Leftists Release Duarte Daughter

Leftist rebels today freed the kidnaped daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte after 44 days in captivity as part of a swap for 118 guerrillas and political prisoners.

Released with Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, was Ana Cecilia Villeda, 23. Both women were dragged from a car in front of aprivate university in San Salvador by leftist guerrillas Sept. 10.

Culture Minister Julio Rey Prendes said Duarte Duran and her friend were turned over to Roman Catholic Church officials in Tenancingo, about 18 miles northeast of San Salvador.

The women were to be flown by helicopter from Tenancingo to the capital to be reunited with their families, including the president and Duarte Duran’s three children, Rey Prendes said.

Wounded Guerrillas

The agreement between the U.S.-backed government and the rebels, reached after negotiations between two rebel leaders, Rey Prendes and Duarte adviser Abraham Rodriguez, called for the women’s release in exchange for the evacuation of 96 wounded guerrillas and freedom for 22 political prisoners. (Story on Page 5.)

The talks were mediated by the Salvadoran Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas and Panamanian armed forces chief Gen. Manuel Noriega.

A local radio station, reporting from Mariona prison, said the 22 political prisoners boarded a bus and apparently were being taken to the airport.

Diplomats here said a Panamanian aircraft was standing by at an airport about 25 miles from San Salvador to take the freed rebels to Panama.

No News of Mayors

There was no news as to whether 33 local mayors and other officials, kidnaped separately, had been freed by the rebels. Previous reports had said the two women and the local officials would be exchanged for the guerrilla prisoners.

The mayors and other local officials were abducted in a series of attacks this year by the leftist rebels, who have been fighting the government for six years.

Only minutes before the release of the women was announced, the guerrillas’ clandestine radio station, Venceremos, charged that Duarte had “violated the agreements for the exchange program for this day.” Officials feared that the swap might not take place but the women were released anyway.

Venceremos said soldiers of the government’s 3rd Battalion had unsuccessfully tried to penetrate rebel positions early Friday in Jucuaran, 70 miles southeast of the capital, where the wounded insurgents were being prepared for medical evacuation to another country.

Rey Prendes said the rebels who negotiated the release were members of factions of the Garabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the umbrella organization of five arned groups seeking to overthrow the u.s. backed Duartegovernment.