B elievers
wait for
June 28
ascension
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - John Vickers sold his
home. Dr. James McCullough donated a Porsche.
Former award-winning bodybuilder Bert Seelman
cut his training.
They are among 50 members of a Tucson religious
group who say they expect to be physically lifted to
Heaven to be with God on June 28.
"0000, GLORY, I get bliss just thinking about it,"
said Bill Maupin, spiritual leader of the fundamen-
talist Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation.
Maupin and others said Bible study has convinced
them that the second coming of Christ will take place
in 1988. They, however, saidihey believe they already
will be in Heaven.
"We're not just going to some mountain hideaway;
we're leaving the Earth," Maupin said.
"This is known as rapture. And when rapture takes
place, the people not saved will be able to see us being
saved. There's no such thing as a secret rapture,"
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Maupin said.
IN PREPARATION for the event, the 50 members
have quit their jobs and disposed of some of their
property.
"I've never known such peace, such joy," said Mc-
Cullough, a Nogales doctor who was brought into the
group by Seelman, who said he is cutting his training
to save his strength for the lifting of spirits.
Using biblical references to events expected to
precede the rapture, Maupin predicts that, after a
war in the Mideast, the world will be dominated by a
multinational power headed by an American "anti-
Christ" until Christ returns in May 1988.
BUT BEFORyF then, Maupin said, believers will be
transported to Heaven.
According to Maupin, those remaining on Earth af-
ter June 28 will have to decide between going into
league with the devil - thereby assuring their eter-
nal damnation - or professing faith in Jesus.
BEGIN TELLS HABIB RAIDS WILL CONTINUE:
Israeli jets hit Lebanon
From AP and UPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon-Israeli jets pounded
Palestinian bases in Labanon yesterday for the
second time in five days and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said he told U.S. envoy Philip
Habib the raids will continue. Syria warned the at-
tacks must stop if Habib wants his mission to suc-
ceed.
Israel said the jets destroyed a costal guerrilla
base but the Palestinian Liberation Organization said
they missed and hit civilian targets.
IN BEIRUT, Syrian and Christian militia gunners
traded more artillery and mortar fire but both sides
seemed to be abiding by a new agreement not to shell
civilian sectors.
A police source said 15 people were killed or woun-
ded in the latest Israeli air attack along the
Mediterranean coast near Tyre, 53 miles south of
Beirut. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported
only six civilians wounded.
WAFA said six U.S.-made Israeli Phantom F4s
pounded and strafed the coast for 45 minutes, while
Israeli long-range artillery shelled the Lebanese
towns of Nabatiyeh and Nabi al-Taher, both 8 miles
north of the border, and the city of Sidon, 28 miles
south of Beirut.
THERE WERE NO immediate reports of
casualties from the artillery attacks.
The Israeli military command said its planes
destroyed an Al Fatah base 6 miles north of Tyre and
returned safely to base after reporting "accurate lits
on the designated targets."
An hour after the raid, Begin said in an interview
with CBS-TV that Israel told Habib that Israeli forces
would continue attacking Palestinians in Lebanon
despite the crisis over Syrian missiles in eastern
Lebanon.
BEGIN SAID Habib was told "an uncountable
number of times that we are going to continue
preventive operations against the PLO terrorists."
He said there was "nothing in common" between
Habib's mission to resolve the missile crisis and
Israeli attacks on Palestinian bases.
Begin said the attacks cause "disarray" among
Palestinians and "this is the most effective way of
defending our people, and I told Mr. Habib and
everybody else concerned we are going to continue
with this defense."
IN WASHINGTON, State Department spokesman
Dean Fischer said: "We have consistently from the
beginning urged on all parties that any escalation of
military activity of any kind is not helpful to the
peace process. There have been absolutely no green
lights given to any of the parties for any military ac-
tivity."
On Thursday, Israeli jets swooped down on an area
a dozen miles south of Beirut, killing 33 people, in-
cluding four Libyans, in an attack aimed at Libyan-
manned missile sites. That raid prompted protests
from Syria and other Arab and Islamic nations and
warnings of the possibility of a new Mideast war.
Syria moved anti-aircraft missiles into Lebanon on
April 29, a day after Israeli jets downed two Syrian
helicopters attacking Christian militiamen.
SYRIA HAS REFUSED to remove the missiles,
-and the Syrian government newspaper Tishrin said
Tuesday that for Habib's mission to succeed, the U.S.
government must recognize that Lebanon must not
be "penetrated, attacked, violated or be the scene of
any practice of sovereignty by outsiders."
In Amman, Jordan's King Hussein criticized
Israel's military campaign, saying: "We are at a
danger point, and I believe it is hard to accept, in
dealing with the matter, a particular emphasis on the
so-called missile crisis yet total silence on Israeli at-
tacks on Lebanon itself and those who live there."
Meanwhile, Christian militiamen and Syrian troops.
continued to snipe at each other across the line that
splits Beirut into Moslem and Christian halves. An
agreement between militia gunners to end random
shelling appeared to be holding after three days of
bombardment left 37 dead and nearly 400 wounded.
Lefever
confirmation
faces Senate
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replied. He said the president's position
"remains the same as it has always
been."
Speakes said the administration has
found no "legal conflict of interest" by
Lefever in connection with his in-
volvement in the controversy over the
marketing of baby formula in poor
countries.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee has called Lefever back for
more questioning Thursday on whether
$25,000 in contributions from the Nestle
Corp. led Lefever's Ethics and Public
Policy Center to distribute an article
supporting Nestle's marketing of baby'
formula.
Lefever has denied there was any
connection between the contribution
and distribution of the article.
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