NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1984
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Saudis urge factions to end Lebanese war
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Warning there is "despair of a solution" to the clashes wracking Beirut, Saudi Arabia said yesterday that Lebanon was "not for President Gemayel alone" and urged the warning factions to end the crisis.
The Saudi warning, broadcast by official Saudi radio, followed a report that its mediator Rafik Hariri returned empty handed from a weekend of talks with faction leaders.
Hardships in the Muslim western section of the battered capital were eased with the entry of a truck convey carrying 200 tons of flour for bakeries and individual packages of blankets, mattresses and other food for families driven from their homes to roads and roads leading to the crossing point.
"WE ARE ON THE threshold of reaching a solution that could revise the whole problem and lead to a formula that could save all of Lebanon," President Amim Gemayel, who has refused earlier demands that he resign, told French television. He did not elaborate.
Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, in an interview published in Austria, said Damascus would agree to U.N. peace-keeping forces replacing the multinational force in Beirut if Lebanon abrogated its May 17 accord with Israel and all Israeli troops withdrew.
In Washington, where President
Reagan met with Jordan's King Hussein, White House spokesman Larry Spears indicated the United States would not object if Gemayel chose to abrogate the treaty — whitch calls for withdrawal of Israeli troops in exchange for normalizing relations.
Israel has warned it would disregard Lebanese sovereignty and act unilaterally to protect its northern border if the accord is annulled.
IN THE SOUTHERN Lebanese town of NABITAfy, four Israeli soldiers were wounded yesterday by a roadside bomb that exploded as their patrol passed by the Israel military command said in Tel Aviv.
Although cold, rainy weather helped keep down the fighting in Beirut, Lebanese radio reported continued clashes both in the northern Green Line and the Green Line that divides Christian east Beirut from the Muslim west.
Gemayel, voicing hopes for "a relatively rapid settlement," said "there can be no military solution in Lebanon." The Christian president only thing that can save Lebanon is agreement between the Lebanese.
BUT MUSLIM REBELS opposed to Gemayel said Saudi mediator Rafik Hariri had returned home "empty handed" after weekend talks to head off a further slide toward all-out civil war.
Gemayel said Sunday that he hoped the Syrians, who back the Muslim rebels, would join talks.
Decline in OPEC production reported lowest in four years
NEW YORK -- OPEC's crude oil production fell only 5 percent to 17.6 million barrels a day in 1983 for the smallest decline in four years, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly reported yesterday.
By United Press International
Non-OPEC production 4 percent to 20.7 million barrels a day last year.
For the second consecutive year non-OPEC producers supplied more of the free world's oil needs than the 13
members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
In 1983 non-OPEC producers accounted for 54 percent of the free world market compared with OPEC's 46 percent share, PIW said.
OPEC production plummeted to near-record lows in the first quarter of 1983 and then rebounded by as much as 50 percent in the second half of the year, the oil journal said.
The 5 percent drop in OPEC production for the full year 1983 stemmed the steep reduction in output that began in 1980.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Cradles used to ferry two ill-fated communications satellites into space aboard the shuttle Challenger have been given a clean bill of health, NASA officials said yesterday.
NASA clears satellite-launching cradles
By United Press International
The satellites, carried aloft in Challenger's cargo bay, were successfully released by the shuttle's five-man crew during last week's mission, but both relay stations failed to reach the proper orbit. The rocket's solid rocket motors malfunctioned.
"Workers found nothing unusual
THE 106-TON rocket plane glided to a pinpoint touchdown at the spaceport's 3-mile-long run at 7:16 a.m. EST Saturday. This was the first of the 10 shuttle flights to return to the oceanside launch complex.
about the condition of the cradles and nothing that would have contributed to the failure of those spacecraft," a status report said.
Technicians checked out Challenger's systems in preparation for the shuttle's return to space April 4. So far, no serious problems have been found
But one area of concern is Challenger's $100 million mechanical arm,
Mark Hess, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said technicians probably used the fragile robot arm later this week.
which malfunctioned in orbit last Thursday,
THE SPINDLY ARM is vital to the April mission because it will be needed to grab a crippled sun-watching telescope into the orbiter's cargo bay for repairs.
Hess said technicians were confident the space crane would be repaired in time for Challenger's scheduled launch.
While the rocket plane was found to
be "very clean" after its plunge from orbit, about 50 ceramic tiles that protect the craft from the heat of its dash through the atmosphere were damaged and will have to be replaced.
Hess said an overall assessment of the spaceship showed less heat damage than on recent shuttle flights — but more tile damage. Twelve tiles had to be replaced after Challenger's August mission.
In addition, two cockpit windshields will have to be replaced.
A cluster of tiles on a rear engine pod was damaged, possibly by a collision
Nicaraguan rebels say they downed helicopter
By United Press International
U. s.backed Nicaraguan rebels shot down a Soviet-made helicopter during a surprise attack in southeastern Nicaragua that killed 10 men aboard the aircraft and 27 Nicaraguan soldiers on the ground, guerrillas said yesterday.
In El Salvador, the administrative council of the University of El Salvador, which has been closed since 1980, said that coming presidential would only serve to continue a "long list of unpopular governments."
Nicaragua Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said that his country would pursue peace negotiations with neighbors and the United States but was preparing to defend itself at the time against a possible U.S. invasion.
He said the leftist government was "willing to converse but objects to others imposing conditions, threatening us or attacking us," referring to the document which supports rebel fighting the Sandinists from Honduran bases.
NICARAGUAN REBELS of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, known as ARDE, destroyed the helicopter during a surprise run on Nicaragua military base Wednesday in Punta Gorda, 50 miles north of the island, in the border, an ARDE committee said.
The helicopter, identified by rebels as a Soviet-made MI-8, was carrying a member of the Nicaraguan army's high command and a nine-member crew to Gorda, where a Nicaraguan battalion was stationed, the communi- said.
ALL THE OCCUPIANTS of helicopter were killed as well, as another 27 soldier was wounded.
The Nicaraguan government made immediate comment on the claim.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Fernando Andrade Diaz-Duran announced that Frederick Chapin, U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, was bringing the country at the end of February.
were wounded, the rebel communique said.
In El Salvador, the administration of the National University called presidential voting set for March 25 "an electoral farce." He also said that it would be a much more complex process of pollination, realized behind the backs of the people.
ARDE rebels, based in Costa Rica,
are commanded by Eden Pastora, a
former U.S. Army Specialist.
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