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By The Associated Press
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pners sent to bases in Libya;
ebates move against Khadafy
Forei
U.S.
TRIPOLI, Libya Col. Moammar
Khadafy's government claimed Sunday
it had moved foreign workers, includ
ing U.S. citizens, to oil fields in the
desert and army bases purportedly tar
geted for attack by American forces.
But a Western diplomat told The
Associated Press he had spoken to sev
eral representatives of his country in
Libya, and "none of them reported any
such incident." He spoke on condition
he not be identified further.
The U.S. 6th fleet, meanwhile, was
poised in the Mediterranean off Libya,
awaiting President Reagan's decision
on a possible strike in retaliation for
Khadafy's reputed support of interna
tional terrorism.
Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl
of West Germany have said Libya is a
prime suspect in the April 5 bombing of
a West Berlin discotheque that was a
gathering place for U.S. troops stati
oned in West Germany.
Diplomats ordered all Americans
out under risk of a 10-year prison sent
ence and cut all U.S. economic ties
with Libya after terrorists attacked the
Rome and Vienna airports Dec. 27, kil
ling 20 people, including five Ameri
cans. Khadafy told a new conference Wed
nesday that he and his top command
ers had made military plans in the
event of an American strike against
this country.
In Washington, Vice President George
Bush said Sunday that "Libyans had
their fingerprints all over state-sponsored
terrorism" and the United States
had a duty to punish those who threaten
Americans overseas.
Deputy Secretary of State John C.
Whitehead said U.S. officials had infor
mation implicating Khadafy in the
bombing of a West Berlin nightclub in
which an American was killed and
indicating that Khadafy was plotting
more such attacks.
President Reagan is weighing the
use of military force against Libya in
retaliation for the attacks, Whitehead
said, but added, "the prospect of mil
itary action is something that only the
president will decide on. He has not yet
made that decision."
Reagan last week indicated his wil
lingness to take military action if the
perpetrators could be identified and an
appropriate target located.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers, the Amer
ica and Coral Sea, which last month
engaged Libyan forces in the disputed
Gulf of Sidra, remained "underway in
the Mediterranean," said Pentagon
spokesman Maj. Larry Icenogle.
The Reagan administration was con
sulting with key members of Congress
and U.S. allies in Western Europe over
the next step against Khadafy.
"The United States has an obligation
to protect its citizens living abroad and
to bring to justice in some, in any way
possible, those who threaten the lives
or take the lives of Americans abroad,"
Bush said.
Student writing skills poor, study shows
BALTIMORE - A federally financed
survey released Saturday found that 02
percent to SO percent of American 17-year-olds
demonstrated unsat isfactory
writing skills, depending on the type of
writing tested.
Despite some recent improvements,
the 10-year study, which also tested
9-and 13-year-olds, concluded that
American students' writing skills re
main in dismal shape.
The study, released at a national
convention of education writers, said
there is "clear cause for concern about
the writing proficiency of the nation's
students."
The report was issued by t he Nat ional
Assessment of Educational Progress,
established by Congress 17 years ago to
test how well the nation's schools are
doing in various subjects.
The latest survey tested 15,000 9-,
1:- and 17-year-olds from around the
country in 1984. It compared perfor
mance in three kinds of writing
persuasive, informative and imagina
tive - with students similarly tested in
1979 and 1974. A total of 95,000 st u
dents took part in the three assess
ment years.
Among the findings:
70 percent of 17-year-olds, 8:1
percent of Dl-yeai'-olds and 95 percent
of 9-year-olds could not write an ade
quate imaginative piece of writing.
O 02 percent of 17-year-olds, 81
percent of 1:1-year-olds and 97 percent
of 9-year-olds wrote unsatisfactory infor
mative prose.
O 80 percent of 17-year-olds. 90
percent of Dl-yeai-olds, and two-thirds
of 9-year olds could not write a persua
sive letter.
In Brief
Popo visits
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ynngoguc
ROME Pope John Paul II sr.d
Rome's . leading rabbi embraced,
read from the Psalms and pray
tef&ther in &I!ence Sunday during
the Hrct reccricd visit ty a pcyo to
northwestern city of Quetta, where
he was opening a sports event. He
said the opposition rallies were part
of the democratic process, but that
he was determined to maintain law
and crder.
John Paul d?f Icrcd the "hatred
trJ persecution" cf the Jews thrci'clv
cut the centuries.
"You are cur dearly beloved
brothers and, in a certain way, it
could be said that you are our elder
brothers," John Paul said to re
sounding applause from the crowd
of about 1,000 people.
Speaking in Rome's monumental
main synagogue facing the Tiber
River, spiritual center of what is
believed to be the oldest Jewish
community in the west, the pope
pledged the Roman Catholic Church
would further its efforts to remove
all forms of prejudice.
Bhutto rally
GUJRANWALA, Pakistan Op
position leader Benazir Bhutto led
tens of thousands of people on a
triumphant 38-mile procession
through the countryside Saturday,
as President Mohammed Zia ul-Ilaq
warned that such rallies would not
be allowed to get out of hand.
She has attracted hundreds of
thousands of people at rallies since
her return to Pakistan from self
imposed exile in London on Thurs
day. She repeated on Saturday her
demands that Gen. Zia immediately
be removed from power and free
elections held.
Zia talked to reporters in the
EEEXELEY, C;!l A University
of Cdifcrr.ia student who fell nine
stcrics fro a d::rr;tcry window
cr,to a parkcJ c:j suffered only
miner ir-des a.tcr he crashed
through the rod tf the car and his
fall was broken ty the seat cushions,
authorities said.
Michael McGuinness, 19, of Davis,
suffered cuts and bruises but no
fractures, according to officials at
Herrick Hospital.
Abe Totah, another resident of
the dormitory, said he was studying
on the ground floor when he heard a
"big thud."
Totah, who ran to the parking lot,
said McGuinness had some blood
on his shoulder and was conscious.
"He was asking where he was and
what happened," Totah said.
Poet honored
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
White, anti-apartheid poet Brey
ten Breytenbach, who was jailed for
seven years on a terrorism convic
tion, was awarded South Africa's
richest literary prize Saturday for
poems he wrote while in prison.
Breytenbach, 45, has lived in
Paris since his release from prison
in 1982. He returned to South Africa
Friday for the first time since then
to accept the first-ever Rapport
Prize for Literature.
Walker spy case most damaging in history, author says
RICHMOND, Va. A writer who retraced the
steps of John A. Walker Jr. says the convicted spy
and his cohorts dealt the United States the most
devastating intelligence loss in its history.
"The FBI and the Naval Intelligence Service
say this, not the Rosenbergs, is the biggest spy
case in U.S. history," said Jack M. Kneece,
author of the forthcoming book, "Family Trea
son: The Walker Spy Case."
"The Rosenbergs gave the Soviets about a
four-year jump on the atomic bomb. These guys
gave the Soviets over 18 to 20 years a
devastating amount of information," Kneece
said.
Julius and Ehtel Rosenberg were executed in
1953 after they were convicted of passing atomic
secrets to the Russians.
Last summer, Navy officials said the secrets
Walker is accused of selling may have comprom
ised submarine warfare strategies by exposing
secret Navy codes.
The public image of Walker that emerged
during legal proceedings against him appeared
to waver between the ridiculous and the sublime.
He had obtained top-secret documents for
years without being detected, but as a private
investigator tended to bungle investigations and
got involved in costly lawsuits.
Kneece is a 48-year-old journalist who has
worked for wire services and newspapers for 27
years. His book, to be published in June by Stein
and Day of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., apparently is
the first of what promises to be a wealth of
Walker literature.
Walker, 48, is serving two life terms plus 10
years in prison as part of a plea bargain made
with authorities in October. His 22-year-old son,
Michael L. Walker, received a 25-year sentence
on five spying counts as part of the agreement.
Kneece estimated that Walker earned about
$1 million from the Soviets, and the U.S. military
will have to spend about $100 million to repair
the leaks.
With Walker's help, the Soviets were able to
decrypt U.S. naval communications and to over
. come a vast U.S. superiority in anti-submarine
warfare, said Kneece.
Walker also passed along a map of the sonic
listening devices the Navy used to track Soviet
submarines, and gave away the Navy technology
used to identify Soviet vessels by their sound.
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Jesse Jackson
offers to mediate
Hormel strike
AUSTIN, Minn. The Rev. Jesse
Jackson met Sunday with protesters
arrested in a violent demonstration
during the nearly 8-month-old strike
against Hormel and said his meeting
with a company official earlier in the
day was fruitful.
"The issue is not about jobs, con
frontation and tear gas," the civil
rights leader told reporters after his
jail visit with the protesters arrested
Friday. "It's about getting to work."
Jackson, who had offered to mediate
the contract dispute, said his meeting
with Hormel Vice President Charles
Nyberg earlier Sunday was fruitful. But
he said he did not get any promise from
the company for renewed negotiations
with Local P-9 of the United Food and
Commercial Workers union.
Nyberg had said Saturday of Jack
son's visit: "His suggesions, any sug
gestions, would be most welcome. A
pure mediation role, we don't think,
would be positive."
Jackson said he sees some room for
agreement between the Geo. A. Hormel
& Co. and the union. He said meat
packers might have a chance to return
to work if such issues as retirement,
expanding the workforce at the com
pany's flagship plant and employee
attrition are dealt with.
Seventeen demonstrators were arrest
ed Friday during a violent protest out
side Hormel's Austin plant, and author
ities said 16 remained in jail Sunday.
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