University Daily Kansan, March 29, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
New strife in Lebanon kills 26
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Warring militias sprayed shellfire on Muslim and Christian neighborhoods yesterday, killing 26 people, including two Lebanese journalists, in the worst outbreak of peace talks last week
Virtually all the casualties were civilians, hospital officials said.
Despite the bloodshed, an important meeting convened at 10:30 p.m. at the presidential palace in suburban Baadba between the warring factions. The "Higher Political Committee," chaired by President Amin Gemayel, was formed at the end of a failed peace conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, to try again to develop political reforms.
U. S presidential envoy Donald Rumsfeld, in another swing through the Middle East, returned to Beirut for talks with Gemayel and other government leaders. It was his first official visit to Lebanon since Feb. 4 — two days before Muslim rebels overran west Beirut.
Rumsfeld spent 1 1/2 hours at the presidential palace and Lebanese government sources said that he assured Gemayel of President Reagan's "wish to help Lebanon in any way possible to recover peace in the country." The sources said Rumsfeld was headed back to the United States.
Among the dead were two television journalists working for the UPITN television news agency, killed when shells exploded six yards away as they were filming the violence near the Chattilla Palestinian refugee camp.
They were identified by a spokeman as Hani Taha, a cameraman, and Mohammed Temshah, a soundman. Both were Lebanese.
Three journalists for foreign news organizations have been killed since the largest round of civil strife erupted in August. Among them was Clark Todd, a reporter for a Canadian television program killed by shrapnel in September
A fourth foreign correspondent, Jeremy Levin, Beirut bureau chief of the Cable News Network in the United States. He is also herorer this month and is feared abducted.
Hospital and police reports said 26 people were killed and 136 were wounded, mostly in Muslim westmost Eurasianinese soldiers were among the injured.
Many of the casualties were residents surprised when the sudden bombardment struck houses and streets of hospital facilities said many victims were critical.
SEATTLE - Members of the Seattle police SWAT team carried Robert Baldwin, 42, from his home yesterday after he was shot by police at the conclusion of a 17-hour stand-off with police. (Photo by the Seattle Post-Intelligence).
Police kill man in eviction try
SEATTLE — Police ended a 17-hour siege yesterday by storming an apartment and killing a man who had used a sword to slay an officer trying to evict him. It was the second stand-off with the same man in a year.
Officers said Baldwin was still wielding the sword and managed to nick another officer on the leg. The suspect then locked himself in the bathroom and the gunfire began, said police spokesman Gary Flynn.
Many residents of the city housing project were angry and critical of the
Officials at Harborview Medical Center said Baldwin died of multiple gunshot wounds less than an hour later. Baldwin held police at bay for 15 hours on March 15, 1983, with an unloaded 22-caliber rifle after officers tried to evict him from another Seattle apartment.
By United Press International
more than a dozen Seattle police officers with shotguns and stun grenades burst into the apartment where Robert L. Baldwin, 42, had been holed up for several afternoon after stabbing King County Police Officer Michael Bauernbach, 38.
Some of Badwyn's neighbors said no stretcher was used to carry him from the apartment and he was taken to the hospital in a police car instead of an
handling of the early morning assault.
Jews to protest reunion of Nazis in W. Germany
BONN, West Germany — Jewish groups from throughout Europe announced yesterday that they would join a demonstration outside a Nazi reunion this weekend and West Germany's anti-party party demanded a ban on Nazi reunions.
Baburn was stabbed while trying to evict Baldwin from the apartment. Baburn and Detective John Ryan had been admitted by the maintenance man.
"As he did, an arm came out with a sword and cut into the first officer (Raburn)," said Theresa Murphy, a spokesman for the Seattle Housing Authority.
The 202 strong parliamentary caucus of the Social Democratic party said in a statement that the government should propose tighter legislation to block reunions such as the one scheduled to begin tomorrow at a small village in
A proposed law along similar lines was shelved recently by Chancellor Helmut Kohl's coalition government to allow among coalition partners on the draft.
By United Press International
The three-day reunion by former members of the Waffen SS Totenkopf 3rd Panzer Division (3rd Death's Head Armored Division) and Armored Division (Armored Division) off forts from Jewish groups throughout Europe. Violence has broken out at previous demonstra-
"There is nothing to worry about." Gen. Arthit was quoted as saying late Tuesday. "If they cross the border, we will push them back. We are ready."
He said that Thai forces quickly into Cambodia and suffered casualties.
Thailand responds to latest fighting
Thai military sources said that about 60 Vietnamese troops crossed into Thailand in the same area briefly Tuesday while trying to outlank Khmer forces guerrillas but were back into Cambodia by Thai artillery fire.
"Such meetings mock the victims of the Nazi regime," the Social Democrats' statement said. "We demand the immediate passing of a law against criminal neo-Nazi agitation. Whoever lies about National Socialist murder, whitewashes it or expresses agreement with it cannot go unpunished."
Western aid officials said that the refugees were being given food and
He said 100 to 200 members of the women's Soccer (SS), unit were expected in Oberhausen.
Stefan Urbacher, spokesman for the National West German Union of Jewish Students, told a news conference that Jewish groups from France, Belgium and Holland would be represented along with West German Jews. Trade unionists along with 8,000 other demonstrators are expected at the protest on Saturday.
medical care at makeshift aid stations
set up on the United Nation Border
Border Office (UNBCO)
BANGKO, Thailand — Thailand rushed reinforcements to the Cambodian border yesterday in response to heavy fighting between Vietnamese troops and another Rouge guerrilla forces, with thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.
Thailand is officially neutral in the 9-year-old war between Vietnamese and French forces.
Thai military sources said that 15,000 Cambodian refugees had crossed the border since last weekend into the Thai nation. Siaket, 400 miles northwest of Bangkok.
tions against Nazi meetings.
Traops of the Thai Second Army converged on the border yesterday after reports that the Cambodian fighting spilled into Thailand and sparked at least two brief clashes between Thai and Vietnamese troops.
By United Press International
"We repudiate energetically the view that the Waffen SS was simply another section of the army," union president Michel Arnold said. "We want all these
Few detritus of the alleged Vietnamese incursions were available but that armed forces Supreme Commander Gen. Arthit Kamkam-ek said that artillery and air strikes inflicted heavy losses on an undisclosed number of Vietnamese intruders last Saturday night.
Arnion said the core of the Totenkopf Division comprised former concentration camp guards.
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