Page 4--Tuesday, July 13, 1982--The Michigan Daily Congress reluctant to send troops to Beirut WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress returned from its Fourth of July recess Monday expressing increasing doubts about the wisdom of sending U.S. Marines to Lebanon to take part in a peacekeeping force. "For the most part, I am apprehen- sive," House Majority Leader Jim Wright, (D-Texas), told reporters. He said the situation in Lebanon changes so much from day to day that it is un- certian what the mission of the troops would be. SENATE Republican leader Howard Baker said that in his home state of Tennessee he found "very little sup- port" for sending troops to the war-torn Middle Eastern country. He said the Marines "would be in a very, very dif- ficult situation" and he hopes President Reagan will not send them. Reagan said Sunday that he stood by his offer of 1,000 U.S. Marines to aid the evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from Beirut, but that he is "wary" of the idea and has had no formal invitation from the Lebanese government. Resistance to the proposed troop deployment was only part of the discon- tent in Congress over the June 6 Israeli invasion - discontent that could en- danger the administration's request for more aid to Israel. "IN A YEAR what we are slashing budgets . . . never have I been ap- proached by as many of my colleagues, and I am in sympathy with them, that we cannot any longer support his level of assistance for Israel, particularly when it is endangering the entire position of the United States as a mediator, a peacemaker in the Middle East," said Sen. Charlges Percy (H.- Ill.) Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In a Senate speech Monday, Sen. John Melcher (D-Mont.), spoke of the Israeli assault on Beirut. "The attack has gone on too long," he said. "The word from the United States should be very blunt and direct: Withdraw forth- with and permit humanitarian efforts to proceed." In Lebanon, negotiations to end the Israeli siege of Beirut are stalled because there is no Arab country willing to take the Palestine Liberation Organization's guerrillas, a key Lebanese mediator said yesterday. Britain to send prisoners back to Falkland Islands (Continued from Page 1) flict had ceased. . The Foreign Office said these in- dications came partly in an exchange of messages with, Argentina and partly from other sources, including "con- fidential statements" relayed from Argentina. the contentsof messages released by the Foreign Office showed Argentina spoke only of "the present state of de facto cessation of hostilities." BRITISH officials explained privately "we still have to be careful that we are not bombed again." Thus, the 200-mile "total exclusion zone" imposed by Britain around the Falklands and a blockade 12 miles out from the Argentine coast will remain along with the trade and economic san- ctions pending "further consideration," the Foreign Office said. The blockades were imposed to prevent Argentina from supplying its forces on the islands, although .some ships and planes got through. IN WASHINGTON, President -Reagan announced on Monday the im- mediate lifting of U.S. economic san- ctions imposed against Argentina in support of Britain. the 593 prisoners - Britain earlier said it held 590 but did not explain the new figure - include 35 described as "volun- teers" helping to clear mines laid by the Argentines. One of the 35 was wounded when a mine exploded but he would be sent home if his medical con- dition allowed it, the Foreign Office said. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Britain faces railway shutdown LONDON- Britain appeared yesterday to be headed toward a total shut- down of its state-run national railway, crippled for nine days by train engineers vowing to remain on strike until new work schedules are scrap- ped. The British Railways Board was scheduled to meet today to decide whether to continue to operate the 11,000-mile system, now running at about 10 percent capacity with engineers crossing picket lines. A total shutdown would lay off 167,000 employees. tish Rail said it operates about 1,500 passenger trains and 90 freight tr ins yestrday, and said 700 of about 25,000 engineers had reported for duty. The rail road normally operates about 15,500 passenger trains and 1,500 freight trains on weekdays. Train wreck in Mexico kills 48 TEPIC, Mexico- A passenger express train known as The Bullet jumped the rails near this Pacific coast city and plunged into a deep ravine, killing as many as 48 people, authorities said yesterday. At least 80 more were reported injured. One official estimated the train was carrying more than 800 passengers and said many were still pinned in the wreckage. Rescue workers with blowtorches and special tools for cutting steel were trying to free them, he said. The train was bound Sunday for Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, Calif., to Guadalajara, 332 miles northwest of the Mexican capital, an official for the Nayarit state attorney general's office said. Earlier, federal officials had reported the train began its trip in Nogales on the Arizona border. Couple attempts to bilk Reagans of $1 million in house purchase LOS ANGELES- An elderly couple was charged yesterday with trying to bilk President Reagan and his wife Nancy of about $1 million ina fraudulent deal to buy the Reagans Pacific Palisadeshome last summer. Mrs. Reagan, who had the swimming pool drained so the prospective buyers could inspect it, is expected to testify for the prosecution if the case comes to trial. In a court appearance shortly after the charges were filed, the attorney for Ann and James Yarbrough complained bitterly that details of the case had been released in local newspapers and said, "I think it's being made into a circus, because the president's name is involved." Investigation of jet crash begins KENNER, L. - Bulldozers shoved shattered homes into 12-foot piles of rubble yesterday and families began burying the dead as federal officials tried to determine if bad weather caused the crash of a Pan Am jetliner that killed 153 people. Officials of the National Transportation Safety Board said it may take six months to find out why the Boeing 727 plunged into a residential neigh- borhood two minutes after taking off from the New Orleans airport Friday afternoon. Barbara Dixon of the National Transportation Safety Board said most of the major pieces of the jetliner have been piled together at a remote area of the airport. Included ar the three engines, a large chunk of the tail, and mounds of scraps and small pieces. The disintegration was so complete that Ms. Dixon said investigators don't even have rows to seats to work with - just some twisted remnants. "We will not be able to do a total reconstruction," she said. "It would be impossible." IRS cracks down on church built by marijuana smugglers HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. - In rural Dixie County, people call it the curch that marijuana built. But revenue agents say no matter who built it, they've got it now. The Internal Revenue Service has slapped a lien on My House of Prayer, an interdenominational Protestant church that was built several years ago by Floyd "Bubba" Capo, 49, a fisherman who is now serving a 38-year sen- tence for marijuana smuggling. Caop says he got the $30,000 to build the church from grateful smugglers with a note that said, "Bubba, build your church." But the future of the church is in doubt since the IRS issued its lien, which is designed to recoup $1.1 million the government says Caop owes in income taxes. The present pastor of the 69-member congregation, the Rev. Maxine Bir- chfield, is confident God wil protect the church. "God has placed us here for apurpose," she said Monday. "If IRS comes up with a figure, I think God will bless us so we can buy the building." 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