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Show Reagan Credits Trip for Bettering Relations With Peking By James Gerstenzang Associated Press Writer PresiFAIRBANKS, Alaska dent Reagan said Tuesday that his y visit to China brought U.S. relations with Peking to "a new level and a new stage while giving the communist leaders an understanding and a confidence in us. Reagan, for years a sharp critic of communism, said that he was able to establish a personal rapport with the Marxist leaders of the worlds most populous nation. - six-da- The president, clearly upbeat about his first extended visit to a communist nation, looked back on were deleted, did not appear to his journey during an interview with five reporters traveling aboard Air Force One on the way home to the And in a speech Monday to university students in Shanghai, he again discussed American democracy. His remarks were broadcast in full on regional television, but no Chinese trou- ble him. Standing m the aisles of the jet, he said the Chinese may not have had confidence in him "if I had backed down and not said things that I believed." I feel that was their right to do, whatever their reasons may have been, just as it was my right to say what I wanted to say when I was over there." he said. After the first speech was censored, Reagan made similar comments in an interview with Chinese television reporters, and was again edited. United States from Shanghai. There were no evident problems, or diplomatic embarrassments, as the president conferred with Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang, President Li Xiannian, and China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, and traveled from Peking to Xian to Shanghai. A flap over the refusal of the government-run television network to carry in full one of his speeches, from which his comments about democracy, God, and the Soviet Union translation was provided I felt that if were to get along, theyve got to understand us, and what we believe. That's why I did that, he said. The president was spending the day in Alaska awaiting an airport meeting Wednesday with Pope John Paul II, before returning in the evening to the White House. The pope will stop here on his way from Rome to a visit to South Korea. At a welcoming ceremony at the University of Alaska, the president declared. We went to China to advance the prospects for stability and peace throughout the world. We went to e '''ustrate, by our presence, our I feel for relations. desire good we have progress to report. He said he was heartened by what he saw An economy that allows "more farmers and woikers to sell their products on their own. This first injection of free market spirit has already enlivened the Chinese economy. I believe it has also made a contribution to human stn-'cr- happiness in China, and opened the way to a more just society," he said His effort to explain democracy to the Chinese, he said, "was a in some breathtaking experience ways, I think, a groundbreaking experience In a later speech at a luncheon for Fairbanks community leaders, Reagan brought up his record and said he never thought it was necessary for the United States to impose its form of government on others. He said if China prefers "socialism or communism and we prefer See Page 2, Column 1 Polish Police Hout Malliers Day ay By The Associated Press Riot police charged crowds of Solidarity supporters in Poland, and Pope John Paul II said he feared ro- bots may replace people as nations around the world observed May Day. Thousands marched in Moscow and there was a huge garden party in Peking to celebrate the international labor holiday Tuesday. Many of the May Day festivities reflected official policy, some were used to express grievances and still others simply celebrated the worker. Riot police were called out in at least six Polish cities and used water cannon, truncheons and tear gas to disperse thousands of people demonstrating for the banned Solidarity labor federation. Several dozen arrests were witnessed by Western correspondents in Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Szczein, Nowa can Pope John Paul II expressed concern that robots and computers might make manual labor obsolete. All work is worthy of esteem, the pope told 30,000 people during his weekly general audience in St. Peters Square. In large rallies in many Eastern European countries the praise of work was mingled with criticism of the United States. About 250,000 people rallied in Prague and heard k Czechoslovak President Gustav accuse Washington of launching a new round of the arms race. A crowd officially estimated at several hundred thousand marched down Karl-Mar- x Allee, the main avenue of East Berlin, some carrying hands off placards saying USA Nicaragua and "Freedom for Grenada. e There were no protests at the 1 Column 2, Page Huta and Czestochowa, but there were no reports of injuries. In Gdansk, Solidarity founder Lech Walesa and about 1,000 supporters slipped into the official May Day parade. The Nobel Peace laureate thrust up his hand in Solidaritys sign and his supporters unfurled banners and chanted slogans at surprised communist officials on the reviewing stand. Walesa then disappeared into the crowd and went to his apartment about a mile away. nt Hu-sa- rallies and marches were held in Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, El Salvador and Honduras. West German workers cheered union leaders demands for a work week as a remedy for high unemployment. President Ferdinand E. Marcos decreed a 10 percent pay increase for Philippine public employees, and at the Vati Sources Claim Secret Jet Was Russian Angeles Times Service - The aircraft that crashed last Mondale Rolling On, Wins in Tennessee By David Espo Associated Press Writer Walter F. Mondale defeated Sen. Gary Hart in Tennessee Tuesday and said his steady string of primary victories may enable him to secure the Democratic presidential nomination before the July convention. The Rev. Jesse Jackson won his first election with an easy victory in the District of Columbia. The nomination is still an open contest and will go all the way to the convention, said Hart. We waged a good fight and now take our campaign on to the states which vote next. he had 42 Mondales showing percent of the Tennessee vote and aidwas runner-u- p in the District ed his methodical drive for national convention delegates. With a lead, he needs to win half the delegates at stake in the next five weeks. In Texas, site of Saturday caucuses that are crucial to Harts candidacy, Mondale said Im delighted by his Tennessee victory and increasingly encouraged by the possibility he can secure the nomination by the final primary night of June 5. Hart, who finished second in Tennessee and a distant third in the District, needs an incredible 91 percent of the remaining delegates to claim the nomination. He arrived in T exas Tuesday night. Jackson, enjoying his best night of the campaign, was winning 65 percent of the District of Columbia vote in what he described as a victory for the boats stuck at the bottom. In Tennessee, Mondale led for 31 of the 65 delegates at stake. Hart led for 20 and Jackson for 14. In the District of Columbia, with afternoon and evening votes still to be counted, Jackson led for 10 delegates and Mondale for 5. The former vice president now leads Hart by more than 600 dele1,239.05 delegates, comgates 668.75 for Hart and 206.2 with pared for Jackson. It takes 1,967 delegates to win nomination. The two primaries, with 80 national convention delegates combined, marked the end of a three-wee- k campaign lull. They formed the leading edge of a wave of contests to select 717 delegates over the next week and to test Harts vow of a comeback. The capital citys voting population is about 65 percent black and Mondale and Hart virtually conceded the election in advance to the civil rights leader. That made Tennessee, with 65 delegates at stake, the days main battleground and all three candidates campaigned hard there. In Tennessee, with 97 percent of the precincts reporting, the results were: Mondale, 128,988 votes, or 42 percent. Hart, 91,403, 30 percent Jackson, 71,451, 24 percent. Uncommitted and dropout candidates claimed the rest. The evenings results meant that Mondale needed to win 730 additional delegates to win the nomination, preceisely half of the 1,460 remaining to be picked in later primaries and caucuses. In the District of Columbia, with morning votes and half the afternoon and evening count complete, it Associated Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, flanked by other Soviet leaders, acknowl- - cel-Se- Los WASHINGTON - MiG-2- 3 was: Jackson 45,426 votes, 66 percent. Mondale, 18,706, 27 percent. Hart, 5,154, 7 percent. The victory was Jacksons first in a primary, although he defeated his rivals earlier this year in the party caucuses in South Carolina. Tuesday, Mondale and Hart already were campaigning in states that will select delegates in the next See Page 2, Column 2 week. i - Western Soviet that said Tuesday diplomats forces in Afghanistan had captured about half of a strategic valley used by rebels as a stronghold but that the guerrillas had retreated into side valleys. The diplomats quoted sources in .the Panjshir Valley, 50 miles north of Kabul, the Afghan capital, as saying the Soviet forces, which have been pressing an offensive there since April 20, had not yet entered the side areas sheltering the guerrillas. The sources also said that the insurgent leader, Ahmad Shah Massoud, slipped out of the valley on April 18 or 19 to avoid capture after having been tipped off that an offensive was about to start. The diplomats spoke at a weekly briefing for Western journalists who are barred from visiting Afghanistan. Citing information he had re NEW DELHI, India ' - . By Sanjoy Hazarika New York Times Writer top-secr- et Soviet airplane, probably a fighter, not an American "Stealth plane, two sources said Tuesday. The Air Force, in its official reaction to the crash, described the plane only as a "specially modified test aircraft. But Pentagon, rational security and aircraft industry officials agreed Tuesday that, contrary to earlier reports, it was not a Stealth aircraft. Stealth planes are being developed in this country with special capacity to es- cape detection by radar. The Soviet plane flown by Bond, who was vice commander of the Air Force Systems Command, had apparently been modified in the United States, perhaps for test purposes or for a future mission in or near the Soviet Union. Extreme secrecy has surrounded Press Loserphoto edges the thousands of workers marching in Red Square during May Day festivities. Soviets Capture Half of Valley Held by Afghanistan Guerrillas week1 in Nevada, killing Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert M. Bond, was an advanced , i r i ceived from Kabul, one diplomat described the offensive as the biggest action mounted by the Soviet forces since December 1979 when they intervened in Afghanistan. Troop Estimates Estimates of the number of Soviet troops in the present operation have ranged from 10,000 to 20,000 men. About 2,000 Afghan soldiers were also said to have been involved in the beginning, but one diplomat reported that some 400 of them deserted on the way to Panjshir. The drive is aimed at crushing the guerrilla forces of Massoud, who agreed to a truce with the Soviet command last year. The truce, however, was not renewed this spring. The diplomats said Tuesday that Chuckle Todays There is a fine line between mak- ing good and getting caught with the goods. - their information contradicted statements made for more than a week by the Afghan government spokesman and reports in the offfi-cKabul press and radio that the Panjshir Valley had been captured and Massouds forces defeated. One diplomat said the Soviet and Afghan forces were reported to be systematically destroying all livestock and crops as they move into the valley, as they have done during earlier, unsuccessful offensives there. Side Valleys Mined? Before slipping out Massoud reportedly instructed his followers to move into the side valleys. One source said the rebels had mined these side valleys and parts of the main valley. The impression is that there does not seem to be much direct fighting now, one of the diplomats said, underlining that the rebels in the Panjshir were resorting to their traditional tactics of harassment. al 6 Feared Dead After Car Falls 70 Feet Into Mine - Aocktd Gary Hart addresses a crowd in Jackson, cam- during futile, last-minu- s te 1 i I Prtsi Lottrpftoto ., paigning. Jesse Jackson fared better, Columbias of the District primary. ning win-Tenn- One of LLEWELLYN, Pa. (AP) six people who had gone out for a joyride in the woods of Pennsylvanias coal country was found dead Tuesday night in a car that had plummeted more than 70 feet into a collapsed mine, a rescue official said. Five other bodies remained underground, he said. After working all day to get heavy equipment into position to reach the Chevrolet Blazer, rescue workers pulled a body out of the hole on a stretcher at 7.30 p.m. They covered the body with a sheet while still in the hole. The county coroner would not identify the body until relatives were notified. But a state trooper at Pottsville, who declined to give his name, said the victim was a female. The victim brought out of the shaft was one of the six missing repeople, and five other bodies A1 said Roman, in the mained shaft, rescue coordinator. Roman, who operates No. 1 Construction Co. in nearby Pittston, said rescuers would continue working until the other bodies were brought to the surface. Roman did not say if rescue workers had seen the five other bodies in the vehicle or if any bodies had fallen farther Into the shaft, which a state mine official said could be 600 feet deep. Three couples, who range in age from 16 to 25, have been missing since Saturday, when they left for a picnic and ride in the coal mining area near Llewellyn, several miles outside Pottsville, in a remote, mountainous area of Schuylkill d drivCounty popular with ers. Residents say the strip mining that has replaced deep mining in recent years occasionally leaves old mine shafts exposed or covered with only a thin layer of earth. off-roa- Today's Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Mostly cloudy, showers. Highs near 70, lows in 40s. Details, B-- j i |
