Page 2, The Herald, Thursday, December 27, 1979

Warriors assemble for election —

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SALISBURY (AP)
Guerrilla commanders
mapped plans today to lead
their fighters into ceasefire
camps after a tumultuous
welcome home from seven
years of bush war, A British
peacekeeping convoy was
fanning out from Sallsbury,
its Land Rovers marked with
white croasea to ward off
possible attack.

The commanders, Mafelu
Masuku and Rex Nhongo,
were mobbed by about 20,000

_ blacks who tured out at

Salisbury airport Wed-
mesday, trampled down a
security fence and cheered,

hugged and kissed the
guerrilla chiefs and B5 of-
ficers who returned with
thern from bases in Zambia
and Mozambique.

The commandera are to

begin leading their men into
1d camps during the next two
days and settle in after the
ceasefire takea effect at
midnight Friday, The
guerrilla camps and 43 bases

where Rhodesian govern-
ment forces are to be con-
fined will be monitored by
1,200 British Commonwealth
soldiers. ;

On Saturday, the first full

day of the truce, the Com-
monwealth force will drop
tents to houge an estimated
20,000 guerrillas expectad at
the camps, Most of the
Rhodesian army, more than

Inflation said to be inflated

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Consumer Price Index,
the U.S. government’s in-
flation measure that aifecta
the wages and benefits of
more than 90 million
Americans and the spending
of billiona of federal dollars,
is belng criticized as

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Each month the bureau of
labor statistics complies the
index by surveying average
changes in retail prices for a
fixed list of gooda and ser-
vices, ranging from food,
housing and energy to shoes,
tobacco and vacations.

In November, the index
was 227.5, That meant goods
and services that sold for
$100 in 1087 coat consumers
$227.50 In November.

The CPI, the official
measure of inflatlon since
the First World War, has
become the government's
moat important statistic with
its uses including:

—Calculation of coat-of-
llving raises for nine million
union members and setting
of new pay rates for millions
of nonunion employees.

—Triggering cost-of-living

increases for 34 million

social security reciplents
and three million retired
federal and milltary per-
sonnel.

—Adjustments to benelita
for 16 million food stamp

recipients and 24 million
children and elderly people
who receive meal subsidies.

—Inereases in federal
spending by an estimated §1
billion to $2 biliion for each
one-point rise in the Index.

But critics are saying the
index is overatating the real
rise in Americans' coat of

living by one per cent to two -

per cent this year because of
the way house and mortgage
interest costs are computed.

“We're talking about
spending one to two billion
dollars simply because of a
faulty CPI,” Bays
Representative Paul Simon

{Dem. I1l.),-a leading critic
af the index who held a
congressional hearing on the
issue,

But Janet Norwood,
bureau of labor atatlatles

‘commissioner,- challenged
Simon’s assumption that the
CPI inflates inflation. “Some

_ Studies suggest the CPI may
really be uriderstating the
rate of inflation in some
cities,”’ she said,

Ms, Norwood said her
bureau is trying to refine the
index, but the going is slow.
“Everyone is  saylng
something is wrong here, but
you won't find agreement on
what that is,’’

Judge wants the
bench back again

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A
79-year-old retired county
judge has launched a legal
Challenge of the state’s
retirement law, saying he
should be put back on the
bench where he served for
more than 30 years,

Henry Ellenbogen was
forced from his Allegheny

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BOSTON (AP) — A court
hearing has won Richard
White the right to live
without electricity in * his
apartment, The complaint
by the housing inspection
department was dismissed
after a newspaper story
documenting his spartan
lifestyle. A frequently-
unemployed writer, he has
no telephone and no
refrigerator and eats only
uncooked food.

County court judgeship two
years ago by Pennsylvania’s
judicial-retirement law. His
federal court suit challenges
a 188 amendment to the
state constitution that
pravides that judges older
than 70 are barred from new
10-year terme, .

"It raiges an irrefutable
presumption of ins
competence at age 70
without giving any of the
judges an opportunity to
prove their competence,’
said Ellenbogen’s. lawyer,

- Henry Alan Sherman.

“No other office In Penn-
sylvania has a mandatory-
retirement age,” he said.
“This section of the con-
stitution, applying only to
judges, ia discriminatory.”

Sherman also said the
provision violatea federal

double the strength of. the
Guerrillas, already has.
reported to’ its ceasefire
bases.
fighting ta. cantinulng

can ig. The:
Salisbury command.
reported: that $0 persone ©
were killed in clashes
Monday and Tuesaday bet-
ween guerrillas - and
government soldiers and
there was some ap-_
prehension about deploying ”
Commonwealth forces in
areas of conflict.

Nonetheless, a convoy of 50
British soldiers wad leaving
from Salisbury at dawn in a-
convoy of 24 vehicles marked .
with white croases to identify
them to guerrillas. A 45-man
unit of Australian soldiere
flew out of Salisbury the day
before to monitor Rhodesian
army bases.

Lord Soames, the British
governor running Rhodesia
unti] elections in April
leading to black-majority —
ruje and independence from.
the Crown, has tried to ease’.
guerrilla fears that
assembling in camps will
lead to mass extermination,
He said thay may keep their
guns and that they will be
“honorably treated.’’

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~ NEWS BRIEFS

ARANYAPRATHET,
Thailand. (Reuter) —
Vietnamese refugees,
largély blocked from the sea
escapea that have taken
thousands of boat people to
neighboring shores, have
discovered a new route to the
west — ‘across famine-
stricken Cambodia to

Ty Lt

About 70 of them have ar-
rived on Thailand's eastern
border in the last few weeks
after treks from southern
Vietnam by foot, truck and
bicycle lasting two weeks or
more.

Thal military authorities
allowed Reuters ‘news
agency to interview some of
the refugees In the military
jail in this eastern frontier

town where they are kept in
Btrict custody. :
The journey _— they

described appeared safer
than escape by sea, which Is
believed to have killed
thousands before Hanoi
cracked down and cut the
flow of refugees to a trickle
last July. -

But the new route is still
uncertalii,

Aslam works on N-bomb

KUWAIT (Reuter) — A
Kuwaiti newspaper says

Pakistan has reported to

Saudi Arabia and Iran on the
advanced stage it has
reached in producing ‘‘an
Islamic nuclear bomb.”
The newspaper Al-Siyassa,
quoting diplomatic sourcea,
saya this is one reason
behind the visits of
Pakistan's martiallaw ruler,
Gen. Zia ulHag, and his

“foreign affairs adviser, Agha

Soames waa appolnted
Rhodesia's
ministrator under terms of
the peace agreement worked
out in London between the
Salisbury government and
Patriotic Front leaders~
Joshua Nkomo and Robert -
Mugabe, whose guerrilla
war has left more than 20,000
dead since it was launchedin

Nkomo and Mugabe
resorted to guerrilla war
seven yeara after Prime
Minister Ian Smith
unilaterally declared
Rhodesia Independent of
Britain in 1985 rather than
submit to rule.by'6.8 million
blacks over fhe country's ;
230,000 whites.

The guerrilla war, com-
bined with international

interim ad- |

“Shahi, to Saudi Arabia and
tran, repectlvely.

Libya has. greatly helped
Pakistan In producing the
bomb and it may be ready

before the middle of the next

ar, the newspaper says.
Zia ended.a three-day vislt
to Saudi Arabia Wednesday
during which he held talks
with King Khalid and offered
thanksgiving prayers at the
Grand Moaque in Mecca,
which Moslem extremists
had occupied for two weeks
last month.

Shahi, who accompanied
the Pakistani president to
Saud| Arabia, arrived in
Tehran Wednesday for a
two-day visit at the in-
vitation of Iranian. Foreign
Minister Sadegh Ghotbza-
deh. ‘

Carter raps Soviet move

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Carter administratlon 1s
calling on other countries ta
speak out against what it
says ig a rapid Soviet
military buildup in Af-
ghanistan.

The Soviet Union, ignoring
U.S. warnings not’ to in-
terfere in neighboring
Afghanistan, have incregeed .
ita | ;military presence’;
throiigh a two-day alrlift
which, -U:S: -officials -say,
may have doubled the
number of Soviet -ser-

vicemen there to 10,000.
That would make. the
Soviet military presence ln
Afghanistan Moscow's
largest foreign deployment
since soldiere were
dispatched to
Czechostovakla in 1068 to end
that country’s liberal trend.
. The state department has
expressed. concern several
times.in‘recent weeks about
‘the Soviet involvement but
Wednesday,. for the firat
time, officials called on other
states ta join in protest.

Former president tried

laws banning age economle sanctions, fore
' discrimination and infringes Smith torethink his position,
. on Eillenbogen’s con- and a black-led government
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p. ° Ellenbogen, who suffered April headed by Bishop Abe] Former South Korean
a stroke the day after he Muzorewa. president Yun Posun and 17
retired on Dec. 31, 1977, is But the guerrillas sald the other dissidents will stand
back to normal health, electlona that brought Muzo- trial at a martial-law court
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political gatherings, but did
not set & date for thuir trlal,
The 82-year-old former

president, dissident
publisher Ham Suk-hun, 78,

and two other men are not In
custody while the other 14.
persons ~~. including forms,
national seer en Park
Jong-tae and Yang Sun-jik —
are under arreat.

U.S. bars
a 8

gay visitors

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Lawyers of the U.S. Justice
department have told the
Immigration and
Naturalization Service it
must change its policy and
enforce a statutory ban on
the admission of homosexual
foreigners into the United
States.

Justice department
lawyers sent David
Crosland, acting director of
the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, a
memo saying the im-
migration service ‘‘is
statutorily required to en-
force the exclusion of
homosexual aliens’ under
the 1952 McCarran-Walter

The decision reversed a
position taken in August
when the government said it
would no longer use
homosexuality ag a reason
for denying aliens entry into
the United States.

That policy was announced
after U.S, Surgeon-General
Jullus Richmond said the
Public Health Service doea
not consider homosexuality
a ‘mental disease or
defect.”

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