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inter/national news Reagan weapons decisions due Friday WASHINGTON Pres Reagan will conduct a news conference Thursday and probably will announce Friday his decisions on deployment of the MX missile and the design of America s next long-range bomber, a White House spokes man said Tuesday The news conference — at 2 p m EDT in the White House East Room — will be Reagan’s fourth in eight months and his first since June 16 All three networks said Tuesday they would carry the news confer ence live Spokesman David Gergen said he anticipated Reagan would make an announcement Friday about modernizing stra tegic weapon systems, but that the decision might be delayed until next week Postal rates may rise two cents WASHINGTON The Postal Service board dis cussed raising postal rates Tuesday, but delayed announc ing a decision until today Some postal observers ex pect the board to increase the first-class rate from 18 to 20 cents per letter However, it also is possible the board could choose a dif ferent legal procedure that likely would result in rates remaining stable until next summer In that event, the price might jump to more than 20 cents for a first class letter Oregonian sues Portland police PORTLAND The Oregonian Publishing Co and reporter Alan Ota of The Oregonian newspaper filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force the Portland Police Bureau to provide reports and a personnel roster The suit was filed in Mult nomah County Circuit Court under Oregon's public records law The suit says the police bur eau denied Ota's request made in June for a copy of the bureau personnel roster and four police reports on incidents involving 28-year-old officer Richard Bar ton The suit says District Attorney Michael Schrunk, at Ota's request, ordered the bureau Aug 13 to provide the informa tion, but it had not been provid ed by Monday State law says an agency with records being sought must within seven days of receiving such an order either turn over the records or file a notice of appeal. Sikh extremists hijack airplane LAHORE, Pakistan Five Sikh extremists armed with daggers and a hand gren ade hijacked an Indian jetliner with 117 people aboard and forced it to land in Lahore on Tuesday where they freed 67 of the hostages, diplomatic sources reported They said the hijackers were demanding the release of a Sikh leader jailed in India, freedom for other imprisoned Sikhs and a ransom payment of $500,000 An Indian official, who requested anonymity, said the hijackers set a deadline of 10 a m Wednesday — 1 a m today EDT — for India to meet their demands Negotiations with the hijackers broke up at 1 a m Wednesday local time, but were to resume at 8 a m Indian and Western diploma tic sources said the 67 people allowed to leave the airplane included all the non-Indian pas sengers Among those freed was one American, William Seco of Seattle, Wash The release left 45 hostages aboard the plane with the five hijackers The hijack began shortly after takeoff from New Delhi's Palam Airport when the Sikhs suddenly sprinted from the rear of the plane and overpowered the cabin crew, Seco told reporters After a 15-minute struggle, the hijackers had control of the plane, Seco said ATHLETC 115 W BROADWAY ON THE DOWNTOWN MALL 343-1288 M-F 9-5:30 SAT 9-5 Welcome Back! reg. sale Converse Pro Canvas Shoes Hi $28 95 $22.95 Converse Pro Canvas Shoes Low $27 95 $21.95 Converse Pro Mesh Shoes Hi $37 95 $29.95 Converse Pro Mesh Shoes Low $35 95 $27.95 Adidas High Pt Low Court Shoes $22 95 $17.95 Russell Hooded Sweatshirts $8.95 Russell Sweat Pants w/zipper $6.95 Olympian Racquetball Racket $13.95 Wilson Tennis Balls $2.95 Tonix Badminton Rackets $11.95 Ektelon Racquetball Rackets 20% off Nylon Duffle Carry Bag $9.95 Grey Workout Shorts $6.95 Nylon Gym Shorts $4.95 Russell Nylon Pullover Jackets $43.95 V -AND MUCH MORE MORE! SALE SEPT 25th-OCT 9th J Weinberger unveils new military booklet WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger unveiled a slick government booklet on Soviet military might Tuesday, saying he hopes it will convince Eu ropeans and Americans of a “real and growing” Soviet threat Despite its profusion of facts, charts and pictures, however, the 99-page booklet titled “Soviet Military Power” provides little in terms of numbers that was not already available in previous assess ments Weinberger said the new booklet’s value is in presenting “more information on the USSR's armed forces than had been previously available under one cover.” Clergyman killed in northern Iran BEIRUT, Lebanon Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned the murder of an other ranking clergyman Tues day as a futile act by American "lackeys” to scare Iranians away from the polls in Friday’s presidential elections Revolutionary firing squads, meanwhile, executed 43 more Mujahedeen Khalq leftists ac cused of participating in Sun day's violent anti-Khomeini demonstrations in Tehran, Iran's state radio said The 81-year-old patriarch of Iran's Islamic revolution spoke a few hours after learning of the assassination of Hojatoleslam Abdulkarim Hashemi-Nejad, secretary-general of the ruling Islamic Republican Party at the northeastern city of Mashhad Hashemi-Nejad had just con cluded a lecture outside the local IRP headquarters when a "Mujahedeen Khalq assassin” approached him and detonated a hand grenade, the official Iranian news agency Pars reported It said the blast killed the clergyman, blew off a hand of the attacker and injured two others The executions Tuesday brought the officially an nounced total to 1,071 since Pres Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was ousted on June 22 Robber found dead in drainage ditch SEATTLE A man arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping a Seattle phar macist during a February hold up, then released accidentally, has been found murdered in northern California, authorities say James Underwood, 34, who was booked in Seattle under the name James Sweden 3rd, was also wanted for armed robbery, kidnapping and other serious crimes committed in California since his release in Seattle, said the Stanislaus County sheriff's office. He was found at 10 a m. Sun day in a drainage ditch near Modesto, about 30 miles south of Sacramento, which police think was Underwood’s home base. Underwood, dead less than 24 hours, had been shot several times in the chest, said Capt. Rodney Wells, who commands the Stanislaus County sheriff’s investigative division No motive for the slaying is known. ATTENTION STUDENTS OF Humanities Linguistics Folklore and Folkdance Politics Comparative Literature Labor Relations A NEW COURSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN / Learn Serbo-Croatian, the language of Yugoslavia, the most open of all the Slavic countries, the home of worker self-management, the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics. Start learning the language now! You may be fluent when the torch is lit at Sarajevo in 1984. Course: 1 st year Serbo-Croatian SI 480G Time: MUWH, 16:30-17:20 Place: 318 Friendly Hall Instructor: Prof. Jakov Bacic, a native speaker of Serbo Croatian; formerly of Columbia University.
