Page 4-Thursday, June 3, 1982-The Michigan Daily Both sides said to break-rules in Falkiands LONDON (AP)- Accounts by British journalists on the Falklands sparked allegations yesterday of possible breaches by both Argentina and Britain of internationally accepted rules' of war. The reports allege that Argentine soldiers fired on British paratroopers sfterrraising the white flag of surrender and thst the British forced Argentine prisoners to clear minefields in violation of the Geneva Convention. IN ADDITION, Argentina was said to have stockpiled the skin-searing chemical, napalm, on the Falkands- a report denied by the Argentine Joint Chiefs of Staff. Argentine press reports have criticized Britain's use of delayed- reaction cluster bombs. Neither napalm nor cluster bombs are banned by conventions but they have been cited as particularly terrible weapons. Robert Fox of the British Broad- casting Corp. reported that four Argen- tine prisoners were killed when an ammunition dump, which he said was booby-trapped by Argentines, blew up while they were clearing it at Goose Green, the settlement recaptured by British paratroopers Friday. THE DEFENSE Ministry confirmed that an explosives accident occurred Tuesday at Goose Green and said that there was an undetermined number of casualties among both British and Argentine troops. It did not say how the accident happened. Dispatches by British correspondents with the Royal Navy task force are sub- ject to review by a military censor. But a ministry spokesman said they were inspected only for sensitive information on troop operations, and not for ac- curacy. . Reports of Argentine prisoners being forced to do life-threatening work were the first from the task force with any hint of possible misconduct by British soldiers. "IF WE ARE actually ordering the prisoners to lift minefields, I fear we are in breach" of the Geneva Conven- tion, said retired British Army Col. Captured Argentines ...reportedly doing dangerous work Gerald Draper, who was a military prosecutor at the Nazi war crimestrial after World War II. Under such headlnes as "Hero Paras Braved Napalm Bombs," British newspapers gave prominent display to the alleged discovery of 9,000 gallons of napalm, a jellylike chemical mixture used in flamethrowers and bombs. British war correspondents said 89 tanks containing napalm were found among Argentine equipment captured at Goose Green. -kMichael Nicholson of Britain's In- dependent Television News quoted unidentified British commanders as saying two napalm bombs were drop- ped on advancing paratroopers but failed to detonate. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in a television interview that the reports made her "recoil." "It is just one more thing that makes one realize. . . we have to fight for all the good things we uphold," she said. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Reagan arrives in Europe PARIS- President Reagan arrived inFrance on a rainy midnight yester- day, launching an ambitious foreign journey designed to shore up the North Atlantic Alliance, win public support for his arms control proposals and stem complaints about U.S. interest rates. During the 10-day, 10,689-mile trip, Reagan will confer with Pope John Paul II and Italian leaders in Rome and with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Britain. Before returning to Washington, he will attend a summit of the leaflers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations in Bonn and visit the Berlin Wall. The journey, Reagan's fourth out of the country during his 16 months in of- fice, was seen as offering the president a chance to defend his economic program and explain his efforts to persuade the Soviet Union to join in arms reduction talks by first building up U.S. defenses. Hinckley chooses not to testify WASHINGTON- John Hinckley turned down a chance to testify in his own behalf yesterday as the prosecution began presenting evidence designed to show his attack on President Reagan was not the product of a psychotic im- pulse he couldn't control. "I have no intention now of taking the stand," Hinckley told U.S. District Judge Barrington Parker. "I have just been advised by counsel that I have no intention of taking the stand." The judge pressed the point. "Well, is that your desire? Are you following advice of your counsel? Are- you considering the advice of your counsel or are-you independently making a judgment." Said Hinckley: "I believe both." Had he testified, Hinckley would have been subject to intensive cross- examination and the defense clearly did not want that. Chief defense lawyer Vincent Fuller was told by the judge in a bench con- ference earlier in the day to tell the jury Hinckley would not testify. Chinese officials to release American accused of spying WASHINGTON- Chinese authorities have agreed to release an American woman accused of spying but will ask her to leave China within 48 hours, the State Department said yesterday. Lisa Wichser, 28, a graduate student from the University of Denver, has been held by Chinese officials since Friday. In Peking, Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) said he hoped Wichser would be on a U.S-bound flight by tomorrow. She is to be released today at 6 p.m., Peking time. Baker, who was in Peking for talks on other matters, said "I am confident the case can be satisfactorily resolved." He declined to discuss allegations that she stole state secrets, which in China could be any material not publicly announced. "My objective was to try to help get this girl out," he said. Gasoline prices increase NEW YORK- Some of the nation's major oil companies raised wholesale gasoline prices as much as 2 cents a gallon yesterday in what analysts said could be the first in a round of price hikes. The higher prices, which consumers were expected to see soon at the pump, came as gas supplies in the United States were dropping to unusually low levels for late spring. As summer nears, demand for gasoline is expected to be strong enough to let oil companies raise prices more in coming weeks, analysts said. Warren Shimmerlik, who follows the U.S. oil industry for Merrill Lynch & Co., said he expects retail gasoline prices to rise "a few cents" a gallon over the next several weeks as refiners try to increase profit margins. The increases are part of a continuing trend of higher wholesale and retail prices throughout the country. The Lundberg Survey Inc., which tracks retail gasoline prices, said the national average retail price for all grades of gasoline as of May 21 was $1.21 a gallon. That was up more than 2.5 cents from early May and nearly 3.5 cents higher than mid-April. "My guess is we'll continue to have further increases," said Sanford Margoshes, an oil analyst at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, Inc., an invest- ment firm. "But the most dramatic increases already have occurred." United Press International sold United Press International has been sold by the E.W. Scripps Company to Media News Corp., the press service announced yesterday. Media News Corp., a new company formed by a group of newspaper, cable, and television station owners, said it would begin an immediate program to accelerate UPI's changeover to satellite delivery of its news report, and to improve and aggressively market UPI services worldwide. The UPI announcement said the privately held Media News Corp. does not plan to make staff changes in the service. It also said the name of the service would remain the same. { British tighten ring around capitad as peace efforts fail (continuedfromPage 1) with Perez de Cuellar in New York: "What we were seeking and have sought all along is Argentine with- drawal." Argentina also sent Costa Mendez to Havana, where his Cuban counterpart Isidoro Malmierca Peoli told a meeting of non-aligned nations that Fidel Castro's government would "give whatever aid is necessary to Argentina in this decisive moment." In the U.N. peace talks that collapsed earlier the British agreed tentatively to a mutual withdrawal of forces followed by negotiations on the Argentine claim to sovereigtyovetthe islands. But after the British landing last week, Thatcher said her government's objective was "to retake the Falklands. They are British sovereign territory, and we wish to restore British ad- ministration." CORRESPONDENTS with the British forces reported the capture Tuesday of 1,535-foot Mount Kent 12 miles west of Stanley, and the strategically vital Two Sisters ridge three miles closer to the town. Britain's Defense Ministry said two Harrier jeta had been lost to Argentine fire in the "last few days" but the pilots - were rescued. It -said more Harriers. had arrived in the war zone.