European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D services to study Dodds cuts Page 2 d Marcos says he s still philippine president Page 5 d 2 Stuttgart area clubs Are closing Down Page 28 the authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 44, no. 347 tuesday april 1, 1986 be of a ends Iov d 8693 a . Sought Aid for Libya action new York a the United states considered a joint .-egyptian operation a plan to work with the French in the Mediterranean and in Chad and Covert operations involving North african govern ments before deciding to Challenge libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy in the Gulf of Sidra a news Magazine reported sunday. Time Magazine said the planning for action against Libya was initiated last july by members of president Reagan s administration. The United states sought help from Egypt and Israel among others the mag Azine said. Mexican Jet crashes All the Magazine said the administration opted for the Gulf of Sidra operation be cause there was Little support for joint action. We Learned the hard Way that if we want to Settle the account with khad Afy we will have to do it ourselves said a Cia officer according to time. The Magazine said the United states in formed the soviet Union of the planned Gulf of Sidra operation in an Effort to avoid killing soviet personnel. Libya fired missiles at american aircraft participating in Maneu vers in the Gulf of Sidra off Libya March 24, and the defense department says the United states retaliated with missile attacks on libyan tar gets for two Days. Meanwhile Newsweek reported sunday that khad Afy has intensified efforts to re Cruit palestinian hit men. The Magazine said a plan for a palestinian to attack a . Diplomatic Mission in Europe was thwarted when Plo Leader Yasser Arafat alerted the United states through a third party of the plot s existence because he did t want his own Al Fatah to be blamed. Meanwhile in Egypt the sem official newspaper Al ashram said monday that Egypt has rejected three . Requests for joint military action against Libya. The disclosure by a confidant of presi Dent Hosni Mubarak came in the Wake of a threat Friday by khad Afy to retaliate against Egypt for alleged cooperation with the United states in carrying out last week s air raids against Libya. Ibrahim Natch chairman of Al ashram. Said participants at a White House meeting held last july under Robert Macfarlane then presidential Security adviser decided to undertake a military action against Libya in cooperation with Egypt. He said the White House and the Cia see Aid on Page 28 Mexico City up a Mexicana airlines Boeing 727 with 166 passengers and Crew members on Board slammed into a Mountain in Central Mexico and exploded monday killing All aboard the government said. The jetliner crashed in san Miguel Del Alto 80 Miles Northwest of Mexico City after leaving Benito Juarez International Airport bound for the Pacific resort of puerto vallarta and los Angeles. Gabriel Del Rio adviser to the communications ministry said there were no survivors. He said officials who flew Over the crash site 9,000 feet above sea level in the rugged mining country of the Sierra Madres said the plane was still in flames. A radio reporter in the town of Al Oro near san Miguel Del Alto told Mexico City s radio network that peasants in the area saw the plane explode in a Ball of fire in the air before it crashed into the Moun Tain. Communication with the Boeing 727 was lost 14 minutes after Takeoff. An airline official said the Pilot reported at 9 04 . The plane was losing Altitude and the control Tower immediately lost Contact with the night. The flight Manifest which was read Over mexican television contained at least 20 non Spanish names. Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii gestures As she looks up at the fire ravaged Hampton court Palace monday. Her sister Prin Royal dismay Cess Margaret right also gazes at the damage. The South Wing of the 16th-Cen Tury Palace of Henry Viii was gutted by a photo fire that damaged priceless Royal Art treasures and killed one person. Story other photo on Page 3. Vets petition against Contr Santa Barbara Calif. A about 60 veterans who marched to the Gate of president Reagan s ranch monday were re buffed in efforts to present a petition calling on the president to end assistance to rebels fighting Nicaragua s leftist government. Edgar Jack a Santa Barbara county sheriffs Deputy who met the marchers said he was not authorized to accept their petition but suggested that they take it to a Santa Barbara hotel where he said it could be accepted by someone from the White House staff. The Leader of the March Charles Liteky of san Francisco told reporters at the hotel that the group would wait to be contacted by a White House representative. But the veterans showed up at White House spokesman Larry Speakes briefing for the press and attempted to present their petition. They were again rebuffed at least temporarily i am not going to participate in any stunt like that Speakes said As Eduardo Cohen a Leader of the group walked toward him and extended a folder holding the petition. These Are veterans of military service Cohen said. Speakes did not accept the petition but told Cohen we will be sure they get in the right hands for  the petition called upon Reagan to immediately withdraw All current requests to Congress for lethal non lethal military or humanitarian Aid and terminate any other Aid or assistance provided to the nicaraguan guerrillas. It said continued . Support of the re Bels will signify greater . Involvement and increase the likelihood of intervention by . Combat forces against  in addition to trying to present the Peti Tion the marchers pounded scores of wooden crosses into the ground outside the ranch. Liteky said the crosses were in remembrance of those killed in conflict in Vietnam and Nicaragua. The president and first lady Nancy Rea Gan attended Church sunday at the Santa Ynez Valley presbyterian Church near the presidential ranch. At the service the Rev. Jeffrey l. Cotter led a prayer for divine guidance for the chief executive in the decisions he has to  the doors of the Small wooden a Frame Church were left open during sunday s service and Bright sunlight streamed in. It has been foggy and Cloudy most of the time since the reagans arrived on thursday for a 10-Day vacation but the Sun came out for easter. The president and his wife sat in front Row seats joining in the singing of hymns such As Jesus Christ is risen  shortly after the service ended members of a veterans group organized by the Santa Barbara peace resource Center began gathering at Refugio state Park a few Miles from the Reagan ranch in preparation for their March to the Gale