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WASHINGTON (AP) — A
second amphibious force of Ma
rines continued to sail eastward in
the Mediterranean toward a flo
tilla of U.S. warships stationed off
the coast of Lebanon on Wednes
day as the White House sought to
dampen speculation that a mili
tary strike was in the offing.
Pentagon officials, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said
1,900 Marines aboard five ships
that left Spain on Tuesday would
link up with U.S. forces already in
the area by Friday.
The sources also disclosed the
Navy force already on station is
slightly larger than previously
thought — including 21 warships,
three Marine amphibious ships
and four ammunition and oiler
I support vessels — and that seve
ral smaller warships had moved
to within 50 to 100 miles of the
Lebanese coast.
The sources said the main air
craft carrier battle groups were
maintaining a standard patrol
farther out to sea.
At the White House, presi
dential spokesman Marlin Fitzwa-
ter told reporters he could not
rule out the possibility of a mili
tary strike.
Iran: U.S. reporter
will be expelled,
3 others remain
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Iran
said Wall Street Journal reporter
Gerald F. Seib will be expelled
Thursday, five days after he was ar
rested and accused of spying for Is
rael while visiting the country by
government invitation.
Iran’s official Islamic Republic
News Agency quoted an Informa
tion Ministry official Wednesday as
saying the decision to free and expel
the 30-year-old American came after
“a judicial probe into his case
ended.”
The official, who was not identi
fied by the agency, said Seib was
“permanently banned from return
ing to Iran.”
Three other Westerners held by
Iran on espionage charges remain in
prison. American telecommunica
tions engineer Jon Pattis, Canadian
engineer Philip Engs and British
journalist-businessman John Cooper
were arrested last year.
IRNA gave gave no details of the
Seib investigation or findings, but he
apparently was cleared of the allega
tions. The report did not say where
the Thursday flight would take the
journalist, who is based in Cairo.
Premier Hussein Mussavi told
Tehran radio Wednesday, without
elaboration: “After being ques
tioned, the issue has been clarified.”
Shortly before the IRNA report,
he said Seib would be expelled in
two or three days. Asked in a Teh
ran radio interview why a foreign re
porter was detained, Mussavi said he
was “engaged in certain investiga
tions and collecting intelligence at
the front.”
Seib was among 57 foreign corre
spondents and photographers in
vited to Iran for a tour of the border
battle zone where Iranian forces
have pushed into Iraq toward its
southern capital, Basra. The Persian
Gulf neighbors have been at war
since September 1980.
He had been in Iran for 10 days
when he was seized Saturday outside
his Tehran hotel. The other journal
ists were allowed to leave.
After Seib’s detention, IRNA said
a “spy of the Zionist regime” was ar
rested after entering the country
with a false passport in the guise of a
journalist.
The newspaper said it was await
ing confirmation of the release and
would have no comment.
urrogate threatens to kill
hild rather than give it up
forms t
jplicaw
■ HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — A
distraught surrogate mother faced
with losing the baby she agreed to
for OSES bear for $10,000 threatened to kill
e duefrl herself and the child rather than
give the child up, according to a tape
tirmenr P* a y e ^ i n court Wednesday.
Offal cr ‘ es °E th e infant known to
7 the court as Baby M were in the
ndiMfl"- background as \f ar y Beth White-
igramsl head pleaded last July for forgive-
Jness for changing her mind about
it the fo|; the contract under which she agreed
for 9 all 10 be artificially inseminated with
'ridaysaafW'Niam Stern’s sperm,
irsdays ■ The taped conversation played in
a hushed courtroom demonstrated
-H^i the bitter tug of war between White-
head and Stern that has developed
into the first court test of surrogate
re availed paienting’s legality,
er, StudJ “Bill, it’s my flesh and blood, just
>tudent'®ke yours,” Whitehead said on the
tape, made while she was a fugitive
j Basalt ' n Florida. “It’s mine too, and I
'jjJ would’ve given her up. I can’t do it.”
B men tioned harming herself
or the child at least three times, in
one exchange saying, “I gave her
life, I can take her life away.” She
also said to Stern: “I’ll tell you right
now, I’d rather see me and her dead
before you get her.”
The 40-minute conversation was
taped secretly by Stern on July 15
when Whitehead called from a hide-
‘777 tell you right now, I’d
rather see me and her
dead before you get her. ”
— Mary Beth Whitehead,
surrogate mother
out in Florida, where she fled with
the child after disobeying a court or
der obtained by the Sterns. She was
on the run for nearly three months
before authorities found her and re
turned the baby to the Sterns.
A tape of a 10-minute July 16 con
versation also was played in court in
which Whitehead accuses Stern of
sexually abusing her 12-year-old
daughter. Stern called the accusa
tion an “empty threat.”
Judge Harvey R. Sorkow is con
sidering the validity of the surrogate
contract and whether custody of the
10-month-old baby should go to
Stern, a 41-year-old biochemist, and
his wife or to Whitehead, 29, a
housewife, and her husband.
Out of court Wednesday, White-
head said she was not serious about
the threats made in the tape July 15.
“I was just saying those things be
cause I wanted him to see that it was
our baby, not his baby and not just
my baby, and that she needed me,”
Whtehead said.
Stern, who didn’t know where
Whitehead was calling from when he
made the July 15 tape, said Wednes
day: “I had visions of her being in
some rooming house with the baby
and taking pills or something. I was
frightened.”
Both listened to the tape with
bowed heads, with Whitehead
brushing tears from her eyes at
times.
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