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16A TODAY, Wadhaeaday. JuneB, IMS The World WESTAR flies on time m0A Diplomat charges drop in disarmament TMVnrMnM UNITED NATIONS Ambassador Tommy Xoh of Singapore opened general debate it the Ceneral Assembly second special Besslon on disarinarnent Tuesday ty claiming Umts lias actually been backsliding from dijar mament since (lie tint special teuton in Wl. "lurlng llie past four yam," he said, "not only have we failed le achieve any the objectives we set out In the program of tctloi adapted at the tint special session, we hart actually witnessed an Intensification of the arms race" Koh Eid lie thought ti reason for die retrogression "it that arms control and disarmament can only prosper in an environment ef political stability and In an atmosphere of mutual Unit and confidence Polish guards foil hijack attempt WARSAW. Poland Security guards foiled a 111 Jacking attempt aboard a Polish LOT domestic I Winer by selling two youths who wanted to divert the plane to Vest Berlin, Warsaw radio said Tuesday. Tlie broadcast laid trie youths from Sosnovlec In southwest Poland attempted to commandeer a Polish airliner en a flight from die southern city of Katowice to Warsaw but security guards i beard the plane arrested them The broadcast'did roc say when the Incident took place.

It vii the First reported attempt to hijack, a LOT plane since a successful hijacking of a flight from Vroci.iv in southern Poland to West Berlin on April 30. Mubarak meets Moroccan official CAIRO, Egypt President Hosni Mubarak met with an envoy of King Hassan It cf Morocco on Tuesday in what the Moroccan called the first step toward Egypt's reconciliation with trie Arab world. Mubarak's talks with Foreign Minister Mohammed Bouceitt marked the first publicly announced meeting or an Egyptian president In three years with, a top official of one of the 17 states that broke ties wit Cairo in March II7 over Egypt's peace with Israel In April, well Informed Egyptian sources caid Mubarak? met with a top Iraqi delegation, Including a rice presl Mubarak dent that was shopping tor arms, me meeting was not officially announced, but Iraqi President Sadda Hussein has said his country is buying weapons diTectly from Egypt. Bcucetta arrived here unexpectedly Monday carry ing a message from Hassan concerning bilateral relations with Egypt, the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon and Moroccos protracted var with the Polisano guerrilla movement in the Sahara Chinese trade group ends Soviet trip PEKING, The first Chinese trade promotion group visit the Sonet Union In a decade Is, returning to Peking after a two week trip to discuss trade and learra about Soviet light industry, the official Xinhua INews Agency said Tuesday. Three hitdvlevel Chinese economists recently returned from a tnp to the Soviet Union to study Soviet economic planning Xinhua said the delegation from the China Council for Promotion of Interantional Trade Uie equivalent of a chamber ol commerce lcft Moscow Monday Dissident flees Warsaw hospital WARSAW, Poland PolisJi dissident Jan Maroanlak fled a Warsaw hospital where he was being treated for gunshot wounds, Informed sources said Tuesday, The sources, who requested anonymity, said Karomi ak disappeared Monday night and that some of the hospital's staff have been detained by the authorities Naroaniak vas shot in the hand and hip May when he sought to flee police checking his identity papers! Family members said he was on a wanted list since the start of law Dec 13.

Attackers kill Guatemalan Indians GUATEMALA CITY Unidentified attackers yanked 10 Indian rlllagers including four children from their homes in northern Guatemala and killed them, authorities said Tuesday They said the victims' bodies, found Monday at Pocola dc San Pedro Carclia about 135 miles north Guatemala City, showed machine gun bullet and machete wounds and hydrochlonc acid bums. The foul child victims were all younger than 16. said the officials, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. It was unclear who was responsible for the killings In a troubled area where leftist guerrilla insurgents have a substantial following. But the authorities said the brutal iiy the slaying had caused panic among the largely Indian inhabitants of the region Salvador rightists' propose amnesty SAM SALVADOR, El Salvador The far right rationalist Republican Alliance ted by Rooerlod' Auburn son proposed an amnesty law Tuesday that would girt leftist guerrillas a "last chance" to end their fight to overthrow the government.

The proposal's language apparently provides amnesty for members of right wing "death squads" as well, tut d'Aubuisson spot at a news conference only about the leftists. The rightist leader was elected jm April speaker of the the new Constituent Assembly The proposal would need the approval of President AJvara Magana and tha assembly to become law. Guerrillas blast bridge, wounding 3 people SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Leftist guerrillas blew up a bridge outside the northwest bdoatnalcltycf Metapan on Tuesday, wounding three people and interrupting highway traffic, a military spokatsran said. The apnlasman, whs asked anonymity (or security reasons, said the guerrillas attacked at about dawn. planting xxploerveato wrack tha bridge cv the Saj foaa River He said he had no other details.

Another spokesman said gucrrillal regained control of tha northeast town of PemquU. a report ha denied earlier. GuerriJai adio broadcamsuJd five eoidlers vera Uilad and sut captured to lighting for ohatowu ly PETER ADAMS TOMV IcIIIM WlHW Despite fears of a menacing wind out of the north, Western Union's fifth In series of communications satellites mi launched minutes after runset Tuesday. Meteorologists at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch alts were concerned early In the evening that tha 33 mp wind at lUCO feet would tiler. fere with steering of the Delta rocket that carried the satellite Into space A weather balloon sent up about 20 minutes before liftoff round the winds had died down, and NASA engineers gave the signal for a fiery rocket ignition at 8 pm.

In Space Against the backdrop of calm skies streaked red with the colon of sunset, the lli foot tall rocket lofted into the atmosphere at a speed of mora than lO.OfJOmph Within two minutes all nine of tha rocket's solid fuel booster rockets had spent their firepower and were Jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean from as high as miles up Western Union's CO million aatelllte, WESTAR la designed to provide Muzak to subscribers, color television channels and to transmit computer coded pages of the Wall Street Journal from Its MkSsnchusetta plant to kiting presses In Orlando With WESTAR Western Union is the first company to have five com municatlona satellites operating bn Earth orbit, The 1,330 pound satellite Is equipped with 34 IransmltterrecelTers, and all are booked by companies renting the satellites services. Western Union earns about 73 million a year from aatelllte services, said Warren Bechtel, a company spokesman. On Of WESTAR Vs customers is Citicorp, the first financial institution to own space on a satellite. With two of the transmit terrecetveri Citicorp will handle by satellite the bulk of Its conferences and data transmissions between offices across the country. Once operational in August, WESTAR will circle the Earth COCO miles above the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.

Hazardous Shuttle fueling begins Tcoavawe wrm Technicians began loading maneuvering propellents aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia Tuesday in preparation for Iti final test mission on June 27. The haianJeus, four day opera lion, carried out by crews of workers wearing protective suits and helmets, began without hitch, Kennedy Space Center spokesman Dick 'Young said. The highly combustible chemical compounds hydrazine end nitrogen tetrorJde are mixed together in flight to provide the propulsion for positioning Columbia in space and bringing it out of ortlt at the end of the mission. The pnopellants are toxic and the launch site Is cleared of all personnel not involved In the fueling process. On Tuesday night, Kennedy Space Center spokesman Mark Hess said the operation was "going smoothly on schedule." and test conductor Bob Webster said no problems or hitches developed during the early stage of the operation.

Later, the Orbltei auxiliary Israelis tangle with Syria TANGLE, From 1A 5 coastal road, the Israelis pounded guerrilla positions with furious air and sea hombardments. some as close as 10 miles to Beirut. The sudden airlifting of Israeli forces to the srea east of Beirut helped further close a noose around guerrillas to the south. Other Israeli forces were already In the far south and southeast, and had a stranglehold on the coastal highway in the west, cutting the southern guerrillas' supply lines from Beirut But the Israelis' lightning drive, punching more than 40 miles north in three days, also brought them ever closer to an all out confrontation with the estimated JO DM Syrian troops who are stationed In Lebanon to police the Arab League truce that ended the 175 78 Lebanese civil war. "We don't want war with Syria," Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared before the Israeli Parliament In Jerusalem.

appeal to President (Hafez) vissad to instruct his soldiers not to strike at Israeli soldiers." When they launched the Invasion last weekend, the Israelis said Its goal mi Id drive Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas 35 miles back from the Israeli border, In order to protect northern Israeli towns from Palestinian shelling. The first report of the Israeli lunge toward the Beirut Damascus road came from Associated Press correspondent Edmond Shedid, who reported seeing Israeli helicopters ferry about IOC tanks and other armored vehicles to the hilltops above the town of Delr eM)mar, I miles southeast of Beirut Th Israelis pushed north largely unchallenged until they reached the town of Am Dan. Utile more than a mile south of the highway linking the Lebanese and Syrian capitals, the Beirut reports said. The Syrian command issued a communique saying Syrian artillery and helicopter gunships opened fire on the fast charging Israeli column at Ala Dara The communique, read over Lebanese state radio, said the Syrians hit It Israeli tanks. There was no other immediate confirmation of the reported battle, 13 miles east of Beirut.

Witnesses who traveled through the Bekaa Valley, east of the reported clash, said they saw long lines of Syrian armor, artillery and long range rocket launchers moving westward Tuesday night. i The Israeli military command earlier confirmed small Israeli and Syrian armored units clashed elsewhere In Lebanon, and said some Syrian tanks had been damaged. Although there was no firm word on total numbers of dead and wounded In the hitter fight for southern Lebanon, the Lebanese ambassador to the United Nations, Ghassan Tueni, said In New York the casualties ran Into the thousands, and "the vast majority are civilians." The Israelis said that as of midnight Monday 23 Israeli soldiers had becnaQled, seven Were missing and were wounded. Beirut overflowed with refugees streaming In from the war torn south Crowds of homeless, led by gunmen. oSJsyrtSflW LEBANON Ltfsttetd'awfiB 4 fMJ "PBlasss lf0" advance fO QiBtlrut Wj 'EX Tt kJWV Oamour y' wmmmmi Ufajci iatss" K3y HMbey.h J'er eaais'art yv KjCaaMei Af I Two Syrian asssssWrr'V 5 fAMHAhoie 5sS5S? asssssasf Of attawi icDaei I Golan Hf ISRAEL HeigHt BSSSYJf I CS7 1 asssT ii asaV tt Tooar pi ISRAEL DRIVES DEEP INTO LEBANON fights Syrian MlGs and annoretl forces forced their way Into unfinished apartment buildings.

President Reagan, In London, reiterated the S. call for a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon But he signaled American sympathy for Israel's motives, saying, Ve must all work to stamp out the scourge of terrorism that in the Middle East makes war an ever present threat" In Jerusalem, Begin told Reagan's special envoy, Philip C. Habib, on Monday that Israel would not pull out of Lebanon until there is an acceptable political arrangement protecting Israel's northern flank, Israel radio reported. Begin met again Tuesday with Habib. In his impassioned speech to the Israeli Parliament, Begin declared Israel did not want "a single centimeter Of Lebanese territory." only an end to the guerrilla threat.

I Begin spoke in a debate on a motion of no confidence In his government brought by the Israeli Communist Party, which expressed reservations about the massive thrust Into Lebanon "The motion was overwhelmingly defeated, by a vote of 3. Brave little Brian takes a trip BRAVE, From 1a" cut the window and rolled onto the grass. He spent the next hour toddling 1M yards across the lawn and through a wooded area behind the home When be reached the intersection of, Curtis and Tulsa streets, a passing motorist spotted the child and called the sheriffs department, Peputy Ciena tiffin said he arrived to find little Brian slroJImg along the edge of the woods near the road. "When be saw me, he held cut his arms tome and I picked him up." Crtffln said. "He was wearing diapers and (bad) a lot of moecuito and ant bites." As Griffin began to search the woods and knock oa doors.

Brian got a ride to the sheriffs office in Titus vtlle. One of his escorts, Capt. Jerry Pierce, said the wide eyed tot seemed to like the patrol car and all the attention. Lt. Jim MacDonald said Brian wanted to explore the office.

"As soon as the deputy put him down, he 'zipped out the door. But the deputies were: faster than he was Griffin, meanwhile, found Brian's mother "I saw a high chair through the window and knocked on the door," be said. "1 asked her (Oravsky) If she had a little boy, She said she did and asked her where he was. "She said be wu In the bedroom sleeping. I asked her to check and she came out in shock, saying he was gone," Griffin said.

Mother and son were reunited at the Tlruavllle office of the stats Department of Health and Rehabili tative Services. MacDonald said that for all the excitement it was Just one ef "those things kids do. "At that age kids are rambunctious," he said. "You have to watch them every Even that doesn't always do the trick when you've got a toddler as adventurous as Brian, his mother said. "Once I lost him under a bed." she said.

"Right after we got him a bed. I went to check on him and ho was gone. I almost had a heart stuck. I ripped the house apart looking for him. When I went back to his room be was crawling out from under the bed." So how will Oravsky keep Brian In his bedroom now that he's seen the wools? "I may have to put ban on his windows," she said.

Tests find chemicals in' more wells TUTS, Pram IV anyone is blamed for the toxins. Harris officials declined to cocaisnetit, The new teat results differed as to chemical concen tntlons In the wedla, but CWJ and state officials said that la expected when rpeajuresaemU are done at tha parts per Ulllon level These teats agreed that as well located next to tha discharge dutch was contaminated tha worst. According to tha ODll tests. It contained 18) parts per billion (ppb) 3 of vinyl chloride, the moat toxic of the chemicals, 418 ppb cf ttldilccoetrrieie, 3J ppb of I tjariaclkJiloroetiiYlene, ppb of methyl dalcrtde and ppb of 1.1 diduoroe tbart. In addition, tha Bate tests discovered 302 ppb of 1,3 cUctaloroethyiene bn the well.

By cornrstrlaon. these) chemicals were listed between less than one to 7 ppb in the March teats. The variety and levels of the ichesnicals in the other vails vary down to the least coafamlnated one that only registers ppb of one Uistto In vl chloride was discovered a) Br wells. The Nation Rural areas lead in growth power units and hydraulic power units In the twin rocket boosters also get filled with hydrazine After completion of the fill up this weekend, engineers. will begin preparing for the final launch countdown Tor the seven day mission.

In Washington, the space agency announced that President Reagan plans to be at Rogers Dry Lake in California when the Shuttle Is scheduled to land on the Fourth of July and that the president is cxpecteded to greet the returning astronauts. Thomas Mattlngly and Henry Hartsfield, then deliver a speech detailing America's goals In space. essssssssssVQaasssssssssP ssslvasBstl TCMIVMhnhM PHILADELPHIA Rural areas have outstripped the cities and their suburbs In population and Job growth for the first time In more than ISO years, according to a new study published by the Federal Reserve Bank off Philadelphia. The boom in the boondocks has been fueled by the construction of the Interstate highway system, improvements In communications and computer technology and a decreased reliance on the goods and services traditionally available in big cities, according to Gerald Cariino, senior economist of the bank's urban and regional section. "What's happening is that the large metropolitan areas aren't doing that well while on the other side, the smaller cities are growing more rapidly and the places are booming." Cariino said by telephone.

"It seems to be a fundamental break with a ISO year trend." Kirkpatrick plans to stay at U.N. UNITED NATIONS VS Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, at the center of a series of political and diplomatic storms, said Tuesday she had no Intention of resigning "in anything like the foreseeable future." "Someday I'd like to go back to being a university professor, a reader, a writer, a thinker, a teacher." she told reporters as she was en route to U.N Security Council consultations on the crisis In Lebanon. "I have no intention of quitting this, I jiM) in anyuung line cue loreseeacie future," she said in comrnentlnct on rumors here that she was cetttns ready Kirkpatrick to step down because of policy disagreements with Secretary of State Alexander Halg Jr. Late last month.

Kirkpatrick, a former professor of government at Georgetown University, reportedly had an angry 4Smlnute telephone exchange with Halg during' which she accused him of tilting US. policy too much toward Britain in the Falkland! conflict. On Friday! Kirkpatrick joined Britain in vetoing a Security Council resolution calling for a cease fire In the Falkland Islands only to receive belated Instructions from Haig that she should have abstained. Court rules tribes have liquor jurisdiction SAN FRANCISCO The Bth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Indian tribes, not states, have exclusive jurisdiction to license and distribute liquor on their reservations.

The court voted 101 that the states or Washington and California have no liquor licensing or distribution authority under federal law. The ruling came in three consolidated eases However, the panel told 'trial courts in the two Washington cases to determine whether that state can impose a sales tax on liquor transactions involving the Mucldeshoot and Tualip tribes FDA proposes warning on protein diet aids VASHINCTOM The government proposed Tuesday that some low calorie protein diet aids be required to carry a label warning that misuse could be fatal The Food and Drug Administration wants to require some warning label on all diet products which derive percent or more of their calories from protein. The ones designed for 'a diet of less than too calones a day would have to carry the death warning The proposal would apply to powders, capsules and tablets as well as liquified protein similar to a type associated with 17 deaths In 1S7S. Reagan exaggerates fraud fight' report WASHINGTON The Reagan administration may have exaggerated Its success In controlling fraud, waste and abuse in government, a Congressional report said Tuesday, The administration's Initial reports on its progress "are of questionable value" because ef various problems in calculating savings, said the General Accounting Office of Congress In a study requested by Rep. John DLngell, Mlch.

"Unless these problems are corrected, the credibility of future reports will continue to be suspect," said the GAO In a report signed by WD. Campbell, acting director of its accounting and financial management division. Bill would revive Conservation Corps WASHINGTON Supporters of a bill to create a modern version of the old Civilian Conservation Corps urged passage of the legislation Tuesday despite strong Reagan acUnlnlstraiion opposition The House Is expected to vote today on the bill to' establish an American Conservation Corps. Rep. John F.

Seiberling, OhJo, and Rep. Toby Moffett. principal sponsors of the legislation, said it would serve the double purpose of providing jobe to young people and restoring deteriorated public lands ana parks. U.S. denies account of helicopter incident WASHINGTON The Reagan administration on Tuesday rejected Nicaragua's version of an Incident la which a tNicaraguaa coast guard boat fired warning shots at a VS helicopter, Nicaragua said the helicopter had violated Its airspace when the attack occurred Monday, The helicopter wasn't hit and there were no injuries.

U.S. officials said it was unarmed. The State bepartment, acknowledging that a VS. helicopter was fired on, said the aircraft did not enter Nlcaniguanalrspaceandwasona routine mission at th time. Woman accidentally shot trying to prevent suicide SAN LEANDRO, Calif.

A minister's wife who' tried to keep a church member from corrixnitting suicide' was seriously Injured when the man's gun discharged, klJtting rilm and wcejiidlng hrsn the heaopouce said. 1' David Frederickaon. a was holding a Jcalibor" revolver to hi chest wheat Irene Margaret Roades and Philip Roades tried to help ttltra to his set Monday, pouca Tha bud want off. and tha bullet passed through'' Frederick son's head and struck Mrs, Roe4k between the eyes..

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