.. Ernest. Gross, Russian thought ~hidin (AP) — The highest. ranking Russian em- ployee of the United Nations is in hiding after . apparently defecting. An application to the United . States.for asylum is ex- pected. Arkady Shevchenko, the $76,-000-a-year, un- dersecretary-general for political and Security Council affairs, left his job six days ago because of “differences with his government,’’ a UN statement said, In Washington, the U.S. state department faid it was approached by Shev- chenko’s U.S. lawyer, who indicated that the 47- year-old Russian would net return to the Soviet Union. State department spokesman Tom Reston said Shevchenko did not ask for asylum. ‘But he said Soviet officials requested a meeting with Smevchenko and that Gross, a former assistant state secretary and ex- delegate to the United . Nations, arranged the meeting, a formality that often precedes granting of asylum. Reston did not reveal the place or time of the . Meeting. Gross was reported in Washington Monday night, and there was speculation that Shevchenko was with him to meet with represen- tatives of the Soviet embassy there. An authoritative diplomatic source at the United Nations, who asked not to be identified, said Shevchenko was in the process of seeking -asylum, the first UN employee ever to do so in U.S In ee anywhere. FAMILY GOES HOME Unconfirmed reports said Shevchenko refused an order from the Soviet Zovernment to return home and -that his. wife and daughter left for Moscow during the weekend after ‘‘a violent quarrel.” He also has-a son in the Soviet foreign service, . Associales said he left: his office last Wed- nesday, saying he was not . feeling well,nand told an assistant to take charge for a few weeks. UN spokesman ‘Francois Giuliani told reporters Monday that Shevchenko informed Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim he was ‘‘absenting himself from the office and in this connection he mentioned differences with his government.” The New York Times says in addition to “differences with his fovernment” as a motive for defection, ‘‘Ad- ministration officials and Western diplomats fa- miliar with the case said there were also some personal problems in- volved.” “An American official mentioned a liaison Mr. Shevchenko had. had with a woman in New York,” . The Times says, ‘while Western diplomats said he had a ‘health problem’ and remarked that he had been known as a heavy - drinker,”’ Shevchenko is one of 32 undersecretaries- general, the No. 2 rank in the UN secretariat and one of 191 Russian citizens who are UN officials on the pro- ‘fessional or higherntevel. Siberian wasteland | holds vast riches — — Buried under the vast wasteland of Siberia’s forests and. permafrost lie uheounted:.natural resbiuvbes that “experts say ‘could’ have a profound effect on the world’s economy for years to come. Siberia holds the key to the Soviet Union's future economic development and possibly to the _ development of world ‘energy and mineral’ resources. Exploitation of these resources, against terrible climatic odds, has begun even as prospectors and geologists continue their explorations through bitter cold of the region's almost endless winter. _' Tempted into Scheria by wages up to double the | average, | national workers are battling some'of the most difficult conditions in the world, including _ earthquakes and mudslides, extreme isolation, and a landscape that turns to mosquito-in- * fested swamp for the few months it is free from the rigid grip of winter. MIGHT BE LARGEST In Siberia, oi! and natural gas reserves that specialists say might be e largest in the world have now been tapped and the Samotlor oil deposit in the Tyumen region, ranked third in the world in reserves, _already produces about a billion barrels a year. Officials say only five per cent ‘of the ‘Tyumennregion, which is - three times the size of Texas, has ‘been thoroughly explored. More than | 100,000 workers have completed a third of a new rail line almost 2,000 miles long that will open the region in the next five years to full-scale exploitation of its resources. . REGION IS VAST . The region stretches from the Ural mountains of Russia east to the _ Pacific. It is larger than the United States or ina, Still almost untouched _ here lie an estimated 90 r cent of the Soviet nion’s potential natural resources. fi ‘According to official Soviet estimates, ‘they include ainetenths of the nation’s bituminous coal reserves, twathirds of its Fe ETS ary AD LAB At et = hy nae Pee - week's iron ore, four-fifths of its timber, and -large deposits of almost all mineral.elements. .. . i, Finds “of” ‘copperniiear Udekan aré said to ex- ceed those cfnthe United States, Chile and Zaire | combined. More than 100 towns and large communities are planned through the region formerly populated only by a few tribal hunters and reindeer breeders. Urgal is one of the key towns growing along the railway line. One Western economist said recently: ‘Siberia is going to become a major region in world trade, We're watching to .see how the Soviets decide to handle it.” Chileans" freed President Ferdinand Marcos ordered the release tonight of more than 500 persons held in a military stockade for participating in a peaceful march to protest alleged fraud in last National Assembly election in the Philippines. Kept in custody were ‘former senator Lorenzo Tanada, 76, a lawyer and campaign manager of the opposition People's Power party, and six other party members including four can- didates, an .an- nouncement from Maladanang Presidential Falace said. The announcement said Tanada and the six others were the leaders and organizers of Sunday's march, which protested the,“death of feedom and democracy’? in Philippines. The government ac- cused the marchers of . advocating violence against the government. Charges of Illegal assembly and inciting to rebellion had been filed before a military court against all of the arrested marchers but the an- nouncement said Marcos indicated the charges may be referred toa civil court, | " : Earlier. today, security forces: raided a Roman Catholic mission near” here and seized large quantities of documents, military officials sald. the. Aquatic events. of the XXII Olympiad are featured on the ourth set in a series of Soviet Union seml-postal sports stamps for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. The multi-coloured stamps, all 30 by .42 mm, depict (clockwise) swimming, 4 + 2 kopecks; diving, 6 + 3 kopecks; water polo, 10 + 5 kopecks; and canoeing, 16 + 6 kopecks (kayak) and 20 + 10 kopecks (Canadian singles). Completing the set is a 50 + 25 kopecks souvenir sheet, #0 by 70 mm, that depicts rowing. Former FBI director indicated The U.S. justice depart- ment, concludeng that responsibility for FBI excesses in the anti- radical campaign of. the early 1970s rests at the top, has obtained the indictment of former F'BI director Patrick Gray and two of his highest former aides. In the culmination of an internal _ investigation, the department also dropped its prosecution of John Kearney, a former FBI supervisor in New York,"who was indicted a year ago in connection with FBI break-ins, mail openings and wiretap- pings between 1970 and the summer of 1972. . “I. am thoroughly delighted, pleased and vindicated,’’ Kearney said in Montreal, where he was visiting. Kearney was the first agent in FBI History to be cmarged with a felony involving his official duties. He resigned in 1972 to enter private busihess. °°" In a case guided by AttorneyGeneral Griffin Bell, a federal grand jury Monday indicted Gray, Mark Felt, former associate FBI director, and Edward _ Miller, former assistant direc- . tor, on a cmarge of conspiring to viclate the rights of citizens through unlawful break-ins. The charge carries a maximum penalty ofnl0 yearfnin prison and a fine of $10,000. ISSUES | STATEMENT Gray issued a statement through his lawyer saying he had “never participated in or knowingly authorized any illegal conduct during my tenure as acting director of the FBI.” Felt, who called the in- dictments a ‘‘tragic mistake,” said that he, Gray and Miller rejected a justice department offer last week td plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, Felt's statement was confirmed by Miller's lawyer, who said his client ‘emphatically denies any wrongdoing.”’ ‘Irrespective of my personal case,. these indcctments will have a chilling effect on all law enforcement and the in- telligence community,” Felt said. .Bell, who announced the indictments at a news conference Monday. also —U.S.-W.German relations Chancellor Helmut Sch- midt’s conservative, opponents blame him and by implication President Carter for a “dramaticnworsening” in relations between West Germany and the United States.n U.S. and West German officials concede that relations between the two most powerfkl members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are strained over the neutron bomb, U.S. opposition to West Germany's nuclear deal with Brazil, the U.S. dollar and what West Germany should do to improve the international economic climate. , Bkt a NATO diplomat with close ties to both countries says the strains are natural, Bonn and Washington are ‘among the closest’? capitals in the world, and ‘‘when a relationship is as close as this, there are boundnto ‘be these hiccups.”’ “The dramatic wor- sening of relations bet- ween the U.S, and West Germany and the result- ing danger to our security has become especially ‘clear in the. chancellor's handling of the neutron- Weapon issue,” said the opposition Christian. . Democratic Union in a ‘statement Monday. The implication was that Schmidt should have prevailed on Carter to go ahead with production of ‘the neutron bomb, which . both the Socialist chan- cellor and the con- servatives want. But the Christian Democrats hedged by saying Sch- midt was only: partly responsible for the dif- ficulties between. Bonn and Washington. They did not. say who else might be to blame, but the implication was clear. .n strained UPSET BY REPORT Bonn-Washington relations were not improved by a re . -port in the magazine , Der Spiegel that Foreign Min news -ister Hans-Dietrich Genscher . told the chancellor that Car -ter, ‘is destroying every ratio ‘nal calculation of the alliance, and his decisions are no longer fathomable.” A foreign ministry spokesman said State - Secretary Guenther van Well met with U.S. Am-. bassador Walter Stoessel_ to deny the Spiegel report. U.S. diplomats refused to comment but they seemed irritated. ' Last ‘year Carter stepped up opposition to the sale of West German nuclear-power equipment to Brazil because it would enable the Brazilians to make plutonium that might be used in nuclear weapons. The West Germans considered that a threat to a promising export industry and are. going ahead with the deal, Schmidt and his ad- visers also have been angered by U.S. pressure to expand the German economy so as to increase West Germany’s imports from its allies and thus give their economies a. ‘boost. The Germans are holding back, contending that too rapid “‘reflation” might rekindle inflation. ARREST BOB HAYES DALLAS (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Bob Hayes and another man. were- arrested’ Thursday on drug charges in an ear} morning raid in the nort Dallas suburb of Addison said. he was taking un- specified disciplinary ac- tion. against Wallace LaPrade, an assistant FBI director and head of the bureau’s New York office, “for his conduct in these matters.” Bell said’ 70 other persons—63 in the FBI and two in the justice department—will be sub- jected to disciplinary action ranging - froin censure to dismissal. Gray was appointed acting FBI director by then-President Richard Nixon in May 1972 after J. Edgar Hoover’s death. Gray’s nomination to be permanent director was withdrawn in 1973 ia the wake of questions raised about his handling of the Watergate and In- ternational Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) ‘eases, including his destruction of Watergate documents at the request: of a White Honse aide Betty Ford | in hospital (AP) — Betty Ford, long in fragile health, has checked herself into a hospital for treatment of what the former first lady describes as an “in- sidious'’’ problem of “over-medicating myself.” - The‘acting superin- - tendent‘of the U.S. Naval Hospital where Mrf. Ford was admitted. Monday— two days after -hern60th berthday—denied that she was in any way ad- dicted to drugs. si “It’s an insidious thing ’ and I mean to rid myself of its damaging effects,” saidnMrs. Ferd. “There have been too many other | things I’ve overcome to be forever burdened with this.” Her statement was issued shortly after she was driven from her new desert home in Palm Springs, 160 kilometres east of here, to the navy hospital in this: Los Angeles suburb. Her husband, former president Gerald Ford, said later in the day that he will continue his schedule ofnappearances in Alabama and will not - return to California before Friday. Capt. James Zimble, acting superintendant of the hospital, said Mrs. Ford was in the alcohol and drug rehabilitation centre for what he Suicide A 68-year-old Russian woman whose son defected in 1974 was gravely ill in a, hospital today after af empting suicide in a” Moscow passport office. Antonina Agapova, who swallowed acid after officials refused to accept . her family’s latest ap- plication. to emigrate, earlier this month failed in a bid to leave the country in a light plane with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, _ Mrs. Agapova’s sulcide bid took place before - Swedish journalist, Edda Savborg in the visa office in central Moscow.,:. Her daughter-in-law, Lyudmila, 39-year-old wife of Valentin Agapov who defected from a merchant ship in Sweden in 1974, returned to the waiting room after of- ficials refused to accept. the visa application, Miss Savborg said. She said the elder Mrs. Agapova went out to a bathroom and returned a r-old. described as “a problem with medication.” He said she was in “fine condition.” NOT ADDICTED He denied that Mrs. Ford was in any way addicted to drugs, but refused to. elaborate beyond. Mrs. . Ford’s statement. Zimble also . refused to say what medi- cation was involved or how long she will be in hospital, although sources said two or three weeks is likely. Mrs. Ford has suffered from arthritis and a pinched nerve in her neck for several years. - Dr. Neil Diess, a Los Angeles Coknty Medical . Association official, said. in a telephone interview that a number of drugs are usually ‘used for arthritis, which can cause painful in- flammation of joints. Those drugs include cortisone and pain-killers such as codeine, aspirin or Darvon, he said. — The statement from Ford’s office quoted the former president as saying the current treatment of his wife was “in no way related to the eancer which .Mrs. Ford experienced nearly four years ago.” - a In 1974, Mrs. Ford was discovered to have breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy and related treatment. attempt few minutes later with a paper cup in one hand and an empty bottle in the other. n She shouted something that sounded like "The Soviet author- -ities have driven me to this’ and then collapsed.” Mrs. Agapova was taken to hospital after an ° ambulance crew treated her for 30 minutes on the premises, Hospital offi- cials later said she was gravely ill with acid poisoning, Lyudmila Agapova stabbed herself with a bread knife in similar circumstances in 1976 after an earlier ap- plication was refused. ‘She told reporters last week that the family tried four times to reach a light lane which had flown in rom Finland to take themnto join her hushand in Sweden. . REMOVE GRASS STAINS Remove grass stains by covering them with cream of tartar. , pullback _ relations, add THE HERALD, Wednes day, April 12, 1978, PAGE 7 Moro appeals - for freedom ROME (Reuter) — The kidnappers of former premier Aldo Moro have rejected secret deals with the Italian government for his release, while their hostage has again appealed ‘to the au- thorities to secure his freedom. In a message left for reporters in four cities following calls to their newspapers, the Red Brigades guerrillas Monday night ruled out secret negotiations, . “Nothing must be hidden from the people,” they said in their fifth communique since ab- ducting Moro almost four weeks ago and subjecting him to a ‘“people’s trial.” But “this is not the message you have been ’ waiting for," a man told the Rome daily 1 Messaggero in one of the calls announcing the Syrian communique, which was accomvanied by a handwritten statement from Moro. The caller was referring to a letter Moro was reported to have sent to his wife on Saturday containing a Brigades’ ultimatum, a message whose existence the authorities refuse to confirm despite top-level meetings during the weekend. - As in previous Messages, the brigades made no specific de- mands for the release of Moro, held since March 16 when his car was ambushed and his five bodyguards shot dead. In particular, no mention was made of exchanging the former ‘premier for any of the 15 Red Brigades leaders on trial in Turin on sub- version charges. troops open fire BEIRUT (AP) — The first stage in Israel's in southern Lebanon was reported proceeding smoothly today as Syrian troops opened fire in Beirutin an attempt to end a new outbreak of Moslem- Christian fighting in the Lebanese capital. n ‘ Both a UN spokesman in Beirut and.an Israeli army spokesman in * northern Israel reported no hitches. as Israeli troops moved back two to five kilometres at eight -points from the Khardali Bridge eastward along the Litani River to the Arkoub region in the foothills of Mount Her- mon. “Norwegian peacekeepers replaced Israeli forces in all va- cated areas and by mid- morning we had no report of any violence,” the UN spokesman said. A second pullback. Friday will remove the Israelis from onefourth of the 1,300 kilometres of Lebanese territory they occupied during their invasion Jast month to drive the Palestinian guerrillas north of the Litani, | - Lo. DEPLOY UN FORCE Total Israeli with- drawal from southern Lebanon is expected to - Not our fault, - depend on_ effective deployment. ofnthe UN force and on measures to prevent return of the ‘guerrillas to the area. About one-half the 4,000 UN troops slated to take up positions in southern Lebanon are on station, UN fpokesmen say. Tme Lebanese government radio called the Israeli pullback in- Significant. But the government launched a simultaneous repatriation of civilian refugees to the invaded southern regions. . Meanwhile, as the first convoy of refugees set out southward, Syrian tanks and armored cars went into action along the line between Beirut’s. Ein Rummaneh and Chiyah districts after Christian snipers in Ein Rum- maneh and Moslems in ‘Chiyah exchanged _ fire from rooftop positions. The Syrians, ordered to "shoot to kill without warning. al any armed person and to silence fire from any direction,’ opened up with machine- gun volleys, The fighting was localized. But the staccato of machine-gun bursts and thuds of ex- plosions scared people off the streets in adjacent neighborhoods, says Vorster (AP) — South Africa expressed regret today that the first black tribal homeland it created, - Transkei, has’ cut the umbilical cord with its motherland in an a parent bid for world recognition. South African Prime Minister John Vorster, said ‘it is not our fault" that Transkei decided to . break diplomatic ing that the move can only be to the “disadvantage” of the tribal homeland. “From the govern- ment’s side, I wish to make it clear, that no blame for this lies on our shoulders, that we did everything we undertook to do,”’ Vorster told the South African parliament in Cape Town, “But Transkei is an independent state, and. it is the prerogative of the rime~.minister of an independent state to act ‘in this. way’ if he is so advised, even if it should be to his own ‘disad- vantage.” ; Tanskei Prime Minister Kaiser Matanzima announced in the Umtata on Monday that his government is cutting diplomatic ties. with South Africa— the only country that recognizes -its in- dependence—and will ress a ‘“‘struggle for iberation” from .white rule in South Africa. Political sources in Cape Town said Matanzima’s an- nouncement caught South Africa by surprise, OVER-ALL PLAN Under its apartheid policy of racial segregation, South Africa plans to consign its 19 million blacks to nine scattered homelands, * Critics said the creation of Transkei and the over- all homelands plan helps perpetuate dominance of South Africa’s 4.5 million whites. Mantanzima said he was forced to break with South Africa because of its “contemptuous and brutal’ rejection of Transkei's claim to East Griqualand, an area along Transkei's nor- thern border. ‘ He predicted not only a confrontation: between Transkei Africa nbut a “blood struggle” bétween blac and white South Africans. Observers here said Mantanzima has been under domestic pressure to take a hard line against South Afrcca and appéars to be hoping fornsome recognition’ abroad b cutting ties with Sout! Africa. me Transkei remains economically dependent on South Africa, which provides more than half of its. 1977-78 national budget of: $274 million. Matanzima said he expects South Africa to cut off financial aid and he appealed “‘t¢ Western countries to come to our assistance," Just after Transkei’s independence Oct, 26, 1976, the United Nations General Assembly voted 134 to 0 to declare the “shan _ Independence" invalid. - . and — South,