University Daily Kansan, August 31, 1983
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Mideast
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In Washington, the State Department said U.S. special envoy Robert McFarlane, who set out for Beirut from Jerusalem yesterday, was unable to reach his destination because of the fighting and was staying on the U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima until he could enter the city.
U. S. MARINES came under sporadic mortar, rocket and machine-gun fire for four hours during the day and returned with salvos from automatic weapons and machine guns, said Maj. Robert Jordan. No U.S. casualties were reported yesterday.
The Marines returned fire for the first time in a year of peace-keeping duty in Beirut on Sunday.
The Pentagon said the remains of the two dead Marines — 2nd Lt. Donald Losey, 28, Winston Salem, N.C., and Staff Sgt Alexander M. Ortega, 25, Rochester, N.Y. would arrive at Dover Air Force Base, Del.
THE FIGHTING was the worst in Beirut since war left air for 40,000 dead, hospital spokered.
The 4,800-man multinational peace-keeping force took more casualties. Five French soldiers were killed and five wounded in three assaults
French officials said. Six Lebanese soldiers also were killed.
Phalange radio, which has good contacts with President Amin Geminal's government, said the program is one of the few.
Yesterday's fighting began in southern Shiite areas and spread north along the "green line," which divided Christian east Beirut and Moslem west Beirut until last year.
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The opposition Labor Party will remain divided in a struggle between former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and party leader Shimon Peres. U.S. experts predicted.
leader while three other men fight for the role as prime minister in a Likud政局.
Israeli news reports said Labor gave up hope of outsting Begin's Likud from power when two coalition partners, the National Religious Party and Likud, unbounded announced they would stick with Likud's leadership
No matter who emerged as prime minister
Israeli policy regarding Lebanon or the occupied West Bank was unlikely to change.
Before the final session with his coalition allies, Begin met with U.S. envoy Robert McFarlane and reluctantly agreed to another postponement of Israel's military redeployment from Lebanon's Shouf mountains southeast of Beirut.
Begin's decision to resign put an end to seven years of leadership. Hallmarks of his term were the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and a
controversial program to settle Jews in the West. Bank region that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
Begin had been in poor health for some time. During his tenure, Begin suffered two heart attacks, a mild stroke, and a broken hip that kept him in a wheelchair.
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Colleagues said Begin had been withdrawn the past year following the death of his wife, Aliza, and was depressed over the mounting Israeli casualties in Lebanon.
Shuttle
jagged bolts of lightning and drenched the Kennedy Space Center with rain.
The carefree crowd along the Indian River 10 miles west of the launch site showed little concern until a lightning bolt struck nearby, sending some spectators dashing for cover
"I don't know if the shuttle is worth this or not." one facing viewer shouted.
For the next two hours, people huddled in cars,
tents and wherever they could find shelter.
When the storm died down and Bluford and his four crewmates were in the Challenger awaiting launch, the persistent viewers were back at their haunts.
Despite a light cloud cover, Challenger was brilliant as it rushed like a meteor through the night sky. A bright glow from the shuttle was visible for 2 minutes.
In Pensacola, Berndt Vonwahle said the shuttle was visible for about 2 to 3 minutes.
"It was like a very bright blinking star moving across the sky," he said. "It was an absolutely gorgeous sight."
Tom Morton, a meat cutter from Cape Canaler who has seen 25 to 30 launches, including the nighttime liftoff of the Apollo 17 lunar mission nearly 11 years ago, said this flight
"The night launch of the shuttle is a lot more spectacular," he said. "It was just like a giant
ball of fire the way it lit up the sky. It was really beautiful."
John Jacob, president of the National Urban League, viewed the overnight launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and called Bluford's role on the space mission "very significant." But echoing that it took so long for the United States to put a black in space.
"We certainly would have liked to have seen it 25 years ago, but we'll take it now," Jacob said. "You've got to begin someplace."
Taft Bromne, an associate professor and chairman of civil engineering at predominantly black Howard University in Washington, called Bluford's trip a "landmark" and said it will help dispel "a myth that black people don't make decisions rapidly and can fold under fire."
"Even though blacks have distinguished themselves in the military," Broome said, "these things tend to be watered down for some reason. There needs to be more of this kind of thing to serve as a role model for our children, not just in government but also business."
Bluford, 40, a Vietnam combat veteran and Air Force lieutenant colonel who holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, blasted into space two years ago and made history as the first female U.S. astronaut.
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