Collegian Wednesday, April 7, 1976 The Dail RHS ThursSimmons7:3o & 9:30 Fri & Sat 105 Forum . ' 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 Sun 7:30 & 9:30 $l.OO Cinema East presents "JOE" centre Wcinema MOVIE TIMETABLE It's a better movie than'Blazing Saddle or 'Young Frankenstein'. —Rolling Stone ahliti(oio "4'l-IoLiGfaAIL FROM CINEMA 5 Thurs - Sun PUB Rec Room 7:30, 9:15 & 11 NORTH HALLS , -, t . -1 4 ,111 '•ec .4 ' I : f- ` . ..tst - _- - ,:.:. il k . -.-- ~- Jo_ x 1, tt $ll.OO ARHICILI • Snipers upset election Lebanese congress meets BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Presidential candidates campaigned among rival Christian and Moslem militia leaders yesterday as snipers threatened the newly called parliamentary session to elect a president. Scattered sniping in Beirut kept areas of the capital deserted but for the first time since Lebanon's twenty seventh truce was declared Friday, no new casualties were reported to add to the toll of nearly 16,500 dead and 34,000 wounded over 11 months. With a truce holding and the site for a parliament meeting fixed, House Speaker Kamel Assad called deputies to session Saturday. They' are expected to draft laws clearing the way for the resignation of President Suleiman Franjieh and the election of his successor. A force of 500 Lebanese army and internal security troops formed a "security belt" around the parliament's meeting site, the Esseily villa near the central security offices. The villa lies in the "green 'line" zone separating Christian eastern Beirut from the Moslem western sector of the divided capital. Assad set no date for elections but parliament Chinese HONG KONG (UPI) The Chinese Communist Party newspaper, warning against new •outbreaks of violence in China's current power struggle, yesterday called on security forces to "track down" troublemakers andl"deal resolute blows at them." The People's Daily editorial appeared a day after angry . mobs went on a rampage in Peking's huge Tien An Men (Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square, reacting to a showdown battle between Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping. No force was used Monday against the rioters, who set fire to at least three vehicles and a building. But several hundred of the tens of thousands of people in the square during the daylong disturbances were arrested. The mob was protesting the removal of wreaths honoring Chou En-lai on the JAZZ WEEK FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7th VIDEOTAPE JAZZ FILMS (FREE) Noon HUB Assembly JAZZ STEREO COMMONSPLACE THEATRE 7:30 & 9:30 pm JAZZ COFFEEHOUSE would have only two days after that until noon Monday to elect Franjieh's successor before the current 10-day truce expires. Accepting the truce on Friday, Moslem leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt threatened that his forces would renew the war if Franjieh had not resigned and a successor acceptable to the leftists was not elected within that time. After a meeting of leftist parties, Jumblatt issued the first conciliatory statement since laying down his terms for the truce and declared his "satisfaction" at develop ments. Jumblatt, , stressing the need for parliament to meet and amend the constitution for the election of a new president, said the way would British ship bombarded LONDON (UPI) Motor torpedo boats flying Syrian flags attacked the British container ship Cheshire Venture Monday off the Lebanese coast, British of ficials said yesterday. The officials said reports reaching London indicated the Cheshire Venture, 1,592 tons, was hit seven times above the waterline. There warn against violence Martyrs Monument on Monday, a day making" by many elements, including Chinese annually pay respects to their party factions. ancestors' tombs. "It is imperative," the editorial ad- Diplomatic sources said top level ded, for security forces to deal severely meetings were believed to have been with troublemakers, to "track them held in the Chinese capital yesterday to down sternly and deal resolute blows at determine how to deal with any new them " APRIL 4-10 "Montreaux Jazz Festival" Noon Kern Lobby 10 am-4 pm Paul Robeson Cultural "St. Louis Blues" 8:00 pm then be open to "tackle the problem at its roots" on the basis of the leftists' proposed reform program. , "In this connection we will be ready to welcome any Arab initiative including the Syrian initiative that is aimed at providing assistance in surmounting the ordeal," Jumblatt said. Asked by reporters if the leftists would prolong the truce after the April 12 deadline, Jumblatt said "wef will examine the situation after Saturday's parliamen tary meeting.' But while parliament was scheduled to meet, it was by no means certain that it would. • Shooting erupted in the vicinity of Esseily villa were no casualties among its crew. The British Ambasaador in Damascus, David Roberts, has been asked to make the strongest , repiesentations . to the , Syrian authorities, the , officials said. The Cheshire Venture is on its way to Limassol, Cyprus, for repairs. . - disorders. Indicating a high level concern that The editorial, broadcast by Peking the situation could develop into chaos Radio, did not mention Monday's in- ' similar to that of the Cultural Revolution " cidents. It called for strict control of the 10 years ago, the editorial said, we should keep a watchful eye at all times campaign' against Teng, the first vice premier who had been expected to on the new trends of class struggle." succeed the late Chou when he died last The current power struggle , becaine evident in February when wall posters January. • ' began appearing on university cam The editorial said the struggle, puses attacking Teng as a "capitalist "initiated and led by our great leader roader" deviating from Mao's policy Chairman Mao himself," was "vic- line. Teng had made a dramatic toriously , developing throughout the comeback on China's political, stage country. But it also said there was bound during Chou's illness after being purged to be "rabid resistance and trouble- during the Cultural Revolution.. . EVENTS FREE 11 2 Kern 301 HUB shortly after Assad an nounced that parliament would meet there. • "There are still parties that do not want a settlement and it would take only one sniper on Saturday for things to go boom," a government source said. Among the other problems facing the parliament was the still unresolved issue of who would succeed Franjieh. Several candidates are in the running, including National Bloc leader Raymond Edde, Central Bank Governor Elias Sarkis, and lawyer Michel El Khoury._ Jumblatt is known to back Edde while Syria and the Christians favor - Sarkis. El Khoury's name has been mentioned along with that of deputy Pierre Helou as a possible compromise between the two front-runners. Another problem was Franjieh himself. He has been reported to have agreed to the heavy pressure to resign on him from all quarters, but publicly he has announced no decision yet. 'Another problem , was getting , workmen to' risk sniper fire to get in and ready the villa, • which has been unused for years,, for the meeting. '76 Room Ctr.
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