European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Sharon accuses envoy of lie1 state department backs ambassador in feud Washington up an bitter fight has erupted Between the state department represented by its Man in retiring ambassador Samuel Lewis and israeli Cabinet minister Ariel Sha who was minister of defense in 1982 and the architect of israels invasion of accused Lewis of a blatant lie for saying Sharon tipped off officials about the invasion plans six months before the event and even before he in formed the israeli the state department says Lewis ver Sion of the events is completely accurate and now israels minister of Industry and is the Issue is important in terms of israeli Domestic politics according to some members of the israeli they were never Given a full assessment of Sharon plans to drive his forces to Beirut until the troops arrived on the outskirts of the lebanese if Lewis is Sharon told a foreign the United about his plans before he told his own government about the Issue is also important in terms of american credibility in the Middle demonstrating to the Arab world that the United far from giving a Green Light to the tried to Stop the available evidence appears to sup port the american version of Lewis said in an interview with israeli television that Sharon told Middle East envoy Philip Habib of the invasion plans in december Well before the june opening of the invasion and before he had informed his israeli Cabinet colleagues of the a official confirmed such a conversation took place on and reacting vehemently and negate tried to talk Sharon out of the Habib saw the invasion As it turned out As something that would upset any Hope of putting together Arab and israeli negotiations on Middle East in his former Secretary of state Alexander Haig writes that he and president Reagan had indications of an israeli attack As Early As Jan uary and Reagan wrote to prime minister Menachem begin in january urging him to use in Early Haig begin sent Yehoshua the director of israeli military to Call on me in according to saggy a Large scale israeli Force would Advance from the israeli Border to the Southern suburbs of Haig says he spent the next few months trying to head off the but according to his account he never directly told the israelis to cancel the invasion nor did he Ever use the ultimate threat a cutoff of military supplies if they were used in Sharon came to Washington in a month before the and made it clearer than Ever that he was prepared to launch the the language Haig used in the May 1982 state department meeting that an israeli attack on the palestinians must be proportionate to any such Provo cation was so unclear Sharon took it As permission to go even though Haig insists in his Book he meant exactly the bizarre Comet most Likely was Navy missile test los Angeles up two Brilliant streaks of Light that prompted curious stargazers from Phoenix to san Francisco to Call authorities were probably test mis a Navy spokesman said the which one witness said looked like a bizarre kind of confounded observers after officials at Vandenberg 170 Miles North of los denied reports that two unarmed missiles had been launched from the military base shortly after 9 sat urday a Federal aviation administration spokesman said the regional officer was notified by the air traffic control facility in Palmdale that Vandenberg had reported it would launch two test missiles saturday the report was denied by air Force but the mystery was apparently solved sunday when the Navy announced that a submarine conducted a missile firing exercise off the Southern California coast at about the same time saturday to verify its missile systems effect such exercises Are conducted periodically and Are considered said Don spokesman for the navys Pacific missile test Center at Point 60 Miles North of los the details of such operations Are Lewis but due to atmospheric it is conceivable that the firing could have been witnessed from the West the first of Many Calls to the a a office came at asked if that missile testing May have prompted the Lewis were assuming that what everybody and it fits in when we had our the Faa spokesman said people from As far away As Phoenix and inquired about the de scribed As two Whit Blue streaks with trailing tails resembling those of a los Angeles resident said the Flash looked like a bizarre kind of but almost nebulous then you could see the Burn of two owners to pay million in settlement of fatal Shipwreck a the owners of a Coal ship that Sank in february killing 31 have agreed in an out court settlement to pay million to the families of 14 men who died and to one of three men who the settlement now totals Between million and million for damages in the Accident paid by Marine transport lines which owned the Marine Tom a lawyer representing the new Yor based said the settlement called for each family to receive about from the Marine transport lines said Jeffrey a lawyer who represented the about went to the survivor As part of the settlement approved last week by a Federal judge in new the my total of 1 stage in a propulsion d Rockwell rocket Dyne stage Iii control d Rockwell stage ii d Aero Jet strategic propulsion san d Martin Brigham silo get d Las includes Cost of construction and support Chicago Tribune graphic source Chicago Tribune news 75 uncooperative protesters jailed after commissioning new up police kept 15 anti nuclear demonstrators behind bars sunday after several refused to identify instead using the names of people who they said had died in Al Salvador and the 15 were among 34 protesters hauled away in police vans saturday when they tried to disrupt the commission ing of the the nations sixth Trident basically they decided not to cooperate with the arrest said Rick spokesman for the coalition to Stop seven used aliases with symbolic the others refused to sign promises to return to the 15 were held at police Headquarters for appear ances in Superior court charged with disorderly two were also charged with reckless endanger ment for allegedly placing a barricade in the Road outside the naval underwater systems the other 19 were released on written promises to appear in the protesters were taken to Headquarters in waiting vans after lying Down in front of buses carrying dignitaries and the press into the fenced in re search installation for the commissioning of the police had to lift them from the Street by their arms and legs while about 200 other protesters held a memorial service and die in outside the using the men and women pretended to suffer and die on the sidewalks in symbolic protest of the billion missile firing Trident Sands of time anti nuke marchers enter Warren fab in the stars and stripes to protest the map air Force personnel escorted seven civilians from the Warren fab on Sun Day when they illegally entered the installation As a protest to the my missile i can say no to this nuclear madness and take a step for one of the protesters said before she and six others clasped hands and walked across a White line Sepa rating the base from the the part of a group of 75 that marched a mile from the Wyoming Capitol to the did not resist the although the air Force warned the seven that anyone caught trespassing would be subject to a Fine and six months in the protesters were not cited for trespassing but Only issued letters barring them from entering the base for two there were no citations said staff Clem a spokesman for the because of their names will not be some of the Multi warhead missiles will be deployed at the 40 years ago today May a 3rd inf div 21yearold 1st Audie Murphy from has won the medal of this award ties Murphy with Maurice also of the As the most decorated Soldier of the 30 years ago May 1955 As talks ended in sources indicated that Russia failed to lure Yugoslavia into the Eastern bloc and that president Tito is determined to stick to his 20 years ago today May while a stunned sports world debates Cassius clays controversial knockout of Sonny referee Jersey Joe Walcott defended himself for not keep ing Clay in a Neutral Corner after the for failing to Check with the timekeeper and for not 70 years ago foday May palestinian guerrillas and righting lebanese Phalanx its broke a 48hour truce and battled in several sections of
