Section B·Page 6 The University Daily Kansan Monday, September 13, 1999 EVERYTHING BUT ICE BEDS • DESKS • CHEST OF DRAWERS • BOOK CASES unclaimed freight & damaged merchandise 936 Mass. Nation/World Buy One Get One Free INTERVIEW SUITS 839 MASS. 843-5755 seen him," said Rios, who was five when Escobar was imprisoned. Sunday: Beer to Go - 1/2 Gallon growler refills only $500 Relatives and friends crowded into the sweltering house, where a 1991 poster honoring Escobar and his paintings hung on a wall. A reflective Escobar — thinner than in a portrait displayed on a table — took it all in stride, watching a television report on the freed prisoners' return to Puerto Rico. $1 00 Drafts Monday: $500 Pitcher Tuesday: Wednesday: Escobar said he and the other prisoners were going to continue struggling for independence. Escobar also wants to expel the U.S. Navy from the outlying island of Vieques, where the Navy maintains a live-fire bombing range within miles of some 10,000 inhabitants. $1^{50} Wells & Domestics Thursday: Escobar said he did not know that he would be permitted to live in Puerto Rico until he was walking out of El Reno prison in Oklahoma on Friday. $100 Drafts The Associated Press Puerto Ricans accept Clinton's clemency offer Daily Food Specials 23rd & Kasold·832-9600 Nationalists are welcomed home SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Elizam Escobar searched deeply into his past as he greeted friends and relatives whose faces had aged and voices had changed during the nearly two decades he'd been away in prison. Joy and bewilderdment filled Escobar and six other Puerto Rican nationalists who came home to this Caribbean island last weekend. They were among 14 who had accepted a controversial clemency offer from President Clinton. Two more were to arrive later yesterday. "This transition is going to take a lot of time" a somewhat weary Escobar said. "I feel a great happiness ... but this is a very different reality." All had been imprisoned on sedition and weapons convictions stemming from their involvement in the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a pro-independence group blamed for 130 bombings in the United States that killed six people and wounded dozens of others from 1974 to 1983. As they returned home to a flurry of hugs and home-cooked meals, the former prisoners were able to forget, for the moment, the political firestorm surrounding their case. Republican presidential contender Steve Forbes said Saturday that the releases amounted to a "terrorists-for-votes deal" to help Clinton's wife, Hillary, in her possible campaign to win a U.S. Senate seat from New York. He challenged Vice President Al Gore, also a presidential contender, to say where he stood on the issue. In the middle-class suburb of Bayamon, Escobar tugged at the cheek of 1 1/2-year-old Anel Rios, brought to him by his cousin Elizam Rios. However, the criticism continued unbated on the mainland. "She's never seen him. I've never News reports claim defector's book reveals Cold War-era spy agency secrets The Associated Press LONDON—A new book based on long-secret KGB archives makes a number of shocking Cold War-era claims — that the KGB planted rumors that the CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy and that J. Edgar Hoover was gay and that Soviet spies buried booby-trapped explosives in the United States and Europe, according to news reports. The book, being published this month, also reveals that an 87-year-old British woman was a long-serving Soviet spy and that a former Scotland Yard officer served as a messenger for the Soviet spy agency in the 1970s. The book is based on thousands of copies of KGB papers brought out of the Soviet Union by Vasili Tokrinik, an archivist for the Soviet intelligence service, when he defected to the West in 1992. Its contents were reported by The Sunday Times in London and a BBC television interview being broadcast on Sunday by CBS' 60 Minutes. Mitrokhin, who reportedly copied thousands of pages from secret KGB files during a 12-year period and handed them to the West, said the agency forged documents to pin the blame for JFK's assassination on a CIA and right-wing conspiracy. In its attempt to establish a link between Kennedy's assassination and the CIA, the KGB secretly bankrolled one book published in America about the incident, "Oswald: Assassin or Fallout." 60 Minutes reported. The KGB also allegedly falsified a letter supposedly written by Lee Harvey Oswald to Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer. The letter looked so real that it even fooled Oswald's widow, the news program said. KGB agents also reportedly mailed forged letters to major U.S. newspapers to support rumors that Hoover, then FBI director, was a homosexual. Mitrokhin, a former KGB archive official, said he started copying the agency's secret documents in 1972, after growing disillusioned with the agency's crackdown on dissidents. He said he smuggled the documents out. hidden in his shoes and pockets. The Times of London, sister newspaper of The Sunday Times, is serializing "The Mitrokhin Archive." It reported Saturday that a British woman, code-named Hola, had given the Soviets information important to the development of their nuclear weapons since the 1930s. Hola — a.k.a. Melita Norwood of suburban Bexleyheath — reportedly had access to British atomic secrets through her office job at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, which was involved in metallurgical research associated with the bomb project, The Times said. Wayne Johnson Reading & Booksigning Lawrence Author DON'T THINK TWICE A NOVEL Crown Books $23.00 Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:00-4:00 p.m. Mt.Oread Bookshop Kansas Union, Level 2 In northwest Minnesota near the Chippewa reservation, a troubled man is caught up in the environmental and economic conflict over Native American lands. A suspense novel based on the author's experiences in the region. Wayne Johnson was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares, and in collections including Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, and The Norton Anthology of Literature. OREAD Mt. Oread Bookshop Kansas Union, Level 2 • 864-4431 www.jayhawks.com 0-4 Sun, 12-3 Mon - Fri, 8:30-5 store hours: Sat, 10-4 Sun, 12-3 Mon.- Fri, 8:30