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Parties blame each other
Lebanon debate continue
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Reagan is trying to evade
responsibility for the deaths of
264 Americans in Lebanon, and
make Congress the scapegoat
for his own failed policies, Dem
ocratic congressional leaders
said Thursday.
“I believe he has qualms of
conscience,” House Speaker
Thomas O’Neill told reporters.
“He is responsible for the
deaths of the Marines over the
re,” the Massachusetts Demo
crat declared. “He is trying to
find a scapegoat. It is his re
sponsibility.”
Senate Democratic leader
Robert Byrd agreed, saying the
bla
president was trying to blame
Congress for his failed foreign
policy.
Byrd said Reagan’s policies
“can’t stand the scrutiny and ex
amination” of Congress, and
that the president’s “overblown
rhetoric” about U.S. interests in
Lebanon “compounded the
problem when eventually we
withdrew.”
Reagan, who formally ended
U.S. participation in the peace
keeping force last week, told a
news conference Wednesday
that Congress undermined the
Marines’ mission by publicly de
bating whether to bring them
home.
Calls for withdrawal of the
Marines surfaced last summer
when U.S. positions came un
der fire from Syrian-backed re
bels, and several Marines were
killed. But Congress, in a com
promise approved last fall, au
thorized Reagan to keep Ma
rines in Lebanon for 18
months.
Then on Oct. 24, a terrorist
drove a truck loaded with ex
plosives into the Marine bar
racks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S.
servicemen. The attack trig
gered new calls in Congress for
an end to U.S. participation in
the peacekeeping force.
The debate, Reagan said, en
couraged Syrian-backed rebels
seeking to topple the Lebanese
government, and rendered the
Marine force in Lebanon inef
fective.
“When you’re engaged in this
kind of a diplomatic attempt.
and you have forces there,
there is an effort made lo
them with a debate as publ
was conducted here ... all
can do is stimulate the letn
ists, and urge them to
attacks,” he said. “It should |
understood by everyone in ji
ernment ... (that) you haven
dered (U.S. forces) ineffeti
when you conduct that kind
debate.”
The president’s commc
echoed Secretary of
George Shultz’s speech blai
congressional debate on
Marines’ role in Lebanon
the failure of the mission.
He said congressional rot
lions and open disagreemem
Congress in situtuations I
that in Lebanon
Huge saltwater plant proposed
United Press International
DALLAS — A water special
ist Thursday proposed a 400-
square-mile plant to distill
freshwater from Mexican sea
water using sunlight, and pump
it to cities and cropland in the
parched southwestern Unitecf
States.
“This is a terribly expensive
thing, but it’s do-able,” said
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Steve Findeiss, a planner with
AER Management Inc., an Ok
lahoma consulting firm.
“Due to the volumes needed
and the political difficulties of
water transfer projects, solar
desalinization — even though
terribly expensive — may be the
only politically feasible solu
tion,” he said.
Speaking at a regional water
crisis forum, Findeiss said the
rapid depletion of groundwater
will force a return to dryland
farming and the loss of major
industries in the Southwest
within 40 years.
“This nation could lose $16
billion in lost agricultural ex
ports alone, and a worsening in
an already bad balance of pay
ments,” he said.
“It clearly justifies a large in
vestment by the federal govern
ment to rescue irrigated farm
ing in the Southwest.”
The Findeiss proposal calls
for the establishment of a huge
solar distillation plant — the
world’s largest — immediately
north of the Gulf of California
in Mexico. The operation
tilled water and they ship
their waste water, which
farmers could use in ir
he said.
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ble.”
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by the government andj
duce an estimated 500 mil
gallons a day at a cost of
square foot of collector.
“We’d make it possiblelol
in the desert," he said
may just be creating mored
like Los Angeles, and than
not be desirable.”
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the U.S. Soil Conservationk
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diverted potential flood**
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“We ended up with grot j )ase
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said Homer Logan, a US
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was flood protection.”
In addition, an El Pason n f er enc
ope
would separate fresh water
from salt using evaporation and
thermal heat produced under a
mammoth glass dome.
“We’d have to demand top
dollar for the water,” he said,
“something farmers can’t pay.”
But the cities can, he said.
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neer said underground
charge may be ihecheaprt
to meet the water needso(
arid Southwest, particulad]
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year.
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Stephen Shelton.
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Man will foot bill
after house burns
United Press International
CORPUS CHRISTI — One
man died and another lost ev
erything he owned in a fire that
destroyed two houses early
Wednesday.
Michael Kring, 24, a Cleve
land, Ohio, native, died in the
fire. He was staying at the home
of Tony Padron when the fire
started.
Padron said he has no insur
ance to replace his possessions
that were burned.
And because he lives a half
mile outside the city limits, Pa
dron also will receive a bill from
the fire department charging
him $100 an hour for each of
the five fire trucks sent to the
scene, plus $1 for every mile.
Padron complained Thurs
day that he is getting no fire
protection in return for the
Nueces County taxes he pays.
Fire Chief Ralph Rogers con
firmed that Nueces County has
no provision for paying for fire
protection outside city limits in
areas not covered by the three
volunteer fire departments.
The fire chief said Pai
problem shows a gap in
protection that exists in m
other Texas counties as well
cause the Texas Legislaturf
never addressed the proto
rural fire protection.
Padron said Thursdayiif
no idea how he can paytlif
pensive bill — some of
trucks were at his house fro
a.m. to 8 a.m.
The city of Port Aransai
centiy threatened lo si
ing tires outside the city®
unless Nueces County asw
liability for any accidentorl
suit that might arise. This*
the county did assume tl
ity, but it still would not
of the cost of fighting the fit 1
“Those of us in fire ptf
tion feel something nee
done by counties througli
the state,” Rogers said,
don’t see why counties can
something.”
Rogers said the Cot
Christi fire department fo#
54 fires outside the city’
last year and has had few pi
lems collecting from prop!
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