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Show Lebanese Rise Up Against Gemayel Reagan Gets An A In Confusion By George Gedda Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON If the administration wants to keep its enemies in Central America confused, it deserves high marks for its performance this past week. The Sandinista government of Nicaragua, in particular, must be wondering what to make of the mix of olive branches and gunboat diplomacy served up by the White House and the State Department. As part of the administrations effort to push the Sandinistas toward more moderate policies, officials announced plans for a large-scalextended U.S. military presence near the Honduran border with Nicaragua. Defense Department officials also announced U.S. naval forces would conduct routine exercises in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on either side of Nicaragua. Administration sources revealed Saturday that the Pentagon has dusted off an old list of options for beefing up the training of Salvadoran troops that includes as one possibility a doubling of U.S. advisers, now limited to 55, and sent it to the - lenge There were reports the fleet movements and military exercises were designed to give the president News Analysis the option of ordering a military quarantine of Nicaragua. But administration officials denied any blockade or quarantine was plan- Syrian-controlle- lf with those movements Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatricks tacit call Tuesday for the ouster of the Sandinista government and President Reagans statement Thursday that it would be extremely difficult to achieve peace in Central America so long as the Sandinistas remained in power. But there was a different message Wednesday when the State Department and the White House appeared to break somewhat from the policy of uniform hostility toward Nicaragua's leftist leadership. A new Nicaraguan peace proposal was praised by administration spokesmen as a positive step in that it acknowledges the need to address external support for insurgencies and terrorist groups. Administration Found Hope The administration found hope in the Nicaraguan statement because, until then, the Sandinistas had seemed to argue that the only problem of consequence in Central insurAmerica was the gency against the Managua government. Now the Nicaraguans for the first time are showing interest in dealing with what, for the United States, is the core issue in Central America Nicaraguas alleged support for the Salvadoran rebels. U..N. U.S.-back- The day after the administrations expression of interest in the Nicaraguan proposal, special U.S. envoy Richard Stone set out on another peace mission to the Central American region, his third since being sworn in seven weeks ago. In addition to the confusion over policy toward Nicaragua, there also were some puzzling statements concerning El Salvador. On the one hand, the administration stated publicly its satisfaction over the improved performance of the Salvadoran Army. On the other, officials said privately a sharp increase in military aid to El Salvador will be necessary to defeat the guerrillas. Evidence of Confusion flash the message as he seeks relief with a drink of water. Heat Death Toll 123 In South and Midwest By The Associated Press The Midwest and South were baked by a heat wave for the 15th consecutive day Saturday, pushing the nationwide death toll to 123 and causing emergency shelters and shopping malls to fill with people seeking cool surroundings. People seem to be enjoying our air conditioning, which we have kept on full blast throughout this hot spell, said spokesman Dan Burns of Northlake Mall near Atlanta, which was mobbed Saturday. The heat caused a rash of air conditioner thefts in Lousville, Ky., and We have to make them the understand by the language they know best that we will not tolerate their presence, nor that of their army, in our areas," Jumblatt said. Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-- 2 Page Arts E-l-- 5 Business 8 Classified Common Carrier 8 Editorials Entertainment Food, Lifestyle Foreign National Obituaries Public Forum Regional Sports Star Gazer A-1- 6 W-l-- A-- 11-1- 3 B-1- 9 7 choice to head the commission, Henry A. Kissinger, generated opposition from both the left and the right. Rob- ert Byrd also raised questions about the commission, saying he feared it could represent "a smokescreen for the administration to get its way on the issues developing in Central America." "I would hope we would not rush into a military adventure he said in a Senate in this area, ll speech. Washington AND MORE . . . Tribune Sunday Magazine, Travel Magazine, Parade Magazine and comics. Todays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Fair, south winds. Highs 90 to Lows 55 to 60. Details, 95. mixed signals to the Sandinistas, it would not be the first time a government stepped up military pressure to gain diplomatic advantage This "fight-talk- " strategy has become a hallowed feature of international diplomacy in recent years. -' attributed to high temperatures, most of them in Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Mid-da- y temperatures Saturday were 95 in Atlanta, 98 in Cincinnati, 92 in Miami, 96 in Indianapolis, 95 in Kansas City, and 98 in Nashville, Tenn. St. Louis and St. Louis County remained under a heat emergency Saturday and 18 dubbed cooling-of- f resting spots See Page 2, Column 2 non. Franjieh and Karami were opponents in Lebanon's 1975-7civil war But Franjieh has a olood fued with the Gemayel family stemming from the February 1978 killing of a son, Tony, by Phalangist gunmen at Iraqi planes and helicopters were scoring direct and effective hits stronghold of Shweifat about six miles southeast of Beirut. Join Coalition groups and leftist facComtions, including the Soviet-lin- e munist Party, joined the new antigovernment coalition, and Syrias official news agency claimed the group had the support of Shiite Moslem leader Nabih Berri, although Berri did not attend the Saturday meeting. The opponents of Gemayel stopped short of forming a rival government, apparently awaiting reaction to determine whether he is willing to comproPro-Syri- Piranshahr Tehfan IRAQV jlran Claims Baghdad Majof Offensive But the threat of a breakway gov Associated Press Map Map shows where Iranians say forces drove into Iraq. Reagan Told to Increase Advisers in El Salvador By Philip Taubman New York Times Writer WASHINGTON The Defense Department has recommended to President Reagan that he raise the number of American military advisers in El Salvador to 125 next year more than doubling the current total, senior administration officials said Saturday. The Defense Department, according to the officials, has also proposed that the advisers be allowed to increase their mobility by accompanying Salvadoran forces into the field. But the department has recommended no change in the current policy that prohibits American servicemen from being involved in combat operations or working in combat zones. Reagan has the proposals under - ing. Western reporters were barred from the front, and there was no independent confirmation of the conflicting claims. Iraq invaded Iran 35 months ago in an attempt to capture the Iranian estueast coast of the Shatt ary and succeeded in capturing a hugh swath of border territory. But the tide of battle began turning earlier this year with a series of Iranian counteroffensives and thrusts across the Iraqi border. The Haj Omran garrison, 31 miles inside Iraq and "the most important objective of the new offensive, fell to the advancing Iranian forces after a daylong battle, said an Iranian military communique carried by Irans Islamic Republic News Agency. However, the overall Iranian objective appeared to be to rid the Kurdish region of rebels who have been battling the Tehran government for autonomy. Another likely objective might be to stretch the already overextended Iraqi forces and to attempt to push deeper into Iraq down the Rowan-du- z Valley toward the Kirkuk oilfields. Two Planes Downed Among the successes claimed by Iraqi-support- Iranian communiques was the ls mise. and inflicting massive losses on enemy personnel and vehicles," said the communique broadcast by Baghdad radio. Iranians Defecting? It said an Iranian fighter plane was shot down, and many Iranian soldiers and civilians were defect- consideration but has not yet decided whether to approve them, the officials said. Some aides have warned Reagan that any rise in the adminislimit of 55 adtrations visers in El Salvador could touch off serious opposition in Congress and might lead to the adoption of a legally binding limit. At the suggestion of congressional leaders, the Reagan administration limit informally adopted the in 1981 soon after the first advisers were sent to El Salvador, but a ceiling was never written into law. Reagan has also been warned, the officials said, that a decision to raise the number of advisers could undermine support for his overall policy on Central America because the current limit has been viewed by Con-Se- e Page 3, Column 2 55-m- downing of two Iraqi aircraft in dogfights and the capture of 7,794-foMount King, which Iraq used as an artillery base to shell Piranshar and other Iranian towns and villages across the border. The fighting was more than 150 miles north of the previous northe ernmost sector of the and about 40 miles south of the Turkish frontier. Previous fighting in the Iran-Irawar centered mainly in the flat desert regions and marshland of the battlefront, which extends southward to the Shatt, Iraq's only waterway to the Persian Gulf. Iran said the new offensive was concentrated in an area of craggy mountains and deep valleys covering 77 square miles inside Iraq and opposite Piranshahr, the nearest Iranian border city. Tehran radio appealed to the people of Iraq to take up arms and deliver the coup de grace on the body of defeated Saddam Hussein and return freedom and dignity to Iraq." The broadcasts said the troops of the Islamic Iranian forces are advancing from the peaks of Haj Omran and Rowanduz to liberate Iraq from the claws of Saddam " Iran, like Iraq, is a Moslem nation But its people are Persians, not Arabs as the Iraqis are 300-mil- q Wild Cargo Carried Across Seas to Possible Oblivion By Charles J. Hanley Associated Press Writer New Noahs arks are crisscrossing the seas and skies. But in a grim twist to the ancient story, these l-laden ships and jetliners are not carrying species to safety, but to possible oblivion. The global trade in illegally exn ported wildlife may total a dollars a year, conservationists anima- half-billio- say. The commerce in rhinoceros horn for Oriental pharmacies, crocodile skin for couturiers, parrots for living rooms, and countless other birds and butterflies, orchids and orangutans to fill man's appetite for the exotic threatens to push some species Into extinction. high-fashio- n But the policy may not be as incoherent as it might seem. As for the heat-relate- d. 1980, when 5. The appointment of the commission incurred the wrath of conservatives, who say Reagan was elected to lead and not to have commissions tell him what to do. And Reagans 100-degr- The heat wave is the worst since nearly 1,300 deaths were 2 full-col- Those who claim the administration cant decide between hard- - and soft-lin- e policies say the appointment last week of a bipartisan commission on Central America is evidence of White House confusion. prompted some Georgia horse trainers to turn on fans in stalls. Four elderly residents of a Chicago nursing home died after the buildings air conditioning system temfailed in Fridays peratures, and deputy health commissioner Phillip Davis said it was a reasonable assumption that the deaths were Three people were found dead in their beds Saturday at the Center for Human Development and a fourth died shortly after City Health Department investigators arrived, according to William Ware, chief aide to Mayor Harold Washington. d Three other patients in the facility were hospitalized and critically ill, and about 165 patients had been or were being taken to area hospitals for evaluation. About 200 patients were evacuated from the home, Ware said. St. Louis was punished Saturday by a fifth day of temperatures above 100 degrees and the metropolitan death toll rose to 38. Officials in the Louisville, Ky., area reported 26 deaths. In Dayton, Ohio, officials at St. Elizabeth's Hospital said a man who lived at the downtown YMCA which has no air conditioning died after his body temperature rose to 108. D-l-- ed. In support of the ground forces, Kfarshima and nearby Druse 225-be- On The Inside By Alex Efty Associated Press Writer Iranian NICOSIA, Cyprus forces drove 11 miles into northern Iraq Saturday, capturing the major Ilaj Omran garrison and 30 other posts and killing or wounding 3,600 Iraqi soldiers, the Tehran command said. The offensive extended the to the Kurdish mountains bordering Turkey. Tehran radio said Iranian forces were advancing from captured mountain peaks to liberate Iraq from the claws of President Saddam Hussein. An Iraqi armed forces communique issued in Baghdad said fighting was fierce, and claimed Iranian losses "amounted to well over 600 killed and a large number of wound- nt Christian and Druse militiamen broke a truce and resumed fighting in the hills overlooking Beirut late Saturday, using rocket propelled grenades, mortars, artillery and machine guns. Several fires could be seen between the mountain towns of Aitat and Souk as tracer bullets lit the sky over the Christian town of 15thJ)ay of Spell nite Christian leader was elected by Parliament last September. It also coincided with Gemayel's visit to the United States, where he met Friday with President Reagan and others to seek a breakihrough in stalled efforts to bring about the withdrawal of 80,000 Israeli, Svn.m and Palestinian forces fu,m Leba Iranians Claim Capture Of Big Iraqi Garrison Pha-langis- ts Coupled I Gemayels tia. ned. pell-me- Amin two-hou- White House. Senate Democratic Leader President government and scuttle a pact between Lebanon and Israel. r After a meeting in the north Lebanon mountain resort of Ehden, former Lebanese President Suleiman Franjieh, a Maronite Rashid Kar-am- i, Christian; a Sunni Moslem, and Walid Jumblatt, leader of the countrys Druse, announced they would run the front as members of a Presidency Council. In a separate news conference, Jumblatt also took full responsibility for the shelling of Beirut's international airport on Friday and the artillery bombardment of Christian areas of Beirut and an army training camp. The attacks killed 23 people and wounded 65 others, including three U.S. servicemen who were injured by shrapnel or flying glass. Attacks a Message He said the attacks were a message to Gemayel and th Christian Phalange Party, which wns founded by Gemayels family and controls the countrys major Christian mili- e, was ernment appeared implicit in the naming of the presidency council, headed by Franjieh, and the formation of a Cabinet-lik- e national council of 12 members. In his earlier news conference in the Syrian-hel- d town of Baalbek, council Jumblatt said the three-ma- n would set up committees to run the military, economic, financial and social affairs of the population in the d regions which of Lebanon's make up about one-ha4,015 square miles. The coalition represents the most serious challenge to Gemayel's govMaro ernment since the By Farouk Nassar Associate Press Writer Three of BEIRUT, Lebanon Lebanon's top opposition leaders joined Saturday in a Syrian-backe- d National Salvation Front to chal- pet-love- A now sub- treaty, scribed to by 81 nations, clamps down on this trade In wild cargo. But those who monitor the situation say loopholes weaken the treaty, and the Inventiveness of human exploiters outpaces the regulators. Depleting Species? No one expected, for example, that America's urban cowboy" craze might imperil an obscure jungle mammal. But conservationists say a sudden surge in the use of pangolin skin for expensive cowboy boots may be depleting the species, an armored, anteater-lik- e animal from Indonesia and Malaysia. If the pangolin Is put under the the Conprotection of the treaty vention on International Trade In the dealers Endangered Species will find ways to circumvent the restrictions, as they have done with other species, the conservationists say. "The situation is not necessarily getting better with the treaty. Its changing," said Linda McMahan of TRAFFIC, an arm of the World Wildlife Fund that keeps tabs on the trade. Now what we see happening is less outright smuggling and more laundering. It seems the documentation system thats been set up just gives smugglers an opportunity to fiddle with papers and make themselves look legal, she said in an interview. We're getting concerned." Require Export Permits The treaty forbids trade in 600 plant and animal species considered endangered, including apes, tigers, rhinoceroses and crocodiles. For hundreds of other species, those Chuckle Todays The six o'clock news starts with "Good Evening" and then proceeds to tell you why it isnt. headed toward the "endangered" category, governments must monitor the numbers of animals and require export permits. A third category includes species not listed in the first two but banned for export by individual governments. Other treaty members must respect this by barring imports of those animals. Trade in fully protected animals is usually done secretly. But trade in the restricted species is often more open, using permits that are either illegally obtained or falsified. Because Brazil forbids all exports of parrots, for example, some rare and endangered birds are smuggled into neighboring Paraguay or Bolivia, and then are shipped to the United States with export permits saying they were captured in one of those countries. Miss McMahan, director of A 1 A TRAFFICS Washington office, estiof the international mates wildlife trade is illegal, and probaof that is disguised by bly purportedly "legal" documents Legitimate businessmen say the illegal animal trade is booming More and more people approach me and want to sell birds," said a Washington-areparrot dealer, who spoke with a reporter on condition he not be identified. "But I know theyre illegal, and I refuse. It's mostly individuals operating out of their homes. You can see them advertising in the newspaper classifieds." The trade is lucrative: A hyacinth macaw, a spectacularly colored Amazon parrot, can fetch up to $12,000 on the U.S. market. 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