European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mark Rudd prepares to surrender in new York. A photo fugitive Rudd gives up after 7 years in hiding new York a Mark Rudd a fugitive member of the Radical weather underground since 1970, surrendered to authorities wednesday but refused to Tell reporters where he had been hiding. Rudd 30, walked into the Manhattan District attorney s office about 9 20 . Hell have his say in court said at Torney Gerald Lefcourt who accompanied Rudd to an assistant District attorney s office for the formal surren Der. Rudd who faces a variety of Mise Meanor charges stemming from anti War demons rations in the 1960s and a student protest at Columbia University in 1%8, is the first major figure of the Clandestine group to turn himself in this year. As he walked at repeated questions one reporter finally implored Mark How about some of that old Thunder you had at Columbia but there was no response from the onetime Leader of a Stu Dent revolt at Columbia University. Rudd had eluded a sometimes intensive Mil manhunt since 1970. His wanted poster still was tacked to Post office Walls from coast to coast when Lefcourt told authorities tuesday that he would give himself up. We have a Busy two Days ahead of us Lefcourt said. He said Rudd would be flown to Chicago on thursday to face Illinois charges. Authorized unofficial publication for the us armed forces vol. 36, no. 150 is  Ond sunday thursday september 15, 1977 if 21855 a Lance lashes out at news Media s use of hearsay Washington a budget director Bert Lance declared wednesday he has been bar raged unfairly with innuendo and hearsay and we re in sad shape in this country if people believe his effectiveness has been crippled As a  lashed out at the news Media when reporters questioned him As reemerged wednesday morning from his Georgetown Home. Again he denied any intention to resign. Said Lance if you can take allegations and innuendoes and hearsay and every thing else the words of a convicted Felon and All these other things and put them in the paper and show them on television an then say that s a fact. And then without having a Chance to refute that and have my Day in court and be faced with the charge that because of that my effectiveness has been damaged and crippled then we re in sad shape Inthis  Lance will have his Day thursday when to will appear before the Senate govern mental operations , presidential press Secre tary Jody Powell telephoned a personal apology to one of Lance s severest a relics on that panel. Sen. Diaries ii. Percy. 11 111., for spreading a Rumor on tuesday that Percy had used corporate aircraft and facilities for political purposes. Lance is under fire on a similar score. Percy hotly denied the charges and Powell said he called the senator today and told him i regretted the situation very  Percy very graciously accepted his apology Powell said. Powell admitted earlier he was just passing along a Rumor about Percy and it Lance s wife says the overdrafts she made were different Page 2 panel votes social Securi for civil service employees Washington a House tax writ ers voted wednesday to make social Secu Rity practically a Universal retirement system by including employees of nonprofit corporations As Well As government work ers whose participation was approved a Day earlier. The vote like All others by the House ways and Means social Security subcommittee at this stage of its legislative work is subject to reconsideration later. The subcommittee voted tuesday touring in about 6 million Federal state and local governmental employees. Their payroll taxes would bring about $10 billion a year in revenues to the financially pressed system. The employees of nonprofit corporations not already voluntarily covered Are a much smaller group estimated at about300,000. The subcommittee action if ultimately approved would not change the present social Security status of clergy. They Are treated As self employed persons and need not accept social Security coverage if this would violate their religious tenets. The subcommittee also voted to end the option state and local governments and nonprofit organisations now have of dropping out of social Security after they have joined it social Security already covers about 108 continue Don Page 28, col. I was a dumb  he Aid he had called Chicago Sun times Bureau chief Loye Miller on tuesday morning with a tip about Percy to pass along just Between you and  i earlier Story. Pages  e Powell Culick him. Percy said he would consider the Mailer Eissed ii he got an apology and if Jody Powell is absolutely convinced there is nut a i bundalion of any kind fur the  As for Powell s tip that Percy had used Ell & Howell aircraft the company con firmed that it never even owned an air plane. One of Percy s colleagues on the Senate committee. Sen. John Heinz Iii r-pa.,called Powell s actions a resort to White House dirty tricks aimed at stifling fac finding and serious  the phrase dirty tricks was popularized during the watergate scandals of the Nixon administration when Republican were accused of attempting to sabotage the campaigns of democratic presidential candidates by improper Means. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff d-conn., chair Man of the committee called Powell s action a stupid thing to  sen. Sam Nunn a a. Lance s leading supporter on the committee said. I deplore prosecution by leak and believe it is continue Don Page 28. Col 4.i extortion try still rebuffed jailed Urban guerrillas choose destinations Bonn up imprisoned Urban guerrillas have chosen South Yemen or North Korea As their destination if terrorist kid Napers of a leading West German industrialist succeed in extorting their release an informed source said wednesday. A psychological adviser to the Federal Border defense Force warned that if the government rebuffs the kidnappers they will kill their hostage and abduct another in about a month. Reiner Zeller psychological adviser to the defense Force s Antiterrorist unit added in a Magazine interview that he is convinced the government can stall guerrilla kidnappers for Only some 10 Days. Urban guerrillas calling themselves the Siegfried Hausner commando of the red army faction killed four men and kid naked Hanns Martin Schleyer chairman of the employer s association and of the federation of Industry nine Days ago. Apparently following the advice of Zeller and other experts who share his View the paramilitary Federal Border de sense Force piled barbed wire barriers around the Homes of a number of Low run politicians the government ignored a fifth deadline of tuesday Midnight set by the kidnappers for releasing 11 other terrorists from prison and continued a dialogue with them through Geneva lawyer Denis payot who has been acting As intermediary since Friday. The government said late tuesday it had asked payot to relay certain replies from the 11 to the kidnappers. An informed source said the prisoners had been asked to say where they wished to go if the government were to release them and had re plied that South Yemen was their first Choice North Korea their second. Five terrorists released by the government in return for a guerrilla hostage in March h 75, were accepted by South Yemen earlier the government told the Kidnap ers that no aircraft Crew would be willing to Fly the 11 anywhere unless overflight and Landing rights were arranged ahead of time and that therefore the government first must be told where they wanted to go despite that Exchange the government made no apparent move to bring the 11 to Gether in a single place or to have an air Craft made ready