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1 pick plans move if Colts don't trade him to Salvador House group cuts aid 50; Reagan promises envoy By Vito Stellino By Henry Trewhitt Washington Bureau of The Sun Colts' draft picks 1. John Elway, quarterback, Stanford 2. Vernon Maxwell, linebacker, Arizona State 3. George Achica, defensive end, Southern California 4. Phil Smith, wide receiver, San Diego State 5.

Sid Abramowitz, offensive tackle, Tulsa 6. Grant Feasel, center, Abilene Christian 7. Alvin Moore, running back, Arizona State 8. Jim Mills, offensive lineman, Hawaii 9. Chris Rose, offensive lineman, Stanford 10.

Ronald Hopkins, defensive back, Murray State 11. Jim Bob Taylor, quarterback, Georgia Tech 12. Carl Williams, wide receiver, Texas Southern Sv The National Football League opened the envelope to finally declare the winner of the John Elway Sweepstakes yesterday and found it empty. The annual college draft came and went and the Elway Sweepstakes continued on as if nothing had happened. After failing in the frantic final hours before the draft to swing a deal to send the Stanford quarter Other drot stories on Fl, F4.

back to a West Coast team, the Colts refused to cave in and went ahead and drafted Elway with the first pick in the draft. Elway then called a press confer ence in San Jose, and repeated what his agent, Marvin Demoff, had said Monday hell play baseball for the New York Yankees if the Colts don't trade him in the next few days. The stalemate, which developed January 2 when the Colts obtained the rights to the first pick in the draft by finishing an 0-8-1 season, continued when coach Frank Kush responded, "We maintain our position. We drafted him with the idea of keeping him. We hope he changes his mind." In the high stakes poker game between the two sides, the next move is up to Elway.

The one consolation for the Colts is that Elway didn't pull out a Yankee contract and sign it on the spot "The Colts knew I held a royal flush and still they called me on it," Elway said. "As I stand here now, I haven't ruled out football yet but I'm a lot closer to baseball than I was before." Demoff didn't attend the press conference but said from his office in Los Angeles, "They've got about as much chance of signing him as they do Alice in Wonderland." Demoff said he was no longer discussing any talks with the Yankees with anybody in Baltimore, but Elway said they're talking about a five-year deal with the Yankees averaging $500,000 a year with es Washington A House subcommittee with a pivotal role in aid to El Salvador cut in half down td $30 million President Reagan's request for emergency funds yesterday. In the circumstances, it was a positive step for the president. The administration responded immediately by promising to name a special envoy to Central America with free elections in El Salvador as a first priority. That was the primary condition set out by Representative Clarence D.

Long (D, 2d), the subcommittee chairman, for approval of any money at all. The subcommittee's action, as well as a secret session of the Senate on Nicaragua yesterday, set the stage for an address by Mr. Reagan on Central America policy before a joint session of Congress tonight. The president is expected to define American interests in the region and what he is doing to fulfill them in the face of growing congressional uneasiness. In the televised address at 8 p.m., Mr.

Reagan is expected also to defend his support for both the government of El Salvador, under attack by guerrillas, and insurgents attacking the government of Nicaragua. The administration says Salvadoran guerrillas are armed and directed from Nicaragua. Mr. Reagan explained his support for the Nica-raguan insurgents at a private meeting yesterday with members of the House intelligence committee in the White House. The principal question was whether the U.S.

actions violated a law against trying to bring down the leftist Nicaraguan government. That question also prompted the closed session of the Senate. Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D, who says there is no doubt the administration is violating the law, initiated the session mainly for what he called "information-gathering" in advance of the president's speech. Neither the White House meeting nor the Senate session produced fresh conclusions or evidence, participants in both said.

Mr. Dodd, however, judged that the 80 to 90 senators at the closed meeting are now "better educated" and "better able to judge the president's speech." Of the White House meeting, Representative Ed-See LATIN, A4, Col. 3 cape clauses in the first three years. A Yankee spokesman said George Steinbrenner, the Yankee owner, would have no comment There's always the chance Elway could even sign a baseball contract and then change his mind the way basketball player Danny Ainge did when he jumped from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Boston Celtics. The Colts will own his NFL rights until the day of next year draft If Elway plays baseball a year and the Colts won't trade him next spring, he'll go back into the 1984 draft.

Should he then fail to sign with the team that drafts him in 1984, he would become a free agent in 1985, able to negotiate with any NFL team. The ultimate irony of the failure to make the Elway deal is that the Associated Press Stanford quarterback John Elway says he'd rather play baseball than sign with the Baltimore Colts. See ELWAY, A6, Col. 4 U.S. said to commit 'educational disarmament' New York Times News Service Stocks soar as Dow closes above 1,200 The stock market reached another milestone yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,200 mark for the first time.

The Dow rose 22.25 points, dosing at 1,209.46. Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 97.3 million shares. Analysts attributed the rise to confidence that the economy will continue to improve and that interest rates will drop further. Details on Page Bl "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people," it declared. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves." Among the changes the commission urged were the following: High schools should tighten requirements in the "New Basics" English, mathematics, science, social studies and computer science and colleges and universities should raise their admissions requirements in these areas as well as in for eign languages. Students should spend more time in school. School boards should consider extending the schoolday from 6 to a total of 7 hours and increasing the school year from 180 to as much as 220 days. High school students should be given "far more homework." Salaries for teachers should be increased, and their contracts should be ex tended from 9 to 11 months to allow time for curriculum planning and helping students with special needs. Financial incentives should be used to attract "outstanding students" into the teaching profession, and "master teachers" should be used to train them.

The commission did not offer recommendations in several areas that have been priorities of the Reagan administration, including tuition tax credits, prayer in the schools and abolition of the Department of Education. See EDUCATION, A7, Col. 3 Washington The United States has been committing "unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament," a bipartisan commission declared yesterday as it called for significant' reforms to upgrade the quality of American education at all levels. In an "Open Letter to the American People," the 18-member National Commission on Excellence in Education said America's economic, cultural and spiritual role in the world is being threatened by lax standards and misguided priorities in the schools. Panel votes to cite nM Lavelle for contempt A.

fl 4 I A's 4, Orioles 3 The Birds lose another as Jim Palmer lasts only 3Vi innings, giving up hits, 4 runs and 4 walks Fl Sweden warns it will attack subs From Wire Services Stockholm Sweden protested yesterday against "the gross violations of Swedish territorial integrity of which the Soviet Navy has been guilty" and warned the Kremlin yesterday it will destroy the next Soviet submarine that violates Swedish waters. In an unusually strong action for a neutral nation, the Swedish government sent a stiff diplomatic note to Moscow, temporarily recalled its ambassador there, Carl DeGeer, and indicated that official visits between the two countries would be cut back sharply. Foreign Minister Olof Palme acted after a five-member commission, appointed to investigate a sub-, marine incident near Stockholm last October, reported that six Soviet boats were "probably involved," including three manned midgets of a previously unreported type with the ability to "crawl" on the seabed by means of tank-like treads. The commission was appointed amid public anger at the navy's failure to catch the intruders despite a massive operation with ships and helicopters. The commission also said at least 40 incidents involving foreign submarines, of "an increasingly provoca-See SWEDEN, A2, Col.

1 Washington (AP) The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously yesterday to cite former Environmental Protection Agency official Rita M. Lavelle for contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas to testify before the panel about alleged EPA mismanagement The vote sends the contempt citation to the House floor. A vote there to cite Ms. Lavelle could result in criminal action against her in U.S. District Court Contempt is a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.

Representative John D. Dingell (D, the committee's chairman, said he would be willing to drop the action if Ms. Lavelle appeared and cooperated with congressional investigators. But he urged her to "move promptly," saying the House would vote on the resolution "in the very near future." Ms. Lavelle's attorney, James J.

Bierbower, said after the committee vote that his client wanted to cooper ate, but had been hampered because she has been in California job-hunting. "We've been trying to work out an accommodation," Mr. Bierbower said. "I was confident that some accommodation could be worked out with her schedule." Mr. "Bierbower wrote a letter to the comaiittee Monday urging the panel to "reconsider" the planned vote, but Mr.

Dingell said there had been no real effort to make Ms. La velle available. "The chair observes no sincere or meaningful effort by Ms. Lavelle's attorney to purge his client of this contempt," Mr. Dingell said.

The committee vote came after the former EPA assistant administrator twice defied subpoenas to appear before the panel's investigations subcommittee. Ms. Lavelle was in charge of the $1.6 billion "superfund" toxic waste cleanup program. She was fired by President Reagan February 7 after she refused a request by then-EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford that she resign.

Her firing sparked much of the congressional investigation into alleged mismanagement and political manipulation of the fund, a probe that ultimately involved five House subcommittees and one Senate committee. Since her firing, she has appeared voluntarily before the Senate Environment Committee and the House Public Works and Transportation investigations subcommittee. But she has twice failed to appear before the Energy and Commerce panel. "No one had a better vantage point from which to observe defects in the superfund law than Rita Lavelle," Mr. Dingell said.

"And no ne had more important responsibility and stewardship for the administration and implementation of the act than Ms. Lavelle. 1 'I j)Mf City taxpayers' night More than 400 people show up for the annual chance to tell Mayor Schaefer what they think of the budget 1 Bethlehem Steel loss Bethlehem loses $175.2 million in the first quarter, more than twice the loss for the same quarter of 1982 Bl Warm Sunny and warmer today, clear and cool tonight High, 86; low, 53. Yester- day's high, 72; low, 47 Index Bridge Food Business Bl Lottery F3 Classified E4 -C5 Comics C7 Obituaries E4 1 Crossword C7 Sports. Jl Editorials A.8 Television C6 6 Sections Associated Press 8 return safely to daylight A Jeff Gardner's mother hogged him yesterday after he and seven other amateur explorers were rescued from a cave in southeastern Kentucky.

Mr. Gardner and the others had been trapped in the cave since Saturday by rising water. (Article on Page A3).