Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO2000680003-3 Today: Showers, thtindurstomis. .1 ligh 60. Low 40. Windh 15-25. Tuesday. Mostly cloudy. Iligli 54-59. Winds west 20-25 rnph. Yesterday: 1'eniperiture range 50-70. DeWils on I'age D2. ez' - @k <11 Pr III0TII YEAR No, 115 0 1987, The Washington Post Company MONDAY, MOSCOW WALKABOUT Civil Rights Documents Back-dated Action Enabled U.S. Aides to Ralsely Certify Compliance With Ordet By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer court-ordered deadlines for the civil rights reviews,.department officials acknowledged in interviews last week. The department has been fighting the court order for more than a year. ok place The backdating, which to in at least six of the department's 10 regional offices, was most prev- alent in the Boston office, where seven officials, including the former ecif 09 gewt dating allegedly ranged from on day to two weeks. The admissions are detailed in report by the department's inspec to'r general, a copy of which wa obtained by The Washington Post By comparing papers with log book and other records, investigator found dates altered in 23 of I cases in Boston. ow 13u9nent's Office of Civi t, 9 OCR) has reported evi A High-ranking Education Depart- ment officials have acknowledged repeated backdating of key docu- ments -to make it appear that they complied with a Court order for @quick. reviews -of civil rights'coni- plaints, according to department reports, Whe- _engo evo Approveqn?f f.900" Wlt' the government -was obeying strict that they participated. 'The -back- See DOCUMENTS, AS, Col, I ASSOCIATED PRESS Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher greets woman during a walking tour in Moscow yesterday. Story, Page A13. Approved For Release 2001/03107 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO2000680003-3 Sections A 101. A A News/Lditorinls B StyielTVIComics/Chissified C Sports D MctrojObituari" Inside: Washington Business Detailed index on Page AZ kY, MARCH 30,1987 P Priceq May Vary in Areas Outside Metropolitan Washingtm (See Box on AQ 25t Hussein Weighing t*s* visit P@ogress Toward Mideast Peace Talks Seen as Critical Issue ter one in a pec- ,was post. ooks itors 35 evi- By Samira Kawar Special tolhe Washington poit AMMAN, Jordan, March atest 11tv 29- tat rejected on Jordan is sending two top officials to Washington next week "The king to discuss wants to see if this is whether a visit by an appropriate King Hussein time to comet would succeed in makiqg.progresswhether he should come this toward an internationalspring," peace con- the official said. The king is ference on the Middle anxious East, a senior' to "get things moving" in Jordanian official the peace said today. process again, he said. Jordanian Prime MinisterHussein, Zeid still - angered by an Rifai and Foreign MinisterAmerican Taher retreat from an arms sale Masri will go to Washingtonto Jordan April 5, in 1985, had worked the official said. closely with U.S. officials in trying Such a visit by Husseinto stem would the flow of arms to Iran and represent a sharp changethus was in the among the most outraged Arab leader's attitude.Arab leaders Egyptian after disclosure of the President Hosni Mubaraksecret and Hus- sales to Iran. sein, two of the UnitedSome of States' clos- the weapons sent to Iran est Arab allies, were were the invited last same as those denied to December and January, . respective- Jordan, one of Washington's most ly, to visit Washington.stableArab But both friends in the region. turned down the invitations at the In an interview time, in large part in the because of anger Arab press over the Reagan administration'sin the aftermath of the Iran arms saleof arms to Iran. sales disclosure last November, Jordan and Egypt, bothHussein con- said "U.S. credibility is cerned about Islamic zero as extremism, far as I am concerned." In are two of Iraq's mostan interview,last active sup. year with Egyp- porters in its war tian journalists, with Iran. he called the arms In Washington, a Statedeal "an Depart- insult to all Arabs." ment official said The king the Jordanian also sent a letter to e x prime minister is scheduled to t President R BW 6 di6 % I w esw arms sales. arA e a t 1yftft !State George P. Shultz and Secre- tary of Defense Casparl - W. Wein-' i i 1 "King Hussein is not interested in Indicted Israeli sl I"" Q Re i XXL,:7 Af@) Col. Sella,' Pollard's Alleged Contact, Cites U.S. Relations By Glenn Frankel Washington Pot Foreign Service JERUSALEM,, March 29-Is- raeli Air Force Col. Aviem Sella, who is under U.S. indictment for his alleged role in the Jonathan J a-Y Pol- lard spy affair, today resigned his post as commander of one of Is- rael's largest air bases, citing his concern about relations with the United States and American Jews. Sella's appointment. to the new post lat@ last month just days before his indictment helped touch off a new storm of controversy over the spying scandal. In"his one-page let- ter of resignation to the Air Force commander, Gen. Amos Lapidot, Sella said: "The deterioration in Is- raeli-U.S. relations -,,)d my concern for the future of ties between the twocountries and for relations with American Jewry have induced -me to ask you,to relieve ine'from. my du- ties as commander of the Tel Nof base. "I had made it clear to you a long -time ago -that whatever role I am assigned must not constitute a bur- den or obstacle to the Air Force or the IDF [Israel Defense Force] . . . and- I noted that should my appoint- ment constitute o stacle of any Wiwafilqhwtountry's in- terest,above my-own and resign." Israeli leaders reacted with relief KING HUSSI'IN