Page4-Tuesday, June 16, 1981-The Michigan Daily So at:! Israel'i' raid as shaken peace process 4 CAIRO, Egypt (AP)-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said yesterday that Israel's attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor gave the Soviet Union and its Arab allies "a blank check to fill with accusations and lies." He said it had "shakeqi the peace process but not destroyed it." In an exchange of cables that ap- parently took place before the raid, Sadat and President Reagan agreed that despite recent setbacks, peace ef- forts in the Middle East must continue in order to avert the threat of Soviet in- tervention in the area. The cable texts were published in Arabic yesterday by the official Middle East News Agency. ACCORDING TO the texts, Resgan said the Syrian-Israeli dispute over Syria's missiles in Lebanon could "lead to an escalation of Soviet presence in the Middle East via Syria." In his reply, Sadat said: "I asked Mr. Begin in our Sinai meeting (before the raid) to give ample time to American diplomacy to solve the crisis over Lebanon," the agency reported. The Egyptian president told Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that "the outbreak of war at such a critical time will destroy the peace process and pave the way for communist interven- tion." MEANWHILE, the Soviet Union, demanding U.N. sanctions against Israel, suggested yesterday that the United States must have known beforehand about Israeli plans to bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor. U.S. officials have insisted the Reagan administration did not learn about the June 7 Israeli air strike until afterward. But Soviet Ambassador Oleg A. Troyanovsky, speaking on the third day. 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Begin told'supporters at a campaign rally that Israel would knock out the Soviet-made missiles if U.S. diplomatic efforts failed to get Syria to withdraw them from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. He said he would tell Habib when he arrives in Israel later this week. "If you're not moving them, then we will." In Washington, State Department spokesman David Passage, asked about Begin's threat to strike at the Syrian missiles in Lebanon, said: "We are working without deadlines. We are working toward objectives." In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Judge orders man questioned in slayings to split suit ATLANTA - A federal judge yesterday directed a man questioned in the slayings of 28 young blacks to divide his suit against law enforcement agen- cies and news organizations into two distinct complaints charging the two grou pseparately. he man's lawyer, Mary Welcome, told U.S. District Judge Orinda Evans that her client "has been tried and is being tried" in connection with the slayings. If the hearing on his petition for a preliminary injunction to halt the "blitzkrieg of media harassment" were open to the public, information previously published and broadcast would surface again, she argued. She worried that if her client were brought to trial, jurors would be unable to erase information that was "repeated so many times." David- bailey, a lawyer for Cox Enterprises which owns Atlanta's two major daily newspapers, said the petition amounted to a request for a "gag" order. Dissidents charged with overthrow of Polish state WARSAW, Poland - Four anti-Communist dissidents freed from jail because of protest hunger strikes appeared in a packed Warsaw Provincial Court yesterday on charges they plotted the violent overthrow of the Polish state. The seven-count indictment was read and the trial was recessed until Tuesday. Prosecutors did not ask that a formal plea be entered but the defendants have previously claimedihey are innocent. The leader of Confederation of Independent Poland, known by the initials of its Polish name, KPN, vowed to fight the charges, which carry a penalty of from five years in prison to death. Leszek Moczulski, 51, and the three other KPN members were freed from a Warsaw prison June 5 after a hunger strike in their behalf by mem- bers of the Solidarity independent labor union. The release was attacked by the Soviet Union as an example of the Polish government's alleged weakness in the face of "counter-revolutionary" elements. The courtroom was open to the public, and about 140 people, including an elderly man dressed ina concentration camp prison suit filled it. 'Berserk weather' continues to ravage Plains states MINNEAPOLIS - Devastating winds and more than a foot of rain staged another assault into the battered Plains yesterday after a weekend of berserk weather that killed at least 20 people, left thousands homeless and wrecked millions of dollars worth of property. Rescue teams and cleanup crews from Minnesota to Texas went to work -plucking out neighbors stranded by floodwaters and clearing- *bris splin- tered by tornadoes. Authorities in Texas pulled more bodies out of swollen rivers yesterday and states of emergency were declared in Kansas and Ohio as surging rivers and creeks went over their banks and roared into homes. Taiwan issue reportedly snagging U.S.-Chinese talks PEKING - Secretary of State Alexander Haig discussed U.S.-Chinese relations with China's leaders yesterday and there were indications the talks were not going as well as earlier sessions did. U.S. officials, who declared Sunday that there was near unanimity of views on international issues, offered a much more subdued public charac- terization of yesterday's discussions on bilateral matters. Both sides, apparently by agreement, said little about the second day's talks, which dealt with the most troublesome issue between the two coun- tries, the U.S. relationship with Taiwan. Workers shut plant to protest cut of cost-of-living benefits BELVIDERE, Ill. - Workers shut Chrysler Corp.'s only assembly plant for its popular Omni-Horizon subcompacts yesterday to protest the elimination of cost-of-living benefits accepted by the union when the automaker appeared near collapse. 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