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WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Alexander Haig yesterday presented valar awards to Americans who were held captive in Iran, saying that they deserve recognition.
Ex-hostages receive valor awards
President Reagan, in a message read by Haig, said, "We must be resolved that this cruel episode in our history shall not be forgotten, that we assure our professional diplomats, and military personnel as well, every means of protection that America can offer."
Hag presented the Award for Valor, the State Department's second highest award, to 84 of the 72 Americans who were seized by Islamic militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, or who took refuge with Canadian diplomats. All those honored were foreign service employees.
L. Bruce Laingen, the top-ranking diplomat in Tehran during the 444-day lord, accepted the award on behalf of the other hostages in a
Haig said that the award was for valor, courage, loyalty and high regard for the principles of international law.
the former captives and their families have been invited to a reunion today through Thursday. The reunion was organized by the State Department.
GSA auditor: corruption still feasible
WASHINGTON—An auditor for the General Services Administration said yesterday that he is alarmed at the opportunity for corruption and waste that still exists in the government housekeeping agency, and said that the Mafia may be involved.
Despite promises of reform after a 1978 purchasing scandal, top agency officials have not cooperated with auditors trying to prevent further abuses, and some organizations have refused to do so.
"I have become more and more alarmed about the opportunities for waste and fraud." Davia told a House Government Operations Subcommittee.
ternal audit is concerned, we are continually frustrated," he said.
Rep. Robert Walker, R-Pa., senior Republican on the panel, asked if it was wrong to ask the panel to investigate the auditor's
and fraud," Davia told a House Government Operations Subcommittee. "The situation has not improved in the last three years. As for the in-
"That's a definite possibility," Davia said. He said that he had no proof of organized crime activity, but any time big money is involved "there has to be a plan."
GSA is responsible for obtaining a wide variety of government supplies and also securing office space.
Davia also said that administration budget cuts were reducing an already overworked force of auditors.
SIDS linked to anemia and smoking
HERSHEY, Pa.—A physician, who for eight years has investigated sudden infant death syndrome, commonly known as crib death, said yesterday that the fatal affliction has been linked to severe anemia in expectant mothers and nongeriatric cigarette smoking.
"We don't know exactly what causes it yet," said Richard L. Naeye, chairman of the Department of Pathology at Hershey Medical Center. "We know a condition of severe anemia during pregnancy predisposes the fetus to SIDS."
To a lesser extent, a pregnant woman who smokes cigarettes predisposes her newborn child to crip death. he said.
Earlier research by Naeye, published in Scientific American last year, disclosed that crib death had been traced to large numbers of abnormalities in the brain.
"It was thought for a long time that cris died from the death of a completely normal child, like lightning from heaven," Naeye said. "We know now there are subtle chronic abnormalities in the brain stem area which control breathing and other vital functions."
Naye said that the apparent predisposition toward crib death by infants whose mothers smoke cigarettes or suffer from severe anemia "has raised the question of the role of inadequate oxygen delivery to the infant before birth."
Solidarity backs strike moratorium
WARSAW, Poland—The Solidarity Independent Union yesterday said that it supported a resolution by Parliament calling for a two-month strike moratorium to give Poland time to revive its faltering economy and restore calm.
At the same time, a Catholic Church spokesman said that Polish Private Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, who has played a moderating role between the government and the union, was suffering from the flu and would not be able to celebrate Holy Week services.
In Moscow, the Communist Party newspaper said that there was no room in Poland's Communist Party for "ideological pluralism."
The press office at Solidarity headquarters said that the union was ready to welcome an increase in staff. It was necessary for the good of the country to have two strike-free months.
Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski had demanded an outright Parliamentary ban on them or two months, but Parliament issued what parliaments would have worked for.
Solidarity initially expressed anxiety over a strike ban or attempt to suspend the right to strike.
"If it was a law, not a resolution, we would have felt it was manipulation," a Solidarity spokesman said. "But it only is a resolution, kind of an appeal to stop strikes, so we think Parliament is supporting real calm and peace in the country."
Quebecois continues to rule Quebec
MONTREAL—Quebec voters yesterday decided to keep Parti Quebecois in power of the French-speaking province rather than turning the reigns over to the Liberal Party.
Partially completed unofficial returns gave Premier Rene Levesque's part Quebecois at least 63 seats in the 122-seat provincial legislature. The governor's
The popular vote was a much tighter race, however. Parti Quebecois got 48 percent of the popular vote and the liberals got 46 percent.
One of the main differences between the two groups is that the ruling Parti Cairé separates from Canada, while the Liberal Party wants to remain a part of the party.
Before the elections, Parti Quebecois had 67 seats, the Liberals 34, Union nationale 5, independent 2 and vacancies. Twelve seats have since been added.
A high voter turnout was reported in the province, where normal turnout is 80 percent.
The party that wins the most seats in the legislature will form the new government.
Brady makes remarkable progress
WASHINGTON—White House press secretary James Brady is "more aware of the damage his recovery from a bullet wound to the brain, his doctors said yesterday."
Brady, 40, was shot in the head March 30 during the assassination attempt on President Reagan. He is expected to remain in the hospital for several weeks.
Brady's recovery has been described as remarkable, and Sunday's medical report from George Washington University Medical Center said there were "no signs of any complications." Doctors have said that Brady should eventually be able to resume his Home House duties.
Brady "appeared a little brighter" on Sunday, the medical report said, and now initiates conversation "more spontaneously" with his doctors when he meets.
Correction
Gov. John Carlin's representative at the Sunday inauguration of new President Gerald Gipp was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansas
Carlin's representative was Joanne Hurst, a constituent aide for the governor. The Kansan regrets the error.
WASHINGTON--Chiring a new poll showing public backing for its economic recovery plan, the White House yesterday brushed aside hints by the House Budget chairman of a proposed compromise on a proposed tax cut.
Poll shows favor for new economic policy
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"No one in this administration has been authorized by the president to make any compromise," said White House counsel Edwin Meinze.
Moses appeared at a news conference where the Chamber of Commerce released a poll indicating that 60 percent of voters believe President Reagan is cutting the right amount or should cut more from the federal budget. By a 57-31 percent margin, the survey said, Americans personal tax cut will cool inflation.
The survey of 1,200 people was taken April 25 by Opinion Research Corp. The poll was conducted after Resignam and the Senate March 30 assassination attempt.
THE SURVEY reported that 96 percent of those polled believed that the economy was in very serious or somewhat serious shape, and 82 percent said that they would save their tax cut money or use it to pay debts.
Reagan, who is convalescing in the White House, was shown the poll results yesterday and expressed his "appeal and gratification," Meese
"He indicated that this is clear-cut evidence that public opinion continues to move toward the direction in which the administration is going and that it fully supports the balanced and carefully thought-out economic recovery program," the administration proposes. Meese said.
Meanwhile, the National Conservative Political Action Committee yesterday announced a $1 million loan to help the president's economic programs.
It will start with three House Democratic leaders and a liberal senator, spokesman John T. Dolan, whose group helped out many of the liberals defeated in the 1980 Congressional elections, said.
"This list is just a beginning and we hope to expand it as time goes on," he said.
TAKING THE opposite side, the head of the NAACP yesterday attacked the administration's economic policies as potentially devastating to the poor and announced a national lobbying effort to defeat proposed budget cuts.
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The NAACP will lobby congressmen in their home districts over the Easter recess, Hooks said, adding that the NAACP was confident that it could
Hooks described the cuts proposed by Reagan's Budget Director David Stockman as being from "Alice in Wonderland."
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influence Congress because inflation and unemployment have an impact on "the whole of America."
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Forecasters said yesterday that weather conditions are expected to be excellent early this afternoon for astronaut John W. Young and Robert S. Kirkland to land their space shuttle Columbia.
Mission control officials in Houston gave the astronauts the good news at midday yesterday while they were over the United States and could see the clear weather conditions over Southern California.
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The forecast called for clear skies and winds from the west at 12 miles per hour. "Very good," Crippen said on bearing it.
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"The drastic cuts in federal dollars in the area of social programs, jobs and human services—and the simultaneous井 to the Pentagon budget—represent a shocking and unacceptable statement of public policy." he said.
More than 150 rescue specialists are waiting for the Columbia to land. Five technicians will be the first to reach Young and Crippen when the orbiter touches down at 12:28 p.m. CST after the 4½ - hour journey, which began Sunday in a spectacular launch from Cape Canaveral.
HOUSE BUDGET Committee Chairman James Jones, D-Okla., said Sunday he thought the White House
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But acting press secretary Larry Speakes said yesterday that "the bottom line is no one is authorized by the President to discuss compromise. It is not appropriate for a passage of our program and we see increasing public support for it."
would compromise to get its economic plan through Congress and the administration might be willing to pear to meet the tax cut benefit to a one-year program.
Wearing astronaut-style suits and carrying meters to sniff out dangerous gases, the technicians will be followed by a convoy of fire trucks, vans and other vehicles to ensure the safety of the astronauts and their spacecraft.
A fleet of helicopters and military doctors will be poised to move in if the shuttle crashes lands in the first attempt ever to land a space ship back on earth.
If everything goes according to plan,
the Columbia will dive from the heavens into earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean 4,300 miles from the air base. Friction from re-entry will the orbiter's tile insulation as temperatures at critical points hit 2,300 degrees.
Rescue officials say it will take 90 seconds for the first vehicles to reach the shuttle, but it will be another 20 minutes before they arrive. The technicians set within 100 feet of it.
Electronic sensing devices will sniff the air for potentially lethal gases aboard, such as hydrogen, ammonia, hydrazine, and nitrogen tetraxide. A
Hollywood-type wind machine will be cranked up to help disperse any fumes.
Young and Crippen will be taken in an astronaut van to the dispensary for a physical exam.
About 20 minutes after touch down, a truck with steps will roll up to the shuttle's hatch and technicians will begin the 16-minute process of removing the astronauts from their sealed chamber.
The shuttle will be moved to a hanger to prepare for a transfer piggyback fashion to Cape Canaval on a Boeing 747 tumbon jet.
85-day teachers' strike settled
REVENNA, Ohio - Ravenna teachers, off the job since Nov. 12 in a bitter contract dispute, returned to their classrooms yesterday, marking the end of the longest teachers' walkout in the nation's history.
The end of the strike, which dragged on for 85 school days, came with little fanfare or celebration. Several returning teachers said, however, that most students appeared happy to see them.
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No problems were reported as the approximately 115 teachers who remained off the job, down from the 100 who had returned the walkout started, returned to work.
"The students seem very appreciative and glad to have us back," said Eugene Roliff, a high school mathematics and physics teacher and incoming president of the Ravenna Education Association.
Becky Douglass, senior class president at Ravanna High School, echoed Rolff's sentiments.
"Things went well today," she said.
"The attitude of the (returning) teachers seems to be very good. They are in cheerful spirits."
But both sides conceded that it was going to take time to heal the wounds opened in the community by the strike, which earned the teachers their first master contract but drained many of them emotionally and financially.
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