Daily News Record (Newspaper) - June 3, 1983, Harrisonburg, Virginia Weather In Brief Chance Of Showers SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA Two Sections 28 Pages Plus Skyline And TV Week 207 144520 June 1983 4332702 15 Cents Medical Aid Team Going To Salvador WASHINGTON AP Denying any escalation of Presi dent Reagan said Thursday he is sending military doctors and technicians to El Salvador to help care for civilian and military casualties alike in its civil At the same Reagan declared that a Salvadoran leftist groups threat a day earlier to kill more military ad visers in that nation proves that the anti government forces arent some kind of noble freedom fighters but rather murderers and As for his dispatch of military 1 Reagan There is a great need for and I am doing this in consultation with the The decision in volves a team of 20 to 25 medical person officials and will not be counted against the administrations self imposed limit of 55 military advisers in El At the State Secretary George Shultz announced that Thomas a career would replace Deane Hinton as ambassador to El Picker now ambassador to is hardheaded and has broad ex said The secretary said Hinton has literally been on the front lines in El Salvador for two years and deserves a the administrations new special envoy for the entire Central American Richard was in San Salvador on his first full day on the After two days of exploratory talks he will head for Costa Rica and several other nations in the in before returning to On Capitol House Democrats com that another personnel move has essentially stymied their effort to strike an agreement with the Reagan ad ministration to end covert American aid to Nicaraguan Talks over that issue are at an they because chief administration negotiator Thomas an assistant secretary of is being transferred to the ambassadorship in Reagan insisted the dispatch of medical personnel would not constitute an increase in involvement in the Salvadoran If they say they will be as wrong as theyve been on so many other Reagan said of prospective critics of the as I there is a real need for medical care down and in the civilian society as And were in as I with the Congress on The announcement came one week after Navy Albert Schaufelberger was gunned down while waiting to pick up a date on the Central American University campus in San A leftist guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the murder of the off duty military whose death was the first of a military adviser in the Salvadoran Asked to comment on the groups threat on Wednesday to kill more American Reagan I think that that should be a revelation to all of those people who have been ing that the guerrillas are some kind of noble freedom They Theyre murderers and Presidential spokesman Larry Continued on Page 1 AP A Air Canada smolders at the end of the runway in Cincinnati after making an emergency landing in which 23 23 Killed As Plane Catches Fire CINCINNATI AP At least 23 peo ple were killed when an Air Canada DC 9 caught fire in flight Thursday night and made an emergency landing while still in officials About 18 people suffered smoke in halation and minor injuries and were taken to Booth Memorial Hospital in and Elizabeth Medical Center in hospital officials The carrying 41 passengers and five crew was en route from Worth to Toronto when the fire said Federal Avia tion Administration spokesman Dennis Feldman in The pilot reported the fire 15 minutes before the plane was able to and flames were visible for at least 45 minutes after it Heavy smoke continued to billow from the aircraft in for about three Holes could be seen in the sides and bot tom of the A temporary morgue was set up at the Greater Cincinnati which was closed for about three hours to all air Passengers who were evacuated from the plane were kept The fire was in the forward part of the said Dale director of operations at the which is in part of the greater Cincinnati He declined further An Air Canada official in Robert said he could give no details of the He said a public relations firm handles such inquiries and said he would pass telephone numbers on to The plane radioed the FAA control center in Indianapolis and said I have a fire on Feldman In such the airspace is cleared im mediately and the pilot directed to the nearest He called at and they had him on the ground at Feldman Heavy smoke covered the airport and surrounding Passengers were brought to the ter minal but were kept Some were Plans Review Of Mideast Policy By BERNARD GWERTZMAN Times News Service WASHINGTON The Reagan ad ministration has recalled special envoy Philip Habib and several am for a policy review next week on what the United States should do to end the impasse that has developed following Syrias refusal to withdraw its forces from Nicholas assistant secre tary of state for Near Eastern disclosed the plans for the policy review during testimony before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East He said that Secretary of State George Shultz would consult with President Reagan as part of the overall who has been in the Middle East for the past few weeks following Shultzs working out an troop withdrawal accord has returned to the United States after a few days in is due back In Veliotes The other special Morris already is in A State Department official said later that the basic decision that has to be reached is how to keep the Lebanese from buckling under Syrian pressure to renounce the while at the same time working with other Arab nations to be more outspoken and forceful in getting Syria to live up to its pledge to pull out of Lebanon if Israel did the Veliotes admitted to the committee that he had been overoptimistic when he told the congressmen last winter that Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization would withdraw their troops if Israel For most of the the State Department had been pressing Israel to agree to terms on the withdrawal as the first step to a complete pullback of all foreign Throughout this and other officials had been expressing confidence that Syria would carry out a pledge it had made last year to pull out as In Veliotes said that the Syrians probably did not believe that Israel would ever agree to withdraw from He said that the Syrian attitude began to harden when it became evident during Shultzs trip that the Israelis would agree to an Israeli troops search cars and travelers and make dozens of arrests in souther Lebanon as they try to cur tail mounting guerrilla warfare against the Israeli Story on Page In answer to a question from the Lee Veliotes said that he would not dispute a statement that the Marines at to the international force in Beirut area would probably have to remain in Lebanon another 15 months at No deadline has ever been placed on their presence by American but there had been talk initially of only a few The Marines were sent to Beirut last after an initial contingent was withdrawn earlier in the month after a brief period in Veliotes said that Saudi Arabia was being helpful in trying to bring about Syrian agreement to a but he stressed that the Saudis preferred to work behind the He also said that the like most of the have not endorsed the but have said that Lebanon has the sovereign right to bring about the withdrawal of all foreign including Veliotes admitted that there was currently a pause in efforts to bring about progress on the other major Middle East the negotiations on Palestinian issues called for by Presi dent Reagans speech last He said that it often took time in the Middle East to achieve pointing out that it was five years from the time of Resolution 338 calling for negotiations in the Middle East and the Camp David accords of As to the reports of a split within the Veliotes said the United States lacked reliable but that he viewed the split as potentially harmful if it made it more difficult for the PLO to make The United States has been seeking PLO support for Jordans joining the peace Veliotes said there had been a marked improvement in relations since the agreement on troop withdrawal was Drenched Utah Towns Braced For More Rain SALT LAKE CITY AP National Guard bulldozers joined an army of volunteers filling sandbags Thursday as the multimilliondollar watery siege of Salt Lake City and surrounding towns continued with little relief in Hydrologists of the National Weather Service called a news conference in Washington to warn residents of other Western states notably Colorado and Nebraska to be prepared for similar flooding from a record snowpack that is up to three times the normal depth for this time of year in the Sierra The agency issued a flash flood warn ing Thursday for the already ravaged town of but the warning was lifted after only one inch of rain fell in a heavy This is the worst weather Ive seen in 40 said Robert tor of the National Weather Services Office of Utah Emergency Services Director Lorayne Tempest said officials estimate the flooding and mudslides have cost an estimated million so and the governors office asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday for aid for nine more bringing the total to 13 out of the states 29 In northwestern rivers were running bank full and levees were About 500 people were evacuated briefly Wednesday and flash flood watches were posted until mid night Thursday for Rio Garfield and northern Mesa Downstream in federal of braced for what they believe may be the highest water levels on Lake Mead since Hoover Dam was completed on the Colorado River nearly half a century The lake on Thurs day was just nine feet below the dams massive which have only carried water a 1941 While creek levels in Utah dropped slightly in some areas because of less snowmelt in the Wasatch of stressed that the danger from slides off the saturated hills was far from I believe now we are in a holding pattern and were watching Mother Nature to see what she said Davis County Chief Deputy Harry Jones in Soviet Grain Crop On Razors Edge MOSCOW AP A spring drought in the freak snowstorms and rains in central Asia and and the endemic shortages and management problems are threatening yet another Soviet grain The crop is sitting on the razors said a Western agriculture Soviet farmers produced a record grain harvest in But since then an production has fallen far short of targets forcing the Soviets to buy grain from the United States and This the newspapers carry stories almost daily about pro down on the focusing mainly on the But complaints voiced by Soviet agriculture officials and reports from outside sources show the trouble doesnt stop with the The inefficient agriculture appears saddled with its usual problems shor tages of lack of spare parts and sloppy Despite adoption last year of a plan calling for a big revamping of agriculture to increase the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said Thursday that spring grain planting was behind Pravda said only 196 million acres of grain have been planted so out of the 222 million acres that Western specialists say are targeted in the government One Western specialist said the figures are the worst for the same period in any of the last four Each produced disappointing The who asked to be noted that much winter wheat planted last fall failed to germinate after a dry In the Soviets produced a record million metric tons of The figure plunged to 179 million in rose only to million in and ap was so poor in 1981 and 1982 that no figures were According to the Department of the harvest was 160 million metric tons in and 180 million in A metric ton is about The USDA has said the Soviets may about 200 million metric tons of grain this year a significant improve ment over the previous four but still believed to be far short of govern ment Production targets no longer are published on a yearly but the 1981 85 fiveyear plan averages out to 238 million to 243 million metric tons annual The grain crop is going to need a lot of rain within the next a period of critical But there hasnt been a significant rain in the European part of the Soviet Union since and soil conditions already are resembling the of late summer in the Tent Parly Time at Taylor and Rural a newspaper of the party Central reported Thursday that farmers have been forced to irrigate more than million acres of grain for the third time in the growing On Wednesday and and Soviet negotiators met in London to discuss a oneyear extension in a long term agreement on The in force since 1976 but set to expire requires the Soviets to buy 6 million metric tons of corn and wheat a year and allows them to buy another 2 million tons without prior for mal approval by the United A Taste Of Theater In todays enjoy the Valleys most evening Todays Index Classified Jeane Valley Deaths Ralph Lyle of Har Douglas James of New Ressie Lantz of Fulks Details on Page 12
