricked me and now he has to decide" Newspaper accounts said the bridegroom looked panic-stricken Then the fist fight began amid the tables of beer and 8-pound 2-ounce baby boy It all happened at the Our Lady of Aparecida Church in the Rio suburb of Sao Goncalo my 27 years in the priesthood I have never had an experience like this said Father Luiz Gus-mao Gusmao had been ready to marry 28-year-old salesman Julio Cesar Lacerda and nurse Mary Conceicao Domingues 28 Precisely at 7 pm proud father Ivan Domingues led his daughter to the altar to give her away to Lacerda RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil (UPI) A wedding ceremony with 250 guests present was disrupted when a woman in the last stages of pregnancy stepped forward and said she ana the bridegroom had lived together for the past 10 years A fight between the families of the bride and groom broke out and only stopped when police arrived on the scene The bride said she still wanted to get married but the priest refused to carry out the ceremony The pregnant woman then went into labor and was rushed to a nearby hospital where she gave birth to an 4.