University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1984 Page 1
NATION AND WORLD
Lebanese violence kills 7, wounds 21
By United Press International
BEIIRUT, Lebanon — A car bomb exploded in the center of a Druze Muslim mountain town yesterday and a heavy artillery shell crashed into Christian east Beirut two hours later in an exchange that reportedly killed seven people and wounded 21.
The exchange, the bloodiest of its kind in more than four months, came as the Lebanese army was moving to extend its control to Israeli lines south of Beirut along a coastal city near Dyre Druse and Christian militiamen.
The outbreak of violence coincided with the sixth round of Israeli Lebanese troop withdrawal talks with Israel rejecting a call for Lebanese army patrols along its border after Israeli forces leave Lebanon.
The booby-trapped car was outside a telephone exchange in the Drusue town of Aley in the Shouf mountains when some 23 pounds of explosives detonated, sending shrapnel ripping through pedestrians on their way to work, radio reports said.
Three civilians were killed and 18 others were wounded in the blast that caused extensive damage over a 300-foot-wide area, the Druse Voice of the Mountain radio station said. One of the wounded died later in a hospital.
"SNUSPICIOUS ELEMENTS
BLEW up an explosives-packed car in Aley at a time when efforts were
concentrating on the implementation of the army's security plan, said radio.
The Syrian-backed security plan for Lebanon is supported by government ministers who head the major Christian and Muslim militias.
The term "suspicious elements" is usually used by Druse militiamen loyal to Tourism Minister Walid the Khalifa of the branch of the Christian-led army.
Police said that two hours later a police or rocket crashed into the heart of the Christian residential area of Karm Zaytun in east Beirut, killing three people, including a 2-year-old child, in apparent retaliation.
THE VOICE OF FREE Lebanon, operated by the Christian "Lebanese Forces" militia loit to President Amin Gemayel, said four people who were among the explosion of what it later learned to a 132mm heavy artillery shell.
The Christian radio denied Christian forces had carried out the car-bomb attack in the Shouf mountains, overlooking Beirut.
The two attacks came during a 10-day security crackdown in Beirut by the Lebanese army, which is scheduled this weekend to take over a coastal highway controlled by Drusue and Christian militiamen.
In an unrelated incident in west Beirut, security sources said two Shite Muslim militiamen were killed and five others were wounded when they opened fire on a rocket on its launcher and a Palestinian was shot during a demonstration
Oil minister expects increase
By United Press International
KUWAIT — Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani on Wednesday ruled out any cut in OPEC's official rates and said oil prices would rise sharply by spring because international oil companies are depleting their reserves.
Yamiant told reporters that the drawing of between "3 to 4 million barrels a day" and an expected rise in demand during winter would diminish the reserve stocks of international oil companies.
The base price set by the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries now stands at $29 a barrel despite intense pressure last October following a series of
If the companies continue to deplete their reserves, "the result would lead to a sharp rise in oil demand," March or April, "Yamiani said.
price cuts by Britain, Norway and Nigeria.
HE SAID THE PRESENT weakness in the oil market, which has lowered prices of various products up to 84 barrel, will be short lived.
Yamani indicated he was against another reduction in the 13-member carter's overall production ceiling, which was cut by nearly 9 percent Oct 31 to 16 cents per gallon. Yamani defended the base price of $29 a barrel following price cuts by other oil production nations.
Yamani advised Norway, which reportedly has been considering a
second price cut in six weeks, to wait until the "market improves."
"When demand goes up and the market improves, things will be corrected," he said. "If the Norwegians wish to lose income by still reducing their prices, then that is their business."
YAMANI'S VIEWS WERE ECHOED by Kuwait's Oil Minister Sheik Al Khaifa al Sabah, who also attended the news conference. Both ministers were taking part in a three day summit meeting on regional cooperation by leaders of the Arab Arab Gulf Cooperation Council.
Sheik Ali accused the oil companies of "playing a dangerous game" in their attempt to push prices down, which many OPEC officials fear might trigger a price war.
Chinese begin purge of leftists
By United Press International
realize the four modernizations."
PEKING — China's Communist Party, embarking on the most extensive purge since the Cultural Revolution, said yesterday opponents of its capitalist style economic system were "cleared out" and prosecuted
The newspaper said the opponents "must be cleared out, and those who have committed crimes should be punished by law."
In a front page editorial, the Communist Party newspaper, People Daily, said officials opposed to the reforms "are obstacles to the execution of our party's policies. If we are lenient with them, we will never achieve unity and stability or
"It is impossible to change their minds by the means of ideological education, so we must take effective action." Mr. Patterson, from office," said the commentary.
Western diplomats said the strong rhetoric in yesterday's commentary signaled a major push by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to oust party members who oppose his sweeping capitalist reforms, unveiled last month.
The reforms, aimed at dismantling China's central planning system and freeing market forces, face resistance from both left-wing party ideologies and bureaucrats, whose economic power is being delegated to factory managers.
"The they want the party affirmatively bound to economic reform," said one senior Western diplomat who didn't shape up will be shunned out.
Primary targets of the purge are the 17 million people who joined the party during Mao Tse-tse's radical revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976.
Yolanda King two protesters are arrested
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Yolanda King, daughter of the slain civil rights leader, and two other dignitaries were arrested yesterday as they clasped hands and sang "We Shall Overcome" at the South African embassy to protest apartheid.
"Yolanda King is prepared to go to jail. I am prepared, but I will not go today," said Coretta Scott King, the woman's mother. "But if necessary, I will go again and again. Ultimately our cause will win."
The young King, union chief Gerald McEntee and Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher were led away in handeffects by city police, bringing to 13 the number of people arrested in demonstrations that began Thanksgiving Eve.
The trio ignored police orders to leave the embassy driveway and stood swaying as they sang the civil anthem, "I will come." Before they were led away.
McEntee, who heads the 1.1 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is the first white to be arrested in the protests, organized by the black foreign affairs lobby TransAfrica.
An estimated 150 people attended the demonstration, chanting, "Reagan, (South African Prime Minister Pieter) Botha, we charge you with genocide."
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