The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, July 25, 1979-Page5 DESPITE U.S. CRITICISM OF PREVIOUS STRIKE: Israel JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel sent raiders to blow up an alleged Palestinian terrorist base yesterday, despite sharp U.S. criticism the day before of an Israeli air strike that reportedly caused heavy civilian casualties. The Israeli military command said a ground force penetrated the Lebanese border overnight to raid the village of Majd el Salim, about nine miles from Israeli territory. The command had no comment on Lebanese reports that its air attack on southern Lebanon Sunday killed 20 per- sons and wounded 60.others. On Mon- day, the U.S. State Department registered objections to the raid and said it was particularly concerned about reports of the civilian casualties. IN OTHER developments: - In Beirut, right-wing Christian militiamen and soldiers of the Syrian peacekeeping army fired mortars, rockets, machine guns and rifles in a four-hour battle in the heart of the city. - Israeli and Egyptian military of- ficers met in a Sinai desert town to prepare for today's second-stage Israeli withdrawal on the Egyptian front. The withdrawal was negotiated as part of the U.S.-sponsored Israel- Egyptian peace treaty, signed in Washington last March. - Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum told Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim yesterday that use of U.N. military ob- servers in the Sinai to replace a U.N. military force is unacceptable to Israel. The mandate of the 4,000-member force - bombs base in Lebanon was to expire at midnight and informal negotiations continued among Security Council members. THE ISRAELI raid on southern Lebanon was the fourth such Israeli in- cursion on land announced this month. The army blew up two houses in Qabrikha July 9, and on July 20 com- mandos landed on the Lebanese coast and ambushed a vehicle. An announcement by the Israeli military command said a strike force evacuated the suspected house before demolition crews razed it. There was no mention of casualties. Carter to WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter told congressional leaders yesterday he intends to name a maycr to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After a breakfast at the White House for Democratic congressional leaders, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill told reporters of the president's intentions regarding the HUD post. Carter has nominated the current HUD secretary, Patricia Roberts Harris, to replace Joseph Califano Jr. as secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. It was learned that senior White House staff members sent Carter a list of three names for the HUD post yesterday morning. At the top of the list was former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu. General backs SALT I, denies trade-off for MX Israeli authorities htave denied terms" Israel's air attacks on villages several other Lebanese reports of in southern Lebanon. He said the recent Israeli ground attacks into government emphasized the toll in Lebanon. civilian lives in an official protest. MILITARY authorities did The fighting in Beirut broke out in the acknowledge the Sunday air attack, bomb-pocked commercial sector of the saying "a number of terrorist bases capital, where the Christian militias were directly hit" and 15 guerrillas reported one person killed and one were killed. But an army spokesman wounded on their side. No casualty had no comment on the Lebanese report was available from the Syrian report that the casualties were mostly side. women and children. THE MILITIAS accused the Syrians State Department spokesman Hod- of provoking the fighting, which coin- ding Carter said the U.S. government cided with the current visit here of Arab condemns "in the strongest kind of See ISRAEL, Page 10 name mayor to HUD SOURCES WHO declined to be Ore., Mayor Neil Goldschmidt and Los named said Landrieu, now employed by Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. a large commercial development firm HOUSE Democratic Whip John in New Orleans, was the clear leader Brademas told reporters after the for the HUD post. He drew broad sup- White House breakfast that Carter had port from the White House senior staff said the person he picks as chairman of at a meeting Friday and is being the Federal Reserve Board would be backed by the U.S. Conference of one "whose appointment would assure Mayors and National League of Cities, a strengthened dollar at home and sources said. abroad." Some administration sources said The president's aides have made Landrieu, a former president of the clear his first priority is filling that job, mayor's conference, could be expected vacated when he nominated G. William to help the administration politically Miller to replace Treasury Secretary with mayors, Southerners, and W. Michael Blumenthal. Catholics. It was understood that he has An administration source said a the backing of Sen. Russell Long, the leading candidate for the Federal powerful Senate Finance Committee Reserve job is Bruce MacLaury, 48, chairman from Louisiana. president of the Brookings Institution, a It was learned the other two names on private Washington research the list sent to Carter were Portland, organization. THE AMfIWIILLE ;.._ A PROF SION F MS NCPE STATION JAMES BROLIN, MARGOT KIDDER and ROD STEIGER "THE AMITYVILLE HORROR" .w " Also Starring MURRAY HAMILTON Music by LALO SCHIFRIN (R) Executive in Chase of Production JERE HENSHAw 1 214 s. universit y STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 27th Theatre Phone 668-6416 WASHINGTON (AP)-Gen. David Jones yesterday denied that the nation's military leaders traded their endorsement of the SALT II treaty for a promise to build the MX missile, or that their support resulted from White House pressure. Jones said the backing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was not conditioned on spending for any particular program. But he emphasized there is an urgent need to modernize strategic forces such as nuclear missiles, bombers, and submarines. "The most serious concern of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in this regard is the risk that SALT II could become a tranquilizer for the American people," Jones told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "WE WOULD HOPE we would not repeat the mistakes we made after SALT I," the general said. He complained that the United States failed to do all it should in military research and development and deployment of strategic weapon systems. Jones, speaking for the Joint Chiefs of. Staff, said he was "disappointed the treaty did not achieve more than it did." However, he called the treaty a "modest but useful step" and said it should be ratified by the Senate. JONES SAID imiprovements in strategic forces should include deployment of the $30 billion MX mobile missile system, installation of air- launched cruise missiles on B-52 bom- bers, modernization of submarine ballistic missile systems, and develop- ment of a new aircraft for carrying cruise missiles. ' The MX program has been delayed two years by President Carter. He an- nounced June 8 he was going ahead with full-scale development. The ad- ministration still has not worked out all the details of how to deploy it. "There are some who say the chiefs are being bought off by the MX," Jones told the committee. "I'd like to de-link those two"-the military endorsement and the MX decision. SEN. HENRY JACKSON (D-Wash.), one of the treaty's most vocal foes, asked if the chiefs would support the treaty if they did not get the strategic programs they are seeking. "That implies a buyoff for the treaty," Jones said. "Both are necessary." Pressed again on the same point, Jones said, "I would say in that con- dition the treaty probably doesn't make much difference." JACKSON' QUESTIONED whether the chiefs' endorsement had been in- fluenced by the White House. "I got no guidance, no, instructions, no changes," Jones replied. Jackson said Jones failed to win ap- proval for improvement in strategic forces during his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs and earlier as chief of staff of the Air Force. "During your tenure . . . it's been a negative in terms of results," Jackson charged. In earlier testimony, Jones predicted the Soviet Union will gain an edge over the United States in strategic forces. "We are going to have a risky world in the 1980s," he said. "With or without SALT the risks will be greater than today."