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Tankers defy attack threat, load oil at Iranian port

By STL'ART DIAMOND c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK At least six large tankers have loaded oil at Iran’s Kharg Island terminal in the last two days or are in the process of doing so, taking advantage of Iran’s sizable discounts while risking an attack by Iraq, oil industry traders and analysts said on Friday. Iran’s offer of discounts of up to $2.50 a barrel from its posted S2B price has attracted tankers chartered by Japanese and Austrian traders, as well as by Marc Rich, the oil trader who is the subject of a huge tax fraud case, to the port in the Persian Gulf war zone, experts said. As a result, they added, Iran’s oil exports, which had dropped early in the week by a million barrels a day, to about 500,000, will probably jump to about 900,000 barrels. Oil company sources said the discounts were helping to compensate shipping companies for about $2 a barrel in extra payments to insurers and ships’ crews for entering the Kharg Island area, where a spate of attacks on tankers has occurred in recent weeks. Shippers and oil experts said Iran’s initial $1.50 discount was not enough for many shippers. With a $2.50 discount, the shippers would make at least 50 cents a barrel, or about $1 million, on a large tanker shipment, sources said. “The Iranians have reduced the price of oil enough to offset a

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SECRETARY SHULTZ DANIEL ORTEGA Surprise meeting at Managua airport Shultz, Ortega meet in Managua

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz made a surprise visit to Managua Friday, and he and the top leader of the Sandinista junta announced an agreement to hold meetings aimed at easing Central American tensions. Shultz made the stopover in Managua on the way home to Washington after attending the inauguration in El Salvador of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. He met at the Managua airport with Daniel Ortega, coordinator of the ruling leftist junta, for two hours and six minutes. At a news conference that followed, Shultz said there would be future meetings between President Reagan’s special envoy for Latin American affairs, Harry Schlaudeman, and a Nicaraguan official who was not identified by name. He did not say when or where the meetings would take place. A senior U.S. official said

Deaf motorist's car struck at crossing

By The Associated Press Indianapolis police say warning lights at a railroad crossing were not working when a deaf motorist’s truck was struck by a freight train, killing a 79-year-old passenger. Dorothy C. Huebner of Dayton, Ohio, died Friday afternoon when the truck, driven by Carl A. Schneck, 50, also of Dayton, was struck by a southbound Seaboard Ssytem

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Reagan had asked Shultz to make the stop in Managua to explore the possibility of improving the frigid relations between the two countries. Shultz and Ortega held their talks in an office at the Sandino International Airport on the oustkirts of Managua. It was the first high-level meeting between the two countries in 2'/2 years. The talks took place against a background of disagreement in Congress over whether to continue U.S. assistance to antigovernment rebels battling the Nicaraguan government. The U.S. official said the United States has the following objectives regarding Nicaragua: A halt in Nicaraguan efforts to export Marxist revolutions to other Central American states, the removal of Soviet military advisers from Nicaragua, a reduction in the size of Nicaraguan armed forces and fulfillment of Nicaragua’s commitment to restore democracy and protect human rights.

Railroad freight train on 46th Street, authorities said. Witnesses told police the warning lights for the eastbound traffic lanes were not flashing as the train approached. Schneck was treated at Methodist Hospital and released. The death raised the Indiana highway fatality toll to 301 for the year.

lot of the costs associated with the hostilities,” said Douglas Wolcott, vice president of operations at the Chevron Shipping Cos., a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Co. of California. Two of the large tankers that have headed for Kharg were chartered by the Mitsubishi Corp., a large Japanese trading company. They are the Atlanticos and the Kypros, with Liberian flags and a Greek owner, said Nobie Nakamura, chief crude oil trader for the Mitsubishi International Corp. in New York. He said the two ships together hold four million barrels of crude and that the Atlanticos left Kharg on Thursday. Other sources said the ship was now out of the war zone. Other tankers bound for Kharg include the Louisiana and the Alta, both chartered by Boest Alpine of Vienna, and the Canaria, chartered from London by Marc Rich, Nakamura said. The Danish-owned tanker Karoline Maersk was said by other oil industry sources to have headed for Kharg. Oil trading sources also said a Phibro-Salomon trading subsidiary in New York planned to charter a tanker to Kharg. Phibro traders declined to comment. As for Iraq, it stepped up plans on Friday to build pipelines to get its oil to world markets. Early in the 44-month-old war, Iran destroyed Iraq’s export facilities on the Persian Gulf, so Iraq can now export only about 900,000 barrels a day via a pipeline through Turkey to the Mediterranean Sea. Its exports before the

Two death row inmates recaptured; four hunted

WARRENTON, N.C. (AP) - Authorities searching with bloodhounds and helicopters recaptured two death row inmates on Friday at a coin laundry, but four other convicted murderers who also escaped from death row at Virginia’s maximum-security prison remained at large. Friday night, shots were fired at two officers in Portsmouth, Va., more than 100 miles away, and police believed the gunman may have been one of the escapees, said police spokeswoman Sylvia Kaiser. The two officers had been chasing on foot two men who matched the descriptions of escapees Linwood and James Briley, Ms. Kaiser said. Neither policeman was hit, and the two ran down a neighborhood street, she said. Ms. Kaiser said the two men, who are brothers, were believed to have once livad in Portsmouth, and might still have relatives there. Derick Lynn Peterson, 22, and Earl Clanton Jr., 30, were caught just before 6 p.m., said Wes Terry of the Virginia Department of Corrections. Ron Hawley, an assistant superintendent with the state

Dutch will delay U.S. missiles

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) The Cabinet on Friday approved deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles on Dutch soil, but compromised with missile foes by delaying the installation and linking the size of the deployment to Soviet behavior. “If the Soviet Union deploys one more SS-20 (nuclear missile), we will deploy all 48 cruise missiles,” Premier Ruud Lubbers told a news conference after the Cabinet meeting. The decision requires approval by Parliament. The Dutch action was announced in a carefully worded letter designed to allow the government to delay initial deployment by up to two years, placate strong anti-nuclear forces and at the same time go along with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s deployment plan. But it was the first breakdown

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Bureau of Investigation, said Peterson and Clanton were caught in Willoughby’s Laundromat and Convenience Store in Warrenton, about one block from the Warren County Jail. Clanton, Peterson and four other convicted murjerers briefly took about 12 guards hostage during their escape Thursday night from Mecklenburg County Maximum Correction Facility, about 25 miles north of Warrenton. No one was injured during the escape Danny Bland, an eyewitness, said he saw authorities lead the two men out of the Laundromat and into a yellow van. “They came out peaceful,” he said. Clanton and Peterson, wearing handcuffs, emerged from the Warren County Jail at about 11:15 p.m and were escorted by armed officers to a van. They were driven away, and were expected to arrive by midnight at Central Prison in Raleigh, a maximum-security prison, said Patty McQuillan, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction. Clanton and Peterson wore Tshirts and gray pants. As they walked toward the van, they were asked how long they’d

in the NATO schedule for putting 572 cruise and Pershing 2 medium-range missiles in five Western European countries over the next five years and raised the possibility that the entire plan might start to unravel. In Washington, State Department spokesman Brian Carlson said: “We are disappointed that the government of the Netherlands has not decided now to go ahead with full implementation of its part in the December 1979 decision.” But he said the United States did not believe the Dutch announcement would have an impact on deployment of the nuclear missiles by other NATO nations. Some missiles already have been shipped to Britain, West German and Italy, and 48 are scheduled for Belgium. Three previous Dutch governments had stalled a decision to

Founder of Nebraska church school freed from jail

PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. (AP) The Rev Everett Sileven, who was jailed in April for operating an unauthorized school in Louisville, has been released after his attorney posted SIO,OOO bail. Sileven, who operated the Faith Christian School, said upon his release from the Cass County Jail Friday he planned to go home to his family. The pastor of the Faith Bap- ~ tist Church which runs the school, kissed and hugged his wife, Tressie, and his daughter, Tresa, after his release. He talked briefly with reporters while holding his grandson, Philip Jr. Sileven was wearing a cast on his right hand covering a broken thumb, the result of an

war were more than three million barrels a day. Iraq’s new efforts include possible pipelines through Jordan to the Red Sea, and another through Turkey. John H. Lichtblau, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, said that were it not for Iran’s actions, Iraq would probably be able to export another million barrels a day, considering the production quotas by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Iraq’s oil revenue loss is about $lO billion a year, he said. He noted, however, that Iraq had received about $35 billion in advances from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others, helping its war effort. Senior Iraqi officials have stressed that they will continue to attack all ships trying to load at Kharg. Various oii analysts, however, said Iraq had not been particularly accurate in its attacks and had exaggerated some of them. Some oil analysts, noting the current world oil glut, said Iran’s discounts might cause petroleum prices to soften somewhat, even if OPEC’s $29 benchmark price is not broken. Philip K. Verleger Jr., an economist and oil expert at Drexel Burnham Lambert, said other OPEC producers might step up their exports if the threat of Persian Gulf disruptions continued. If the hostilities then dissipate, he said, “we may suddenly wake up and find that the market’s been flooded. ”

planned the escape. “I planned it for a year,” Peterson said. Asked how he had let himself get captured, he replied, “Damned if I know.” Authorities surrounded a farm early Friday night, about a block from the Laundromat, but did not find the four remaining escapees. Jim Weaver of the Virginia Department of Corrections said the bloodhounds later lost the scent about 9 p.m. Hawley said authorities would continue their search, adding that he thinks the four were still in the area. He said that two helicopters with infrared lights would be used in the night search Authorities closed in on Clanton and Peterson after FBI “scans” of Virginia telephones revealed a call that was traced to the Laundromat. Shortly after the arrast at the laundrq, authorities chased two other escapees down Interstate 85, Terry said. He said the other two escapees were believed to be James and Linwood Briley. The two men jumped from their vehicle and fled into a wooded area, Terry said. The two inmates surrendered without a struggle, Terry said,

implement the 1979 NATO plan calling for deployment of the medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe to counter Soviet missiles already in place. The Cabinet said its plan would postpone the Dutch deployment, but would complete it before NATO’s December 1988 deadline for the full European deployment. The NATO plan called for the Netherlands to install 16 of the missiles by the end of 1986 and 32 more in the first half of 1987. Under the Dutch decision, all 48 missiles would be installed only if now-suspended U.S.Soviet arms talks fail to produce an accord and if the Soviet Union adds to the missiles it had in place on June 1. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinbergar, in a report made public in April, said the Soviets had 378 SS-20s deployed,

accident two weeks ago while he was playing a makeshift basketball game in his cell, he said. Sileven was playing “sock basketball” with two other inmates, Cass County Sheriff Fred Tesch said. They had rolled a shirt up inside a sock, and were attempting shots into a rubber garbage can.

Hoosier employment level is best since 'Bl

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-Em-ployment rebounded by 47,600 to 2,346,200 in Indiana in April, its highest level since November 1981, the state Employment Security division reports. The seasonally adjusted In-

but “seemed reluctant to be caught.” Terry quoted Peterson as saying, “Next time, we ought to tear this ... (place) down,” referring to the prison. The National Guard had been alerted and would be called in “if we find it necessary,” Hawley said. Clanton was convicted in the 1981 strangulation murder of a Petersburg librarian. Peterson was convicted for the robbery and shooting death of a Hampton grocery store manager. Gilbert Miller of the Virginia Department 4, and Lem Davis Tuggle, 32, all convicted of murder. Warren County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Bolton said two inmates tried to steal a car from Andrew Lee Davis, 33, of Warrenton. Two men got into Davis’ car at a stoplight and asked for a ride. One of the men held a knife to Davn said. Davis stopped the car, struggled with his abductors and jumped onto the pavement, suffering cuts and scratches. He said the two men drove the car only about 25 yards before halting and fleeing on foot.

with 243 targeted on Western Europe and the others on Asia. That figure is believed to be outdated now, however, as U.S. officials have said the Soviets were adding a new SS-20 every 5-7 days. It is believed that all the medium-range SS-20s are on Soviet soil. The Kremlin leaders have said they were sending new nuclear missiles to East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but U.S. officials said it appeared those weapons were short-range missiles and are part of a program to replace older weapons. Lubbers said his center-right coalition government would fall if the decision is rejected by Parliament. The NATO missiles are opposed by the largest Parliamentary delegation, the Labor Party, as well as by members of Lubbers’ Christian Democrats.

According to what other inmates told Tesch, Sileven climbed on a toilet to attempt a shot when the toilet seat shifted and broke, and he fell to the floor, breaking his thumb. Sileven signed his bail agreement with his left hand. His release came after one of Sileven’s attorneys, Charles Craze of Cleveland, presented

diana unemployment rate fell from 10.2 percent in March to 9.3 percent in April, the division said Friday. The labor force in Indiana grew by 23,100 in April to 2,590,000.

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A giant runner-powered giraffe makes its way up the Hayes Street hill in the recent San Francisco Bay to Breakers race. About 60,000 runners took part in the 7.46mile race that starts at San Francisco Bay and ends at the Pacific Ocean. The giraffe costume, worn as a gag, failed to provide any advantage for its owner. (AP Laserphoto)

Tell City studies

coal plant TELL CITY, Ind (AP) City officials say they may offer to locate a coal coke plant which was opposed by some Mount Vernon residents who were worried about possible air pollution. Mayor Walter Hagedorn said the city has asked the state Board of Health to study what effect the plant would have on air quality in the area. He said the city would only offer to locate the plant in Tell City if the state can demonstrate it would not harm the environment. No contact has been made, he said, between the city and the company trying to build the plant, Elk River Resources of Knoxville, Tenn. “We’re desperately seeking jobs,” said Fred Smith, a citizen who has been active in city discussions about the plant. The Tell City area has one of the state’s highest unemployment rates, and the plant would create about 125 jobs. The April unemployment rate for Perry County was 20.2 per-

GM plants recall 205

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A modest increase in orders has allowed two General Motors division plants here to recall 205 workers, effective Monday, company spokesman John McCardle said. Detroit Diesel Allison is recalling 171 workers, while the Allison Gas Turbine division is

District Court Clerk Ed Brink a cashier’s check for SIO,OOO, drawn on a Cleveland bank. Craze said the money was raised through donations from “150 to 200” churches around the country. He said the Christian Law Association of Cleveland, which helps represent small fundamentalist churches involved in legal conflicts, had supervised the fundraising. Friday was the first day Sileven was eligible for bail. District Judge Ronald Reagan, who presides in the case, ruled last month that Sileven could be freed on bail while his contempt conviction is appealed to the Nebraska Supreme Court. Craze said Sileven will show up for any further hearings or

effects cent. That is the latest figure available The jobs weren’t enough for residents of Mount Vernon, where Elk River wanted to build the plant on land to be bought from Seaboard Systems Railroad. But the railroad withdrew its offer to sell the land after about 1,000 area residents packed a state Air Pollution Control Board hearing to oppose the plant. The citizens feared the plant would emit large quantities of chemicals that would increase their risk of cancer and damage crops. Harry Williams, the pollution board’s technical secretary, has said he will recommend the board reject the company’s permit application at its Wednesday meeting if no alternative site is proposed. Elk River executives have refused to talk publicly of their plans, but state officials say the plant appears to be a dead issue.

recalling 34, he announced Friday. With the workers who will be back on the job Monday, the two plants have recalled more than 1,500 since September. However, the two plants will still have a combined layoff pool of 900.

proceedings on the case next fall. If he doesn’t, he said, “we’ll have to explain to 150 churches why they lost $10,000.” He said he was optimistic that the school will be able to meet state requirements through a new law passed by the Legislature this spring. The law, which takes effect in July, would exempt religious schools from state certification requirements through either an evaluation or teacher testing Sileven said he may resume resume the traveling and speechmaking that consumed much of his time during the last year. “The invitations to go are doubling so I’ll probably do some, but my first obligation is to my church,” Sileven said.