state/nation/world The Daily Collegian arines battle Lebanese mitiamen in Beirut MONA ZIADE :''.Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon U.S. Marines battled Lebanese Militiamen believed to be Shiite Moslems for 90 ^minutes yesterday in the first firefight involving Ameri can forces since their arrival last year, a Marine spokesman reported. He said the battle broke out about 4:30 p.m. when a joint Marine-Lebanese army checkpoint in the Hayy es- Sulum section of south Beirut came under attack. The outpost received two rpgs (rocket-propelled grenades) and some small arms fire, and the Marines returned the fire," the spokesman said. ;He said about 30 Marines were manning the outpost :Along with a smaller number of Lebanese soldiers. There were no casualties among the defenders, the .• :spokesman said, and he did not know if the attackers :egin's resignation announcement was sudden but not unexpecte• By MARCUS ELIASON Associated Press Writer TEL AVIV, Israel Menachem Begin's . resignation announcement F. yesterday was startling, but many Israelis had seen hints of change for `•months. The prime minister has not .:seemed the combative, tough-spir- ; ited man he once was. . Although Begin gave his col .- r.leagues time to try to change his ; mind, he looks very much like a man who has had enough. `,..; Throughout 1983, he has seemed a 'pallid shadow of the man the world 'has learned to love or abhor. The :flame of his oratory is down to a !flicker. He is known to be despon ; dent over the death of his wife, Aliza, ''in November. • Begin's mood has closely paral : , leled the shifting fortunes of the •Lebanon war. Last summer, with Israeli forces ,:pounding the Palestine Liberation : Organization, Begin was in his el cement thundering at his enemies, castigating .his enemies as anti-Se mocking Yasser Arafat, and &jelling President Reagan that his *troops were besieging "Hitler and his henchmen." But as the Israeli army became mired down and the dreams of peace `with Lebanon evaporated, Begin ' seemed to recede physically from • the scene. "The fact that Mr. Begin is in a .grave personal crisis cries out to :high heaven," columnist Yoel Mar .y.us wrote recently in the daily Haa retz. Begin's standing in the polls has waned, with a survey in mid-July showing 30.9 percent of the public .7a drop 0f.15 percent in six weeks 'choosing him as best suited for the premiership. For the past month, his coalition has been threatened by a small ; splinter faction which says it will ',pull out unless the economy ' • :marked by an inflation rate that may reach 160 percent this year was rescued by increasing taxation bf the rich. Should the faction with : draw, Begin would be left with a virtually unmanageable one-mem ber majority in the Knesset, Israel's .parliament. • Thus Begin's move could be a ploy to force the minority TAMI Party ' into line. If it is, as some analysts have speculated, it is the kind of bold stroke at which Begin has always excelled. Born Aug. 16, 1913, in Poland, Begin was arrested by the Nazis during World War II for his Zionist activities. He was released in a 1942 amnesty but learned, after emigrat ing to Palestine, that his parents had been killed by the . Nazis. In Palestine, he quickly rose to • lead an extremist guerrilla group, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which in its tight for Israeli nationhood blew up police stations, executed British sol diers, and dynamited the King Da vid Hotel, killing more than 100 Barry sputters out in sparsely populated area BROWNSVILLE, Texas Hurri- cane Barry taunted coastal resorts with gusty winds and a foreboding I .sky before it slapped into Mexico at 13.0 mph yesterday, tearing through fishing village before. spinning -itself out in sparsely populated range and marsh country. The center of the hurricane moved onto the Mexican coast, 30 miles south of Brownsville, about 12:30 p.m. CDT, but by 5 p.m. the strongest winds had dropped to 45 mph, and hurricane warnings were discontinued from Brownsville to Port Mansfield, Texa. The warn ' ings stayed in effect along the ex treme southern Texas coast from Port Mansfield, the National Weather Service said. Barry, the second major storm of the 1983 season, swept ashore just suffered any losses. Marine officers assumed the attackers were from the Shiite Moslem militia group, Amal, which had fought Lebanese army troops in Beirut's southern districts and near the international airport south of the capital yester day afternoon. That fighting forced the closure of the airport the second time this month that the country's only interna tional, commercial airport has been shut down because of sectarian fighting. In Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan is vacationing, assistant White House press secretary C. Anson Franklin issued a statement saying, "There was small arms fire in the area of the Marine emplacement. At one point, they returned fire briefly. There were no American casualties. The president was informed and will continue to be informed." Three mortar rounds fell earlier in the area of the Arabs, Jews and Britons. For the first 29 years of Israeli statehood he was the perenniel out sider, losing seven elections to the Labor Party. But his fellow outsid ers the Sephardis, or Middle East ern Jews of Israel gradually became a majority and swept Begin to victory in the 1977 election. • Most thought that Begin, the fire brand nationalist ideologue, would quickly plunge the nation into war for the sake of his dream of a greater Israel sprawling to its distant bibli cal borders. Begin proved his critics wrong. Six months after he became pre mier, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his momentous decision to go to Jerusalem to talk peace. Begin seized the moment and 16 months later, with a beaming Presi dent Carter looking on, Begin and Sadat signed a peace treaty. Begin shared ,the Nobel Peace Prize with Sadat but then embarked on a series of moves for which he was denounced as a warmaker. He pursued an ambitious design to populate the occupied West Bank with Jews. He annexed the occupied Golan Heights it had captured from Syria. Then, in June 1982, he sent his army into Lebanon in what became Israel's most unpopular war. Soon after his election in 1977, he said he would retire at 70 and write his memoirs. He later said he had changed his mind and would serve his term. Begin's resignation an nouncement came just weeks after his 70th birthday. U.S. expects no major policy change if Begin leaves By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON State Department offi cials believe Prime Minister Menachem Be gin is serious about wanting to resign, an action that should lead to smoother U.S.-Israe li relations but probably little change in Is-, rael's basic policies. Although officials questioned yesterday didn't rule out that Begin might be threaten ing a resignation as a ploy to rally support for his policies, they thought it more likely the 70- year-old prime minister intended to resign, if not immediately then in the near future. "My own feeling is he has just had enough, and he is hanging it up," said one Mideast expert who insisted he not be identified. Begin canceled a trip to Washington to meet with President Reagan in July, citing personal reasons. That led some State Department experts to conclude a resignation might not be far off. But officials here and with the president in Santa Barbara, Calif., said they were not informed in advance of Begin's announcement' of his intention to resign, made to a meeting of his Cabinet Sunday. Larry Speakes, the White House deputy press secretary, said U.S. offi cials first learned of the development through news reports. State Department spokesman Sondra Mc 10 days after Hurricane Alicia struck the Texas coast, killing 21 people and more than $1 billion in damage. Barry was upgraded to a hurri cane before dawn yesterday, grow ing into a 350-mile-wide whorl of thunderheads and rain clouds after hopscotching across Florida to the Gulf of Mexico last week without causing major damage. At 5 p.m. CDT, Barry was cen tered at latitude 25.4 north and longitude 98.3 west, in extreme northeastern Mexico about 65 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas. Across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, in the Mexican city of Matamoros, Capt. Manuel Leon Lopez said the storm first hit Puer to el Mezquital, crossed the Lagua ..-ii.., .. ~k friri4 4,. ~r .:p, .. "-. • litiii.l. AP lL.,!o,ff: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, right, sits with President Jimmy the peace treaty between Israel to Egypt .on March 26, 1979. Begin Carter, center, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat following the signing of announced yesterday he Intended to resign. Carty said, "This is an internal Israeli politi cal matter and it would not be appropriate for us to comment on this issue." Begin is thought here to have been in a weakened physical and mental state since the -death of his wife last year. There also is informed speculation that he has been de pressed by the outcome of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which he supported, and the large number of Israeli casualties, the criticism of the invasion in Israel and Israel's difficulty in extricating itself from Lebanon with its goals only partly realized. Israeli Ambassador Meir Rosenne said yes terday he thought there would be ."a final attempt" by the Israeli Cabinet to try and talk Begin out of resigning at a meeting today. Rosenne said on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" that even if there is a resig nation, the government becomes a transitio nal government until there are elections or someone else forms a new government. He said Begin's Likud coalition would try to name a successor if Begin resigns. The other major party is the Labor party, headed by Shimon Peres. "I think in foreign policy there isn't much difference between the two parties," Rosenne said, an obvious reference to the feeling among many U.S. officials that Labor party would be more reasonable in trying to work out an agreement to end the Israeli occupation . Houston• • TEXAS • No' *"‘"*. . v y *mica Port $1 Mansfield vill kik‘ MEXICO Hurricane Barry na Madre and struck Santa Teresa, a small fishing village south of Matamoros. airport held by the 1,200-man U.S. Marine contingent of the multinational peacekeeping force, but no Americans were injured, U.S. Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said. The radio broadcast said passengers in the airport rushed to underground shelters to avoid ricochets from the fighting in the Hay Es-Sullum, Bourj el Barajneh and Maamourah neighborhoods. One civilian was killed and scores were wounded, the station reported. It said one Lebanese army officer was wounded and five Lebanese soldiers were kidnapped in the fighting that tapered off in the evening. The three poor neighborhoods near the airport are inhabited by Shiite Moslems and were the strongholds of pro-Iranian gunmen before the Lebanes - e army moved into the area last October. The Shiites have been critical of Christian President Amin Gemayel's government, saying it was biased in 3 ffite • - r Shuttle set for first night launch CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A cloudless sky was forecast as a backdrop to the moonlight liftoff of the space shuttle Challenger early tomorrow. The count down toward launch was equally flawless. A tropical disturbance was 400 to 500 miles away over the Atlantic, but it was barely moving. Launch director Al O'Hara said forecasters were predicting "the best weather we've ever had" for a shuttle liftoff. Officials gave a pro-forma go-ahead for the launch. The pilot and commander of the shuttle, their hours topsy-turvy, flew two hours of landing practice in the middle of the night and were to repeat the procedure early today. Their day began with a 10 p.m. wakeup call; lunch was at 4:30 a.m. "We've had minimum problems," project engineer Robert Sleek said. The five-man crew on the eighth flight in the shuttle series includes America's first black astronaut, Lt. Col. Guion Bluford, Jr., and the world's oldest space travel er. Bluford graduated with an aerospace engineering degree from Penn State in 1964. +3t ~; t of the West Bank. But a State Department official said Peres might be given the first chance to form a new government since Labor has more members in the Knesset, 50, than•the Likud party, which has 48. The Likud rules through a coalition with smaller parties. "I don't think Peres will be able to form a new government," said the official. "But he may be given an opportunity.' Several State Department officials, all of whom insisted on anonymity, agreed there would probably be little change in policy regarding the West Bank if Begin resigns, particularly since they expect Begin's Likud bloc would remain in power. "Unless it begins to splinter from its more radical fringe elements, I think it (Likud) will be able to come together and maintain its control," said one. President Reagan on Saturday criticized the Begin government's persistence in building settlements on the West Bank as harmful to the propsects for a negotiated Arab-Israeli peace. The most likely successors to Begin in the opinion of several officials here are David Levy, the deputy prime minister, and Moshe Arens, the defense minister and former am bassador to Washington. Yitzhak Shamir, the foreign minister, also is considered a leading candidate. However, Monday, Aug. 29, 1983 favor of the Christian militias that Nought against the Moslems and their Palestinian allies during the coun try's civil war in 1975-76. Beirut's international airport was closed for six days starting Aug. 10 during fierce fighting between the rightist Christians and leftist Druse militiamen in the Israeli-occupied hills overlooking Beirut. The fighting broke out yesterday morning when a group of Shiites were•fired on by gunmen as they pasted up posters of their missing spiritual leader, Imam Mussa ' Sadr, on storefronts in Hay Es-Sullum. Lebanese soldiers rushed to the scene but were fired on by inhabitants , of the area. Imam Sadr disappeared in August 1978 while on a trip to Libya. The Libyan government claims he left the country safely but many Lebanese Shiites believ i e he is still being held by the regime of Col. Moammar Khadafy. several officials said they think Shamir might head a coalition government until new elec tions could be held, after which either Levy or Arens would become prime minister. There is considerable sentiment here in favor of Arens, since he is well-known from the period when he was ambassador to the United States. He succeeded the controversial Ariel Sharon as defense minister and is cred ited in working closely with Secretary of State George P. Shultz to help smooth over U.S.- Israeli relations after serious frictions devel oped in the aftermath of the invasion of Lebanon. While less is known about Levy, it is thought Washington also could work well with him. Levy, however, has little foreign policy expe rience and has never served in the Israeli military, which could hurt his chances. Several US officials, insisting they not be identified by name, said any of the likely successors to Begin would be easier to deal with than the prime minister, who was re garded here as difficult to deal with because of what was felt to be his combative, argumenta tive and stubborn personality. It was once• thought here that Finance Minister Yoram Aridor also would be a candi date to succeed Begin. But his . economic policies have proved so unpopular in recent months in Israel, he is thought to have lost considerable ground. Commander of the mission, making his second flight, is Richard Truly, 45, a Mississippi-born Navy captain. Truly and the pilot, Navy Cmdr. Daniel Brandenstein, took the controls of Grumman Gulf stream planes, fitted out to handle like the shuttle, to practice emergency landings on the Kennedy Space Center airstrip. Bluford flew as a passenger with Brandenstein. It was nearly midnight when they be gan; it was 2 a.m. yesterday when they finished. Because of the unusual departure time, required to launch a communications satellite for India, the astro nauts have been going to bed in midmorning each day, arising in early evening. They'll continue to retire at midday throughout the flight. The satellite launch, on Wednesday, will be handled mostly by Bluford. He is a veteran of 144 combat missions in Vietnam and holder of a doctorate in aerospace engineering with a -minor in laser physics. Among other goals of Flight Eight: To work on an experiment that may lead to a new drug for treating diabetics and to test a life-support cage with six rats. , 10 4 I 4110frA te 44.01111 M s • AP Laserphoto state news, briefs Turnpike pileup kills 4, injures 11 MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. (AP) Four people were killed and at least 11 others were injured when a tractor-trailer failed to slow down at a construction site along the Pennsylvania Turnpike and plowed into 10 vehicles, authorities said. The truck ignited after hitting an embankment, engulfing the hillside in fire and sending flames through the wreckage and more than 100 feet into the air. The four victims were burned beyond recognition, police said. The accident occurred at 5:40 p.m. Friday along the turnpike's westbound lanes aboui 5 miles from the Donegal interchange, where traffic had been reduced to one lane because of construction. Douglas Greer, 29, of Parsons, Tenn., failed to slow his rig for the construction, then rounded a curve and spotted the traffic ahead, police said. He began braking but was unable to stop in time, police said. The rig, loaded with 41,000 pounds of sodium nitrate, slammed into another tractor-trailer, then crashed into a motor home. The rig smashed into seven cars and a motorcycle before running into an embankment and bursting into flames, which were fed by the sodium nitrate. Unemployed steel workers get aid WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel has agreed to pay about 6,300 workers bonuses to resolve a dispute over the company's assistance fund for the unemployed, a United Steelworkers official said. Paul Rusen, director of Wheeling-bned USW District 23, said the workers will receive an average of $3OO from the Laid-Off Employ ees Assistance Program. The union official said Wheeling-Pitt officials agreed to the settlement at a meeting Friday in Washington, Pa. Wheeling-Pitt spokesman Ken Maxcy on Saturday declined to comment on the meeting or Rusen's report of the agreement. Workers put some of their pay into the assistance fund for use when their government unemployment benefits run out. But Rusen said some workers received extensions of their government bene fits, and they did not receive the proper amount from the compa ny's unemployment assistance fund. nation news briefs Spreading VD now a crime in Texas HOUSTON (AP) As of today, Texans who know they have gonorrhea or syphilis and expose someone else to their disease are committing a crime, punishable by up to one year in prison and a $l,OOO fine. The new law, which makes the offense a misdemeanor, comes from a revision of the state law governing the reporting and control of venereal diseases. Dr. Charles Alexander, an administrator for Houston's venereal disease control program, said the law makes it more likely that patients will follow their doctors' instructions and refrain frpm sexual contacts. Alexander said he foresees few arrests and fewer convictions under the law, but "we might get a flagrant case or two." The state's syphilis rate in 1982 was the highest in the country, at 74.8 cases per 100,000 people, or more than 11,000 cases. The state's gonorrhea rate was 546 cases per 100,000 people. Women mark suffrage anniversary WASHINGTON ( AP) On the 63rd anniversary of women's suffrage, feminist protesters stalled lunch hour traffic in front of the White House to make it clear they will •vote. against. President Reagan in 1984. Taking issue with Reagan for his stands on the Equal Rights Amendment, nuclear arms and foreign policy, about 125 demon strators blocked Pennsylvania Avenue for 25 minutes on Friday. Police made no arrests in that incident, but yesterday they arrested five women a police spokesman said had camped illegally , in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, during the night. The women were not identified. The protest was staged on Women's Equality Day, 63 years after adoption of the 19th Amendment which wrote women's right to vote into the U.S. Constitution. world news briefs Hijackers want French out of Chad BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) An Air France jetliner comman deered over Europe by four Arab gunmen, landed in Tehran yesterday, and Iranian radio broadcasts said the hijackers threat ened to blow up the plane and 17 hostages within 48 hours unless France met political their demands: They reported the hijackers also called on Iran to endorse its demands, including an end to French suppbrt for Chad's govern ment in the civil war there and a halt to French arms sales to Iraq, which is at war with Iran. But Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Sheikholeslam condemned the hijacking as an "inhuman act," and said his government would not agree to the demands "under any circum stances," Tehran Radio said in a broadcast monitored here. Tehran Radio said the gunmen also were demanding freedom for several Lebanese held in French jails and a change in French policy in Lebanon, where France has wn army contingent in the multinational peacekeeping force. French to stay out of civil war N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) French Defense Minister Charles Hernu on Saturday pledged support to the government of President Hissene Habre but said France refuses to become involved in what he called Chad's "civil war." Hernu then flew back to Paris to report to President Francois Mitterrand following a two-day visit to Chad to inspect French troops and confer with Habre. He had a second meeting with the Chad leader shortly before taking off in a French military jetliner. In a radio •interview shortly before his departure, Hernu said France would stand by its commitment to help defend Chad against the Libyan military incursion, but "will not allow itself to be drawn into the Chad civil war." Libyan troops and Chadian rebels loyal to former President Goukouni Oueddei have stretched their control over the northern half of Chad in battles since July but an undeclared truce has been in effect for two weeks, apparently largely as a result of the deployment of French forces on the fringe of the northern desert. Hernu said he found the 3,000 French paratroopers sent to Chad had a "morale of iron" and constitued an effective "arm of dissuasion against any internationalization of the conflict provoked by Libya." Soviet calls 'U.S. relations poor MOSCOW ( AP) A leading . Soviet commentator on Saturday warned Americans against having "illusions" that relations be tween the Soviet Union and the United States were improving. "The tension in Soviet-American relations is not decreasing," said Alexander Bovin, a senior commentator with the government newspaper Izvestia. He dimissed any Ameritan comment about a thaw in relations between the superpowers as "another hypocritical move" by the Reagan administration to influence presidential elections in 1984. Bovin noted the two nations were far apart on arms control talks and the conflicts in Central America, the Middle East and Africa. "There is no need for illusions, there is no need for rosy spectacles, even when they are put on with the kindest of inten tions," he said. "There is too much broken glass. The prestige of Washington fell too low in the sense of a reliable partner for talks and accords." „.„ 7 TONIGHT "Gimme A Break" Night THE 5110GN) 101 HIESTER ST. senfing-PepsbCola Oli=110) o=o Before stepping out.. . 0- I=9l U Read weekend if Levery Friday 0 in the Daily Collegian o=o. (O=EO ig i `TOTO,I DON'T THINK WE'RE IN KANSAS N ANYMORE' A most unusual place indeed! It's the Wonderful World of UNCLE ELl'S,one block south of the corn fields of college avenue. 129 E. Beaver Ave. Open nights,too! 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