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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes wednesday june 4. 1986 Reagan Calls saudi arms Sale vital to . Goals Washington api president Reagan told con  leaders tuesday that if the Senate overrides him on Selling arms to saudi Arabia in will seriously undermine our foreign policy objectives throughout the Middle isl with the Senate set to Vole thursday on whether to sustain Reagan s veto following its earlier rejection of his Compromise weapon package the president welcomed the leadership Back from a congressional recess with the renewed Pilch for the saudi Sale. When the Senate recessed for the memorial Day holi Day May 21 without voting on Reagan s actor his support ers chimed they had 33 votes just enough to sustain the president with some opponents of the tale absent. With All 100 members voting he needs 34 Voles to  a veto override and thus let the Sale go through. Senate majority Leader Bob Dole a Kan. Told report ers after the meeting he was fairly confident the Senate would sustain the president s veto. We had the votes when we left and i Hope a will have the Voles on thursday Dole said. Sen. Thad Cochran. A miss. Said the administration appeared to be close to having commitments from enough senators to sustain the veto they must be within one or two  sen. Richard Lugar r-lnd., chairman of the Senate f orc in relations committee when asked if the Senate would sustain the veto replied i think we  asked during a Brief photo session at the Start of the meeting if he has found the 34th Vole Reagan said i m not going to comment. I m just superstitious about that sort of  but As tic White House opened the Start of the usually private leadership meeting to reporters and photographers to permit Reagan to make his Appeal publicly the presi Dent called the Sale indispensable to the execution of our foreign  i m counting on you in tse Senate for your support he said. Telling his guests that the United states has had a Mutual Security pact with saudi Arabia for to years Rea Gan snid i d Tike to stress once again How important i feel it is for you to sustain my veto. I want All of you to underhand that this Vole will have a profound effect upon our relations with the Arab world not jus with saudi Arabia. If the veto in t sustained it will seriously undermine our foreign policy objectives throughout he  after he made his Brief pitch the president was asked what he thought of the first Day of televised Senate proceedings on monday. Fabulous said Dole who was silting with Reagan in the Cabinet room. It s probably Gonna beat wheel of Fortune " Reagan said. A shiite moslem defeat sunnis in Beirut Battle Beirut Lebanon a Shi Ilc mos Lem Mirlis Ramon crushed an outgunned and out manned sunni moslem of Stinn tuesday after a bitter 15-hour Bailie in the streets of West Beirut police reported 40 people were killed and i � wounded ithe wlwimmiffllataiitirtiri6th Day of fighting at palestinian refugee Camps. In was the heaviest fighting in West Bei rut in weeks. Tank Cannon and mortar tire set buildings ablaze and wounded civilians huddled in doorways As gunmen raked streets with fire from automatic weapons and recoilless rifles. Police said 25 topic were killed and 119 wounded in the confrontation Between the shiite and sunni factions. Fifteen people Las around the Camps. Justice minister Natish Barri who Heads the amal militia claimed Victory for his fighters in the Battle against a sunni fac Tion headed by Shaker bar jaw and called the february 6 movement. The movement was named after the i9h-i Date of a moslem uprising in West Beirut against the army the fighting tuesday appeared to be an attempt by amal to assert is superiority in to be by Lilia Man to abstain from looting and offered to turn Over All neighbourhoods conquered by his militiamen to the lebanese army. Sunni political and religious leaders have been critical of the militias who have turned West Beirut into a Haven of kidnappers Salt from Page 1 limits As if the treaty was in effect. The . President s decision signifies hat the . Leadership has gone to an exceptionally dangerous measure in the cause of destroying the treaty system said a commentary by the Tass news Agency the official Agency said a treaty system restrains the nuclear arms Roe a and there by brings about conditions for the conclusion of new  Tass accused Washington of abandoning treaties in a search for military superiority but vowed our country has always found and undoubtedly will continue to find an effective reply to any Challenge from the United states. Gorbachev his Laid Down two conditions for a Summit he wants a specific agreement to emerge especially on arms control and the atmosphere Between the two superpowers must is Good. The Salt ii announcement was the lat est Strain in .-soviet relations thai have appeared to deteriorate steadily since the first Reagan Gorbachev Summit last no vember. The two leaders agreed then to hold an other Summit in Washington this year and a third Summit in Moscow in 1987, however Moscow has never agreed to a Dar and a meeting is now considered difficult Loar Range before late in the year. On monday soviet president Andrei Gromyko had termed the Reagan administration s Deci Sion to abandon Salt ii a major Ameri can Blunder and warned it could affect the second Summit. Steel from Page 1 Drill pipe and other tubular goods used in Oil and Gas Wells Sundstrom said. The commission found both Canada and Taiwan had been dumping these products on . Markets. The commission also determined that the goods from Canada had benefited from Export subsidies that the United Stales considers an unfair Trad ing practice. In voting for the import duties the com Mission acted on petitions filed by the Lone Star steel co. Of Dallas and the cf4i steel corp. Of Pueblo Colo. The duties approved by the commission Range from 3-35 percent la 40.35 percent of . Prices on Canadian shipment of the products and 26.32 percent on those from Tai wan. Also on monday. Canadian finance min ister Michael Wilson told the House of com Mons in Ottawa that Canada would Rei Liale against . Duties on Canadian Cedar products with tariffs on us. Computer parts semiconductor and some publication. Our objective is to bring Home to the United slates the costs of protectionism while avoiding measures which will Only Worsen our own situation Wilson said. The current Flap began two weeks ago when the Reagan administration announced it was imposing duties of up to 35 percent on Ca Nadian shingles and snakes which Are rough Hen shingles. The administration took the action claiming that Llie us. Wood product Industry in the Pacific Northwest was being Hurt by the Canadian imports. The tariffs and counter tariffs have threatened -Canadian talks aimed at negotiating a free Trade pact Between the two nations that would eliminate tariffs and quotas entirely. 2 fort Rucker Drill officers suspended after is Burn hands doing push  fort Rucker. A. A two chief warrant officers have been suspended pending the outcome of m investigation into a weekend incident in which soldiers were forced to do push  on hot Asphalt and 19 suffered Burns a fort Rucker spokesman said tuesday. Bill Hayes declined to release the names of the chief warrant officers who ordered the push . We Don t know Yel win tier there was any offence committed or anything wrong Hayes Slid. He mid the temperature at the Southern Alabama base was in the mid sos on Sun Day when the trainers took a platoon of 53 warrant officer candidates out on a Black top surface used for pedestrian traffic. He said the soldiers continued their push  Tor an undetermined time until the two men in charge realized their hand were  thirteen men reported to Lyster army Hospital for treatment of the bum. Hinex said the company commander Cape. Jamet m. Casey drove to the base sunday inspected the remaining troops and ordered in More men to enter the Hospital. All 19 Wen released after treatment Hayes said. The severity of the Burns varied widely he said. Some of the men suffered Blis ters and redness which Are symptoms of first and second degree Burns Hayes Laid the two suspended warrant officers both had experience in handling Drill platoons including proper methods of Eicr Euing troops. He did disciplinary action is a possibility. This is very serious matter at this command Hayes said "1 Don t have any records that anything like his has Ever happened Bere before a Lassins and Bank robbers moslem radio stations said a 360-Man army task Force was formed under the com Mand of Cape. Mahmoud Kossar to move into the enclave of the february 6 move ment off West Beirut s Cormich c Mairata pronged offensive. Huni Tiamon pushed in Bechir fire to overrun Berja i his House. They set 1 House afire. Bar jaw was a pork with an estimated 50 militiamen were report ported Fay 800 other s various factions. But t bored by the Amalfo Superior firepower. Ambulances with Wai the embattled District wounded civilians who entrances of shall pocket ing alleys off corniche n a three is of Shi Ilc Mill is of Ortar Ead quarters and father s nearby have escaped Owers. His 100 0 have been sup in fighters from were Putnum 1 who also had g sirens raced to Rescue scores of cd for hours at buildings in wind Raa. Temperatures auant album Perqua  Allan la Cis Balf Imori Miniham Bohr Bollon but Lalo Bortl Iwick. I Caw cml Llyl  Charolla . Miami Baa Mali or. 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