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Show Bernadette Mends Slowly From Gunshot Wounds By James Campbell United Press International - BELFAST, northern Ireland h activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, seriously wounded in an assassination attempt four days ago, has regained consciousness, relatives' said Tuesday. Unable to speak, the first thing she did was write a note asking how her three children were and the condition of her husband, Michael, 35, who also was wounded in the attack Friday by Ulster Protestant extremists. Doctors said Mrs. McAliskey, a former member of Parliament who is in the hospitals intensive care unit, was close to death early Saturday and was still seriously ill although her condition had stabilized. Seal Off Road In another development, police on both sides of the border at Armagh sealed off a road at Fork Hill in the heart of what the British Army calls IRA bandit country after discovery early Tuesday of a masked body lying on the lonely border road. In the attack Friday, Michael McAliskey was shot in the back and legs at point-blan- k range when gunmen burst into the couples lonely farmhouse on the shores of Loch Neagh at Coalisland in County Tyrone, 40 miles northwest of Belfast. Unions Pretext Reuter News Agency The official Soviet news agency Tass Tuesday carried an interview with a senior Polish politician in which he accused some leaders" of the independent trade union Solidarity of using the issue of working Saturdays as a pretext to undermine Polands social system. Stanislaw Gucwa.i of the Polish Peasants Party and of the Polish Parliament (Sejm), said the countrys problems were more the fault of irresponsible political activity than economic failures. Using as a pretext the issue of Saturdays, in particular, some Solidarity leaders ed non-worki- are complicating the domestic situation, holding warning strikes and taking other actions with a view to exerting pressure on the authorities and undermining the foundations of the existing system, Gucwa told Tass. Call Strike On Jan.10, Polands first working Saturday of this year, Solidarity ordered millions of workers to strike in support of demands for an imweek. mediate five-da- y The Polish authorities have proposed making two Saturdays per month free. Solidarity insisted the government agreed to end Saturday working in the accords signed with striking workers last summer. Earlier Tuesday, however, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, back in y Poland after a trip to Italy, urged members to refrain from further strikes over the issue. Gucwas United Peasants Party coordinates its policies with the Democratic Party under the effective leadership of the Communist Party in file National Unity Front. Want Co iif ronatation Gucwa told Tass that some Solidarity leaders preferred confrontation to cooperation. They act according to the principle: it is better to advance demands to the authorities and exe-- 1 cute control than partici- pate in the production of material wealth and bear responsibility for Polands future," he said. Gucwa echoed Soviet media attacks on the dissident workers six-da- Self-Defen- Committee which maintains close contacts with Solidarity. He said he expected "no improvement in the situation as long as this organization uses the new trade union as a promoter of its ideas. The committee was using the campaign for legal recognition of the (KOR) anti-sociali- st farmers' independent lidarity, union, Rural Soto try to under- mine the Polish peasant movement and Poland's agrarian policy, New York Times Service TOKYO Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki returned here Tuesday from his first official overseas trip, a visit designed to forge stronger political and economic links between Japan and a group of five Southeast Asian nations. Suzuki summarized the purpose of his trip to toe capitals of the five countries that make up toe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Indonesia, Malaysia, toe Philippines, Singapore and in a speech delivered in Bangkok at the Malaysia end of his journey. It would be completely mistaken either to hope that Japan will play a military role in the international community, or to feel anxiety that Japan might once again emerge as a military giant, he said. What is expected of Japan instead is to play a commensurate with Japans status in toe community of nations. From the beginning of Suzukis trip, Japanese diplomats hoped it would raise Japans political profile in the region, as well as provide diplomatic seasoning for Suzuki, whose previous international experience has been limited. In adition to firming up relations with ASEAN, it showed the people back home he knew how to conduct himself, said one analyst. It was not spectacular and good. but it was low-ke- y Unlike toe last Japanese prime minister to tour toe region, Takeo Fukuda in 1977, Suzuki did not break new ground in Japans overall relations with the group. Fukuda handed out $1 billion in Japanese aid pledges and promulgated a heart-to-hea-rt doctrine with ASEAN members, some of whom later complained that Japan failed to live up to its commitments. Some ASEAN leaders may have had toe impression he would be like Santa Claus, said one Japanese Foreign Ministry official, but they found his bag was not so big. still, Suzuki was able to announce some $371 million in bilateral yen credits to four of toe nations Singapore, which is rapidly leading the ranks of developing countries, was excluded from such aid. He also agreed to pledge $237.6 million credit to a Malaysian UREA plant project, one of toe ASEAN industrial projects, and $93.6 million to cover cost overruns for a similar Indonesian UREA project. The five ASEAN countries combined are Japans second-largeoverseas trading partner, behind toe trade in 1979 reached nearly United States. Two-wa- y $26 billion, more than Japans trade with the European Community. Japan is also the largest foreign investor in ASEAN business ventures. 13-d- MOSCOW trade left-win- Japanese Returns Home Issue Called leader Anti-Britis- Just before he was wounded, McAliskey shouted a warning to his wife who was able to hide upstairs under a bed, pulling clothes and the mattress over her. Fire Blindly at Bed The gunmen barged into the room and fired blindly at the bed, wounding Mrs. McAliskey in the chest and legs. She has long been a leader in the movement to end British rule in Northern Ireland. British soldiers patrolling the area rushed the couple to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment, then transferred Mrs. McAliskey to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, known for its expertise in treating gunshot wounds. Fear for Lives Her three children, in another bedroom at the time of the attack and unharmed, were being looked after by relatives who said the couple planned to move to a more populated area because they feared for their lives. Three hard-lin- e Protestants, captured near the house minutes after the double murder attempt, were still being interrogated by police about the McAliskey shooting and the assassinations late last year of three other g political activists. he Dennis the Menace Firilltr Sclll(l Hank Keteham B The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday. January Life Sentence Possible For Widow of Mao? PEKING (UPI) -- China paved the way Tuesday for an expected decision to spare Mao 's widow from the firing squad and instead sentence her to hard labor on a remote farm for the rest of her life. Legal experts said a Tse-tung- formal verdict was imminent" against Qing and nine other prominent defendants in Chinas trial of the century. After weeks of intense debate and speculation, Peking gave its first official clue of Jiangs prob Jiang opened the closet door and they fell on HIM. able fate in an indirect but typically Chinese manner in a commentary carried by the official Xinhua news agency. Discusses Charges In it, one of Chinas top legislators, Liu Fuzhi, the deputy director of the Parliamentary Commission of Legislative Affairs, discussed the charges and possible sentences against Jiang, leader of the gang of four, and the others accused with her. Liu said Jiang and several other defendants could be executed for their crimes of treason committed during the 1966-7cultural revolu-tio- n 6 but added, "However, article 43 states that a death penal- ty may be suspended for two years during which the prisoner will be helped to reform through labor. If- - a prisoner shows repentance during the period of reprieve, the death sentence shall be reduced to life imprisonLiu said. If a ment, defendant does not reform, execution can still be carried out. Prepare Public Opinion Experts said the timing and style of the article appeared designed to prepare public opinion fora reprieve for Jiang after an officially inspired media campaign deNow you have to she be exedemanding cide, she said to Lacercuted. da. It is either her or For over a week, dipme. Then turning to have Gusmao father this lomatic sources leaderman is mine. I have lived reported Chinas ship had decided on this with him for 10 years. I have this one son and am compromise to spare the life of the widow of the expecting another. He tricked me and now he late Communist Party chairman. has to decide. The suspended senThen the fist fight began amid the tables of tence would help solve the dilemma Chinas beer and snacks that had leadership created for been laid on for a recepitself in convening the tion. trial and then demanding There were shouts of I Jiang's blood. put in overtime to buy Preserve Unity my sister a pretty It would help preserve dress!" and, This character is a swindler unity among toe leaderand a scoundrel! ship and possibly prevent a woman who When the scene settled Jiang said she is has already Miss down, Domingues from unafraid to die said she wanted to get married anyway since becoming a martyr and rallying point for her parents had prepared forces. the wedding. But Gusmao said, Under the She and toe nine others circumstances I will not have been languishing in perform this marraige. jail for more than two weeks following the end By that time, forgotten of toe hearings, waiting in a comer, Miss Da for formal guilty verdicts Silva went into labor and and their sentences was rushed to the Sao to be delivered. Jorge Hospital. Former Lover Busts Up Wedding RIO DE JANEIRO, A wedBrazil (UPI) ding ceremony with 250 guests present was disrupted when a woman in . the last stages of pregnancy stepped forward and said she and the bridegroom had lived together for the past 10 years. A fight between the families of the bride and groom broke out and only stopped when police arrive. The bride said she still wanted to get married but the priest refused to carry out the ceremony. The pregnant woman then went into labor and was rushed to a nearby hospital where she gave birth to an boy. It all happened Sunday at the Our Lady of Aparecida Church in the Rio suburb of Sao Goncalo. In my 27 years in the priesthood, I have never had an experience likes this one, said Father Luiz Gusmao. Gusmao been had ready to marry salesman Julio Cesar Lacerda and nurse Mary Conceicao Domingues, 26. Precisely at 7 p.m. proud father Ivan Domingues led his daughter to the altar to give her away to Lacerda. Father Gusmao gave the sign of the cross to start the ceremony. Then Maria Francisca Da Silva, a domestic servant, stepped out of the shadows son, with her Erick, in her arms. Russ Raked on Dissenters Reuter News Agency Amnesty International Tuesday accused the Soviet Union of carrying out a sustained crackdown during which more than 200 dissenters of all kinds had been imprisoned over the last 15 months. The Soviet courts had been handing down heavy sentences, up to 15 years of combined imprisonment and internal exile, in recent months, the London-base-d human rights organization said in a statement. According to Amnesty, three types of dissenter appeared to have been specially hard hit. These included members of unofficial groups trying to monitor Soviet observance of human rights agreements made at Helsinki in 1975, and national Soviet republics rights campaigners in such as Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians and Armenians. The third category was religious believers, Adventists, particularly Baptists, Seventh-dalists and Russian Orthodox believers, Amnesty said. LONDON non-Russi- y Pen-tecos- ta five-nati- st (Copyright) Accept Marcos Plan, Opposition Urged New York Times Service Out going assistant MANILA, Philippines Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, after meeting with President Ferdinand E. Marcos in a farewell visit here at years end, strongly urged leading opposition figures to accept the presidents impending lifting of martial law as a generous offer and to forswear violence. This was reported by the principal opposition figure, former Sen. Benigno S. Aquino, in a letter to Marcos and confirmed by Aquino in a telephone interview from his home in Boston. The former senator was rushed from more than seven years of martial law detention to the United States last year for emergency heart surgery. Since his recovery he has accepted a fellowship at Harvard University. Aquino sad Holbrooke lunched with him and another opposition leader, former Sen. Salvador H. Laurel, now back here, on Jan. 3, on his return from the Philippines, where he spent New Years ove with President and Mrs. Marcos and also held earlier meetings with him. In his letter to the president, Aquino said the assistant secretary had spoken to him as an interested friend of the Filipino people. He told the opposition leader that violence would result only in making the Philippines a basket case in Asia, comparable to Chile and Nicaragua in Latin America. He urged Aquino, whose recent statements had shown some sympathy for recourse to violence, that the opposition should cooperate to speed the return to political normality. Aquino assured Marcos that he had sent a "personal courier to Manila with letteis urging opposition figures to refrain from violence, particularly during the visit here of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki of Japan earlier this month. He offered to return himself if it was necessary to convince doubting Thomases. Referring to a meeting that he had in New York last month with the presidents wife, Mrs. Imelda Marcos, Aquino repeated to the president his belief that if you are sincere in your desire to return democracy to our people, nothing is impossible, but without sincerity nothing is possible." A group of students demonstrated briefly in front of the American Embassy Tuesday to voice that point of view until they were dispersed by police. (Copyright) After 444 days, were united once again. Our sincere welcome to the 52 returning Americans, and our heartfelt thanks to all people of every nation who played a role in their release. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. sz; o iv i 21, 19K1 A 7 Iran Says to Islamic Summit 4No Reuter News Agency TAIF, Saudi Arabia Iran was reported Tuesday to have decided to lift its boycott of the Islamic foreign ministers conference in Taif but an Iranian spokesman quickly denied the report. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud told reporters at the conference, which is expected to close Wednesday, that Iran had sent official word that it had reversed its decision to stay away. But Irans ambassador to Kuwait, Ali Shams Ardekani, said in a telephone interview that Iran would not attend the meeting or a summit conference beginning Sunday. He said hopes that Iran had lifted its boycott were due to a misunderstanding in Taif. Iran had said it would not attend toe summit, at which toe Persian Gulf war will be a main subject, if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took part. The summit is being coordinated by the Islamic Conference Organization, to which both Iran and Iraq belong. Conference sources said there was fear among gulf countries that toe agreement on freeing the hostages could increase Irans military potential by unblocking billions of dollars in Iranins funds frozen by the United States. The sources said there was long, heated debate over Afghanistan. J |