state/nation/work" Moslem rebels By G.G. LABELLE Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon Triumphant Moslem rebels in command of west Beirut declared a cease-fire yester day in their six-day war with the Lebanese army and said they were withdrawing from the city's dev astated streets. A Christian militia commander, Fadi Frem, called on his fighters to confront the Moslem-leftist chal lenge, declaring, "We will see them at the battlefield." But no major new clashes were reported. The future of Lebanon's Christian president, the U.S.-backed Amin Gemayel, hung in the balance, his army weakened by Moslem defec tions. • Off -Beirut, the five-inch guns of the mighty'U.S. battleship New Jer sey thundered to life at midday yesterday, shelling what was be lieved to be a rebel position after the U.S. Marine base at the airport again came under fire. One Marine was wounded. In west Beirut, 39 employees and dependents of the U.S. Embassy were airlifted out by helicopter be cause of "the current unstable situa tion," a Marine spokesman said. State Department officials -in Washington said the evacuees, con sidered non-essential for the embas sy's operation, were taken to a 6th Fleet ship for later transfer to Cy prus. They said 54 personnel, includ ing Marine embassy guards, remained in Beirut. Two U.S. warships the carrier Independence and destroyer Rick etts cut short a port call in Turkey and were steaming back to rejoin the flotilla off Lebanon. The new explosion of fighting, which began last Thursday and cli maxed Monday with the rebel take- Space shuttle: Launch problem jeopardizes future flights By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston Until' engineers find and fix the problem that left two satellites unusable, NASA's space transportation system will be unable to launch heavy payloads to high orbit, leaving the shuttle program crippled and without a major source of income. A failyre by the Payload Assist Module rocket booster led to the loss of both the Palapa-B satellite Monday and the Westar VI last Friday. Aerospace officials have issued an industry equivalent to a recall. The PAM, officials say, will not be used again until engineers understand what caused the failures and can fix the problem. "Some clarification of the problem would have to develop before we could recommend further use of the PAM motor," said Richard D. Brandes, a vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co., manufacturer of the twin satellites. Brandes said the failures of the two crafts were so similar "it's eerie," implying there may be Economic advisers unite on budget cuts By SALLY JACOBSEN mous budget deficits or risk sending not far off the record $195.4 billion Just a corridor away, Federal Associated Press Writer the economy into a tailspin. posted in 1983. Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker "We are in total agreement that issued his strongest-ever condem- WASHINGTON President Rea• They issued their appeals less we should get these deficits down," nation of excessive red-ink spend gan's key economic advisers pul than a week after Reagan sub- said Treasury Secretary Donald ing, telling the House Banking aside their public squabbling yes- mitted to Congress a spending plan Regan, just days after sniping at the Committee that the budget and for terday and presented a united front. for 1985 that projects deficits of $lBO red-ink views of presidential econo- eign trade deficits are "a clear and urging Congress to slash the enor- billion in each of the next few years, mist Martin Feldstein. present danger" to the recovery. over of Moslem west Beirut, has put the multinational Beirut peacekeep ing troops in a difficult position —cut off from the Lebanese government they are here to support. One French soldier was killed and at least 15 other members of the multinational force were wounded including two Marines in the fighting Monday and yesterday. About 200 Lebanese were reported killed and more than 300 wounded in the six days of fighting, police said. The latest round of violence in this country's intermittent civil war pits militiamen of the Shiite Moslem movement Amal and of the Syrian supported Druse Progressive Social ist Party against government forces backed up by Frem's Christian mili tia, which is an arm of the Phalange Party led . by the president's father, Pierre Gemayel. Yesterday, only scattered army resistance continued to the militia takeover of west Beirut. Many sol diers apparently gave up without a fight Monday, in line with Shiite leader Berri's call for the army's Moslem majority not to battle their Moslem brothers. The sound of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades could be heard coming from the port area yesterday. The army and Shiite mili tiamen also still fought around. St. Michael's Church, near a crossing point between east and west Beirut. But artillery shelling from both sides broke off in mid-afternoon, amid a heavy rain, a Western mili tary source reported. • By yesterday afternoon, token forces of Lebanese army soldiers remained at government buildings in west Beirut, but larger forces of militiamen were also outside the buildings and clearly in control. Berri and Jumblatt called on their forces to observe a 2:15 p.m. cease- Henry Kissinger some basic flaw in the rocket booster system despite an earlier record of successes. This leaves a large question mark in the middle of what was to have been the busiest year yet for the space shuttle The PAM was designed to be the workhorse of the National Space Transportation System. The boosters were to be used to move payloads weighing 4,400 pounds or less from the low orbit where the shuttle operates 165 miles above Earth to the 22,300-mile-high orbit that is the working home of communications satellites. Without the PAM or similar boosters, the shuttle is changed from a long-haul space truck to a short-haul van. The PAM has been used 16 times successfully five times in the shuttle program and those successes helped attract new customers to the shuttle. The Westar VI, for instance, was origi nally scheduled to be launched on the French rocket,Ariane. Western Union decided to move to the shuttle because of its sterling record on earlier satellite launches. NASA officials now worry that the PAM fail- seize west Beirut, cease fire X) rev, ir., Shiite Moslem militiamen ride through a street in West Beirut yesterday on an armored personnel carrier they captured from the Lebanese Army. The pleted today. Local radios said Amal and Druse leaders were discussing arrangements for Lebanese police to take over security duties in west Beirut. This seemed to indicate that the cease-fire was taking hold, or at least that the anti-Gemayel forces fire, and the Lebanese army com mand said it would join in the truce. But gunfire continued beyond the deadline, though it was less intense. Late last night, an Amal spokes man Said Amal forces were being withdrawn from west Beirut's streets, an operation to be com- Kissinger urges Central American aid Congress wants improved human rights as condition of funding By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Wrning that "time is short," Henry A. Kissinger urged Congress yes terday to pump billions of dollars in economic and military aid into Central America to counter Soviet and Cuban threats to U.S. interests in the troubled region. The former secretary of state; however, en countered skepticism among members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Including Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., who said the Kissinger plan "just won't pass Congress" as long as the Reagan administration refuses to make human rights progress a condition of continued U.S. aid. Kissinger testified in behalf of the recommen dations of President Reagan's National Biparti san Commission on Central America, which he headed. The panel, appointed last summer to recommend long-term polities toward the re gion, issued a report last month outlining broad political, economic and social reforms backed by a five-year, $8 billion economic aid program and increased military assistance. Kissinger told the senators that failure to adopt the commission plan as a package could "cost s .~"'X".d..;: ures may affect that reputation and cost NASA paying customers. Although the shuttle performed perfectly in deploying the satellites, and the failures came in hardware built by contractors not under the control or supervision of the space agency, NASA feels the effects directly because so many shuttle customers depend upon the PAM. The shuttle was scheduled to make four PAM launches this year and some NASA officials have expressed concern privately about the possible need to reshuffle the mission schedule and even cancel flights The potential loss of income for NASA also is significant, since it is paid about $lO million for every satellite it launches. The PAM failure also will mean "considerably higher" insurance premiums for future satellite launches, Stephen Merrett, an underwriter for Lloyd's insurance market in London, said yester day. The Westai• VI was insured 'for $lO5 million and Palapa B was insured for $75 million. 101 4 0,0 1, fe." our nation dearly . . . as turbulence and sub Ve rsion in Central America spread." "We must do it all or not any of it," Kissinger said, arguing that the United States has "funda mental interests, including national security in terests, at stake in Central America." He said the region is plagued by social injus tice, political turmoil and severe economic diffi culties, and its "predicament has been brought to a head by the confluence of-Soviet-Cuban inter vention and international economic recession." Kissinger said the $8 billion, five-year plan ,"is ambitious, but by no Means extreme or gargan tuan." It is modest, he said, if compared with the costs to the United States if the region collapsed under pressure from leftist guerrilla forces. "Time is short," Kissinger said. "Let us make the effort now." Several senators, including Richard Lugar, R hid., and Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., mentioned reports of graft and corruption involving U.S. aid to Central America and questioned whether the path to peace could be paved by increased U.S. aid at a time of budget •restraint at home. Kissinger replied that "we can't get Western European standards from countries at civil war," but said that if the aid plan is adopted, the Lebanese Army was driven from most of West Beirut during heavy fighting with the leftists. were confident the army was too demoralized and divided for the president to try to reassert authority ; In his cease-fire message, Berri in the city's Moslem western sector. ordered Shiite fighters to protect Earlier, in Christian east Beirut, foreign residents and avoid "ha- Frem called on his Phalangist "Leb- rassing " the multinational force. anese Forces," the largest Christian Diplomatic efforts to resolve the militia, to be "vigilant" against ene- crisis continued. Grieving parents seek government's help in finding missing children By BILL. McCLOSKEY Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON "You cannot stop it," an anguished mother told a Senate subcommittee consid ering legislation on missing chil dren yesterday, after describing how her daughter had been taken from her twice. She and others urged Congress to pass the legislation, which would increase the role of the federal government in finding missing children. "You cannot stop it. If it's going to happen, you cannot stop it. They will find some point in your sched ule that is a weak point," Jean Humphrey of Sallisaw, Okla., told the subcommittee. She. related how her daughter Jamie Lynn was snatched when she was 3 1 / 2 and again when she was 5 1 / 2 . The second abduction occurred right outside the little girl's kin dergarten. The child's grandfa ther, who had just dropped her off at the school, and four teachers gave chase but were cut off by a private detective, allegedly work ing for the father, Humphrey said. The child was recovered a year later, in Canada, where someone saw her picture on television. Another mother, Gloria Yerkoc- The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1984 :-'• " '.'. ,'!."-".'.., mies who want to "erase free Leb anon from the world's map." vich, whose daughter Joanna has been missing since she was taken by her father in 1974, told of the abduction of her then 5-year-old child. As she spoke, her other daughter listened and stifled tea- Yerkocvich told the Senate Judi ciary Committee's subcommittee on juvenile justice, "I have a lot of drive" as she explained the work of an organization she formed, Child' Find, Inc. The privately financed group has located 800 children in less than three years,she said. Fifteen were found after their photos were shown at the end of an NBC Tele vision program, "Adam", which told the story of a missing Florida boy later found murdered. Forty other children whose photos ap peared on the program are still missing. • While praising the news media for its interest and cooperation, Yerkovich, of New Paltz, N.Y., called for passage of a proposed law that would provide $lO million a year to establish a toll-free tele phone number for people to call with information on missing chil dren, and establish a national clearinghouse to provide technical assistance to local and state gov ernments to help find missing chil dren. region's governments would be encouraged to eliminate mismanagement. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., called the aid pack age "a mandate for socialism, financed by the U.S. taxpayer," and Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.1., complained of overemphasis on military solu tions in the commission's plan. Tsongas said Congress would resist such an aid package because many legislators believe Rea gan is less serious about opposing human rights abuses than battling a leftist threat in the region. As he spoke, the House rebuffed Reagan by approving a bill identical to one the president vetoed Nov. 30 that would make continued U.S. aid to tl Salvador contingent on periodic written assurances from the administration that the Salvadoran government was making a "con certed and significant effort" to guarantee its citizens' human rights and moving to eliminate right-wing death squad activities. The Kissinger panel also said Congress should require periodic reports of progress on human rights and other reforms as a condition of U.S. aid. Kissinger said he supported that concept, but said Congress and the administration should realize there are "many stages between total cutoff of funds and unrestricted aid." ' 4 J AP Laserphoto state news briefs Woman abducted, past beau sought LAFAYETTE HILL, Pa. (AP) Police yesterday were seeking two men and a 25-Year-old woman the men allegedly abducted yesteiday morning as she was walking to her front door. Paula Todd of Lafayette Hill, an affluent northwest Philadelphia suburb, was walking across her lawn from the car of a friend shortly after midnight when she was grabbed by an unidentified man who jumped from a silver-colored Buick Regal that pulled up as her friend was driving off, said Whitemarsh Township Police Sgt. Donald Apet. Apel said police believe the silver car was driven by Todd's former boyfriend, John Petrecz, 35, of Conshohocken. Todd was grabbed and dragged to the car, which then sped off down the road, came to a dead end and turned around. David Butler, 27, the friend who dropped Todd off, saw the kidnapping and tried to block the road with his car, Apel said. Apel said Butler then took a pistol from the glove compartment of his car and fired four shots at the Buick, which kept going. UFO probably a meteor, viewers say HARRISBURG (AP) —'A bright-burning object spotted in the night sky above southcentral Pennsylvania early yesterday was probably a meteor or "space junk," according to area sky-watch ers. The object was spotted by people in York, Dauphin and Cumber land counties. Police officers in at least six departments sighted the object, with one saying it looked "like a ball of fire pr an aircraft engine on fire." Harrisburg International Airport reported it had no aircraft on its radar .screen withhin a 60-mile radius. The object, observed just before 3 a.m., reportedly appeared to move from northeast to southwest, with some observers estimating its altitude of 5,000 feet. nation news briefs Fed seeks higher credit card charges WASHINGTON (AP) A Federal Reserve Board member urged Congress yesterday to allow merchants to charge higher prices for customers who use credit cards. "Our studies , confirm that cash customers subsidize credit customers to some extent," Federal Reserve governor Nancy H. Teeters told the Senate Banking subcommittee on consumer affairs. She said that although the cost of credit adds only about 1 percent to the price of an item, the total markup across the economy amounts to about $6 billion a year. Congress, which begins a 10-day recess on Friday, is facing a tight deadline for action on a House-approved, six-month extension of a law that forbids merchants to charge higher prices fOr people who buy with credit cards. The law expires Feb. 27, leaving the Senate nine working days to consider the bill. - Teeters, whose position was apposed by banking and credit card lobbyists, said the Federal Reserve prefers an open market system under which merchants could either give a discount for a cash purchase .or require a credit card user to pay more for the same item. High Eskimo suicide rate reflects era KOTZEBUE, Alaska (AP) The Eskimos of northern Alaska, struggling to adjust to a modern era vastly different from their heritage, are also coping with a suicide 'problem of alarming proportions: They are killing themselves at more than 10 times the national average "The men shoot or hang thqmselves," said Florence Jetton, psychiatric nurse at the Kotzebue Public Health Service Hospital since 1978. "The women take pills." Inupiat leaders say the suicides may reflect the grief and desperation of people driven from their traditional world and unable to survive, or even cope, in another. The national suicide rate is about 12 per 100,000 people, but the rate in the Kotzebue Area of northwest Alaska including 11 neighboring villages is approximately 150 per 100,000. The population is about 6,000. world news briefs Exiled Iranian general killed in France PARIS (AP) Two gunmen shot and killed the leading military figure in pre-revolutionary Iran once known as "the butcher of Tehran" and his brother on a fashionable Paris street yesterday. Gholam Ali Oveissi, 65, a former four-star general, and his brother, Gholam Hosein Oveissi, a former army colonel in his 60s, - died instantly after being shot in the head. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killings, but former officials of the late shah immediately blamed the deaths on the Iranian government of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The gunman ambushed Oveissi and his brother as they were leaving Oveissi's apartment in Paris' affluent 16th district, shot them each in the head and escaped in a car. Oveissi, army chief of staff under the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, was the last military governor of Tehran in monarchist Iran. He had a reputation as'a ruthless hardliner in carrying out the shah's policies. Oveissi had lived in exile, mainly in France, since the shah fled Iran five years ago following Khomeini's triumphal return to Iran. Aquino's brother gains political favor MANILA, Philippines (AP) Five months after his brother was assassinated at the Manila International Airport, Agapito "Butz" Aquino is emerging as a major opposition figure in the Philippines. A former plastics manufacturer and onetime actor in a cough syrup commercial, Aquino, 44, wasn't widely known before Benig no Aquino's Aug. 21 killing, and has little political experience. But opposition demonstrators now chant "Butz" along with "Ninoy," the nickname of his brother. No other opposition leader has so far appeared likely to fill Benigno Aquino's role as President Ferdinand E. Marcos' chief rival. Marcos, 66, has indicated he will run for re-election in the 1987, election, and some local observers are projecting Agapito Aquino as an opposition candidate. But Aquino says he is not ready to run for office. Stockrepor Late rally ends Volume Shares winter massacre 127,106,900 NEW YORK (AP) A Issues Traded • cease-fire pervaded an em- 2,034 battled stock market yester- Up day, as a late rally halted a 698 selling spree that one analyst dubbed "the 1984 winter mas- Unchanged sacre." 383 "The first wave of selling is over," Monte Gordon, director Down ' of research at Dreyfus Corp., 953 said after the mixed session. - The Dow Jones average of • NYSE Index 30 industrial stocks, down 91.66 + 0.23 22.72 points Monday, started • Dow Jones Industrials the day by falling another 8 Cp 1,180.49 + 6.18 points before rebounding. pmoowwwwwwlo-10-110*,/÷110.110.110110. V When V your sweet tooth says ip Candy, your wisdom tooth says - V it The Candy Shop ip • . 352 E. 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