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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 28 the stars and stripes wednesday september 17, 1980 Commonwealth reunion in Canada baffle of Britain pilots sex foes Meef London a aging Battle of Brit Ain pilots met up again tuesday with some of their former German enemies 40 years after saving England from a planned nazi invasion. British and German aces who took part in the Aerial dogfights that changed the course of world War ii hew together from London s Gatwick Airport to Winnipeg Canada for a four Day Commonwealth wartime aircrew reunion. German Gen. Adolf Galland 68, said "1 count it As a great Honor for me a former enemy to be invited to the reunion. I have a great respect for British  the German Ace retold How he had stressed to nazi air minister Hermann Goering that what the Luftwaffe needed most was a Squadron of spitfires the British fighter plane that helped win the climactic 1940 encounter which dissuaded Hitler from carrying out plans to Inard Britain. I thought i would be punished for this remark. I was t but i never got the spit fires Galiand said. Among 93 veterans leaving for Carrada was group capt. Sir Douglas Bader 71, who became a National hero after rehabilitating himself from the loss of both his legs to Lead a spitfire Squadron in the Battle of Britain and group capt. Willie Tail com Mander of the 617 Squadron of dam bus ten Fame whose attack helped sink the tirpitzinl944. The reunion following similar gather Ings in 1970 and 1976 is expected to bring More than 4,000 Commonwealth air men to Winnipeg. We reckon this will be the last reunion we re All so old Bader joked with re porters. Polish press issues Call for party purge and limits on tenure of future leaders Warsaw up heralding what might be a thorough unprecedented re structuring of communist party operation the polish press tuesday carried further Calls for a party purge and the first formal Call for limiting the tenure of party leaders. If the first party Secretary was in office Only from one party Congress to the next if he had o account for his Job then the current situation could not have occurred the Wycie Warszawa newspaper quoted party member and Delegate Marian Bulski a locomotive Driver As saying at a weekend meeting of the Warsaw party plenum. We must Convene a party Congress As soon As possible to answer Why the whole party organization from top to Bottom left the track he said. His words amounted to the first Public admission that reorganization of the party at the party Congress might go so far As to limit term of office of top party personnel. This possibility has been rumoured among Well informed polish political observers an political sources. It would set a precedent in an East bloc country. Uycic printed Calls from various delegates for a party purge to rid the party of in secret exchanges corrupt elements and anti socialist  this followed a Tribuna editorial monday calling for a purge and a speech by polish president Henryk Jablonski issuing a Cal for a purge. Wycie quoted Eugeniusz Durczynski first party Secretary from the party organization of the polish Academy of sciences As say ing the anti socialist forces have operated and will operate. But Are they Only  does t the operation of some party members discredit the part onh Ocial ism Bulski added we have to purge the party from such anti socialist  and said factory Foreman Ryszard Parys there must be a closer inspection of the party and it should be purged from those who do not deserve to be its  he described privileges of lop officials which Are greatly resented by the people. One person works for 5,000 Loties $160 a month. Another works for 15 000 to 20,000 Loties $500-660. Still another makes 100,000 Loties $3,000. Then he builds a Villa for himself and not  paper says pre election hostage release sought vk1td i at Tir i o _ _. Montreal up secret exchanges have been conducted Over the past three months Between Washington and Ira Nian authorities in order to win the release of the american embassy hostages before the us. Elections in november the French language daily la press reported. The article quoted no sources but said the talks Between the . State department and former iranian foreign minister Sadegh Ghotb Sadegh were aided by secret european channels. The article was signed by Robert Pouliot normally based in Cyprus and a frequent free Lance contributor on Middle East affairs to the newspaper. Ghotb Sadegh was reported to have insisted on the nov. 4 deadline in order to prevent the election of Ronald Reagan a Man considered More dangerous to Iran than Jimmy  the article said that the exchanges of the past three months would Lead to negotiations Between by Early october. Pouliot wrote that because of economic social and ethnic problems and to ease differences Between rival political factions Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had finally decided to heed Ghotb Sadegh in order to bring about the hostages release within the nest six weeks. The secret exchanges the article said began in june with a memorandum pre pared by european intermediaries outlining the risks to Iran of putting the hostages on trial How the hostages release would re Duce economic pressures in Iran and the terms that would be acceptable to preside Tcarter in negotiations. Ghotb Sadegh s position was undermined at one Point the article said by a letter front Secretary of state Edmund Muskie which the foreign minister and president Abolhassan Bam Sadr took to be a Monu mental slap in the face to them since it was addressed to the new iranian prime min ister Ali Rajai. The president and foreign minister sought but failed to receive a copy of mus Kie s message from the Swiss embassy i Tehran which has been acting on behalf of us. Interests in Iran. A Swiss charge d affaires said he had no instructions from to reunited state on turning Over a copy of Muskie s letter. The jeopardized exchanges the article said were put Back on the rails when the United states reverted to using the secret european channels. The intermediaries reportedly received fresh reassurances from the United states chiefly on the Issue of the Frozen iranian assets in tie United states. The number of Calls for purges and party reorganization indicates that the upcoming full party Central committee plenary session and the expected extraordinary party con Gress which close analysts say probably will take place in late november or Early december will both be Stormy sessions and will produce wide ranging changes. Hostages. Continued from Page i the majlis proved to be moderate on the Issue i will not nominate myself for membership in the special  nov. 4, election Day in the United states will be the first anniversary of the occupation of the . Embassy in Tehran and the seize of the hostages by Youn islamic militants. The families of All the hostages made the deadlock Over the captive americans. Might we be the Bridge that brings the hostages Home the letter asked. Our families Are prepared to come to any Loca Tion you and your colleagues deem Suita ble. We feel our Mutual concerns can Best be discussed face to face in an atmosphere of human  Dorothea Morefield wife of hostage Consul general Richard Morefield told reporters in san Diego calif., the letter was made Public because the iranians apparently misinterpreted a portion of it to say we Are prepared to do As ordered or some such phrase to that effect. English. Continued from Page i constitutes a form of employment discrimination on the basis of National origin. The commission said employers can re quire employees to speak English at certain times providing the employer can show that business necessity requires that. The language guideline Wai issued in conjunction with National hispanic Heri Tage week which began monday. An Esti mated 10.6 million people in the United slates speak Spanish As their first language according to the commission. The commission also proposed a guide line that bars harassment in the workplace on the basis of National origin and holds an employer responsible for keeping the work place free of such harassment. Contending that harassment on the basis of National origin is a form of Job discrimination the guideline would hold employers responsible for acts of supervisory employees or agents regardless of whether the employer was aware of any harassment taking the commission said the Public would have 60 Days to respond to the proposals before final rules Are issued Cut prices saudis urge some nations continued from Page i about 15 percent Over the next 12 month. Open militants Iran and Algeria pm posed alternative plans that would rate prices More rapidly Oil ministers said Tat saudi Oil minister Sheik Ahmed Zytt Yamani said the two sides Are not  the plan is supposed to receive formal approval at a Summit of open chief of state in Baghdad nov. 2-4. It cannot Tais effect however until open reunify to to prices which currently Range from s Arabia s $28 a barrel to $37 fixed by Feria Libya and Nigeria. The Hawks want the saudis to Rait their Price to the official open level of $32, but the saudi foreign minister Pri Asci Saud Al Faisal said the countries with High prices wiil have to Cut their Price la return. Some countries who overpriced u or Oil will have to come Down the minister said. Open members have occasionally granted temporary discounts or eliminated temporary premiums for their Oil Bat bars never Cut official Selling prices As the a Dis want. World glut the Hawks pushing nigh prices including Iran  having trouble Selling their Oil because of a glut on world Market 00 Industry executives say. As a result the militants Are pressing saudi Arabia to Cut its production which at 9to million barrels a Day is More than a third of theoper total. Ministers said open might reach Compromise in which the saudis would raise their Price and Cut production an the militants would trim their prices. The saudis have said that they will not Cut output before open agrees on the Long term Price plan however which Means that such a package dear might have to wait until the Baghdad Summit. We could have agreement on the Long term strategy Here and postpone Price unification until november Kuwait s Oil minister. Sheik Ali Khalifah Al Sabah told reporters. Compromise pushed venezuelan Oil minister Humberto Calderon Berti told Austria s press Agency that a Compromise was possible to re Duce total open output by saw recent from million barrels a Day. Oil ministers27 were to discuss pricing and possibly production on wednesday. Oil ministers of Libya and Iran have hinted that they might be willing to Cut their prices if saudi Arabia reduces out put. The libyan Oil minister Abdussalam Ragaar said earlier that the Market should determine the ceiling Price. The ministers were also discussing proposals to boost open Aid to third world countries which have been hit by rising Oil prices. Saudi sources said they opposed a joint proposal by Algeria and Venezuela to establish a $20 billion open Bank to make Low Cost Loans to developing coun tries. Supporters of the Long term Price plan say it will help Consumers by assuring that Oil prices will Rise at a steady Pace rather than jumping sharply now and then. Central Europe Cloudy with log he mawr or tits a &5�rcssr� . Nany Cloudy in atm occur Jib a i Jeri.  we m a Getty Coener. Omentum Racone Tun it  m u u. O � a mfg it oud a Nln it � s3 fun Lurl. �  irom f to d itty Cloudy Milr. 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