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Senator informs Meese
of members’ concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republi-
n Sen. Strom Thurmond met
hursday with Attorney General
Idwin Meese III and expressed
eep concern” on behalf of Con
fess about problems at the Justice
lepartrnent in the wake of the resig-
tions of two of Meese’s top aides.
■ Meese’s meeting with Thurmond,
urned!;; the ranking Republican on the Sen-
vere -Be Judiciary Committee, was the
i ludfBrQngest signal of growing biparti-
concern in Congress over
.000 [Bhether the attorney general, the fo-
HatldoB 15 °f an ll-roonth criminal investi-
jj jjjBition, can continue to run the Jus-
ledirB 6 Department.
number of people on Capitol
^■ill have expressed deep concern
ijUjuBtout the problems at the Justice De-
jju^Brtinent,” Thurmond said in a
jjgpBatement alter the meeting. ‘‘I went
' Hday to talk to the attorney general
t to convey these concerns to him.”
itoB M‘ lultes after the meeting, Meese
JluHpused to answer reporters’ ques-
( Hons about the resignations when he
jpiended a news conference at FBI
uarters on a drug bust.
Meese, who said Wednesday
“there’s no reason” for him to re
sign, said he would answer questions
on the resignations of his aides
“within the next several days” when
“I hope and I fully expect ... to be
announcing various appointments to
fill those vacancies.”
“The business of law enforcement
is going forward energetically and
without interrupton,” Meese said.
“Our strong management team is on
the job.”
The attorney general, a longtime
confidant of President Reagan,
stood somberly next to FBI Director
William Sessions as the FBI chief
praised Deputy Attorney General
Arnold Burns and Assistant Attor
ney General William Weld, who quit
Tuesday because they felt Meese’s
continuing legal troubles were hurt
ing Justice Department operations.
“I think they’re very fine gen
tlemen, (who) served their govern
ment well (and) are to be com
mended for the service that they
performed,” Sessions said when
asked about Burns and Weld, who
oversaw all federal criminal investi
gations.
Meese, in response to a reporter’s
question, said he had no plans to
meet with Thurmond later in the
day, neglecting to mention that he
had done so already.
After the news conference and af
ter Thurmond already had issued
his statement, Justice Department
spokesman Terry Eastland issued a
clarifying statement confirming that
the meeting had occurred before the
news conference.
Thurmond said at a Senate Judi
ciary subcommittee meeting in the
morning that he wouldn’t “counte
nance any corruption in any way,
shape or form in the Justice Depart
ment or any other department.”
The Washington Post reported
Thursday, and Justice Department
soyrces subsequently confirmed,
that Weld had told Meese during a
meeting Tuesday that the criminal
investigation of the attorney general
was a close call in terms of whether
the attorney general should be pros
ecuted.
xiled Soviet stage director
eeks to return to homeland
I MOSCOW (AP) — Exiled stage
^lirector Yuri Lyubimov expressed
UK “ Bis desire to return to the Soviet
ro^Hnicn in an unusual newspaper in-
^rview that could signal official will-
Jpgness to allow him to come back.
I Lyubimov was interviewed by the
government newspaper Izvestia in
Madrid, where he viewed four per-
fcmances by Moscow’s Taganka
■ heater of Maxim Gorky’s
fMother.”
I Lyubimov, 70, founded the Ta-
lanka Theater and more than 20
fears turned it into Moscow’s most
iopular modern theater with his av-
t-garde productions.
The director struggled constantly
ith censors. In July 1983 he was al
lowed to travel to London to stage
lyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and
Hunishment” amid speculation au-
porities did not want him to return.
In March 1984 he was thrown out
of the Communist Party, and four
months later his Soviet citizenship
was revoked.
Lyubimov has staged productions
around the world since then. He
took Israeli citizenship this year and
has moved to Jerusalem with his
wife, Katalin, and son, Peter. He al
most never is mentioned in the offi
cial press.
In its article on Tuesday, Izvestia
stressed that Soviet writers and art
ists have more freedom under Mik
hail S. Gorbachev’s reforms, in a
possible effort to show the differ
ences between Lyubimov and au
thorities have narrowed enough to
allow him to return.
Lyubimov reiterated his previous
statement that he would like to re
turn to work in the Soviet Union if
he were guaranteed artistic free
dom, but that he was making no po
litical demands.
“We are talking only about the
creative side of my life,” he was
quoted as saying.
After more than four years
abroad, “in order to once again gain
strength, survive, one needs to stand
on his native land, on which he was
raised, where his fathers and grand
fathers lived,” Lyubimov said.
Even while he has been exiled, he
told the newspaper, he has concen
trated on staging productions that
aquaint the world with Russian cul
ture.
He praised the more open litera
ture that is being published under
Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost, and
said, “it is necessary to come, to see
and to work in the theater.”
[Official favors
test to fight
cholesterol
1 WASHINGTON (AP) — The
federal government’s health chief
urged Americans on Wednesday
to get their cholesterol level
becked to learn whether they are
mong the 50 percent .of the pop-
iladon at unnecessary risk for
heart disease.
Health and Human Services
ecretary Otis R. Bowen said the
link between high cholesterol and
heart attacks — the nation’s No. 1
killer — has been well established.
But he emphasized the good
hews that anyone with an el
evated cholesterol level can lower
it and thus reduce their risk of
dying a premature death from
heart disease.
I “Most people can lower their
| cholesterol level by reducing the
1 amount of cholesterol and satu
rated fat n their diet,” Bowen
aid at a news conference kicking
off April as National Know Your
Cholesterol Month.
Getting your level checked is
the only way to find out,” he said.
‘‘Cholesterol, like high blood
pressure, is a silent killer. There
are no signs or symptoms.”
Spokesman: Roberts
did not ask for return
of Swaggart to pulpit
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oral Rob
erts prayed with fellow television
evangelist Jimmy Swaggart after
Swaggart was suspended from his
ministry, but Roberts did not recom
mend Swaggart’s immediate return
to the pulpit, a spokesman for the
Tulsa evangelist said Thursday.
The Rev. Mike Evans, pastor of
the Church on the Move in Euless
said Wednesday that while he was
visiting Baton Rouge last month,
Swaggart told him of Roberts’
prayer.
“Oral Roberts called him up and
told him that he saw demons with
long fingernails digging the flesh
into Jimmy Swaggart’s body and he
cast those demons out of his body,”
Evans said.
Swaggart, of Baton Rouge, La.,
stepped down from the pulpit Feb.
21 after admitting a moral lapse.
Church officials have said that he
admitted meeting prostitutes in mo
tel rooms.
After the conversation with Rob
erts, the 52-year-old Swaggart felt he
was released from sin, Evans said.
He has announced he will return
May 22 in defiance of an order from
the Assemblies of God General Pres
bytery on Tuesday that he stay away
for at least a year.
The May 22 date coincides with
the suspension recommended by the
church’s Louisiana council.
Oral Roberts’ son, Richard Rob
erts, said Thursday, “I would prefer
not to give the details because it was
a confidential time together and I
don’t think it would be appropriate
for me to give any of the details.
“If anyone is to report that Oral
Roberts is recommending that
Jimmy Swaggart defy the Assembly
of God ruling from Springfield, that
is not accurate. My dad had nothing
to do with his decision.
“We believe that that is a matter
that Jimmy Swaggart must make his
own decision and follow the leading
of God.”
WFAA television officials in Dal
las said a spokesman for Swaggart
Ministries declined to comment on
the report.
Peace treaty falters on aid decision
■ GENEVA (AP) — The latest round of U.N.-spon
sored negotiations on an Afghan peace settlement en
tered a fifth week Wednesday with the parties split on
the question of when outside military aid to the warring
sides would be halted.
B A report in the New York Times, meanwhile, said
Reagan administration officials had received indica
tions that the Soviet Union would consider allowing aid
to the rebels to continue after Soviet troops begin with
drawing from Afghanistan.
■ This issue of cont inued aid to the two sides is the last
obstacle to a comprehensive settlement designed to end
more than eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S.
and Pakistani officials have said.
B Washington has said it will not guarantee a set
tlement unless the Soviet Union agrees to stop funding
the Kabul government at the same time the United
States stops aid to the guerrillas fighting the govern
ment. Moscow has refused to agree to such a cutoff.
■ The Times, citing unidentified senior U.S. officials,
said the administration’now is considering an arrange
ment under which Pakistan would sign the accord but
the United States and the Soviet Union would have a
separate understanding on aid to the insurgents.
ip The new position was discussed by telephone
Wednesday by President Ronald Reagan and the presi
dent of Pakistan, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the newspa
per reported.
The Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in 1979,
and about 115,000 Soviet troops are believed to be
helping the pro-Moscow government there.
No formal meetings were scheduled between the
U.N. mediator, Diego Cordovez, and the Afghan or Pa
kistani delegations Wednesday. But Cordovez met sep
arately with the special Soviet envoy, Nikolay Kozyrev,
and with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rob
ert Peck, both of whom have been following the indirect
talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan since the latest
round started March 2.
Peck told reporters that he was “convinced that the
Soviets want to withdraw and want an agreement, and
we will stay here until we get an agreement.”
He said Reagan “is not going to be easily satisfied,”
and that an eventual accord “will have to ensure the
withdrawal of Soviet troops, self-determination of the
Afghan people, return of refugees and non-alignment
of Afghanistan.”
Kozyrev reiterated the Soviets’ opposition to a sym
metrical cutoff. “We would like to see (the U.S.) as guar
antors, but they refuse, insisting on the cutoff,” he told
reporters. “It’s impossible.”
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