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Thursday, March 22,1984/The Battalion/Page 3 -Offer to sell anti-aircraft missiles withdrawn United Press International WASHINGTON — Presi- lent Reagan, thwarted by resis- mce from Congress and harsh riticism from Jordanian King lussein, Wednesday withdrew is offer to sell Stinger anti-air- aft missiles to Jordan and audi Arabia. The action, which came just ghl days after Reagan de- ribed the arms deals as impor- ntto the security of the Mid- Debate considers losing campus die East and improved relations with moderate Arab states, was announced by While House spokesman Larry Speakes. Speakes said Reagan, heed ing the advice of his senior ad visers and Republican congres sional leaders, agreed Tuesday night to cancel the $273 million in arms deals rather than face an embarrassing rejection by Congress. “We developed a package that we thought was impor tant,” Speakes said. “We were prepared to pursue it and make an aggressive campaign for it. But in consultation with con gressional leaders, we decided to withdraw the sale.” The decision does not affect a separate administration re quest, now pending in Con gress, for $220 million to equip an 8,000-man Jordanian strike force that could he used to quell trouble in the strategic Persian Gulf. Administration officials said they hoped cancellation of the controversial Stinger sale — keeping the weapons out of Jor danian hands — would improve prospects for the strike force. However, the concession did not slow a push in-Congress to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which the administration fears would damage U.S. relations with the Arab world. During a news conference Tuesday, Sec retary of State George Shultz was more ardent in his opposi tion to the embassy hill than in his defense of the arms sale to Jordan. Sources said the administra tion, in private talks Tuesday with a leading pro-Israel lobby ing group, the American-Israel Publi sought to use the Stinger sale as a bargaining chip to kill the em bassy bill. The offer was re jected and the arms deal was scrapped anyway. The White House announce ment was hailed as a victory by Jewish groups that lobbied against the Stinger sales and by their allies in Congress. Affairs Committee, The reversal dealt yet an other blow to Reagan’s policy in the Middle East, battered in re cent months by a retreat from Lebanon and a failure to revita lize the broader peace process along the lines of his long- stalled September 1982 peace plan. The latest defeat all but ex hausted the initiatives Reagan has taken to retain an active role in the Middle East. By LEIGH FORREST Reporter Students participating in a ublic debate Wednesday night Died 114-36 against closing the exas A&M campus to through affic. The debate was the ninth of ic Texas A&M Forum spon- ired by the English depart- :nt. Julia Sullivan, a junior En glish major, spoke for the reso- mion and said the main prob- em at Texas A&M is unauthorized parking", or hose people who park on cam- ms without an appropriate jarking sticker. This, she said, auses those people who do lave parking permits to park il- egally. Sullivan suggested clos ing off the campus to those un authorized parkers by placing guard stations at the campus entrances to check for parking slickers. “Essentially, no one is af fected except those people who don’t have a sticker or a shuttle bus pass and are going to park illegally,” Sullivan said. “It’s very, very simple.” However, she said, the reso lution will not solve the entire problem. “It will at least ease the prob lem and frustrations until we can come up with another long term solution,” she said. Ramon DeLeon, a senior ED- Cl/secondary education major, spoke against the resolution for three reasons. “I oppose the resolution be cause the checkpoint system is not a workable solution on nei ther a short nor long term ba sis,” DeLeon said. “I oppose the resolution because it does not address the pedestrian/vehicle conflict,...and because it pre sents a violent overreaction and has unhealthy social repercus sions while other solutions really exist.” asing t traffic pus to through tra ffic would not solve the problem, it would just push it of f campus. After both speakers pre sented their side, the debate was opened to the public. -iSSpL DELI Grand Opening 301 Patricia 846-0447 (Northgate) Ham ’N Cheese Sandwich w/lettuce & tomatoes 69C Readfield’s Smoked Sausage 1.69 lb. Chopped Pork Luncheon Meat 1.37 lb. Readfield’s Summer Sausage 1.59 lb. Bordens Poinsetta 1/2% Low Fat Milk 1.89 gal. Bordens Lite Line Yogurt 8oz. carton 3 for 1.00 Wisconsin Mild Cheddar Cheese 1.79 lb. 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