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United Press International
KABUL, Afghanistan — You can’t
keep a good Yankee trader down.
With 85,000 Soviet troops in
Afghanistan, the government railing
about American-inspired plots and
newspapers warning darkly of CIA
and Chinese collusion, it would not
seem a good time for any American
businessman to be operating in
Kabul.
But Paul Ramsey of Denver
walked unconcernedly around the
city at the beginning of February
buying carpets, tribal weavings and
semiprecious stones for his arts and
crafts shop back home.
Ramsey, 37, has been coming to
Afghanistan for six years and was last
here nearly four months ago. The
current trip was his first since the
Soviets moved into Afghanistan Dec.
27 and installed a new government.
“I’ve been spending about
$100,000 a year here, ’’ Ramsey said.
“I thought I’d better come out just to
make sure the Soviet presence
doesn’t mean the beginning of the
end of my dealings in Afghanistan.
“As far as the friendliness of the
people I have met over the years,
nothing has changed. However,
prices of the goods I buy have in
creased about 20 percent since I was
last here,” he said.
He put the increase down to a
noticeable drop in supplies of carpets
and weavings produced by tribes
men in remote areas who have had
difficulty reaching towns and cities
because of the political events and
the heaviest snowfalls in six years.
Ramsey said he had found Afghan
merchants more than anxious to do
business with him and the govern
ment had not placed any restrictions
on him as an American.
He has, however, noted some
Afghans being cautious when they
talk to him.
“One carpet seller took me outside
the building where we were talking
and whispered to me, ‘The walls
have mouses and the mouses have
Despite the “slim pickings”, Ram
sey said ic had spent $30,000 in two
days buying carpets and semi
precious stones.
As to the future for a foreign busi
nessman, Ramsey said, "It all de
pends what happens politically.”
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He speculated the government
could, as in Russia and China, chan
nel its exports through one general
state-owned corporation.
His only fear in the current situa
tion is that “someone might mistake
me for a Russian. And everyone I
meet doesn’t seem to like the Rus
sians.
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United Press International
BOGOTA, Colombia—An Amer
ican Peace Corps worker kidnapped
three years ago by leftist revolu
tionaries has been released in a re
mote area of Colombia with the aid of
a $250,000 ransom paid by columnist
Jack Anderson.
The release Tuesday of Richard
Starr, 34, in the southwestern Col
ombian city of Neiva ended the
second longest captivity of an Amer
ican in Colombia. Businessman Wil
liam Niehous, who was held by guer
rillas four months longer than Starr,
was released last year.
Anderson said from Honolulu he
had borrowed the money and that his
aide Jack Mitchell turned it over to
the leftists in cash two weeks ago.
The State Department in
Washington said Starr, of Edmonds,
Wash., flew out of the country but
did not give his destination. The
American Embassy in Bogota said he
was on his way to the United States.
A source in Colombia said Starr
had arrived in Panama City, Pana
ma, but there was no confirmation of
the report. Others reported he was
heading for Miami and San Francisco
before going home to Edmonds.
Starr, who was working on a bota
nical study for the Colombian gov
ernment, was seized Feb. 14, 1977,
in the small town of La Macarena in
Meta State south of Bogota by guer
rillas of the Colombian Revolution
ary Armed Forces.
He was believed to have been kid
napped as an afterthought when
guerrillas found him in the town dur
ing a raid in which they killed a
policeman, looted stores and
preached revolutionary ideology to
the citizens.
In Edmonds, Starr’s stepfather,
Fred H. Jensen, said the family had
no comment on the release.
Colombian Defense Minister Luis
Camacho said Starr emerged at
Neiva, 155 miles southwest of Bogo
ta, at the Army’s 9th Brigade head-
quarters. A Peace Corps worli
Washington, however, saidlr
released into American hands.
A Peace Corps spokesmn
Washington said Starr was
shape physically despite beingi
captive longer than any other
Corps worker.
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dications during the threeyeanMrX
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United Press International
Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh
Ghotbzadeh said Wednesday no
timetable has been set either for the
release of the American hostages or
for setting up an international com
mission to investigate alleged U.S.
crimes against Iran.
The foreign minister, in Athens for
an unofficial visit, also denounced
the United States and the Soviet Un
ion for trying “to instill the fear of one
another into the smaller nations in
order to take them under their pro
tection.”
Asked by a communist reporter
about the presence of the U.S. Sixth
Fleet in the Indian Ocean and the
Persian Gulf, Ghotbzadeh said, “Ob
viously we are opposed to the United
States presence in the Gulf and Indi
an Ocean, but the Soviet Union also
has no right to be outside its bound
aries.
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“The United States has no right to
be everywhere in the world exercis
ing its power, nor has the Soviet Un
ion. We oppose the presence of the
U.S. in the Arab sea but the pre
sence of the Soviet Union in Afgha
nistan and elsewhere is no less dan-
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On the hostages, Ghotbzadeh
said:
“There is no timetable for the re
lease of the hostages. There is no
timetable for the commission to start
work. There is only the decision to
begin procedures by forming the
In Tehran, Iranian Pi
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr had said
hostages could be released wij
few days “if America agree:
view” — namely, admitting ikl
had interfered in Iranian affain
ing the shah’s rule. Washingtoi
rejected that course.
Ghotbzadeh, making his
abroad as Iran’s foreign mini
said he does not expect his j
ment will have to use force
the militants holding the hostap
the American Embassy in Tek
the Ayatollah Khomeini decider
their release.
Khomeini has not commented:
the formula, which is base
a plan set forth by U.N, Secret
General Kurt Waldheim for aij
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This Is My Column
and it doesn’t have a name and neither do I.
But I’m an average guy, scramblin’ to make a
buck like everyone else. And the old buck sure
ain’t what she used to be.
Everything keeps going up except my wages. And
then you read where some big outfit announces
“Revenues hit all-time highs; price increases plan
ned.”
United Press International
LONDON — Britain again proc
laimed its firm support for President
Carter’s campaign to boycott the
Moscow Olympics Tuesday, and said
holding them in the Soviet Union
would “condone Soviet aggression in
Afghanistan’’ and give Moscow a
“propaganda victory.”
In a tough formal statement, the
Foreign Office said the government
will notify the British Olympic Com
mittee of its views before its next
meeting March 3.
British officials said there is no
question of seizing or withholding
passports of British athletes wt«-
cide to go to Moscow anyway
“The decision by the Inten#
Olympic Committee topr
the Olympic games in M
summer has been noted,’theft
ign Office statement said. j 1
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that the IOC came to this decisi®!
remains of the view that it wot
possible to move them from M
cow. Any other course wouldapf
to condone Soviet aggression]
Afghanistan and allow the
propaganda victory.”
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Who do they think they’re kiddin’? And what do
they think I’m gonna pay ’em with?
I mean, I’m makin’ more than I ever did but by
the time I get finished payin’ for the stuff we gotta
have, I’m lucky if I got enough for a hot dog on
Saturday night.
Ya know, I just got a funny feeling. Maybe that’s
what they’re tryin’ to tell me: they’re takin’ in
more than ever, but everythin’ costs so much,
they’re down to a hot dog on Saturday night, too.
I guess that’s what they call inflation,
know where it’s gonna end.
I don’t
SO
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—we don’t know where it’s going to end, either,
but inflation gets to us, too.
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