a-e2 -- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, August 14. 1984
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES LIBYA OF LA YING MINES
U.S. accused
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Soviet Union and Iran
accused the United States yesterday of exploiting the
explosions in the Red Sea to expand its military
presence in the region, but Egypt's president said he
thinks Libya laid mines in the sea lanes.
In the latest report of a mine attack, Lloyds of
London's Shipping Intelligence Department said "a
reliable source" said the 633-ton Soviet fish-carrier
Bastion "hit a mine" Aug. 6.- one of 16 vessels hit so
far. Four British mine-hunters will start searching.
for mines in the Gulf of Suez on Wednesday, the
British Embassy in Cairo said.
A U.S. EMBASSY spokesman said four U.S. Sea
Stallion minesweeping helicopters were due to reach
the Red Sea aboard the transport Shreveport by
midweek, as requestedby the Egyptian government.
Two French minesweepers and a support vessel
were also en route to the Gulf of Suez to join in the in-
ternational effort at Egypt's request, and Italy is
considering sending help.
Pentagon sources and a Saudi Arabian government
spokesman said three other Sea Stallion helicopters
of exploiting 4
were being sent to Saudi Arabia at the request of the
Saudi government.
IN MOSCOW, Soviet commentator Vladimir
Nakaryakov charged in an article for the government
news agency Novosti that the United States was
behind the explosions because it wants to "turn the
Red Sea into an American lake."
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said
the sending of U.S. gunships and helicopters to hunt
for mines gave the United States "a reinforced
presence in the region."
Newspapers in Kuwait voiced suspicions that the
United States was to blame.
"THERE IS no one else with vested interest in
pouring oil on the burning fire of the Middle East
other than the United States," wrote the. Kuwaiti
newspaper Al-Watan. The radical Kuwaiti
newspaper Al-Rai Al-Aam cautioned against foreign
intervention and called on the U.N. Security Council
instead to step in.
At a news conference in Cairo, Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak said: "I believe the Libyans did it,
but until now we are waiting to find a mine to confirm
ed Sea mines
our suspicions."
Mubarak on Friday had voiced suspicions of both
Libya and Iran. "I hope Iran is not involved," he said
yebterday.
He brushed aside claims of responsibility by a
group calling itself Islamic Jihad.
Iran and Libya have denied involvement and the
U.S. Defense Department labeled charges against
Washington "preposterous."
Roger Lowes, a spokesman for Lloyd's Shipping In-
telligence, said he had no word of casualties aboard
the Soviet ship Bastion, but that a second Soviet ship
was nearby to give assistance.
Lowes also told The Associated Press on Egyptian
destroyer "reported an explosion" Saturday as it
was investigating sightings of barrel-shaped objects
in the water at the southern end of the Gulf of Suez,
the Red Sea's northwestern fork.
The Lloyd's spokesman said his list of 16 ships
damaged in recent mine explosions did not include
the Egyptian vessel because it was unclear whether it
had been damaged.
Britain blames Americans for Bel fast riot
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -
Sporadic riots broke out in West Belfast
yesterday after a police attack on a
nationalist rally that left one dead and 20
wounded.
The British government claimed
American IRA sympathizers were
partly to blame for the attack, and the
city's chief constable said police had
fired in response to an attack by dozens
of people throwing stones.
POLICE spokesman Inspector Jim
McKinney said mobs of Roman
Catholic youths hijacked vehicles and
set them afire yesterday to form blazing
barricades around the nationalist
stronghold in West Belfast.
But in the political storm that
followed Sunday's attack on the rally,
police refrained from moving into the
predominantly Catholic area to tackle
the hijackers. No casualties were
reported yesterday.
James Prior, the British minister in
charge of the province, returned to
London for consultations. In the
neighboring Irish Republic, the
Cabinet's security committee of five
ministers met to discuss the violence.
Ireland's foreign minister, Peter
Barry, urged Sunday that "appropriate
action be taken" against police for the
attack.
ADAM BUTLER, Britain's minister
of state for Northern Ireland, accused
Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the
outlawed Irish Republican Army, and a
visiting delegation from Noraid, the
New York-based Irish Northern Aid
Associated Press
Parliament member and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams appeals for calm Sunday during a demonstration in Belfast as
riot police stand by.
Committee, of starting Sunday's publicity director, at the rally at Sinn to assist the population of Northern
bloodshed. Fein's headquarters in West Belfast. Ireland, they would not be paying this
He said the Royal Ulster Galvin was about to address the rally sort of visit, which has undoubtedly
Constabulary, the province's police after entering Northern Ireland in added to the violence in the province,"
force, responded to "deliberate defiance of a British government ban Butler said ina statement.
provocation" when it moved in to against him. Galvin, a 34-year-old New York
rcationnaNr g'aiFnt i gelawyer, was banned from Northern
capture Martin Galvin, Noraid's "IF NORAID genuinely were wishing Ireland two weeks ago.
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