NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 12. 1984
Page 11
Fighting briefly closes east-west route Syria warns factions of 'crushing blow'
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria warned yesterday that it would deal a "crushing blow" to any faction seeking a permanently divided Lebanon while fighting briefly closed the link between east and west Beirut.
Sniper fire and mortar shelling in the heart of the capital forced police to shut the Museum crossing, the only avenue still open between Christian east and mainly Muslim west Beirut, for about three hours in the morning.
The continued fighting between Muslim and Christian militiamen also hit residential areas across the Green Line dividing Beirut. Officials said a civilian and two soldiers were killed
and at least six people were wounded.
WE WONDER BEIRUT RADIO SAID that traffic through the Museum crossing was light after it was reopened "because people are still frightened by yesterday's outburst of fighting."
Heavy shelling Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded 39 in the attack.
Syria's tough warning against a permanently divided Lebanon came in advance of possible summit talks this weekend between President Amin Gemayel and Syrian leader Hafez Assad.
The lack of a cease-fire and separation of the warring factions have delayed the talks.
country," Damascus radio said, quoting an editorial in the ruling Baathist party newspaper Tishrin.
"A cease-fire and separation of combatants must either be a prelude to national reconciliation and strengthening the unity of the Leba- nese people . . . or a crushing blow will be dealt to the partitionist elements and their machinations," the radio said.
"Syria will not allow the disengagement of forces in Lebanon to become a prelude to partitioning the
THE STATEMENT BY SYRIA, which has about 40,000 soldiers occupying parts of eastern and northern Lebanon, coincided with mounting sentiment among pro-Syrian Lebanese Muslims for Syrian troops to enforce a disengagement accord reached Monday.
2. 000-man Internal Security Force to patrol a buffer zone separating Lebanese militiamen along the Green Line and the Shouf mountains southeast of Beirut.
A 30,000-man Arab Deterrent Force, made up mostly of Syrian troops, entered Lebanon to quell the 1875-76 civil war. In 1977, Syrian insurgents fighting Christian factions of the Lebanese army in the Beirut area.
The worst fighting occurred in 1978, when Red Cross officials estimated some 400 Christians died in heavy Syrian artillery shelling of east Beirut. Christian militiamen claimed they killed about 300 Syrian soldiers.
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By United Press International
LIMA, Peru – President Fernando Balaude swore in his new Cabinet yesterday, resolving a crisis that erupted over his handling of Peru's worsening economic crisis and splitting a 4-year-old coalition government.
New cabinet named in Peru
Balaunde named Sen. Sandro Mariategui as prime minister and foreign minister, replacing Fernando Schwalb who stepped down Monday because of changes in the government's economic role in the rest of the Cabinet resigned Tuesday.
The ministers took the oath of office at the presidential palace. Four were new appointments while 12 other
ministers were confirmed in their previous posts.
The new Cabinet, dominated by longtime members of a hardline conservative faction of the president's Popular Action Party, excludes the right-wing Popular Christian Party and supports its withdrawal from the government.
1 once rupture also ends the coalition government that has ruled Peru since Belaureau assumed office in mid-1980 and became president 11 months before presidential elections.
Peru has an inflation rate of 125 percent and a $13 billion foreign debt. The nation's economic growth dropped 12 percent last year — the worst performance in Latin America.
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