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Under the plan, Reagan would is sue a certification on March 31 as to whether a cease-fire was in effect be tween the Contra rebels and the left ist Sandinista government of Nicara gua and whether other conditions had been met. “If there is no cease-fire in place, then I would assume the president would feel the pressure has got to continue to be applied for release of further military assistance,” House Republican leader Robert Michel of Illinois told reporters. The aid package is designed to keep the Contras supplied for four months. At one time, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the ad ministration planned to seek $270 million to cover an 18-month period. “Now that it’s down to proportion, we’ve got good grounds to sell the (House) membership, partly on the basis of what happens in a worst-case scenario when it goes down,” Michel said. “You cannot divorce that issue from presidential politics in this country as we go into another elec tion.” The administration maintains that continued support of the Contras is needed to keep the Sandinistas from consolidating a base for the spread of communism in Central America. Reagan outlined the package at a meeting with Republican congressio nal leaders and a later session with House and Senate leaders from both parties. The president, who will for mally unveil his proposal today, de clined to discuss the issue with re porters. But House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho of California said, “It isn’t going anywhere, It’s just a polit ical ploy to gather a few more votes.” were Sens. Lloyd Bentsenof David L. Boren of Oklahon Ernest F. Hollings of Sow! lina. The House is scheduled to the proposal on Feb. 3 and ate the following day. Bot hers are controlled bv Democt Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ar gued for giving Congress a role in determining whether a cease-fire is in effect. He said the president indi cated that the idea would be consid ered. Without some such role for Con gress, “I don’t think it (the aid pack age) would pass,” McCain said. “It’s clear it’s in trouble in the House.” A U.S. official, meanwhiltj that if Congress approves! request. Secretary of StateCe Shultz will hold talks with \J guan representatives duringjl mission to Central Amencal United States and Nicaraguil held no substantive discussion!! 1984. Several senators in the group were said to agree with McCain and the administration was studying ways to meet their request without running afoul of a legal prohibition against legislative vetoes of executive actions. The official, who asked i identified, said Shultz wouldii to accelerate the negotiatingp involving the five Central Am countries who signed a peace agreement last August It was understood that under Rea gan’s proposal, the lethal portion of the money could be spent, but the ammunition purchased could not he distributed until cleared by the certi fication. The non-lethal portion was said to include $450,000 for monitoring compliance with human rights stan dards. Although the president’s second lle< Michel said the presidenisa cation would also includeaa initiation on whetheragreemt] tween the Central Americanli are being complied with. He said national security a Colin Powell told the Repi leaders that Reagan's prop outlined at a meeting of tneII Officers Association, wouldn that the United States wouldn with the Central Americanc before making such a dd ation. meeting was billed as bipartisan. Democrats were substantially out numbered by Republicans. The only Democrats observed during a pic ture-taking and questioning session The $2.6 million for letkj plies would be for replet stocks of ammunition and I shoulder-fired anti-aircraftr Israelis open fire on Arab protesters; unrest continues JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli bor der police in the West Bank opened fire on Palestinian protesters Tues day, wounding one, and Arabs hurled firebombs at soldiers in the Gaza Strip. Defense Minister Yitzhak said the policy of using beatings to quell pro test applies only during violent dem onstrations. Border policemen shot a Palestin ian in the leg when dozens of protes ters, many covering their faces with checkered Arab headdresses, sur rounded a patrol in the Jenin refu gee camp, an army spokesman said. He said the patrol used tear gas and rubber bullets first, then fired because their lives were in danger. The Arab-run Palestine Press Service said Israeli gunfire wounded two Arabs, one 12 years old, during protests at the West Bank town of El Bireh and the Jalazoon refugee camp near Nablus. Photographers saw 15 Arabs detained at Jalazoon. An army spokesman denied any Palestinians were wounded by shoot ing at El Bireh or Jalazoon. She said a large demonstration began at Jala zoon after two foreign television crews entered the camp and two Arab women were injured, one by a rubber bullet and one by beating. Riots began Dec. 8 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war. Thirty- eight Arabs have been killed by Is raeli gunfire, according to U.N. fig ures, and Rabin says the policy of us ing beatings rather than bullets took effect Jan. 5. In response to domestic and for eign critics, the defense minister said Tuesday soldiers would use physical force only “against perpetrators of violence during the violence.” “There is no policy of punishing by beatings,” Rabin said. Palace repofi ( royal Duchesj £ will have ball - The | was flying:. LONDON (AP) chess of York Monday when Buckinghami ace confirmed weeks of lation and announced she peeling her first child in Aui As the news about the Sarah Ferguson was released was taking a helicopter flyin|ij son above a Royal Air Force in rural Oxfordshire. The baby, whether a boy girl, will be fifth in line to throne and will have the Prince or Princess of York ther-to-be Andrew, 27, is in line, after his older I Prince Charles, 39, and two sons with Princess Prince William, 5, and Harry, 3. Queen Elizabeth II a rest of the royal family were lighted” about the impem birth of the monarch's grandchild, the palace staiei said. Chat Massacre suspects freed under peace plan amnesty SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A military court said Tues day the massacre of 13 people at two outdoor cafes in 1985 was a political act and ordered three suspects freed under amnesty. Six of the victims were Americans. Men wearing Salvadoran army uniforms mowed people down with automatic weapons June 19, 1985, in the “Pink Zone,” a strip of trendy restaurants and clubs in San Salva dor. Among the dead were four Ma rine guards from the U.S. Embassy, dressed in civilian clothes. It was the second legal order un der the amnesty freeing suspects or people convicted in the killings of Americans. Two former soldiers were re leased last month. They had been sentenced to 30 years in the murders of two U.S. land reform advisers and the head of the Salvadoran land re form agency. U.S. Embassy officials said in a statement Tuesday: “We do not be lieve that persons who have com mitted crimes of terrorism, in this in stance the massacre of innocent, unarmed persons eating in a restau rant, should go unpunished. “We have stated our belief that the release of these persons is mor ally wrong and politically damaging. We are dismayed at the court’s deci sion.” Rene Edmundo Valdivieso, secre tary of the Martial Court, released the ruling from the three-member appellate tribunal. It said the killings were covered by the amnesty pro gram adopted under terms of the Central American peace plan adopted in August. Valdivieso said the three suspects could be freed on Friday. seaifl The four Marines were two tables when the assailants up in a red pickup, witnesses the time. Their case went to the J Court after the federal attorne' eral’s office appealed the decisi a military judge who ordered released in November. Government lawyers argi the killings had no political lion but were civil crimes, the detainees ineligible fora® Valdivieso said. In its decision, the Martial said the shootings were “an daily political crime. Thegoaldi rebels) was a military objecti 1 was an act of terrorism.” Valdi read the ruling to reporters He said the case now wilhe# 1 ! military Judge Jorge Albertoj rano, who issued the initial deff NASA finds faulty seal in shuttle WASHINGTON (AP) — Detec tive work led NASA engineers to a critical seal in a space shuttle main engine that was improperly welded by the manufacturer, the space agency said Tuesday. The repair may require replacement of turbo pumps on all three shuttle engines. The effect of this and other new problems on plans for the first post- Challenger liftoff still is being as sessed, David L. Winterhalter, direc tor of systems analysis and engi neering at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said. Fletcher has delayed setting a firm date. While disassembling and inspect ing one of the high-pressure fuel turbo pumps on a main engine last Friday, engineers found cracks in a so-called fish-mouth seal. It was de termined the cracks were “use-re lated”— caused by firing the engine. The target date is mid-August, but NASA Administrator James C. Still, two engines were mounted over the weekend on the shuttle Dis covery, the first of the fleet to be flown when missions resume. The third was put in place last week. “We are going to try to leave the engines as they are so we can do some preliminary checks,” Winter halter said. “We’ve got three pumps ready to install.” He pointed out that highpr 1 fuel pumps have been repla« fore while the shuttles’threeen! were mounted. “It is not known to whal c the condition of the seal migh its acceptability for flight,’ Berg, a NASA spokesman! Marshall Space F light Center bama, said. “All of the high-p[ f " fuel pumps currently are amined.” Top NASA officials meU to set a flight date but adjo 111 with word that the decision ,|( ] come later this week. beiill and ture the buil said