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Israel seeks help to stem fighting
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — After launching an all-night retaliatory assault on suspected guerrilla hideouts in southern Lebanon, Israel appealed yesterday to the United States and Syria to help an escalation of the fighting.
The shelling came after guerrillas of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or party of God, fired 28 Katyusha rockets at northern Israel Saturday night. That attack was to avenge the deaths of two Shiite Muslim civilians killed by an Israeli attack earlier in the day.
Israel's shelling of 15 Shiite Muslim villages forced hundreds of families to flee, and a 2-year-old boy in the village of Haris was injured by shrapnel, security sources said.
Foreign Minister Ehud Barak told U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher that those deaths were a mistake and asked him to intervene to ensure there would be no escalation of the fighting, Israel radio said yesterday.
Amiram Levine, the army commander in northern Israel, said Hezbollah had repeatedly fired on Israel from the place where the civilians had been killed.
After Hezbollah leaders vowed revenge, hundreds of Israelis in the north of the country spent the night in underground shelters.
Shlomio Bouhbout, mayor of Maalot, said yesterday that it was
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quiet, but they were always prepared to return to the shelters.
The Israeli army confirmed that several rockets had hit western Galilee, and Israel reports said one civilian had been slightly wounded.
Ori Orr, Israel's deputy defense minister, said Israel had also contacted everyone involved in the conflict that has influence over the Hezbollah, including Syria, the main power broker in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, Iran's main ally in Lebanon, is leading a guerrilla war to evict Israel from the enclave it established in 1985 to shield its northern flank from cross-border guerrilla attacks.
Astronauts alight safely in California
Cloud cover hinders space shuttle Atlantis from Florida landing
The Associated Press
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. — Space shuttle Atlantis
and its five astronauts landed in
the California desert just before
sunrise yesterday after cloudy
skies prevented a Florida touchdown.
Atlantis touched down at 5:29 a.m. PST, ending a successful trip to the Russian space station Mir to drop off NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid.
Mission Control tried for two mornings in a row to send Atlantis to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but on both days thick, low clouds interfered. Flight directors finally gave up and ordered commander Kevin Chilton and his crew to Edwards Air Force Base, where the weather was good.
"We appreciate all the effort you made to try to get us into KSC. A lot of folks are disappointed, but we're looking forward to going back to California," Chilton, a Los Angeles native, said before beginning the hour-long descent.
NASA prefers landing the space shuttles at their Florida
home port because of the nearly $1 million cost involved in ferrying them across the country atop a modified jumbo jet. It also saves time preparing shuttle for their next flights — in Atlantis' case, a trip back to Mir in August to pick up Lucid.
Atlantis dropped Lucid off at the Russian station last week for a five-month stay. She is the first American woman to live full time in orbit aboard a space station.
Although cloudy skies in Florida prevented Atlantis from returning on Saturday, the shuttle almost had to land anyway when its cargo-bay doors would not open in orbit and allow heat to radiate into space.
Flight director Jeff Bantle said that he would have ordered an emergency landing if the problem had continued 10 minutes longer, but the two doors finally swung open and the shuttle was able to remain safely in orbit.
The 60-foot doors must be open while the shuttle is in orbit to dispel heat collected from electronics and other equipment. They are closed several hours prior to landing. NASA blamed the problem on two frozen, malfunctioning microswitches.
NASA's next shuttle flight is a 10-day science voyage by Endeavour in mid-May.
THE NEWS in brief
Agents seize drug shipment from freighter
The Associated Press
Two men were arrested after
agents intercepted the delivery before daybreak at the Houston Ship Channel, said Roger Maier, a customs representative.
HOUSTON — Federal agents seized 170 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $7.7 million, after it was tossed early Saturday from a Colombian freighter, U.S. Customs Service said.
A Colombian national was arrested after getting out of the water with the 66 bricks of cocaine, Maier said.
Authorities arrested another suspect, also a Colombian resident,
who was waiting in a car.
Both men were jailed pending a hearing today. They face charges of conspiracy and illegal importation of a controlled substances, Maier said.
Maier did not say who owned the freighter.
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