European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2b the stars and stripes thursday june 5,1986 Reagan Calls saudi arms Sale vital to . Goals. I i l us i i Tairl of f him on Selling arms to Arabia it will seriously undermine our foreign policy objectives throughout the Middle East. With inc Senate set 10 Vole thursday on whether to sustain Reagan s veto following its earlier rejection of his Compromise weapons package Thi president wclco1 leadership Back from a congressional no cd pitch for the saudi Sale. When the Senate re Cess Jurf a memorial Day holi Day May 21 ii Lump off Tuluii Reagan s veto his support cars claim uyii5i4j3 Voles jul enough to sustain the president wild some up Mients of Ilic a a absent. With All a bars a mind. He need i a Vetcs to prevent u Vela through. Private leadership cars aft would Susuky Jcj sync tvs Voles when we left and i Hope we will pc he votes on thursday Dole said. Asked during a Brief photo session no the Start of Locc Mcling if he has found the 34th Vole Reagan said i m Noi going to comment. I m just superstitious about that , us the while House opened the Start of the usually b3bd photographers to i publicly the president lie execution of our foreign a policy. I m counting on you in the Senate for your support said. Ling his guests the United slates has had a Mutual Ujj Lugii saudi Arabia for 40 years Reagan said to inc i town into Vav important i feel i is for you to sustain my veto. that Ihu vote will have a profound Clicc Lummia Ullins with the Arab world not just Wilh saudi Arabia. If inc vein in t sustained it Wilt seriously i Muff our foreign policy objectives throughout the Region. Reagan from Page 1 will eos them on ski. " said rep. Norman d. Dicks d-wash., who introduced legis lation that would bar any spending on strategic weaponry thai violates the treaty s provisions. The Senate s budget proposal Sels Mili tary spending for the next fiscal year at Smi billion about 51� billion less than the president requested. The House version is Aboul $35 billion less thin what Reagan sought. The White House has been particularly concerned Aboul a ice scr from 46 senators urging reductions in the missile defense re search program. The letter write in two weeks ago to sen. Barry Gold water r Ari?., who Heads the armed services com Mittee urged that Reagan s request of 15.4 billion be Cul to s3.1 billion Only a 3 per cent increase from this year s spending level. The president s request amounted to a 77 percent increase. In his letter to Congress Reagan declared some people will argue thai strategic forces Musl take Cuis along with everything else Whir. Budgets Ore Light. Those spread the pain theories Are not Only false they Are dangerous. Every Dollar taken from our strategic programs is a Victory for ionic tial aggressors. Every Cut or delay weakens our cause in Geneva and adds materially to the ultimate Cost of the letter which the while House made Public was accompanied by a five Page summary of the strategic modern gallon programs that Reagan said should be exempt from budget cuts and a while House press statement echoing Reagan s concerns. The White House also made two senior administration officials available to Brief reporters to bolster the president s Case. A while House spokesman Edward p. Ducr Chian said the material supplied with Reagan s message was intended to provide Congress with the Bottom line of Euls thai Reagan would find acceptable. Among the programs listed As essential by Reagan were ski. The stealth bomber and advanced cruise missile the Trident in submarine 50 additional my missiles and a smaller Mobile ballistic missile. See Rel oled Story. Page 5. He also filed several command and com Munica Lions items such As Early warning missile radars and communication systems that resist jamming. The president said it is important that the modernization program which he said begin when he came into office in 198, proceed on the schedule that the administration has proposed through its budget re quests. It is absolutely critical that this pro Gram not be permitted to erode he said. That would be the worst Way to respond to the continuing pattern of soviet activities would increase the risk of our Security and sunni moslem outgunned by shiites Beirut Lebanon a shiite mos Lem militiamen crushed an outgunned and outman cd sunni moslem faction tuesday after a bitter 15-hour Battle in the streets of West Beirut. Police reported that 40 people were killed and 190 were wounded in the Power Strug Gle Between inc two moslem militias and in a 16th Day of bitter righting a palestinian refugee Camps. It was the heaviest fighting in Beirut in Wei i. Tank Cannon and mortar fire set buildings ablaze and wounded civilians huddled in doorways As gunmen raked streets with steady tire from automatic weapons and recoilless rifles. Police said 25 people were killed and 119 wounded in the confrontation Between the shiite and sunni factions. Fifteen people were killed and 71 injured in clashes be tween amal militiamen and palestinian guerrillas around the Camps. Justice minister Nabih Herri who Heads the amal militia claimed Victory for his fighters in inc Battle against a sunni fac Tion headed by soaker Berja i and called the february 6 movement. The movement was panned afr the 1984 Date of a moslem uprising in Beirut against the National army. The fighting tuesday appeared to be an attempt by amal to assert its superiority in Beirut. But in what seemed to be Concilia tory gestures Berri ordered his militiamen to abstain from looting and offered to turn Over All neighbourhoods conquered by his soldiers to the lebanese army. Sunni political and religious leaders have been critical of the militias who have turned Beirut into a Haven of kidnappers assassins and Bank robbers. Moslem radio stations said a 360-Man army task Force was formed under the com Mand of Cape. Mahmoud Kassar to move into the enclave of the february 6 move ment off Beirut s crowded corniche ma7 Raa commercial District. Amal captured the area in a three pronged offensive. Hundreds of shiite Mili Tiamen pushed in behind barrages of mortar fire to overrun Berja i s Headquarters and his House. They set his father s nearby House afire. Berja i was reported to have escaped with an estimated 50 followers. His 100 militiamen were reported to have been sup ported by �00 other sunni tighten from various factions. But they were outnumbered by the amal forces who also had Superior firepower. Amal said its attack followed the slaying monday of flow kidnapped shiite by Berja i s Mil it in men. Ambulances with wailing sirens raced to the embattled District to Rescue scores of wounded civilians who bled for hours at entrances of Shell pocked buildings in wind a alleys off corniche Mazara. A ii trime minister Rashid Karami and Educa a lion minister Salim Hoss both sunnis Al pealed to president Hafez Assad of Syria for intervention 10 end the fighting but there was no Public response from Syria Lebanon s main Power broker which maintains 25,000 troops in Northern and Eastern Lebanon. Berja i was said to be Allied with Plo chairman Yasser Arafat whose guerrillas have been fighting amal full the Sara Cha Tilla and Bour Al Bara Neh Camps. Al the palestinian refugee Camps the shiite militias have renewed their attacks in what they say Are Otto mils to prevent Arafat s palestinian guerrillas from infiltrating Back into the Camps to rebuild a Power base for Arafat. Shiites hammered the three Camps with Lank fire and soviet made rocket launchers All night and through the Early morning hours. There was a Brief Lull at midday i when amal i Battle against Berja i s Mili-1 1 Tia reached its Zenith but police said the Ishille palestinian duds picked up again be-1 fore Sundown. I that of our allies would undercut our ability to negotiate the reductions we All seek in existing arsenals and thus Send precisely the wrong signal to the soviet asserting that the potential reductions posed a serious problem Reagan concluded by saying having com his far we must no falter now. If we do the Finiw of All our labor will be gone in the twinkling of an Carrier from Page 1 delighting of the Laluc of Liberty. Originally inc Kennedy was 10 serve As the spot from which president Reagan re lights inc statue but officials decided to move Reagan to governors Island citing logistics Friday morning Reagan will Nde the battleship Iowa along inc Hudson River and through inc Harbor to review the ships. Air Craft from France great Britain and the United states including the air farce s famed thunderbird a and the Navy s Blue an gels flying teams will Fly overhead. The Parade of tall ships will follow and then the fireworks will Light the sky. Cmdr. Stephen Becker a Navy spokes Man said requests for scats on the Kennedy came literally from everywhere from the Media from veterans groups and other organizations from individuals famous and not so famous. 2 cos suspended after incident push on hot Asphalt Burn 19 troops . Ala. 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