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Pag 4. I Wednesday, October 'JHMtj THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Nicaraauarts Down U. with robinson Plane With Su Dolies Vfrv ap6clatpixvod anJ lute ScwewS against febel groups in their territories. Responding to remarks byNiea-raguan Junta Coordinator DaWel'Or-tega, who last week said his-troops would enter Costa Rica and Honduras to chase rebels, a Honduran presidential press release such moves would be met by ''all, the resources of the armed Lebanese Tanks Blast Moslems In S. Beirut Nicaraguan President Anastasio So-moza, former National Guard Capt.

Hugo Reinaldo Aguilar, tuid Jaime Lau Ramirez, a mechanic. The Honduran-based rebels, led mostly by former officers of the National Guard, receive aid from the CIA. They and a separate guerrilla force fighting in southern Nicaragua are trying to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government. The Democratic Nicaraguan Force announced that Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, a Nicaraguan businessman, has been named president of the group, replacing a seven-man directorate composed of former guardsmen and businessmen. The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said armed rebels riding in speed boats destroyed two fuel tanks at Benjamin Zeledon, a port on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast.

The ministry said the attacks Sunday destroyed 380,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel. Nicaraguan infantry commander Capt. Francisco Leon Picado told reporters that rebel attacks on four northern towns were turned back, with 60 insurgents and 16 government troops killed over the last four days. Late yesterday, Costa Rica and Honduras warned they would use, force to block Nicaraguan moves MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -The Defense Ministry says Nicara-guan soldiers shot down a U.S.-regis-tered transport carrying supplies to CIA-backed rebels in the northern mountains. A ministry statement issued yesterday said a DC 3 transport plane registered in Oklahoma was shot down 90 miles north of Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, after taking off from Honduras.

The ministry said two Nicaraguan rebel pilots and a mechanic were captured by soldiers of the leftist government, while two men died in the crash and two escaped after parachuting from the plane. Elsewhere in Central America, leftist Salvadoran rebels said they overran four army posts, killing 16 soldiers, and Guatemala's army said it killed 23 leftist rebels in an ambush. In Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Democratic Nicaraguan Force rebel group said the transport plane was on a "special mission" when it was forced to land because of "mechanical difficulties." 3 Men Identified The three men captured were identified by officials in Managua as Roberto Amador a former major of the National Guard of late of the village as saying the two were hit by sniper fire from surrounding Druze areas. Lebanon state radio said McFarlane returned to Beirut from a trip to Italy and Israel and was preparing for a new round of talks with Lebanese leaders to reinforce the truce and arrange the reconciliation conference. Officials in Israel told reporters that they had complained to McFarlane about Syria's role in the civil-war truce negotiations.

their differences at a national reconciliation conference, but Arab diplomatic sources in Saudi Arabia said today the conference was unlikely to begin soon. "The response of certain Lebanese factions to the roundtable reconciliation conference has not been encouraging," said one Arab ambassador, who refused to be identified. "The situation is extremely sensitive, and the eventuality of a resumption of fighting bothers the Saudi Arabian government." The conference had been tentatively scheduled to be held in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, sometime this week, he said. Yesterday, snipers in Beirut terrorized Christian and Moslem neighborhoods, leaving at least one person dead, while U.S. presidential envoy Robert McFarlane returned to the Lebanese capital in a renewed effort to stem the violence.

In the mountains near Beirut, Western reporters said a woman was killed and a man wounded in the village of Deir Al Kamar, where hundreds of Christians have taken refuge. The reporters quoted residents FREE SCREEN FREE SCREEN WITH ANY DOOR PURCHASED BETWEEN NOW AND OCT. 6 BUY NOW PAY LATER 90 DAYS SAME AS CASH Up After 1984? BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Lebanese army tanks blasted sandbagged positions of Moslem militiamen in Southern Beirut today and Saudi Arabia warned that increasing ceasefire violations threatened to rekindle Lebanon's civil war. Lebanese troops fired a 30 minute Barrage from tanks at Shiite Moslem militia positions before dawn, residents said, after nightlong sniping jnd rocket propelled grenade attacks gn nearby army positions. The violations of the 10-day-old eease-fire also were reported in army afld police communiques, which provided no details.

sA Saudi government statement broadcast in Riyadh said the ceasefire violations had created "a very grave and intolerable situation" that could "dismember" Lebanon. Fahd's government, with jls. support, mediated the truce that halted three weeks of civil warfare pitting the Lebanese army and rightist Christian militiamen against a Syrian-backed alliance of Druze and Shiite militias. I The cease-fire calls for the bickering Lebanese factions to mediate Oil Prices WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan is pronouncing his energy policy a rousing success, but jhe" administration's latest national tnergy policy plan warns of the potential for large oil price increases fft'er 1984. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel presented Reagan with a copy of the flan in a brief Oval Office meeting yesterday, after which Reagan issued a statement calling on Congress pass controversial natural gas decontrol legislation that has been stalled on Capitol Hill for months.

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