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Israelis raid 2 Lebanese villages .
By JOHN EDLIN armored personnel carriers and jeeps mounted years ago to smash Palestinian guerrilla strong-
Associated Press Writer with machineguns, witnesses said. holds. Several hundred Israelis remain in the
Witnesses told state radio the troops and Israe- buffer zone to support the South Lebanon Army.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Israeli troops in helicopt- li-backed militiamen torched a mosque, houses The reported assaults were the first by Israel
er gunships and armored personnel carriers and stores and looted homes of money and inside Lebanon since Israeli warplanes on July 10
stormed two villages in southern Lebanon yester- jewelry. They said about 100 inhabitants fled to strafed and bombed Palestinian refugee camps
day, killing and capturing civilians suspected of nearby hills, leaving a few elderly men behind. near the northern port of Tripoli, killing 24 people
supporting anti-Israeli Moslem militias, wit- No casualties were reported. and wounding 87. That action was evidently in
nesses said. An army spokesman in Tel Aviv said he had no retaliation for two suicide car bombings that
Lebanon's state radio' said Israeli troops de- information about a second raid. killed 13 civilians and two SLA militiamen.
scended by helicopter on the Shiite Moslem During a search of Qabrikha, the troops "iden- Lebanon's state radio said several villagers
village of Qabrikha, and conducted a house-to- tified a terrorist squad and in the ensuing fire- were wounded in the Qabrikha assault.
house search that left at least three villagers fight one terrorist was killed," said one source in It also reported that Israeli gunners pounded
dead. Tel Aviv, who declined to be identified. two other southern Lebanon villages, Hariss and
Qabrikha is on the fringe of an Israeli self- Tim Goskel, spokesman for the United Nations Srobbin, in the U.N.-policed zone. No casualties
designated buffer zone in southern Lebanon, set Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, said were immediately reported.
up after Israel completed its troop pullout from Israeli soldiers confronted five men before dawn Police in Lebanon's capital of Beirut mean-
Lebanon last month. and killed three of them. while reported that at least eight people perished
In Tel Aviv, military sources said one guerrilla The area is patrolled by U.N. peacekeepers and 19 were wounded in a two-day battle between
was killed in a clash between Israeli troops and from Ghana. rival Druse factions in southeastern Lebanon.
"a terrorist squad" at Qabrikha. Israeli sources, who refused to be identified, Syrian troops, in Lebanon under a 1976 Arab
In a second attack, 11 miles northeast of said an Israeli patrol found rocket Munchers League mandate to stop a civil war still being
Qabrikha, Israeli troops firing automatic weep- near Qabrikha. fought between Christians and Moslems, inter
ons and backed by militiamen of the South Israel withdrew most of its forces from its vened and organized a truce in the Bekaa Valley,
Lebanon Army swept through Sejoud village in northern neighbor after invading Lebanon three a police statement said.
No Kid Stuff
J.J. Hall, left of Effingham, 111., and Jennifer McMahon of Watson, Ili., sit back nickel a glass, the two budding entrepreneurs provided a bargain thirst
and wait foi customers at their lemonade stand In Effingham recently. For only a quencher.
•
Peres hopes to restore .ties with USSR
By ARTHUR MAX meeting of their foreign ministers during the In the leaked report, Israel Radio said Moscow
Associated Press Writer United Nations General Assembly in October. dropped as a condition for resuming NOiPlomatic
The Israeli and Soviet foreign ministers have ties that Israel evacuate all Arab territory occu-
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Shimon Per- met frequently at the annual meeting in New pied in 1967, and that the Soviets suggested
es is sending a message to Soviet leader Mikhail York, said the officials, who spoke on condition of instead a compromise over the occupied Golan
S. Gorbachev saying he hoped their two countries anonymity. Heights.
could reach agreement on a wide range of They said a meeting between Israel's Yitzhak Moscow cut relations with Israel over the 1967
subjects, Israel Radio said yesterday. Shamir and newly appointed Soviet Foreign Arab-Israeli war.
Peres entrusted the oral message to Edgar Minister Eduard Shevardnadze would be one of The radio reported the Soviet Ambassador to
Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Con- several meetings between Shamir and top offi- Paris, Yuli Voronitsov, also said Moscow would
gress, who is due to visit Moscow next month, the ' cials from countries with no official ties' with relax its emigration restrictions for Jews if
radio reported. Israel. Jewish organizations stopped anti-Soviet propa
•
Peres told Bronfman' at a July 15 meeting in The Israeli daily Hadashot yesterday said the ganda.
Jerusalem that Israel wanted a renewal of the Soviets will likely cancel the meeting following Peres refused to answer a question about the
diplomatic ties which the Soviets severed in 1967. publication Friday of secret talks last week meeting between Voronitsov and Israeli envoy
Peres was quoted by a participant in the meeting between the Israeli and Soviet ambassadors to Ovadia Sofer when asked about it at yesterday's
as saying Israel saw the new leadership of France. Cabinet meeting, said Cabinet Secretary Yossi
Gorbachev as a "new opportunity" for establish- However, Israeli officials yesterday said dis- Beilin.
ing ties. cussions with the Soviets about a meeting be- Beilin added that Shamir did not report to the
Government officials said earlier that Israel tween foreign ministers are continuing despite Cabinet on the meeting and the ministers may
and the Soviet Union were trying to arrange a the leak. discuss the matter at a later date.
U.S. PLO ban could end with meeting
By JOHN RICE man, speaking on condition of ano- Palestinians a position most raelis at an international confer-
Associated Press Writer ' nymity, said a major point was that Arab states have honored ever ence.
if Richard Murphy, the assistant since.. The major prod to American ac-
AMMAN, Jordan The planned U.S. secretary of state, met the The United States has held secret tion came Feb. 11, when Jordan's
U.S. meeting with a Jordanian-Pal- delegation, "even if they don't meetings with PLO representatives King Hussein won PLO commit
estinian delegation for Middle East agree on anything, they'll have since 1973, but it has never openly ment to a diplomatic search for
peace talks brings the Americans talked together." negotiated with the PLO and contin- peace and creation of a Palestinian
close to ending their 12-year ban on American officials are studying a ues to oppose a separate Palestin- state confederated with Jordan.
recognizing the Palestine Liber- list of possible delegates to the ian state a PLO condition for In return, Israel would have to
ation Organization. meeting, which could take place as recognition of Israel. give up all land it seized in the 1967
"What is important is for the early as this week if the Americans Jordan sees the path to peace Arab-Israeli war and drop its oppo
delegation to create a breakthrough accept the candidates as non-PLO leading to a U.N.-sponsored peace sition to dealing with the PLO,
between the PLO and the Ameri- members. conference uniting Syria, Jordan, which Israel views as a terrorist
cans," said Palestinian newspaper Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and the organization.
editor Hanna Siniora in a recent Israel told his Cabinet in Jerusalem PLO with the United States, Brit- The political party of Foreign
interview with Radio Israel. His yesterday he expected clarifica- ain, France, China and the Soviet Minister Yitzhak Shamir, due to
name has been mentioned in the tions from the United States con- Union. become prime minister next year,
Israeli press as a possible delegate cerning the list, a Cabinet The Americans prefer a different opposes giving back any of the
to the intended meeting. spokesman said. path: direct Israeli-Arab negotia- occupied lands.
American officials insist they will The spokesman did not describe tions. Efforts to bring Israel to the
not take part in peace negotiations the nature of the clarifications. Oth- They also fear that recognizing peace table before Shamir's acces
without Israel. They say they would er Israeli officials said one clarifi- the PLO would drive Israel from sion are complicated by fear that a
accept the PLO only if it recognizes cation might be that Jordan had the peace process. controversy over peace talks could
Israel's right to exist and accepts asked the Reagan administration to The PLO insists that delegates to bring down Israel's coalition gov
two U.N. resolutions that imply the choose only four Palestinians from even the first meeting must be PLO ernment and that the Likud bloc,
same. the list of seven. Henry Kissinger, . representatives, and that PLO off i- led by Shamir, might win a new
But the potential meeting has led then the secretary of state, prom- cials participate equally with other election.
to protests from Israeli leaders, ised Israel in 1973 that the United parties throughout negotiations. "On balance, I'm, optimistic the
who have ruled out concessions to States would shun the PLO until it Because of Israeli opposition to Americans will meet with the joint
the PLO and insist Israel must be recognized Israel's right to exist. the delegates proposed by Hussein, Jordanian-Palestinian delegation,"
part of any peace meetings with That year an Arab summit de- Siniora and others have suggested a the Western diplomat said. "But
Jordan. dared the PLO to be the sole legiti- second group could take part in there comes a stage that you have
One Western diplomat in Am- mate representative of the further meetings involving the Is- to bring in the Israelis."
Dole: Congress may
not agree on budget
White House fpllowing abdominal
cancer surgery, Reagan yester
day began making a series of
WASHINGTON, D.C. Despite phone calls in an effort to pressure
President Reagan's plans to re- Congress to get moving on deficit
enter the budget battle on Capitol reduction.
Hill, two congressional leaders "The president this afternoon
said yesterday it may be too late to has initiated some calls to mem
rescue this year's deficit-reduc- bers of the Senate, asking them to
tion effort. allow a vote on the line-item veto,"
Senate Majority Leader Robert which faces the threat of a contin-
Dole, R-Kan., said there is a likeli- ued filibuster, White House
hood that Congress will not be able spokesman Peter Roussel said.
to agree on a budget for the corn- Roussel added that Reagan
ing fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. "might make as many as half a
Appearing yesterday on NBC's dozen calls."
Meet the Press, Dole said, "I Ten minutes before he checked
wouldn't want to indicate today out of Bethesda Naval Hospital on
that we're very optimistic. I think Saturday, Reagan told the nation
we're less than 50-50." in his regular radio address, "I'll
Rep. William H. Gray 111, D-Pa., tell you what I think of the House
chairman of the House Budget budget proposal so far. I hope it
Committee, refined those pessi- gets well soon."
mistic odds. Dole, meanwhile, said Senate
"I'd say our chances have Republicans now are counting on
moved from 50-50 to unfortunately Reagan's help to resolve the bud
-65-35 to have a budget at all," get impasse or finally bring the
Gray said in an interview brodcast issue to a head.
yesterday on the Mutual Radio "My view is that the president
Network. can sort of step into the breech
Conferees from the House and now (that he is) home from the
Senate, seeking to draft a compro- hospital and maybe put it togeth
mise version of 1986 fiscal year er, if he does it very quickly," Dole
budgets passed by each chamber, said.
will try to revive their stalled talks "We can use Ronald Reagan" to
this week. clarify a previous framework
But there is little indication of a agreed to with congressional lead
solution to the problems that ers and budget negotiators and
brought the bargaining to an acri- press the House to agree to further
monious halt last week. domestic spending cuts, he said.
The budget talks broke down Dole said Senate Republicans
last Wednesday after Senate nego- will make "another serious, credi
tiators rejected a House compro- ble, counter-offer" to the House
mise offer as not providing enough this week.
serious domestic spending cuts. "If the president supports that
Senators also said the offer vio- effort, then I think we've sort of
lated an agreement with the presi- reached showdown time. This is it,
dent on military spending. or it's not it. And if it's not going to
House negotiators replied that happen, we ought to say so and get
the senators were constantly shift- on with our work," he said.
ing their bargaining position and, Dole added that time is running
perhaps, were not interested in out for an agreement before Con
having a budget at all. gress begins a month long recess
The day after his return to the on Aug. 2. ' •
By CUFF HAAS
Associated Press Writer
Archbishop claims
4 killed by leftists
By REID G. MILLER
Associated Press Writer
SAN SALVADOR, El Salyador
The archbishop of San Salvador
said yesterday that leftist guerril
las captured and killed four men,
then kidnapped 25 people who
went to claim the bodies.
Monsignor Arturo Rivera y
Damas cited the incident in de
ploring what he called the tempta
tion on both sides in El Salvador's
nearly 6-year-old civil war to try to
"gain peace with methods of vio
lence."
He made the remarks in his
weekly homily to hundreds of Ro
man Catholic worshipers at the
capital's Metropolitan Cathedral.
The archbishop called again for
the left-wing rebels and the gov
ernment to return to peace talks in
"a sincere, clear, loyal dialogue,
animated by good will and in a
spirit of authentic patriotism."
"It cannot be denied that many
Salvadorans have lost confidence
in the dialogue and have arrived at
Out of this world
High School teacher Christa McAuliffe greets family and friends at the
Manchester Airport In Manchester, N.H. Friday night. McAuliffe was announced
Friday as the first citizen to go aboard the Space Shuttle.
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Monday, July 22, 1985
the conviction that a third round of
talks is impossible or useless," he
added.
The government and the rebels
held two rounds of peace talks late
last year, but a third meeting ,has
been stalled for months by a dis
pute between the two sides over
the site and subject matter.
In his account of the killings and
abductions, Rivera y Damas said
that on Friday "the guerrillas
captured and killed Mr. Adrian
Solorzano, the father of an official,
and three other people" in a vilage
near Jucuapa, 80 miles east of San
Salvador.
"The following day, 25 people
from Jucuapa came to recover the
bodies to give them a Christian
burial, and the guerrillas took
them hostage," he added.
An estimated 60,000 Salvadorans
have been killed since fighting
broke out between left-wing guer
rillas and the rightistAominated
army in 1980. Many victims were
labor organizers, student leaders
and suspected leftists slain by
right-wing death squads.
state news briefs
Gunfire did not kill MOVE members
PHILADELPHIA (AP) None of the 11 deaths inside the
MOVE compound during the May 13 seige has been attributed to
gunfire, according to results of the final autopsy report released
by the city's health commissioner.
"No bullet fragments have been found in the remains," Health
Commissioner Stuart H. Shapiro said in a telephone interview
Saturday. "At this time there is no reason to believe the cause of
death was gunfire."
Although new evidence could surface, Shapiro said, the autop
sies have been completed and "we don't anticipate going back to
the (autopsy) report" to amend it.
The remains of seven adults and four children were found at the
primitivist cult's fortified house, one of 61 homes burned in a fire
that broke out May 13 after police bombed the compound.
But Dr. Halbert Fillinger, an assistant medical examiner, said
Saturday the three victims he studied died from a combination of
carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation.
nation news briefs
China president visits U.S.
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) Li Xiannian yesterday be
came the first Chinese president to visit the United States,
entering the country at this popular tourist resort for the start of
an 11-day visit.
Li, 80, who had just concluded a 10-day trip through Canada,
was met on the Rainbow Bridge linking the United States and
Canada by Mayor Michael O'Laughlin.
Tomarrow, Li is to meet with President Reagan in Washington.
His agenda includes stops at Chicago; Los Angeles; Pasadena,
Calif.; and Honolulu. before departing for China on July 31.
O'Laughlin was accompanied by Arthur W. Hummel Jr., the
U.S. ambassador to China as he greeted Li, saying "Welcome to
Niagara Falls and New York State," partly in Chinese.
O'Laughlin said he had learned the Chinese word for "wel
come" minutes before.
Administration may hurt Blacks
WASHINGTON, D.C.(AP) The president of the National
Urban League, contending that relations between blacks and the
Reagan administration have reached a new low, called yesterday
for a "new working relationship" with the White House,
Black Americans are suffering under administration moves to
cut social programs and efforts to scrap affirmative action hiring
and promotion goals, John E. Jacob, told a press conference
before the start of the league's annual conference.
"We're not calling for a meeting with the president, but for
regular, ongoing communications channels with the Cabinet and
agency heads who administer federal programs," he said.
"The administration can't continue to operate as if black people
don't exist," Jacob said in a speech prepared for delivery last
night.
"The Republican Party, lookng ahead to 1988, can't allow
further alienation of black voters.... So the time is ripe to repair
the fences and start communicating."
Jacob also announced plans for a massive demonstration
tomarrow at the South African Embassy to protest Pretoria's
apartheid policy and to urge stronger administration action
against the practice of racial discrimination in that country.
Many Russians in U.S. are spies
WASHINGTON, D.O (AP) A Russian master spy who
defected to the West estimated last night that as many as 40
percent of Soviet diplomats and tourists traveling in the United
States are intelligence officials.
To curtail such activities, said former KGB officer Stanislav
Levchenko, the number of Soviet workers and visitors in the
United States should be cut to the same number accepted by the
Soviet Union.
"I think the act of making the number of U.S. diplomats and
Soviet diplomats in Moscow and Washington equal can be a great
help for reducing the scale of Soviet espionage," Levchenko said
on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley."
"I would say from 35 to 40 percent of the Soviet officials,
travelers, tourists in this country are intelligence officers," he
said.
Levchenko, filmed in shadows so his face could not be seen, said
the KGB has been trying to kill him since he defected to the
United States after a job recruiting Soviet spies in Japan.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, said on the ABC program, "I find
when I'm giving speeches about the fact there's a lot of spies here
over —a thousand KGB agents in this country, more than that
actually —people think you're talking about some fantasy out of
the 'sos.
world news briefs "
Air-India crash still a mystery
NEW DELHI, India (AP) A week after they began evaluat
ing flight recorders retrieved from the ocean, experts were
unable to say what caused the Air-India jetliner to crash into the
Atlantic last month with the loss of 329 lives.
Indian officials have said they believe the June 23 crash was
caused by a bomb. But Judge B.N. Kirpal, who heads the inquiry
into the disaster, told reporters Friday in Bombay that the
cockpit voice recorder and the one that monitored the Boeing
747's flight instruments "neither prove nor disprove" the sab
otage theory.
U.S. and Indian investigators say they will now focus on the
wreckage and on voice tapes recorded by air controllers at
Ireland's Shannon International Airport who were in contact with
the jetliner when it crashed off the Irish coast. The jumbo jet was
en route to India from Canada with a scheduled stop in London
when it crashed off the Irish coast.
The "black boxes" containing the recorders were retrieved
from more than a mile beneath the surface by a submersible
robot and were flown to Bombay for analysis at the Air-India
computer center and the Bhabha Atomic Research Center.
After listening to the voice tape last Tuesday, S.N. Sharma,
secretary of the inquiry, told reporters the cockpit conversation
' was normal until it came to a "sudden and abrupt end."
Saudis push for lower crude prices
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) Saudi Arabia's oil minister said
yesterday he would press the Organization of Petroleum Export
ing Countries to reduce prices of lower-quality heavy crudes.
"It's a must for us" to widen the gap between prices for top
quality and lower-quality oils, Ahmed Zaki Yamani told report
ers.
Yaniani added that the size of his proposed reduction would be
discussed at Monday's summer OPEC conference.
The official price of Saudi Arabia's lower-grade crude currently
is $26.50 a barrel, $1.50 more than it fetches in the open market.
This gap has prompted the Saudis' usual customers to shop
elsewhere.
Saudi Arabia's top-grade oil sells for $2B a barrel.
Mohammad Gharazi, the oil minister of Iran, told reporters he
would oppose any price cut. He advocated a 7 percent cut in
OPEC production to about 14.9 million barrels a day to keep
prices up.
But the Venezuelan delegate, Arturo Hernandez Grisanti, told
reporters his country would not agree to any cut in the production
ceiling of 16 million barrels a day.
The disagreement suggested the 13 OPEC countries may be
unable to resolve their problem of dwindling sales and income.
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