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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International French deny Iranian report of release of sick hostages
French officials yesterday denied an Iranian report that four Arabic-speaking hijackers had reused two sick passengers from an Air France jetliner in Tehran and added that the hijackers were threatening to blow up the plane and their 17 hostages.
Tehran Radio, monitored in London, said that Iranian negotiators were "using every possible means to try to dissuade the hijackers from dynamiting the aircraft" but that after 27 hours the talks were deadlocked.
Early yesterday, Tehran radio said the hijackers threatened to fly to a new destination carrying the hostages with them.
On Sunday, the radio called the hijackers, armed with guns and grenades, threatened to blow up the plane unless France accepted their demands. The air force responded.
Aspin asks for new arms proposal
WASHINGTON — Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., a key figure in congressional acceptance of a presidential panel's recommendations on the MX missile, called on the commission yesterday to draft a new strategic arms proposal.
Sources said the commission was expected to take up the task, despite some concern. The administration about the bipartisan group taking the lead in arms control, and hoped to have some recommendations in resumption of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Oct. 6 in Geneva.
"Arms control was one of three legs of the commission's proposal last spring." Aspin said in a letter to retired Air Force Gen. Brent Scowoff, chairman of President's Commission on Strategic Air Command, that the leg and needs attention if the Scowoff package is to be a reality.
India police shoot at militant Sikhs
NEW DELHI, India — Police fired plastic bullets yesterday at thousands of militant Sikhs attacking government offices in the state of Punjab, injuring 60 people, and protesters in Assam state halted business and transportation.
The violence in Punjab is part of a three-year struggle by members of the Sikh religion demanding autonomy for Punjab, the grain-rich northwestern state bordering Pakistan.
The strike in the northeastern state of Assam is to heighten demands by Assamese for the expulsion of 4 million illegal Bengali immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh.
Thousands of turbaned Sikhs throughout Punjab obeyed Akali Party President Harchand Longowal's call to "stop government work" for one day, official reports said.
Salvador guerrilla talks to resume
U. S. peace envoy Richard Stone arrived yesterday in Costa Rica, setting the stage for the second round of talks with representatives of the Salvadoran government and rebel leaders.
"One of my jobs is to facilitate dialogue with the Salvadoran Peace Commission and the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) and Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR)." Stone said on his arrival in San Jose.
Limit set on hospice reimbursement
Sources close to the FMLN-FDR rebel coalition said Stone would meet today with guerrilla leader Guillermo Ungo and leading Christian Democrat Jose Morales Ehrlich.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan yesterday signed a bill that set a $6,500 ceiling on the amount of Medicare reimbursement terminally ill patients can receive for hospice care, a spokesman said.
Medicare does not currently reimburse patients for the cost of hospice care, which usually occurs at the patient's home.
The $99 billion tax increase bill signed into law in September 1982, however, included a provision, effective Nov. 1 this year, to allow Medicare reimbursement of $4,232 a patient for the last six months of hospice care provided to patients dying of cancer.
Victory boosts Trudeau opponent
NEW GLASGOW, Nova Scotia — Opposition leader Brian Mulroney, who hopes to replace Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the helm of the Canadian government, won a decisive special election victory yesterday.
With all votes counted, Muironey won by nearly 10,000 votes over his closest rival in the nottheastern Nova Scotia district of Central Nova.
In his victory speech Multonreu slammed Frudeau and the rest of the Lakers for choosing to vote against him, who campaigned in the election had only added the Conservative cause.
"If Pierre Trudeau himself had come down, they wouldn't have gotten a vote," he said.
With his party leading Trudeau's Liberals 55 percent to 27 percent in national polls, Mulroney's entry into Parliament was critical to Conservative hopes to unseat the Liberals in a national election expected next year.
Divers retrieve anchor of Monitor
HATTERAS, N.C. — Divers retrieved the anchor of the USS Monitor yesterday, the largest artifact ever recovered from the Civil War ironclad that fought in the world's first battle of armored vessels.
An air bag was used to raise the 1,300-pound cast-iron anchor 225 feet to the Atlantic Ocean surface, more than 120 years after the Monitor sank in a storm about 16 miles off Cape Hatteras in some of the most treacherous waters off the American coast.
The Monitor sank December 31, 1862, while being towed to Beaufort, N.C., to participate in a union blockade of Confederate ports. Earlier that year, the vessel made naval history when it fought the Confederate also known as the Merrimac, to a standoff at Hampton Roads, Va.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 8-30=83
UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST 8
Today, thundershowers are expected in the Pacific Northwest, the Plateau Region, Nebraska, Florida and Michigan.
Locally, today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance for thundershowers, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 70.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 70.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the lower 90s.
Egypt official seeks flexibility by Israel
By United Press International
CAIRI, Egypt — A ranking Egyptian official yesterday called the possible change in Israeli leadership a "purely domestic matter" but expressed hope a new government would show more flexibility toward Palestinian rights.
Butros Ghali, minister of state for foreign affairs, said in an interview with foreign journalists that Egypt had no preference in a successor to Prime Minister Menachem Begin and was only concerned about progress on the return of Israeli-occupied Arab territory and Palestinian rights.
"Egypt is watching carefully the news on Begin's resignation, although we consider it a purely domestic matter," said Ghali.
"What we care about is that it will not have a negative effect on the peace process."
Ghali's comments were the first official Egyptian reaction to Begin's announcement Sunday that he intended to resign from office. Reports from
Egypt became the first Arab country to formally make peace with Israel with the signing of the 1979 Camp David Agreement and the late President Anwar Sadat.
"The important factor is the existence of an administration that has the will to proceed in the peace path," Ghali said.
Jerusalem said Isaeli leaders were trying to convince Begin to change his
Egyptian-Iraeli relations have deteriorated since, in large part because of the invasion of Lebanon and lack of progress on the return of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, seized by Israel in the 1967 war.
President Hissi Mubarak recently denounced Israeli policies in Lebanon
Asked his opinion of Begin, Ghali said he would rather leave that to the future.
"But we can say that a peace treaty was signed with Egypt who he was in power but attempts to find a solution for the Palestinian problem have failed until now."
WARSAW, Poland — Polish television yesterday broadcast a tape of the stormy debate last week between a Communist leader and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa. It was Walesa's first television appearance since martial law forced the union underground.
Walesa debate shown on Polish television
By United Press International
The three-hour prime-time broadcast was apparently aimed at portraying Walesa and his Solidarity supporters as an undisciplined, unruly crowd unit to enter the arena. Wojciech Jarzewski's government.
It coincided with the Communist regime's acknowledgment days before the anniversary of the accords that authorized the first free trade unions in the Eastern Hemisphere, most notably in August 1980 have gone unfulfilled.
Solidarity, outlawed under martial law in December 1981, has called for nationwide protests Wednesday.
Activists yesterday circulated leaflets calling for a two-hour boycott of all mass transport Wednesday, and the movement opened the capital to intercept them.
The broadcast of Wales's confrontation at the shipyard with Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski appeared to be the most widely watched program in Poland and Pope John Paul II's visit in June.
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The television appearance was Walaes the first since martial law was declared. The text of the debate was told and broadcast on radio Saturday.
In downtown Warsaw, the sound of hundreds of shipyard workers booing one of the country's top Communist officials burst from dozens of television sets and echoed in the streets.
In Gdansk, television crews, reporters and photographers turned up at the doorstep of Walesa's home studio to record their own watching himself on television.
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