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33 convicts flee Maryland prison

JESSUP. Md. (AP) - Seven escaped inmates of the Maryland House of Corrections were captured early today as authorities hunted for 26 others who broke out of the prison in the second-largest jailbreak in Maryland history, state police said. Sgt Hugh K. McCormick said the men escaped by cutting through a bar and a security screen He said they scaled a 15foot wall and three security fences in fleeing the prison. Trooper Ron Price said inmates were spotted as far away as Prince Georges County, a suburb of Washington, DC., 'about 20 miles southwest of Jessup. Other convicts all dressed in civilian clothes were sighted in Howard. Baltimore 'and Anne Arundel counties and in the city of Baltimore, about 10 miles Orom the prison, he said. Bill Clark, a state police

Week-long cruise nearing end

Carter to order increased power production on Mississippi

ABOARD THE DELTA QUEEN (AP) President Carter is visiting the scene of America’s most famous whitewashing Hannibal, Mo., home of Samuel Clemens and the fence Tom Sawyer supposedly talked his buddies into painting. Today’s activities mark the next to the last scheduled stop on the first family’s seven-day cruise down the Mississippi on the sternwheeler Delta Queen. Late Wednesday, during a stop at a lock, Carter noted the entire lock and dam system on

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spokesman, said state and local police flooded the BaltimoreWashington area looking for the men all considered dangerous. “We don’t know who these men are, nor what they are charged with, so we’re urging motorists not to pick up hitchhikers,’’he said. Price said the inmates were easy to spot. ‘‘They’re walking

Priest is freed BULLETIN WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) The state of Delaware today dropped all robbery charges against the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, a Roman Catholic priest who was on trial as the alleged “Gentleman Bandit.” His trial had been halted Monday when another man admitted involvement in the holdups.

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the Mississippi River produces only 165 megawatts of electricity, compared to an Army Corps of Engineers estimate that it could produce 2,400 megawatts. Press secretary Jody Powell said the White House would issue a statement today detailing Carter’s plans to use an executive order to increase power production along the river. The president did not have to leave the boat today to encoun-

Hispanic gangs attack Vietnamese in Denver

DENVER (AP) - A gang of Hispanic youths armed with clubs and a hammer attacked a Vietnamese man and smashed the windows out of his car as new violence flared in a housing project were tensions between the ethnic groups have caused refugee families to flee, police said. Police and remaining Vietnamese in the area came to the man’s rescue before he was seriously injured Wednesday night, authorities said. The beaten man was not identified. Police reported no arrests. Patrol cars cruised the project during the night, and no new incidents were reported early today. Nearly all of the 22 Vietnam-

along the side of the roads and when they see a police car, they take off running into the woods,” he said. There was no immediate comment from prison officials. The state’s largest prison escape occurred in April 1959 at the Patuxent Institute, a juvenile facility, also located in Jessup. Thirty-four inmates broke out at that time. Among the first men captured, two were caught on the nearby Baltimore-Washington Parkway; one near the Balti-more-Washington International Airport; and another in Baltimore, said McCormick. Clark said police were first notified of the escape around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when prison officials reported six men missing. “They took a bed check and found out there were about 30 missing,” he said, adding that police were notified of the increased number about 1:30 am.

ter a character out of Mark Twain, the name under which Clemens wrote. Up in the wheelhouse reigns pilot C.S. Ware, who has worked on the river all but 17 of his 66 years. Ware was in his high, cushioned chair Tuesday afternoon when the Delta Queen ran smack into a 30-minute squall that briefly packed winds of almost 70 miles an hour and driving sheets of rain.

ese families in the predominantly Hispanic low-in-come housing project had moved out earlier this week after simmering tensions between the two groups broke into violence. “I don’t know where they went,” Bernard Valdez, director of the Denver Department of Social Services, said Wednesday. Some of the Vietnamese left behind identification cards and visas in their haste to get out, a spokesman for the refugees said. “I don’t even know how many there were,” Valdez said. “It was somewhat crowded. Many left to move in with friends and relatives, and my understanding is, they would not tell where they were going because they were afraid they would be followed.” The window-breaking confrontation that erupted Monday night capped racial friction be-

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To maintain Khomeini's 'good will' U. S. explains fuel oil sale to Iran

By STAN BENJAMIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Fed eral officials say the government approved emergency exports of heating oil and kerosene to Iran at least in part to maintain the good will of a nation that ships far greater amounts of oil to the United States. Questioned at a town meeting in Burlington, lowa, President Carter said Wednesday the amount of fuel involved is “just a very tiny amount” compared to U.S. imports from Iran. According to government sources and independent estimates, Iran will be getting about 1 million barrels of kerosene and 1 million barrels of heating oil.

“Rain or shine or sleet or snow, the Delta Queen she’s got to go,” sang out Ware, who swung the boat into a cove to drive the rocking vessel out of the brunt of the storm. Carter, in the wheelhouse for most of the storm, later congratulated Capt. Fred Martin for a job “well done.” The storm sent the steamboat’s crystal chandeliers swinging over the grand staircase, tossed aluminum deck

tween the Vietnamese and Hispanic residents of the area known as the “Projects” that had been smoldering for nearly six months. The tensions result from cultural and language differences, and one economically deprived group’s jealously and frustration over the arrival of another such group, a uthori ties say. “For years, there has been a strain on services...waiting lines for housing, social services. You have problems existing. Then you compound a situation that is not working well by interjecting another ethnic group also in need and a competitive situation arises,” said state Rep. Rich Castro, whose district includes part of the troubled area. It was the second violent confrontation in recent weeks involving Vietnamese who have fled their homeland for the United States. Long-simmering tensions be-

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With the United States importing about 750,000 barrels of oil daily from Iran, the 2 million barrels headed back to the Persian Gulf country roughly equals the amount of crude oil Iran ships to the United States in three days. The Energy Department said it recommended approval of the deal “because it was in the national interest of the United States to reciprocate to Iran to meet their relatively small emergency need caused by a temporary refinery problem especially in light of the large quantities of petroleum which that country exports to the United States.” State Department spokesman Thomas Reston said approval of the export was based on both

chairs about like doll house furniture and left the presidential flag flying in tatters atop the front mast. Martin called the storm, which had winds approaching hurricane force, “very serious,” but said he had encountered a similar one last fall. The sternwheeler’s control mechanism two steering rods instead of a wheel and digital depth finder would look like

tween refugees and local fishermen, shrimpers and crabbers in Seadrift, Texas, came to a head earlier this month when a crabber was shot to death. Two Vietnamese were charged in the slaying, and four Vietnamese boats and a house were subsequently firebombed. Two arbitrators from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio have been attempting to patch up the feud through the church’s resettlement program and the U.S. Catholic Conference. An estimated 200,000 Vietnamese have resettled in the United States since the end of the Vietnam War. There are more than 400,000 boat people in camps in Southeast Asia awaiting resettlement after fleeing their homelands. The United States recently agreed so accept 220,000 additional Indochinese refugees, most of them from Vietnam.

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humanitarian reasons and on U.S. interests in assuring continued access to Iranian oil. Amerada-Hess, the company handling the deal, would not discuss details of the transaction. But an official said, “We are confident the shipments won’t affect our supply of heating oil or kerosene in the United States this winter.” Government sources who asked not to be named said Amerada-Hess promised the Commerce Department in writing it would replace the products sold to Iran by purchases on the world market if that becomes necessary to avoid shortages in the United States. Energy Department spokes-

magic to Twain, a sternwheeler pilot himself in his early years. In calmer waters, Ware recalled his days as a deckhand, when depths were taken as they were in Twain’s pre-Civil War days on the “father of waters” by a deckhand who threw a marked lead line overboard and called out the readings. “Them old pilots wanted you

Meanwhile, Valdez said he believes the violence at the citymanaged, low-income housing development in Denver was sparked when three MexicanAmerican youths burst into a Vietnamese woman’s apartment and stole her television. They had stolen her stereo earlier.

Oil worker killed by falling derrick

INTRACOASTAL CITY, La. (AP) The derrick of a Gulf of Mexico drilling rig collapsed onto the crew’s living quarters Wednesday, killing one man and injuring three others, officials said. “We do not know what caused the failure,” said Pat Taylor, a spokesman for Circle Drilling Co. of Belle Chasse, owner of the rig. “It fell across one comer of the living quarters, but it was unoccupied at the time. The rig is in absolutely no danger.” Taylor said the collapse was a freak accident apparently caused by a flaw in the huge steel beams supporting the derrick. The accident occurred about 1 a.m. on an exploratory rig looking for oil and gas about five miles into the gulf from this

Hijacker surrenders

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man believed carrying a bomb commandeered a United Airlines 727 en route to Los Angeles and forced the airliner, with 119 persons on aboard, to fly back to Portland, where he surrendered early today, the FBI said. All aboard the plane, which carried 112 passengers and sev-

man Phil Keif said the sale is less than one-tenth of 1 percent of annual heating oil consumption in the United States and would not hamper the government goal of stockpiling 240 million barrels of home heating oil. He said 175.3 million barrels of heating oil was on hand as of Aug. 10 and that the stockpile “will exceed the 240 million barrel target by 2 million barrels at the end of October.” A pipeline was sabotaged during the rioting in Iran, temporarily reducing refinery production there, causing shortages of heating oil and kerosene, the chief fuel used by many Iranian families.

to sing to them and sometimes they’d forget about you and you’d holler and holler. “I’d do a lot of dry leadin’,” he said, remembering the practice of calling out depths without actually tossing the line into the water. “I’d holler, but I wouldn’t throw out the line, keeping my hands in my pockets and staying warm.”

Some Vietnamese youths apprehended one of the alleged thieves and held him for police. Two others were apprehended later. Monday evening, an estimated 100 Mexican-American youths gathered in the project, breaking windows and threatening the refugees.

Vermilion Parish community. The Coast Guard originally reported that six of the 28 men on the rig were injured but the company said that early figure was inaccurate. A Coast Guard helicopter and a civilian helicopter flew the injured men to Lafayette where they were reported in stable condition. One of the injured men was an employee of Circle Drilling and the other two worked for a subcontractor. They were identified as Pete Cummings, 24, of Houston; Donald Stewart, 23, of Houston; and Raymond Mercer, 32, of Natchez, Miss. Cummings was released after being treated at the hospital. Drilling rigs often are equipped with living and sleeping quarters for the workmen who labor offshore for extended periods.

en crew members, left the aircraft unharmed, the FBI said. The man gave himself up at 2:25 a.m. PDT and was taken into custody by the FBI who identified the suspect as James R. Allbee. 26. of Portland. The airport bomb squad opened the package he said was an explosive device and confirmed it was not a bomb.

Iranian violence spreads

By PHILIP DOPOULOS Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Kurdish rebels killed an army commander and 21 troops in heavy fighting near the town of Saqez in northwestern Iran today as Arab militants in Khuzestan threatened renewed violence in their oil-rich province to the south, the official Pars news agency reported. Pars did not identify the dead commander of the 28th division, but added that 15 soldiers were also wounded in the action near Saquez. It gave no casualty figures for the Kurds. Pars said II troops and 75 rebels were killed in clashes Wednesday. It said the 28th division, based in Sanandaj 100 miles south of Saqez, was rushed to the area after heavy fighting broke out between government forces and the Kurdish rebels, who are battling for more selfrule. Pars also reported ethnic Arabs in Khuzestan issued warnings that if their spiritual leader, Sheik Shobeir Khaqani, is not permitted to return to the province by Saturday, “we will react strongly.” The type of action was not specified but, the Arab minority in Khuzestan has already sabotaged oil installations and fought bloody battles with government troops in their quest for more autonomy.. Khaqani was whisked away by revolutionary guards from his home in the major port city of Khorramshahr in July after Arab militants clashed with government forces. Khaqani and his family were reported to have been taken to the holy city of Qom, headquarters of Iran’s revolutionaryleader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 100 miles south of Tehran. He has not been heat’d from since. Khomeini warned the Kurds and Arabs today against further violence and told his own troops they will face revolutionary courts if they disobey orders to crush the uprisings. Three more executions also were reported, bringing the toll since February to 452. Khomeini told the outlawed Kurdish Democratic Party and other “unclean” organizations, “If you surrender, hand in your weapons and join Islam, you will be forgiven. Otherwise, If you continue your efforts against the people, you will suffer the consequences. ’ ’ Khomeini, for the second time this week, also said government troops “must obey their superiors, and if they don’t they will be tried and punished. Military personnel are not permitted to hold strikes and those who do, will be considered counter-revolutionaries and will be sent to revolutionary courts.” Reliable sources have reported that some regular troops have been reluctant to move oQt against Kurdish insurgents-In the rebellious western region, leaving revolutionary guardsmen to do the bulk of the fighting. Khomeini declared in a message distributed by government media, “I order the revolutionary guards to cooperate with the regular army in crushing those creating disturbances, especially in Khuzestan and Kurdestan.” Khomeini also said he had told Hassan Nazih, managihr director of the National Irani*" Oil Co., to give one day’s revenues, about $65 million,* the people of Kurdistan. It didn’t say how the money would be distributed but it was believed it would be spent on aid projects. The latest executions occurred Wednesday in Qazvin. west of Tehran. The men were found guilty of drug-smuggling and plotting against Khomeini’s Islamic Republic, government newspapers said. Kurdish rebel leaders have accused Khomeini of mounting an all-out war to “annihilate the Kurdish masses" and charged his attempt to crush their fight for home rule is worse than the suppression suffered under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.