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AS Asbury Park PressSat. Feb. 2, 1980 Six who fled Iran appear Gunmen seizei survivor of embassy seige little before cameras, say Vi. hj iff From page Al happy." Dressed in a beige blouse and skirt, Mrs. Lijek stated only her name and her title at the embassy consular assistant.

Mr. Lijek, who was a consular officer, was dressed a gray three-piece suit Each had a small maple leaf pin the symbol of Canada planted on their lapel. The other four who lived with Canadian embassy personnel before returning to American soil were: Henry Lee Schatz, an agricultural attache; Joseph D. Stafford, a consular officer; his wife Kathleen F. Stafford, a consular assistant; and Anders, a consular officer.

Anders, who read the Joint statement, said "it is reassuring to know that our families were constantly kept informed." He added that "because of the sensitivity of the situation," with the remaining SO hostages, the six could not take questions from the The only light moment in an otherwise stoic affair came during Anders' description of the stay In the Canadian compound. He said: "Most of our days were spent following events in the world. We avidly read newspapers and listened to overseas radio broadcasts. Also during the course of the three months, we played scrabble to the point Anociated Ptcm where some of us could identify the letter on the front by the shape of the grain on the back of the tfte." There was laughter then, even by the six en the auditorium stage, including Cora and Mark, who appeared serious during most of the news conference. At the end of Anders' address there was some picture-taking and applause from the audience.

"From the radio and newspapers available to us, we know that Americans were united In their demand that the hostages be freed," Anders said in refering to the ap-proximatly SO Americans still be held in the U.S. Embassy. "This realization gave us strength and courage," he said. The Ujeks and the four others were able to seek refuge in the Canadian compound by slipping out a back entrance of the American embassy during the early moments of attack by militants on Nov. 1 Because five of them were working In the Consular Section at the rear of the embassy, Anders said, they were able to leave before the takeover was complete.

Schatz was not with the others, but he was working in an office off the embassy compound and thus also was able to escape. The six made their way to their homes and eventually to the Canadians, Anders explained. "It is difficult to fully express our appreciation for the risks the Canadians took to ensure our safety and comfort. They made us fed a part of their families, especially at "It Is not politics when one nation sends 100,600 of its heavily armed troops across a border and subjugates its peace-loving, deeply religious neighbor," the president said. "It is not politics when one nation invades a nation's capital installs a puppet regime and partipates in the assassination and death of the leaders which it does not like, including the families of those leaders.

"It's aggression pure and simple, and I'm determined that the United States will make clear to the Soviet Union, just as other countries are doing, that no country can trample the life or liberty of another and expect to conduct business or sports as usual with the rest of the world." Iranians by the thousands demonstrated in front of Tehran hospital where the Ayatollah Khomeini is a patient yesterday to mark the first anniversary of the revolutionary leader's return from exile. Iranians celebrate first anniversary of Khomeini's return Carter pledges to offer alternative competition times such as Christmas, when our spirits needed a boost We thank them for our support," Anders said. Anders, speaking in a calm, steady voice, said the six were "very happy to be home again" and added that they were "deeply grateful to the United States Government and the many volunteers for their steadfast support and assitance to our families and to the families of the hostages who remain In Teheran." Much of Antler's statement concerned those colleagues still being held by remarking: "We must not and will not forget them. On behalf of those remaining In Tehran, we thank you tor all that has been done. We will now join you In these continuing efforts to do everything possible to ensure the return of the 50 hostages in the compound and of our three colleagues in the Foreign Ministry." Anders closed by thanking members of the media who agreed not to disclose the situation in the Canadian compound even though they were aware of the drcumsta nces for almost two months.

"We are extremely appreciative of their responsible handling of this information," Anders said of the media. "We know that It was based on their desire to maintain our safety." The Asbury Park Press was among several news organizations that decided not to publish the story of the six Americans. Prior to the news conference the six arrived at the State Department building amid cheers from employees. Among those at the building were Sen. Harrison A.

Williams, and Rep. James J. Howard, Howard said be spoke briefly with Cora Lijek and the Amburns but explained they said little more than the were happy the affair is over. Howard said he spoke with Mr. Amburn In December and it was this conversation that first alerted the congressman to the situation at the Canadian embassy.

Howard said that Mr. Amburn was worried about a forthcoming Interview of the Shah of Iran by telvision journalist David Frost. "They were afraid of animosity In Iran," Howard said of his conversation with Mr. Amburn. Howard said he then contacted the State Department and ABC, which aired the Interview.

He said officials only confirmed the situation in the Candadian embassy "In a limited way." Sen. Samuel I. Hayakawa, who Is of Japanese descent, sat beside Mrs. Amburn, also a Japanese-American. He said they discussed Japan and that she offered little in the way of conversation other than to express her gratitude.

tron, when Mr. Miller was chairman, of a pattern of bribery, the SEC has now disclosed," Proxmire said. "There was clearly a thought-out calculated policy of bribery." Referring to Miller, he said, "Whether he knew about those bribes, we don't know, but he should have known." The Senate Banking Committee, which Proxmire beads, initially disclosed the alleged improper payments during hearings into Miller's appointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board In 1978. Proxmire said the committee will decide within a few days whether to conduct a follow-up investigation. At his news conference, Miller disagreed with a description of the Textron payments to foreign officials as bribes, and said that while some payments may have been questionable, the amount was not half the $5.4 million mentioned by the SEC, if that.

Treasury secretary bars resignation over payoffs The Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY, Gutemala About 15 gunmen raided Guatemala City hospital yesterday and carried off the lone survivor of three dosea peasant protesters caught In a fire that swept through the besieged Spanish Embassy a day earlier, hospital employees reported. It was not known whether the abductor were comrades of the badly burned man or members of Guatemala's right-wing "death squads," which allegedly have carried out hundreds of killings and kidnappings of anti-government Guatemalans. Thursday's embassy Are broke out when one of the peasants who had occupied the embassy hurled a firebomb as police attacked. The occupation had begun two hours earlier to protest what the peasants said was government repression of their people in northern Guatemala. Guatemalan authorities said 39 persons were found dead after the blaze in the two-story building was put out 32 protesters and seven persons they held hostage five of them embassy staff members, and a former Guatemalan vice president and former foreign minister who happened to be in the embassy when it was seized.

The tragedy led Spain to break diplomatic relations with the military government of this Central American nation. Guatemalan authorities blamed alt the deaths on the fire. But the Spanish ambassador, one of only two persons to survive, said gunfire erupted as the police smashed into the embassy offices. He denounced the attack as "brutal" and "intolerable," and accused police of provoking the Are. It could not be Independently determined whether any of the victims suffered gunshot wounds.

The Guatemalans contended the ambassador, Maximo Cajal Lopez, had requested "Immediate assistance," but he told reporters yesterday he had asked the authorities several times not to attack. The government of Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarex suspended relations until it is provided with a "satisfactory" explanation. It condemned the "brutal" behavior of Guatemalan authorities. A Spanish delegation headed by the government's director of Latin American affairs, Pedro Bermejo, arrived yesterday to begin an Investigation. The State Department In Washington deplored both the embassy takeover and the reportedly unauthorized police assault.

In the human rights group Amnesty International issued a statement saying it now "fears for the safety" of other Guatemalan peasants. The peasant abducted from the hospital was identified as Gregorio Chuja. Employees at the private Herrera Leran-dl hospital said the unidentified gunmen barged into the hospital, located Chuja and took him away. There, was no Indication where he was taken. Ambassador Cajal Lopez, who suffered less serious injuries in the blaze, also was under treatment at the same hospital Former Vice President Eduardo Caceres Lenhoft and former Foreign Minister Adolfo Molinas Orantes, both of whom died in the embassy, had been there making arrangements for a Hispanic-American conference.

Both supported the government of Gen. Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. The siege started about noon Thursday when the peasants arrived at the embassy and demanded to see the ambassador. Once! inside, they barricaded the door. Police arrived and surrounded the building, waiting about two hours before making their attempt to break in.

in South Jersey theories and weren't investigating It. The phenomenon was reported from Absecon to Sea Isle City in Cape May County, and in Brigantine and Ocean City. Atlantic County Civil Defense Director Frank Slracusa, in his Egg Habor Township home, said, "In Egg Harbor Township, we really shook. The Air National Guard ruled out the idea that the noise was caused by a fleet of F106 aircraft, saying the planes were between Baltimore and Washington. The Guard reported the noise might have come from a supersonic Concorde near Dulles Airport in Washington D.C., or Kennedy Airport In New York.

A check with both aiports ruled out the theory, however, because the airports reported no Concordes in their areas. Update Wealthy socialite Emma Jane Stockton started out Dec. 7 making Christmas decorations with friends in her fashionable Trenton neighborhood. Later that day she was found murdered. The bizarre slaying is brought up to date In the Update column.

Press Conference Lane. Klrkland, AFL-CIO president, answers questions about the late George Meany, his own background and the union movement In America today. Dining Out The Sweetwater Casino, Mullica Township, Is reviewed. hostages' freedom, the German ambassador said. The militants holding the Americans in Tehran said again yesterday they would reject a "capitulatory settlement." In the statement broadcast by Tehran Radio, the militants said, "As Imam Khomeini has said many times, America has to hand over the overthrown shah and the money he stole from the Iranian people.

Only then the students will forego the trial of the hostages and release them." Movement toward a solution may be slow because of the unsettled political situation In Iran. President-elect Abolhassan Bani Sadr, who Washington hopes will be open to compromise In the crisis, may not take office for another month, after the election of a parliament. Bani Sadr has said little publicly on the hostage crisis since winning election a week ago. A U.N. spokesman said Waldheim met late Thursday with the Iranian U.N.

ambassador, Mansour Farhang, for an "exchange of views on the situation." In other developments: Tehran Radio announced that Iran had increased the price of a barrel of crude oil to $31 from $28.50. It was the fifth member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to announce new price rises this week. The United States halted Imports of Iranian oil after the embassy takeover Nov. 4. Tehran Radio quoted Iranian Oil Minister All Akbar Moinfar as saying in an Interview with Iranian news agency Pars that Japan, through its ambassador in Teb- ran, announced It will resume construction in a few days on the huge petrochemical project in Bandar Khomeyni, which is 80 percent complete.

Moinfar said Iran told the Japanese that, In case of delay, it would use Iranian experts and, if necessary, foreign experts. Iran has been a major supplier of oil to Japan. Boom, tremor felt The Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY A loud boom and slight tremor last night in southern New Jersey shook windows and baffled residents and authorities who haven't determined the cause. Police In Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate and inland at Corbin City and Egg Harbor City reported scores of calls from anxious residents. Police said they did not know the cause of the tremor, which lasted about two seconds and started as a low rumbling sound, eventually shaking dwellings at about 7:30 p.m.

Federal officials at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in nearby Galloway Township and at the base's Air National Guard Detachment said they had no The Associated Press IRANIANS CELEBRATED the first anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile yesterday with marches, prayers and a quietly emotional gathering of tens of thousands outside the Tehran hospital where the elderly revolutionary is recovering from a heart attack. While throngs paraded through the streets of Tehran and In other Iranian cities, approximately 50 American hostages spent their 90th day in the hands of Moslem militants at the U.S. Embassy. But there were new hopeful words for them. Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark, whose government has been in close contact with Carter administration officials over the Iran situation, told an Ottawa news conference he has learned "from our sources that there now is greater hope than in the past for a positive resolution of the American hostage situation." U.S.

officials expressed similar guarded optimism earlier in the week. Clark gave no details, except to say he understood "there have been discussions involving at least Iranian and American officials that are more promising of positive results." The Canadians worked closely with Washington recently in engineering the escape of six American diplomats from Iran. The West German ambassador to the United Nations, Rudiger von Wechmar, said yesterday the American hostages would be freed in four to eight weeks under a plan being prepared by U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Speaking in an interview on a New York radio program, the German diplomat said the plan involved sending an international commission to Iran to listen to Iranian grievances and possibly moving the hostages from the custody of the militants holding the embassy to "a staging camp." He said the International Red Cross might take over care of the hostages while the commission discusses with Iranian authorities "the modalities of the release." The escape of the six Americans could delay but not halt preparations to gain the lice, MacDuffie said.

Perna was appointed the department's first captain in 1976. Perna's position is that one captain can't tell another captain what to do and he challenged DeAngelo's authority over him 13 by refusing to obey an order from him to go to his office. Because of the incidence, Perna was charged with insubordination and an administrative hearing on the charge is supposed to be held before township Business Administrator Agnes Dello Russo. But MacDuffie argues that township ordinances prohibit the business administrator from holding the hearing, MacDuffie said. The ordinance says that the public safety director is the official who is supposed to hold the hearing not the business administrator, MacDuffie said.

The only time the public safety director Isn't supposed to hold the hearing is when he files the charges against the officer, MacDuffie said. the Old Bridge Land Development Co. But It was dropped after Manzo agreed to pay $146,000 In restitution. Manzo agreed to drop an appeal of his conviction in Ocean County as part of the plea arrangement. All three Manzo brothers shared In the profits of both companies, but only Michael Manzo and Manzo Contracting Co.

were named in any criminal indictments. In 1974, Manzo was sentenced to one to two years in prison for bribery and conspiracy involving a state road paving contract. Former N.J. Secretary of State Paul J. Sherwin and Republican Party fundraiser William Loughran were convicted with him.

Manzo was paroled after serving five months. captains going to court From page Al Games unless the International Olympic Committee moved them out of Moscow. China's sports daily newspaper printed pictures of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Olympics and told its readers yesterday that world public opinion would not tolerate a replay of the Berlin Games in Moscow. In Japan, the chief spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohlra said it had been decided at a Cabinet meeting that Japan would boycott the Games unless the Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan and that the Japanese Olympic Committee had been so "advised." Not all of the news yesterday was good for those pushing a boycott. The heads of 10 Western European Olympic committees, who had planned a two-day in Frankfurt, West Germany, met for only five hours before adjourning with a statement leaning against a boycott but finally putting off a decision.

Another meeting was called for March 22 in Brussels. Willie Daume, head of the West German Olympic Committee and an influential member of the IOC, appeared to back away after the meeting from the position he had taken just last Sunday supporting the call of the U.S. Olympic Committee to move, postpone or cancel the Games in Moscow. Daume said he now felt that everything should be done to hold the Games as scheduled in Moscow, and he said of his committee, "We are an Olympic body and our obligation is to save the Olympic Games, f. In Paris, meanwhile, Vital! Smirnov, a Soviet member of the IOC's executive board and a key figure on the Moscow organizing committee, created a brief stir when he declared, "The organizers of the Moscow Olympic Games believe that in the present time, a major international sports competition, and even more so the Olympic Games, are unthinkable without an American participation." However, later in the same news conference, Smirnov made it clear that he does not fnean the Soviets were going to postpone the Games on their own if the United States failed to show up.

President Carter, in his speech to the physical fitness and sports conference yesterday, defended his leading role in the worldwide boycott campaign, saying that objecting to the Moscow Olympics on the grounds of the Afghanistan invasion was not playing politics. Asbury Park Press Inc. PRESS PLA7A, ASBURY PARK, N.J. 07712 201-774-7000 ERNEST W. LASS Chairman of the Board JULES L.

PLANGERE JR. President THOMAS B. TIGHE Vice President E. DONALD LASS Secretary ROBERT E. MURPHY Treasurer JULES L.

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Kinnevy promoted DeAngelo from lieutenant to acting captain in July. DeAngelo would have to earn the permanent rank of captain by passing a Civil Service test. After being put in charge of the department, DeAngelo was named public safety director by Kinnevy. But DeAngelo stepped down from that civilian job in order to be eligible to take the test for captain. Civil Service wouldn't let him take the captain's test unless he was serving in another Civil Service position.

Perna's attorney, E. Allen MacDuffie, said that township ordinances say that Perna, as the department's senior captain, should be in charge of the police force. The ordinance says that in the absence of a chief of police, the next senior ranking officer shall perform the duties of chief of po From page Al the corporation. "It is true I was not aware of any such I believed I could reasonably rely on assurances given to me by senior people that we had not made such payments. It turns out I was Incorrect," he said.

"It turns out there were some transactions hidden from me that did, in fact, involve Illegal, perhaps not illegal, but at least questionable and improper payments," he added. Sen. William Proxmire, who cast the only vote against Miller when the Senate confirmed his nomination as secretary of the treasury last August, said he felt the SEC complaint is "an extremely serious matter." "It appears there was a cover-up by Tex Brick police By GEORGE CAMPION Press Staff Writer TOMS RIVER A Superior Court judge is being asked to decide who should be in charge of the Brick Township police department. Police Capt. Joseph Perna yesterday got a court order demanding that Brick Township show cause March 3 why he shouldn't be put In charge of the police department instead of acting Capt.

Joseph DeAngelo, who has been in charge of the department since June. The order also requires the township to delay a disciplinary hearing against Perna until Superior Court Judge William Kearney decides March 3 whether the township can legally hold the hearing. The question of who's in charge of the department was first raised last year by Perna and state Civil Service officials. Perna and DeAngelo both joined the de partment at the same time as sergeants Contractor From page Al corporation with which Manzo is either directly or indirectly Involved be prohibited from bidding for public contracts for five years. Davidson said he felt he could agree to the plea bargain in good conscience and sentence Manzo to a concurrent term because It would save the taxpayers the cost of an expensive trial.

Also, Manzo was making restitution, be said. Manzo, who was dressed in a black suit, declined to comment to reporters following the 30-mlnute sentencing proceeding. Davidson said Manzo had the ability to be a successful man without resorting to cheating. Greed, he said, was no excuse for Manze's conduct. In Sunday's Press gets 2-3 years in prison Education in industry Private industries in the area are schooling employees, bt they aren't going to schools to do it.

An Education page report reveals what workers are learning and where they're being taught. Ransom wanted Red ink is no longer that greatest fear of the successful American businessman. Kidnappers are. What's being done about the growing problem Is explored in the Business Section. Welfare A Press writer spoke with some welfare officials recently and return-ed with some Ideas that could im-" prove the system.

The plea bargain was worked out among Peter Brennan and John Sheehy, deputy state attorney generals, and Anthony M. Sel-litto lawyer for Manzo, and Charles J. Irwin, lawyer for the corporation Manzo had pleaded guilty to conspiracy, two counts of obtaining money under false pretenses, and attempting to make false entries In company books. IS The corporation pleaded guilty to eonspi-ra cy and two counts of obtaining money under false pretenses. Attorney General John J.

Degnan previously said the fraud by Manzo amounted to $201,142. A civil suit to reclaim the money was Instituted against Manzo and his two brothers, Joseph, of Colts Neck Township, and Patrick, of Matawan, the contracting company, and another family corporation,.

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