Army retakes control of Beirut
By ROBERT H. REID
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon About 10,000
Lebanese army troops backed by
tanks and artillery swept into west
Beirut in three columns yesterday
and seized key neighborhoods from
Druse and Shiite Moslem
militiamen in house-to-house
combat.
The government radio said the
army retook control of virtually all
the Moslem sector and
"successfully completed its
operation."
Thunderous artillery barrages
shook the,city, either from Syrian
held positions outside the city or
Lebanese army batteries.
Police said 18 civilians were killed
and 49 wounded in the fourth day of
fighting around Beirut. State radio
quoted Lebanese army sources as
saying 21 soldiers were killed and 87
wounded in clashes yesterday. The
army said it captured 50
militiamen, including seven
Palestinians and four Syrians.
The deaths brought the casualty
toll in the fighting that began
Sunday to 94 killed, including two
U.S. Marines, five French soldiers
and 42 Lebanese soldiers. The
wounded totaled 413, including 14
Marines, seven French soldiers,
three Italian troops and 176
Lebanese soldiers. '
The. Americans;, French and
Italians are part of an international
peacekeeping force in Beirut.
Fighting also broke out in Tripoli
Wednesday between rival Moslem
militia groups, and police said 25
people were killed and 60 wounded
Missing jet lands
By The Associated Presi
' SEOUL, South Korea Airline
officials said a missing South
Korean jumbo jet from New York
with 269 people aboard, including a
U.S. congressman, landed safely
today on a Soviet island. However,
Soviet officials reportedly denied it.
Also, Korea's Air Self Defense
Force said the aircraft disappeared
from radar at an altitude of more
than 30,000 feet, raising the
possibility of a mid-air accident.
South Korea!' Airlines said the
plane landed on the Soviet island of
Sakhalin. But the Japanese
Broadcasting Corp. said it
contacted officials at the island's
airport in the southern town of
Yuzhno Sakhalinsk. Officials there
denied the plane had landed. A duty
officer at the Soviet Foreign
Ministry in Moscow also denied the
plane was on Sakhalin, and the
The aide, Frederic N. Smith, said,
"There is no U.S. source that can
confirm that the plane has landed
on the island and that all the
Soviet news agency Tass said the passengers are safe."
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in the battles 50 miles north of
Beirut.
The three Lebanese army
brigades pushed westward from the
old Green Line that divides the city
into Moslem and Christian halves.
Their M-98 tanks and armored
personnel carriers advanced with
tank cannon and machine guns
firing. As each block or two was
taken, soldiers searched nearby
buildings, flushing out militiamen
with small arms fire.
By late afternoon the army was in
control of nearly all of west Beirut.
The:radio warned residents to stay
indoors as the army continued
restoring "calm."
The fighting was centered about
three miles north of positions held
by the 1,200-man U.S. Marine
contingent of the multinational
peacekeeping force.
A Marine spokesman, Warrant
Officer Charles Rowe, said the
Marine sector was quiet except for
an "extremely small amount" of
rifle fire.
Senior Lebanese officials were
pleased by the performance of the
army in west Beirut and were
optimistic that the Christian-led but
largely Moslem military Could
move into the contested central
mountains and restore control
the Israelis leave.
"This is work done by the -
Lebanese army itself without any
assistance from the Marines or
from any foreign contingent,"
Abdullah Abu Habib, Lebanon's
ambassador to the United States
told The Associated Press.
plane's whereabouts were
unknown.
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The airline gave no details in its
report of the landing, although a
KAL spokeswoman in New York,
Bonnie Villarico, said she had been
told it was a forced landing. She
said arrangements were being
Made to send another plane to the
island to pick up the passengers and
bring them to Korea.
Among the passengers was U.S.
Rep. Lawrence P. McDonald, D-Ga.
His staff said he was going to South
Korea to attend a ceremony
marking the 30th anniversary of the
U.S.-South Korea defense pact.
The South Korean Foreign
Ministry said it was "trying every
means available to ascertain the
facts about the missing plane, ,
including the alleged landing in
authorities forced the jetliner to Sakhalin."
An aide to McDonald said after a
briefing at the Pentagon that
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Asked if he knew why the plane
landed on Sakhalin, he said, "We
can't confirm that, but indications
are that it got too close to Soviet air
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An official with the Japanese
Embassy in Moscow said a duty
officer at the Soviet Foreign
Ministry denied the airliner had
landed on Sakhalin, an island off the
western Soviet coast just north of
Japan. But the Japanese official
said it was possible there was a
delay in information reaching
Moscow.
Vice Foreign Minister Roh Jae-
Won said no details about the plane
had been confirmed. Another
Foreign Ministry source said there
was an unconfirmed account that
the plane might have been attacked.
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The Boeing 7'47 had been
unaccounted for since it last gave
its position southeast of Hokkaido,
Japan's northernmost main island,
more than six hours before the first
report that it had landed On
Sakhalin. The Soviet island is north
of Hokkaido.
In Atlanta, Harold P. McDonald
Jr., the congressman's brother,
said, "we've just heard from the
State Department ... that the plane
is down and apparently the
passengers are safe."
There apparently was at least one
other American on the flight.
Yoo Sung-Wha, the wife of a
professor from the University of
Pittsburgh, said her husband, Yoo
Chung-Sum, was on board.
However, KAL did not confirm if
any other Americans beside
McDonald was on the plane.
South Korea and the Soviet Union
have no diplomatic relations.
Lebanese Army
Pushes West
Thursday, September 1, 1983
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Rioting
funeral
By The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines A
student was killed and 18 people
were wounded in clashes between
hundreds of rock-throwing
demonstrators and riot police last
night after the funeral of
assassinated opposition leader
Benigno Aquino, police spokesmen
reported.
The demonstration near the
presidential palace followed a
"noise barrage" in scattered parts
of the capital by youths who
banged on pans and exploded
firecrackers as part, of an
announced citywide protest
against alleged government
complicity in the Aquino slaying.
Running street battles continued
into the early hours Thursday.
The government of President
Ferdinand E. Marcos has denied
any role in the death of his chief
political enemy, who was gunned
down at the Manila airport Aug.
21, and said Aquino was killed by a
notorious "hired gun" who was
then killed by security troopers.
Of the 18 wounded in the clashes
between demonstrators and about
300 police, at least nine were
youths aged from 14 to 20 who
were hospitalized with gunshot
wounds, police investigator Rudy
Janer told the Associated Press.
The dead man, 23-year-old
student Karim Dimacuta, was
wounded - in the left side and was
dead on arrival at a hospital,
Janer said.
Police said they did none of the
shooting. They said they were
armed only with truncheons
because their orders were to
handle demonstrators with
"gentleness:" But photographers
said they saw plainclothes
policeman running after
demonstrators with drawn guns
and some of them Were later seen
firing into the air.
Cooperation is the
to solving zoning issue
By ANNE CONNERS
Collegian Staff Writer
Cooperation. That's what
students, borough officials, and
State College citizens pledged last
night as they formally discussed
the controversy surrounding
student housing in single-family
neighborhoods for the first time.
While the meeting was
ostensibly convened to discuss
borough ordinances governing
noise, parking and property
maintenance, it turned into a
follows
of Aquino
Manila Deputy Police Chief Col.
Felicisimo Lazaro said three of
the wounded were policemen
one hit by a gunshot in the chest,
another by a dart, and a third by a
rock. Police claimed some
demonstrators, hiding like snipers
in tall buildings,- were firing guns.
Running battles between youths
and policemen continued until
today's early hours. Occasionally
loud explosions, as from home
made bombs, rocked the darkened
alleys.
At one point, police raided a
students' dormitory, from which
bottles had been thr,own at them,
and arrested five poeple.
Investigators said friends of
some of the youths hit by gunshots
claimed the victims were
bystanders and not involved in the
demonstration. "That is always
their claim," the investigator
Janer said.
Since Aquino was killed as he
stepped out of a jetliner bringing
him home from three years of
voluntary exile in the United
States, the presidential palace had
been under extra guard.
Authorities strengthened
security around the palace earlier
yesterday, deploying troops,
policemen and firetrucks at
various approaches.
Mendiola Bridge also was the
scene of bloody clashes between
troops and anti-Marcos
demonstrators in 1970 shortly
after Marcos' re-election to a
second term as president. Three
students were killed in that battle.
Aquino was buried in a floodlit,
nighttime ceremony at the Manila
Memorial Park cemetery after an
11-hour funeral march viewed by
crowds of mourners estimated at
more than one million.
Experienced political observers
described it as the biggest funeral
ever given a Filipino leader in the
republic's history.
sometimes heated exchange
between students, borough
officials and neighborhood
organizations.
But by the end of the meeting,
small clusters of students and
citizens were peaceably
exchanging ideas about the best
way to preserve the character of
State College's neighborhoods.
An increasing amount of
attention has been directed to
students who move into single
family neighborhoods, thus
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• Negotiations between strik
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employees and management
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Low of 57. Sunny and pleasant
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