University Daily Kansan, November 21, 1983
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israelis hurl third air strike at Beirut
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Waves of Israeli planes bombed Palestinian bases in the Syrian-controlled mountains outside Beirut yesterday in an attack on Israel occupation forces. One of the attacking jets was shot down.
Official Beirut irad said that two Druse Muslim civilians in the town of Sofar were killed and eight others were killed by a car bomb against targets in Lebanon this month.
There was no immediate announcement about casualties among the team.
United Press International
Clashes between the Druse Muslim militia and the Lebanese army broke out late yesterday on the frontline in the mountains behind Beirut. Beirut Radio said that artillery exchanges between the army at Souk el Gharb and the Druse in Aley and Baysour had escalated early yesterday.
IN NORTH LEBANON, fighting between guerrillas loval to Palestine
Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and rebels backed by Syria and Libya intensified, with the report to have entered the city of Tripoli.
"The fighting is too violent to get exact details, but reports indicate that rebels have advanced in from the north and have closed in on Arafat's headquarters (well inside Tripoli)," Beirut radio said.
In Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhuk Shamir followed up on the Israeli airlift of humanitarian aid.
"We will fight the terrorists and hit them in Lebanon and elsewhere as long as they direct their efforts toward striking Israel," he said in an Israel Television interview hours after the raids.
HE ALSO WARNED Syria against starting a new war, saying, "The Syrians should know that whoever抓 Israel received his punishment."
The pilot of the downed Israeli jet bailed out and was taken away by Lebanese soldiers, examined by a doctor and found to be unharmed, said a Western military source. Hours later, the Israeli Military Command said that he was flown home in an Israeli helicopter.
The plane, an Israeli-built Kifr, crashed in an empty field between apartment buildings in southeastern Beirut.
Official Beirut radio said that the Israeli jets had not clashed with Syrian jets飞着 over the area, indicating the Kfir was downed by ground fire. But it was not immediately known who brought the plane down.
Israel confirmed the downing - its
first air loss since July 24, 1982 – but an report that a second plane was lost
THE ISRAELI MILITARY command in Tel Aviv said that the strikes were in retaliation for guerrilla attacks in south Lebanon, indicating a return to the policy of massive retaliation for the assaults.
"They hit everything from Bhamdou to Dahr el Baidar," said a Western military source in Lebanon in describing the air strikes. Bhamdou is 12 miles east of Beirut and Dahr el Baidar is 16 miles east of the capital.
Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said that the air raids were not aimed at Syrian troops, who have occupied the area along the Brune Muslim militiamen opposed to the Lebanese government and Palestinian guerrillas.
Yasser Arafat
Shares in new Bell companies soon may flood NY exchange
By United Press International
NEW YORK - Christmas is coming early to Wall Street.
On Monday, the New York Stock Exchange will begin trading eight new stocks, representing seven huge recompensations in the US and American Telephone & Telegraph Co
For the NYSE it is history in the making. "An unprecedented event," said executive vice president Richard Grasso.
It also represents what the financial community likes best — the chance to own a business.
THE NYSE HAS done this before, though never on such a great scale. It has ever undone the deals on occasion
AT&T splits into eight companies Jan. 1, when it spins off its local operating units. The initial trading in the "new" AT&T and seven regionals will take place under special "when issued" rules that will allow for delivery of the stock certificates after they're distributed in February.
when an anticipated merger failed to occur.
The NYSE estimates that the AT&T trading could account for an extra 10 million to 15 million shares a day during the 90-day when-issued period. The customers for the brokers, who charge their customers to buy and sell on their behalf.
That will absolutely not happen with the nearly 700 million new shares that start trading Monday. Grasso promo a company to give his heart by just suggesting it," he said.
In an effort to attract all possible stock owners, brokerage houses have created an AT&T plan for every occasion. For the conservatives, "Humpty Dumpy" trusts promise to put the old AT&T back together again. The investor hands over his shares and the brokerage handles the paperwork for the eight new units, sending back a monthly dividend check.
FOR THE MORE daring, a "prime and score" option allows the investor to choose between buying the stable, dividend-producing side of AT&T and
Some of the new programs are rumored to be doing less well than expected, and some observers are wondering whether the big brokerage houses have spent too much time chasing after "widows and orphans" — investors who are too small and trade too seldom.
"There are two schools of thought," admitted Stuart Sklar of Prudential-Bache. "A great case could be made for either one. But at least this gives us a chance to sit down with people and tell them how much you own AT&T also other stock."
the speculative price-appreciation side.
The prices of the new stocks will be based on early orders that arrive at the NSE by the 10 a.m. EST opening. Eight traders, called specialists, will be responsible for estimating the initial selling prices.
THE SPECIALISTS ARE responsible for "making the market" by matching buy and sell orders and keeping prices from fluctuating too wildly.
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Museum notes invention's birthday Hot air balloon is 200 years old
By United Press International
That first flight opened an era eventually leading to dirigibles, aircraft, space vehicles that put men on the moon and computer-intelligent machines hurting billions of miles from air or voyages that could last eternity.
WASHINGTON — Two hundred years ago today, humans took to the air for the first time using a hot air balloon considered so dangerous that two condemned prisoners almost got assigned to the first idle.
Instead, two daring Frenchmen — an amateur scientist and a soldier — persuaded King Louis XV1 to let them make the flight.
On Nov. 21, 1783, a brilliant blue,
70-foot-high balloon lifted Jean Pilatre de Hoizer and the Marquis
de Vivendi to漂浮在 Blois de Boulogne
in Paris into the sky.
THE AIR AND Space Museum in Washington is commemorating man's first ascent into the sky with a display chronicing its beginning with balloons 200 years ago to its advancement into the space frontier.
The white-domed Albert Einstein Spacearium, a 70-feet diameter dome with 200 projectors to depict the stars, movies and slides to trace flight from movies to space. The space and sea gulls, to the first feeble efforts by humans to emulate them with
The exhibits include a puppet presentation of the first balloon crossing of the English Channel on Jan. 7, 1785, by Jean-Pierre Blanc and France and Dr. John Jeffries, a physician and native of Boston, Mass.
To keep aloft over the churning channel, they had to toss all ballast, including their food and a precious bottle of vintage cognac — which had Blanchard in tears, and finally striped to the buff. They landed in a tree on the French coast, nude and cold but alive.
MORE THAN AN YEAR before that, the first balloon flight began when one of the French Montgolfier brothers, Joseph and Etienne, declared, "Procure me immediately some taffeta and rope and I will show you something that will astonish the world."
The brothers did just that, fabricating a hot air balloon. On Nov. 21, 1783, it carried de Roizer and the French fleet of landets aloft — the first humans to fly.
According to the Johnsonson Institution's research section, de Rozier and d'Arlandes almost did not make flight. King Louis XVI "considered him so dangerous that he proposed to substitute two condemned prisoners."
"But de Rozier, conscious of the honor involved, persisted and the king relented," researchers said.
"The Marquis d'Arlandes, a soldier and member of the minor nobility, later wrote of the flight, 'I felt myself lifted as it were into the heavens'"
AMERICANS WERE not far behind the French.
On June 19, 1784, one of the first unmanned balloon ascents in the United States took place at Bladenburg, Md. the work of a lawyer-bartender named Peter Carne. A canny businessman, Carne launched an unmanned balloon around the country, charging an admission price for the sight.
"In he climbed, and became the first person in America to ascend in a balloon," said Trom Crouch, curator of aeronautics at the space museum and author of a book on the history of balloons in America.
The first person in America to ride in a hot air balloon is believed to be a 13-year old boy who gave his name as Edward Warren. He asked to ride in hores balloon during a demonstration flight at Baltimore on June 24, 1784.
Women were no less courageous.
"Women balloonists were common in the 19th century." Crouch said. "They were popular with the crowds and set many records."
Swedes seize Russian-bound computer
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Swedish officials yesterday stopped shipment of a highly sophisticated American computer reported to be a missile guidance system being smuggled to the Soviet Union by a KGB agent in South Africa.
CARL-JOHAN AABERG, permanent
The Times said the computer was to be shipped yesterday from Sweden.
The Times of London reported that the KGB was on the verge of "taking delivery of a complete American computerized missile guidance system supplied by the United States to South Africa and then secretly diverted."
A Swedish customs official said the shipment was "frozen" because no customs declaration was received with the equipment. U.S. Embassy officials refused comment on reports Sweden was asked to impound the shipment.
Part of the same shipment, containing another computer, was impounded by West German authorities in Hamburg last Monday.
undersecretary of Sweden's Foreign Trade Ministry, said the computer was being guarded and would remain in Sweden for at least "several days."
The Times said U.S. and West German officials obtained a court order to seize only one of two computers in the shipment at Hamburg and thereafter, second one got through to Sweden when it was to be sent on to the Soviet Union.
Three containers thought to hold a VAX 11-782 computer made by the high-tech Equipment Corp arrived in the Sunda Islands, Kingstown bore last week from South Africa.
A customs official in the United States had said the VAX 11-782 could be used "for missile guidance or some other purpose," keeping track of troops and weapons."
The Times reported the deal was planned by a German-born KGB agent, Richard Mueller, a resident of Capetown, South Africa.
MUELLER CONTROLLED another agent named Commodore Dieter Gerhardt who, until his arrest last Jan. 26, was second-in-command at the South African Simontown naval base, the Times said.
South African news reports said yesterday that two American special agents are in South Africa to investigate Mueller, who is believed to be wanted by U.S. authorities for questioning on the computer deal.
Other press reports say Mueller built a stockpile of sensitive U.S. and Western technology in Cape Town for transfer to the East Bloc.
Mueller, who moved to South Africa in 1980 and bought a lavish $1.8 million Cape Town property, is "lying low" in the wake of his son's sonor of police, Gen. Johann Coetzee.
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