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HONOLULU (AP) — President
Reagan left for Southeast Asia on
Monday to meet with U.S. allies in
the region, including his first face-
to-face session with a representative
of the new Philippine government of
Corazon Aquino.
Shortly before Reagan left
Hickam Air Force Base here for In
donesia, a senior administration offi
cial suggested that deposed Presi
dent Ferdinand Marcos stay out of
Philippine politics as Aquino seeks to
stabilize her fledgling rule.
“Outside agitation can’t help but
be detrimental,” said the official,
who spoke under ground rules pro
tecting his identity.
The official indicated that the ad
ministration had signaled Marcos it
would prefer that he keep out of
Philippine domestic affairs while he
enjoys safe haven in Hawaii.
Reagan’s 6,000-mile flight to Bali,
Indonesia, was to last more than 14
hours and take the president across
the International Date Line with a
refueling stop at Guam, where he
planned to address U.S. troops.
His eventual destination at week’s
end is the summit of industrialized
nations in Tokyo.
Reagan will stay in Bali until Fri
day, when he goes to Tokyo for the
seven-nation economic summit of in
dustrialized nations.
After a rest day on Wednesday, he
will meet on Thursday with Suharto
and separately with Vice President
Salvador Laurel of the Philippines.
It will be the first direct meeting
between Reagan and a member of
the Aquino government.
The president on Sunday reaf
firmed his support of Aquino’s gov
ernment. In a written response to
questions asked by reporters for a
group of Asian newspapers, he said:
“We believe that Asian nations are
the masters of their own fates.”
On Saturday, Reagan telephoned
Marcos, who has been living in exile
in Hawaii since Aquino took power
on Feb. 26.
In the phone conversation, Mar
cos reportedly told Reagan he
wanted to return to power some day,
but the president was said to have of
fered no encouragement.
Some White House aides have
said they were disappointed the
president insisted on making the call
because it could only complicate U.S.
relations with the new government.
But the senior official said Mon
day that Reagan placed the call be
cause “the president respects his
friendship” and did not feel he
could ignore a longtime U.S. ally
while staying just down the beach
from the Marcos villa.
In addition to the Laurel and Su
harto sessions, Reagan will meet col
lectively with foreign ministers of
the six non-communist nations that
make up the Association of South
East Asian Nations — the Phil
ippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malay
sia, Singapore and Thailand.
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History Today
Today is Tuesday, April 29.
On this date:
In 1429, Joan of Arc entered
the besieged city of Orleans to
lead a victory over the English.
In 1862, New Orleans fell to
Union forces during the Civil
War.
In 1894, several hundred un
employed men known as Coxey’s
Army swarmed into Washington
to ask Congress for help.
In 1913, Swedish-born engi
neer Gideon Sundback of Hobo
ken, N.J., patented the zipper.
In 1945, American soldiers lib
erated the Nazi concentration
camp in Dachau, Germany,
where tens of thousands of peo
ple had perished.
In 1976, officials of the Mor
mon Church said a handwritten
will purportedly made six years
earlier by the late billionaire
Howard Hughes had been found.
In 1981, truck driver Peter
Sutcliffe admitted in a London
court that he was the Yorkshire
Ripper, the killer of 13 women in
northern England during a five-
year period. Sutcliffe is currently
serving a life sentence for the kill
ings.
Soviet woman claims
KGB agents beat her
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Soviet
woman who retracted her confession
to spying told jurors in Richard W.
Miller’s espionage trial Monday that
she was beaten bloody by Soviet
agents who branded her “an Ameri
can whore.”
Svetlana Ogorodnikov, testifying
for a fourth day in the trial of her
former FBI lover, said she didn’t tell
Soviet agents about Miller during
her trip to the Soviet Union in June
1984 even though their affair had
begun the month before.
She said she spoke only of John
Hunt, the agent who she said had
been her previous lover.
Ogorodnikov gave a sometimes
puzzling account of her meetings
with a KGB agent named Anatoly in
a Moscow hotel.
“I cannot remember exactly what
happened,” she said hesitantly, “but
they took me to the militia, and they
beat me up.”
Asked for further explanation by
U.S. District Judge David Kenyon,
Ogorodnikov said: “They put me on
some kind of bed. One policeman
was sitting on me and holding my
hands, and the other one grabbed
my hair, and they were hitting my
head on the wall. I was all in blood.
“They told me I was an American
whore,” she said, bursting into tears.
“I was feeling very bad.”
Later, she said “Anatoly” came to
her hotel room and ordered her to
leave the country immediately.
Her testimony became contradic
tory when she first claimed she had
received no instruction from the So
viets during her trip, then later con
tended she was told to communicate
with “Anatoly” in code through let
ters to her mother.
She said she was told to write the
words, “I’m calling you from the ac
quaintances, the ones you had met
last summer.”
Those words are used repeatedly
in Russian-language phone calls be
tween Ogorodnikov and a KGB
agent whom prosecutors claim was
her spying contact.
The government claims that she
recruited Miller for Soviet espio
nage, telling him she was a major in
the KGB and he would be paid well
for classified documents.
Walker says he recruited friend to spy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Spy-
master John Walker, testifying for
the prosecution in the Jerry Whit
worth espionage trial, on Monday
told how he recruited his former
Navy buddy in a San Diego bar.
Walker described Whitworth as
eagerly agreeing to become involved
in stealing classified information —
something, he said, both knew was
“the most serious crime.”
Walker said he implied to his
friend that the information might be
going to organizations including
Jane’s Fighting Ships, an English
publication of the world’s warships,
the Mafia or the Israelis. He did not
say he told Whitworth that the recip
ient of the stolen Navy secrets was to
be the Soviet Union.
Walker said he decided to begin
spying in early 1968, after 13 years
as a communications specialist in the
Navy. The prosecution says that six
years later, Walker recruited Whit-1
worth, his friend and fellow Navy in
structor, to be his chief supplier of
classified information.
Walker testified that in the San
Diego bar in September 1974, “I
asked him (Whitworth) whether he
was interested in an illegal activity . .
interested in becoming a spy. He
said he was. I pointed out to him it
was even illegal to talk about it.”
Walker told Whitworth he was
“involved in selling classified docu-
Deover asks for counsel to study allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael K. Deaver, a friend
and former top aide to President Reagan, asked Mon
day for the appointment of a special prosecutor to in
vestigate allegations that he violated conflict-of-interest
laws as a lobbyist for foreign and domestic clients.
“1 believe elementary due process and fairness to me
and my family require appointment of an independent
counsel,” Deaver said in a' statement released by his of
fice. It also released a letter from Deaver to Attorney
General Edwin Meese III seeking the designation of an
independent counsel, also known as a special prosecu
tor.
But Meese said he would take no personal role in the
matter because of his longstanding friendship with
Deaver.
Deaver’s action has little practical effect because a
majority of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary
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worth in on the operation.
Earlier, Walker said depression
over marital problems led him to spy
for the Soviet Union in hopes that
money might solve his difficulties.
Whitworth, 46, of Davis, Calif., is
charged with selling information
about secret code and communica
tions systems for $332,000 between
1974 and 1983, knowing that
Walker would turn the material over
to the Soviet Union.
Whitworth is accused of providing
Walker with technical manuals, pho
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Under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, the
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