Britain flies in
rein forcerents
around Stanley
From AP and UPI
Waves of helicopters ferried British
commandos into attack position around
the Falklands capital of Stanley yester-
day. Military sources in Buenos Aires
claimed Argentina has flown in 2,000
soldiers to reinforce its 7,000-man
garrison holding the besieged port
town.
A London newspaper saiddArgentina
had received sophisticated missiles
from Libya for a possible last-ditch air
assault on both the estimated 7,500
British troopers, who have seized the
high ground overlooking Stanley, and
the 100-ship British war fleet.
AT THE U.N. Security Council in
New York, both the United States and
Britain vetoed a resolution that called
for an immediate cease-fire in the
South Atlantic conflict.
But U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirk-
patrick said she received instructions
minutes after the vote that she should
have abstained. The new instructions,
which she said came "from Paris by
way of Washington," arrived too late to
change the American vote.
Nine members of the 15-nation coun-
cil, including the Soviet Union and
China, voted for the resolution spon-
sored by Panama and Spain. France
and three other members abstained.
BRITAIN'S U.N. ambassador, Sir
Anthony Parsons, told the council
before the vote that the resolution "in
no way" met his government's demand
for an "inseparable link between the
cease-fire and immediate Argentine
withdrawal within a fixed time limit."
Parsons appeared flabbergasted by
the American flip-flop. "Breath-taking,
absolutely breath-taking," he was
overheard muttering as he strolled
away shaking his head after the
meeting.
Argentina's Joint Chiefs of Staff
issued a communique reporting clases
between British and Argentine patrols
west of Stanley but listed no casualties.
The communique said British activity
around Stanley was "declining,
especially referring to air operations."
IT GAVE no possible reason, but the
British Defense Ministry reported win-
try conditions in the islands with thick
fog and cold, wet weather. Such sticky
weather could cause a delay in the ex-
pected assault by the British
paratroopers and marines.
In France, British Foreign Secretary
Francis Pym said "military decisions
govern what happens next" and
Secretary of State Alexander Haig said
peace depends "on the willingness of
the Argentines to withdraw."
"As of today, the decision rests in
Buenos Aires," said Haig. The
Secretary of state denied that President
Reagan had asked British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher to hold up
her forces to allow time for a settlement
to avoid a possible humiliating defeat
for the Argentinians.
IN BUENOS AIRES, military sour-
ces denied a report in The Los Angeles
Times that Soviet technicians&were
helping to install a radar system in
southern Argentina. "There is not one
Soviet in the south," a military source
said. Another called the report "lies
planted by the British aimed at causing
further tension between Argentines and
Americans."
the Los Angeles Times report quoted
diplomatic sources in Buenos Aires as
saying 20 Soviet experts began arriving
in Argentina during the past two or
three weeks to install a radar network
along the southern coast, 450 miles
from the Falklands. Argentine
President Leopold Galtieri indicated
earlier this week he would actively seek
Soviet and Cuban military assistance.
London's evening Standard reported
from Washington that Libya shipped
advanced air-to-air missiles to Argen-
tina to boost the military, junta's air
power. The report said Argentins had
failed in attempts to buy more of the
French-built Exocet missiles that sunk
the British destroyer Sheffield and the
transportship Atlantic Conveyor.
In Brief
Complied from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
ERA tabled by N. Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C.- The state Senate voted 27-23 yesterday to table the
Equal Rights Amendment, apparently killing the measure in North Carolina
and making chances for national ratification by the Jpne 30 deadline even
more remote.
Sente rules require a two-thirds majority in the 50-member body to bring
the bill back to life-a margin considered out of reach by supporters of the
proposed constitutional amendment.
"There's no way they can get it back now," said Sen. Craig Lawing,
president pro-tem of the Senate and a supporter of the proposal designed to
ban sex discrimination.
Meanwhile, seven women fasted for an 18th day in Springfield, Ill., in sup-
port of the ERA. The women have been sitting at the state Capitol when the
legislature is in session. They rested in their motel yesterday because
legislators had recessed for the weekend.
Israel retaliates for attack
Israel retaliated yesterday for the attempted murder of its ambassador to
Britain by sending warplanes to blast Palestinian strongholds in Beirut and
then launching jet strikes on PLO rocket bases that bombarded northern
Israel.
Meanwhile, spokespersons for the Palestinian Liberation Organization in
London and Beirut denied responsibility for the attack on Shlomo Argov,
saying the attack was an attempt to discredit the organization.
London police said they arrested four Arab suspects in the shooting
yesterday. A spokesperson said two of the suspects carried Jordanian
passports, one an Iraqi passport, and the other had Syrian papers.
A police source who did not want to be identified said the passports were
fake and the assassination squad consisted of three Palestinians and one
Syrian. He said the men belonged to a PLO splinter faction and were
believed to have received weapons smuggled into Britain in diplomatic bags
through a Middle Eastern embassy.
State's meeting withMoody's
may spur state to action
LANSING- Activity on the 1982-83 budget may be heating up in the
Legislature as a result of a New York meeting earlier in the week between
lawmakers and officials of an influential credit rating firm.
Participants at the conference said yesterday representatives of Moody's
Investors Service made it clear action on next year's budget must be com-
plete before the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year for the state to have a chance to
regain an acceptable rating onuits short-term notes.
Moody's dropped the note rating in early May to the lowest level of any
state in the nation, citing the state's economic condition. The action jeopar-
dized an anticipated issue of $500 million in the fall.
Thursday, six members of the House and Senate appropriations commit-
tees visited with Moody's officials in New York to help clarify the firm's ac-
tion.
Senate Fiscal Agency Director Ted Farris, who accompanied the group,
said the legislators were led to believe that one of the best ways to improve
the state's chances of regaining a higher note rating is to have a budget
preparedbefore Oct. 1.
Hurricane Alberto settles down
FORT MYERS, Fla.- Tropical Storm Alberto, which killed 15 people in
Cuba and brushed southwest Florida asa surprise hurricane, stalled yester-
day in the Gulf of Mexico and began to calm down. The storm, which in half a
day had grown from a depression off the western tip of Florida to a
hurricane with 80 mph winds, lingered for hours Friday in cool Gulf waters
about 200 miles southwest of Fort Myers, with top winds of 50 mph.
During the night the storm pounded western Cuba, damaging thousands of
homes and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people. It swept past the Florida
Keys, prompting hundreds of residents to flee inland and emptying seaside
resorts as the storm pointed toward Fort Myers.
Then it swerved westward and stalled.
Cloud blocks sunlight in tropics
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- The huge cloud of ash and sulfuric acid that
spread from a mammoth explosion of a Mexican volcano is interfering with
sunlight in Hawaii, Japan and tropical regions, scientists said yesterday.
It's too soon to tell whether the 17-mile-high cloud from the April 4 ex-
plosion of Chinchonal volcano in southeast Mexico, which killed 22 people,
will alter the Earth's climate this year, said James Pollack of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center.
But it's possible that the eruption that belched 10 million tons of debris into
the upper atmosphere-at least 10 times as much as produced by Mount St.
Helens-could produce climatic changes similar to the 1815 eruption of
Tambora inIndonesia, Pollack said.
He said, however, itshould not threaten the health of life on Earth.
The Tambora explosion killed 12,000 people and produced what officials
called the "year of no summer" in New England and brought ice to London's
Thames River.
"At the end of the 19th century there was a period when many large ex-
plosive volcanic eruptions occurred on the island of Krakatau," Pollack
said. "During that time temperatures were colder, sea ice tended to move
farther south and growing seasons were shorter."
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