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__ Monday McNeil carries Jets, Bl Thatcher visits Falklands9A4 The RefiisttT The Daily Register Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 105 NO. 167 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, JANUARY 10. 1983 25 CENTS Sing Sing inmates bargain over hostages OSSiNINt;, NY. (AP) - Corrections of- crew were allowed into the cellblock late Sun- "Most of the inmates locked in there really recreation area — he wanted to stay in the One guard, freed by the inmates at 3:30 a.m., ficials and inmate negotiators faced each other day night. Opening the negotiations to reporters don't want any part of this," Marino added. gallery," an open area in front of the cells. was treated for a minor head wound at Phelps through bars Sunday night as they worked to end had been one of the inmates' demands. "Eighty percent want the hostages released After a sergeant and a lieutenant tried to talk emorial Hospital in Tarrytown In return for his a hostage situtation at the maximum-security Sen. Ralph Marino, R-Muttontown, who immediately and returned to their cells." to them, one of the inmates began yelling and •release, authorities gave the inmates prescrip- state prison once known as Sing Sing. heads the state Senate Committee on Crime and Earlier, state Correctional spokesman Lou breaking furniture, Ganim said. Hostages were tion medication for 15 to 20 prisoners. The corrections officials, sitting at a table on Corrections, said the hostages were protected Ganim denied that overcrowding was a factor taken in the melee. Inmates took over the building during a one side of the prison bars, were trying to by a group of prisoners he described as Ganirn said about 200 inmates were out of Ganim said that because of the way it de- recreation period at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. persuade the convicts on the other side to free IS "Muslims." their cells for recreation when the incident veloped, authorities believe it was unplanned They unfurled banners from broken windows guards taken hostage at 7:40p.m. Saturday in an He said overcrowding "is one of the big began. At one point on Sunday, an unidentified in- saying. "We Don't Want Another Attica," an Ossining Correctional Facility cellblock that gripes. They are just very uncomfortable in "What happened was essentially, there was mate told reporters through a loudspeaker: apparent reference to a riot at Attica state houses 618 men. there." The prisoners were also asking for am- a lot of loud complaints. One inmate started it. "We don't wish to harm anyone. That would be prison where 43 inmates and state employees An ABC television network reporter and his nesty, he said. He didn't want to go down the hall to the our last alternative." died in 1871. Salvadoran mutiny remains stalemated By SOLL SUSSMAN SENSUNTEPEQUE, El Salvador (API - The influential commander of the national guard met with the colonel leading a mutiny in northern El Salvador and later assured cheering townspeople that the government plans no military move to put down the rebellion. Emerging from a five-hour meeting with Gen. Eugenio Vides Casanova and four other top commanders who came from the capital yesterday, Col. Sigifredo Ochoa Perez said he and the other officers had discussed ways to end the standoff. But he vowed that if talking fails, he and his men will stick to their demands "even if we must die." Ochoa, who commands about 900 soldiers in the northern Cabanas province, declared himself in rebellion last week after rejecting Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia's order transferring him to a desk job in the Salvadoran 'Perhaps, civilization Embassy in Uruguay. Ochoa said his only demands were to be allowed to stay in will survive. I hope so.' Cabanas province to fight leftist guerrillas, and that Garcia resign. He has not marched on the capital, and toe govern- ment has not mobilized Its forces against Ochoa. Speaking from the blue-and-yellow bandstand in the center •nliltr Mwto »» Tumi Ceiltllo of the town square yesterday, Ochoa told about 2,500 sup- porters that he had made some proposals to the five military Asimov predicts: commanders, but did not elaborate. "We hope that the minister of defense and the high command understand we want justice," he said. "If they don't accept we will stay in this province of Cabanas, even if we must die." Youth will see fate of earth Vides Casanova, the national guard commander, told the crowd that he did "not come to pressure (Ochoa) in any By ANDREW SHEEHAN doctor, said he has grown more op- pearance yesterday to promote the sense." • lUKlaiM Prtu MW timistic about the ultimate fate of sale-of his new book, "Foundation's "No one has considered taking military action against CARRIED BY SUPPORTERS — Colonel Sigifredo SHREWSBURY - Today's youth man since the late '60s and early '70s Edge," a continuation of the "Foun- this glorious town," Vides Casanova said. He added that he Ochoa Perez, the El Salvador commander who rebelled should live long enough to see wheth- when he joined the ranks of scientists dation" series he began in the 1940s. and the other commanders brought a counterproposal, but did against the minister of defense, is carried on his sup- er the world will succeed or self- calling for radical ecological policy The world of Foundation concerns not say what it was. porters' shoulders. destruct, according to world-re- and zero population growth. a galactic empire in the 21st century. "We are looking for a solution that would be for the nowned science fiction writer Isaac He noted that people have become But when asked how his earlier benefit of the country and the armed forces," Vides said. officers, but fears of further splits within military ranks could Asimov. more aware of the environment and works predicted the world of today, "The best solutions occur when they are more discussed." force Garcia's resignation. Garcia met privately in his San Salvador office yesterday "By the time I am called to go to that the world's population growth he said he broke even. During the talks, townspeople surrounded Ochoa's head- the great word processor in the sky, I has slowed from an annual rate of 2 Asimov said he wrote about moon quarters chanting, "We don't want the change" — a refer- with the director of the national police, Col. Reynaldo Lopei won't know for sure if the world will percent in 1972 to 1.6 percent today. exploration and space walks in the ence to the order transferring him from the province. Nuila, and other loyalists, officials said. make it," the author of nearly 100 Asimov said the concerns ex- 1940s, but added that he failed to Ochoa is considered one of the government's best field The general, whom Ochoa accuses of corruption and books told a packed house of 600 at pressed by himself and other describe Saturn accurately. He said commanders and appears to have the support of many mismanagement, said he would not resign. "I have the the Eastern Branch of the Monmouth "doomsdayers" have had a true ef- robots, which were the great love of Cabanas residents. support of the commanders and I'm staying here," he told County Library yesterday afternoon. fect on the people of the world. his early fiction, have not yet In San Salvador, a well-placed source said the impasse reporters. "But for you young people, there "Perhaps, civilization will sur- reached the place in society he had could lead to the resignations of both Ochoa and Garcia, who There has been no comment on the rebellion from Presi- will be no question about it," he said. vive," Asimov said. "I hope so." hoped for. are long-time political rivals. dent Alvaro Magana or Roberto d'Aubuisson, the ultra-right- Asimov, a 62-year-old author and Asimov made the rare ap- See Asimov, page AS The source, who requested anonymity, said the rebel ist head of the Constituent Assembly. colonel was backed by only about a third of El Salvador's See Mutiny, page A5 Reagan will propose teens Jackson laughs off '84 bid get half minimum wage but not Mideast problems By DAN BREEN NEW YORK (AP) - President Reagan will fits. That plan became controversial and was propose in his State of the Union address a jobs subsequently killed by Reagan. DEAL — They want him to run for president 'The Arab world is program for high school students that will pay Newsweek said another economic proposal one more time. them $1.67 an hour, half the minimum wage, being considered by Reagan was special tax But, even surrounded by staunch supporters. hopelessly divided/ according to a published report. credits to businesses hiring workers who have Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the veteran Dem- CMIOUJKAl I ,—. tnm Washington, declined to throw his with work for private employers, Newsweek Ueft> iiai tale w.*.,. -.. tng neta « co: Newsweek quoted unidentified White House magazine said in its Jan. 17 issue. The speech Ml party's 1934 presidential nomination. among its own factions, Jaek&on baud, and il before a joint session of Congress is Jan. 25 aides as saying Martin Feldstein, chairman of Jackson was here at a Morgan Avenue home literacy in the Arab countries is at roughly 80 Lower wages for young people has been the Council of Economic Advisers, has been last night to drum up support for the Jewish percent, two facts that make communication mentioned before by Reagan administration of- "working to devise inexpensive schemes for Federation and United Jewish Appeal and to with those lands very difficult for both the U.S.