9—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Feb. 9, 1984
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Britain pulls troops from Beirut
Other peacekeeping nations call for U.N. replacements '
'By DAVID MASON
Chief European Correspondent
LONDON Britain withdrew its
Beirut peacekeeping force from the
beleagured Lebanese capital yes
terday, a day after plans for a U.S.
pullback were announced. Italy or
dered a "gradual withdrawal" of its
contingent.
But France, the other nation in
the multinational force in Beirut,
said there were no immediate plans
to withdraw its troops.
France, Italy and Britain repeat
ed their desire for replaceMent of
the force by one from the United
Nations.
Britain announced yesterday
morning that because of the "dete
riorating security situation" in Bei
rut it was redeploying its 115-man
force to the royal fleet auxiliary
ship Reliant off the Lebanese coast.
Italy has a force of 1,400 men in
Beirut, reduced from 2,100 in the
past month. Defense Minister Gio
vanni Spadolini said yesterday he
had ordered Italy's military chiefs
of staff to take "all necessary
steps" for a gradual withdrawal of
the force. A statement froni the
defense ministry did not give de
tails, or say how many if any of
the Italian troops would remain
behind.
Spadolini said the impending re
moval of the U.S. Marines "changes
all the terms of the problem" and
that the American and British pull-,
out meant the Italian presence "has
become logically and politically un
sustainable."
The French :defense and foreign
ministries said there were no imme
diate plans to redeploy the 1,300-
man French force, but said that all
patrols outside their sector had
been halted.
Spadolini repeated the Italian po
sition that a. United Nations force
should take over the Italian respon
sibility of guarding Palestinian ref
ugee camps.
A spokesman at United Nations
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Lawmakers across nation debate raising legal drinKing age
By BILL McCLOSKEY - latures. "Even in states where we thought young persons commuting to border states 21 for all alcoholic beverages: Alaska, Ar- has kept the legal drinking age at 18 since
Associated Press Writer there wasn't a chance, there's a lot of where the drinking age is lower." , kansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, In- 1971, opposes raising the age to 21. He says
activity," he said in an interview. "There is simply no way to adequately diana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, the solution to drunken driving among teen
. WASHINGTON The highway death toll The problem of teen-age drinking was address the needless tragedies caused by Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexi- agers is improved education and, better
among young, drinking drivers, especially recognized by President Reagan's commis- young persons commuting to border states co, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn- enforcement of drunken driving laws.
under-age youngsters who cross state bor- sion on drunken driving, which recommend- except by establishing a uniform drinking sylvania, Utah and Washington. Snelling says driving deaths have de
ders to drink legally, is the target of scores ed in December after an 18-month study that age among the states," the commission Four states, Vermont, Hawaii, Louisiana creased in Vermont.
of bills in state legislatures that are aimed Congress set a legal drinking age of 21 and said. and Wisconsin, have the lowest legal drink
at raising the legal drinking age. cut off federal highway funds to any state The National Safety Council in Chicago ing age of 18. Wisconsin has enacted a 19- Although Congress is taking steps to set a
"There is a tremendous amount of inter- that fails to enforce that standard. estimates that about half the 46,000 traffic year -old drinking age, which goes in effect nationwide minimum legal drinking age of
est in raising the drinking age throughout "Thereis evidence of a direct correlation deaths in the United States in 1982 were July 1. 21, Moulden says, state laws are "much
more likely to be enforced."
the country," said John Moulden of the between the minimum drinking age and alcohol-related. A report by the National In West Virginia, Gov. John D. Rockefel-
National Transportation Safety Board as he alcohol-related crashes among the age Highway Traffic Safety Administration ler IV says his primary legislative goal for Several governors, as well as Jim Bur
scanned a computer printout of alcohol-re- groups affected," the panel said. found that eight states which had raised the the year is to raise his state's legal drinking nett, chairman of the National Transporta
lated legislation being debated across the "The lack of uniformity among state laws legal drinking age showed an average 28 age of 19 for residents. Hearings on the tion Safety Board, oppose any congressional
country. is especially critical regarding the mini- percent annual reduction in nighttime fatal proposal are to begin today in the state threat to withhold federal highway money
He estimates that more than 200 proposals mum legal drinking age because an incen- accidents involving drivers aged 18 to 21. Legislature. ' - as a way of enforcing a uniform drinking
have been introduced in various state legis- tive to drink and drive is established due to Only 19 states have a legal drinking age of Gov. Richard Snelling of Vermont, which age of 21 among the states.
headquarters in New York said a
U.N. force could be placed in Beirut
if the Lebanese government re
quested it and if other Lebanese
factions, as well as U.N. members
and the entire U.N. Security Coun
cil, agreed.
Max Gallo, the French govern
ment spokesman, said following a
Cabinet meeting that France hopes
for a U.N. Security Council meeting
soon. He recalled a statement Tues
day by French President Francois
Mitterrand that the multinational
force should be replaced by "an
intervention and a presence of the
United Nations."
Later, in a television interview,
Premier Pierre Mauroy said that
France is "acting, acting with force
and acting with perseverance" to
try to get the Security Council "to
really come to the rescue of Leb
anon." He said. France had never
wished to keep forces in Lebanon
and that it was "absolutely indis
pensable that a United Nations
force replace the multinational
force."
Television commentator Paul Na
hon said in Paris that while France
officially was maintaining its con
tingent in Beirut at the moment, "it
is looking for any opportunity to pull
out, for example at the request of
the Lebanese government."
British Foreign Secretary Sir Ge
offrey Howe told the House of Com
mons that he and Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher had been
"pressing for a number of months"
for a United Nations force. Howe
said he had ordered the British
mission to . the United Nations to
bring up the matter again yester
day
Howe added, however, that there
first would have to be a request
from the Lebanese government fol
lowed by approval from a "wide
range of countries."
Britain and other Western coun
tries fear that the Soviet Union
would veto creation of a United
Nations force for the Beiruit area.
PFC Greg Nelson of New Orleans stands atop his packed equipment,
waving an American flag and flashing a victory sign yesterday as the
Marines prepared for their departure from Beirut International Airport.
There is already a United Nations
force of some 6,000 troops in Leb
anon, but they are confined to the
southern part of the country.
President Reagan announced
Tuesday night that the 1,600 U.S.
Marines in Beirut would be rede-
ployed on ships off the Lebanese
coast.
British officials said they had
been informed of the Reagan an
nouncement and that the British
decision to follow suit was made
"independently" later.
Soviet
will visit
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW The Kremlin yes
terday announced that Politburo
member Geidar A. Aliev would
visit Syria this month, and a Soviet
source said Aliev was assigned to
coordinate Soviet-Syrian military
policy in the face of escalating
warfare in Lebanon.
The announcement followed
President Reagan's statement
Tuesday night that the U.S. Ma
rines would be moved from their
Beirut base to Navy ships off the
coast of Lebanon.
A U.S. official in Washington,
who, specializes in Soviet. affairs,
said the visit,almost certainly was
arranged before Reagan's deci
sion was made public: He, said
Aliev's field is domestic matters
such as industrialization, not for
eign-policy or military matters.
The Soviet news agency Tass
dismissed the Reagan's decision
as "an attempt to deceive public
opinion with claims about the
'pullout' of servicemen who are in
fact being left near Lebanese
shores.
"American ships are shelling
Lebanese territory, the American
aggression is progressing at full•
tilt under the cover of the decep
tive maneuver," Tass charged.
In a separate commentary, the
Novosti news agency called the
decision to move the Marines an
election-year ploy but insisted it
"does not change the essence of
U.S. actions."
Novosti claimed the United
States actually intends to escalate
involvement in Lebanon and
warned this could lead to clashes
with other Arab states.
"Washington can hardly ignore
the Soviet Union's invariable sup
port for Syria, which is a major
Arab factor of resistence to U.S.-
Israeli scheming in the Middle
East," Novosti said.
official
Syria
Aliev's planned trip was the
latest indication of Kremlin sup
port for Syria, its primary Middle'
East ally and a recipient of large
scale Soviet military aid.
Some observers noted that Aliev
is going abroad at a time when the
Kremlin is believed to be under
going leadership problems caused
by President Yuri V. Andropov!s
prolonged illness, and said the trip
indicates the impcirtance the Sovi
ets attach' to Syria and the Leb
anon crisis.
"The situation in the Middle
East is very serious," said the
Soviet, source, insisting he not be
identified in any way. "Geidar
Aliev is going to Syria to work out
some measures, including mili
tary ones, to restore peace in the
region "
The Soviet Union sees the Leb
anon fighting as a threat to Syria,
where there are an estimated 5,000
Soviet military techniCians. The
source said Aliev's visit also was
aimed at "guaranteeing the secu
rity" of Soviet personnel'in Syria.
President Reagan has blamed
the. Syrians for the upsurge in
fighting in Lebanon. And in his
announcement that the U.S. Ma
rines would be moved out of Leb
anon, Reagan authorized U.S.
Naval guns and warplanes to at
tack anybody firing on Beirut
from Syrian-controlled areas of
Lebanon.
"Ronald Reapn said he sent
Marines into Grenada to protect
American students," the
. source
said. "There are many So‘iiet spe
cialists in Syria, Soviet citizens,
who must be protected."
Soviet technicians in Syria man
Soviet-supplied SAM-5 surface-to
air missile bases. The Kremlin
also has helped Syria rebuild its
army from losses suffered in the
1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon,
and Western sources have said
Moscow last year supplied Syria
with sophisticated SS.-21 missiles.
state news briefs
Legislation may replace no-fault law
HARRISBURG (AP) The House yesterday approved and sent
to Gov. Thornburgh a bill that lawmakers said should win the
governor's approval of a new auto insurance system to replace the
no-fault law.
The House voted 147-52 for a bill that is a "companion" to
legislation which is now before Thornburgh and would end manda
tory no-fiult coverage and give motorists more choices of accident
coverage. The Senate approved the companion bill on Tuesday.
The governor, who has until Sunday to sign the initial bill, has
delayed action while his administration and lawmakers worked to
meet several objections he had raised
The proposed insurance system still would permit unrestricted
lawsuits by accident victims, unlike no-fault, which allows damage
suits only after medical bills exceed a $750 "threshold."
Under no-fault, a motorist must buy a comprehensive package of
benefits for himself, whether needed or not. Opponents system say
it is responsible for spiraling premium costs in Pennsylvania.
Goode pledges support to Mondale
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode
has decided to back Walter Mondale's bid , for the Democratic
presidential nomination, an aide to the mayor said yesterday.
Mondale was to join the mayor today at a noon rally at
Independence Hall, stopping briefly on his way from New Hamp
shire to Minnesota, according to Bill Epstein of the mayor's office.
Goode would become the fourth black mayor of a major Ameri
can city to endorse Mondale, following Mayors Colman Young of
Detroit, Tom Bradley of Los Angeles and Richard Arrmington of
Birmingham, Ala.
Lana Felton, coordinator of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Pennsylva
nia campaign committee, said the loss of Goode's endorsement to
Mondale "will have no impact" on Jackson's candidacy.
nation news briefs
Astronauts take second space walk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Two Challenger astronauts
refueled their backpacks yesterday for an encore venture into open
space, while officials on the ground worried that rain and clouds
might prevent the first Florida shuttle landing on Saturday.
Mission Control told the crew that "you're the talk of the world"
after . the spectacular excursion that Bruce McCandless and Robert
Stewart made into space Tuesday with no rope to anchor them to
the shuttle.
McCandless and Stewart were scheduled for a second walk
beginning at 6 this morning, but their three fellow astronauts joked
they might fight for the chance "to share all the good deals."
President Reagan will telephone the astronauts at . 10:25 this
morning from his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White
House press secretary Larry Speakes said. Speakes said McCand
less and Stewart "will be outside their spacecraft" when they
receive the call.
Panel cautions against procedure
WASHINGTON (AP) Taking sound-wave pictures of fetuses in
the womb seems to be safe as well as helpful in many instances', but
the procedure should not be used routinely for every pregnancy, a
panel of experts concluded yesterday.
The group assembled by the National Institutes of Health said
ultrasound imaging should only be used for specific indications
until studies are completed to prove more conclusively that the
procedure is safe for fetuses and mothers.
The panel pointed out that after 20 years of use, no adverse
effects attributed to ultrasound have been found. But it noted that
no definitive clinical trials have been conducted and that caution
was prudent.
The panel listed about 30 medical circumstances that would
justify taking ultrasound images of a fetus in the womb. These
included estimating the age of the fetus for women who may have
difficulty with labor or delivery; evaluating the growth of the fetus
in mothers suffering with chronic diseaseg and finding the source of
unexplained maternal bleeding.
world news briefs
Shultz endorses new defense force
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) Secretary of State George P.
Shultz said yesterday the United States expects to support a new
regional defense force being organized by nations of the eastern
Caribbean
Shultz endorsed the concept at a news conference on the last leg
of a five-nation, nine-day swing through Latin America and the
Caribbean.
The prime minister of Dominica, Eugenia Charles, has said that
in some countries a force of 15 well-armed and well-trained men
could seize power by force. The security forces in some of the
smaller countries of
. the area are limited to a few hundred
policemen.,
Shultz discussed the defense force concept during meetings
yesterday with representatives of Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua,
Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts-Nevis and St. Vincent, all of which
have contributed to the Caribbean Peace Force in Grenada.
Shuttle competitors eye mishaps
PARIS (AP) One group of scientists is not surprised or overly
sorry the U.S. shuttle Challenger has lost two satellites worth $lO5
million in space the men and women who make and market the
rival European Ariane rocket booster.
"A failure in outer space affects everyone, so it is wrong to say
we are jubilant," said Frederic D'Allest, president of Arianespace,
which sells space atop the booster built by the 11-nation European
Space Agency. "But this makes three disasters for the space
shuttle against only two for Ariane."
The commercial effect of these failures "is too early to predict,"
D'Allest said. But he said it could have an important impact on the
European share of the 250 telecommunications and data-transmis
sion satellites the European Space Agency estimates will be
launched this decade.
Since the Ariane's 1979 maiden launch from Kourou, French
Guiana, two missions have been aborted, resulting in the loss of
four satellites, including Marecs-A and Sirio-2.
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Street rolled up a $27 billion 2,021
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more than 15 months.
The decline erased early Down
gains and worsened late in the 1,217
session.
The Dow Jones average, up • NYSE Index '
6.18 points Tuesday, gained 90.09 - 1.57
another 1.88 in the opening 30 • Dow Jones Industrials
minutes, but finished the day cp 1,156.30 - 24.19
with a loss of 24.19 points.
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