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OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS
Three Bogota captives released
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -
Guerrillas who have held the Dominican
Republic Embassy for 28 days released
three Colombian captives yesterday.
Official sources said prospects were
improving in negotiations for the
freedom of the 29 remaining hostages -
including U.S. Ambassador Diego
Asencio.
The main problem still is the
guerrilla demand that 28 people they
define as political prisoners be released
from prison, which the government
rejects.
THE THREE Colombians, accom-
panied by a medical doctor who had en-
tered the building an hour earlier,
walked out of the embassy at 3:35 p.m.
The men, identified by police as three
private citizens and not diplomats,
carried small bundles that appeared to
be clothing. They waved at the hostages
remaining behind as they walked away
'and then waved at reporters who had
witnessed their release.
Including the three Colombians, the
guerrillas have released 26 persons sin-
ce seizing the embassy during a
diplomatic reception Feb. 27. Twenty-
nine hostages remain in captivity, in-
cluding Asencio and 18 other diplomats
of ambassadorial rank.
GOVERNMENT sources had said
earlier this week they expected the
terrorists, who belong to the M-19
guerrilla organization, to release some
of the hostages.
- Shortly before the Colombians were
released, government sources reported
the atmosphere of ongoing talks with
the guerrillas was improving and a new
round of negotiations was expected
tomorrow or Friday.
"The possibilities for an agreement
are much better now," a Foreign
Ministry source said after analyzing
the results of a sixth negotiating session
held Monday.
Monday's session broke an 11-day
deadlock and ended with negotiators
smiling and shaking hands. An official
government communique said there
was less antagonism between the two
sides than in previous rounds.
During the session, the woman
guerrilla who has represented the
estimated 30 captors occupying the
embassy repeated earlier demands
that 28 alleged political prisoners be
released from Colombia jails the
Foreign Ministry source said. But she
let it be known the guerrillas no longer
were seeking $50 million in ransom.
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ACLU says charter
may lead to abuses
Thursday, March 27, 1980
DAVID PISONI
Dept. of Psychology, Indiana University
"Intelligibility and Comprehension of
Synthetic Speech Produced by Rule"
(with demonstrations)
MHRI Conference Room 1057
3:45 to 5:00 p.m.
TEA: 3:15 p.m. MHRI Lounge
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) told Congress yesterday that a
proposed charter for U.S. intelligence
agencies would legalize many of the
abuses against innocent Americans un-
covered in recent years.
Testifying before the Senate In-
telligence Committee, ACLU
legislative counsel Jerry Berman said
the private civil liberties group was
"concerned that Congress, in its haste
to remove so-called 'unwarranted
restraints' on the intelligence agencies,
may ignore or give short shrift to the
rights of Americans."
THE CHARTER was worked out by
committee staff members and ad-
ministration officials from the in-
telligence agencies. Nevertheless, the
administration has objected to some
provisions, such as briefing Congress in
advance of covert spy operations.
Administration officials, however,
have not objected to the sections that
Berman attacks, and he complained
that "Congress is not forcing the agen-
cies to give an adequate explanation on
the public record of the bill's intent and
meaning."
Berman said the charter would allow
the FBI'at home and the CIA abroad to
investigate Americans who may be in-
volved in clandestine intelligence ac-
tivities on behalf of a foreign power.
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prescribed by the government in mid-
March, restraints on consumer credit
have had the most noticeable im-
mediate impact on Americans' daily
economic affairs.
But in the near-unanimous view of
Wall Streeters, tightening of credit by
the Federal Reserve at higher levels of
the banking system is likely to prove
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The Fed's efforts to reduce the growth
of money in circulation have already
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levels.
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Fed actually dates back to last October,
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THAT WAS the biggest year-long
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collecting earnings figures in 1964.
Carter's spending cuts are intended
to produce a balanced budget for the
first time in 12 years. In Congress,
where support for a balanced budget
appears overwhelming, the House
Budget Committee has proposed $16.5
billion in spending cuts for 1981 to
achieve that goal.
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