University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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Armed militiamen clash in Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Heavily armed Christian and Muslim militiamen ignored calls for a cease-fire and clashed in three areas of the country on May 20, 2015, five people just days before the 10th anniversary of Lebanon's civil war.
Fighting was reported in the war-torn capital of Beirut, in the mountains overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean. Sidon, 42 miles south of the capital.
In the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Ei Hihew, east of Sidon, a woman and two men were killed and at least 10 people were wounded by Christian artillery shelling, police said.
At least one civilian was killed by Palestinian artillery fire that hit the
Christian hillside village of Darbes-Sim, just south of Sidon, Christian Voice of Free Lebanon radio reported.
THE LATEST bloodshed in Sidon brought the death toll to 70, since Palestinian and Muslim militiamen in and around the city first clashed with Christian "Lebanese Forces" militiamen March 18.
Syrian and Muslim officials blame the leaders of the Christian militia for initiating the fighting around Lebanon's third largest city, while commanders maintain Palestinians are trying to seize control of the area.
Sporadic clashes and shelling continued around Sidon at dusk after Israel's attack on political and religious leaders. Representatives of the main armed
factions involved did not attend the crisis meeting.
In Beirut, Christian and Muslim militiamen clashed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades on the so-called Green Line, which divides Christian east Beirut from Muslim western half of the capital.
A SNIPER KILLED a soldier in east Beirut, while a civilian was wounded in the leg by siper fire on the west side, police said. At least two official cease-fires collapsed within hours.
Druse Muslim gunmen and soldiers also battled with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in the Shofu mountains, southeast of Beirut in the morning and evening. No routine casualty reports were available.
"It was like a shock,"a Lebanese
military source said. "Fighting has spread from one flashpoint to another."
In Sidon, Defense Minister Adel Osseiran said Lebanon army reinforcements would be sent from the eastern side of Lebanon to separate the rival factions.
Former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun announced that a National Christian Congress of religious and political figures would convene in January 11 miles northeast of Beirut, in a bid to unite the Christian community.
Lebanon's civil war is widely believed to have started on April 13, 1975, when Christian militiamen ambushed a bus, which carried Palestinians through the Beirut Christian suburb of Ain El-Rummaneh, and killed 37 people.
Japan says new trade deal won't please U.S.
TOKYO — a much-touched package of market-opening measures to be unveiled today is not likely to satisfy the United States or immediately reduce growing trade frictions with countries according to Japanese and U.S. officials.
By United Press International
Senior Japanese officials have been cautioning for several days that the measures represent no "quick fix" for the immediate problem of reducing Japan's $37 billion trade surplus with the United States.
"We are not magicians," one official said "What we are addressing now is possible future action
... that will take some time to implement," he said.
SECRETARY OF State George Shultz met Japan's new ambassador yesterday in Washington, and a spokesman said some, but not enough, progress has been made on Japanese markets to U.S. products.
Ambassador Nobuo Muxatunaga, who recently arrived in Washington as Tokyo's envoy, paid a "courtesy call" on Shultz at the State Department. The two discussed general topics, including the growing trade dispute between the two countries, officials said.
quell growing protectionist sentiment on Capitol Hill, met Friday with Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam, Undersecretary of State Allen Wallis and other administration officials.
Deputy Foreign Minister Reishi Teshima, sent from Tokyo to try
Seeking to head off passage of protectionist, anti-Japanese legislation by Congress, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakaseon last month instructed an inter-ministerial committee to come up with a new package of measures to open Japanese markets.
Japanese officials have said the package, to be announced today, will contain three elements.
divisive negotiations between Tokyo and Washington to open Japanese markets in four key areas where the United States believes it has a lot to sell Japan / telecommunications, advanced electronics, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, and forestry products.
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