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Oider: ‘Bring ‘Em In'
By Art Harris and Saundra Saperstein
/Vashthgton Post St aft Vr1Lers
JESSUP, Md., Aug. 23—As German shepherds
yelped in their squad car cages and police lieu-
copters whirred overhead. Sgt. Benjamin Cohey,
at 6-foot-7 and 265 pounds, carved out sections of
a 1.0-mile area where the men and dogs of the
state police would hunt down a band of escaped
convicts from the Maryland I-louse of Correction.
“I-low do OU know what they look like?” asked
a trooper. interrupting the sergeant's gruff in-
S Lructions.
“Anybody you see, you stop,” barked Cohey.
“If they don't have any ID, you call and ask for
an identity check. If you can't identify them, bring
‘em in.”
From predawn to dusk today, Cohey's men and
more than 100 other state policemen and county
officers roamed the highways and woods from
Baltimore to Washington in a sometimes easy.
sometimes wild. and now and then crazy effort
to “bring in” 30 prisoners on the lam.
[ By early Friday, 21 of 30 escapees had been
recaptured. and police were still looking for the
other ninej
See CHASE, A13, Col. 1
- .. 21 of 30 A e Re aptured
By Jackson Dichi
Washington Post Staff Vrttc'r
JESSUP, Md., Aug. 23—From his post in a steel
niesh cage, the guard here Wednesday night in the
I-I dormitory dayroom of the iViaryland I-louse of
Correction could see onhy the usual cluster of pris-
oners around the television set and. above them,
the iron-barred ‘windows to the outside.
//Tl' at the guard did not notice was that at. least
I 7 of the men in the recreation room did not be-
long there. i' or did he see that. one by one, the
populatioii of H dormitory was slipping through a
corner window to a rooftop. then scrambling
tiirough three chain-link fences and into the nearby
forest.
It was only hours later that prison officials here
realized that 30 inrnates—including five men con—
victed of n ircler—had used l)recise timing and
one steel blade to pull off the second largest l)1'iSOfl
break in ? ‘laryland history.
‘fhe hundreds of state and county I)Olice who
spent today scouring the thick woods and
trails between Washington and Baltimore found
that most of the inmates fleeing from the medium
security pi isofl were not as crafty as those who
See ESCAPE, A12. Cot. 1
Stayed by
By Lee Lescaze
Washington Post Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 23
—The U.N. Security Council today
took up the controversial question
of Palestinian political rights amid
reports that Arab states may have
agreed not to press for final action
until the fall.
U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young
told reporters after today's meeting
that l e still expects a vote—and a
U.S. veto—on a resolution supporting
self-determinatior for Palestinians to
come Friday.
But well-informed sources said an
agreement already had been reached
not to press the resolution to a vote.
No resolution was introduced while
the Security Council was in session,
but this evening Senegal submitted a
draft resolution on Palestinian rights.
There was no certainty that it would
come to a vote, because Senegal is
not a council member, and the rules
say that only a member can demand
a vote.
Private negotiations on the resolu-
tion continued throughout the day,
with the United States seeking to
avert a vote and the veto that would
harni U.S. relations with moderate
Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and
l• iisvait. ‘l don't ever give up,”
Young said.
.. I don't know whether there will be
a vote tomorrow,” Zchdi Labib Terzi,
the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion's U.N. observer, said today. Ash-ed
whether he had received anything in
exchange for agreement to delay a Ii-
nal vote, he said, “I haven't yet.”
Kuwait Ambassador Abdella Yaccoub
Bishara said after the meeting that he
intended to press the resolution to a
/,o Ic.
The Arab nations reportedly have
agreed to accept their victory in con-
‘ening the Security Council meeting
today despite U.S. efforts to postpone
it and to delay final action on the bit-
terly contested resolution, according
to ve1l-informed sources.
‘l'he Arab StIh)h)ot tCrS of the PLO.
the official ly endorsed representative
of the Palestinians to the United Na-
tions, already have achieved a large
part of their objective by generating a
surge of interest in the Palestinian
problem and in their resolution in
support of the Palestinians' “inaliena-
ble rights of self-cleterniination.”
By privately agreeing to keel) the
resoluiion :1 OI1) ii vote. the Arabs
have retained that card for another
day. Au element sources said figured
in the Arabs' plan was their respect
for Young. who is in the last days of
his ambassadorship after being forced
to resign after the disclosure of his se-
cret niceting with Terzi.
/Vhile Young told reporters that he
See MiDEAST, AiG, Col. 1
Iran's nllroops
Fight Kurds;
Unrest Grows
By Clwis de Kretser
Sm raaJ to The Washington Post
TEHRAN. Aug. 23—The Kurdish re-
gion of western Iran teetered on the
brink of a lull scale insurrection to-
day while threats from the country's
Arab minority threatened to open up
a southern front for beleaguered gov-
ernment forces in Iran's main oil-
lMOClucing l)rovincc.
Government forces in Kurdistan re-
treated to defensive positions on the
outskirts of the town of Saqqez, which
was reported under the control of
Kurdish insurgents after heavy fight-
ing with government forces and many
casualties on both sides.
Meanwhile, a contingent of Revolu-
tionary Guards—an elite government
force loyal to the unofficial head of
state, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—
was sent to protect Iran's main oil cx-
port terminal at Kharg Island in the
Persian Gulf because of labor unrest
and threats of r ene ved violence by
autononiy-secking Iranian Arabs.
The Iranian Arabs, who claim to
make up the majority of the popula-
tion in the oil-rich Khuzestan Prov-
ince in southiwestei'n iran, watnecl
they would “react strongly” if the go '-
ernnient did not hand back an Arab
religious leaclei- reportedly being held
under house al-rest in the holy city of
Qo m.
In Icuiclistan, government forces
used helicopter gunships, artillery and
heavy machine guns to attack rebel
positions in a sham-p escalation of the
fighting, which i-aged around a go '-
el-nment garrison on the edge of
Saqqez.
Saqciez. a Predominantly Kurtlishi
town of about 40000 i)eoiile. occul)ies
an inipoirai t position on the roach be
tween the I(uidisji citics of Mahahaci
and Sanandaj and is about 50 niile'
from the Iraqi border.
‘rhe -( %‘cre conflii•timmg casualty
figures f' r the latest fighting.
The caffi'-iah Pat-s Ne vs Agency said
the cjii maiichej- of the 28ih fnfauti- '
Division based at Sanandaj and 22
goveI-nn troops were killed jii a
clash as they were moving to icin-
force Saqqez.
The r hels claimed the ' kihle 80
governnieiit t100 1 )S. out Iranian au-
thorit s denied this.
A statement fiom th 28th Division
said 15 “c )untei-revolutio1lai y agents
had been killed. KurcIisj-m scurces con-
firmed theii- casualty roll today was
15 dead and 70 wounded.
As the fighting am-otind Saqqez in-
tensifieci, the Km-dish spilitual leader,
See IRAN, A15, Col. 1
Girl's Expuisioi'i
By Church School
Lip!i 1 e1d b'v Judge
By Stephanie Mansfield
Washii,gton Post Staff Writer
A fundamentalist Baptist preachem
who claims interracial relationships
are forbidden by the Bible had a con-
stitutional right to expel a 14-year-old
white girl from his private school for
allegedly dating a black classmate, a
federal judge in Alexandria ruled yes-
terday.
U. S. District Court Judge Omeii R.
Lewis. in an il-page decision, said the
government may not interfere with
the preacher's First Amendment right
to forbid interracial dating at the
school as a matter of religious princi-
pie.
Aleck Lee Bledsoe, the 37-year-old
principal of the Marumsco Christian
School in Woodbridge, was sued by
the Ameiican Civil Liberties Union on
behalf of the girl and her parents.
ACLU lawyer Victor Glasberg said
yesterday he would appeal Lewis' de-
cision to the 4th U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Richmond.
The decision means. “You can prac-
tice racism as long as you do it in the
name of the Lord,” Glasberg said.
“I'm not surprised enough to be an-
gry.”
Raymond Fieclier, the girl's father,
said yesterday, “// T e expected this. But
I've conic this far and put my family
through enough pain and torture. I'll
go as far as I can go.” Fiedler said if
See MARUMSCO, A8, Col. 1
(;.1 4 t() ACCuSeS A 'l l)r
‘l'hip ./rtimy is ))lZiyiflg a nunibers
game to ( ()VCl UP time fact it is recruit-
i11J4 fe veL than half of the reservists
it needs, the General Accounting Of-
lice says.
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Soviet Ballet Star Granted ES. Asyliun
By ‘Tony Kornheiscr
‘asi,ington Post Stall ‘,iter
Alexander Goclunov. a I)rincipal
dancer in the world-renowned Bolshoi
Ballet, was granted asylum in the
United States yesterday.
Godunov, 29, the first dancer to do-
feet from the Bolshoi, formally re-
quested asylum Wednesday at the
New York City district office of the
Immigration and Naturalization Serv-
ice.
1-us action came as the Bolshoi was
in its fourth and last week of perform-
ances at Lincoln Center. The company
is touring the United States with
stops also planned in Chicago and Los
Angeles.
Goclunov's wife, Luclniila Viasova,
also a soloist with the Bolshoi, has not
asked for asylum with her husband.
rl l)c State Department yesterdlay in-
formed the Soviet Union officially
about the asylum. Neither the Soviet
embassy in /Vashington nor the Soviet.
U.N. Mission had any comment.
Despite earlier reports that the Bol-
shoi might cancel its tour. Lillian Lib-
man, executive producer of Neclerlan-
der Producing Co. of America, the
American sponsors of the Bolshoi
tour, said she expected the tour to
continue. Libman said the defection
“came as a total surprise to the Bol-
shoi Ballet administration and the
American producers, all of whom cx-
pressed their great regret at the ac-
tion taken by Mr. Godunov.”
Godunov, described by one dance
expert as “a huge audience favorite”
because of his “powerful dramatic”
dancing style, was reported by the As-
sociated Pi-ess to be “in l)iivate rims-
tOdI3' somè vhere.” The circumstances
of I i is defection rcmai nod unclear.
One repoit fi-om the Ness' York
dance coni1iiuniti ' placed Goclunov on
a yacht iieai the city. perhaps ‘.‘ith
IV [ ikhail Bai ysh inikov the dancer who
defected from the Soviet Union in
1974. The two arc friends and wete
classmates in Riga 15 years ago, be-
fore Godunov joined the Bolshoi as a
soloist in 1967.
According to Gennady Smakov. a
dance critic lot- Ballet News in New
York and a foin)er Soviet national.
Goduriov vanted to defect in 1974
‘hen he ‘as on an American tour
vitli the Bolshoi.
“l'hci-c wore all kinds oh ruiiiois at.
See GODUNOV, A5, Cot. 1
Priest Tried as Bandit Win 1 s Freedom .ind Apology
By Judith Valente
/Vssiiii,gton Post Staff Writer
WILMING'l'ON, Del., Aug. 23—The Rev. Ber-
nard T. Pagano, the Roman Catholic priest put on
trial here on charges of being Delaware's “Gentle-
man Bandit,” was set free with a public apology
from the state today after another man, who said
his conscience bothered him, pleaded guilty in the
case.
Pagano, hugging and kissing former parishioners
and other well-wishers, walked to St. Patrick's
Church, two blocks from Superior Court where
he had been on trial, and said a mass of thanks-
giving.
In the courtroom. where all sb felony charges
against the Cambridge. McI., cleric were dropped,
l)el aware Attorney General Richard C ebelein said,
‘-/Vc wish to sincciely aj)ologize to Father Paganu
foi the personal turmoil and trauma lie has been
th i-otigh.”
The attorney general's office decided to drop
the charges against the 53-year-old priest after
Ronald ‘t'V. Clouser, 39, o Brookhaven, Pa., agreed
to plead guilty to second-degree robbery in con-
nection with three of the holdups for vhich Pa-
gano was on trial.
Clouser pleaded guilty to three similar crimes
last year in Pennsylvania, where Pagano is still
charged with one attemped robbery. The priest
said today he believes that charge will be diopped.
As part of the plea bat-gain today. the state agreed
not to prosecute Clouser on two other armed rob-
berycharges and one charge of attempted robbery
involved in the Pagano case. It also said Clouser
would not be charged in three other Delaware
robberies he said he was involved in.
The court accepted Clouser's guilty plea after
two psychiatrists. one in Pennsylvania and one
in Delaware, declared that douser—although suf-
fering from what one doctor called “reactive do-
pression”—was indeed mentally competent when
he macic the surprise announcement Monday that
he, not Pagano. was responsible for the robberies.
Clouser, an employe of the U.S. Postal Service.
said he comniittecl the crimes to help pay l25 a
week in court-ordered family support payments.
I-Ic was ieleasecl on $5,000 unsecured bond by
Superior Couit •Judge Andrew Christie. who had
PteSiCleCl over the Pagano trial.
/Vhen Gebelein announced in court that charges
against the priest would be dropped, Pagano and
his attorneys patted each other on the back, smiled
broadly and clasped hands.
Several women, former parishioners of Pagano
who had shown up regularly in the courtroom dur-
ing two weeks of testimony in the trial, wept quiet-
ly when they heard the attorney general say he
was sorry.
After more than an hour in the courtroom listen-
ing to Clouser tell the judge lie understood what
he was doing and the attorneys explain the events
to the .jury, Pagano ‘ent to church.
. ‘ [ hiere, Pagano donned a cream-comm-ed robe and
told his t naiiy SUI)l)Oi ters he ‘ vou1d go through
this all again” because of the expressions of love
he had received. 1-he asked his ‘ell-wishers to pt-ny
for Clouser and to love him.
See PAGANO, A7, Col. 2
NRC SLaff Shilis,
Retu ins Freeze
Oi i A Li cen sing
By -Joanne Oniang
/ ‘ashine, oi, Post St a ff /‘ritei•
The Nueleat- R egulatoi-y Coni in is-
sion staff. faced vithi a blast of out-
rage from the Presidential Commis-
sion on the Accident at Three Mile Is-
land, beat a hasty retreat yesterday
from its decision to resume Processing
applications for new nuclear DOWer
plants.
The 12-mnembom- presidential corn-
mission dropped its planned agenda
and instead spent three hours grilling
NRC official l-Iaiolcl H. Denton on his
move to lift a three-month freeze on
the pet-mit work. “The NRC seems to
be thumbing its nose at this commis-
sion,” said commission member Caro-
lyn Lewis.
The commission may niake m-ecorn-
mendations that ‘ould further delay
or vastly alter the licensing process.
several members said. “What. you're
saying is that you can ignore the re-
ornrnenclations.” Arizona Coy. Bi-uce
Babbitt told Denton.
Denton. head c I reactor 1-egu latiomi
at the NRC, responded that the NRC
will require 24 changes in design anti
operations in all now and operating
plants and that those changes will not
foreclose any recommendations the
commission might make.
“Mr. Denton, I think you're kidding
me,” Babbitt snapped.
See TM!, A4, Col. 3
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‘t'li c estate o I a ri-h i t eel I'.cl -a icl U)i ,
rd 1 Stone has agreed I o pa I he
government al)out S250,00l) to etl'
claims that roof leaks at the Kennedy
Center icsuhlecl from design Ilaws.
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Arabs
Pi'ot o. in Gi'in Id ri i ,,es i ——The /Vu ;tii ii z tori Post
Assistant Vartlcn .Joimii 1 'riic, left, j)()mnt s to area of lacihity t 'herc escapes hiok place. I)eiiuty Sheriff l i-aimJt Seib of Cuinberland and his dog •join in seaich.
Timing, Steel Blade Aided Big Escape
By Dave Cook—The Vashin ton Post
ALEXANDER GODTJNOV
. . . first defector from Bolslioi
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