NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1983 Page 12
French official says defense was not iron-clad
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The French commander said yesterday that security was not iron-clad before the suicide bombing in Beirut and warned that it would product tactics of terrorists who acted like people from another planet."
"Our mission here is to help the civilian population and protect peace. If we had cut the road then we would have cut off the life of the community, cut off the population and undermined our whole reason for being here." Gen. Francis Cann said.
Cann stood amid the rubble and red dist of the French barracks destroyed in Sunday's twin terror attack, in which nearly 300 U.S. and French servicemen were killed or presumed dead.
ASKED WHETHER HE had any ideas about who carried out the bombings, Cann said, "that's a little above my level." Then he added, "terrorists . . . they are like people from another planet . . . they are simply outside our civilization."
Teams of soldiers helped by earthmovers and heavy cranes peeled away the rubble of what used to be an eight-story French building.
Shielded by gray army blankets, the rescuers gently lifted out the body of a dead paratrooper.
"That makes 32." Cann said grimly
"And 26 to still find."
Later, the French ministry of defense said the toll of dead French servicemen had risen to 35.
Rescue workers with lantern belmets and green surgical masks slipped into crevices amid the shattered concrete.
"We will not give up hope until we have removed the last centimeter of earth," Cann said.
HE PRAISED THE morale of his "garcons" - average age, 20 - who were heartened by a visit by President Francis Mitterrand Monday. He called them "soldiers for peace."
Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, said the terrorist bombings that killed U.S. Marines and French soldiers in Beirut are "a direct result of the adventurist policy of Washington."
It said the bombings were being used by Washington to "whip up an anti-Soviet campaign" and charged that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger "has again turned out to be in the vanguard of the anti-Soviets."
"IT MUST BE clear to any unprejudiced person that the events in Beirut are a direct result of the adventurer policy of Washington, which flings its armed forces wherever development of U.S. infrastructure is necessary to a U.S. scenario," Praveda said.
The official news agency Tass has issued stories on the explosions at the U.S. and French headquarters of the multinational forces in Beirut. A Tass report said that the explosion was but concentrated on the increased security measures implemented by the
American forces following the bombing.
The Pravda commentary reported that an attempt had been made by Western news media to blame the Soviet Union for the bombings.
"ALTHOUGH IT IS not clear yet who organized the explosions, some Western propaganda media lay the blame on certain Islamic terrorists allegedly connected with Iran. Others, in quest of some external enemies, mention Syria." Pravda said.
"But there are people who would not mind availing themselves of what has happened in order to whip up the anti-Soviet campaign that is being fanned up by Washington," Pravda said.
Pravda criticized Weinberger for his anti-Soviet statements on CBS television Sunday, in which he said Washington had "circumstantial evidence" that Iran was behind the twin bombings.
WITHOUT REPEATING WHAT Weinberger said, Pravda said his statement was "of such cynical and slanderous nature that it does not need a refutation, indicating once again what state of anti-Soviet paranoia one of the leaders of the U.S. administration is in."
Since the bombings, Secretary of State George Shultz has said the Soviet Union and Syria must share indirect responsibility for the attack. In Lebanon, two obscure Moslem fundamentalist groups claimed responsibility.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — U.S. Naval Boatsman 3rd Class John Opatovsky, Westwood, N.J., takes a break from rescue and recovery operations at the Marine headquarters.
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TONIGHT DEBATE
US MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN CENTRAL AMERICA?
PRO
CON
DANIEL JAMES*
YOUNG AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM
30 YEARS REPORTING IN
LATIN AMERICA
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
WRITTEN FOR: NEW YORK TIMES
FORTUNE
AUTHOR OF 8 BOOKS ON
CENTRAL AMERICA
REBECCA CRAMER
LATIN AMERICA SOLIDARITY
BANNED AND BARRED FROM FORT
BENNING, GEORGIA FOR
LEAFLETTING SALVADORIAN
MILITARY TRAINEES
INSTRUCTOR IN SOCIOLOGY AT
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
TIME: 7:30
DATE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26th
PLACE: BURGE UNION PARTY ROOM (DOWNSTAIRS)
SPONSORED BY
- BROUGHT BY AIM
On the behalf of the General Union of Palestinian Students I, the president would like to express our deep feelings of sorrow and empathy for the American lives lost in Beirut on Sunday, October the 23rd.
Let's all demonstrate-students and staff-to express our sympathy on Thursday, October the 27th in front of Strong Hall at 12:30 p.m.
TO THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA
Respectfully, Kamal Sinnokrot 864-6520