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NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, September 27, 1984
Embassies fortify after bomb attack
By United Press International
Western embassies tightened security yesterday in the wake of reports that guerrillas will attempt a car bomb attack similar to the one on the U.S. Embassy annex last week, diplomatic and security sources said.
In Washington, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voicing "bipartisan outrage" at the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon, voted yesterday to give the administration an additional $250 million to protect U.S. embassies.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said a female Lebanese employee died of wounds suffered in the Sept. 20 suicide truck-bomb attack that shattered the U.S. Embassy annex in a suburb of Christian east Beirut.
The Lebanese employee who died yesterday was the ninth embassy worker to be killed in the bombing, the third attack of its type in 18 months against a U.S. installation in Twenty American were wounded
Police said the death raised the number of fatalities to 25, including two Americans.
Scores of guards from the paramilitary Internal Security Forces surrounded the West German Embassy in mostly Muslim west beirut and positioned vehicles to block both ends of a road running past the building.
Armed West German security men in civilian clothes supervised the
security measures around the exposed building.
Concrete blocks and a truck were placed across the street outside the sandbaked walls of the French Embassy compound in west Beirut. Builders carried sand inside, apparently to deflect the force of any blast
At the seafront British Embassy, a spokesman said. "We are taking this report seriously, as we always do. I cannot tell you anything about the threat or our security, but it's pretty tight."
Diplomatic sources, who refused to be identified, said most Western embassies were informed a few days ago that a guerrilla group planned to launch a suicide car-bomb attack against a Western target in Beirut.
"This is only the second such report I have heard this year," a Western diplomatic source said. "We were all asked to check our security after the annex bombing, but this made us accelerate our plans."
Military and diplomatic sources said the planned car bomb was not linked with the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad organization, which said it was responsible for the annex blast and has threatened to hit "American interests" again.
One unconfirmed report said Lebanese intelligence believed a car was being packed with explosives in a residential suburb of west Beirut for a strike on a West German installation.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The mother of Irma Lozada, first woman police officer to be killed in the line of duty in New York City, is helped into church for the funeral services. Lozada, 25, was killed Friday when she apprehended a suspect who overpowered her and shot her with her own gun. More than 3,500 fellow officers attended the services yesterday.
Arabs call for boycott of Jordan
By United Press International
BEIRUT Lebanon — Syria and Libya demanded an Arab boycott of Jordan yesterday for its "treacherous decision" to restore diplomatic relations with Egypt.
"Putting a knife in the back is not new to the Jordanian regime, but this time we wonder if it will have the expected outcome," a broadcast on Syrian state radio, monitored in Beirut, said.
Syria's newspapers that are controlled by the government were equally outraged by Jordan's resumption of ties with Egypt for the first time since Cairo signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
The leftist government called for a pan-Arab boycott of Jordan and promised "the Arab masses will act to confront this conspiracy."
"An immediate decision must be taken for a total boycott of Jordan. ...in response to its treacherous decision," the official Libyan news agency JANA said.
By offering to restore diplomatic relations Tuesday, Jordan broke ranks with the Baghdad pact of 1979 in which 17 of 21 Arab states cut diplomatic and economic ties with Egypt.
Hussein telephoned Saudi Arabian King Fahd to inform him of his decision Tuesday, but Saudi media did not mention Jordan's move.
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