O—The Daily Collegian Monday, June 13,1977
Lebanese Christians
combat Palestinians
near Israeli
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)
Artillery duels between Palestinian
gunners and right-wing Christians in
south Lebanon yesterday left fields
and olive groves burning across wide
sections of the southeastern border
area near Israel.
The Palestinians said the
Christians used phosphorus shells to
set the countryside ablaze.
Palestinian guerrillas in Khiam,
Blat and Ebel es Saqi swapped tank,
artillery and heavy machinegun fire
with Israeli-backed rightists in
Marjayoun and Kleia, reports from
the field said.
The battles, which began Saturday
night, have left at least two dead and
four wounded.
“There is smoke everywhere,” said
one area resident. "There’s a hillside
on fire in Kawkaba near the Hasbani
River and patches of fire are scat
tered over all the heights in the
Arkoub between Khiam and Kfar
Shouba.”
The southeastern Arkoub area is
known as “Fatahland" due to the
Death toll in nightclub fire reaches 162
SOUTHGATE, Ky, (UPI) The death
toll in the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
rose to 162 yesterday with the an
nouncement that one of the injured in the
May 28 blaze has succumbed in a
hospital.’
The latest death, that of Dan Barker,
29, of Southgate, was the first among
persons who were hospitalized for in
juries related to the fire. Barker died
Saturday night in Cincinnati General
Hospital where six other fire victims still
are being treated and are listed in
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large concentration of Palestinians in
the area.
Israel has been supporting the
Christians in their battle against the
guerrillas since last summer. There
have been numerous recent reports of
Israeli shelling across the border in
support of the Christian forces, as
well as patrols inside Lebanese
territory.
On the political front, former
president Camille Chamoun said
Lebanon should spurn reconstruction
aid if other Arab countries “black
mail” the Lebanese by insisting on
rapprochement among the nation’s
bitterly opposed left and right wing
factions and the Palestinians.
“If the Arabs don’t help out of a
feeling of brotherhood and
cooperation, respecting the dignity of
the Lebanese, we don’t want aid from
anybody,” the right-wing Christian
leader told the English-language
weekly “Monday Morning.”
“We can get along without
anybody’s help. It will take us longer,
but we can do it,’ ’ he said.
conditions ranging from serious to
critical.
Barker’s wife Karen and two other fire
victims are listed in fair condition at St.
Luke’s Hospital in northern Kentucky.
Booth Hospital, also in northern Ken
tucky, has discharged one fire victim,
transferred a second to Miami Valley
Hospital and has one in fair condition. St.
Elizabeth Hospital, another facility in
northern Kentucky, has transferred two
patients and discharged two others.
Meanwhile, officials investigating the
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House to vote on spending bills
WASHINGTON (AP) The House
votes this week on two spending bills
totaling $71.5 billion that President
Carter has threatened to veto if they
reach his desk without being trimmed.
Scheduled for consideration today is a
$10.2-billion public works appropriation
measure including 17 of 18 water
projects that Carter says are not worth
their financial and environmental costs.
Later in the week, the House will
consider a bill appropriating $61.3 billion
for the Labor and Health, Education and
Welfare departments. The HEW ap
propriation is 'sl.4 billion more than
Carter requested.
fire are shifting the focus of their
inquiry, trying to determine whether the
ill-fated nightclub met state fire and
building codes.
It is a complicated, tedious job that will
take “at least several more weeks,”
according to Kentucky State Police
Commissioner Kenneth Brandenburgh.
Kentucky officials announced the
cause of the ,fire Friday defective
electrical wiring in recessed ceiling
lights. With that phase of the inquiry
completed, Brandenburgh said they
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The Senate is expected to vote during
the week on bills authorizing foreign-aid
spending and increasing U.S. par
ticipation in international lending
organizations.
Reps. Butler Derrick, D-S.C., and
Silvio 0. Conte, R-Mass., say they will
offer an amendment to the public works
appropriations bill to remove 16 of the 17
disputed water projects. ,
The amendment is encountering stiff
opposition from advocates of the
projects, but a leader of an environmen
tal group predicted it would at least
come close to carrying.
Brent Blackwelder of the Environ-
miist turn to “judgment questions.”
These would include whether building
and fire codes were observed in
remodeling jobs; whether the required
documents were filed when remodeling,
was done; whether the huge nightclub
was overcrowded the night of the fire;
and whether club management turned in
the first fire alarm as soon as possible.
“We’re just beginning the interview
phase to find answers to these judgment
questions,” Brandenburgh said. “If we
need to interview 3,000 people, we will.”
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mental Policy Center, said opponents of
the projects were confident of doing
better than they did in April, when the
House rejected, 252 to 143, a move to
lower the budget ceiling for water
projects by $lOO million.
“If we get a one-third vote or better, it
will assure a veto,” the environmental
activist said.
In the Senate, the subcommittee on
public works appropriations will meet
Wednesday amid reports that it may
strike as many as nine of the projects
opposed by Carter.
Sen. John Stennis; D-Miss., the
subcommittee chairman, is known to
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argue African issues j
LONDON (UPI) Commonwealth
summit leaders met yesterday in -a
tightly guarded Scottish hotel, hoping to
sort out in private talks some of their
disagreements over such problems as
southern Africa and President Idi
Amin’s regime in Uganda.
They met at a luxury hotel at
Gleneagles, near Perth. Only heads of
state and government and their wives
were present. There were no officials or
advisors,' and even their foreign
ministers stayed behind in London.
Scores of police mounted a huge
security operation around the 210-room
hotel, its hundreds of acres of grounds
and three neighboring golf courses.
Cold, drizzling rain kept the summit
leaders indoors.
Among issues that divided them were
racial strife in southern Africa, con
demnation of Amin’s government,
sports contacts with South Africa and
ways of narrowing the poverty gap
between rich and poor nations.
Prime Minister James Callaghan, host,
to the gathering; spent most of the day in
a series of bilateral talks.
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favor sending Carter a bill that the
President would find sufficiently ac
ceptable to sign.
Projects that congressional and en
vironmental sources said the sub
committee was considering eliminating
were:
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Lake, Kan., $1 million LaFarge Lake,
Wis., $2 million Lukfata Lake, Okla.',
$200,000 Meramec Park Lake, Mo., $l.O
million; Savery-Pot Hook, Colo, and
Wyo., $6 million; Yatesville Dam,,
Ky., $7.2 million Cache Basin, Ark., $2
millionf and the Oahe irrigation project,
S.D., $l7 million.
The whole group-flew to Scotland
Saturday and was scheduled to return? to ?
London by train today. $
All the Commonwealth leaders sup-.>
ported the latest joint Anglo-U.S.moyes t
aimed at a peaceful transfer to a black
government in Rhodesia in 1978. All, l :
except Fiji and Malawi, supported the Y
nationalist guerrillas. „
But some, like Zambia’s President'!
Kenneth Kaunda, argued that BritiUn;
could put heavier pressure on the white
regime of Rhodesia’s Prime Minister '
Jan Smith, including possible oil safic- 7 :
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The leaders also were deeply split over *
Amin. Last week, in an elaborate hofijc, i'
Amin, announced he was going H;o;
gatecrash the conference after being
told he was not welcome. S
Some, like Kaunda and Jamaicans '
Michael Manley, favored outright"
condemnation of Amin. Others, like
Nigeria’s delegation leader Brig. Shaehu /
Yar’adua, said he should not have b£en
kept away and objected to discussioirof
Uganda in his absence. £
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