Po 12-Friday May 29, 1981-The Michigan Daily Continues On To Hit More Pia 4 AP Photo NAVY OFFICIALS SAID yesterday that pilot error may have caused the fires Marine 1st Lt. Steve White, began to drift to the right as it approached the ship flight deck crash on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz which killed 14 men and in- at nine minutes before midnight. He said the right wing dipped and hit another jured 48 others Tuesday night. The aircraft hit 19 parked jets, destroying four of plane moored on the flight deck, spinning the Prowler into other parked jets and them, and began a chain of devastating explosions, including the detonations of torching a fireball of fuel that engulfed scrambling crewmen. Among the dead two Sparrow air-to-air missiles. "Every facet of the tragedy is going to be was airman Patrick Louis of Westland, Mich. The injured included Airman studied," Pentagon sposesman Henry Catto said. He said Defense Secretat'y Bryan Jeans of Oxford, Mich., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Casterling of Caspar Weinberger was "completely bowled over by the sadness" of the ac- Blissfield, Mich. cident. Kinnear said videotapes showed the Grumman-built Prowler, piloted by Israeli jets bomb sLebanon Begin will me~et with Egypt's sadat From AP and UPI DAMOUR, Lebanon (AP)-Israeli jets blasted Palestinian bases in Lebanon yesterday, reportedly knocking out four Libyan surface-to-air missile bat- teries and leaving 20 people deadl and three wounded. Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel said Libyan forces are in Lebanon and are "asking to be destroyed." Begin ssid SAM-9 missiles were deployed in the Naameh-Damour area roughly 12-15 miles south of Beirut. Neither Libyans nor truck-mounted missiles were visible to this reporter in parts of the area toured over the weekend and yesterday. The Palestine Liberation Organization denied there were any Libyans or SAM-9s in Lebanon. THE PLO SAID 18 civilians and two guerrillas were killed and three other guerrillas wounded by the Israeli jets, which conducted raids lasting more than three hours. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Begin said yesterday he will meet Egyptian President Anwar Sadat next Thursday for their first summit in 17 months to discuss Middle East developments, particularly the missile crisis in Lebanon. The half-day meeting will take place in Ofira, for- merly the Egyptian naval base of Sharm El-Sheikh, at the southern tip of the Israeli-occupied Sinai desert. THE SIXTH Begin-Sadat meeting since the Egyp- tian leader first visited Jerusalem in 1977 comes less than a month before national voting in which Begin faces re-election.. The surprise announcement of the June 4 summit was made as Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian guerrilla targets in Lebanon and destroyed 16 SAM-9 missiles. Israel did not attack the larger Syrian SAM- 6 missiles which are at the heart of the current crisis. A spokesman for Begin said the talks-the first meeting between the two leaders since January 1980 in Egypt-were proposed so Begin could ask Sadat's advice on the missile crisis "instead of sending messages to each other through ambassadors." Begin told Israel's armed forces radio, "Par- titcularly at this time it is appropriate that we ex- change views freely and discuss everything." In Cairo, Egyptian officials declined to comment on the meeting. 0 I Thatcher visits N. Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - British Prime Minister Margaret That- cher, on a surprise visit here yesterday, accused the Irish Republican Army of seeking "dictatorship by force and by fear." In Londonderry, an undercover British soldier shot and killed two IRA gunmen who fired on his car. Provisional Sinn Fein, the IRA political wing, meanwhile, said Martin Hurson, 27, would join the hunger strike at Maze prison, replacing Brendan McLaughlin, who ended his fast Wed- nesday because of stomach ulcers and internal bleeding. The four are trying to win political status for Irish nationalist prisoners. MRS. THATCHER, arriving unan- nounced for a one-day visit, was surrounded by a surging crowd estimated in the hundreds as she made her way to the main shopping district of the provincial capital. Most of the crowd cheered and ap- plauded, but some girls shouted "Mur- derer!" as armed plainclothes police escorted Mrs. Thatcher through the noontime crush of shoppers. The two-thirds Protestant majority of Northern Ireland supports the British government's refusal to give in to IRA hunger strikers. Four of the fasting prisoners have died this month. Mrs. Thatcher pledged she would never "legitimize" the IRA's cause by granting the hunger strikers' demands. The IRA is seeking to unite the British province with the neighboring Irish republic, which is 97 percent Roman Catholic. THE PRIME minister's visit to Belfast was kept secret until just before her arrival at Aldergrove Royal Air Force Base. Her London office said there was no "special reason" for the visit here, her fourth since 1979 and second in three months. Mrs. Thatcher has been under in- creasing pressure from Protestants to take a stronger stand against the IRA, and from politicians in the Irish republic and the United States to show more flexibility in resolving the crisis over the hunger strikers. But she told reporters, "No one in any responsible position, or in religion, has urged me to give political status, or anything like special category status" to the IRA prisoners. "We are doing everything to help the people of Northern Ireland to help themselves out of this difficult situation," she said. "I cannot pull solutions out of the hat ... we are winning the war against violence." The prime minister concedgl that the victory by hardline Protestant leader the Rev. Ian Paisley in last week's local government elections had "slightly in- creased polarization" between Catholics and Protestants. 0 0