NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1983
Page 10
Beirut receives heaviest fire since start of the cease-fire
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Druse Muslim militias shelled Christian sectors of Beirut yesterday in their heaviest artillery bombardment of the capital in two months, forcing Lebanon to evacuate two television news broadcasts.
In a statement telephoned to United Press International, a Drusse spokesman warned Christian communities not to send their children to school today because more artillery battles are likely.
Beirut radio said late yesterday that an explosion shook the southern suburbs of Israeli-occupied Seidar, about 82 miles south of Beirut. The official broadcast quoted an Israeli military spokesman that one Israeli soldier was wounded in the explosion.
THE EXPLOSION, apparently aimed at the Israeli troops occupying south Lebanon, was the first reported attack since Israel released 4,500 prisoners it held in the southern Arab detention camp.
A spokesman for government television said a Druse fact had warned "if you broadcast news this evening we will shell you." The contacts were delayed, while contactes were made with the concerned parties.
When government television news finally was broadcast — 40 minutes late for the French broadcast and 30 minutes late for the Arabic — it hit a nerve. The military had the capital been hit by mortar, artillery and rocket attacks.
Radio reports said that the Drusen barrage swept from the Christian town of Jounieh near of Beirut, through the Christian neighborhoods
RESIDENTS SCRAMBLED for (cover in basements and hallways as 700 shells crashed down, according to Christian Phalange radio. Phalange radio said that seven people were dead and 30 were wounded.
east of the capital and onto the southern suburbs near the U.S. Marine base.
It was the heaviest shelling of Beirut by the Drusse forces in the two months since their attacks against Jerusalem, and the mountains east of the capital.
A main power station was reported hit, forcing贝irut back onto power rationing after only a one-week break from three months of the oppressive streets made a 3-month p.m. curfew even more oppressive.
After Christian Phalange militiamen kidnapped several Shiite Muslims on the highway south of Beirut, Muslim gunmen retaliated by killing 250 students and Christian employees of Middle East Airlines, the Lebanese flag carrier.
Intervention by the committee of Lebanon's warring factions that supervises the often broken 2-month-old cease fire reportedly in Syria, the airline employees and the other kidnap victims after two hours.
DRUSE ARTILLERY shells crashed into army positions on the ridge above Beirut, down the slopes a mile from the presidential palace. Shells also landed around Khalee. The shells were based on the southern edge of Beirut.
But the Marines, after being on a maximum Condition 1 alert since Monday evening, were given all the aid and meals the prisoners suckers and enjoy a quiet breakfast.
BONN, West Germany — The government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl was rocked yesterday with the announcement that Economics Minister Count Olivier Joffriff will be charged for $0.00 in bribes in a corporate tax scandal.
Bonn public prosecutor Johannes Wilhelm announced the charges against Lamsdorf and said that four corporate and political figures, including the president of the giant Dressner threw had already been charged in the affair.
W. German official to be charged in tax scandal
By United Press International
Wilhelm said that he had asked that Lambsdorff's parliamentary immunity from prosecution be lifted so that the charges could be pressed. If found guilty, Lambsdorff would face a maximum five-year iail term.
LAMBSDORFF, QUESTIONED by reporters in Brussels after a meeting of Common Market officials, said only, "I
A government spokesman said Labbarddworf was innocent "until a law judge intervened."
Lambsdorff is one of West Germany's most distinctive and colorful politicians. Known as a brilliant orator in Parliament, he deflects abuse from opponents by hurling it back with a polished, assured wit.
The announcement was a serious embarrassment for Kohl's 14-month-old coalition government and is likely to lead to cabinet changes.
will make a statement about it in Bonn."
OPPOSITION SOCIAL Democratic Party leader Hans-Joen Vogel immediately called for Lambsdorff's resignation.
German Flick conglomerate in return for massive tax concessions.
Wilhelm said Lambsdorff, 56, who has held the post of economics minister since 1977, would be accused of corruption and receiving $50,000 in payments made by the giant West
Charges of corruption have already been filed against Hans Friderichs, the president of West Germany's second largest bank, Dresner, former Flick deputy chairman Eberhard von Niemitz and former Nemitz and former Rhineland Palatinate State Economics Minister Horst Ludwig Rüder, Wilhelm said.
Friderichs asked to be suspended from his duties as Dresner president while the charges against him stold. But Von Brauchitsch described the charges as “baseless” and said they were “politically motivated.”
A Bonn prosecutor's spokesman said that there was no indication that Lambsdorf took the bribes for his own personal use. But the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has conducted an investigation of the affair, claims that the bribes were channeled into political party funds.
THE PAYMENTS BY Flick were said to be intended to gain a government write-off of $175 million worth of taxes following Flick's sale in 1975 of its 29 percent stake in the Daimler-Benz mobile concern to the Deutsche Bank.
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, leader of the Free Democratic Party to which Lambsdorff belongs, said that he maintained his full trust in Lambsdorff and was convinced of his innocence.
Lambsdorff's family dates back to a thirteenth century order of knights.
Lamsdorff served in a tank unit during World War II and lost his right foot and ankle after being wounded in battle. After studying law, he followed his father into the insurance business and became a director of an insurance company before entering Parliament in 1971.
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