NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
Page 13
Gemayel might soon end pact
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — As Drusse Muslim rebels smashed the windows of his palace with shell fire, President Amin Gemayel was reported ready yesterday to hand Syrian Assad and Assad the cancellation of the Israeli-Lebanese accord.
Beirut state radio quoted a Syrian presidential spokesman as saying Gemayel would meet Assad in Damascus within the next 48 hours for the first summit between the two men since Gemayel came to power in September 1982.
U. S. diplomatic sources in Washington reported that Gemayel said he would announce the abrogation of the May Israeli Lebanese agreement, probably today, in Damascus; he would seal Assad's victory over American Middle East policy
A Lebanese opposition leader, ex-President Suleiman Franjich, told reporters after meeting with a Syrian envoy that the condition of the meeting with Assad was that "we are not going to be the American line." and abrogate the U.S.-negotiated accord.
Another Syrian-backed demand, the withdrawal of U.S.
Marines from Lebanon, was achieved shortly after Druse Muslim militiamen swept Gemayel's Lebanese army out of the mountains south of Beirut in early February.
Factional fighting in the capital continued yesterday as Drusse rebels smashed the windows of Gemayel's palace with shells during a bombardment on the nearby strategic mountain town of Souk el Gharb said. No injuries were reported at the palace.
In Jerusalem meanwhile, a bomb made of hand grenades exploded in the doorway of a clothing store on a busy downtown street, sending shrapnel through the air and wounding 21 people.
A police spokesman said that in the four hand grenades wired together and wrapped in a plastic shopping bag blew up in the doorway of Avi's Men's Clothing Store on a main thoroughfare in Jewish West Jerusalem.
The blast in the commercial center of Jerusalem came during morning shopping hours. It was the worst attack since Dec. 8 when a bomb destroyed a city bus, killing five people and wounding 42 others.
Shrapnel from the grenades wounded 21 people, who were rushed to two Jerusalem hospitals, the spokesman said.
No lust in these new romance novels
By United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The world's largest Bible publisher plans to launch a series of Christian romance novels that will emphasize commitment and offer an alternative to typical paperback romances.
"We felt secular romances have just gone too far and are presenting a false image or a destructive image of what romantic love is, in the sense that they have become so overused and so clichéd as "detecting," said Etta Wilson, editor of the new "Cherish" series.
"I don't want to sound like a prude or terribly square, but that kind of behavior most often leads to veneeral disease, abortion — that destructive kind of thing — and not to developing long-term relationships.
"We just feel that another picture of what romantic love was intended to be should be presented and that, in fact, the biblical outline for how that relationship between men and women should be developed is a very good one." Wilson said.
The new paperback series published by Thomas Nelson, the world's largest Bible publisher, will be introduced in 400 editions.
Anaheim, Calif. The first four novels will be available in August.
The romance novel field has become enormously lucrative; several New York publishers maintain complete lines of romances, which depict sexual encounters in varying degrees of detail. They sell in the millions.
One major publisher, Dell, has scheduled titles for this year such as "Business before Pleasure," "The Perfect Touch," and "Kiss and Tell."
Wilson said Nelson embarked on the project for two reasons — there was a market and the genre would permit an important statement about what romance ought to be.
She said the novels would have "a good plot, some touches of humor and characters that have depth, but they will focus on romance."
"We will not have any bare boosms, and we're not selling sex on the cover, but we are selling romance," she said.
They are not going to be preachy. I think heroes will have to make some decisions. The decisions will most often be with what kind of man they want to be committed to. They are looking at the character of the men they are interested in."
United Press International
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — Fire destroys a house in Pewaukee, killing two children and injuring their 27-year-old mother. Ronald Wiegelman, 7, and his brother Donald, who was 6 months old, died in the fire yesterday. Their mother, Deborah, suffered third-degree burns while rescuing a third brother, Daniel, 3, from the house. Daniel was treated for minor burns and released from a local hospital. His mother was hospitalized at the St. Mary's Burn Center in Milwaukee. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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AGUILARES. El Salvador — Residents of Aguilares identify the bodies of eight civilians killed in the ambush of a train. The train was attacked by rebels late Monday about 24 miles north of San Salvador.
Salvadoran train attack fatal to 18
United Press International
By United Press International
Rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, known as the FMLN, late Monday derailed a freight train carrying cement and general merchandise and a passenger train, the sources said.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Leftist rebels killed 18 police agents and civilians and wounded 21 others in an attack that derailed two trains traveling in convoy north of San Salvador, military sources said yesterday.
The attack took place about 24 miles north of San Salvador on the line connecting the Pacific port of La Libertad with northern Chalatenango province, the sources said. No rebel immediately claimed responsibility.
The Armed Forces Press Committee, known as Coprefa, said 10 civilians and eight Treasury Police agents were killed in a raid on civilians and seven agents were wounded.
Red Cross units carried some of the wounded to San Salvador for treatment. Military sources said the death was due to an infection in the wounded were in serious condition.
"It was an indiscriminate massacre by the terrorists," army spokesman Col. Jaime Ernesto Flores said, adding that the victims included women and children. Flores did not give any other details of the attack.
Soviets accuse U.S. of weapons plot
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union charged yesterday that the Reagan administration was hatching a "truly sinister" plot to equip more than 100 F-15 jet fighters with anti-satellite weapons and deploy them as a large-scale missile shield.
The Communist Party daily Praveda and the military newspaper Krasnayas Zveeda (Red Star) said that the Pentagon planned to convert the jet fighters to "Star Wars" defense systems — increasing the danger of nuclear war.
Both superpowers agreed under the ABM treaty not to deploy anti-ballistic missile systems so that neither side would be encouraged to fire a first nuclear strike in the belief the other side could not retaliate.
Pravda called on the United States to respond in a businesslike manner to Soviet suspects last fall to ban all foreign officials.
The new weapon is a missile carried under the F-15 and is the first U.S. satellite "killer." The fighter streaks high in the atmosphere and fires the missile toward its target in space.
The Defense Department test-fired an unarmed version in January and both Soviet newspapers complained that the test showed the United States was not paying heed to the Soviet proposal.
"Of a truly sinister character are the plans for the creation by 1867 of more than 100 anti-satellite systems," said Red Star.
The plan, the newspaper said, would create a large-scale anti-missile shield.
"In other words, that shield will create an illusion of impunity and may very well incite the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism to reckless adventurist actions." Krasnaya Zvezda said.
"The creation of outer-space weapons would inevitably destabilize the strategic situation, and, consequently, increase the risk of nuclear war." Praveda said.
The party newspaper urged the United States to join the Soviet Union in reaching an agreement "prohibiting the use of force both in outer space and from outer space against the earth."
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