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Show Thursday, March 22, 1984 THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, - Page 21 Reagan Decides to Cancel Mideast Missile Sale WASHINGTON Reagan, resident (UPI) Reagan's efforts to secure an overall Middle East peace have been informed of the deci- -P- reacting to opposition and congressional harsh criticism of U.S. policies by King Hussein, has decided to cancel a planned sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, a spokesman said sion through diplomatic nels. chan- Formal notification of the withdrawal was expected to be sent to Congress later today. today. Speakes said that Reagan made the decision "in consultation with Congress," and he noted "there was increasing opposition" to the sale on Capitol Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan made the decision last night on recommendation of his key foreign policy advisers, including Secretary of State George Shultz, national security aide Robert McFarlane, and congressional leaders. Speakes said Jordan and Saudi Arabia Arabs states that have figured prominently in Hill, where lawmakers and lobbyists argued against the weapons deal. pro-Israe- li Responding to questions, Speakes said that Hussein's charge that the United States is " in favor of Israel in its Middle East policies "were "one-sided- - with no telephone bill, no gas or electricity, no car insurance." He said the plan calls for the three of them to be self sufficient, living on $10,000 a A ORGAN, N.M. (UPI) New Mexico couple and their son leave home next week for a sail around the world, leaving behind gas, electric bills, car insurance and other expenses to travel lazily in warm waters from 10-ye- ar year. The trip is a gamble, Hoffman said, but a calculated one, as he gives up the security of his job after 25 years at White Sands Missile Range for a life they have been preparing for on "a plan." high-stak- one island to another. George and Jan Hoffman and their son Chad, 14, leave their desert home near Las Cruces, N.M., for the last time on or about March 28 for a simple life of sailing, dropping anchor when the spirit moves, venturing ashore 20-ye-ar Hoffman said they have been preparing for the past in foreign climes and making sail by the 10 years, and now they plan a cruise that will take 10 years. The Hoffmans bought a bare hull and decking. Doing the weather. "We've sold the house," Mrs. Hoffman said. "The older children will take what furniture they want to keep, and a crane will pick up the boat and put it on a trailer for San Diego." Hoffman calls their trip "a complete change of lifestyle, work themselves, with occasional help of friends and relatives, they completed the boat. The couple started their sailing career in the arid Southwest. They had lived in Michigan, but did not sail there. Woman Sentenced In Baby's Death - The jury Tuesday convicted Britt Rognaldson, 36, for leaving her baby alone with the dog, then assessed her the maximum sentence of one year in jail and a 2,000 fine. The misdemeanor conviction and penalty were far more lenient than the life in prison sentence sought by prosecutors for felony charges of injury to a child. two-wee- The child, Cara, was dragged after the sentence was from her crib and partially eaten by the dog on Sept. 3, 1983, k as - An stiles, which require a token, as he entered the station at West 116th Street in Manhattan and carrying a concealed weapon, es- 90-ce- nt caped convict, suspected of wounding an FBI agent in a shootout in Virginia, was discov- officials said. When he was arrested, he told Transit Authority police his name was John P. Swearington. He was then fingerprinted by the police and sent to the Rikers Island jail, where he was again fingerprinted, given a physical and placed in a cell to await trial. His true identity was not discovered until Tuesday, when the FBI received a tip about a Rikers inmate bragging he had shot an FBI agent, Valiquette said. ered in a city jail where he was being held on charges of jumping a subway turnstile, the FBI said. Kenneth Lundien, 27, who broke out of an Arizona prison in January, was arrested March 10 by Transit Authority police, two days after he arrived in New York City in a commandeered taxi with a bullet wound in his chest, FBI spokesman Joseph Valiquette said. The suspect was apprehended for bypassing the subway turn said. "We are prepared to help," Shultz said. "But primarily, it is the Arab-Israe- li dispute. $7i STUDENT PLUS GAS AND ELECTRICITY 3 bedroom unit Fall 1984 Apartments r "': 'II'.' IT gj.'. ' I I I 'il! " "l'.Li! LilM J IM. ; t ; i ; i 7 'I r INCOME ' 3S. 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Or-teg- told him, "I can always have another baby, but I can't get another Bryon." Miss Rognaldson had remained trial calm through the even when pictures of her daughter's mangled body were but wept Tuesshown in court day as she spoke to reporters by Congress, Shultz said, using the past tense. "There's no question about the fact that King Hussein's statements constitute a very serious setback to the chances of have informed the administra-to- n that they will not try to block the 1220 million in aid for a Jordanian strike force that could operate in the Persian Gulf. Hussein said in an interview with The New York Times March 14 that U.S. policy in the Middle East was unprincipled the...' Miss Rognaldson slept in another room of an apartment. An investigator said the woman seemed upset about the death of her child, but became hysterical Rottweiler when told her hound Bryon would have to be destroyed. Dallas police detective Don testified Miss Rognaldsen DALLAS (UPI) A woman who told authorities "I can always have another baby" said she was surprised a jury found her guilty of criminal negligence in the death of her girl who was killed by her guard dog. He said the United States will continue to stay engaged in fields such as economic assistance, "But others must come forward as well, and in the end any solution that works will work primarily because the parties ... are involved in it and are determined to make it work." Administration spokesmen were instructed not to explain or enlarge on Shultz' statements, which amount to a major shift in the U.S. policy of heavy involvement in the diplomatic process and in the role of supplier of arms to both sides in (Jordan arms sale) approved'' ported, that Israeli backers sale, the administration had hoped to win a concession from Israel's supporters in Congress to kill a congressional move that would require the United States to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. peace." At a news conference Tuesday, Shultz indicated Hussein's interview had finished off the missiles deal. "The president was ready to put on a major effort to get that pro-Israe- li and The New York Times said that in return for canceling the "Sailing, Sailing Over any credibility in the Arab world because of its unquestioning support of Israel. Committee, a lobbying group, had rejected Reagan's trade off offer. Instead, the newspapers re- was reported ready to send the president a letter with more than SO signatures urging him to cancel the missile offer. Both The Washington Post up to the parties in the region to find their way to security and and had lost the United States The administration opposes the move because of certain adverse reaction of the Arab states. The newspapers said that the American Israel Public Affairs not helpful." The offer to Jordan called for the sale of 1,613 shoulder-fire- d Stinger missiles with a pricetag of $133 million. Saudi Arabia was offered 1,200 missiles. Sen. Robert Packwood, q iiiusiiuo e. .uvint?o Vnpv?, |