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Friday, September 1, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Sheik advises abducting pope
Bush, Mitterrand also on kidnap list
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The pro-Iranian leader of fundamentalist Sunni Muslims was quoted yesterday as saying Pope John Paul II should be kidnapped if he visits Lebanon.
Sheik Said Shaaban also recommended that President Bush and President Francois Mitterrand of France be abducted as a means of ending support for Lebanese Christians and for Israel, the Beirut daily Ad-Diyar reported.
Syrian and Christian soldiers exchanged artillery and tank fire yesterday. Police said three people were killed and 24 were wounded, raising total casualties since the war began March 8 to at least 808 dead and 2,342 wounded. Nearly all the casualties have been civilians.
A mediation mission by French envoy Francois Scheer appeared to
have collapsed, raising fears of intensified fighting between Gen. Michael Aoun's Christian army command and a Muslim alliance led by the 40,000 Syrian troops stationed in Lebanon.
Ad-Diyar quoted Shaaban as saying in an interview: "If the pope comes to Lebanon and we manage to hold him for the sake of salvaging Palestine, I wouldn't be against such an act.
"It is our duty to abduct all those related to states that recognize Israel, every citizen of a foreign nation that has visited the Israel should be a hostage in our hand.
"I support the abduction of Bush and ... Mitterrand to serve the purpose of ousting Israel from Palestine and stopping the French intervention (in Lebanon) and the naval warships that have come to rescue France's children in Lebanon."
His reference was to six French warships in the eastern Mediterranean. France, which governed Lebanon by mandate until 1943, says the ships are on a "humanitarian" mission to evacuate the 7,000 French
citizens in Lebanon if necessary.
Threatening to kidnap the pope may seem farfetched, but Shiite zealots loyal to Iran carried out suicide bombings against U.S., French and Israeli forces in Lebanon and Syria. Their scores of Westerners, Sixteen Western hostages, including eight Americans, still are being held captive.
Police said Syrian artillery deployed in Muslim West Beirut and the mountains south and east of the country, with up to 20 shells a minute yesterday.
They said scores of 240mm and 180mm mortar rounds exploded at and around the hilltop presidential palace in Babaad, a Christian suburb east of Beirut.
Voice of the Mountain, the radio station of the Druse militia allied with Syria, said, "The only solution to Lebanon's crisis is Aoun's ouster. We warn the French warships against rushing to Aoun's aid."
Ad-Diay said the shelling increased because Scheer's mediation effort foundered on differences between arms supplies to the rival factions.
WWII began 50 years ago today
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, West Germany — One of many events marking the 50th anniversary of the beginning of World War II will be a concert in Warsaw, the first target of blitzkrieg, Adolf Hitler's fearsome "lightning war."
Events are scheduled in West Germany, East Germany and Poland, including an internationally broadcast concert in Warsaw conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
More than 50 million people were killed in the war touched off by the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews shocked the world like no other atrocity.
However, an ultra-conservative West German Cabinet minister said
As a gesture of reconciliation, the government said it was willing to return the Polish Embassy in Berlin, seized by the Nazis in 1941, to Polish ownership.
Theo Waigel, the federal finance minister, said he did not want to deny "one lota of German guilt" for the Nazi era and the war, but said, "A one-sided view of history with the conclusion that only the Germans are burdened with guilt would be unbearable and would lead to dangerous condemnations."
Waigel did not say who should share the guilt, but many people claim Soviet dictator Josef Stalin also was responsible.
Franz Schoenhuber, leader of the extremist Republican Party in West
Germany, spoke of the "war guilt of the Soviets, who together with Hitler brought the people of Eastern Europe under their yoke" — a reference to the Soviet absorption of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under a 1939 pact with Hitler.
Schoehuber said an international panel of historians should be appointed to reassess whether Germans alone were responsible for the war.
Pope John Paul II used the anniversary to declare that people must learn from the past so the atrocities committed in Poland would not happen again. The pope will address his Polish countrymien tonight by means of a huge television screen set up in Royal Castle Square in Warsaw.
MOLDAVIANS PROTEST: Thousands of people in the republic of Moldavia surged into the streets of its capital last night to protest a legislative compromise that will keep the Russian language part of their everyday life, activists said.
Members of the southern republic's legislature voted to substitute Moldavian, which is similar to Romanian, for Russian as the language of government and economic affairs. But they ruled that both Russian and Moldavian could be used in everyday life.
"The people are scandalized. We need only one language," said Vasily Nestase of the pro-Moldovan People's Front, speaking by telephone from Kishinev, the capital.
FLAG-BURNING CONDEMNED:
The American Legion announced yesterday that it had received about 1 million signatures on a petition seeking a constitutional amendment against desecration of the U.S. flag.
Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, appearing at a press conference with American Legion national commander H.F. Gierke, said legislation calling for a $10 million loan used for Senate floor action Oct. 16.
The House will consider a bill Sept. 12 that would create a federal law against flag desecration, but not amend the Constitution.
World Briefs
U.S. TIGHTENS DRUG STANCE:
Secret sections of an emerging national drug strategy detail U.S. limits in attacking drug traffickers, growers and users, and even say how many drug-related political assassinations the United States might tolerate before acting.
It was revealed that the revamped strategy President
Bush will announce next Tuesday will be tough on users, heavy on law enforcement and for a new emphasis on drug treatment.
GERMAN ESCAPE PLANNED: Hungarian and West German officials have devised a plan that would allow up to 20,000 East Germans to flee to the West in the next few days, government sources disclosed yesterday.
About 10 percent of the 150,000 to 200,000 East Germans vacationing in Hungary are thought to be seeking passage to West Germany, and Bonn and Budapest have agreed to help them, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
The reported plan to allow East Germans out of Hungary without the usual documents authorizing their departure may have been intentionally leaked by officials to let would-be emigrants in East Germany know about the rare escape opportunity.
POLAND AID CONSIDERED: The possibility of U.S. food aid to Poland is "on the front burner" but no final decision has been made by the Bush administration, Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter said yesterday.
"At the moment it's premature to draw any conclusion," Yeutter told reporters, adding that part of his argument was that the government is just settling settled.
"We want to have some signals and some expressions of viewpoint from that government before we get heavily involved in this process," he said. But Yeutter added that food aid to Poland was "on the front burner and it'll stay on the front burner" until a decision is reached.
NEW STREETS DRUGS: A new generation of narcotics known as
"crank," "croak" and "moon rock" is invading U.S. streets along with smokable heroin that addicts blend with crack cocaine, the Senate was told yesterday.
"The drug cartel, like any successful marketers of a product, are constantly working on new and improved models," Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told a hearing of his Senate Judiciary Committee on new trends in narcotics.
SUSPECT SURRENDERS: The suspected gunman in the slaying of a black teen-ager by a gang of whites walked into an upstate New York police station and surrendered yesterday after an eight-day manhunt.
"My name is Joseph Fama. The New York City Police Department is looking for me for murder," the 18-year-old was quoted as telling a police officer about 2:30 a.m. in Oneonta, 150 miles north of New York City.
Fama returned to Brooklyn hours later to face possible murder charges. He the Aug. 23 slaying of 16-year-old Ms. Usuf Hawkins, authorities said.
COTTAGE CHEESE PULLED: A Missouri company has pulled one lot of cottage cheese from store shelves in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas after a Miami, Okla., man said he found what appeared to be pieces of a razor blade in a carton he bought Wednesday.
"It really is a priority with us right now and there are a lot of people working on it," said Tim Bellanti, executive director of marketing in the Dillon's office in Springfield, Mo.
Local police and investigators with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration also are looking into the incident.
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