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Terps to face Illinois -Thursday: 01 THE SPORTS FINAL MARCH 19, 1964 VOL 294 NUMBER 105 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 25 CENTS On the march in El Salvador mm ir vc i f. U.o perns probe of Meese loam 47, U.S. sends 2AWACS to Sudan Intelligence planes offered after raid, suspected as Libyan 'New York Times News Service Washington The United States has dispatched two AWACS surveillance planes to Egypt to bolster air defenses in the Sudan against a repetition of Friday's air raid on the city of Omdurman, administration officials said yesterday. They said the action was authorized by President Reagan after a joint request was received from the Egyptians and the Sudanese, who have a defense treaty. The dispatch of the aircraft was carried out in secrecy.

Neither State Department nor Defense Department spokesmen were permitted to comment on any aspect of the Sudanese situation. One official said privately he believed that two electronic surveillance aircraft initially were involved, and that they had taken off yesterday morning from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. He said it was possible additional planes would be sent in coming days. According to U.S. officials, intelligence information left no doubt that a Libyan air force TU-22 bomber based at an airfield in Kufra, Libya, had tarried out Friday's attack, which apparently was aimed at the main Sudanese radio station.

The bombs missed the station and its transmitter but hit nearby buildings, including one belonging to the station. Five persons were killed in the attack, which went unchallenged by Sudanese air defenses. The plane, officials said, took off and landed at Kufra. The Sudan's president, Gaafar el See SUDAN, A6, Col. 3 olive green, clutching rifles.

Seventy-five yards ahead, the company's pinned-down vanguard sprayed M-16 automatic rifle fire in the direction the shooting had come from. From hilltop positions beside us, army machine-gunners unleashed cascades of lead. An 81-mm. mortar boomed. It was 1:20 p.m.

last Tuesday, and we were midway into a three-day march with the Salvadoran infantry's Lenca battalion on the rebel stronghold of Corinto, 6 miles south of the Honduran border. See EL SALVADOR, A2, Col. 1 By Oakland Ross Troops of the Lenca battalion advance toward town of Corinto in northern Morazan province during army sweep. Sweep aims at rebel stronghold Army tries to confuse guerrillas, show its strength MORAZAN WAR IN EL SALVADOR First in a series The Sun's Latin America correspondent, James Bock, spent three days last week with the Salvadoran army as it mounted a major offensive against embattled rebels in Morazan province. This is the first of three reports.

By James Bock Sun Staff Correspondent El Tablon, El Salvador We were advancing with an army company along a dusty road, past fields of dry grasses torched by retreating rebels and crackling in flames, when hilltop guerrilla snipers opened fire. Pop-boom! Popboom! came the distinctive retort of the rebels' Belgian-made FAL automatic rifles. We dived into a tangle of briers and burrs and huddled against the 12-foot-high roadside bank. Crouched next to us were impassive soldiers in Ucoco letter to Thurmond I want to personally ad-; vise you that the Justice Department has informed me that it is commencing a preliminary inquiry, as required by law, into certain matters pertaining to the filing of information con- cerning the $15,000 loan received by my wife in connection with stocks purchased for our children's education. I welcome this inquiry by the Justice Department, it provides a full opportunity to evaluate and to expose the baseless insinuations that have received extensive media exposure and have been undoubtedly motivated by election-year politics.

I am confident that a calm and dispassionate examination of the facts will fully reveal the absence of any wrongdoing on my part. Because of this ongoing inquiry and with the permission of the president, I respectfully request that the confirmation process relating to my nomination -be postponed until the Department of Justice examination has been completed. I intend to continue my effort to be confirmed as attorney general I refuse to allow those who attack the character of my family and myself to impugn a lifetime of service. Once again, I urge all those involved in the process to be fair and to allow this impartial inquiry and my continued full explanation to determine the but-come of these issues. I am confident that the results will be of great help to the favorable consideration of my nomination.

Source: The Associated Press Washington (AP) The Department of Justice opened a preliminary inquiry yesterday to determine whether a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the financial transactions of attorney general-designate Edwin W. Meese III. Mr. Meese, who disclosed the investigation, immediately sought and received Senate permission to postpone hearings on his nomination. The decision by the Justice Department, which followed extraordinary meetings on Saturday and yesterday by top agency officials to discuss the Meese affair, could postpone the Senate vote on Mr.

Meese's confirmation for some time. Mr. Meese disclosed the investigation by having an aide call news service reporters at home last night and read the text of a letter Mr. Meese had read yesterday evening to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond (R, S.C.). Mr.

Thurmond, through an aide, said he would grant Mr. Meese's request to postpone the confirmation hearings. White House spokesman Larry M. Speakes said, "The president is solidly behind Mr. Meese." Mr.

Meese told Mr. Thurmond the Justice Department would be investigating "certain matters pertaining to the filing of information concerning the $15,000 loan received by my wife in connection with stocks purchased for our children's education." The White House counselor was referring to an interest-free $15,000 loan received in December, 1980, from Edwin Thomas, who later became an aide to Mr. Meese in the White House and is now regional director of the General Services Administration in San Francisco. Mr. Thomas's wife, Gretchen, also works for the federal government in San Francisco.

Mr. Meese failed to disclose the $15,000 loan on 1981 and 1982 financial disclosure reports, as required by the Ethics in Government Act. He also failed to disclose the loan to the Senate Judiciary Committee, for which he apologized in a letter to Mr. Thurmond last week. Mr.

Meese has said the loan was used to buy stock in Biotech Capital Corporation, which was later sold for a $3,000 loss. He also failed to disclose that, as required by the ethics law. Under the ethics act, Attorney General William French Smith has up to 90 days to decide whether there is See MEESE, A6, Col. 5 Lebanese leaders extend conciliation talks From Wire Services of an official cease-fire called Tuesday, put new pressure on the conference to come up with a reform package quickly to end a decade of bloodshed in Lebanon. At least 15 persons were, killed and 35 wounded in shelling and gun battles in Beirut Saturday night and yesterday.

Artillery shells crashed into residential areas on both sides of the Green Line dividing Beirut yesterday, and machine gun and small-arms battles raged as warring factions waited for some sign of a political breakthrough. A security committee revived by the Lausanne conference and charged with trying to implement a cease-fire failed to meet for the third consecutive day. No reason was given, but an official source said the committee might meet today. Mr. Samaha said yesterday that the French government had agreed in principle to using its contingent of the multinational force to help maintain a buffer zone in Beirut provided for under the cease-fire accord.

The same report was carried by the independent Beirut daily An-Nahar. A spokesman at the French Defense Ministry in Paris said he could neither confirm nor deny it. The French troops are the only members of the multinational force remaining in Beirut. The U.S., British and Italian contingents were withdrawn last month. Officials had called yesterday's inconclusive session of the reconciliation talks a "make-or-break" round.

But the prospects for eventual success or for a breakdown were no clearer last night. One of Mr. Gemayel's principal foes, Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze, had said earlier that the talks were a bazaar." "This is surrealist theater," Mr. Jumblatt told reporters. "I am fed up.

In my opinion, the conference will end halfway with a compromise. It will be simply a paper that will not be applied. "If we do not return with something substan-See LEBANON, A6, Col. 6 Lausanne, Switzerland Lebanese peace negotiators, unable to agree on political reforms, decid-: ed after private meetings last night to extend na-; tional reconciliation talks into a second week. -1 Michael Samaha, a spokesman for the confer- ence, said President Amin Gemayel and eight lead-; ers of rival Christian and Muslim groups would convene again today.

"I think there will be something much more pos-! itive than all of us are thinking tonight," Mr. Sama-- ha said. The talks began last Monday. Observers said the negotiations seemed ready to collapse yesterday, but a high-level conference source said there was no deadlock. "We are not close to agreement yet," he said.

"Many issues are unresolved. But there are formu-. las on the table that may resolve these issues." Fighting in several parts of Beirut, in defiance Common Market facing divisive issues The Sun Sun Graphics possible in two other areas reform of the EEC budget, and Britain's demands for refunds of hundreds of millions of dollars. Success is not assured because each of the 10 national leaders comes to the summit with his domestic politics very much in mind. Announcing a tentative accord on agricultural policies last week, French Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard acknowledged that reactions at home could mean the reforms never go into effect "The pill is bitter, but the fact that an accord was possible shows that Europe is save-able, even if it's not yet saved," he said.

Founders of the Common Market envisioned a smoother-running system, a "United States of Europe" See EUROPE, A6, Col. 1 Lover's lane shooting A gunman fired shots at two lovers parked in a car near Reisterstown, wounding the man critically Partly cloudy Partly cloudy today and tonight High today, 54; low tonight 30 to 35. Yesterday's high, 54; low, 42 C2 Index Bridge B3 Lottery Business Movies Classified C4 Obituaries-Comics 31 Sportr Crossword iB7 Television Editorials A8 Weather 4 Section! -D6 JBS B6 C2 trade jabs debate Mr. Hart, the front-runner in the race, did respond, however, to Mr. Mondale's question in an Atlanta debate eight days ago about the senator's claim to have new ideas.

"Where's the beef?" Mr. Mondale asked then. "Vice President Mondale has cleverly picked up a slogan from a fast food chain and tried to suggest there are no new ideas or issues when he knows full well there are in the form of a book, a strategy, position papers," Mr. Hart said. He then reached under his chair for a copy of his 1983 book, "A New Democracy," and handed it to Mr.

Mondale. "Here's the beef," he said. "Here's a copy for you." Mr. Mondale was prepared for that tactic. "Yeah, and you can read this whole book and the word 'civil rights' isn't mentioned," he said.

A few moments later, Mr. Hart shot back, "If Vice President Mondale's staff had read beyond the index of this book to paragraph three of the first page," they would have found it And he read a passage that referred to "equal rights." "Where's the word 'civil rights'?" Mr. Mondale asked. "That's what I brought up. Do you have tfct in there? Where is 'civil rights'?" Instead of new ideas, Mr.

Hart has advocated two "bad ideas," a $10-a-barrel fee on imported oil and a $2 trillion expenditure on infrastructure, Mr. Mondale said. Mr. Hart said the import fee was similar to a proposal of what be called "the Carter-Mondale administration." ThiVn entirely new proposal," the former vice president said. "It is See DEMOCRATS, A10, Col.

3 Democrats in Chicago By Fred Barnes Sun Staff Correspondent Chicago Keeping up his offensive against Senator Gary Hart, former Vice President Walter F. Mon-dale used a debate here last night, two days before the Illinois primary, to hammer his foe for the Democratic presidential nomination again and again, suggesting that Mr. Hart's commitment to civil rights and the working man is weak. Mr. Hart took several swipes at Mr.

Mondale in the hour-long session, which involved the three survivors in the Democratic race, but it was the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson who was more strenuous in criticizing Mr. Mondale. In yesterday's sole primary, Mr.

Mondale scored a runaway victory over Gary Hart in Puerto Rico, a contest that the Colorado senator had chosen not to contest, charging it was not "open." Outpolling Hart by a margin of 99 oercent to 1 percent, the former vice president won all 48 delegates that were up for grabs in yesterday's primary. Puerto Rico's remaining five delegates will go to party and commonwealth officials. With 95 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Mondale had 143,241 votes to 742 for Mr. Hart and 378 for Ohio Senator John H.

Glenn, who has dropped out of the race. In Chicago, Mr. Mondale and Mr. Jackson dominated the debate, which was televised locally and was considered potentially crucial to the outcome of tomorrow's presidential primary in Illinois. Mr Hart gave shorter statements, and'durisg one Mondale attack he simply smiled and fidgeted with a ball of paper.

Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (right) is shown talking with NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins in a 1977 photograph. Mr. Wilkins died in 1981.

Clarence Mitchell, rights leader, dies at 73 By Robert Ruby Paris Bureau of The Sun Paris Whatever the border within the European Economic Community, a crossing by a commercial vehicle demands paper work and patience. And every crossing is a reminder that the Common Market has not fully opened Western Europe's borders to a free flow of people and trade, as its founders had wished. Now, in the most serious crisis of the community's 26-year history, leaders of the 10 member countries will meet in Brussels today to try to save the organization from bankruptcy and possible collapse. Within the past week, they have broken a deadlock over costly price supports for the market's dairy farmers, giving hope that compromise is Inside Salvador aid support Rep. Jim Wright of Texas, the House majority leader, says most House Democrats will support President Reagan's request for emergency military aid to El Salvador A2 John DeLorean's fall How the multimillionaire automaker's idealic life suddenly collapsed in an epic cocaine scandal Bl Chincoteague development Exactly 10 years after the Maryland Court of overturned a massive rezoping here for a newhinco- -teague vacation community; another developer is trying again CI Mr.

Mitchell was stricken at home in the 1300 block of Druid Hill avenue yesterday morning, shortly after walking home from church with his wife. He died at Maryland General at 8:32 p.m. of cardiac arrest "The nation has lost a great champion of justice and human dignity," Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D. Md.) said last night "Clarence Mitchell, through his moral strength, was a powerful force for a better America.

We deeply mourn bis death and reaffirm our committment the enduring values for which he fought" See MITCHELL, A7, Col. 1 By David Michael Ettlin and Scott Shane Clarence M. Mitchell a national civil rights leader and patriarch of the black family most prominent in Baltimore politics, died of an apparent heart attack last night at Maryland General Hospital. He was 73. Mr.

Mitchell directed the Washington office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for three decades, advised presidents on civil rights and becanfi known as "the 101st senator" efforts that brought him the presidential Medal of Freedom..