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I DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Presi
dent Hafez Assad promised Syria
vill do everything it can to help free
American hostages held by Shiite
Moslem extremists in Lebanon, his
Ipokesman Jibran Kourieh said
Tuesday.
Kourieh said Assad made the
pledge during a visit with a dele-
ation representing the American-
\rab association and headed by
Archbishop Philip Saliba of New Jer
sey.
Saliba, head of the Antiochan Or
thodox Archdiocese of North Amer
ica, arrived in Damascus last
Wednesday carrying letters from the
families of three American hostages
and petitions calling for the captives’
release.
Kourieh said Assad also pledged
to help the delegation in all possible
ways in its quest for the release of
the hostages.
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Subcommittee seeks probe,
says Deaver lied knowingly
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
House subcommittee, concluding
that lobbyist Michael K. Deaver
“knowingly and willfully” lied to it,
asked an independent counsel Tues
day to investigate possible perjury by
the former White House aide.
The House Energy and Com
merce investigations subcommittee,
in a report adopted by a 17-0 vote,
said Deaver failed to testify truth
fully when he appeared before a
closed session of the panel on May
16.
Whitney North Seymour Jr., the
independent counsel appointed by a
federal court, already is investigat
ing whether Deaver — the former
deputy chief of staff to President
Reagan — violated federal conflict-
of-interest laws.
The subcommittee said Deaver
“knowingly and willfully testified fal
sely” under oath on three specific
subjects, but panel members told re
porters it was not their role to judge
whether the testimony violated laws
against perjury, false statements and
obstruction of a congressional inves
tigation.
They said Seymour and, if nec
essary, a jury would have to make
that determination, although the re
port said Deaver acted on one occa
sion with “an intent to deceive” the
subcommittee.
Randall J. Turk, one of Deaver’s
lawyers, said, “We are confident that
after a full and impartial investiga
tion, Mr. Deaver will be cleared of
any wrongdoing, including the sug
gestion today that he may possibly
have committed perjury.
“Some of the subcommittee’s
members, and its staff, have now
spent three months trying despera
tely to find a possible perjury
charge.
“They did this because they could
find no substantive violation of crim
inal law. Flyspecking 5Va hours of
testimony in a . . . memo does not
support a perjury charge.”
Deaver left the White House in
May 1985 to form his firm, Michael
K. Deaver and Associates.
He immediately began accumulat
ing foreign and domestic clients,
whom he represented before gov
ernment agencies.
This led to investigations by the
subcommittee and Seymour as to
whether Deaver violated ethics laws
applying to former federal officials.
World Briefs
Oil prices rise after report of bombing
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices
rose Tuesday amid some
strengthening belief in OPEC’s
intention to make its recent pro
duction-cut agreement stick, ana
lysts said Tuesday.
Market-watchers also said buy
ing was encouraged by w'ord that
Iraq had bombed Iranian oil in
stallations on Sirri Island in the
Persian Gulf, which could raise
prices, since supplies of some Ira
nian oil would be removed from
the market by the attack.
But the major impact of the at
tack was psychological, said Peter
Beutel, a futures analyst.
Interest rote optimism spurs stock morket
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock
prices rose broadly on Tuesday,
aided by continued optimism that
interest rates will keep falling and
that the stock market has more
room to recover from its steep
selloff of last month.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, aided by a late blue
chip buying surge, rose 24.33 to
1,835.49. The gain followed a
28.54-point rise in the previous
session and mirrored the advance
of the broader market,
Drought not expected to hurt corn yield
U.S.-Soviet talks end
amid news blackout
KOTLIKOVO, U.S.S.R. (AP) —
Top U.S. and Soviet nuclear arms
negotiators ended two days of talks
Tuesday with a news blackout in
force and a cautious Kremlin
spokesman saying it’s still too early
to talk about preparations for a su
perpower summit.
The delegations, comprising some
of the two nations’ foremost arms
control experts, met for a total of 11
hours in a Foreign Ministry hidea
way.
The U.S. group, headed by Paul
Nitze, President Reagan’s special
arms adviser, left Moscow on a U.S.
Air Force plane about 4 p.m.
The participants made no
statement on the meetings, billed as
part of the efforts to arrange a 1986
summit between Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen
nady Gerasimov cautioned that the
superpowers are still a step away
from scheduling a new summit.
“My colleague in the White
House, Larry Speakes, is saying this
is a step toward a summit meeting,”
Gerasimov said. “But 1 would say we
should speak with respect to corre
sponding stages and we should
speak about (preparation for) the
meeting of the f oreign ministers.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — 1 his
fall’s corn crop is expected to
yield 8.32 billion bushels, down 6
percent from the record 1985
Harvest of 8.87 billion bushels,
the Agriculture Department said
Tuesday.
Despite drou ght in the South
east and a sharp cutback in plant
ings nationally, the 1986 harvest
is shaping up as the second larg
est on record, officials said.
Based on surveys made on
Aug. 1, it was the department’s
first estimate of the season for
corn and some other major
spring-planted crops,
NY, student kills 11n shooting rampage
NEW YORK (AP) — A 29-
year-old student shot five people
m a rampage at a college Tues
day, killing one man, and two
other people were hurt trying to
escape, authorities said.
Tne victims lay while the gun
man kept police and rescue work
ers at bay for about an hour.
Four of the wounded were hos
pitalized in serious or critical con
dition frdm the shootings.
The shootings began at 2:20
p.m. on the campus of the New
York Technical College iti Brook
lyn.
49 states file in libel case;
Soviet assets may be seized
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers
filed a $450,000 libel judgment si
multaneously in 49 states Tuesday to
clear the way for seizure of Soviet as
sets after that country branded a
U.S, businessman a spy.
Such assets could include Aeroflot
planes that land in the United States
each week, U.S. profits from sales of
the newspaper I z vest in, and prop
erty of a giant New York-based So
viet trading company, Amtorg, at
torney Gerald Kroll said.
U.Js. marshals can seize the assets
if the Soviet Union refuses to pay the
libel award Raphael Gregorian won
here June 30, Kroll said.
The judgment was initially filed in
California, where the case was de
cided, and all the other states were
added Tuesday to prevent the Soviet
Union from moving assets from
state to state to avoid seizure, Kroll
said at a news conference outside
federal court,
Gregorian said he was confident
he would collect $450,000 either by
direct payment from the Soviets or
through seizure of assets.
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