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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Development of jet fighter is part of U.S. aid to Israel
JERUSALEM — Israel's new finance minister said today that $250 million in U.S. aid would be used to help develop an advanced jet fighter to reduce Israeli dependence on American military assistance in the future.
The money is part of a $2.6 billion economic and military aid package Congress approved last week. The measure permitted Israel to use $250 million to help develop the jet fighter, called the Lavi, which Israel says will be the most advanced warplane in its class in the 1990s.
"You have to be aware that having the Lavi will enable us to buy less military aircraft in the 1990s, aircraft that would make us more and more dependent on the United States." Finance Minister Yigal Cohen-Orgad said.
Emergency waste clean-up finished
WASHINGTON — The government has completed emergency clean-up actions at 153 hazardous dump sites in nearly three years under the Superfund toxic waste program, the Environmental Protection Agency reported yesterday.
The emergency response program, which deals with "immune harm" and has finished work at dangerous pump sites in 24 states, the department said.
Democratic leaders decided that the proposed constitutional amendment would be brought up under suspension of the rules. That procedure provides only a yes or no vote with 40 minutes of debate divided between supporters and opponents.
Pennsylvania had the most emergency response actions with 13, followed by Ohio with 12, California with 11, Texas with 10, Florida and New York with eight each, and Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and New Jersey with seven each.
Democrats bring ERA vote to House
WASHINGTON — The Equal Rights Amendment is scheduled for House action today with no chance to amend the proposal, a parliamentary maneuver that has infuriated Republicans and perhaps jeopardized passage for this year.
WASHINGTON — Another reduction in the 1893 corn crop estimate will tighten next fall's corn supplies to levels as low as those during the tight grain era of a decade ago, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.
"I think the Republicans are going to kill it," said Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo. With Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., she has led House efforts for passage. "They're hysterical."
The department reduced its estimate of corn supplies on hand as next year's harvest begins to 512 million bushels, down 18 percent from 625 million bushels projected a month ago. The latest estimate is the earliest amount since the corn carryover was 400 million bushels in 1976.
Corn to be in short supply in 1984
Even though the number of bushels on hand Oct. 1, 1984, will be higher than the levels of a decade ago, more American corn is now consumed worldwide.
Bombings injure 20 in Guadeloupe
BASSE, TERRE, Guadeloupe — Presumed separatist terrorists exploded five bombs yesterday, injuring 20 people and destroying a radio station in the worst of such attacks on the French-ruled Caribbean island, police said.
In the biggest blast, a bomb attached to a car went off at 9 a.m. outside government offices in Basse Terre, Guadeloupe's administration.
Twenty civic employees were injured in the attack, four of them requiring hospital treatment. The device exploded about an hour after the attack.
The spokesman said the explosion destroyed one of the offices in the building.
Plan predicted to result in pollution
WASHINGTON — An administration plan to change air pollution rules for 300 new coal-burning power plants would result in more acid rain, a coalition of environmental groups said yesterday.
The National Clean Air Coalition said that a proposed rule change announced Oct. 21 by the Environmental Protection Agency would legitimize 760,000 tons of sulfur dioxide now emitted illegally by power plants to accumulate a total increase of 1.5 million tons annually by the end of the decade.
The air pollution would come from 300 utility and industrial power plants in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and in Western states, said Dale Brown, a spokesman for the state's health agency.
Canadians head south to buy liquor
BLAINE, Wash. — Canadians whose favorite liquor stores are closed by labor strife caused huge traffic jams at the U.S. border as they headed south to replenish their supplies.
Motorists had to wait up to eight hours at the border, primarily because of the strike by 80,000 public employees, authorities said.
A massive traffic jam Sunday on Interstate 5 was the result of Canadians driving south to buy at duty-free stores and other liquor outlets.
One Canadian border official said that it had been the worst traffic jam he'd seen in 15 years on the job.
"Half of Canada seemed to be crossing the border." he said.
WEATHER FACTS
Today, the weather will be mostly fair across the nation. Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high around 55, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight will be fair with a low around 30. Tomorrow will be warmer with a high around 60.
U. S. spokesman James Dandridge would only say the 30 individuals were invited to leave "because they placed a threat to the security of Grenada."
He also said 148 former Grenadian soldiers and militiamen would be freed in the next two days from the prison camp at Point Salines, where they have been held since the Oct. 25 U.S.-led invasion to rescue American
By United Press International
Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon refused comment on the expulsions.
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Grenada's new authorities ordered 30 foreigners to leave the island by tomorrow because they posed a potential security threat, U.S. officials said yesterday.
Both Grenadian and American officials declined to reveal the nationalities of the foreigners or what they may have posed to the government.
Grenada tells 30 foreigners to leave
By United Press International
AN OFFICER OF the Caribbean peace-keeping force said all 16 members of the Revolutionary Military Council that took control after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed last month were under arrest. Ruben Nelson, the last member still at large, was apprehended Sunday.
Castro says U.S. lied about Grenada
students and overthrow a Marxist regime.
The Cuban charge d'affaires in Grenada said 13 of 37 bodies sent to Cuba for identification were Grena-
tal residents, and were home within the next two days.
Gaston Diaz, the only remaining Cuban diplomat in Grenada, said Cuban pathologists identified 24 of the 69 children. "The others are Granadian," he said.
U. S. DIPLOMATES HAD said 42 bodies thought to be Cubans killed in fighting were flown to Havana, but later acknowledged that an exact possibility because some bodies were possible, said Army Capt. Henry Fore.
unit on the island, said 31 bodies were identified as "members of hostile forces" and another 11 were removed from the battlefield.
HAVANA, Cuba — an angry Fidel Castro, shouting to about 1 million people at a downtown rally, accused President Reagan yesterday of "lying" about Cuba's rule in Grenada before the U.S.-led invasion, and he said that other American attacks were planned.
Fore. chief of the grave registration
... the bodies and the clothing were badly decomposed," said Leslie Bailey, director of the Otway Funeral Home.
"It was impossible to tell whether the bodies were Grenadian or Cuban
Maj. Douglas Frey, chief Army spokesman on Grenada, said no family members of the alleged Grenadian dead have visited the military claims office in St. George's to ask about missing relatives
Grenadian police commissioner Patrick MacLeish said that a missing persons center would open today at the same office housing the military claims center, which now handles mostly property damage suits.
A U.S. spokesman said Saturday that 23 Grenadiers were killed during the invasion, including 18 mental patients who died in an accidental air strike on a hospital in the day of the landing.
Castro's comments came at a funeral rally ending the second day of national mourning for the 24 Cubans killed fighting American forces in the Oct. 25 invasion of the Caribbean island.
Thousands of people streamed into Havana's huge central square throughout the morning yesterday and passed the wide columns of the base of the Jose Marti monument in front, which were covered with the blue, red and white national flag of Cuba — were surrounded by a military honor guard.
THE CLIMAX of the funeral rally was the 90-minute speech by Castro, who alternately was angry and at times at other times subdued and somber.
"These men who we bury this afternoon fought for us and for the world. Castro told the crowd, estudiando journalists to number some 1 million."
"The invasion of Grenada makes us conscious of the realities and dangers that threaten the world," Castro said, but corrupted by cheers and applause.
"None of these assertions could be proved." Castro told the crowd.
"The shooting has hardly stopped in Grenada and already they talk of interventions in El Salvador, in Nicaragua and in Cuba."
Castro accused Washington of "lying on 19 occasions" during the Grenada invasion and said President Gadsby was personally responsible for 13 lures.
DESPITE THE BITTER demons of the United States, Castro issued no threats against Washington. Instead, Castro attacked those who killed him, as well as what he called American misunderstanding of
"Bishop wasn't an extremist, but a real revolutionary, conscientious and honest," Castro said. "Far from being against his intelligent and realistic policies we were very sympathetic about them." he said.
by hardline Marxists that ousted Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and with claims that American medical students on the island risked being
He said the lies started with accusations that Cuba staged the coup
"The Grenadian revolution was already dead (at the time of the invasion)," Castro said. "The Grenadian leaders themselves, with their division and their own colossal errors, had killed it."
Argentina seeks British exodus from Falklands
By United Press International
Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Agurre Lanari told the U.N. General Assembly that the NATO members should "dissociate themselves publicly" from Britain's activities in its South Atlantic colony
UNITED NATIONS — Argentina, accusing the British of diplomatic fraud, urged the United States and its European allies yesterday to bring pressure on Britain to end its militarization of the Falkland Islands.
British Ambassador Sir John Thomson delayed his main speech, but in brief remarks told the assembly Britain hoped for some "new thinking" about the government instead of dealing with the "present discredited military regime."
ARGENTINES. IN THE first democratic elections in eight years, last month chose a center-left government headed by Paul Alafonoff who will take office. DoD
The assembly, discussing the Falklands issue for the second straight year, was scheduled to vote on a resolution to negotiate a negotiation later this week.
A similar draft last year was adopted by 90 votes to 12 with 52 abstentions, with the unusual joint support of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Agarre Lanari said despite the retaking of the Falklands last year by a British task force, the return of the "usped" islands remained the principal aim of any Argentine government.
BRITAIN REJECTED NEGOTIATION of the issue with Argentina, Aguire Lamari said, and its "refusal to negotiate has come hand in hand with a massive militarization of the territories usurped from my country.
"My country believes that it is the responsibility of the Atlantic allies of the United Kingdom to dissuade this country from the dangerous adventure it has undertaken to dissociate itself, individually, for the protection of the Latin American continent.
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