NATION AND WORLD
Peruvian police free hostages
By United Press International
LIMA, Peru — Police firing machine guns and tear gas shot their way into a prison yesterday and freed eight hostages from rioting inmates who had set one captive on fire and killed another. A shocked television audience watched.
The 12 hour siege, in which about 15 inmates demanded a getaway car to freedom, left one hostage and three others wounded. The group critically wounded, authorities said.
The fate of the leader of the uprising,
Luis Garcia Mendoza, a convicted
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National Guardsm who had surrounded the downtown prison all day finally broke down the jail door and stormed the building, firing machine guns and tear gas during the 20-minute rescue operation.
killer who had rehearsed to play Jesus in the prison's Easter play, was not immediately known, although some news reports said he had given himself up to 100 heavily armed police who stormed Lima's Eri Sexto jail.
Many of the eight remaining hostages were bleeding and bruised as they stumbled out of the prison to safety. One of the hostages, a woman psychologist, was carried out and appeared to have been shot in the face.
Earlier, television cameramen aiming long-range lenses, recorded the scene as an inmate doused a hostage with gasoline and set him afire. Smoke poured from his clothing before a horrified television audience.
The inmates also shot a civilian guard in the stomach. The guard, identified as Rolando Farfan, crawled out of the prison and died later at a hospital. A third unidentified hostage was in critical condition after the inmates shot and knifed him as he escaped around dusk.
French diplomat wounded in Beirut
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The French Embassy's cultural secretary was shot five times and critically wounded yesterday by gunmen who apparently stalked him through the streets of Muslim west Beirut, police said.
The assassination attempt coincided with renewed heavy fighting across the "Green Line" dividing Christian-dominated east Beirut from Muslim
The sources said they believed the gunmen first followed the diplomat for nearly half a mile from his apartment, near the Commodore Hotel, the unofficial headquarters of the foreign press corps.
west Beirut Police reported at least
one person killed and 25 wounded in
the attack.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, but an underground group known as the Islamic Jihad has previously threatened retribution against French and American diplomats because of attacks by their nations' peace-keeping forces.
Diplomat Sauveur Glozoz, 54, was shot at close range by three gunmen firing from a car as he walked to work near the time. French and police sources said.
Glozzo was listed in critical condition. Friends later told the French news agency, Agence France-Fresse, he had broken consciousness in his hospital room.
U.S. accuses Libya in Sudan attack
By United Press International
UNITED NATIONS — The United States said yesterday it had evidence a Libyan warplane carried out an "unprovoked" bombing raid against a densely populated area, officials also said that the government of Col. Moammar Khadfy died about the bombardment.
U. S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick told the Security Council a Libyan jet bombed the Nile city of Omdurman March 16, killing five people and damaging a radio station.
"Ample evidence is available to support the facts that surrounded the unprovoked attack against Sudan, despite the web of lies and fabrications presented to this council." Kirkpatrick said. The attack was seen by several qualified observers, she said.
She said the bomber flew to Kufra in southern Libya March 15, and carried out the attack the next day.
Administration insists on aid to El Salvador
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Administration officials, trying to overcome Democratic resistance in the House, insisted yesterday that emergency military aid for El Salvador is critical to that country's progress.
A skeptical Rep. Clarence Long, D-Md., chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, said there was little progress to show for the millions of dollars already given to El Salvador.
In other developments relating to Central America, Nicaragua's leftist leaders said yesterday there had been a "dangerous upsurge" in the U.S.-backed guerrilla war against the Sandinista government and demanded the United States remove its troops from Central America.
The Nicaraguan charges of increased rebel activity came as anti-Sandinista guerrillas said they battled four government battalions in the northern provinces of Jinotega, Matagalpa and Chinandega.
Of the aid package to El Salvador, Long said, "More and more money is going down into a situation that seems to be deteriorating."
President Reagan has asked for $178 million in additional military aid this year — $83 million of it immediately to prevent Salvadoran armed forces battling leftist rebels from running out of supplies.
At the White House, Reagan praised the strong turnout in Sunday's Salvadoran presidential election as "dramatic confirmation" of a commitment to democracy and an impetus for Congress to approve his request.
In Nicaragua, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Front said rebels seized control of San José and Guatemala, where Managua, for five hours last Saturday.
Government officials said Monday 30 soldiers died after three days of fire.
"The escalation of U.S. military presence in Central America is particularly worrisome," a Sandinista statement said, demanding the United States "halt the escalation of military presence in Central America."
"In the past few weeks there has been a dangerous upsurge in the United States undec勒ed war against Nicaragua, in the form of terrorist attacks and drug trafficking, and the mining of our Pacific and Atlantic ports," the statement said.
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