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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 hostilities near the US airport positions, U.S. military spokesman said.
The rival factions fought artillery duels in the mountains east of Beirut for the third straight
And for the third straight day U.S. Marines were either killed or wounded. Three Marines were wounded in a mortar duel yesterday and another was injured in fighting Sunday.
Four Marines have been killed and 20 wounded in combat in the past eight days.
Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said the fighting around the airport erupted after the firefighter used his weapon to fight the striking back at Druze multiamen 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."
THE PENTAGON SAID the Marines fired illuminating rounds back at the source of the fire, but there were no other immediate reports that the Marines returned fire.
In other developments in Lebanon, the only Druze member of Lebanon's cabinet resigned yesterday while new Druze Christian clashes for control of the mountain surround Beirut insured three U.S. Marines.
Syria, meanwhile, called for an Arab boycott of the Christian-led government of President Amin Gemayel and the president's own Christian criticized his handling of the sectarian fighting.
Adel Hamiyeh, 43, the minister of finance and the only Druze in Gamayel's 10-member cabinet.
form of protest against Gemayel's handling of the looming civil strife.
State-run run radio quoted Hamiyen a song he heard his departure 'will be for the war'
DRUZE SOURCES said he resigned to protest the reported massacre yesterday of about 40 Druze in the Shouh mountain town of Kfar Matta, site of a large Lebanese army base.
Hamiyé last month held talks with the National Salvation Front, which includes Druze militia chief Walid Jumblait, in an attempt to reconcile a reinciliation 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.
The intense fighting between Christian and Druze 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 the base.
Jordan said two Marines were treated on the spot and a third was taken to a U.S. Navy vessel off the Bertrust coast. Another U.S. Marine and an officer were slightly wounded by similar shelling.
JORDAN SAID that the Americans returned fire with their own mortals at a military mobile rocket launcher about 1 1/2 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 heavy weaponry. The marine casualties were reported in the incident.
"It is obvious that certain individual groups are trying to draw us deeper into the conflict," she said.
"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 snipfire."
THE ISRAELIS, who have taken up new positions to the south, had controlled the Shaulite movement.
Since 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 sent to the mountain and the Shou mountain village of Kiel Matra.
A total of 1,200 Marines along with 3,600 British, French and Italian soldiers make up the multinational peace-keeping force designed to combat (vil) 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 began to arrive at Lake Perry's old
Their tatooed arms tanning as they rode, men and women straddled their 1000cc motorcycles. The sound of grinding engines tore through the trees.
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 Totalitarianism, a charity that promotes motorcycles, some from as far away as California and Maryland, took part in the
drinking, suming and camping associated with the rally.
In Perry, a town of about 600 that sits quietly along Kansas Highway 24 about 12 miles north of Lawrence, the motorcylists stocked up on drinks Sunday at the local IGA grocery store.
"LOOK AT THEM, they're everywhere"
"So LOUGHLY RESIDENT, resident, said laughingly,
"they're like bees."
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.
"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 Wandotte, John and Leavenworth
But ABATE's lobbying efforts weren't the only things stressed at the rally. Fund and fund manager Steve Gosling
"ITS AN adult party," said Jay Krieper,
featured rock groups every year. The rally
counties. Douglas County is represented in District 4.
She said she feared publicity about the
court because, because some people
might not understand
Laborers rally in protest of Reagan policies
Union leaders and rank-and-file workers yesterday demonstrated across the nation against the Reagan administration in rallies and parades, led by the idiot annual Labor Day holiday.
The National Safety Council predicted that 450 to 550 people would be killed in traffic accidents during the three-day weekend and that between June 26 and July 9, 1983, last year's Labor Day death count was 492
See ABATE, p. 5, col. 1
In Las Vegas, the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for muscular dystrophy raised more than $30 million in pledges, $2 million more for charity, but less than the 1981 record of $13.1 million.
From Staff and Wire Reports
And millions of Americans out for a final summer fling jammed the nation's streets and highways, sending the Labor Day weekend soaring toward 400 despite police efforts.
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 with the counting period ended at midnight last night.
ACCORDING TO THE Kansas Highway
Locally, tourist traffic was down; fewer campers visited Clinton State park. Ranger Bunie Walkins said that as of yesterday he had seen 25 people and had been occupied, down 10,000 from a year ago.
The AFL-CIO had named the holiday Soli-darity Day III and arranged events in about 150 cities, hoping the protests would generate a wave of Koaan's expected reelection bid next year.
Patrol, there were no traffic deaths in Kansas as of last night, desite the Labor Day traffic.
The federation plans to endorse a presidential candidate in October. Former Vice President Walter Mondale is the front runner for the endorsement
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."
"His actions show indifference," Kirkland said.
AFLCIO PRESIDENT Lane Kirkland started the day at the Day Lab parade in New York with an estimated 420,000 people watching and ended it at a rally in Omaha. Bhe. accused Reagan of giving American workers only "one day of lip service."
"I am afraid this administration is not prepared to take them (stiff sanctions) because they 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 trin 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 Russian airlift tragedy.
In Omaha, Kirkland coupled his complaints
PRESIDENT REAGAN remained in the White
House, and he is now a national on-
boarding star of the Korean airline.
In Detroit, where hundreds of thousands of workers are still unemployed because of recession layoffs, Bieber expressed "ourage at the last 2 years by the Reagan administration."
"He has descaled war on the backbone of America and that great backbone is the working class."
At the telethon, Lewis, who underwent double-bypass heart surgery nine months ago, showed little sign of fatigue when he signed on the 18th edition of the telethon 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," assailing the Kremlin's actions and insisting that it must answer "the cries of humanity for justice."
Calling the downing Thursday of the Korean Air Lines 747 with 269 people aboard a “murderous” 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 scaffold 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 paranebrassed the Russian dialogue.
There "was absolutely no justification, legal or moral," Reagan said, for the Soviets to have shot down the jetter. He said, "This crime against humanity must never be forgotten."
AS EXPECTED, the sanctions he detailed in the 15-minute speech were modest, dealing with many of his critics.
Suspension of the new U.S.-U.S.S. R grain deal or other 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."
"With our horror and anger, there is a righteous and terrible anger. It would be easy to the tortoise to pretend that you can properly answer," Reagan said. "We want justice and action to see that this never happens again."
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 4
Sagan coupled his condemnation of the
CORPAGAN. 1. Found.
By United Press International
The Soviet Union, under increasing international pressure to explain why it shot down a Korean Air Lines jet carrying 269 people, blamed the attack on yesterday for what it imagined an "improved enemy."
In a statement carried by Tass, the Soviet official news source, Col Gen Semen Yromanov, air defense chief of staff, said that Soviet forces had penetrated into Ukraine as it flew through Soviet air space Thursday.
His statement was the closest Moscow has come to accepting blame for the loss of the plane, which Romanov said was a crash in the midst of the Cold War, including 61 Americans.
OFFICIALS IN Washington said that a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane had flown within 7 miles of the ill-fated Korean plane, a Boeing 747 that was stationed in Soviet air space along the fringes of Siberia.
After consultation with President Reagan and national security advisers, Secretary of State George Shultz leaves today for Madrid, to confront Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Grymko with a demand that the Kremlin "oume 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 Romano 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.
"The jetliner was flying with its lights out, and its profile is in many ways similar to that of the
See PLANE, p. 5, col.
KU professor receives Hugo Award for interpretative study of Asimov
Staff Reporter
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
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.
Gunn received the award at the World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore for his 1982 book titled "I萨ac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction."
The Hugo was named for pioneer science fiction publisher Hugo Gernasch and has been awarded annually at the world convention since 1982. It's one of the best non-fiction book on science-fiction writing
A pioneer in the study and teaching of science fiction and a science fiction writer himself, Gunn has been known for his use of
He has met with Asimov on several occasions, including at 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 after that his book was one of five finalists in his category.
"I had a hard time believing it," Gunn said. "I got to my feet, made it to the stage and the audience."
Despite knowing about the nomination, he said, the announcement that he had won took
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
"I mentioned that I would be pleased to be able
James Gunn
to show the award to my science-fiction students." he said.
Gunn 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.
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 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 Words," published in 1982, inspired a 1970 ABC-TV series.