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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 9, 1 984 PACE 2 DAILY SPECTRUM Ray Hunt's body flown back from Italy Slain diplomat praised as man of peace '( is' eur, who survived the attack uninjured, was the only witness. A Milan radio station later received a call from a man who said he was with the Fighting Communist Party, linked to Italy's terrorist Red Brigade, saying it claimed responsibility for killing Hunt. The caller said the group demanded the United States withdraw from Lebanon and that Italy pull out of NATO. Hunt was a retired Foreign Service diplomat who served as director of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai, which monitors the area under terms of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The headquarters of the force, with about 800 U.S.

soldiers, is in Rome. Hunt, born at Mill Creek, served in diplomatic posts the Middle East, Africa and Asia. His last post was as the No. 2 official in the Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1977. He retired in 1977 and was appointed director of the observer force in 1981.

First terrorist attack The murder of Hunt was the first terrorist attack on a U.S. official in Italy since Brig. Gen. James Dozier, attached to NATO, was kidnapped by members of the Red Brigade in December 1981. He was freed by Italian commandos a month later, and the arrests that followed devastated the Red Brigade.

WASHINGTON (UPI) Slain American diplomat Lea-mon Ray Hunt, the director of the Sinai multinational peace-keeping force who was slain in Italy, was praised Saturday as a man of peace felled by terrorism. Hunt's body was flown from Rome, where he was gunned down by terrorists Wednesday, to Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland. Kenneth Dam, deputy secretary of state, consoled Hunt's wife, Joyce, and praised Hunt's more than three decades of service to America. 'In cause of peace' "Ray Hunt died in the cause of peace," Dam said. "It is a cruel irony that, like many others who devoted their lives to the highest aspirations of mankind, he was the victim of the evil of terrorism which haunts our world today." Dam spoke in behalf of Secretary of State George Shultz, who was out of the country.

"The full and successful life of service which Ray Hunt led, and the sacrifice he made, should inspire us to rede-dicate ourselves to building a more peaceful world in which hatred and violence have no place." Dam said. Military represenatives and members of the international diplomatic community, many wiping away tears, stood solemnly on the tarmac as Hunt's flag-draped coffin was lowered from the plane. The Navy Band played funeral music and a military honor guard stood nearby. Gunmen attacked car Hunt, 56, was killed by two gunmen who attacked his car with automatic weapons as it stopped at a traffic light near his Rome apartment Wednesday night. His chauf- There is concern that the killing of Hunt means a resur- sSiSltSTSbiwi WASHINGTON The flag-draped coffin of slain Andrews Air Force Base.

Hunt, director of the Sinai Alexandria, Va. Richard Murphy, assistant secretary for American diplomat Leamon Ray Hunt is carried Multinational peace-keeping force, was slain in the Middle East, is to give the eulogy. from an Air Force plane after arriving from Rome at Italy. (UPlj Israeli advance north of Awali urged TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) A government legislator Saturday called for Israeli troops in Lebanon to advance north of the Awali River line and "seize additional territory" along the coast in response to the latest Syrian-backed offensive. "Redeployment in south Lebanon does not necessarily mean we must withdraw," said Eliahu Ben-Elissar, chairman of the Knesset's (parliament) foreign affairs and defense committee.

"There are perhaps places where it would be better for us to advance," he said in an interview on Israel radio. "Under the current conditions in which Damour (10 miles south of Beirut) is in (rebel) hands, it would be worth our while to seize additional territory along the coastal axis where we are not present today." Israeli news reports have mentioned a possible withdrawal from the port city of Sidon, where Israeli troops have come under repeated attack, to the Zaharani River, about 18 miles north of the Israeli border. But Israeli armored patrols have been crossing the Awali daily and pushing north along the coastal highway in an apparent signal to Syrian-backed Moslem militiamen not to allow Palestinian guerrillas to re-establish strongholds near Israeli lines. A report from Beirut quoted a Druze commander in Naame, just north of Damour, as saying he had orders not to oppose any possible Israeli advance up the coast. Ben-Elissar said "the collapse of the central Lebanese administration" meant that Israel "must remain in Lebanon" to protect its northern border from Palestinian guerrilla attack.

The presence of Palestine Liberation Organization fighters in southern Lebanon within attack range of Israel prompted Israel's invasion of Lebanon in June 1982 In another interview broadcast on Israel radio Saturday, Defense Minister Moshe Arens said Israel would continue trying to persuade Shiite Moslems in south Lebanon to form anti-PLO militias that would enable Israeli troops to go home. "As long as we are not sure we have found the solution, Israeli troops will have to carry out this mission," Arens said. "It is clear to us that when the Israeli Army controls the area it is very difficult to infiltrate. It is very difficult to shell the Galilee." Asked if Israeli soldiers would remain in south Lebanon for years, the defense chief replied, "I hope not." Arens was asked about the implications of Beirut government's cancellation of the Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal accord. "If the Lebanese government cancels this agreement, it is certainly not a good precedent and does not promise good things for the he Said, i If I.

5 -Tehran offers Baatidacls time to 'repent' Manhunt for eight prison escapees JUAREZ, Mexico (UPI) Authorities along both sides of the border searched the arid upper Rio Grande Valley Saturday for eight convicts, three of them Americans, who pulled guns on a guard and broke out of the Juarez prison. Warden Tomas Terrazas identified three of the men as Americans imprisoned on drug offenses. He said at least two of the Friday night escapees were armed and all are considered dangerous. Terrazas said several of the Mexican prisoners were serving time for homicide, robberies, attempted murder and breaking and entering. After erroneous early reports from Mexican officials that 15 inmates had escaped, U.S.

Border Patrol officials on Saturday placed the number of escapees at eight. The best lead so far is a white Chevrolet pickup truck with Oklahoma license plates which is believed to have been used in the escape, said the officials. Robert Cranston, supervisor of the U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso station, said U.S. authorities are aiding the search.

"We've been alerted to watch for eight suspects," Cranston said. police and jail authorities could not be reached for comment about searches'; '-j pun, -v: W.S anof Honduran miTitkry'trucks' secretly transported a shipment of U.S. arms and other war material apparently destined for war games to an "unknown destination" inside Honduras, a Honduran newspaper said Saturday. In Nicaragua, the leftist Sandinista government charged President Reagan's new special envoy to Central America, Harry SWaudeman, is "the CIA's man" who helped bankroll the 1973 coup that ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende. "The military materials were transported the following Friday night to an unknown destination via Honduran and U.S.

army roads," the newspaper said, citing a reliable source. rOil worker sues for $60 million HOUSTON (UPI) An American oil worker sentenced to 200 lashes and two years in prison for running a whiskey still in prohibitionist Saudi Arabia has sued his employer, Aramco, for $60 million. Robert Taggart, of Bartlesville, and his wife Mildred, filed a federal lawsuit in Houston last week against the Arabian American Oil seeking $60 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The couple claims Aramco gave its workers supplies and instructions for making alcoholic beverages, but later informed police in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that Taggart was running a whiskey still in his home. Use of alcohol and other stimulants is prohibited in the Islamic country.

Taggart further alleges that the company turned against him, so his job as division manager could be filled by a Saudi citizen under the company's program to replace Americans with native employees. The suit further alleges Aramco fired his wife, a computer programmer. ramshahr and Abadan but gave no major city of Basra ana the border ian targets since cross-border artii lerv bombardments began a week estimates of casualties. town Ali Gharbi, 20 miles inside Iraq said 30 civilians died in Irani- Iraq's eastern frontier, an bombardments Friday and Satur- The attack on Ali Gharbi was the day on five Iraqi towns, including the first reported air strike against civil- ago. Neither side disclosed fresh details of any fighting on their borders, but the war of words mounted.

LONDON (UPI) Iran announced Saturday it would halt artillery attacks on Iraqi towns to see how "repentant" Baghdad is but ruled out cooperation with a planned U.N. fact-finding mission on the Persian Gulf War. At the same time, Baghdad's state-run Voice of the Masses radio, in a report monitored in London, said a fresh batch of Iraqi troops were sent Saturday to the southern front of the 41-month-old border conflict. The Iranian News agency IRNA published a message from Brig. Gen.

Qassemali Zahir-Nejad, chief of Tehran's joint staff, that Iran would "stop its retaliatory actions against Iraqi towns to see how truly and sincerely repentant the Iraqi rulers are." But Iran would renew the attacks "if a single Iraqi shell is fired on civilian areas of Iran," Zahir-Nejad's message reportedly said. In an earlier report Saturday, IRNA said Iraqi artillery continued to shell the Iranian cities of Khor- trade slumps Cardon's Shoes Cedar City and St. George PRESIDENTS' DAY SALE! 15 percen SlucitePR Porcelain Nail-on Custom II 2I LamP JU color ir Holder stW Boxes fdSSi I Reg.Si.79 WKS? onV A Residential 'grade iWf UiteriorEnaiJ1 g) WLaiTiP I ClOSeOUtS SA Tht Complete Color ff 1 hlllh fix- I Cft 5' I $9ih590ks--50 colors a jm I 2 bum fix: I "Srs'sr 0 in99 II Reg. 49c per foot FREE CONSULTATION I CHILDREN'S VELCRO SHOES New Spring Selection now E88 JUST JI PEKING (UPI) U.S.-China trade plunged by 15 percent in 1983 the lowest level since 1979 with American exports dropping by more than $730 million, U.S. Embassy figures showed Saturday.

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