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SUMMIT CONFERENCE LEADERS line-up for the official photo at Chateau Montabello yesterday. They are from
left: Gaston Thorn, president of the European Economic Community; Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki; West
German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; U.S. President Ronald Reagan; Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau;
French President Francois Mitterand; British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and the Italian Premier Giovanni
Spandolini.
REAGAN SAYS U.S. WILL HOLD ECONOMIC COURSE
Interest rates debated

Somali
plane
crash
kills 49
MOGADISHU, Somalia (UPI) - A
Somali Airlines passenger prop plane
crashed in flames a few minutes after
takeoff yesterday, killing all 49 people
aboard, authorities reported.
World Vision International, an aid
agency, said at least one foreign relief
worker was among the victims and
there were "sure to be others."
AUTHORITIES withheld names of
the dead pending notification of
relatives.
They gave no cause for the crash of
the Fokker Friendship F-27 prop-driven
plane 22 miles north or the Somali
capital near the small town of Balad.
The plane, with 44 passengers and a
crew of five, was on a domestic flight to
Hargeisa, 550 miles to the north near
the Ethiopian border.
SOMALI authorities said a mass
funeral for the victims would be held
today at the scene of the crash.
Passengers at Mogadishu airport
said the plane, a post World War II
model with twin turbo-prop engines,
took off on schedule at 6 a.m. local time,
then returned about 15 minutes later for
unspecified repairs and was on the
ground only briefly.
It took off again and crashed minutes
later, killing everyone aboard.
IN NAIROBI, the capital of neigh-
boring Kenya, World Vision's regional
director for Africa, Ken Tracey, said he
spoke by telephone with the agency's
Mogadishu representative, Robert
Smith, who visited the scene of the
crash.
"He said there was absolutely no
chance of recovering any parts of the
victims for identification," Tracey
said.
"He said it was just a heap of charred
wreckage."
TRACEY CONFIRMED there was at
least one foreign relief worker among
the dead but refused to give the victim's
name.
"There are sure to be others," he
said. "Planes in Somalia never take off
with an empty seat on them and there
are always relief workers among the
passengers."

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From APandUPI
MONTEBELLO, Quebec-President Reagan was told
yesterday that France faces the prospect of "social
upheaval" if unemployment stemming from international
economic problems gets much worse, but Reagan said the
United States would hold to a steady economic course.
Receiving what was described as a generally sympathetic
response from the leaders of the richest industrial
democracies, despite their complaints about high U.S. in-
terest rates, Reagan said he hoped to see signs by year's end
that inflation and interest rates are abating.
REAGAN WAS warned at the summit meeting his
economic policy was driving Europe to a "flash point" that
could explode in widespread social unrest.
But, said presidential counselor Edwin Meese III, Reagan
told the six other heads of government at the opening session
of the economic summit conference that it would take "a long
time" for interest rates to decline to acceptable levels.
Meese said the summit session involved "a frank descrip-
tion of the impact" of high U.S. interest rates on other
nations, particularly as they affect unemployment in France
and West Germany.
IN THE FIRST formal session of the three-day meeting,
France's newly elected socialist President Francois Mit-
terrand said Europe's battered economies cannot long
weather the impact of high U.S. interest rates.
But presidential counselor Edward Meese claimed that af-
ter Reagan detailed U.S. policy there was general agreement
with his efforts to resolve U.S. financial problems in hopes
they would lessen global economic ills.

Meese said Mitterand warned that "unemployment in
France as well as West Germany and other countries ir
Europe were getting to a flash point, to a point where it might
cause social upheaval, and they wanted to avoid that."
HE SAID FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand raised
"the problem that they have to face social upheaval if unem.
ployment got too bad."
While major U.S. trading partners compared the current
economic situation to the Great Depression, Meese said,
Reagan responded that "the interest rates facing the United
States are not part of our policies but are part 'of the
economic mess inherited by the administration and that he
was taking the necessary steps" to control inflation.
Reagan was taking part in his first major summit con-
ference while pondering a decision on resuming shipments of
F-16 jet fighters to Israel. He joined the leaders of France,
West Germany, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan, as well as
the president of the European Common Market, at a round
wooden table at the Chateau Montebello, a resort hotel 40
miles east of Ottawa.
THE FORMAL talks in the secluded Chateau Montebelle
retreat about 40 miles northeast of Ottawa opened with
statements by the leaders of the United States, Canada,
Great Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and the
European Economic Community.
Mitterrand, whose expansive economic plans
diametrically opposed Reagan's tight-money stand, warned
against the dangers posed to Europe by United States efforts
to combat domestic inflation through high interest rates.

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Reagan decides to defer
F-16 shipments at Summit
(Continued tram Puge 1)
Libyan leader Col. Moammar missiles such as the SAM-6 batteries
Khadafy asked Arab governments to Syria wheeled into east Lebanon in
reconsider selling oil to the United April, triggering the crisis with Israel
States to protest "mass atrocities of that prompted Reagan to dispatch
Palestinians and Lebanese by Israel special envoy Philip Habib to head off a
committed with American arms." new Arab-Israeli war.
Syria's state radio said President PLO communiques said Israeli
Hafez Assad, whose forces occupy commandos in boats and helicopters
Lebanon, may put "air defense landed before dawn at a guerrilla-held
weapons" in Beirut to protect the area south of Sidon, 28 miles north of
capital from more Israeli raids such as the Israeli border, after a bombar-
Friday's, which Lebanon claimed killed dment from gunboats and missiles.
300 people. Guerrillas said they fought the raiders
LIBYA HAS said it might give Pales- for 30 minutes, forcing them to with-
tinian guerrillas Soviet anti-aircraft draw with heavy casualties.

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