European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse 23 basques in jail get exile offer Madrid up Premier Adolf Suarez government has announced it will release the 23 remaining Basque political prisoners if they agree to exile from decision taken Friday came alter a period of disorders in the Northern demonstrations had drawn police repression which in turn provoke new Street protests and clashes. The government said radicalized minorities that want to prevent the Celebration of the june is parliamentary elections used the demonstrations to pro Voke police. But an official communique issued after Friday s Cabinet meeting said that with the new amnesty measure the govern ment confirms its of continuing Politi Cal normalization which makes inciting to violence the decision was announced after the kidnapping Friday morning in Bilbao of Javier Ybarra Berge one of the wealthiest and most influential establishment figures in the Basque Region. But the government leaked its Basque prisoner solution to the press before the kidnapping and the Deci Sion apparently was not affected by the at5-duction. The communique said that 23 Basque prisoners remain in jail. It said with regard to these the government must insure that the Pardon measures through the action of extremist groups do not generate a new spiral of violence. So in some of the cases the release can Only be achieved by leaving National territory and at the petition of those the government said it already had approved the release of five and was making arrangements with a foreign government to receive them. The other requests will be processed inthe same Way. The communique said. It also blamed radicalized minorities for the kidnapping of Ybarra. Spanish news papers and Public opinion generally considered it the work of the separatist group Eta i Basque Homeland and Liberty. But More than 16 hours after the kidnapping no group was known to have claimed responsibility or made demands on the family or government. Royalists Hail Constantino Athens up royalist organizations scattered leaflets in the streets of Athens bearing Good wishes to former King Constantine on his Nam Day. Sunday May 22. 1977 Andy after hours american . Ambassador Andre Young dances at a reception after a . Conference in Mozambique. His partner is put use Appolos of the pan african women s organization. Young went on to South Africa. A go of Market not War Young fes s. Africans Johannesburg South Africa map choosing his words carefully. Andrew Young told South african businessmen sat urday you have no real alternative except to go this route of change through the remarks prepared for a dinner with More than 170 guests invited by Gold an Diamond mining magnate Harry Oppen Heimer America s Black . Ambassador expounded on his theme that the free Market system can be the greatest Force for constructive change now operating anywhere in the guests were predominantly Whites but included Blacks co lords persons of mixed race and asians As Well As a few arrived saturday morning in while ruled South Africa from Mozambique where be attended a . Conference in support of Black liberation struggles i Rhodesia and South West Africa Nami Bia. Pro Western zairian forces report mopping up invaders Kinshasa up zairian bomber saturday pounded the last two strongholds of a virtually Defeated 10-week-Otd inva Sion of Shaba province claiming 100 rebel lives the official asap news Agency re after pro Western president Mobutu sese seko announced with Pride and satisfaction the recapture of Dilollo. One of the first towns taken when the invade tremors shake Riviera town Imperia Italy up three Light earthquake shocks Friday night and Early saturday sent people fleeing to the streets in villages Inland from this italian Riviera were no injuries or damage. Scientists said the shocks which Cam Between 9 10 p m. Friday and 5 03 . Saturday measured 3.3 on the Richter in Tensity scale. Cars streamed from Angola March 8. Aza reported intensive bombardment of Sandra and Katanga to the said the bombing would permit loyalist ground forces which Are bolstered by some 1.500 moroccan troops to clean up the two remaining pockets of rebel Resis Tance the clashes in Sandra and Katanga have begun the report said. The enemy death toll this saturday morning was 100."meanwhile, asap quoted a rebel prisoner As saying Angola s marxist presiden Agostinho Nelo had sealed the country s Borders with Zaire offering the rebels food Aid but refusing to Welcome them Back in was no official confirmation of the report from said the prisoner was a deca Dent former zairian sergeant who was expelled from Mobutu s army and went Over to the rebel forces. He brought to that conference the Sam theme of moderation and use of economic Power As an alternative to War in seeking change in the outposts of White Rule in Southern Security surrounded Young s arrival at Jan Smuts Airport and he was rushed to Johannesburg in a motorcade led by 12 motorcycle policemen with blaring he made a Point at the Airport of walking Over to Greet some of my Broth ers a group of two dozen Black Airport workers in overalls. Most of All i want you to know that i am weighing my words carefully out of Genu Ine concern for All the people of this dynamic and promising land at the Southern base of the african continent Young said in his prepared remarks. He related How the american civil rights movement in the Southern . Had concentrated on convincing Whites to take the initiative toward achieving racial Equality. Bringing the 11 million Blacks into the Economy of the South he said trans formed the South from a depressed area tothe most dynamic and rapidly growing Region of the United states that s what it is he agreed that the situation was not necessarily parallel in South Africa where 4 million Whites politically and economically dominate 18 million Blacks but i d like to see a Little More imagination in recognizing some equally obvious he said. He warned the businessmen that their biggest enemy is time because unless South Africa heals its rift with Blanc Africa the growing markets in the North will be taken by others. In an aside. Young noted that he was avoiding any moral or humanitarian argument against apartheid. South Africa s official policy of race segregation. It s not because i Don t believe in the arguments for human rights. It s just that i know you have heard All those arguments dozens of his message he said was a pragmatic one no Market system can function at Peak efficiency if it has to differentiate be tween first and third class buyers first and third class the stars and stripes Page 23 Nixon ties nato exit to red win Paris a Richard Nixon said Tat a interview to be broadcast in France sunday that he expects the . To walk out of nato immediately if one of the other nato member countries Falls wholly or partly under communist control. In a postscript to he series of interviews with David Frost the former president said according to the French translation of remarks for France s television net work i must stress and this is neither threat nor a warning but a political reality and i am something of an expert in Thiesfield that i know that at the very moment when the communists enter nato the United states will walk the postscript was filmed specially forthe French television network which suggested the questions to be asked by was not intended for broadcast in the said he believes a . Administration could live with a situation where communists enter into a French govern ment coalition and could maintain work ing relations with such a French government in the same Way it maintain working relations with Russia and China. But the american people and Congress might feel differently he about the French British super sonic Airliner concorde the former presi Dent said. It is the plane of the future. I Hope you can build More of them and i Hope the americans will Leam the lesson will shake themselves and enter into the super Sofric Competition because fundamentally supersonic planes Are important.". Concorde will make the world smaller and bring the countries closer to Gether. I am glad you re building it. You can be proud of it. 1 Hope one Day to Fly Nixon described president Valery ois card d Estwing As one of the world s most Brilliant actor David soul reported resting in London Home London a american Singer actor David soul Star of the television series Starsky and Hutch was reported to be recovering from exhaustion at an Undis closed rest Home somewhere in London. Allen Burry. Press agent for the movie company making soul s first feature film mud now in production in England said reports that soul had been hospitalized for pneumonia earlier this week were not accurate. The truth is he s in a rest said Burry who refused to reveal the facility s name or location. He s just completely exhausted and wiped out. I Don t know if he has pneumonia or a virus or what it is Buthe s not soul became ill in Plymouth Southwest of London this week during filming of scenes which required him to Wallow i cold mud. Wednesday he flew to Scotland to perform in a variety show for Queen Elizabeth ii during her Silver Jubilee tour and was admitted to the London area rest Home late the following Day. Reports that he is in a Hospital Are a exaggeration. It is nothing that dramatic added Burry. He just has to rest for a religious statue stolen Brescia Italy a a 16th Century statue depicting a Madonna and Christ child has been stolen from a Church near Here. The statue is valued at 1275,000
