Rapid City Journal from Rapid City, South Dakota • 17

Tuesday, December 6, 1983 the Rapid City Journal 17 83 'A. World news NATO defense ministers urge new soviet arms proposals States remained determined "to BRUSSELS, Belgium AP) NATO's but, Sjaastad added, "we do not think Treasury undersecretary, Carlo European defense ministers urged Moscow Tuesday to come up with new proposals on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe and to return to arms negotiations in Geneva. The issues of the medium-range missile talks broken off by the Soviets and recent developments in the Mideast were the top subjects of discussion for a two-day NATO strategy session, U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was ready to defend the U.S. military role in Lebanon when he joins the talks later.

The 12 European defense ministers of the alliance met and declared that the possibilities of reaching an accord on the medium-range weapons in Europe "were not exhausted." "We should have Soviet indications and proposals on how to resume the negotiations," said Norway's defense minister, Andres C. Sjaastad. "By and large we think the time is ripe to try to reconstruct the dialogue" between the Soviet Union and the United States at Geneva, Switzerland, that we should now be the one to initiate" the move. The Soviets left the Geneva talks on medium-range missiles on Nov. 23 after the first of 572 U.S.

nuclear missiles began arriving in Western Europe. The ministers said the deployment of the cruise and Pershing 2 missiles "could be halted or reversed if an agreement was reached." Sjaastad said the European defense ministers discussed the possibility of merging negotiations on long-range, strategic weapons, which continued in Geneva, with the talks on medium-range missiles. The Soviet Union and the United States have so far opposed merging the talks. In discussions about Lebanon, mounting Marine casualties and U.S. air strikes against Syrian positions have increased questions about the role of the multinational force in Lebanon.

Italy hinted Monday that it may withdraw its contingent of soldiers. But Weinberger said the United demonstrate that we have the strength and will" to fulfill the mission to keep peace in Lebanon until all foreign forces, including Syrian and Israeli troops, are withdrawn. Weinberger spoke in Nuremberg, West Germany to American troops. "We need much more activity on the diplomatic and political sides," Weinberger said. Premier Bettino Craxi of Italy hinted Monday that Italy may remove its 2,100 soldiers if the United States and Syria engage in more fighting.

Denis Healey, foreign affairs spokesman for Britain's opposition Labor Party, called for Britain to withdraw Its 100-man contingent, saying the United States was pursuing a "catastrophic course." France, the fourth contributor to the force, does not belong to the military wing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Craxi's remarks, at a Common Market summit in Athens, Greece, were echoed in Rome by Italy's Fracanzani, who said Italy must "reconsider Immediately the presence of our contingent in Lebanon." Italian sources said Craxi has called a Cabinet meeting of his five-party coalition for Wednesday to discuss the issue. American warplanes made their first air attack in Lebanon on Sunday, bombing Syrian positions. Two American planes were shot down, with one pilot killed and another captured. The air strikes were in retaliation for antiaircraft fire at U.S.

reconnaissance planes on Saturday. Shellfire killed 8 U.S Marines Sunday night at their base at Beirut airport. In October, a suicide bomb attack on their headquarter killed 239 Marines. A similar attack on French peacekeepers killed 58. However, much of the NATO discussions will focus on defense problems in Europe, now that the a new breed of U.S.

nuclear missiles is being deployed there after four years of planning and political controversy. Germany to see the 15th Infantry Davision at Hohentels U.S. Training Area Monday. (AP Laserphoto) Wearing a tank driver's helmet, U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger steers a Bradley personnel carrier.

Weinberger was in West Nicaraguans claim Hondurans hit fishing boats, customs post im um 9 $mm iwmjiiiiiiiiiwiinwn wm ffi Ji a A 7 Is kf -it 7 "'I 1 I -v, vi, 4 1 ik "7 1 v- rockets" in support of an attack by four Honduran boats. Other Honduran boats attacked another Nicaraguan boat in the gulf and two off the Atlantic coast Sunday, the communique said. The Gulf of Fonseca, shared by Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador, has been the site of frequent clashes between Nicaragua and Honduran boats. Relations between the two countries have deteriorated recently as Honduran-based Nicaraguan rebels, funded by the CIA, escalated attacks in Nicaragua. Nicaragua's Sandinista government Sunday announced an amnesty for most of the rebels and promised that on Feb.

21 it would announce a date for elections in 1985. But a leader of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, one of four opposition parties, said he had expected more concessions. "To be frank, we were hoping the decrees would be broader," said the politician, who requested anonymity. U.S. Secretary of State George P.

Shultz questioned whether the Sandinistas' statements indicate a true policy change. "I think that the statements being made by the government of Nicaragua are vastly different from the statements they were making six months ago," Shultz said Monday. "I welcome that. "What we want is for a reality to be put behind the rhetoric. And so naturally we want to probe and find out what is there." MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) The leftist government says Honduran gunboats staged three attacks on Nicaraguan fishing boats and camouflaged planes strafed a seaside customs post, killing two employees.

In Honduras, which borders Nicaragua to the north, the government Monday refused to admit 92 American churchwomen who planned a protest against U.S. intervention in Central America. Honduran officials said the planned three-day protest was supported by "leftist extremists." The women arrived in Honduras on a commerical flight from Miami. Only 10 people, none frpm the religious group, were allowed off the plane, which returned to the United States. Nicaragua's Foreign Ministry formally blamed Honduras for three attacks Sunday and Monday on fishing boats.

One fishing boat captain was killed and five crewmen were wounded. Foreign Ministry spokesman Manuel Espinoza Rivera said the government was investigating the strafing attack Monday on the customs post at the Pacific port of Potosi. He said a protest would be lodged if the investigation indicated Honduras was responsible. "Two camouflaged planes coming in from Honduras fired several machine gun bursts, killing two customs employees in Potosi," said a customs source who asked not to be identified. It was not clear if the planes attacking Potosi were the same ones which attacked two Nicaraguan boats in the Gulf of Fonseca 30 minutes earlier.

A Foreign Ministry communique said three Honduran planes "fired several The Sandinistas have announced the release of 300 Miskito Indians from jail, but a Nicaraguan Indian leader based in Honduras called the action "a farce." "This decree is a maneuver mounted by the leftist regime in Managua so the governments of Latin America think Nicaragua is seeking a negotiated solution to the problems it is confronting," Steadman Fagoth Muller said. Honduras denied entry to the American churchwomen "because they tried to enter the country using deceit," government spokesman Amilcar San-tamariasald. "They asked for tourist visas and came with the intention of organizing meetings of a political nature, an activity which the constitution prohibits for foreigners," he said. The women planned to conduct vigils and prayer sessions in Tegucigalpa and at American military camps. "The women in question came to play the Nicaraguan government's game, which is a threat to the peace and security of Central America." San-tamaria said.

In El Salvador, a new leftist group announced its emergence with propaganda bombs that rained leaflets on the downtown area Monday. The group the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers Movement takes its name from the late leader of the Popular Liberation Forces, the most radical of five leftist guerrilla groups in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, fighting to overthrow the U.S.-backed rightist government. Deputy James Wallace of the St. John a tornado near LaPlace, La. (AP the Baptist Parish sheriff's department Laserphoto) checks some of the damage caused by.

Tornadoes in South kill 1 person; more snow headed for Midwest MISS. Selma Tornado Damage ALA. Ff tJFmm I I LA'4wU Salvador's civil action program bogged down The Associated Press Thunderstorms bearing heavy rains and hail rumbled across the Gulf Coast Tuesday, causing tornadoes that killed one person and injured dozens in Alabama and Louisiana, as new snows headed for the West and Midwest. One person died in Selma, and five were sent to hospitals after a tornado smashed through a junior high school and a college, said Civil Defense Director Warren Rhoads. "It hopped, skipped and jumped around town," Rhoads said.

"We've had trees down, power lines down all over town." The twister flipped an 18-wheel truck, he added. In LaPlace, about 50 people received minor injuries when a tornado rippe.d through a residential neighborhood and destroyed at least 20 homes. Heavy storms rumbled eastward along the Gulf Coast, and tornado and flash-flood watches were in effect in parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Other violent weather stretched from Lake Ontario in the Northeast, where a gale warning was posted Tuesday, to Idaho, where a belting of snow Monday closed the state School for the Deaf and Blind for the first time in 17 years. The latest winter storm to hit Wyoming left slick highways, closed schools and dead chickens as it left the state Monday, but officials said the state still won't be back to seasonal for awhile.

"Monday afternoon highs were more like seasonal lows," the National Weather Service said, noting the temperatures of 10 degrees below zero were being moved to a winter show barn in Lander until Campbell's Soup company purchasers arrived. The storm death toll in Alabama rose to five with the drowning of a man who apparently stumbled into a flooded drainage ditch, and the Selma fatality, which occurred when a twister traveling just outside the city's main business district rammed through a housing project. As many as 1,000 homes were damaged by water, said Jim Maher, director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, and officials warned residents to brace for more flooding. The Tombigbee River was expected to crest at 36 or 37 feet late Tuesday at Columbus, where flood stage is 29 feet. The weather service predicted the Yazoo River would reach 37 feet, two feet above flood stage, at Greenwood, Miss.

In LaPlace, 25 miles west of New Orleans, St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff Lloyd'Johnson reported 20 to 25 homes were "destroyed" and 25 others were damaged. Only five people had to be admitted to hospitals because of their injuries. Tornadoes were reported Monday night near Brookfield and Moultrie, Ga. with five people slightly by the latter one, and near Vidalia, Tallulah and Fort Necessity, officials said.

South Dakata forecaster Alex Koscielski said Monday the latest western storm would be "knocking at the door" here, and the weather service said Tuesday that new snow was falling across the Northern Plateau. A military sweep of the region at the start of the program got few results because the rebels, tipped to the operation, left the area. As the people drifted back, so did the guerrillas and they now have relatively free run, especially at night. A ma jor strategy of the rebels is to attack production as part of their war against the economy. In the teeming refugee camp in the center of the nearby provincial capital of San Vicente an estimated 4,000 people who fled the fighting have been waiting two years or more to return to their land.

Those interviewed said they do not do so because they are frightened. "I can't go back to my land because the guerrillas told me they don't want us to work," lamented Jose "Chele" Jimenez, a stocky 50-ish man who has been in the camp for just over two years. Others agreed. "Maybe the army will protect us one day then go away for a while," said another who would not give his name. "Who will protect us then?" Workers rebuilding houses on one cooperative destroyed by the fighting return to San Vicente at night, they say, because they are afraid to stay on the farm.

SAN LORENZO, El Salvador (AP) A U.S.-funded program to lure refugees back to their homes and farms has been less of a success than hoped in the rugged, battle-scarred countryside of San Vicente province. Many still prefer the security of refugee camps, squalid though they maybe. The program was started in June and promises those who return the protection of the army from leftist guerrillas. It also provides material help for the rebuilding of homes and communities damaged by the war. U.S.

and Salvadoran officials have called the plan the last hope for El Salvador. In this bombed-out, bullet-riddled village 37 miles east of San Salvador, the national capital, about 1,500 of the original 11,000 residents have returned. Under the spreading limbs of a Cottonwood tree that shades most of the town square, a cluster of housewives listened politely as Jose Lorenzo Ponce, a government promoter of the plan here, ran down a list of the things he said the program has done: streets have been repaired, the city hall and telephone office have been rebuilt, as has the community center; electricity has been brought to the town for the first time in three years. But much remains to be done, he said, promising the villagers they soon will have bricks to rebuild homes, tiles for their roofs and paint to make San Lorenzo look fresh again. Most Of the town's residents fled when six weeks of fighting all but leveled the town in February 1981.

Those who are back are forming informal cooperatives to hook up electricity and replace roofs on houses knocked off by shelling. The National Plan, as it is called, envisions a military "shield" to protect the populace while civic action programs try to bring the area back to normal. Civil defense programs were started to arm villagers. But "the shield was a few holes in it," conceded a military observer who keeps close watch on the program. "Things aren't happening as fast as they hoped they would." in Big Piney and 4 degrees below zero in Douglas late Monday.

Brisk winds, gusting to 34 mph at Rawlins, also dropped the wind chill factors to minus 35 there, to minus 29 in Casper and minus 27 in Cheyenne, even though actual temperatures' ranged in the single digits to teens. The storm that closed schools in southwestern Wyoming was pretty much out of the state by late Monday, but the forecast predicts continued snow showers, cool temperatures and winds, and won't let Wyoming residents forget summer is a long ways ahead. The state Highway Patrol reported no new highway fatalities from the last storm, but it was blamed for the deaths of hundreds of chickens near Lander Sunday. Mary Jane Feutz of Romar Egg Factory said heavy snow caved in a chicken coop holding 6,100 chickens, killing hundreds. She said the remaining poultry Democratic presidential candidates unite in effort to raise money out," said Jackson at a reception preceding the Washington dinner.

"My motive is to expand the base of the party." Terry Michael, a party spokesman, said Manatt would listen to Jackson's concerns and "he will obviously want to point out the ways in which our process is open to full participation by women and minorities." There was no sign of tension at the Washington dinner. Cranston boycotted the tour as a show of support for party officials in Iowa and New Hampshire who are embroiled in a dispute with national party officials over the primary and caucus schedule. Iowa wants to hold its caucuses Feb. 20 instead of Feb. 27, the date set by the national party.

New Hampshire also is determined to have its primary a week early, on Feb. 28 rather than March 6. Former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida dropped out of the tour at the last minute after his mother-in-law died. Party harmony also was strained by Jackson's vow to challenge party rules for selecting delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Jackson claimed the rules "lock out" women, blacks and other minorities. He and party chairman Charles T. Manatt spoke by telephone Monday and agreed to meet later this month to discuss Jackson's complaints. "I would rather that we negotiate It All six candidates were to reunite in Albuquerque for a meeting with western governors, followed by another dinner. Each breakfast and lunch carried $500-a-plate price tags.

A party spokesman said the goal for the "presidential sweep" was $1.5 million. Earlier, the stated goal was $1.9 million, The attempt at unity was marred somewhat by the refusal of Sen. Alan Cranston of California to participate. President Walter F. Mondale, Sen.

Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina and former Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota appearing at a fund-raising breakfast in Chicago. On the southern leg of the fund-raising sweep, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sen.

Gary Hart of Colorado and Sen. John Glenn of Ohio were appearing at a breakfast in Atlanta. After the Atlanta breakfast, Jackson, Hart and Glenn were heading for Houston. The Associated Press In unity there is money this could be the theme as Democratic presidential candidates subordinated their differences Tuesday in order to raise a party war chest for the 1984 campaign. On Monday night, the candidates clasped hands and heard themselves referred to as "the next president of the United States" at a dinner opening their drive for money and party unity, Today's schedule had former Vice i.