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. 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