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NEW YORK — Three Amer
icans released from Angolan
[prisons in a multi-national pris
oner-of-war swap had tearful
[reunions with families on
Tuesday.
The Americans were handed
verto International Red Cross
(authorities in Lusaka, Zambia,
as three Soviet prisoners, a
Juban and 94 Angolan POWs,
ivere released by South Africa.
Geoffrey Tyler, 28, of Seab-
rook, Md., a pilot, and merce
naries Gustavo Grille, 33, of
Toms River, N.J., and Gary Ack
er, 28, of Sacramento, Calif., ar-
ived on a Trans World Airlines
jet from Paris Wednesday.
The three were whisked away
[to private reunions with families
nd friends, but Tyler and Gril
le later spoke to reporters.
Tyler and Grille both said
they had been treated humanely
by the Marxist Angolan govern
ment.
"I don’t feel my treatment was
inhumane, although my con
finement in the jail was com
pletely unjust,” said Tyler.
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He denied he worked for the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Tyler was ferrying a single en
gine plane from Lakeland, Fla.,
to Capetown, South Africa,
when engine and electrical trou
bles forced him to land in Ango
la on Feb. 4, 1981. He said no
charges ever were filed against
him.
Tyler said he was arrested im
mediately after his plane landed
and was taken to a “safehouse”
for 30 days.
“For the next three months I
was not allowed to talk to any of
the other prisoners,” Tyler said.
“But after six months, I was
allowed to write and receive let
ters from my family.”
He said his diet while impris
oned consisted mainly of rice,
beans and heavy starches and he
lost 25 pounds.
Asked if any Americans were
left in the prison, Tyler said he
did not believe so, but added:
“We left seven British behind.”
Grillo was taken prisoner in
1975 and w as convicted of being
a mercenary. He was sentenced
to 30 years in prison and served
seven years.
His stepfather said he learned
from others who returned from
Angola that Grillo went before a
firing squad three times, but his
life was spared.
Fast tax cut worth
big deficit: Regan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Provid-
ng an earlier boost to the eco-
iomy is worth the $0 billion to
8billion increase in the budget
leficit that speeding up the next
ax cut would cause, Treasury
ecretary Donald Regan said
Thursday.
Regan, who said President
eagan is leaning strongly to-
ard asking Congress to speed
the tax cut, added that he
xpects interest rates to keep
filing through the end of the
year —a hint the administration
wants the Federal Reserve to
trim its discount rate.
The Treasury secretary, in
terviewed on NBC’s “Today”
show, conceded there would be
a$6 billion to $8 billion increase
in the deficit with a faster tax cut
but said the economic stimulus it
would provide was worth the
trade.
Suggestions to move forward
the l() percent, across-the-board
personal income tax cut from
July l to January have drawn
fire from congressional Demo
crats. Such a cut would require
action by Congress at its lame-
duck session beginning Nov. 29.
Many Democrats maintain it
would add to a deficit expected
to hit $ 150 billion and could put
upward pressure on interest
rates. Others, however, have in
dicated they might support it if
the maximum benefit to a tax
payer is capped.
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November 19, 1982
Cape whale beaching probed
United Press International
BOSTON — Marine life offi
cials hoped a full-scale investiga
tion Thursday into the mass
beaching of 60 pilot whales on a
Cape Cod island would help
them understand the “incredi
ble enigma.”
Two of the giant mammals
were transferred to the Mystic
Aquarium in Mystic, Conn.,
from a salt marsh in the Cape
Cod Bay where they were
stranded Tuesday, but one later
died.
The other, a female about 3
to 4 years old weighing about
750 pounds, was given antibio
tics and pain-killers, but was not
expected to live.
“Its chances are slim, really
slim,” said Mystic spokeswoman
Julie Quinn, adding the whale
was under 24-hour care. “But
every time we work with one of
these animals we learn more ab
out them.”
Two other such mass
beachings have been reported in
the area since 1930, but what
causes these mammals to strand
themselves to die remains a mys
tery.
“It’s an incredible enigma,”
said Boston’s New' England
Aquarium spokeswoman
Rosalyn Ridgway.
Patricia Fiorelli, coordinator
of the aquarium’s Marine Mam
mal Rescue Program, said re
searchers were conducting ex
tensive post-mortem tests on the
whales — most presumed to be
young and 7 to 18 feet long — in
an attempt to learn more about
the phenomenon.
“We will be sending tissue and
teeth samples and the like to the
Smithsonian Institution, Yale
University and some skeletons
to several local museums,” said
Fiorelli.
She said a lot of “tissue re
quests” had been received from
researchers nationally. After the
investigation is completed, the
whales will be sunk in the marsh
area of the Atlantic island, which
belongs to the Audubon Society.
Fiorelli said a number of
theories for the beachings have
been proposed but none has
proved conclusive.
“There may he some sort of
physiological reason for it hut
that has not been borne out In
any facts,” he said. “We looked
at everything but it never be
came clear.”
Of ficials said the two previous
documented mass strandings in
105 whales came up on the
beach, and in 1930 when about
1,000 whales beached them
selves.
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