Abductors claim British hostage will be freed BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Pro-iraninn kidnappers said early Tuesday that within 4H hours they will re lease British hostage Jack Mann, the oldest of the West ern hostages, who was abducted more than two years ago. The move by the Revolutionary Justice Organization appeared to indicate that a logjam in the complex tie gotlations by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez do Cuellar for a comprehensive exchange of Western cap tives for Arab prisoners held by Israel, and possibly European countries as well, hud been broken A handwritten communique from the Shiite Muslim group said the decision to free Mann was the result of “Immense efforts" by Perez do Cuellar. He has boon seeking to negotiate an overall prisoner swap between Israel and its Muslim foes for more than a month Tuesday's communique, written in Arabic, was do Ilvorod ii lew minutes after midnight to Beirut's An Nahar dally and a Western news agency in the I.ehn nese capital It was aciompanied by an authenticating photograph of American hostage Joseph Olcipplo, who is also held In the Revolutionary Justice Organization ( icippio til, of Norristown, l*a , was kidnappixi in Beirut Sept 12, 19H(i The poor-qualitv photo, the same one the hostage takers had released before, showed him (mm the waist up, sporting u bushy board and without tile spec tecles he usually wears The statement indicated that obstacles In the deli cate negotiations to free the Western hostages, which apparently blocked the ox[)«ctod release last week of Mann, 77, hud been overcome There had been expectations Mann would be freixi .ifti'r Israel on Sept 11 released 51 Anih prisoners mu) llii' bodies of nine Lebanese Shiite guerrillas killed by the Israelis In south Lebanon. But Kevolutionarv Justice claimed Thursday that Is rael had reneged on ii pledge to release til) prisoners, and said Israeli intransigence was holding up release of the hostages On Tuesday, however, the .Ll-line communique said " The United Nations has intervened In the per son of thi' secretary general and other intermediaries with Immense efforts to salvage the situation " They sought to narrow the gap and reach solutions satisfactory to all parties," it added It did not sev who the other Intermediaries were But the statement paid tribute to Syria and Iran for cooper ating "to rear h those positive results SEAJRS Brand Central per month* on Sears Charge PLUS NEW! PORTABLE BRING-TO CLASS WORD PROCESSSOR • 14 line X 80 character display • Uses standard 3’ j In disks • Dual screen capability • Data merge page layout view QQQQQ per month* on Sears Charge PACKARD BELL 386SX WITH GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE • EASY TO USE' Just point and click mouse to access • 3’ 2. 5' < disk drives • 1 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive • 12 month on-site service (S»* sto<» toi d«roil») 1099.99 Monitor 0xfra *Sctot *o» Ootfrury Of rotattohor not mtiuOofl rn«s. mum mormiy payment Tour ocfuoi rnortfwy poymont , on re** an your account txjwrxe A S *OC m «WP4000> YOUR CHOICE ELECTRONICS A. Casio 16 line X 8 line graphic hand held computer B franklin Wordrnaster thesaurus games more1 C Seiko Thesourus gives new words tor word entry 3000 GATEWAY STREET (503) 741-1110