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Wednesday, February 25, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Syrian troops take strongholds; Druse and Shiite forces pull out
BEIRUT — Syrian foot patrols marched into west Beirut's battle zone yesterday and occupied Druse and Shiite militia strongholds, killing three militiamen who refused to obey an order to halt.
The rival Drusse and Shite forces, which have battled a week for control of west Beirut, pulled out of the Syrian oil ahead of the Syrian soldiers.
Assassins, who were not identified, shot down two ranking communists in the ancient southern port of Sidon, 25 miles south of Beirut. Twelve members of the pro-Moskow Lebanese Communist Party have been slain in south Lebanon in the past nine days.
Thousands of Syrian soldiers and 100 tanks moved into Beirut's Muslim sector on Sunday in an effort to end a weeklong war between a Druse-Communist alliance and the Shite Muslims militia Amal At least 300 people were wounded in the fighting. Muslim leaders asked Syria to stop the battle for control of west Beirut.
The intervention force's size originally was estimated at 4,000 men, but Syrian military sources said yesterday that the force had 6,400 men in two armored and mechanized brigades, backed by a special forces paratrooper battalion.
Accused terrorist won't return to stand
PARIS — Sharon Ray, widow of U.S. Lt. Col. Charles Ray, left the courtroom in tears yesterday when the judges trying Georges Irbahim Abdallah in the 1982 terrorist killing of her husband viewed the murder weapon.
The Lebanese-born Abdallah, 35 charged with complicity in Ray's death, did not attend yesterday's proceedings. He left the courtroom on the opening day of the trial Monday after denouncing the
United States. Later he told the court in a statement, signed "Arab fighter," that there was "no reason that I appeared."
His lawyer, Jacques Verges, confirmed yesterday that Abdalaah would not return to the defendant's box during the trial.
Presiding Judge Maurice Colomb decided to continue the trial without him.
Abdallah could receive life in prison if convicted.
Across the Country
WASHINGTON — The expected resignation of White House chief of staff Donald Regan was put on hold yesterday, as President Reagan braced for a blast of criticism from a deep-reaching investigation he ordered into the Iran-arms scandal.
Regan's possible resignation postponed
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said no discussions would concern Regan's status until after a special review board that was appointed by the president issues its report tomorrow on the Iran arms-contra aid scandal.
"I think the chief of staff is very concerned that these discussions about his tenure here not disrupt the management of the White House, especially during this period when we are receiving the Tower Board report and responding to it," Fitzwater said.
Calling the report an important milestone in the worst crisis to hit the Reagan presidency, Fitzwater said Regan will sit down with the president to discuss his future at a later date.
U.S. general says aid important for contras
Gen. John Galvin acknowledged that U.S. objectives in Central America were not clear, blaming
WASHINGTON — The commander of U.S. forces in Central America predicted yesterday that Nicaraguan rebels would engage in "good combat action" by spring but that they needed $100 million a year. The U.S. aid to support the fight against the Sandinista government.
the vagueness on a lack of consensus by the U.S. public and Congress. Appealing for patience, he said 15 years usually were necessary for an insurgency to be effective against an entrenched government.
"We have not had a consensus in the American people, and that reflects in the Congress, and our leaders tend to be obscured," Galvin said.
Mayor Washington wins Chicago primary
CHICAGO — Mayor Harold Washington won the nomination last night for a second term in a Democratic primary battle against former Mayor Jane Byrne to pick city voters along racial lines.
Washington, who became the city's first black mayor when he defeated Byrne in the Democratic primary four years ago, won the nomination for a second term by a four percent margin.
With 90 percent of the city's 2,900 precincts reporting. Washington
had 506,664 votes, or 52 percent,
compared with Byrne's 472,881, or
48 percent.
Byrne held a slim lead over Washington in early results, but Washington overcame his challenger when results were tabulated from the city's South Side, where the mayor had nearly monolithic support among blacks.
Byrne, waving and kicking kisses to her disappointed supporters, conceded defeat shortly before midnight.
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From the KU Weather Service
LAWRENCE FORECAST
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