Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 263, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 July 1988 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC JULY 15,1988

Bush defends shooting of Iran jet in speech at U.N.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) An Iranian diplomat told the United Nations Security Council a U.S. warship deliberately shot down Iran Air flight 655 and killed all 290 people aboard, but Vice President George Bush said it fired in selfdefense and that Iran shares responsibility. The 15-member council was to resume debate today. SecretaryGeneral Javier Perez de Cuellar planned to meet President Reagan in Washington and speak with Bush and U.N. Ambassador Vernon Walters. U.N. OFFICIALS SAID debate and consultations could continue through the weekend. The USS Vincennes shot down the Iran Air Airbus A3OO over the Persian Gulf on July 3. The United States maintains the crew mistook the plane for an F-14 fighter jet. Iran requested the council meeting to seek condemnation of the U.S. action and demand withdrawal

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of all American forces from the gulf, but it was not expected to be able to muster the votes for a resolution of condemnation. Debate adjourned Thursday after Bush and Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Velayati accused each other’s nations of responsibility for the tragedy. VELAYATI CALLED the destruction of the airliner and passengers “the most inhumane military attack in the history of civilian aviation ... a barbaric massacre.” Bush said the underlying cause of the airline disaster was Iran’s refusal to accept a cease-fire in its 8-year-old war with Iraq. Iraq says it will accept a year-old Security Council cease-fire resolution if Iran does, but the Iranians say no truce is possible until Iraq is branded the aggressor. The vice president called the downing of the airliner a “terrible human tragedy” but said the United

States has a legal right to protect Middle East shipping lanes. THE VINCENNES and the USS Elmer Montgomery had skirmished with Iranian attack boats just before the jetliner entered the area. The United States says the airliner did not respond to repeated questioning by the Vincennes about its identity, and the cruiser’s captain believed it was an F-14 transmitting ambiguous signals and descending in attack pattern. “After seven unanswered warnings,” Bush said, the captain “did what he had to do to protect his ship and the lives of his crew.” Velayati read what he said was a transcript of a communication between Iran Air Flight 655, flying from a military-civilian airport at Bandar Abbas, Iran, across the Strait of Hormuz to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the Bandar Abbas control tower just before the attack. HE SAID THE tower told the pilot “Have a nice day,” that the pilot replied, “Thank you. Good day,” and that the controller answered, “Good day.” The

Reagan sends mixed signals on new $299.5 billion defense spending bill

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan has given conflicting indications on whether he will veto a Pentagon budget bill that deeply cuts his request for Star Wars spending and restricts his arms control policies, lawmakers say. “I don’t think we have a clear signal,” Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said. “I’m not certain the president will sign this bill.” DOLE SPOKE shortly before the Senate voted 64-30 for the measure, hours after the House approved it, 229-183. Both Democratic-controlled chambers split along party lines as they sent the bill to Reagan’s desk. Dole and Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the Senate Armed Ser-

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transcript contained no warnings from the Vincennes or communications with it. “One question is whether the captain of the Vincennes actually warned the target that it intended to shoot ... or whether it simply decided to shoot on a target which was admittedly unidentified at the very least,” he said. Another question, Velayati said,

vices Committee, told their colleagues that Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci had indicated Reagan was likely to sign the bill. But Sen. Daniel Quayle, R-Ind., who made an unsuccessful attempt to strip the provisions Reagan disliked, said the administration opposed the measure. THE BILL PERMITS $4 billion for the Strategic Defense Initiative, as Reagan’s 5-year-old Star Wars anti-missile program is formally known. That is slightly above the current SDI budget of $3.9 billion but far less than the $4.8 billion Reagan wanted. As part of the Star Wars budget, the bill deeply reduced spending for the space-based interceptor, which is being developed as the first phase of an eventual SDI program. The Pentagon wanted $330 million for the program, but the bill restricts the total to only SBS million. The final measure was worked out by a House-Senate conference committee and is a compromise between bills passed separately by each chamber. SHORTLY BEFORE the final vote, the Senate rejected, 58-35, an effort by Quayle and other conservative Republicans to return the bill to a conference committee and strip out the Star Wars reductions and other arms control restrictions op-

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“is why a warship had positioned itself right at the center of a civilian airway.” He also said the plane was climbing, not descending toward the Vincennes. ‘THE SHOOTING down of an Iranian civil airliner, flying on a scheduled flight known to the U.S. warships, and using an internationally established and published civilian airway and transmitting

DAN QUAYLE Tries to help Reagan posed by Reagan. The bill authorizes Pentagon spending of $299.5 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct 1. The total is a slight reduction from the $3Ol billion authorized this year and marks the fourth straight year of either freezes or reductions in the defense budget, following large increases during Reagan’s first term. Highlights of the bill: ARMS CONTROL The measure requires withdrawal and retirement of three aging missile-

signals identifying itself as a civilian airliner could not have been a mistake,” he said. Bush said, “I will not dignify with a response the charge that we deliberately destroyed Iran Air 655.” It was Bush’s first speech to the council since he was Washington’s U.N. ambassador from 1971 to 1973.

firing Poseidon submarines as new missile-firing boats are introduced into the fleet The bill also directs the Energy : Department to prepare for a comprehensive treaty banning nuclear tests, a longtime goal of arms control supporters. MILITARY-DRUGS The bill includes S3OO million to increase the military’s role in the anti-drug effort and orders the Pentagon to provide more intelligence and tracking information to civilian law enforcement agencies. PAY RAISES The nation’s 2.1 million uniformed military personnel will receive a 4.1 percent pay increase. Reagan had sought a 4.3 percent increase. NUCLEAR WEAPONS The measure proposes $250 million each for the single-warhead Midgetman and the railroad version of the MX, a pair of land-based nuclear missiles. Reagan wanted only S2OO million for the Midgetman, which is strongly backed by Democrats, and $793 million for the MX. The bill also contains $250 million that the secretary of defense in the new administration next year can spend for either program. NAVY SHIPS The bill includes money for one more Trident missile-firing submarine, a pair of Los Angeles-class attack subs, the first of a new Seawolf class of attack subs, three destroyers, two oilers and an amphibious assault ship. Windy Winona WINONA LAKE, Ind. (AP) Six people were slightly injured when a gust of wind overturned three mobile homes during thunderstorms near Winona Lake in northern Indiana, police said. The injured were treated at Kosciusko County Hospital after complaining of back pains and cuts and were released Thursday, said Sheriff Ron Robinson. “The three mobile homes were destroyed and another 11 were damaged,” he said. “We don’t know how big the wind was, but there were no indications of twisters.” The wind accompanied sporadic thunderstorms that struck the area south of Warsaw about 6:20 a.m. Trees also were up-ended and tree limbs were downed in Pierceton, two miles to the southeast, Robinson said.

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