stote/rmtiot.ilWoo4 Terrorists American By JOHN WINN MILLER Associated Press Writer ROME Terrorists killed the American director of the multina tional force that patrols the Sinai peninsula, blowing in the rear window of his bulletproof car with machine-gun fire as it pulled up to his home last evening. At least two people jumped from a trailing car, attacked Leamon R. Hunt's limousine at point-blank' range, then fled W. foot, police and witnesses said. A group demand ing that all "imperialist forces" leave Lebanon claimed responsi bility. Hunt, a 56-year-old career diplo mat, was pronounced dead at San Giovanni Hospital at 8:12 p.m. (2:12 EST), a little more than an hour after he was shot. Hunt is the first American offi cial and the seventh diplomat killed by terrorists in Italy since 1976. The most recent was the Libyan ambassador to Rome, Am mar Al Taggazy, who was shot by two gunmen Jan. 21 and died last Friday without regaining con sciousness. The Fighting Communist Party, a group usually identified with the Red Brigades urban terrorists, claimed responsibility for the shooting in an anonymous tele phone call to a Milan - radio station. "This is the Fighting Commu nist Party," a male voice with a Roman accent told Radio Popo lare. "We must claim the attempt on Gen. Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements. The im perialist forces must leave Leb anon. Italy must leave NATO. No murder diplomat to the installation of missiles in Comiso." The missiles in Comiso refer to 112 U.S.-built cruise nuclear mis-. siles being installed in Sicily as part of NATO's plans to counter Soviet missiles aimed at Western Europe. Police and Italian news agencies initially incorrectly identified Hunt as an American general. Witnesses at the scene told The Associated Press that Hunt was just pulling up to his home on Via Sudafrica, a three-story building with an electronic metal gate, when the shooting occurred. He was being followed by a blue Fiat 128, said the witnesses, who refused to give their names.At least two unidentifed men jumped out of the Fiat and opened fire with automatic weapons against the back window of Hunt's bullet proof Alfa Romeo. Police sources said they be lieved the first burst of machine gun fire did not pierce the window, and the gunmen then moved closer and opened fire at point-blank range at the window on Hunt's side of the car. Witnesses said, Hunt's driver backed the car up and then sped off to a hospital through the wind ing; quiet streets in a residential neighborhood about six miles from the center of Rome. The two gunmen fled on foot, leaving their own car behind, the witnesses said. They said it was too dark to describe the gunmen accurately. Dozens of police searched the neighborhood, but found no trace of the gunmen. Pucker up • A young admirer plants a kiss on a massive enlargement of Tom Seileck'spicture during a nationwide contest launched by Warner Bros. to find the girl with the most kissable lips. The event, held in Hollywood on Tuesday, was a promotion for Selleck's upcoming movie, "Lassiter." ~; . ~' ~. Department intends to block steel merger By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Justice Department said yesterday it would sue if necessary to block the proposed $770 million merger of LTV Corp? and Republic • Steel Corp. into the nation's second largest steelmaker. Increased foreign competition is not great enough to overcome the risk of domestic collusion to in crease steel prices, Assistant At torney- General J. 'Paul McGrath said in ruling on his first major merger since - taking over the de partment's antitrust division two months ago. McGrath told a news conference that lawyers for the two compa nies have agreed to delay the merger while they consider their next move. The two companies declined im mediate comment, and McGrath said he had no indication whether they will drop the deal, try to proceed with it and fight the de partment in court, or attempt the substantial restructuring of the deal that• would be necessary to meet the department's objections. "The American steel industry is in a state of crisis. It has a very difficult time competing in the world market," McGrath said. "I am totally unconvinced, however, that revitalizing the steel industry requires the proposed merger." . • AP Laserphoto McGrath said he had rejected the companies' contention that increased foreign competition jus tified the merger. He said that, even counting the foreign imports, the increase in concentration, of The Daily Collegian Thursday, Feb. 16, . 1984 ownership was larger than allow ed by department guidelines and was considered large enough to raise the threat , of collusion on prices in the steel industry. LTV, a Dallas-based conglomer ate, owns Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., the nation's third-largest steelmaker: Republic, based in Cleveland, is the nation's fourth largest steel producer. The merg er would have created the nation's second-largest steel company, be hihd only U.S. Steel. 'McGrath said he _decided. to re ject the merger irrespective of the effect of a proposed $575 million merger between U.S. Steel and National Steel, the nation's sev enth-largest producer. But his de cision did not bode well for that deal, which also is under review by McGrath's division. , He said that after reaching his decision he calculated what the effect of the two mergers together would be and was reinforced in his view. that LTV-Republic deal should be blocked. "The proposed merger between U.S. Steel and National Steel only intensifies the concern that al ready led to that decision," he said. "The firms that would result from the two proposed mergers would together control close to 50 percent of domestic carbon and alloy steel sheet production." He said he did not mean to imply that the government has decided to oppose the U.S. Steel-National deal but that it would be looking at the same factdrs in that case and "to the extent that this (decision) might give some learning as to other mergers, so be it." state news briefs Steady downfall swells state rivers Scores of people were forced to evacuate their homes yesterday, as warm weather and persistant rains caused rivers and streams throughout Pennsylvania to swell over their banks. No injuries or deaths were reported. The worst flooding occurred in the central part of the state, where the Susquehanna River was past flood stage and still rising. Nancy Sherer of the National Weather Service's River Forcast Center in Harrisburg said many streams and tributaries feeding into the Susquehanna had already crested by noon yesterday. The river itself.was expected to crest at 1 this afternoon at 21 to 22 feet. Flood stage is 17 feet. Transportation official backs axle tax HARRISBURG (AP) Pennsylvania's bridge repair program would be seriously harmed if court challenges to the state's controversial axle tax succeed, a top state official told a Senate panel yesterday. Transportation Secretary Thomas D. Larson said $69 million from the tax is expected this fiscal year to help rebuild "hundreds of bridges on schedule." Without that money, however, the state's bridge program could "collapse," Larson said. Although the state would still get federal money, the $1.4 billion, eight-year program would face "serious problems" without the levy, a department spokesman said. Still, Larson noted that the tax has problems because it is being challenged in'federal court by the American Trucking Association and has led to retaliatory measures against Pennsylvania truckers from eight states. The $36-per-axle tax, which took effect April 1 and is thought to be the first of its kind in the country, must be paid by all trucks of 26,- 000 pounds or more. Industrial production posts gain WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. industrial production rose a healthy 1.1 percent in January in what most economists saw as yet another sign that the pace of the nation's economic growth is not slowing as much as had been feared. The increase was almost double the 0.6 percent rise in December and was the biggest jump since a 1.3 percent surge in September. In further good news, the government also reported Wednesday that sales outpaced the rebuilding of inventories in December, signaling further economic growth as industry works to keep up with increased demand. The two reports were further signs that the pace of the nation's recovery from the 1981-82 recession has not decreased as much as some analysts had believed based on weaker December economic activity. Recent reports have shown retail sales and employment also were up in January. Group calls for Social Security cuts WASHINGTON (AP) A business leaders' group urged Con gress to take another crack at cutting Social Security benefits, saying reforms adopted last year are "too little, too late" and that the system could run short i3f cash again before 1999: A 15-member subcommittee of the Committeeffor Economic Development called for raising the retirement age to 68 by the year 2000 and trimming the annual cost-of-living increases or reducing future retirees' initial benefits. Its report, "Social Security: From Crisis to Crisis?" concludes that even with the $166 billion bipartisan package of tax hikes and benefit cuts that Congress approved last year, there is "very little margin of safety" for the rest of this decade. The Social Security rescue bill does gradually raise the normal retirement age from 65 to 67 in the next century, but the move would not start until 2000 and would not be complete until 2027. The business group said that "is too little, too late," and would put most of the burden on workers now under age 24. FBI studies Salvadoran death squads SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) FBI officials met with high-ranking Salvadoran military officers to discuss formation of a unit to investigate rightist death squads, a high military officer said yesterday. They also were to talk about how to give the Salvadoran government technical assistance in tracking, capturing and pros ecuting the vigilante killers, the military officer said. He spoke on condition that he not be identified for security reasons. The officials, whose names and ranks were unavailable, arrived Tuesday, the, officer said. He did not say if they were still in the country yesterday. A U.S. Embassy spokesman 'said he had no information on the visit. The Salvadoran military high command is forming a 12-member team headed by a lieutenant colonel to investigate the death squads. The Salvadoran government had announced it would create the unit after a Dec. 9 visit by Vice President George Bush, who warned of a cutoff of U.S. military aid unless the squads were reined in. Leaders discuss cease-fire in Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) The United States, Angola and South Africa meet in Zambia today to discuss a lasting cease-fire in the region's 17-year-bush war. Announcement of the one-day meeting came amid reports of plans to have military personnel, including some from the United States, monitor the present, de facto truce in Angola. The war is over South-West Africa, a territory controlled by South Africa despite U.N. calls that the white-minority-government relinquish its rule. The territory is also known as Namibia. In their fight to free the territory, guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization have used bases in southern Angola, a Marxist nation which borders Namibia on the north. South Africa has announced it was withdrawing its soldiers from Angola, where they were fighting SWAPO guerrillas. South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha said the pullout was a first step toward a lasting cease-fire. I. stock report AT&T stocks Volume Shares heavily traded 113,879,840 ...& NEW YORK (AP) The Issues Traded ----_-_-. . -- stock market finished mixed 2,016 yesterday, yielding to some Up late selling amid forecasts of 820 higher interest rates. 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