Arabs bring terror into the heart of Jerusalem
By ARTHUR MAX
Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM Three Arab
gunmen rampaged down a busy
Jerusalem street yesterday, firing
automatic weapons and hurling
hand grenades in a 10-minute terror
spree that wounded 48 people, police
said. They said bystanders shot and
killed one attacker and police
captured the two others.
Police and hospital officials said
one victim was in critical condition
and another was seriously wounded,
but most other injuries were minor.
The Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, a hard-line
faction of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, claimed responsibility
for the attack in communiques
issued from Damascus, Syria.
The attackers ran down King
George Street in the commercial
heart of west Jerusalem, throwing
four hand grenades, firing at
random with a submachine gun and
attacking at least one bus, according
to witnesses and police.
Israel Television charactetized
the operation as a suicide attack, but
police spokesman Moshe
Alexandroni declined to define the
attack as a suicide mission because
two of the three attackers had tried
to escape.
It was the first such random
shooting attack in the Jewish sector
of Jerusalem, although it has
suffered bombings in the past.
"This is something new," said
Interior Minister Yosef Burg, who is
in charge of the police. "We will
Down, but not out
The graffiti on the wall surrounding the empty, old Johnstown High School echoes a message of a city faced with one of the
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State job picture looks good for Class of 'B4
Editor's Note: This is the second of
a three-part series concerning the
potential job market for the Class
of 1984. Today's story examines job
availabilty on state and local
levels. Tomorrow the final
installment will examine the
University's role in' employment.
By ALICE RUDOLPH
Collegian Staff Writer
As the nation goes, so goes the
state and the region at least in
the area of job availability this
year.
Just as the job picture is looking
better on a national level for people
seeking employment this year,
those who want to stay in
Pennsylvania or the State College
area may also have an easier time
finding jobs.
Norma Gavin, editor of the
Pennsylvania Business Survey,
said the average state
unemployment rate for 1982 was
10.9 percent. In January 1983
unemployment went as high as 13.2
percent, but by December 1983 the
state unemployment rate was
down to 10.4 percent. The state
unemployment rate stood at 9.4
percent in February 1984, Gavin
the
daily
have to learn from this."
Burg initially identified the three
attackers as Arabs from Lebanon,
but later the Interior Ministry said it
was not sure where they came from.
The rampage began in a
sportswear shop on King George
Street. Shop owner Claude Danon
said two men, speaking Arabic
accented English and carrying
traveling bags, entered to buy jeans
At the sound of a shout from
outside, he said, they burst out of a
dressing room "one of them didn't
have time to pull up his jeans"
brandished a gun at an employee
and fired into the street from the
doorway. Then they ran outside in
opposite directions, Danon said.
A third man up the street was
crouched and pivoting on one knee,
shooting in all directions, said a
passer-by, Sharon Edison. "I tried to
come up on him from behind," but
abandoned the attempt when he
found himself facing a submachine
gun, he said.
Larry Tzach said he was walking
into his family's jewelry store when
he heard the gunfire. "I threw my
jacket from my hand, grabbed my
pistol, cocked it and went outside,"
he told reporters.
"Just then I saw the terrorist
running. I began shooting at him. I
hit him several times. He fell,"
Tzach said. His account was
corroborated by two other
witnesses. Police said an off-duty
policeman also shot at the terrorist
The wounded assailant lay in the
street for several minutes. "I
thought he was dead," said Shalom
said. The February figure takes
into account seasonal adjustments,
she said.
Frank G. Clemson, manager of
the State College office of
Pennsylvania State Job Service,
said the labor force is growing but
unemployment is still going down.
"That in itself is a sign that
somebody's getting jobs," Clemson
said.
During the past recession, Gavin
said, the state recovery lagged
behind national indicators by three
to four months. The reason, she
said, is that Pennsylvania has a
higher proportion of industries
hardest hit during the recession,
such as the steel industry, than
other states.
According to statistics for
January 1984, the health services
field provides the highest number,
or 9.7 percent, of non-farm, non
government jobs in Pennsylvania,
Gavin said. Eating and drinking
establishments provide the second
highest number of jobs, and
wholesale trade of durable goods is
third.
But Gavin said no blanket
statements can be made as to
which part of the state is best for
people seeking jobs because it
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IThe PLO guerrillas) are trying to prove that
their account with us is not yet finished. Well,
our account with them is not finished, either.'
Hendler; another shopkeeper.
"Suddenly, he got up very slowly.
His face was covered with blood. He
leaned down and took another
grenade from the bag and ran down
the street," said Hendler.
"He saw me and began to swear at
me in Arabic," said Tzach. "As he
pulled the pin, he ran down the street
to the corner," toward Jaffa Road.
Eli Cohen, an insurance salesman
and former paratrooper, said he
chased the terrorist, firing his pistol.
"I think I hit him at least once,"
Cohen told Israel Television in an
interview from his hospital bed.
Cohen said he pursued the
wounded attacker behind a bus
stopped at the corner. The terrorist
turned and waved the grenade at
him, but did not throw it. The two
men ran toward each other, Cohen
said.
"When he was one yard away
from me, my gun jammed," he said.
"I hit him in the head with the pistol
and he fell to the ground. When he
fell, the grenade dropped from his
hand."
Cohen said he ran around the bus
for protection, shouting to others to
take cover. The grenade exploded
and he was hit, apparently by
Photo by Paul
depends on the degree a person has
and the type of work for which a
person is searching.
Looking t overall statistics,
eastern Pennsylvania has a much
lower unemployment rate, Gavin
said. The western part of the state
has more of the industries hardest
hit during the recession, she said.
However those statistics do not
take into account whether a person
has a college degree, she added, so
other parts of the state may have
more jobs available for people
depending on which field they have
their degree in.
Guy Houghtaling, district
manager of Sherry D'George
Enterprises, 111 S. Allen St., said
the closer a person gets to
Washington, D.C., the better the
job opportunities because of the
greater availability of government
jobs there, especially for people
with technical degrees.
According to Houghtaling,
people with non-technical degrees
will still not have an easy time this
year. However, he said that having
a college degree definitely does
give a person an edge in the job
market.
Gavin agrees that a college
degree does present a person with
—Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek
shrapnel that flew underneath the
bus.
The driver of the bus, Aref Abu
Sharekh, said he had stopped and
left the wheel to help a wounded
victim lying in his path. Sharekh, a
Palestinian from a West Bank
village, said he was shot in th leg.
Reporters later saw medics
treating the dying terrorist.
City police commander Raha im
Comfort said one of the two othe
guerrillas was captured fleeing o
foot about a half-mile from the
attack scene. The third was stopp
in a car at a roadblock three miles
away.
Among the communiques issued
by the Democratic Front was one
claiming its agents seized hostages
at the Tourism Ministry building
and saying Israeli troops stormed
the building "without caring about
the lives of the hostages."
But witnesses said the shooting
was about 100 yards from the
ministry and that there was no
attempt to take hostages.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
vowed that the assailants and those
who sent them "will be punished to
the full extent of the law."
Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek
Clinger defends Reagan's policies
By MIKE NETHERLAND
Dollegiap Btaff Writer
Rep. William F. Clinger Jr. R-Centre, speaking
extemporaneously last night on a list of issues he
solicited from his audience of University College
Republicans, defended steel mergers and President
Reagan's Central American policy.
If this country is going to compete in a world steel
market, Clinger said, mergers that lead to
modernization and increased productivity should be
allowed to happen. The generous labor negotiations of
the last decade leading to high wages in the U.S. steel
industry is up against the cheap labor of gcivernment
subsidized foreign competitors, he said.
Mergers into unrelated industries that do not,
increase productivity, such as the U.S. Steel Corp. and
Marathon Oil, should not receive the same treatment.
"We need to take a harder look at what anti-trust
laws are doing to make us uncompetitive," he said.
He aknowledged that the steel industry, as with all
capital intensive industries, is slow coming out of the
recession. "But when we do come back, clearly there
will be less people employed," in this industry. After
this "shaking out" the big challenge will be to retrain
the unemployed for work in other areas, Clinger said.
He is optimistic that the surplus of labor will be taken
up by the current surge of new small business in the
state which, he said, accounts for 80 percent of the jobs
in this country.
"Pennsylvania generated more new small business
last year than all but two states in the country. This is
where our future lies," he said. But, he added, the labor
surplus will, by 1990, be replaced by a labor shortage,
according recent labor projections.
"The baby boom is over," he said, and women and
minorities will become the new labor supply.
different opportunities. A person
"certainly would have a different
income and different job
responsibilities with a degree," she
said.
But, "Even with a degree, if a
person doesn't have the
appearance, aggressiveness and
the `go-get-it-ness,' they're as
common as a high school
graduate," Houghtaling said.
Houghtaling said the D'George
employment agency has received
50 percent more requests from
companies this year that are
seeking employees, he said.
Locally, the employment picture
is better this year, Houghtaling
said, but it is also more
One of 48 victims of a terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem yesterday is
transferred to an ambulance. Medics arrived on the scene minutes after the
ten minute rampage through crowded King George Street.
said the PLO guerrillas, "are trying
to prove that their account with us is
not yet finished. Well, our account
with them is not finished, either."
In the past, Israel has retaliated
for terrorist incidents by attacking
suspected guerrilla targets. On
Sunday, Israeli artillery shelled
alleged guerrilla headquarters in
Syrian-held Lebanese territory to
avenge attacks on Israeli troops.
One Democratic Front
competitive. For each position
opening up locally, he said, more
people are competing for the jobs.
Local employment figures are
higher this year than for the same
time last year.
For a few months in 1983,
unemployment in the county
reached 13 percent, but the figure
is now down to 8 percent, Clemson
said.
The unemployment figure for the
Centre Region is 5 percent.
Clemson said the unemployment
rate for the region has never been
too high because the University is
the main employer, which is a
stabilizing factor. Next to the
University, the fastest growing
employment opportunities locally
are in the retail and service
industries, he said.
For students graduating with
engineering degrees local
employment opportunites look
good for them, Clemson said.
However, because of the
University's job placement
program, the job requests from
college graduates at the local Job
Service office are "a drop in the
bucket compared to what needs
are," Clemson stated.
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communique said the attack was
mounted by "commando units of the
martyrs of Sabra and Chatilla Force
in the DFLP," a reference to the
massacre of hundreds of civilian
Palestinians and Lebanese Moslems
in west Beirut's refugee camps.
In Washington, State Department
spokesman John Hughes said the
United States "deplores and
condemns this calculated act of
violence."
Conceding that the first year of Reagan's foreign
policy was marred by confusion, Clinger said there is
more coherence now. But in the "clearly
controversial" Central American policy, he said, "we
are on the side of the angels Democracy."
The democratic process that the El Salvadoran
rebels so far have boycotted because they see no
chance of winning "is what we are trying to support,"
he said. The guerrillas want to talk power-sharing,
instead of participating in the elections, Clinger said.
Meanwhile, he condemned what he called an
"intolerable delay in justice," for the murders of four
American nuns and two American land reform
advisers, and other murders suspected of "death
squads" in El Salvador. He said Reps. Clarence Long,
D-MD, and Mickey Edwards, R-OK, stated they will
not support U.S. aid to El Salvador "until justice is
done." Both representatives are on the House
Appropriations Committee.
Clinger also supported the Central American reform
guidelines of the so-called "Contadora group" over the
reforms suggested by the Kissinger Commission tm
Latin America because of the Contadora's indigenous
base. The Contadora reforms would be the basis of long
term solutions in that region, he said.
On budgetary matters, Clinger said, "I'll support any
budget proposal that would result in big reductions in
the deficit, within reason."
He conceded that a 13 percent increase for the
Pentagon is too high but that anything below 5-6
percent is unreasonable. This year, he said, "we've
gone just about as far as we can go in domestic cuts,"
but the numerous entitlement programs "are eating us
to death" and something will have to be done.
"Whoever is president next year will want to (cut
entitlements) in the first year," he said.
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became law in August 1982, de
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Any morning sunshine will give
way to thickening clouds today.
It will be mild with a high of 54.
Rain will arrive this evening and
continue throughout the day to
morrow. It will be breezy with a
low tonight of 37 and a high
tomorrow near 46.
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