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Madhya Pradesh Chief Mins ter Arjun Singh was quoted by the news agency as saying the $25-million plant would not be allowed to reopen. He did not elaborate. Police Thursday refused to allow an American executive of Union Carbide, Warren Woomer, to enter the factory. They seized factory records and put a 24-hour hospital guard on a badly gassed Indian employee of the plant who might know what led to the world's worst Industrial accident. In Bombay; the chairman of the Indian subsidiary, Keshub Mahindra, issued a statement saying every eSbxt would be made to help the gas victims. The statement said Union Car bide Chairman Warren Anderson had arrived in India to take charge of hi3 firm's investigation of the ga3 leak. At least 50,000 people have received medical treatment and doctors have warned that long-term effects, including possible damage to the victims eyes, livers, kidneys and lun, may cause more casualties in the weeks ahead. Reagan budget under pressure WASHINGTON President Reagan came under new pres sure from Republican congressional leaders Thursday to cut defense spending and raise taxes in addition to slashing domestic programs by $34 billion in 1988. The congressmen, while supporting Reagan's efforts to reduce large government deficits, appeared shocked by some of the cuts the president told them he had drawn up for the 1085 fiscal year beginning Oct. l.?"Myadam's apple regurgitated and I had to swallow again," Rep. Robert Michel of Illinois, Republican leader in the House, told reporters after the roup met the president. Final decisions on arms spending cuts await the return of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger from an overseas trip. Weinberger is strongly resisting any reductions in his budget. Reagan to explain policy to Tutu WASHINGTON President Reagan has agreed to meet with Bishop Desmond Tutu Friday in an apparent attempt to blunt the Nobel laureate's sharp criticism of his policy at a congres sional hearing this week, White House spokesman Robert Sims said. Tutu has described Reagan's policy of "constructive engage ment" with South Africa as immoral and unchristian and has said he will not meet with any U.S. officials except the presi dent himself. Emphasizing the importance Reagan attached to the meeting, Sims said the president would be accompanied at the session by Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Affairs Adviser Robert McFar lane, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ches ter Crocker. The U.S. policy of constructive engagement calls for muted public criticism of apartheid in hopes of encouraging reform through quiet diplomacy. Sims said Reagan, after reading Tutu's congressinal testimony, "though that a conversation would be worthwhile. From his testimnony...(it appeared) he had ideas about our policy that might not be accurate." Thirty-five conservative Republican congressmen Wednes day sent a letter to the South African Embassy in Washington warning that they will support diplomatic and economic sanc tions unless apartheid is ended. Sims said the administration had not changed its policy against such sanctions but added, "They (the congressmen) obviously feel strongly that continua tion of progress towards internal change in South Africa is an important issue to all Americans. They represent a key body of opinion in this country." FBI agents weed Cabbage Patch DETROIT FBI agents have seized 5,208 counterfeit Cab bage Patch Dolls made in Taiwan, an FBI spokesman said Ihursday. The dolls and their fraudulent "adoption papers" were confiscated Wednesday afternoon from an office building in a suburb north of Detroit, he said. The raid was carried out under a search warrant in a five week investigation of whether the Cabbage Patch copyrights of OngmalAppalachain Artworks Inc. and Ccieco Industries Inc. had been infringed, he said. The spokesman said bogus dolls iia4 been shipped to Detroit from an East Coast company and one came into the hands of a local FBI agsnt. if con"scted Wednesday are stuffed with rags that smei! of kerosene and will be destroyed ifitb determined they L1' l,hs spokesman said Othexwise, he said, they wiiiDeeiventorhsritsKu i ' i ir--Timj fc . i .. or J j(i III rri iti n in nil j lli,uj ji: J L w vi$aau&auoKs.