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4 Thursday September 27 1984 Page tA Tucson Citizen Keagah'smpe at Carter stirs anger capsizes crew safe Cruise ship passengers By TIm AMOclated Pna BROOKSVILLE Maine A pleasure cruise off the Maine coast became a journey into the when a gust of wind flipped a schooner several hundred yards off shore sending 23 people scrambling for anything that would float in chilly seas Helicopters and a flotilla of government and private boats alerted by witnesses on shore rushed to the rescue yesterday and all 19 passengers and the the near destruction of our intelli- gence capability in recent years before we came here the effort that somehow to say well spying is somehow dishonest and get rid of our intelligence agents and we did that to a large extent your biggest protection is to and trying to rebuild our intelligence to where find out and know in advance what the target might be and be prepared for The administration also drew continued criticism from House Democrats and some Republicans despite favorable action on its new initiatives it is time to identify the people who are responsible for lapses in security and give them some other Rep Stephen Solarz D-NY told State Department officials at a For- eign Affairs Committee hearing Rep Robert Torricelli D-NJ' another member of the committee said expect the president of the United States to put some people on the carpet to say who is responsible and to get rid of Last bombing was the -third of its kind in the last 1 years In April 1983 the US Embassy in Beirut was attacked killing 17 Americans' and 241 US servicemen died in a suicide attack in October 1983 on a Marine position at the Beirut airport the president to suggest that the most recent terrorist disaster in Lebanon is Jimmy Carter's fault is the ultimate disappearing act one thing to be able to stage manage walking away from these disasters but its another thing to try and leave the impression that they even happen on your Moynihan also read a March 8 letter from CIA Director William Casey saying of us know that the increase in the personnel and budgetary strength of the agency began in 1979 that it was planned and proposed earlier and that it cannot be completed without strong bipartisan have my assurance that I will not tolerate any attempt to politicize the agency or its work or use the fact of its revitalization for partisan political Casey wrote Moynihan said letter was in response to one he wrote to the CIA director on Feb 2 protesting a statement by White House spokesman Larry Speakes that the CIA was by decisions of the previous response to the question which came from a member of his audience at a campaign appearance in Bowling Green was: real protection and where feeling the effects today of clenched told the Senate believe an apology is in order If none is forthcoming a motion of censure is in Moynihan vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that intelligence budgets after declining steadily for a number of years had increased each year since Carter submitted his first full budget in January 1979 CIA budgets are classified but Moynihan said upward or downward trends in intelligence spending may be made public Sen Patrick Leahy D-Vt a member of the Intelligence Committee called comment and beneath the dignity of the office of president of the United is a slur on our intelligence officers and a slur on those who died" Leahy said think of any time in the 10 years I have been in the Senate when I have been so angry as I am now How dare he try to escape his responsibilities? If he does not immediately retract his statement we should rise up and say shame Mr President for shame you shame your The terrorist bombing attack on the US embassy annex in Beirut last week left 14 dead including two Americans Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said AM-9 PM closed when rain dropped in Patrick of the Federal Aviation Administration could have predicted two months ago that Tucson would get hit by bad weather yesterday It was two months ago that air traffic manager here scheduled routine work to be performed on a system that helps planes land during bad weather at Tucson International Airport And you know it that system working during the height of storm forcing several planes to land instead in Phoenix never he said today can schedule work to be done on that system six months in advance and bet anything have bad weather on that The system taken out of service for routine work yesterday lets planes land when here is a 200-foot ceiling and a half-mile of visibility he said The back-up system has higher mmimums: A 500-foot ceiling and li-mile visibility The main system allows planes to land in a straight approach while the SAT 10-6 sun TO 6 MATTRESS FURNITURE FACTORY Norbert subdued but 3 still needed storm rescue Blames raids on weak CIA By The Associated Press WASHINGTON As Congress moves to approve anti-terrorism money and laws proposed by the Reagan administration Democrats are charging that President Reagan shamed his office by blaming the Beirut bombing on neglect of the CIA by former President Carter Reagan in response to a question about the need for increased security in the wake of the bombing referred in Bowling Green Ohio yesterday to effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years before we came here" At about the time Reagan spoke the Democrat-dominated House Foreign Affairs and House Judiciary committees were recommending swift congressional approval of his request for $366 million to improve embassy security plus a trio of anti-terrorist laws When word of remarks reached Washington however Democrats in the Senate reacted in terms of outrage Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan D-NY saying that he spoke OPEN DAILY M0N-FRI 10 QUEEN ANNE CHAIR Classic wing back design JctofY- Miect fabric 198 li on Ortho FACTORY DIRECT prices are always 40 to 60 below department and furniture store A list prices W- 1 JTifr'jrp ilJ 1 iBii iiDTrY- -11 f-T1 :) fi i it- four crew members were saved Five people were hospitalized for exposure and two were held overnight authorities said Efforts continued today to try to raise the vessel which the Coast Guard said was worth an estimated $250000 The vessel was on its last scheduled cruise of the season when a powerful gust evidently caught tiie sail and pulled the ship up and over the Coast Guard said back-up system requires that planes make a circular approach and that compounds the problems he said Yesterday there was a explained Pilots could see the but when they made their turn for an approach they would go back into clouds and lose sight of it The planes then would have to out there and until conditions either improved and they could land or the fuel situation forced them to divert to Phoenix he said made it in and some he said He estimated that between six and 12 flights diverted to Phoenix There were no problems with takeoffs he said The Instrument Landing System was restored to service at 3 pm which of course was about the time weather conditions began to improve said never he repeated ing Otherwise forecasters said rainfall might have been much heavier where the mountains stood in the way of the wind As it turned out the mountains had no more rain-than the deserts on the average Temperatures yesterday afternoon were cool with the 96-degree reading at Lake Havasu City the high high of 74 tied the record cool maximum for the date set in 1962 high was 76 the lowest maximum temperature recorded for a Sept 26 The reading was two degrees lower than the previous record set in 1928 A Tucson police spokesman re- ported 30 streets were closed because of flooding by 2:30 pn yesterday Most were side streets or minor intersections and many remained closed throughout the night police said Downtown the East Broadway and North Fourth Avenue underpasses were closed at 2:32 pm but were reopened less than 10 minutes later police said In the county there were about 20 streets closed because of flooding a spokesman said Rainfall measured unofficially around the city included 105 inches near West River and North Oracle roads 135 inches near East Tan-que Verde and North Sabino Canyon roads and 150 inches near East Golf Links and South Prudence roads No power outages were reported In Mexico nine lobster fishermen were reported missing yesterday as the storm crossed near Baja California but eight of them had been found safe by today Tucson Citizen A Gannett Newspaper Published Monday through Saturday twice on Wednesday by: 4 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state with up to three inches of rain but no major flooding was reported Clearing occurred during the night and patches of fog developed this morning over the wet ground in many areas of the state including Tucson still quite a bit of moisture over the state according to the weather service which said there was a chance of afternoon thundershowers today The weather service warned that the soil is saturated and it would not take much rain to start washes running again Dry weather is predicted for the weekend Preliminary rainfall totals for Norbert ranged up to 314 inches at Heber Cibecue on the Fort Apache Reservation recorded 290 inches while Vail southeast of Tucson the Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery and Snowflake all had about 250 inches Generally there was a strip of territory about 100 miles wide from south-central Arizona to the east-central mountains that received from one to three inches of rain The weather service said Norbert had become so weak by the time it reached the state that 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