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Embassy explosion
death count rising
By FAROUK NASSAR
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Searchers
recovered six more bodies from
the bomb-shattered U.S. Embassy
yesterday and continued their
grim task, with at least 47 people
believed killed in the worst attack
ever on a U.S. facility here.
There were 24 confirmed deaths
and 23 other people were missing
and presumed dead.
Embassy spokesman John Reid
said eight Americans were' con
firmed dead and eight others were
missing from the massive explo
sion at lunchtime Monday. Among
the confirmed dead was Robert
Clayton Ames, the ClA's Near
East and South Asian analyst,
officials
.said in Washington in a
rare case of naming a CIA agent
who worked abroad.
There was no clear picture of
how the attack was carried out,
but most accounts said a terrorist
drove an explosives-laden vehicle
into the compound and perished in
the blast.
Ten Lebanese embassy employ
ees, visa applicants and visitors
were confirmed dead, while 20
others were missing, said Reid.
The 47th victim listed was an
embassy visitor of unknown na
tionality, he said.
The privately owned Central
News Agency said the bombing
, was. an attempt to kill U.S. presi
dential envoy Philip C. Habib and
his assistant Morris Draper. It
quoted unnamed government offi
cials as saying Habib and Draper
had been scheduled to be at the
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT . determine by next October the final routes in the four states that filed suit. For Vermont, the-change means the double trailers will continue to be
Associated Press Writer The federal highway officials set off loud protests in more than a dozen prohibited on all roads but the Interstates; in Pennsylvania, it cuts the
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:"... WASHINGTON The federal government yesterday pulled back from highways to the double-trailer trucks, 40 percent more miles than the states Georgia, it reduces the miles from 2,909 to 49; and in Alabama, it prohibits
imposing highway routes for double-trailer truckers in Pennsylvania and had agreed to open. the trucks on virtually all non-Interstate roads.
three other states that challenged the regulations in court. The states that filed suit said many of the roads selected by the highway The regulations designating 180,000 miles of highway, including about 40,-
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Faced with temporary restraining orders in some cases, the Transporta- condemned by a conference of state legislators last week. The group, called
ci ' larger trucks in some other states also might be changed because of tion Department agreed to withdraw the regulation in the states that have on Congress to overrule the Transportation Department.
compl gone to court.
aints from state officials.
Ray Barnhart, federal highway administrator, said in a statement the Congress legalized the twin-trhiler trucks nationwide as part of legislation
i- - agency "will continue to work with the other states to address any of their "For the immediate future we're returning to the routes that the (four) passed Aust. before Christmas that increased the federal gasoline tax by 5
concerns regarding the .. . route designation.” states had designated," said Mark Rutzick, a lawyer in the Justice cents. Fourteen states had prohibited the trailers, which are widely used in
He said the administration will begin a separate rule-making procedure to Department. the West.
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Gandhi's ideals ignored at
By JAMES W. HATTON
Assodated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, India Th'ousands
die in a violent state election cam
• paign. Hunger strikes last an hour,
with protesters fasting in "relay
teams." Politicians who cannot
. draw a crowd can rent one.
At a time when an Academy
. Award-winning movie epic is ac
quainting millions of people around
the world with the beliefs and va
lues of Mohandas K. Gandhi, many
AP Laserphoto
Although Mohandas K. Ghandi belieVed that civil disobedience including spinning one's own khadi clothes could
-.change India, these Indian government employees recently stripped to their underwear for another reason: They
demanded that they be issued synthetic cloth uniforms, instead of the out•of•fashion khadi ones.
embassy when the bomb exploded
at 1:05 p.m., but were delayed by
talks with Lebanese leaders at the
presidential palace in suburban
Baabda. U.S. Embassy officials
were not available for comment on
that report.
Habib went to the embassy at
midday yesterday and later flew
to Israel. He did not attend yester
day's session of the U.S.-Israeli-
Lebanese talks on troop withdra
wals from Lebanon, but Draper
did. After the meeting at Netanya;
Israel, Draper said the bombing
"just makes us more determined
to press on" for an agreement.
After Reid's announcement,
workers recovered six more.muti
lated bodies and parts of bodies
from the destroyed embassy cafe
teria, but it was not clear how that
affected the breakdown of casual
ties.
Police' said 120 people were
wounded in the explosion; includ
ing 22 Americans. American Uni
versity Hospital, where most of
the victims were taken, said 66
injured had been discharged while
another 19 remained hospitalized.
The bodies were removed from
beneath chunks of masonry and
concrete left in huge piles by the
bomb. It blasted off the center
facade, collapsed all seveh floors
in the central section and caused
heavy damage to the two wings.
A crane lifted workers on a
platform to the fifth-floor level
where they removed a torso that
could be seen from the street. The
bodies were wrapped in plastic
sheets and taken, away in ambu
lances.
of his ideals have eroded at home
Gandhi, India's "great soul" and
a leader of the independence
movement, for years urged his
countrymen to spin and wear khadi
(homespun cotton cloth),. both to
weaken the British textile industry
here and because he believed people
should work for what they receive.
Today, synthetic "tericot" is
fashionable. Khadi is out.
Dozens of Indian government em
ployees, stripped to their under
wear, paraded through the streets
An aerial view of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut shows damage done after a bomb including eight Americans, resulting from the blast. Twenty-three people are
exploded outside the building Monday. There have been 24 confirmed deaths, still missing.
of this capital earlier this month
demanding synthetic cloth uniforms
instead of out-of-fashion cotton
ones.
He was a living saint to hundreds
of millions of Indians by the time
independence was won from Britain
in 1947. To the political leaders who
engineered the changeover, he was
an ideologue and a weapon but
sometimes exasperatingly unprag
matic.
Gandhi's greatest wish was that
India remain whole after indepen-
home
dence. The politicians of two lands
again ignored him and, hoping to
avoid the massive violence that
nonetheless followed, split the sub
continent into Mostly Hindu India
and predominantly Moslem West
and East Pakistan later Pakistan
and Bangladesh.
When Gandhi, who was assassi
nated in 1948, began a fast until
death, people stopped killing people
and governments were moved.
Today, 'a popular form of protest
in India is the relay hunger strike,
where people sit and refuse food for
as little as an hour or two until'their
place is taken by others.
M.G. Ramachandran, chief min
ister of Tamil Nadu, staged a seven
hour hunger strike he skipped
lunch last month to protest the
federal government's failure to give
his drought-hit southern
,state
enough rice.
When Gandhi called for massive
civil disobedience, hundreds of
thousands of Indians stopped work
and demonstrated, paralyzing the
country.
Today, there is India's version of
the "rent-a-crowd," which for a
wad of banknotes can lend weight to
a protest. Just provide the slogans.
Gandhi abhorred violence and is
best remembered for advocating
non-violent resistance.
Yet India today is violent
At least 3,600 people have been
declared dead or missing from Feb
ruary election violence in Assam
state: Sikhs in Punjab state are
raising a 100,000-man "do-or-die"
arfily to battle for religious and
political concessions from Mrs.
Gandhi.
Officials of the Gandhi Peace
Foundation here maintain his tea
chings still are relevant. Most Indi
ans would agree in principle but not
in practice..
MX:
Reagan supports new plan
By TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON President
Reagan embraced a plan yester
day to build 100 MX missiles and
put them in existing launch silos,
promising it "will mean a safer,
more secure America" and put
pressure on Moscow to negotiate
nuclear arms cuts.
Even congressional critics con
, ceded the proposal has a far better
chance of winning approval than
Reagan's first two attempts to
deploy the MX.
"Preserving the peace requires
more than wishful thinking and
vague good intentions," Reagan
said. "Concrete, positive action is
required to free the world from the
spectre of nuclear conflict."
The plan, drafted by the Presi
dent's Commission on Strategic
FOrces, calls for putting the MX,
armed with 10 nuclear warheads,
in Minuteman missile silos near
Warren Air Force Base in Wyom
ing, and beginning work on a new,
single-warhead missile to be re
ady for deployment in the early
19905.
Deploying the MX missile and
developing the smaller, single
warhead weapon, sometimes
dubbed "Midgetman" would cost
$19.9 billion over the next five
years, according to commission
estimates. That would be in addi
tion to $4 billion already spent on
MX research.
"Make no mistake," Reagan
said. "Unless we modernize our
land-based missile systems, the
Soviet Union will have , no real
reason to negotiate meaningful
reductions. If we fail to act, we
cannot reasonably expect an ac-
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ceptable outcome in Our arms
control negotiations."
Rep. Joseph Addabbo, D-N.Y.,
who helped marshal a 69-vote
margin of defeat for Reagan's MX
plan in the House last December,
predicted it would be rejected
again. "I don't believe it will be as
wide a margin as we had last
year," Addabbo said. He pre
dicted MX foes will win by less
than 10 votes this time.
Rep. Jack Edwards, R-Ala., a
key backer, said: "I'm going to
get a lot of Addabbo's votes. I
think it's going to pass by a
squeaker."
House Republican Leader Rob
ert Michel, an MX supporter, said
that if Addabbo was counting on
winning by less than 10 votes, "I
have to be optimistic about it.'
Standing in the driveway outside
the White House, Michel said:
"We only elect one president at a
time. Members (of Congress) are
going to think a second and a third
time before really cutting the legs
out from under our negotiating
team in Geneva."
House Democratic Leader Jim
Wright predicted the plan would
be approved.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said Addabbo, chpirman
of the Appropriations defense sub
committee, has agreed to separate
the MX plan from the defense
budget, and to begin work on it
next week.
The administration is trying to
sell the MX package as the prod
uct of a bipartisan commission,
just as it promoted the Social
Security bailout plan drafted by a
bipartisan group.
Philadelphia major crime down 6%
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Mdyor William Green, citing FBI
statistics that show crime in Phiadelphia declined 6 percent last
year, said the nation's fourth lar6st city also is its safest big city.
The FBI said major crime —homicides, rapes, robberies and
larceny, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft declined 4
percent nationally.
The statistics showed Philadelia was last among the nation's
10 largest cities, with 5,610 offensts per 100,000 population. In 1981
the city was Bth.
The FBI reported that Detroit.had the highest crime rate last
year, with 12,858 major offenses rer 100,000 persons
Pulitzer winner Upjike honored
HARRISBURG (AP) Pulit* Prize winning author John
Updike became the fourth recipieit of the Distinguished Pennsyl
vania Artist award yesterday, Goya Dick Thornburgh announced.
Updike, a native of the Berks C,)unty community of Shillington
who now lives in Beverly Farms, 'lass., has written 26 books over
the last 25 years. He received the ?ulitzer Prize for fiction in 1982
for "Rabbit Is Rich," the last of hree novels about the fictional
exiiloits of Harry "Rabbit" Angst' m.
"This award, representing the hhest honor the commonwealth
can bestow upon its artists, is in refiagnition and appreciation of the
literary and personal contributions John Updike has. made to our
people," Thornburgh said.
nation news briefs
Personal income up 0.6% in March
WASHINGTON (AP) Amerta' ns' personal income rose a
healthy 0.6 percent in March, tlibiggest gain since last fall,
government figures showed yette y. Economists welcomed the
report as a signal consumers willicrease their recently sluggish
spending and keep the recovery g g.
In fact, personal consumption sending did , increase 0.4 percent
in, March after declining slightlyin February, the Commerce
Department said..lncome had rise, just 0.1 percent in February.
Commenting on the :income gaa, Robert Ortner, the depart
ment's chief economist, said, "The est part is that a large chunk of
it is in wages and salaries.
Government officials and priva6 analysts have said repeatedly
that although recovery from the ldg recession was clearly under
way, continued increases in prduction depended heavily on
consumers beginning to spend mq at stores.
Abortion amendmeit sent to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) The Sente judiciary committee voted
yesterday to send to the Senate flor, without recommendation, a
proposed constitutional amendmat to undo the 1973 Supreme
Court ruling that legalized abortion
The action came after the commtee tied 9-9 on the amendment,
sponsored by Seri. Orrin G. Hatch, t-Utah, which says: "The right
to abortion is not secured by this (insitutiton."
The amendment, if passed by both houses of Congress and
ratified by 38 states, would not outlay abortion, nor would it restore
old laws struck down by the 1973 ecision. But it would empower
both the states and Congress to enct new bans or restrictions.
Under committee rules, the legilation could not be sent to the
floor with a tie vote. However, Senioseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del., the
ranking committee Democrat whwoted against the amendment,
proposed that the panel send it to he floor without recommenda
tion, which it did by voice vote
Officials in Poland warn protesters
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Iland's Communist leadership
issued a sharp warning yesterdayhat May Day protests called by
the Solidarity underground couldeopardize the planned visit of
Pope John Paul II in June.
The statement, issued jointly b;the Communist Party Politburo
and the government, came hou3 after Gdansk police released
Solidarity chief Lech Walesa frcn four hours of interrogation. It
was the third time in a week thy had questioned him about his
contacts with the underground.
Former Solidarity spokesma' Janusz Onyszkiewicsz, mean
while, was arrested and ace* of underground activity and
preparation for "illegal" May ray demonstrations, Warsaw tele
vision reported. Onyszkiewicszivas released Dec. 23 after more
than a year of internment by initial law authorities.
By calling worker's day demastrations May 1, the government
said, the underground sought breast a shadow over the prepara
tions for, and put into question, conditions necessary for a papal .
visit."
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The communique, distributeiby the officia.
PAP and read over state-run tlevision, was the strongest official
warning yet that unrest could lice postponement of the papal visit
June 16-22.,
Vietnamese troops fight Cambodians
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By The Associated Press
Vietnamese troops battledambodian guerrillas for five hours
yesterday near the Thai-CarOdian border for control of a water
hole. And on the northeastside of Indochina, the Cambodian
guerrillas' Chinese allies climed their gunners "severely pun
ished" Vietnamese troops , ho blew up a Chinese hospital and
school.
The Vietnamese and Khmr Rouge guerrillas fought for control
of a water hole east of PtOm Chat, the Khmer Rouge border
stronghold from which the tetnamese drove the guerrillas three
weeks ago, a Thai officer Tithe border area reported. He said he
did not know the outcome c'the fighting.
Sporadic clashes were ab reported south of Phnom Chat', near
Phnom Mak Hoeun, in a eige of hills that is the Khmer Rouge's
main base. But in the centl.l sector opposite the Thai border town
of Aranyaprathet, the Vietamese had withdrawn six to nine miles
from the border, a Thai any spokesman in Bangkok reported. •
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