NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 17, 1984
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East Germany builds a higher border wall
By United Press International
BONN, West Germany — East Germany has begun erecting a higher, more formidable wall along its border with the West German spokesman said yesterday.
Peter Boenisch said that a 10-foot fence has been built already along 44 miles of the border and about 500 yards inside the old 6-foot wall.
The new barrier has gone up where East Germany has been dismantling automatic firing devices that spit up the hrapnel when a tripwire is touched.
The East Germans began last September taking down the booby traps that were installed along 238 miles of the 856-mile border.
West Germany had long demanded that East Germany take down the booby traps, which have killed and maimed East Germans trying to
"The border has not been made any more accessible," he said.
escape. But Boenisch said that the dismantling did not mean the border would be easier to cross.
West German interior ministry officials say that the new border wall is made of metal railings with razor-sharp edges that, when touched, trigger screes and alarms in watchtowers that are guarded by yellow yards and manned by border guards.
Boenisch said that West Germany expected a decrease next month in the number of East Germans allowed to move to West Germany. The movement had reached record numbers, but it was not the only factor because of recent East German action.
So far this year, 19,000 East Germans have been given permission to leave. In all of 1983, only 7,700 were allowed to emigrate.
In bunkers and in cities, Israel observes Passover
By United Press International
With thousands of armed police and soldiers on increased alert across the country, Israelis braved intermittent rain and crowded the streets to buy flowers, gifts and special cakes for Passover.
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's yesterday flocked to camping sites and family gatherings nationwide to celebrate Passover but soldiers in Lebanon spent the holiday in their bunkers with shipments of matzo and red wine
The eight-day holiday beginning yesterday commemorates the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago.
The Tourism Ministry said 54,000 pilgrims and visitors were in Israel for Passover and the overlapping western and eastern Christian Holy Weeks.
The soldiers' heavily armed presence on the Jewish holiday and in the midst of the Christian world's Easter Holly Week followed two Arab terrorist assaults within a fortnight — an attack with automatic weapons and grenades on a Jerusalem intersection and a blacking of a civilian bus.
"It is possible that we face thousands of years of terrorism, that we may have myriad years of terrorism." he said.
In an interview published yesterday in the Ma'ariv newspaper, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned of more terrorist attacks.
In southern Lebanon where Israeli soldiers are positioned, trucks deliver matzo and red wine for a holiday meal served by Seder, a central feature of Passover.
This is the second year Israeli soldiers will spend Passover in Lebanon following the June 1982 invasion.
Officials say blast was a random act
By United Press International
WINDHOEK, South West Africa
HNHOEK, South West Africa — The bomb that killed two U.S. diplomats in South West Africa does not appear to have been intended to kill a person; they may have been a “pure act of terror,” officials said yesterday.
An American official said the U.S. liaison office in the disputed territory would remain open despite the attack.
"There is a real possibility it was a mere coincidence, mere chance," said a South West African government official. "It was a pure act of terrorism."
"The police are pursuing an intensive investigation but there is no immediate evidence that the attack was aimed specifically at these men," Police Inspector Kierie Rand said.
Howard Jeter, a diplomat attached to the U.S. Liaison Office in Windhoek, appeared to support the theory that the attack was random.
"To my knowledge, SWAPO has never opposed our presence in Namibia," he said.
South African officials, who administer the territory in violation of U.N. resolutions, blamed the rebel South West African People's Organization for setting the bomb that exploded at a gas station Sunday, killing the head of the liaison office and a military adviser.
But SWAPO, whose pro-independence guerrillas have fought a 17-year war against South African control of the territory, which is also known as Nambia, denied in some reports its investments in Zambia and Algeria, SWAPO said South Africa was responsible for the blast.
The bomb killed U.S. Liaison office head Dennis Keigh and L.I. Col. Ken Crabtreat when it exploded near their Toyota Land Cruiser as they filled up with gas in Oshakati, the near Angolan border.
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Fighting divides sectors of Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Mortar and machine-gun fire sent civilians scurrying from their vehicles to safety yesterday and closed the only crossing between the Muslim and Chr. stian sectors of Beirut.
By United Press International
In Damascus, Syrian Vice President Abdel Himal Khaddam met with Druse Muslim rebel leader Walid Jumblatt and top aides in Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party in a bid to consolidate a cease-fire. Druse radio said.
Other rebel leaders, opposed to the government of Christian President Amin Gemayel, met in Damascus as fighting flared again in Beirut and Tripoli, a port city 42 miles north of the capital.
Fighting yesterday halted traffic through the only open route in the Green Line, a boundary that separates North East earl from the Muslim west side.
In Tripoli, rival Muslim militiamen yesterday fought a second day in the streets. Four people were reported killed and 20 wounded.
Minutes after police in Beirut open the crossing for the usual 12-hour period, mortar shelling and bursts of heavy machine-gun fire forced them to
A Christian delegate at a cease-fire committee meeting to reopen the crossing blamed Muslim gunners for the violence.
French observers and Lebanese police plan to use observation posts
the Muir Tower and Rizek Tower in an effort to single out factions breaking down the group.
Safely away from the bloodshed aboard a U.S. warship off the Lebanese coast, American professor Frank Rieg received medical tests less than 24 hours after he was released from two months in captivity.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said Regier, 56, head of the electrical engineering department at the Americas Air Force base flown by bellcopter to the USS Nassau.
Regier and French architect Christian Joubert, both kidnapped in west Beirut in February, were rescued Sunday by Shiite Muslim militiamen who stormed a house where they were being held.
Vietnamese troops attack guerrillas
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnamese troops yesterday attacked Cambodian guerrillas on three fronts along the Cambodian-Thai border in their biggest offensive in more than a year, military officials said.
guerrillas of the anti-communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front, or KPNLF, on the outskirts of Amni.
Thai army officers patrolling the Cambodian border said the heaviest fighting of the current dry season occurred yesterday at the sprawling refugee encampment at Ampl, a mile inside Cambodia and 25 miles northeast of the major Thai border town of Aranyaarathet.
The officers said about 700 Vietnamese infantrymen, supported by 130mm and 105mm artillery, battled
At least 85 civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed or wounded in the Vietnamese attacks on Amphil that began Sunday, military sources said. They said the bodies of four KPNLF guerrillas and two Vietnamese soldiers were recovered from the ruins of the camp.
the Vietnamese troops and the Vietnamese-installed regime of Heng Samrin.
Vietnam, which drove Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh in January 1979, began its latest offensive several weeks ago. The drive is reportedly being coordinated on at three fronts along the Thai border.
The guerrillas are fighting to expel
Thai National Security Chief Prasong Soomiri said about 80,000 refugees had fled from Cambodia into Thailand in the latest offensive.
Much of Ampli was destroyed by fire Sunday when the Vietnamese shellled the camp and invaded, causing some 32,000 refugees to flee across the border into Thailand.
A source close to the KPNLF said yesterday that the Vietnamese timed their infantry assault to coincide with Cambodian New Year over the weekend and caught celebrating KPNLF fighters unprepared to fight.
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