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Vol. 94, No.12 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday morning, September 6, 1983
Two Marines die in artillery attack near Beirut
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two U.S. Marines were killed and two others wounded early this morning by rockets that exploded in escalated fighting near the Marines' Beirut airport positions, U.S. military spokesmen said.
The rival factions fought artillery duels in the mountains east of Beirut for the third straight day.
And for the third straight day U.S. Marines were either killed or wounded. Three Marines were wounded during a mortal duel yesterday and another was injured in fighting Sunday.
Four Marines have been killed and 20 wounded in combat in the past eight days.
Nomad in the past escaped to Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said the fighting around the airport erupted after Lebanese army units jumped into the fighting to strike back at Druze militiamen shelling the capital area from the adjacent hills.
"The Lebanese army counterattacked," Jordan said. "During the fighting, one of our bunkers was hit by a rocket, killing two Marines and wounding two others — one of them seriously."
that the Marines returned to Lebanon. In other developments in Lebanon, the only Druze member of Lebanon's cabinet resigned yesterday while new Druze-Christian clashes for control of the mountains that surround Beirut injured three U.S. Marines.
three U.S. Marines in Syria, meanwhile, called for an Arab boycott of the Christian-led government of President Amin Gemayel and the president's own Christian military allies criticized his handling of the sectarian fighting.
sectarian lighting.
Adel Hamiyel, 43, the minister of finance and the only Druze in Gemayel's 10-member cabinet, refused to say if his resignation was a
form of protest against Gemayel's handling of the looming civil strife.
Even over the weekend State-run Beirut radio quoted Hamiyeh as saying he hoped his departure "will be for the good of the country."
good of the RIZE SOURCES said he resigned to protest the reported massacre yesterday of about 40 Druez in the Shoof mountain town of Kfar Matta, site of a large Lebanese army base.
Hamiyeh last month held talks with the National Salvation Front, which includes Druze militia chief Walid Jumblatt, in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation of Lebanon's warring factions.
He was also kidnapped during a negotiating session last month by Druze militiamen who are seeking greater representation in the government.
ment.
During intense fighting between Christian and Druse Moslem militias began Sunday when Israel withdrew its forces from the Shofu Mountains east and southeast of Beirut,
redeploying them to more defensible positions in the south.
The Marines were wounded by shrapnel when 30 to 40 rounds of mortar began exploding around their position near the city's airport.
was not certain if the attackers' Jordan said two Marines were treated on the spot and a third was taken to a U.S. Navy vessel off the Beirut coast. Another U.S. Marine and an Italian soldier were slightly wounded by similar shelling Sunday.
until PADN SAID that the Americans returned
PADN SAID with their mortals at a military mobile
rocket launcher about 1 ½ miles away but that it
was not certain if the attackers were hit.
In a separate incident, Druze gunners trained mortar fire on a Marine M-60 tank, but the Marines "took them out" with machine gun and tank fire, Jordan said. No Marine casualties were reported in the incident.
"It is obvious that certain individual groups are trying to draw us deeper into the conflict," Jordan said about the attack on the tank.
"I've quit keeping track of the small arms fire on our outlying positions," Jordan said. "This morning the commander (Col. T.J. Geraghty) was subjected to random sniper fire."
THE ISRAELIS, who have taken up new positions to the south, had controlled the Shufu region since they invaded Lebanon last summer.
**offensives** Sunday, at least 51 people have been killed and 155 others wounded, including Canadian television reporter Clark Todd who was shot in the chest.
In addition, two employees of the ABC television network — soundman Akram Abi Hanna and cameraman David Owens — were reported missing in the fighting around the Shouf mountain village of Klar Matta.
A total of 1,200 Marines along with 3,600 British, French and Italian soldiers make up the multinational peace-keeping force designed to prevent civil war between Lebanon's religious factions.
Howard Hughes, president of the Kansas chapter of ABATE. A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, discusses the philosophy behind the group. More than 2,700 motorcycle
enthusiasts participated in the 8th Annual National ABATE Rally staged this weekend at Lake Perry.
Rally raises funds for motorcyclists' lobby
Staff Reporter
By GINA K. THORNBURG
In the hot late-summer sun, the motorcycle enthusiasts begin to arrive at Lake Perry's Old Military Trail campground.
The tattooed arm tanning as they rode, men and women straddled their 1000ce motorcycles. The sound of grinding engines tore through the trees.
through the Each Labor Day weekend for eight years, thousands of motorcyclists have traveled to Lake Perry to attend the national rally of ABATE, A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments. This year, more than 2,700 motorcyclists, some from as far away as California and Maryland, took part in the
drinking, sunning and camping associated with the rally.
the rally.
In Poya, a town of about 600 that sits quietly and is known Highway 24 near 12 miles north of Lawrence, the motorcyclist stocked up on drinks Sunday at the local IGA grocery store.
"LOOK AT THEM, they're everywhere." Sally Oliver, a Perry resident, said laughingly. "They're like bees."
"This is not a bike club; it's a political action group," stressed J.Blessington, a member of ABATE of Kansas 'District 5 chapter, which includes Wydotte, John and Leavenworth.
ABATE, a national lobbying group whose aim is to prevent unfair motorcycle legislation, organized the rally as a fund-raiser for its lobbying efforts.
In the 1984 session of the Kansas Legislature, ABATE of Kansas will lobby for a motorcycle awareness week. Educating the public about motorcycles would decrease the number of accidents, said Howard Hughes, president of ABATE of Kansas.
counties. Douglas County is represented in District 4.
"IT'S AN adult party," said Jay Kreipe, secretary of ABATE of Kansas. The rally featured rock groups every night.
ABATE of Raisins.
But ABATE's lobbying efforts weren't the only things stressed at the rally. Fun and fund raising were equally important.
featured rock group
She said she feared publicity about the
weekend's activities, because some people
might not understand.
last year's Labor Day event.
ACCORDING TO THE Kansas Highway
Union leaders and rank-and-file workers yesterday demonstrated against the nation against the Reagan administration in rallies and parades, led by the 101st anniversary Labor Day parade up Fifth Avenue in New York.
See ABATE, p. 5, col. 1
Laborers rally in protest of Reagan policies
The National Safety Council predicted that 450 to 559 people would be killed in traffic accidents during the three-day weekend and that between 18,000 and 22,000 would suffer disabling injuries. Last year's Labor Day death count was 492.
parade up Fifth Avenue in New York. And millions of Americans out for a final summer fling jammed the nation's streets and highways, sending the Labor Day weekend traffic toll soaring toward 400 despite police safety efforts.
In Las Vegas, the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for muscular dystrophy raised more than $30 million in pledges, $2 million more than last year, but less than the 1981 record of $31.5 million.
From Staff and Wire Reports
A United Press International count showed that at least 380 people died in traffic accidents since the start of the weekend at 6 p.m. CDT Friday. The counting period ended at midnight last night.
of last night, but locality, tourist traffic was down; fewer campers visited Clinton State park. Ranger Bunnie Watkins said that as of yesterday morning, 23,000 camp sites had been occupied, down 10,000 from a year ago.
down 10,000 feet. AAA had the AFL-CIO had named the holiday Solidarity Day III and arranged events in about 150 cities, hoping the protests would generate momentum against Reagan's expected reelection bid next year.
Patrol, there were no traffic deaths in Kansas as of last night, despite the Labor Day traffic
endorsed
APPLICANT PRESIDENT Lane Kirkland started the day at the Labor Day parade in New York with an estimated 420,000 people watching and ended it at a rally in Omaha, Neb. He accused Reagan of giving American workers only "one day of lap service."
entitled "United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber told a crowd of 100,000 in Kennedy Square at Detroit that President Reagan had 'declared war on the backbone of America.'"
The federation plans to endorse a presidential candidate in October. Former Vice President Walter Mondale is the front runner for the endorsement.
"His actions show indifference," Kirkland said.
"I am afraid this administration is not prepared to take them (stiff sanctions) because the have shown in recent days that . . . (it's business as usual, it's the same old stand." Kirkland said. "The secretary of state is going Madrid to embrace (Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei) Gromyko, and one would think that that trip could at least be called off."
about Reagan's economic policies with skepticism that the president would impose stiff sanctions against the Soviet Union for the Korean airliner tragedy.
said.
In Omaha, Kirkland coupled his complain<sup>1</sup>
trip could be at least PRESIDENT REAGAN remained in the White House, working on his address to the nation on the shooting down of the Korean airline.
In Detroit, where hundreds of thousands of workers are still unemployed because of recession layoffs, Bieber expressed "outrage at the fact that the last 2 % years by the Keagan administration."
the Reagan administration.
"He has decalred war on the backbone of America and that great backbone is the working men and women of this land," Bieber said.
men and women or to us.
At the teleton, Lewis, who underwent heart surgery nine months ago, showed little sign of fatigue when he signed off the 18th edition of the teleton with "You'll Never Walk Alone," which he dedicated to his "kids."
Tension, protests build in downing of airplane Reagan assails Soviet general Soviets' attack blames America on Korean 747 for deaths on jet
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan demanded reparations from the Soviet Union yesterday for "the Korean airline massacre," mailing the Kremlin's actions and insisting that it must answer "the cries of humanity for justice."
justice."
"Calling the downing Thursday of the Korean Airlines 747 with 269 people aboard a "durious" attack, Reagan made a dramatic bid to rally international denunciation of the Soviets and announced a series of unilateral actions to pressure Moscow to "tell the truth."
In a nationally broadcast address, a stern-faced Reagan scaffolded at a Soviet suggestion that the jumbo jet was blasted out the sky in a tragic case of mistaken identity. He played tapes of intercepted Soviet radio transmissions to bolster his case and paraphrased the Russian dialogue.
There "was absolutely no justification, legal or moral." Reagan said, for the Soviets to have shot down the jettier. He said, "This crime against humanity must never be forgotten."
such rants as. . .
Suspension of the new U.S.-U.S.S.R grain deal or the economic punishment had been ruled out earlier, and Reagan said nuclear arms negotiations would continue because "we must not give up our effort to reduce the arsenals of destructive weapons threatening the world."
destructive weapon.
"With our horror and anger, there is a righteous and terrible anger. It would be easy to think in terms of vengeance, but that is not a proper action." Reagan said. "We want justice and action to see that this never happens again." He coughed his condemnation of the
AS EXPECTED, the sanctions he detailed in the 19-minute speech were modest, dealing with such things as scientific and cultural exchanges.
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. a
By United Press International
called an "unprecedented decision." In a statement carried by Tass, the Soviet official news source, Col. Gen Semyon Romanov, air defense chief of staff, said that Soviet pilots mistook the Boeing 747 for a U.S. spy plane as it flew through Soviet air space Thursday.
The Soviet Union, under increasing international pressure to explain why it shot down a Korean Air Lines jet carrying 269 people, blamed the United States yesterday for what it called an "unprecedented accident."
as it flew through 50 miles.
His statement was the closest Moscow has come to accepting blame for the loss of the plane, which Romanov said was a crash involving 269 "victims of the Cold War," including 61 Americans.
After consultation with President Reagan and national security advisers, Secretary of State George Shultz leaves today for Madrid, to confront Foreign Foreign Minister André myko with a demand that the Romans come with a missile attack that downed a Korean airliner.
It was apparently the RC-135, a converted Boeing 717 plane that is roughly two-thirds the size of a Boeing 747, that Romanov referred to in his statement.
"It is clamored in the West that the Soviet pilot was well aware that he deals with a civilian aircraft," Romanov said. "But this is precisely what he did not know."
what he did not know.
The 'jetliner was flying with its lights out, and its profile is in many ways similar to that of the
PLANE 5-50L
See PLANE, p. 3, vol. 1.
Gunn received the award at the World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore for his 1982 book titled "Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction."
KU professor receives Hugo Award for interpretative study of Asimov
James Gunn, professor of English, received a Hugo Award Sunday night for his interpretative study of the works of science fiction writer and scientist Isaac Asimov.
Staff Reporter
The Hugo was named for pioneer science fiction publisher Hugo Gernsbach and has been awarded annually at the world convention since 1953. Gunn won in the division for best non-fiction book on science-fiction writing.
book on science fiction writing.
A pioneer in the story and teaching of science fiction and a science fiction writer himself, Gunn has extensively studied Amosov's work.
By PETE WICKLUND
He has met with Asimov on several occasions, in particular the Sunday night's Baltimore convention, where Asimov also won a Hugo for his novel "Foundation's Edge". Asimov's novel is a sequel to his famous 1950s trilogy "Foundation."
GUNN SAID he was notified several months ago that his book was one of five finalists in his category.
category. Despite knowing about the nomination, he said, the announcement that he had won took him by surprise.
"I had a hard time believing it," Gunn said.
"But I got to my feet, made it to the stage and made a few comments."
made a few comments.
Gunn said he thanked Asimov for the inspiration behind his work and help in compiling the book. And, Gunn said, he acknowledged the other contenders in his category.
I mentioned that I would be pleased to be able
James Gunn
to show the award to my science-fiction students." he said.
Gum described his book as criticism in context of Asimov's fiction.
STEPHEN GOLDMAN, associate professor of English, described Gunn's book as a thorough study of Asimov, and said it was a work for a popular audience.
popular audience. Since coming to the University of Kansas, Gunn has had numerous positions, including administrative assistant to the chancellor in charge of public information. He is director of KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction and the Intensive Summer Institute for the Study of Science Fiction.
Gunn wrote his first novel, "This Fortress World," in 1955. "The Joy Makers," published in 1961, brought him into prominence and "The Imagination" published in 1962, inspired a 1970 BBC TV series.