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~1E:-10RANDUM FOR ANNE HIGGINS

FROM: LINAS KO,JELTS .'

SUBSEC'l.': Correspondence on i\AL Massacre .from C.A.H.P.

Anne, the attached correspondence from the Collegiate Associa t ion for the Research of Principles (C.A.E.P.) was sent to me with the request tha t I forward it to the President. C.A.R.P. iti one of t he many organizations of Rev. Sun Myung ~oon of Sou~.~

Korea. As you c3 n sec, they are very supportive of tte President.

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President Ronald Reagan The White House Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President,

481 8th~. New Vork, N.V. 10001 (212) 239-1303

You can see froM the enclosed materials that there are people

"taking it to the :: tree ts" in s •_1pport of you and your policies. My

name is Joon Ho Seuk and I am the Director of the Collegiate Associ­

ation for the Research of Principles (C.A.R.P.). Since the KAL

massacre event, C.A.R.P. has organized demonstrations on a dozen

campuses and in twenty major metropolitan centers. These rallies

have received national as well as extensive local media coverage,

representing the grassroots support for you and your policies in

such media as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek

and Time. It is unfortunate that few Americans have the inclination

to register publicly their support for their government. The field

is open for the left to organize people, usually centering around their

resentment and grievances against their lot (as interpreted for them

by the left) in this nation. If there had been a concerted activist

movement on the right in the sixties , who knows but that Vietnam

might be free today? C.A.R.P. is calling for and spearheading conser­

vative activism for the eighties.

C.A.R.P. was founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Japan in

1964 and in this country in 1973. Most of the C.A.R.P. members are

Unificationists, indeed Unificationism is the ideology underlying

C.A.R.P. The association of C.A.R.P. with Reverend Moon has had two

unfortunate effects, both of which prompt my writing to you now.

One, to rnaintian its credibility, the Washingtcn Times has severely

circumscribed its reporting on C.A.R.P.'s activities. Ergo, coverage

of us is to be found in the liberal media. Ironic, isn 't it? Since

I am informed that your favorite paper is the Washington Times {which

I heartily endorse on every other count),I feel compelled to provide

you some instances of C.A.R.P.'s media impact (see enclosures). Two,

because of the unfair stigma attached to the name of Reverend Moon,

many American conservatives dissociate themselves from us. I feel

that this reveals the right's tragic flaw: a tendency toward nationalism,

white-centeredness and parochial Christian faith. C.A.R.P. calls

for an international, interracial perspective, a "global patriotism"

transcending race and culture. C.A.R.P. is unapologetically Judeo­

Christian yet accepts the value of all the world's religions. If

American conservatism cannot transcend self-interested nationalism,

narrow evangelical Christianity and delimitation to the white race,

it will ultimately and deservedly fail.

Thus, Mr. President, you and the American mainstream for which

you stand need the vision and energy of C.A.R.P. At the same time ,

we of C.A.R.P. need you; we need your moral support, your encouragement,

your graciousness. I realize that political exigencies limit your

freedom of word and act. Be that as it may, we look forward to working

with you, for the sake of America and the world, through your victory

in '84 and into the latter half of the decade. God bless you and

your family.

JHS:th

Sincerely,

#a r. Joon Ho Seuk ational Director

Collegiate Associaticn for the Research of Principles

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Arnoklu KLi"9Pt a UC Irvine etudent, lade anti-Soviet demonstnltora outelde a Long Beach bank building.

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for the Frederick J. Hanshaw li· --quor store chain in Orange County.

"It's not that big a seller," Ratliff said, pointing out that the price is about SS per fifth higher tba:D· Smirnoff, a popular domestic brand. _ She said she was unaware of any 'Plans to l>ull the product from shelves. ·:. -~gers for two Trader Joe's :liquor stores in Orange County, which carry the vodka, which is ~.wn in the trade·as "Stoll," said "they bad beard nothing of the pro­test. , :. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles :assemblyman Tuesday urged Cali· foniians to panicipate in a nation­'wide boycott of the Russian vodka. , '.'The one thing that will convince the: Soviets that we're truly re-

. 'pulsed by their actions is if we can ,hlnhem in the pocketbook," said · .Mike Roos, D-Los Angeles. · Tuesday's generally peaceful ,demonstration began at the offices of Williams, Diamond & Co, a Long Beach-based 'importer next to the ~Wells Fargo Bank Building in the ·City's business and financial dis­··trict.

, But. executives of the interna· tional importing firm, which ban· · dles several Soviet product lines,

.·~fused to talk with demon· · strators, many of whom were : bused to the protest from churches , and senior citizens' centers in : Koreatown.

: As the demonstrators' ranks • s\velled, dozens of bystanders • .watched from nearby rooftops, of· · fice. buildings and street comers.

; Chanting "Nyet, nyet Soviets" (no, no Soviets), protesters carried

. signs that read: "Condemn cold· blooded Russian murderers" and "Blood-thirsty pirates."

· ::Another sign, taped to a baby

stroller, said: "Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to it."

Sbonly before 2 p.m., demon· strators were bused to the harbor and Berth 178, where several dozen Los Angeles police, some wearing helmets and carrying nightsticks, waited.

As the freighter, flying the red Soviet flag bearing a bright yellow · hammer and sickle, moved into sight, the demonstrators shook the barbed-wire-topped fence and taunted the Soviet sailors who watched from the ship's bridge.

Overhead, television news hell· copters filmed the ship's arrival as curious longshoremen lined neigh­boring -docks and several coast guard cutters, and police boats idled close to the white and gray freighter.

At one point, several youthful demonstrators rushed the berth's main gate, shaking the ·fence and tossing oranges and insults at po­lice. But there were no injuries or arrests.

"Given the chance I think those Russian sailors would come down and join us if they knew the truth," shouted an angry Arnoldas Kungys, a 21-year-old student at UC Irvine.

Before it ended, many of the Ko­reans, some using umbrellas to shade themselves from the hot sun, held hands and sang the Korean national anthem. Dock workers said the singing could be heard on the Soviet shit>.

"We may not change-the world, but at least we can express our sorrow in hopes that more innocent lives are not lost." Cho said.·

"Those (Soviet) sailors are not the targets. They are innocent," he said. "But maybe this will help them understand what their coun­try bas done."

9-7-83

Korea sympathizers protest the arrival of Soviet freighter By Steven R. Chunn

· and Steve Eddy The Register

SAN PEDRO - Kenneth Cho shook his fist violently and pressed bard again.st. a chain-link fence that separated a docked u.s.s.R. freighter Tuesday from an angry · crowd chanting "death to the Sovi­ets.,,.

Three decades ago, Cho left bis native Korea in search of "free­dom, justice and a little money."

Cho, now 58 and an American

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-citizen. has tasted the freedom and including vodka,. uranium, lumber ; .made bis money selling insurance and fertili1.er. They charged the·

in Los Angeles' bustling Reagan administration has not Koreatown. gone far enough in retaliating for

Tuesday afternoon he demanded · · the downed Korean jumbo jet. . · justice. "There is a groundswell.of anger

Cho and an estimated 800 others, and disgust in this country~ People many of them elderly Koreans, want concrete action," said Valdis· burned Soviet flags, hurled insults Pavlovskis, president of the Los and waved placards, f1rst in front Angele&-based Baltic American of a Long Beach bank building, and Freedom League. "We will not rest then in the shadow of the heavily until President Reagan bans all So­guarded Soviet freighter several viet goods from our shores, and miles away at Berth 178 in Los An~ closes the Soviet Comulate j.n San geles Harbor. Cho wanted the Sovi- Franci:ico." . ets. "to pay" for shooting down a · In 1982, Pavlovskis said, the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747; kill- United States imported an eiti­ing all 269 aboard last week. mated $229 million in Soviet goods.

"We will not tolerate this atroc· including $29 million · in. ity ,"Cho said. "Like a grown adult Stolichnaya vodka. who plays with a 3-year-old, the Ed Blinn, spokesman for Mon­Soviets have attacked a defense- sieur Henry Wines, sole importer lesa jet plane, and they should be of Stolichnaya, said. about 700,000 punished. cases - or roughly 1.S million gal-

"They have killed Koreans. And Ions - of the vodka arrive in the my people conside~ any Korean United States each year at various (as) family. We must clench our ports, including Los Angeles. fists and yell our sorrow and anger "Our policy is the same as the at them;" said Cho, pointing at tbe president's: to keep lines of trade . freighter Novokuibyshevsk. which and communication open with the. . steamed into port Tuesday after- 8oviet Union," Blinn said. noon filled with lumber and other "There a lot of wholesalers who

· Soviet goods. own stocks/' he said. "A lot of peo-Eleventh-bour attempts by sev- pie - Americans - are making a ·

eral grass-roots Korean groups portion of their living off of and the S,~member Baltic Stolichnaya." American Freedom League to Sold in SO. and· 100-proof ver­b lock the freighter's -arrival failed sions, Stolichnaya is expensive. Tuesday. selling for about Sll:SO per fifth,

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About 300 placard-carrying pro­testers, most of them senior citizens of Korean descent, alternately ·cursed and sang as a Soviet freight­er arrived in Los Angeles Harbor on Tuesday afternoon.

And when the ship berthed, long­shoremen refused to unload it.

The Novokuibyshevsk had been anchored in San Pedro Channel off Long Beach over the Labor Day weekend after a telephone threat was made against the ship in the wake of a Soviet attack on a Korean Air Lines Boeing 7 47 that killed 269 people.

The 492-foot vessel moved into the harbor, docking at Berth 178,

under Coast Guard protection, which was to continue while the ship is in port.

The aim of the protest was clear: The demonstrators. ranging from Korean church members to officials of the Baltic American Freedom League, wanted the ship and its cargo of lumber and Russian vodka to leave the harbor and the United States immediately.

The ship docked shortly after 2 p.m. without incident.

Although the protest did not impede the vessel's arrival, harbor authorities said the demonstration could influence public opinion.

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had arrived to unload the freighter. and a dispatcher for Local 13 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, said he had been instructed to tell callers that ."we will not work the Russian vessel at Berth 178."

Assistant Port Warden Sgt. Rob­ert Leventhal said this could lead to further problems for the ship.

"If the longshoremen continue to refuse to unload the vessel," Leven­thal said, "the Harbor Deparunent could possibly move the vessel from the wharf."

In that case, he explained. the Novokuibyshevsk would probably

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Harbor police, supported by Los Angeles Police Department officers, kept a watchful eye on the 40-min­ute demonstration-which included the singing of prayers. the burning of a Soviet flag and orchestrated shouting. No arrests or injuries were

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SACRAMENTO-Assemblyman Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles) called Tuesday for an international boy­cott of Russian vodka as a response to:the Soviet Union's shooting down of . a Korean Air Lines jetliner last week.

Roos, who has a large Korean population in his district, said su~h a boycott would hit the Soviets "in the pocketbook" since they realize millions of dollars from the interna­tional sale of Stolichnaya vodka.

''The impact of an international

protest may well force the Russians to revise their ridiculous denials of their murderous actions," he said.

Roos last Friday was the author of a resolution approved by the Legislature condemning the Soviet attack on the jetliner.

Despite partisan bickering with Republieans over its wording, the resolution was rushed through be­cause Roos said he needed it for an anti-Soviet rally being held later that day by the Los Angeles Korean community.

reported. "Nyet, nyet, Soviet," chanted

many of the protesters, shaking their fists and placards at the ship's crew members, who looked on im­passively at · the noisy scene 200 yards away.

"I don't like Russians," said one elderly Korean woman .

Organizers .of the picketing said all U.S. trade with the Soviet Union should be suspended immediately. that Soviet cultural exchanges should end and that the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco should be closed. President Reagan, in his speech Monday night. stopped short of taking such measures. much to the dismay of the 'demonstration's organizers.

Valdis V. Pavlovskis. president of the Baltic American Freedom League. said Reagan . does "not understand the mood of the nation," adding, "We should stand up to Soviet aggression."

Law student Tong Soo Chung. president of the Korean-American Coalition. said his group wanted a full admission of guilt and expres­sion of sorrow by the Soviet Union over the downing of the jumbo jet near Sakhalin Island. For the Rus­sians not to admit guilt. in view of the evidence, is "utterly ridicu­lous-that's a double insult."

Protest organizers said American consumers' refusal to drink Stoli­chnaya, the Russian vodka, would hurt the Soviets financially. The~· noted that vodka revenues. totaling abut $229 million. make up about 10% of all Russian exports to the United States.

Officials at Williams. Dimond & Co .. the Long Beach agi:nt for th€ Leningr;:id-based vessel. wer e tight-lipped when reporters aske -:: for comment dunng a noontm1r demonstration at their offices.

They also refused to disclose information about how long the ship wil: stay at the hnrbor.

In addition to the bt:rmng of tr.e Soviet flag at the Long Beach demonstration. the protesters also emptied a bottle of Russian vodka and spit on it.

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Dockworkers say 'nyet' to Russians around tbe terminal. ready .to battle police, but older protest leaders ariulng in Korean and English By John DaviH

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Longshoremen refused to unload a Soviet freighter at a WilmiJliiton dock Tuesday nigbt, bours alter more than 250 protesters tried to crash through gates where it is tied up.

The ship's agent, Williams Dimond and Co., ad­vised the Coast Guard the firm can't find enou&h worken willing to unload the ship's cargo of lumber and vodka.

"Local U's position is that we wlll not work the Russian vessel at Berth 178," said a dispatcher with tbe International Long1horemen'1 and Warebou.semen'a Union wbo refused to be identified.

"Unloading never started because they did not ba ve enougb longshoremen," confirmed Sgt. Robert Leventhal of the Loe Angeles Barbor Department.

Leventhal said crews were supposed to be&tn work at 6 p.m. but no one sbowed up.

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"If longshoremen continue to refuse to unload the frei&bter the Harbor Department could possibly move the vessel from the wbarf without It beini unloaded," Leventhal said.

During the afternoon protests, more than 2~ Koreans and Eastern Europeans tried to crash through gates at the dock, screaming that Russians are murderers. ·

YWe'll tear them apart!• one protester sbouted at crewmen standing beneath a yellow hammer and sickle on tbe smokestack of the 498-foot Novokuibysbevsk as the ship docked at Berth 178 on Los Angeles Harbor.

Sbortly before 3 p.m., the protesten era.shed a tenninal gate and pushed agai.ost a line of a dozen deputy port wardens who were i.oside the terminal area. Protesten began picking up pieces of lumbei­to use as weapona.

Young men pressed against a cbain-link fence

convinced them to back off. · The men dect~ed instead to douse a Russlall\

naa with vodka and burn il Leaden of the protest called for a nationwide

boycott of Soviet products and closure of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, a consulate they contend is a nest of Soviet spies intent on stealing American computer technolo1Y.

YNyet, nyet Soviets,• the crowd chanted as it pressed in on the fences at the edge of the terminals.

_ The protesters tried to convince unUonned offlcen inside tbe terminal to open the gates. Some guards said they are sympathetic with the Koreans' cause, b\¢ they held the crowd at bay.

rrtie Coast Guard bad declared the area within 100 yards of the ship a safety z.one and bad ordered

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Soviet crewmen to stay aboard for their own safety.

Among the names the protesters called the Soviets were "cold-blooded murder­ers," "barbariaoa" and "blood-thirsty pi­rates."

At least five busloads of protesters, many of them elderly Koreans from Los Angeles churcbe», arrived at the terminal gates to meet the ship.

Earlier, the same protesters had sur­rounded the shipping aiency offices of Williama, Dimon and Co. in Long Beach, trying to convince shipping ~gents lo with­hold documents needed to allow the Novokuibysbevsk to unload lumber and take on cotton.

Pavlovskis said people from occupied Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania sbare the Koreans' horror because similar killing occurred during the Soviet takeover of their homelands.

Tbe demonstrators had attempted to keep tbe Novokuibysbevsk from entering the barbor, and in fact, men aboard Crow­

-ley Maritime Corp. tuiboata refused to . guide the ship into port.

· But the Coast Guard quickly reaaaigned the job to Wilmington Transportation Co. tugs and the ahlp, surrounded by police boata and helicoptera, eased up the main

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ablpping agency offices with a police es­cort; ' but failed to get In to see Williama Dimon executives. · .:

In addition to lumber, the ship is re­ported to be carrying StoUchnaya-braod vodka, which accounta for more than a third of the Soviet Union's $230 million a year of imports into the United States.

The Coast Guard said it will continue · to maintain the watch it plac84 ~Qund the ship last Friday after receiving tele­phoned death threats against the crew I

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Longshoremen refuse to unload cargo as Soviet freighter doCks

SAN PEDRO, Calif. (AP) - A heavily guarded Soviet freighter, the target of threab since a Soviet fighter plane shot down a Korean 'jetliner Thursday, docked in Los Angeles Harbor on Tuesday after a four-day wait as protesters mar­ched near the dock site.

Unloading was delayed,. however, because longshoremen refused to do the work, officials said.

"Local 13's position is that we will not work the Russian vessel at berth 178," said a dispatcher with

·..the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union who declined to give her name.

The freighter Novokuibyshevsk, at anchor three miles off shore since last Friday, entered the har­bor without incident shortly after 2 p.m., said Coast Guard Petty Of-ficer Pat Milton. .

She said the freighter was escorted by a Coast Guard cutter to the harbor entrance, then by .a 41-foot utility boat and two· unib from the Los Angeles- Port Warden Departmenl

While the ship moved into Berth 178, protesters marched nearby. But the reported cargo of lumber and vodka that was to be exchang­ed with cotton remained aboard.

"We have been advised by the vessel's agenb that unloading has been halted indefinitely," said Rick Woods, a Coast Guard spokesman •. "They were unable to get enough longshoremen." · The Coast Guard had ordered a

two-mile protective "barrier" around the 492-f oot ship after anonymous callers threatened the­Soviet seamen and cargo, as well

as dock handlers working with the · ship.

The threab were spurred by the deaths of 269 people aboard a Korean Air Lines 7 4 7 that was shot down·over the Sea of Japan.

An estimated 25b to 300 demonstrators picketed the docks at midaftemoon, then began to thin out, said Mike Levitt, spokesman for Port of Los Angeles. No incidents were reported.

Woods said. the safety zone would be reduced tO 100 yards while the freighter was in harbor.

Coast Guard Petty Officer Tony Cbilelli said the Crowley Maritime tugboat company had refused to tow the freighter in to the dock and the job was done by tugs from Wilmington Transportation.

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Longshoremen refused to unload a Russian freighter that was escorted lo Los Angeles Harbor by the Coast Guard as hundreds of demonstrators angrily protested the Soviet downing of a commercial Korean airliner.

The protesters - .mostly immi­grants from Korea and Eastern Euro­pean nations under Soviet domination - expressed . outrage over the de­struction of the . Korean Air Lines Boeing 747, which disappeared over the Sea of Japan Sept. 1 with the loss of 240 passengers and 29 crew aboard .

Threats or violence against ~e 400-f<iot · frelght~r Novokuibyschevsk ftoni. protesters led some long­shoremen to believe their personal safety would be hi jeopardy . If they did unload the ship, said long-shoreman Pete Wegworth. " , . other longshoremen told reporters they would refuse to unload the freighter as a personal protest against the Soviet's dowriing of the jetliner. · .

"Local 13's position Is that we will not work the Russian vessel llt Berth 178," said a dispatcher for the Inter­national Longshoremen's and Ware­housemen's Union.

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fuse to tlnload the frleghter the Harbor Department could possibly move the vessel from the wharf without being unloaded," said Sgt. Robert Leventhal of the Los Angeles Harbor Dqpartment.

Another attempt to unload the ship's cargo - reportedly lumber and vodka - will be made today provided

. enough longshoreman show up. In a protest against plans to unload

. the ship's cargo.. d.emonstrators burned a red nag, smashed a bottle or vodka and carried placards with such slogans as ''Communists Make Lousy Neighbors," "Russians are Killers" and "Darpn Russian · Savagery" outside the nearby offices of the ves-sel's shipping agent. '

. . The protesters then moved to the dock and chant,ed "Don't Unload" as the lreighter· slowly moved ~own the

port chatmel under Coast Guard es­cort.

Several Russian crew members stood on deck, smiling and at limes shaking their heads as reporters shouted questions to them. Dozens of police officers and several Coast Guard and Harbbr Patrol boats gUarded the vessel, and crew mem­bers were asked to stay on board for their own safety.

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iuarded RUSllian· t'teighter thai was safely moored earlier in the day ~t Berth 178 in Los Angeles Harbor . . The 492-foot Novoldubyshevtk .

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. throuah the berth's padlocked en-. . noon at the earliest after load-banee gate about 300 yards from ing II cargo of cotton and card ~ lhe ebip. · · · . · · board, Turner added.

Whitt tlie demonatraton railed . Rios said he upected that da,Y-to impede the ahlp'e etay In the 1

· shift workere would be given the port, the Action by the lonphore- opportunity thia morning to vol­meo will binder it, at least tempo- ' unteer for the work but he .de-

. rarily, . : clin~d to predict what decieioil "Not Qne lon111horemail want' lhoee workers would mah.

ed to work It• after wiion officers "The union ia not taking a · .decided thet iJnlOadin& the Novb- ~ltion'' on the matter, he said. ·: kluhyshevalt would be oo a voluilc' 'The poJition ii up to the lndivid-

teer basja, said Loui~ Rio&, eecre- · ual" . .;.. ~J, QI. Inter111t1<>n-1 :!tc11\gs)io~e- . ,RIOll aaid the employer for the

' . liiiiii'l 'and Wlitaholli~men'I 'iob, whom be identified .. Pacific tlriiOn Localt3. , ,. .. ·• ,. - M•ritime. A&Bociation, .JlQW hae

About 600 longthoretnen galh- the Of.lion ol informing I.he union · •rtd at the lo1;al unlorl ball lrl that at will hire non-union worli-Wilmington at 6 p.m. ;_ the time eri for the Job. . · . tk11y ttcelve night aulgnmenta. : Pacltit MariUme officials could To a mah, the lonphortmen te- not be reached for · comment flised to unlOlld the R1111lan ahip, Tuesday night. Spolieemen for kioe uld. About ~O workers are Williama, Dimond & Co., the needed for the'job. ahip'• Long Beach-baaed agent,

"All on their own p,rlilciple &11id alaO could not be contacted. Rioe 'No,' " Rios aald. • The,Y either · 11id ~e. did not know what the to;>0k linolher job or went home for adoc1allon plane to do. . the night. The . dedaion of the The action by the longshore-rank and file, I believe, Iii e1prcn- meil wa~ preceded by another !m-ing the thinking of the American proniptu boycott earlier Tuesday people. On eome ieeue1 they afternoon 11 the ehip prepared to would rather not work and In- leave its anchor91e in Long Beach stead gQ home without pay lhan Harbor and go mlo the Los An-to do aomethlng they don 'l he· gelee port. lieve in." . ' CONTINUED/Page A2. Col. 1.

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·omtraton marched for about 30 minutes on the lide-The crewmen on one tugboat dispatched to guide walk along Ocean Boulevard. .

tbe ship "would not handle the lines." Turner said. Besides· the freedom league. the .Ji:wchen includ­He did not know the name of the tug or it.a owner, but · ed memben of the Anti-Soviet League. the ~Korean said it1was replaced by another tugboat. Association.of Southern-callfornia, the Korean Senior

Novo.lruibysbevsk bas· been under the protection Citizens Association and aewral Loa Anplee-area Ko­of the Coa~t Guard si~ce Friday afternoon, a few ftlll churches. Many of'tbe demonatratora were buaed -hours after 1t steamed mto Long Beach Harbor; The to the sites in three cbarterechchool buae1. protection was ordered by the Cout Guard after it After walking up -and down the sidewalk, the received two-threats against Rmaian V98Hla last week marchers pushed past two aecurity-guards and con­in the wake of the destruction a week ago of . an un· tinued the march around the-opett air courtyard with­armed Korean Air Lines 747 by .a Russian jet fighter's · · in the office complex. The YOCal but·peaceful protest- · missile. · era .concluded that demonstration by singing the Ko-

The Coast Guard received three more threata rean. national anthem .and ~bowing their heada in over the Labor Day ·weekend. Turner-said, including . prayer. :: . . . one on Saturday night in which the caller said that A$ the. protesters were tnveling to Loa .Angeles mercenaries bad placed a bomb alongside the vessel harbor, two· Wilmington Transportation Co. ~boata. That threat prompted the Coast Guard to make an the Point Vicente and the Philip W, ilere guiding the immediate visual inspection of the ship at its anchor· Soviet freighter up the main channel of the harbor. · age ·about 3112 miles off Seal Beach. Nothing 'WU · A 41-foot Coast ·Guard utility boat manned by found, Turner said. four life.jacketed crewmen 'eacorte<i the veuel, which

The Coast Guard -will continue to provide has a large hammer and sickle emblem -on both aides around-the-clock enforcement.of ;a 100-yerd off·limita -of its amokestack. The Coast GlW'Ci boat was assisted "safety zone" while the ship is moored and when it by two ··~ patrol bOats and a Los Angeles County leaves it& berth. The ship will remain under Coast lifeguard boat. , . Guard protection until it leaves U.S. war.era. Turner Overhead, seven helicopters circled the process-said. oion.

Loi Ange lea and Long Beach harbors receive . As many ea a dozen Soviet crewmen gathered on about one or two Russian ahips a month, Turner the .deck. above the bridge to watch the acene, some-. said. . times smiling and gesturing to one another.

While demonstrators chanted and canied aigns Most of the visible crew meinben were young Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to the berth, curi· men. All were casually dressed. One crewman \Vore a ous. eamera-toting RUl8ian crewmen aboard the 492. blue and white striped jogging suit. Another wore a foot freighter photographed the protest from the deck T-1hirt imprinted with a sports car emblem. Some above the bridge and took turns peering at the ·crowd were shirtlesa. At one point, two women appeared at through i. hand-held telescope. . . · · the deck rail, one wearing an orange country dreea.

The demonstration outside. the gate was the sec· At 2:25 p.m., the tugboats were nudging the ship ond of the aftamoon for the.protA91tBra. up · qaimt the dock and men on shore were tying

Shortly after noon, the crowd marched in front of . 'UP the ship's lines. The demollltraton bad gathered an office complex at 100 Oceangate. where Williams, at the berth's gate and began chanting and shouting Dimond has offices. · as they affixed protest sip to the fence.

"We don't have any comment," .a con1pa111 About 15 minutes · later, demonstrator Arnoldaa spokesman said. · · Kungys, 21, -of Hacienda Heighta and· others began

Carrying sign1 and chanting alogans'Such as "Stop pushing violently againat the gate. Ten·white-belmet­Russian Trade!'' and "Pead, Dead, Soviets!" the dem· ed port deputies, some with t.ape covering their name-

. tap. moved in close to the gate. · ;:::::================:::; One officer told the protesters, "You aren't going PRESS-TELEGRAM 1UMUTD .. T&11.NtC11 to .break the gate down." He was right.

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Soviet Vessel Sets Off Labor Dispute Union Persuaded to Unload Ship-but Members May Balk By GEORGE RAMOS and TED THACKREY JR., Times Slaff Writers

Protests over docking and un­loading of a Soviet freighter in Los Angeles Harbor following the de­struction of a Korean airliner evolved into a labor dispute Wednesday.

£arlier in the day, dock workers refused to approach the vessel. But then a spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Assn. said that about an hour before the freighter Novokui­byshevsk was to have left for New Orleans with its cargo intact, his organization persuaded longshore­men to unload and load the vessel.

John MacEvoy, Southern Cali­fornia area manager for the associ -alion, said that officers of Local 13, International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, had agreed to do the work-despite feelings aroused by the airliner incident-

. \ bocause the union's contract with

' shippers makes such loadirig man-datory. ·

,If the union should refuse Lo unload the ship again today, Mac­Evoy added, grievance procedures could begin under terms of the comract that could lead to economic and other sanctions against the longsborcmen's unioq.

And there were indications Wednesday evening that individual union members might defy orders to report to the vessel.

The union's night business agent, Patrick Willis, said that Local 13 ha!:! 2,300 active members but none has yet agreed to work on the Soviet ship.

A union dispatcher said telephone calls to tnembcrs' homes offering them JOhs unloading the Novoku1-

byshevsk had all resulted in refus­als to work.

When the men come LC• the hiring · hall this morning, Willis explained,

the 40 jobs on the Novokuibyshevsk will be offered to those who have worked the least hours during the last five weeks.

Those who refuse, he said, will probably be offered no other jobs­at least for the day.

"It will cost them a day's work," he said. ''But it's up to the men. They can take it or they can leave it and accept the penalty .. . . "

The freighter, with its cargo of hardwoods and Russian vodka, had wailP-d in vain for a longshorc crew to arrive to begin unloading after it ti~d up al Berth 178 in the harlJor's East B.1sin under Co.isl Guard pro-

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SHIP: Soviet Freighter Sets Off Labor :Dispute Continued from First Page tection Tuesday night.

A union dispatcher said at that lime that he had been instructed to tell callers "we will not work the Russian vessel at Berth 178.''

On Wednesday morning, the Coast Guard announced that the Soviet captain, noting anti-Soviet demonstra­tions in the harbor and the absence of longshoremen, had said he intended to go on to New Orleans, where he hoped to have better luck .

But by that time, MacEvoy said, the Pacific Maritime Assn. had entered the matter in behalf of its member, Williams, Dimond & Co., agents for the ship in Long Beach.

The maritime association official said there seemed to be "a misunderstanding" about the matter.

The Novokuibyshevsk had waited outside the harbor during the long Labor Day holiday. It had been believed that the cargo was of a containerized type that requires special equipment and can be hazardous; therefore, the unloading of it would have been voluntary work.

Accordingly, he said. the union work order mentioned the voluntary nature of the work-and no one showed up.

Cargo Covered by Contract But when the ship . docked, MacEvoy said, it was

discovered that the cargo was not containerized-and thus was covered by the mandatory work provisions of the association's contract with the lnterQational Long­shoremen's & Warehousemen's Union.

A morning and afternoon meeting with union officials at the association's Wilmington offices cleared up the problem, MacEvoy said, and union crews are scheduled to arrive for work at 8:30 a.m. today.

Peter Pollas, a spokesman for Williams, Dimond & Co .. declined to comment.

Rep. Bobbi Fiedler (R-Chatsworth) had expressed satisfaction earlier in the day when she was told that the Soviet captain had decided to sail away. She said she had asked the Coast Guard to revoke the freighter's landing permit for Los Angeles Harbor.

But she said Coast Guard Cmdr. Thomas Nunn later told her that her request for a waiver removing the ship's permit on grounds that the ship posed a danger to itself or to the public had been refused because no such threat seemed to be evident.

Informed·of the union officials' subsequent agreement to unload the ship, she said she was considering approaching the problem from another angle, perhaps through the State Department, but that such a move would have to wait until this morning.

Baltlc:-Amerlcan Leader Displeased

Valdis Pavlovskis, president of the Baltic American FreedoJTI League, who earlier had hailed the longshore­men's absence as "a great victory for the American people-while the politicians talked, the people acted," said he was not pleased by the new development.

"It is not the iongshoremen's fault," he said. "They stood up for what they believed . .. but they had no choice.

"Now it is private business that is accommodating the Soviets.

"All the American government has to do is lift the Soviets' import licenses, but I am afraid that is not going to happen." ·

And Choon Sung Kim, president of the Keum Ram Assn .• one of the organizations that sponsored Tuesday's anti-Soviet demonstrations at the harbor, said he was not happy with the government's reaction lo the airliner incident.

"I believe the American government should t~ke a more powerful action," he said, speaking through an interpreter. "They should do more about it."

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By ERJC MALNIC. Times Staff Writer

The Soviet freighter Novokuibyshevsk-target of a local long­shoremen's boycott that stems from the downing last week of a Korean airliner by a Soviet warplane-probably will not have to leave its dock at Los Angeles Harbor after all, but whether it does probably will not make much difference to the Russians, local maritime officials said Friday.

The Novokuibyshevsk had been scheduled to leave Berth 178 by tonight to make way for another ship.

However, the other ship has been diverted to Long Beach Harbor, according Los Angeles Harbor spokesman Mike Levitt. The Soviet ship's Coast Guard docking permit, due to expire tonight, probably will be extended, according to spokesmen for the Coast Guard.

What that means, according to John MacEvoy, area manager for the Pacific Maritime Assn., an employers' organization representing the Novokuibyshevsk's agents, is that the Soviet ship will be free to languish here, unloved and unloaded, running up daily charter fees that are costing a Finnish exporting firm "somewhere in the neighborhood of $20,000 to $25,000 a day."

Flam Paylnr the Blll MacEvoy explained that the ship and its crew were leased by the

Finnish firm to haul a cargo of Russian vodka and plywood to Los Angeles.

"The Finns are paying the bill, and the Russians are sitting there getting paid," he said. "If this is punishment, I'd love to be punished like this. The Russians are making nothing but money, and their crew is enjoying our beautiful Southern California weather."

Officers of Local 13 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union had assured officials that the ship would l?e unloaded. However, the longshoremen themselves. acting as individuals, have refused to do the work, according to Lou Loveridge, president of the local.

Longshore gangs assigned to unload the ship Friday morning refused to report to Berth 178, as they have since the Novokuibysh­evsk docked Tuesday, and union officials expressed doubt that their position would change.

That leaves several options for the charter agents of the Novokuibyshevsk-none of them very promising, according to MacEvoy. .

"If you take it back to Finland, you can't sell (the cargo) for a dime Pleue see FREIGHTER, Page 4

FREIGHTER Continued from First Page on the dollar." he said.

"If you move it sor.1ewhere ; else-like Ensenada or Vancou- · ver-when you get there, you're at the bottom of the list for (long­shoremen' s) gangs. If you do get a gang, there's no assurance they will unload the ship. . . .

"So you wait, hoping you can sell fand eventually unload) it here."

The local agents for the ship, the Williams-Dimond Co., have refused comment on future plans for the Novokuibyshevsk.

In the meantime, as anti-Soviet protesters continue sporadic dem­onstrations at dockside, local radio stations have begun airing $5,000 worth of commercials promoting a rally scheduled in front of the federal building in Westwood at noon today to urge a boycott of Russian vodka.

Won't Serve Vodka

The commercials were paid for by Assembly Majority Leader Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles). The rally, sponsored by the Korean-American Coalition, the Korean Chamber of Commerce, the Baltic-American Freedom League and the Sawtelle Community Assn .. will feature ap­pearances· by Roos, Assemblyman Tom Hayden (D-Santa Monica), U.S. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler (R-Panora­ma City), Los Angeles City Council­man Zev Yaroslavsky and other political figures, according to Jack McGrath, a spokesman for the spon­sors.

On Thursday, spokesmen for sev -era! restaurants announced they would no longer serve Russian vodka, sold here under the brand name Stolichnaya.

On Friday. a spokesman for the White Plains, N. Y .. corporation that imports Stolichnaya argued that if people here boycott the vodka, "all they will be doing is hurting their fellow Americans. . . .

"Local retailers, distributors. salesmen and trucking and ware­housing firms are the people who will be harmed by any boycott," said Lawrence Soll of Monsieur Henri Wines Ltd.

Soviet ship wins a reprieve, it can stay extra week By Geoff Harris Herald stall writer

The international stalemate precipitated by the downing of a Korean Air Lines · jetliner last week continues today In Los Angeles Harbor.

The Soviet-registered freighter Novokuibyshevsk yesterday was granted a one-week extension of its permit - which was to have expired this afternoon -to remain docked at Berth 178. But longshoremen's union officials doubted the ship will be unloaded this week.

"Nobody is running to (unloadl that ship," said }

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Louie Rios, secretary of the International Longshore- ! men's and Warehousemen's Union Local 13. "That \ decision is up to the rank and file . They'll make that j decision on an individual basis." •

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As of last night, dock workers were refusing to unload the Russian vessal's 200 tons of plywood and hardwood and 28 cargo containers of vodka. . The decision to grant the weeklong reprieve was made yesterday before 5 p.m. by a "normal review board comrrised of representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Justice Department and the Depart· menl or Defense." meeting in Washington, D.C., said

Coast Guard spokesman Rick Woods in Long Beach. "The agent (Of the Novokuibyshevskl applied for an

extension permit from the Coast Guard," he said. Docking requests normally require two weeks to

process. but extensions can be made in less than 24 hours, Woods said. The ship now has until Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. to unload and depart the harbor.

About 50 people from Baltic-American and Korean­American organizations demonstrated against the

Soviet Union at the dock yesterday morning. For a while demonstrators blockaded the entrance to Berth 178 in a show of support for the longshoremen.

The Coast Guard set up a 100.yard security cordon around the ship for security reasons.

Several threats against the Soviet ship and its ·crew have been phoned into Coast Guard and harbor officials, but no violence has erupted on the docks, authorities said.

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Demonstrators angered by the Soviet downing of a Korean jetliner .called yesterday for an interna· tional boycott of. Soviet products, poured $13-a· bottle Russian vodka onto the ground and jeered liberalcAssemblyman Tom Hayden at a West Los Angeles rally. · _

State Assemblyman Mike Roos, D-Los Angeles. whose . district contains the largest Korean popula­tion outside of Seoul, said, ''Tllls (the attack) is measured on a scale that is incomprehensible.

"We all exclaim the horror that we felt," Roos told a crowd of .250 at the Federal Building in Westwood. "We are starting the turning of our back on their products (beginning with a boycott of Ruman-made Stolichnaya vodka) as a message that is clear and sure. We are anguished, angry, frustrated."

"Boycott Stolly! Boycott Stolly!" chanted the crowd. at one point, referring to the popular vodka which has become a main target for those enraged by the destruction of the Korean Air Lines 747 by a Soviet. fighter plane last week.

The presence of Assembly.man Tom Hayden, D­Santa Monica, caused the most commotion. Roundly jeered when he got up to speak, Hayden said, over shouts of "left-wing fascist" and "communist," that he was proud to be associated with the rally.

''The Soviet Union bears full responsibility for this calculated ·act Of violence," Hayden said. "Instead of Orwellian double talk, they owe the world an explanation and a profound apology. Moreover, they owe the families of the victimS full compensation. for the horrible loss of life."

Hayden also decried vodka importers, who have labeled the boycott as being more harmful to the U.S. than the u.s.s.R.. as being more interested in profits . than ·principle. He also condemned the government's attempt to use the incident to boost the defense budget.

Roos came to Hayden's aid, saying freedom of speech is what separates America from the Soviet Union and that Hayden, as an elected member of the 2overnment. had a perfect right to speak.

· Hayden later commented that, "It's typical of the far right not to recognize the possibility of friends on par:ticular issues . . To some of these right-wing Eastern European groups, anyone not to the right of Hitler is a problem."

Rep . . Bobbi Fiedler, R-Northridge, said the Soviets "have shown their callous disregard for human dignity. As we reject their products, so do we reject their policies~"

To cheers, Fiedler said that next week she will try to get the Soviet freighter . docked in Los Angeles - which was granted a one-week extension on its stay Friday ,_ removed, and will ask President Reagan to seize Soviet assets to pay families of the crash victims.

Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky said, "We have _seen an example of Soviet persecution and Soviet-style justice. They have to be pressured economically and through public opin­ion."

.Yaroslavsky called for not just a boycott of vodka, . but . for the cancellation of grain and technological deals, special economic assistance, plus an end of tax breaks and loan credits for Russian dominated countries.

The vocal crowd carried about 50 signs, one with the inseription "Soviet Happiness - Trigger Happi­ness." It cheered and shouted scattered "thank yous" as Local 13 of the International Longshore­man's Union was presented the Baltic Freedom award by Baltic American Freedom League Presi­dent Valdis Pavlovskis for its refusal to unload the Soviet freighter docked in Los Angeles.

Three union members were on hand to accept the award and said they were proud to receive iL One representative, George Mattix. choked back tears when accepting the award.

To end the ceremonies, officials on the dais linked arms and poured 11 bottles of StoJichnaya. valued at $12.95 a bottle and donated by a Westwood merchant, onto the Federal Building lawn. Pavlovskis said $29 million in Russian vodka - 700.000 cases - is imported to the U.S. each year. He also. said America spends some $229 million on various other Russian supplies annually.

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Russ vodka boycott rally hel_d By BIU GILSON . . o9il, New8 St•lf Wrtlw '

ConservaUve Congresswom- · an Bobbi Fiedler and liberal As­semblyman Thomas · Hayden agreed on one thing Saturday; there should be a boycott of So­viet vodka.

The more ·· than · 250 people . who braved steam bath weather to join the demonstration to pro­test the Soviet downing o( a Ko­rean Air Lines passenger jet were not so nonpartisan.

While they cheered Fiedler. R-Northridge, Hayden, D-Santa

, Mbnica, got a round of boos. ap­.. parently due to his past links·

with the North· Vietnamese cause.

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From · left Gray Davia, Zev Yaroalavsky, Michael Y. Roos, Thomas Hayden. and Stephen Glazer pour out Russian vodka .

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· They gathered on the lawn of the Federal Building in West

· Los Angeles in a noon rally to cheer Assemblyman Michael :Y. Roos, D-Los Angeles. and Fie­dler as they called for· the boy­cott and stayed to jeer Hayden throughout his attempted ad­dress. .

The rally, hurriedly put to­gether by Roos, also attracted Assemblyman Gray Davis, D­Beverly Hills, City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky and· represent­atives of several other city and· state officials. ~e target of the · boycott is

Stolichnaya Vodka, Russia's: premiere· export. More than 700,000 cases are ·shipped into the u~s. annually. ' ..

To dramatize what they said. they hoped would become an in­ternational boycott, rally lead­ers poured several bottles of the liquor onto the ground as the crowd applauded and urged themon. · . .- · ·

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Each time he tried ·to talk; the washing down the blood of the 'Tm proud of the courage they · crowd-yelled him down. shout- people-on the-Korean airliner." have shown .. . they have up-ing . "once a commie, always a · Hayden's appearance was lat- ~eld American pride and ~-commie." Hayden and his wife. · er defended by Roos who said y. actress Jane Fonda, visited . his right to "speak freely and · .. Just as the longshoremen North Vietnam as the war was openly is. the one thing that have refused to handle their winding down and openly sup- separates us from the Rus- •. (Soviet) goods," Said the U.S. ported their cause on some is- . sians." representative, .. so too will we sues. refused to purchase them." Fiedler praised longshoremen

Shouting over the clamor his who continue to refuse to un.. Fiedler said she plans. to' ask appearance caused, Hayden said load lumber and vodka from the President Reagan to seize Sovi-he was proud to be part of the Soviet freighter N ovokui- et assets and use them to pay

· . rally because it was. "not an. is- byshevsk berthed. in Los Ange- reparation· to the families of the sue of the right or the left." les Harbor. . 61 Americans who died in the

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About 250 people gathered over the weekend on the lawn of the Federal Building in Westwood to watch and cheer as a group of local lawmakers called for a boycott of Russian-made Stolichnaya vodka. ·

Rep . Bobi Fiedler, R-Northridge, claimed the Soviets' "brutal act" of shooting down an unarmed South Korean airliner with 269 aboard ex­emplifies their barbaric treatment of people all over the world and said the vodka boycott would send that message to the Kremlin .

As a symbol of American outrage. Fiedler also suggested U.S. officials ··try to get that damn ship out of the harbor la reference to the Russian freighter in Los Angeles Harborl and seize Soviet assets to be used as com­pensation for families of the vic­tims.' '

Perhaps the most dramatic mQ­ment in the demonstration occurred when state Assemblyman Tom Hay­den . 0-Santa Monica. Malibu. was shouted down by angry protesters as he attempted to address the crowd.

. While Hayden tried again and again to deliver his prepared re: marks. sun-baked protesters yelled. ··once a commie. always a commie."

and booed in response to his presence on the dais.

··This is not an issue of the left or the right." Hayden told the de­monstrators. "This is an issue of the dest~uction of human beings." A~semblyman Mike Roos. D-Los

Angeles . later came to Hayden 's de­fense and said the one thing that separates the United States from the Soviet Union is the opportunity to speak freely .

Without directly citing Hayden's harassers. Roos said the first-term assemblyman was elected by the people and had the right to speak.

Roos also told the crowd he dis­agreed with Fiedler on nine out of 10 issues. but completely recognized her right to speak.

Although the jeers. never ceased completely. Hayden. in a quavering voice. read from his prepared text and assailed American importers of Russian-made vodka.

.. American importers don't have the right to decide foreign policy . .. importers are too drunk on profits to tell right from wrong," he said.

Hayden claimed 700.000 cases of Soviet vodka is imported each year and if Americans refuse to purchase Stolichnaya. "the message to Mos­cow wi.11 be clear ...

Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky called the Sept. 1 down­ing of the Korean jumbo jet "Soviet­style justice" where Moscow in­structed its fighter pilot to shoot down the commercial flight and ask questions later.

As a further outrage, he said "the Russians have not issued a formal apology." but their explanation for the incident came in the form of threat : "If another 747 trespasses. they <the Soviets) would not hesitate to shoot it down."

The Soviets' hard-line stance should be met with "economic press­ure .·· he said. To retaliate against the Soviets. "we don ' t have to fire a shot or increase rhetoric. Let's hit them where it hurts," Yarosl;wsky said.

He called for cancellation of grain deals and special loan agreements.

In assessing the Communist super­power. the councilman called the Russians the "best capitalists money can buy" and claimed "Soviet of­ficials will be very interested to know how successful the boycott is."

His boycott call was answered with enthusiastic cheers and waving of placards from demonstrators that read : "No Russian Vodka," "Free the Baits," referring to the Baltic nations of Europe that were brought under ~viet dominati~ in UM! lHOs,

and "Wanted for Murder" written under a sketch of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.

One Korean protester at the rally said, "The Soviet Union di.d not issue / a public apology . . . such a lack of '.; human decency of a super power poses a danger for world peace ...

At the end of the rally. lawmakers linked arms and. with their free hands, poured out the contents of vodka bottles on the lawn. an act that drew cheers from the demonstrators .

When asked about the interruption that occurred at the beginning of the rally, Hayden said : "It's typical of the far right not to recognize friends on particular issues."

He thought the jeers came from Eastern European groups, which he said he considers " right-wing." :~:. .

Most of the protesters, who · represented the Korean-American Coalition, Korean Chamber of Com- . merce and Baltic-American Freedom League. remained quiet as speakers delivered their indictments of the Soviet Union. · ~ ·

Until the Soviets compensate the families of those who died on board Flight 007 and issue an apology , the · groups pledged to continue their boycott of the popular vodka, whictt­retails for about flO a fifth . ·

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Dick West

Protesteis SaCrifice, stick to margaritas

WASHINGTON - Apart from whatever it is the U.S. government is doing, many pri­vate citizens have taken it upon themselves to register displea. ure over the Korean jeUiner in­cident.

Mostly, these unofficial pro­tests have taken the form of re­fusing to drink any more Rus­sian vodka. Some cocktail lounge lizards have even gone so far as to stop ordering black

'Russians. Until such time as the Soviets

formally apologize for the at­tack on the airliner, they have vowed to &tick to margaritas.

. Pouring out rr bottles of Rus­sian vodka, as one Maine bar­keep did, is all very well But liquor boyccitts are by no means the only way we have of getting back at the Russians for down­ing the aircraft.

Here are a few other.. measu.ress by which we can show the Soviets we don't in-

tend to let the attack go unpro­tested:

•Play no more Russian roulette.

Although emptying a six-gun of all but one of its bullets, spin­ning the chamber, putting the end of the barrel to the temple and then . pulling the trigger may be some people's idea of a jolly time, we all must sacrifice • some of life's pleasures for the commonweal.

•Eat no more Russian dress­ing.

Many patrons of salad bars · have been known to top their

handiwork with Russian dress­ing . ..

Eschew Russian dressing for the duration of this crisis.

Finally, you can express your ire by removing your Russian boots, especially before getting in the shower.

Dick West is a writer for Unit­ed Press International.

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Cargo .. • remains

aboard By D'Arcy Fallon Statt Writef'

Amid cheers and chants of "Go Home,·· the Soviet freighter No­vokuibyshevsk steamed out of Los Angeles Harbor Tuesday after­noon, still laden wit.h her cargo of vodka and 'plywood.

The freighter's next stop will be in Panama, said Coast Guard Lt. Peter Dinicola. Coast Guard Petty Officer Pat Milton added that the ship "hm~ been granted port entry in New Orleans on the 24th of September."

Cpl. Charles Many of the New Orleans Harbor Police said port security had been increased from two men during the day, and one at night, to six men around the clock.

In her wake, the Novokuiby­shevsk left a troubled week of work stoppages and prote!lts staged by longshoremen angered by th.e Soviet Union's Sept. I downing of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 7 47 with 269 passengers aboard.

Standing in front of signs that declared, "Russian pigs, liars, scum, go home" and "Is this a cargo ship or a spy ship?" proteRt­ers watched as the 492-foot freighter was pulled from Berth 178 by tugboats and began its passage through the Main Chan­nel.

In the background, "My Coun­try 'Tis of Thee" played on a demonstrator's tape recorder.

"I think it's a nice sight to see," said Ruben Munoz, 28, of Wilmington, aR he Rtood before a carnation-covered funeral wreath with the words, "In Memory of Korean Air Lines Flight 007." ..

"I think it just shows the world we Americans feel for those peo­ple who got killed," Munoz added.

As the freighter slid from view, Munoz said he and his friends were heading down to Ports O' Call towards the breakwaters to "wave goodbye."

"It's been a long road," sighed Robbie, a San Pedro mother of

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two who declined to give her last name. "l feel if they can shoot 269 innocent people out of the sky and we knowingly let them in (the haroor), they shouldn't be here." ·

Aa she removed signs and ban• nera protesting the ship's pres­entt,. Robbie said she didn't care where 'the freighter went "as long as it ian't in the U.S."

The Novokuibyshevsk had ~n· at the center of a week.long controversy that began when members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse­men's Union Local 13 refused to unload the freighter. They con­tended that unloading the freight­er would endanger their safety be­cause threats had been made against the ship.

- Meanwhile, the Pacific Mari­time Association, which repress­ent.S shippers in labor matters, charged that the longshoremen's refusal to unload the ship violated

the union's contract. Talks in San Francisco between ILWU and PMA officials, which began last weekend, foiled to settle the dis­pute.

On Tuesday morning, about a dozen longshore~n showed up at the docks to unload the freighter's cargo as part of a "good faith ef­fort," according to John Mac­Evoy, PMA's area manager.

But their effort failed when anti-Soviet demonstrators pre­vented longshoremen from board­ing the vessel, a longshore dis­patcher said.

"yYe are very happy the ship is leavmg the harbor," said Valdis Pavlovskis, president of the Baltic Amer~can Freedom League, a na­t~onw1de human rights organiza­t~on that monitors Soviet activi­ties.

If another Soviet freighter ar­rives in the harbor area, "we'll start from scratch all over again " Pavlovskis said. '

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Soviet Freighter CLeaves L.A. With Its Load . By GEORGE RAMOS and CAROL McGRAW, Times Staff Writers

The Soviet freighter Novokui­byshevsk, target of protests since the Soviets downed a South Korean airliner with 269 people aboard, left Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon when it became apparent that long­shoremen would not unload the vessel's cargo of lumber and vodka.

Eight days after it arrived, the 492-foot ship pulled out of Los Angeles harbor under Coast Guard protection. The ship's agent in New Orleans said it is due there on Sept. 24, but protesters said the freighter might have trouble unloading there, too.

shoremen for refusing to unload the ship. The board also called for a consumer boycott of Soviet-made products.

"This is a victory for the long­shoremen, the American people and all those who believe in justice and freedom," said Valdis Pavlosvskis, president of the Baltic American Freedom League, one of several groups that protested the ship's presence in Los Angeles.

He praised the longshoremen's refusal to work the ship, adding that "people who do business with gang­sters can alsp expect problems."

spiced with some shouting, but no injuries or arrests occurred, harbor authorities said.

For several days, members of Local 13 of the International Long­shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Ignored their leadership's orders to work the ship, saying they feared that outrage over the Soviet attack on the Korean Air Lines 747 might spur violence dockside. An agreement, details of which were not known, was worked out late Sunday night and seemed to clear the way for the ship to be unloaded.

The protesters would not Identify themselves to news reporters at the scene.

Even if the 15 men had been able to get to Berth 178, union members doubted that the ship could have been unloaded, noting that the job called for 40 longshoremen.

After dockers were rebuffed, un­ion leaders met with officials of the shipping industry's Pacific Maritime Assn., acting on behalf of Williams, Dimond&: Co .. the ship's local agent, and they agreed it would be unsafe for the longshoremen to work the ship.

Citing the safety issue, John MacEvoy, the association's Southern California area manager,

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The decision to leave came after 15 longshoremen tried to cross a picket line of 25 protesters, locked arm-in-arm. A brief scuffle ensued,

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Soviet freighter gives up and sails . after scuffle with L.A. protesters By Paul Wilner Herald statt writer

.-\ Soviet freighter left Los . .\ngeles Harhor yesterday after­noon. a week after it arrived. without unloading its <.::ugo of vodka and lumber. following a stormy stay climaxed by an early­morning scuffle between protes­ters and longshoremen.

The destination of the freighter '."o•·okuibyshevsk has not been officially announced, but shipping sources ~ho asked not to be identified said it had been cleared to sail toward Pan­ama. a journey of about a week.

The freighter previously had received permission to dock in :-Jew Orleans on Sept. 24, but harbor officials in that city said yesterday they had been given no new indication the boat was headed their way.

The freighter has been under the protection of the Coast Guard. harbor police and a pri­vate securitv force after tele­phone threats were received against the ship as a result of the Soviets' shooting down of a Ko­rean plane with 269 people aboard.

Yesterday morning, a group of pickets outside Berth li8 of the Los . .\ngeles harbor, where the freighter has been docked. blocked the path of longshore-

men sent to unload the boat by Local 13 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse­men 's Cnion .

The lon~shoremen. who have heen refusing to unload the freighter . had agreed to come to the berth after an agreement reached Sunday in San Francisco between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshorernen's . .\ssociation.

After the scuffle. however. a union spokesman said the men "decided not to work any more because it was a health and safety issue."

John MacEvoy, a spokesman for the PMA. said his represen­tives arrived at the scene shortly after the early-morning scuffle, and agreed that "there was a legitimate threat to health and safetv."

Louis Rios. secretary of Local 13. which has 2.400 members in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Har­bor area. said the departure of the ship was ··a relief for all of us."

"We expressed our opinion as to what transpired with that airliner," Rios said.

Rios said there would be no "celebration" of the Soviet depar­ture, however. because of the underlying tragedy in which 269 people lost their lives.

The reaction to the freighter's departure was more jubilant in' other quarters. however.

Valdis Pavlo\·skis . president of the Baltic American Freedom League. which co-sponsored sev­eral recent anti-Soviet demon­strations. said the freighter's departure "represents a great \'iCtory for the American people and for those interested in sup­porting and standing up for human rights."

"The longshoremen demon­strated !through their voluntary bo\'cottJ that determined individ­uais can accomplish a lot, and showed our government what c:in be accomplished." Pavlovskis said. "While the politicians talked and debated. the longshoremen took concrete action and won."

. .\nd Jack McGrath. who has organized a group called the International Stolichnaya Boy­cott Committee aimed at penaliz­ing stores that continue to stock Russian vodka, said his move­ment has been taking off.

"Having the major retail liq­uor and food markets in Los Angeles join this boycott is going to send a very clear message to Premier IYurtl Andropov," Mc­Grath said. "Those who have JOined the boycott now include Ralph's Grocery Stores. Von's \1arkets. Safeway and Alpha Rt>ta."

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"But I expect citialns in New Or·: !Mm will react~ ume way as they; Mve ii WI Aaceles," l&id Mart El· lia, lleCfttary·treuarer of tbe New Orte.ans loltpbaremen' 1 local. "I ba¥e recetftd nun-. 'calls from people WlllllinC to ll:now about tbe anloadinc of tbe Rlllaiaa sbip ...

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Qock workers watch as Soviet freighter No­vokuibyshevsk leaves Los Angeles Harbor

Tuesday after futile eight-day attempt to un· load its cargo of lumber and vodka.

Soviet freighter sails from L.A. with cargo still on board By RICHARD VARIENCHIK OMy New• Stall Wn1•

After eight days of futile at­. tempts to have its cargo unload­ed, the Soviet freighter. Novo­kwbyshevsk sailed from Los Angeles Tuesday with its lwn­~r and vodka still aboard.

A secretary at Williams Di­·mond & Co .. the freighter's U.S. agent, said she had been or­dered not to give out informa­Uon about the ship's destination. The U.S. Coai;t Guard was not informed what the Novoku1-byshevsk 's next port of call will be.

However, a Coast Guard spokeswomen said the freighter has been granted port entry at New Orleans Sept. 24.

The ship's captain pulled out

*Soviet Union mounls a show o( force In lhe Sea o( Japan, lesling Japan·~ air defenses. Main news, page 3 .

• Boy<'oll o( Russian vodka spreads among area stores. Main news, page ·t.

at 3 p.m. after longshoremen Tuesday morning made another futile attempt at unloading. About a dozen longshoremen were met bv demonstrators who have bcf>n preventing the unloading of the ship in ret.aha­t10n for the Russians shooting down a Korean Air Lmes )Ct­Iiner, killing 26!J people.

There was shovmg belwcen the longshoremen and the dem­onstrators. "There w;.is a threal

of bodily harm," said L.A. Lo­veridge, president of longshore­men's Local 13.

He said the men refused, as they have several times over the past eight days, to proceed with unloading attempts. They invoked rights under their con­tract which allows them to refuse a job where their health or safety is threatened, said Lo­veridge.

Some longeshoremen said they refused to unload the boat because of their anger al the Russians for shooting down the unarmed, civilian jumbo jet.

Several demonslralOrs. who described themselves as "just Americans," cheered as the ship

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By DAVID EINSTEIN, TiJMs Staff Writer

Hoping to "hit the Russians where it hurts-in the pocketbook," elected olllcials from Los Angeles called Saturday for a boycott of Soviet-made Stolichnaya vodka as a protest against the Soviet downing of a South Korean jetliner with 269 people aboard.

Several hundred gathered at a rally outside the Federal Building in Westwood Saturday on a a hot and sultry afternoon. The audience was composed mostly of a large group of Korean-Americans, and members of the anti-Soviet Baltic American Freedom League.

In Garden Grove, about 200 members of the Korean community gathered to express outrage at the Soviet action and their distress over what they consider a tepid U.S. response.

Meanwhile, the Soviet freighter Novokuibyshevsk remained under tight security in Los Angeles Harbor, still laden with Russian vodka and plywood that local longshoremen have refused lo unload. The ship docked here Tuesday, five days after a Russian jet fighter shot down a Korean Air Lines 747 that had strayed into Soviet air space north of Japan.

The ship was supposed to have departed for New Orleans on Saturday, but received permission to stay for another week while negotiations continue to find workers to unload It.

At the Westwood rally, U.S. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler

(R-Van Nuys) vowed to "continue to try to get that damn ship out of our harbor." And the Bailie League bestowed its "Freedom Award" on Local 13 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

But the main topic of the day was vodka, specifically Stolichnaya, an expensive brand that Assemblyman Mike Roos, (D-Los Angeles), called "a product that the Soviets hold up as their example of excellence."

Roos, one of the organizers of the rally, said in a written statement that several restaurant chains in Los Angeles have agreed to halt sales of Stolichnaya until the Soviet Union issues an apology and offers restitution to the families of those of who died on the Korean jetliner.

"This is not just an economic boycott," Roos said before the rally. "It's taking a symbol and making a statement, and sending a message to a government that is seemingly impervious to messages."

State Assemblyman Tom Hayden, (D-Santa Monica), told the crowd that "Anyone · drinking Russian vodka after this atrocity is washing down the blood of Innocent people."

(Hayden, once a left-wing student radical, was heckled by about a dozen members of the audience, who called him a hypocrite and chanted, "Once a commie,

always a commie." ) City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky said a boycott of

Stolichnaya would be meaningful because It would let Soviet leader Yuri Andropov "see what the story ts In the United States."

"Let's hit the Russians where it hurts-In the pocketbook," Yaroslavsky said "They are the best capitalists that money can buy, so let's show them where it hurts."

According to Max Kerstein, vice president of Bever­age Bulletin, a liquor Industry newspaper serving Southern California, it is difficult to say whether a boycott would be successful. He said that imported vodka accounted for only about 800,000 gallons out of 6.8 million gallons sold last year nationwide.

Kerstein said that when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, sales of Stolichnaya actually increased.

"People apparently went out and purchased it in great quantities for fear that it would not be available," he said.,

Fiedler told the rally that a boycott of vodka was not enough. She said she would ask President Reagan to seize Soviet assets in the United States until restitution is made to the families in the tragedy.

Hayden implied that the Reagan Administration has Please aee VODKA, Pare 8

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"The anti-communism of this Administration seems to fade when it treads on the toes of agribusiness or bankers or others who are making business deals with the Kremlin," she said.

Valdis Pavlovskis, president of the Baltic Freedom League, said his group supports a vodka boycott but would like to see all trade with the Soviet Union stopped. In addition, Pavlovskis said, the Soviets' West Coast consulate in San Francisco should be closed.

"There are many measures, short of war, that the U.S. government can take to show its determination," he said.

At the end of the rally, the speakers each poured out a bottle of Stolichnaya at the front of the platform.

The Garden Grove demonstration featured the burn­ing of a Soviet flag before cheering onlookers.

Korean community leaders said Korean-Americans will continue protesting until they get a "satisfactory response" from both the United States and the Soviet Union.

"Reagan's talk has been strong, but his actions are weak.'' said Ho Chung, president of the Korean Chamber of Commerce in Buena Park. "We expect him to take stronger action, to show our indignation at this barbarous atrocity."

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