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Show Pag Two FOOM TKI-- Interest biggest threat Labor chiefwon't yield WASHINGTON President Reagan said Thursday that high interest rates pose "the greatest single threat" to the American economy, but insisted that his embattled tax and budget programs will reverse the tide and pull the nation from recession. The president also declared he has "no plans to send American combat troops into action" in El Salvador or anywhere else around the world. He declined to spell out. however, the U S options for future support of the ruling junta in that Central American nation, besieged by leftist guerrillas. PresiBAL HARBOUR. Fla. AFL-CIthe deepdent lane Kirkland, charging that ening recession is hurting people "by the millions." said Thursday he will not soften O his criticism of President Reagan's economic policies. Kirkland also assailea Reagan's response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. He charged that the chief executive "has misread the character of the American people" in failing to impose a total economic boycott against the Soviet Union. Kirkland had launched a tirade against Reagan's tax and spending policies here Tuesday, suggesting the administration's handling of the economy could prove disastrous. As his budget director, David Stockman, had done a day earlier, Reagan left the door open to revision and compromise with a $757.6-billio- n wary Congress over his for next year. He told spending plan his critics: ' Come up with some specific suggestions.. .we'll take a look." big-defic- eighth news conference Reagan, as president, made it clear he doesn't think But chief labeled Reagan's poliThe AFL-CIcies "Jonestown economics" a reference to the November 1978 mass murder-suicid- e by followers of a religious cult leader in Jonestown, Guyana. In Washington on Wednesday, Rep. said Kirkland's stateRobert Michel, ment was "in very poor taste and does a horrible injustice to the president." But in his meeting with reporters Thursday, Kirkland repeated the analogy. "Poor people are being knocked off medical care benefits, housing is in the worst shape since the Depression, the recession is the worst since the Depression," Kirkland said. leader declared: "I don't The AFL-CIbacktrack or apologize or trim a bit of the characterization that I meant to imply in using that phrase." On the eve of a meeting here Friday with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., Kirkland maintained that Reagan "has backed away from the two strongest actions that remain open to him, imposing a trade embargo on the Soviet Union and declaring the Polish debt in default." "The effect of calling in the Polish debt would be to dry up the flow of easy credit to the Soviet bloc, cripple the construction of the Siberian gas pipeline, and stem thediv-ersio- n of resources into Moscow's military buildup," Kirkland said. Earlier Thursday, AFL-CIleaders greeted Magda Wojcik, deputy director of the International Affairs Department of the Pol- O it, in his R-ll- l., there's much room for trimming his proposed 18 percent boost in defense spending. "We cannot back away on national defense," he said, without sending the wrong signal to friend and foe alike. As for calls to back off the massive tax cuts he won last year, Reagan said that three-yea- r program still "represents the strongest thing we have" toward restoring productivity. "To abandon our tax policy now would be giving up a fundamental thing that is required," he added. O - Reagan declined "to be pinned down" on when recovery from recession would begin. Meanwhile, he announced that he will soon name a panel of private citizens to search out waste and inefficiency in the government with an eye to further reductions in the budget. "This will be the. largest effort of its kind ever mounted to save tax dollars," Reagan said. "I expect them to roll up their sleeves and search out waste and inefficiency..." he said. "We mean business, and we intend to O get results." ish Solidarity movement, who was in Oslo. Norway, when martial law was imposed Dec. 13. Selma-to-Montgome- WASHINGTON Sen. Claiborne Pell, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, says the United States should cut off aid to El Salvador's regime unless it cracks down on human rights abuses. But Pell, just back from a trip to El Salvador, said the United States should not "rock the boat" before the March 28 elections called by the centrist government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. If Duarte's government is victorious at the polls. Pell said, "Any continued aid is contingent on real progress toward human rights, which there has not been so far, and movement toward general negotiations." At a press conference Thursday, Pell described Duarte as "a weak reed to lean on, but our only reed." And in an interview on the CBS television program Morning, he said a victory by Duarte's party would strengthen his position, making him "an active president instead of chairman of the board." Marchers change route MONTGOMERY. Ala. -- Hundreds of voting rights marchers, barred by the City, Council from retracing the entire length of a historic 1965 protest, set out for the state Capitol Thursday on a compromise route. "We don't want a confrontation," said march leader Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Lowery and city officials met before the march began and worked out a compromise on the parade's path. In 1965, protesters led by Martin Luther King Jr. marched down Dexter Avenue, a k downtown artery that bustling leads to the Capitol. The council, acting at the request of merchants, voted 4 along racial lines Tuesday to refuse to reconsider its decision barring frorh ;the 'business the latest marchers ' ' ":" v six-bloc- 5-- ' Under the compromise, the marchers were allowed to traverse five of the six blocks. "They gave us two blocks if we gave them one," said Lowery. "We don't want one block of asphalt to take attention away from out protest." Among those who planned to march demonstraThursday, winding up a y tion across rural Alabama, were Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Birmingham Mayor 'Richard Arrington, Martin Luther King III 13-da- p y Lowery said. The march and motorcade set out from Alabama on Feb. Carrollton in west-centr6. For the last 50 miles, demonstrators followed the path of the historic trek led by King, which helped to birth the Voting Rights Act. The act give is up for congressional renewal this year and the current march supports saving and strengthening the law. The march began after two black Pickens County women, Maggie Bozeman. 51. and Julia Wilder, 70. were convicted by juries of illegally helping 39 elderly blacks cast absentee ballots. Both women, who were active civil rights workers, are e in Macon County. on Don Black, grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said Wednesday a "couple of dozen" Klansmen would show up at a counter-rall- y to oppose any renewal of the 1 965 Voting Rights Act. al Pell says no Salvador aid blocks. and his grandfather, Martin Luther King Sr.. ry all-whi- work-releas- Williams' father testifies ATLANTA Wayne B. Williams' father testified at his son's murder trial Thursday that carpet squares used to link Williams to the slaying of a young black man were not purchased until after the victim's body was , found. Homer Williams also said his son had little privacy at home and gave up hunting as a boy because "he didn't kill very much." Earlier Thursday, a defense fiber expert had challenged the heart of the state's case, testifying that the fibers used to link the defendant to the slayings of two young blacks matches fibers taken at random from a lawyer's office and a fabric store. The younger. Williams, a e black photographer and aspiring talent promoter, is charged with murdering Nathaniel Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, two of 28 young blacks killed in a string of slayings here. No arrests have been made in the 26 ld free-lanc- 22-mon- th other cases, butprosecutors presented evidence in the slayings of 10 additional young blacks jn an effort to show a pattern fitting the Cater and Payne deaths. Prosecution witnesses testified last month that microscopic fibers found on all 12 victims matched fibers from Williams' home and car. 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