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Show End of U.S. Funds May Doom U.N. Forces in Lebanon The Salt Tribunr. Sundav, February lb, I'llib (iA ; Ex-Offic- December, during the hectic closing moves to put together the in UMF1L is made up fitroops from eight nations and is nanced by contributions from the P N membership. The United States of the group's pays about costs, about the same proportion it pays of alt U.N. costs In the December budget battle. Rollings' staff, looking for something to cut at the last minute, chose the UNIFIL budget, partly because Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had criticized the U.N. forces in 58. of ; - , n h Shop weekdays A three-page- , handwritten note addressed to President Reagan was found in McCafferty's car, which was parked nearby, Clark said. "The was apparently in opposition to some of the government policies outlined" in the note, the detective said MeCafferty, a retired Army offi cer, expressed disappointment in the letter with the nation's economy and criticized retirement and Social Security benefits for servicemen, Clark said. The letter did not contain any threats on the president, the detective added ' j 5,8t)U-ma- one-fift- .John (.'lurk. The passers-bsaid MeCutlerty was holding a newspaper when he lit himself on fire, They rolled MeCaf- forty in the snow to douse the flames. Clark said .' D-- lehannn The match and became engulfed in flames, said city police Detective - Frnest Rollings, L'.. deleted $18 million that was the U.S. share in the C.N Interim Force criti-"Xa- - t balanced-budge- s bill. Sen. Lee's Summit, Mo., was listed n l condition Saturday night with bbrns uv er most of his body. A couple passing by the White - House on Pennsylvania Avenue Fri- day night spotted him as he struck a I De- In WASHINGTON - An unemployed man lit Ins gasoline-soakebody on fire outside the White House utter writing to President Heugan complaining about the economy and the notion s uderans programs, officials soid Saturday. '.Oiland Payne McCalferty. Mate an offhand action by one senator has sot the stage for another military clash in southern Lebanon between Israel and Arab fort es By James Rowley Associated Press Writer I - partment and Lebanese officials are exptessing "pruluund concern' that Suicide at White House . d PL WASHINGTON Tries er ' . Rabin had said. "I wont lose any sleep if UNIFIL were to disappear." There have been clashes involving Hie U N troops and Israeli forces Secretary of Si ale George SlitiiU and bis Congressional Relations branch did not put up much of a fight on the issue. On instructions from the White House, they accepted the Rollings cut as part of the overall budget package News of the cut reached the working level of the State Department, the Lebanese government and the other contributing nations at about the when it was too late to same time do anything about it. There was what one State Department official called "profound concern " In the Norwegian and Finnish parliaments. where the presence of the troops in a volatile and exposed area of Lebanon has been a continuing issue of contention, some members argued that if the United States should withdraw its support tor UNIFIL. they should pull their trooDS out. ; disastrous incrtd;it01 cltieials agree They believe that of I lapse in WASHINGTON non-jur- the trial of eight demonstrators arrested at a protest outside the Supreme Court has withdrawn from the case because he participated briefly in the same march Prosecutors said Saturday that a new trial date has been set now that Superior Court Judge Joseph Michael Hannon removed himself from the case. Hannon, who had been presiding at n in Court's I9i2 abortion. himselt be on saying case Friday, the from raised questions felt his presence about the "appearance of justice judge (AP) y a On Thursday, the judge rejected remove he that prosecution request himself from the case. The request, was which was later withdrawn, startled a told Hannon made after also courtroom audience that he had annual March lor in the participated Life on Jan. 22 to protest the Supreme Closed Sunday 10-- 6 Saturday legalized announcement came alter the first witness had betrial. gun testifying in the were arrested on The defendants misdemeanor charges when they demonstrated on the steps of the Supreme Court The case was reassigned to another judge and a new trial was set for April 24. according to Assistant LS. Attorney Lizabeth McKibben, 7XZ Exciting Sony Products at ZCMI . 1 . ' about ; 1 ' 13 Diagonal Remote 19 Diagonal Control Trinitron Monitor Receiver Remote Control Trinitron Color TV a year Reagan and his wife Nancy, who were at their ranch in Southern Cali- forniu. were informed of the incident, said Dale Petroskey, a White House spokesman. The president expressed concern about McCafferty's condition, the spokesman said. McCafferty's sister, Wanda Devers, told police that her brother was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, Clark said. ! f 10 Key Express Commander r remote control Direct audio video inputs for VCR playback : Sleep timer for auto shut-oi- l Color TV 10 Key Express Commander VIP automatic timer and channel block Stereo Cable compatible circuitry Sleep Inner for auto shut-of- f " screen lot ratio contrast higher Mu ror Black 499 ' T' s Capt. Ginny Allen, an Army public affairs officer in Washington, said the ; Service had a record of a Lt. Col. Or- land P. MeCafferty who retired from C Army Reserve on July 7, 1979. Records showed he was a field ar- tillery officer assigned to the Fort Sill, Okla., field artillery school. He was an "individual mobilization meaning he could be called - to active duty for a couple of weeks a year. Commissioned in June 1951, he spent all his Army time as a reserv-- . ist, she said. Since he retired from the Army. MeCafferty had held a series of jobs - with insurance companies. Clark $ 399 71 - ' quoted Devers as saying. "For a lot of jobs, he was overly qualified, other jobs he was just too , old. The last two or three years, he had become very depressed." Clark said. But Clark said Devers told police that MeCafferty had never talked j about committing suicide The incident occurred shortly alter i , 10 p I m Uniformed Secret Seivice guards a nearby guard booth at the White House front driveway ran over and covered the man with blankets, he said Bill Corbett, Secret Service special agent for public affairs, said the Se-- . 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U S a i. ilcncc With Defendants Marched Case, Judge Resigns decision that trial, removed the - The Hannon's 10-- 9 MeCafferty was in critical condition Saturday in the burn unit of the Francis Scott Key Medical Center in : Baltimore, sai'd nursing supervisor Loretta Johnson, His mother, Minnie MeCafferty, expressed shock at the news about her son. "I can't figure why hed set himself afire, that just doesn't sound like him," she said in a telephone interview from her home in Lee's Summit, a subuib of Kansas City. "I saw He didn't say him just last week anything about going away." , MeCafferty said her son is di-vorced and had no children. He lived 1 in the country about four miles out-- , side Lee's Summit. Another relative, who declined to identify himself, said MeCafferty had been unemployed for ! It those countries withdraw, the smaller contributing nation:' proba bly would follow suit and the force, which has been in southern Lebanon since 1976 would disappear The UNIFIL mandate from U U.N. Security Council is due to expirt April 16 If the United States with draws its 20 percent share of the funding, it also would be taken as an other sign that the United States has given up on Lebanon, The Lebanese ambassador ,M,uldb. ol to Abdallah iiniiii.ibib Washington to evetv senate a letter wrote concern cl m., pressing "the deep government ' I UThe letter argued that to restricted neven thoughts has prevented a geographic areas, Palest..man h -fand Lebanese into rom moving across the border Israel loss cl Bouhabibs letter said the i i |
