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Six longtime hostages three Americans and three Britons have been freed since August. A Frenchman held for three days also was released. Bweiz said in a statement broadcast by Beirut radio stations that "the release has taken place and I want to extend my congratulations to the Waite and Sutherland families and urge the families of the rest of the hostages to be patient Their ordeal is approaching an early end." The Iranian-allied kidnap group, Islamic Jihad, announced today that Waite and Sutherland were BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Shiite Muslim kidnappers today freed American Thomas Sutherland and British envoy Terry Waite, two Western captives whose release represents a dramatic advance in ending the hostage ordeal that goes back to 1984. The release of the men was confirmed in Beirut by Lebanon's foreign minister, Fares Bweiz, and in New York City by Nadia Younes, a spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.

The U.N. chief said the kidnappers had offered to free all hostages by Christmas. Younes said Waite and Sutherland were en route to Damascus, the Syrian capital that has been the transit point for freed hostages. The 52-year-old Waite, who had successfully negotiated the release of other hostages, went to Beirut to try to free Americans but dropped from sight during his mission and became a captive himself for nearly five years. He was believed to be the last British hostage in Lebanon.

Sutherland, 60, was the hostage held the second-longest nearly 6 years. His release leaves three American captives, two Germans and an Italian in the hands of Lebanese kidnappers. Since 1984, when Shiite and Druse militiamen chased the Lebanese army from west Beirut, almost 100 foreigners have been abducted in Lebanon. Ten of the captives were either presumed or confirmed killed. A few said they escaped, and others were released.

The pace of the releases has being freed, but left the timing of the release unclear. Islamic Jihad made its announcement in an Arabic language statement issued to a. Western news agency in Beirut accompanied by an old black-and-white photograph of Terry Anderson. Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, has been held the longest of any hostage. He was abducted March 16, 1985.

Besides Waite and Sutherland, four other longtime Western hostages have been freed since U.N. mediators began their efforts in August. Israel and its allied Lebanese militia have released 66 Arab captives, and the Israelis have received Please see Hostages, A4 Terry Waite Briton kidnapped in '87 Mfku tMii -4 "A' 5i 5 Andy StarnesThe Pittsburgh Press Smokestacks of the USX Clairton Works loom in the background of a new wildlife habitat being established across the river Clairton Works getting in tune with nature Thomas Sutherland American grabbed in '85 Croats give up Militia ordered to surrender BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) The commander of Croat forces in the war-ravaged city of Vukovar today ordered his men to surrender and many were obeying, Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency reported. There was no immediate confirmation from the secessionist Croatian government or from Yugoslav army officials. However, Serb-led federal troops won control of much of the eastern Croatian town yesterday, and Croatian officials had conceded the defenders could not hold out much longer.

The loss of Vukovar will be a psychological and strategic blow to Croatia, which declared independence June 25. The resistance was a source of pride for the republic and an embarrassment for the Serb-dominated army in the 4V4-month-old civil war. But with the fall of Vukovar, the Serb forces will gain unchallenged control over most of eastern Croatia. Three monitoring teams from the European Community left Belgrade for Vukovar early today but Please see Yugoslavia, A3 Hill District protesters halt work on project By Mike Ilasch and Jon Schmitz The Pittsburgh Press About two dozen angry protesters from the United Minority Contractors Association of Western Pennsylvania, shut down work on a Hill District housing development this morning, saying not enough jobs have been given to minority subcontractors. No one was injured or arrested.

The demonstration almost became violent several times as black protesters confronted both white and black construction workers. The Hill project for low- and moderate-income residents is being built overlooking the Civic Arena on an 18.5-acre site bounded by Centre and Webster avenues and Roberts and Crawford streets. Tony Salazar, senior vice president of McCormack Baron Associates, the general contractor on the project, said, "I certainly don't understand why minority contractors would march on the job when the minority participation (on this project) is particularly very high. Obviously, there's some misunder- Please see Hill, A3 By Ralph Haurwitz The Pittsburgh Press Employees at the USX Clairton Works, one of the nation's most heavily industrialized properties, installed some new environmental equipment the other day 30 wooden nest boxes for bluebirds, house wrens and titmice. Foxglove, hollyhock and other plants that attract butterflies will be planted in the spring.

The butterflies also will get their own pond. Nesting platforms for ospreys fish-eating hawks classified as an endangered species in Pennsylvania will be built as well. The Clairton Works, long a symbol of the nation's pollution problems, is turning over a new and greener leaf. Tomorrow evening, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., nearly 60 acres of the 500-acre plant will be designated as wildlife habitat. Thirty-seven other sites owned by corporations also will be certified by the Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council, a non-profit conservation group based in Silver Spring, Md.

The program reflects a growing desire by corporations to demonstrate keen interest in environmental quality, which public opinion polls have identified as a top prionty of most Americans. "This is a great deal," said Marchant Wentworth, legislative representative for the Izaak Walton League, one of four conservation groups that established the habitat council in 1988 along with seven corporations, including USX. "We do have problems with some of the environmental practices of these corporations. But we do want to work with them when we can to conserve wildlife," Wentworth said. The Clairton Works would appear to bean unlikely home for songbirds, deer, foxes and other wildlife.

It is the nation's largest coke plant, with 1,600 workers tending 11 coke-oven batteries where the toxic juices are cooked out of coal to produce coke for making steel. Its ovens, pipes and smoke stacks sprawl for miles along the Monon-gahela River. But portions of the tract are surprisingly primitive. The largest component of the new wildlife habitat a 55-acre parcel across the river from the coke batteries has fields, woods and a small stream, dry now because of the drought. The other day, a small yellow butterfly, one of the season's last, flitted among the grasses.

A red-tailed hawk soared overhead. Many saplings bore the telltale marks of white-tailed deer bark rubbed raw by bucks seeking to relieve the itch of velvet on their antlers. Please see Wild, A3 Image that nurtured Duke proved his undoing ANALYSIS By David Maraniss Press news services NEW ORLEANS The lesson of David Duke's decisive loss in the heavily publicized Louisiana governor's race was that it is more effective to confront Duke than to ignore him, according to the head of a leading opposition group. "The policy of benign neglect does not work with Duke. He is like a mushroom; he grows in the dark," Lance Hill, director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, said yesterday.

Edwin W. Edwards, who trounced Duke on Saturday by getting 61 percent of the vote to Duke's 39 percent to win an unprecedented fourth term as governor, reached another conclusion. He said Duke would not have become an important political figure without his past associations with the Ku Klux Han and neo-Nazisrri, which made him a novelty. "Mr. Duke," said Edwards, "is entirely a media creation." It is the paradox of David Duke that Hill and Edwards, two men who have studied Duke intently during his rise over the past three years, seem equally correct: The experience in Louisiana indicates that exposure makes Duke and it also breaks him.

Students of the Duke phenomenon say it is important to keep that paradox in mind while exploring the question of what happens next for Duke and his followers on a sional seat in suburban New Orleans or northern Louisiana, where he fared best Saturday. Duke did not rule that out during an interview on NBC's "Sunday Today." "I'm not planning to run for president, but I'll leave all options open. I do want to change the course of American politics," Duke said. The 41-year-old Duke has run in eight elections since 1988 and won only one the state legislative seat he holds in the virtually all-white New Orleans suburb of Metairie. Duke said he thinks of himself as a loyal Republican and would not consider running as an independent.

In his harshest attack on Presi- dent Bush, Duke charged that Bush "sold out" on the recent civil rights bill that makes it easier for minorities and women to sue over job discrimination. "I'm not sure I really want George Bush," he said. It is certain that Bush did not want Duke. The prospect of Duke winning and hailing himself as the leader of the Louisiana GOP was the Bush administration's worst nightmare, a scenario that would have created both symbolic and practical problems for the national Republicans on issues involving race. Attempting to put the best light on his snubbing by the people of Please see Duke, A4 7 national level.

While his drubbing by Edwards might slow his efforts to build a right-wing movement, it is less likely to deter him from his role as a perennial candidate for state or national office. It is by campaigning and creating controversy that Duke attracts money and attention. Some political experts and Duke's own associates think he might run for president in the Southern primaries next year and then drop out to seek a congres-.