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Uneasy
By JUANCARLOS GUMUCIO
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Druse and
Shiite militia chieftains harshly en
forced a tense cease-fire among
their gunmen in west Beirut yester
day after five days of fighting. One
Druse commander shot one of his
own men dead for violating the
truce.
The sidewalk execution came af
ter leaders of the Shiite Moslem
Amal militia and the Druse Pro
gressive Socialist Party, pressed by
Syria, warned they would “merci
lessly punish” truce-breakers.
“The PSP and Amal will purge
our own militias and exterminate
those fanatics and extremists who
are playing with the lives of the
citizerts,” Druse leader Walid
Jumblatt declared after meeting
Amal leader Nabih Berri.
Berri told reporters: “Any viola
tion of the cease-fire will be dealt
with severely. We will use force.”
An Associated Press photogra
pher who witnessed the execution
said Druse chieftain Issam Aintre
zi, commander of a joint PSP-Amal
task force policing the truce, shot
the Druse gunman for refusing to
surrender his weapon after a young
Amal fighter was killed.
Aintrezi drew his pistol and shot
the militiaman four times at close
range, then brusquely ordered his
men to get rid of the body.
The truce held through the day as
the joint security force, backed by
tanks, patrolled the streets.
Police said 68 people were killed
and almost 300 wounded in the fight
ing, which erupted last Wednesday
when Druse militiamen tried to tear
down Lebanese flags from govern
ment buildings guarded by Shiite
troops.
The casualties included 15 chil
dren killed in a fire in their apart
ment block started by the fighting,
police said. Firemen could not get
to the building because of the street
battles.
West Beirut residents cautiously
emerged from basement bunkers
and bullet-scarred apartment build
ings yesterday, some for the first
time since Wednesday. They found
streets wrecked by the heaviest
battles in west Beirut since the
U.S. labor locked in debate on Central America
By PETE YOST
AP Labor Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The, AFL-CIO is
embroiled in an increasingly divisive debate
over its stand on U.S. intervention in Central
America, with the labor federation’s leaders
accused by some of their member unions of
being too supportive of the Reagan administra
tion.
The focus of the current controversy is a just
completed month-long tour of the United States
by half a dozen trade unionists from Central
Atlantis crew set
for nighttime launch
By HOWARD BENEDICT
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space
shuttle Atlantis is set to light up the
dark tonight in a liftoff that may be
visible for hundreds of miles as it
speeds toward orbit on a mission to
test space station building tech
niques.
The liftoff of Atlantis and its crew
of six men and one woman is set for
7:29 p.m. EST. If a forecast of clear
skies holds, NASA said, the 700-foot
long tail of fire from the shuttle’s
booster rockets could be visible from
South Carolina to Cuba.
“Weatherwise, we’re setting up for
a really spectacular launch,” said Air
Force Lt. Scott Funk, the shuttle
weather officer. “We should have a
clear beautiful sky with almost a full
moon.”
In the only other nighttime shuttle
launch, in 1983, Challenger brilliantly
illuminated the immediate launch
area, but heavy clouds ruined the
viewing for those in most of the rest of
the state, although the rising ship was
seen in Tampa and in Miami, both
more than 150 miles away.
Atlantis will carry into orbit three
commercial communications satel
lites, Mexico’s first astronaut, a spe
cial camera to search for
underground water in drought-strick
en Africa, a small medicine factory,
materials processing experiments
and 99 aluminum struts that two
space-walking astronauts will assem
ble into a large beam and a small
pyramid.
The astronauts will launch the sa
tellites for the Mexican and Austra-
truce holds in Lebanon
Druse militia chieftain Issam Aintrezi of the Socialist Party puts away his gun after shooting one qf his own soldiers
for violating the latest Lebanese cease-fire. Druse and Shiite leaders warned they would “mercilessly punish”
violators.
militias seized control by pushing
out the Lebanese Army in February
1984.
The Druse, members of a secre
tive sect rooted in Islam, and Ama!
have been allies in the long civil
war against the Christians. But
they have scrapped increasingly in
America, including a Sandinista from Nicara
gua.
AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland urged
members to boycott the tour, saying several of
the Central American labor representatives
are from organizations associated with the
communist-led World Federation of Trade
Unions based in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
However, the East Coast trip was endorsed
by seven presidents of AFL-CIO affiliates. The
trde unionists from Nicaragua, El Salvador,
Honduras and Guatemala urged an end to U.S.
intervention in the region, and the AFL-CIO
lian governments and RCA American
Communications, which are paying
NASA a total of about $3O million for
the delivery service. Mexican astro
naut Rodolfo Neri will be aboard to
observe the release of his country’s
satellite and to conduct several ex
periments.
Once the cargo bay is clear, Jerry
Ross and Sherwood Spring will move
outside the cabin to practice tech
niques for constructing the large per
manent space station the United
States plans for the early 19905. Nine
ty-three rods, resembling giant Tin
kertoy segments, will be snapped
together to form a 45-foot beam. Six
12-foot-long struts will be fashioned
into an inverted pyramid.
During two six-hour space walks,
Ross and Spring will assemble and
disassemble the structures several
times, both while floating free and
with their feet restrained, to compare
the two work methods and to see how
their productivity in weightlessness
improves with practice.
. The other crew members are com
mander Brewster Shaw, Bryan
O’Connor, Mary Cleave and Charles
Walker.
Walker, making his third space
flight, is a McDonnell Douglas engi
neer who is to process a drug called
erythropoietin that could be used to
treat people with red-blood-cell defi
ciencies such as anemia.
The astronauts will use a powerful
camera to search for geological for
mations that might be evidence of
underground water in Ethiopia and
Somalia, African nations where thou
sands have died because of drought.
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recent months for control of mostly
Moslem west Beirut.
After Syria, main backer of both
militias, told Jumblatt and Berri to
control “unruly elements,” the
Amal leader, said that “we shall
bridge the gap” in the shaky alli
ance.
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presidents who backed their tour want U.S. aid
stopped.
“We ask that you not endorse, sponsor or in stand on U.S. intervention in Central America
any way support the Central American trade spilled over into the recent four-day AFL-CIO
union tour,” Kirkland wrote 2'k months ago to convention in Anaheim, Calif,
state and local officials of the AFL-CIO. “The Contra war is supported by Ronald
“We would no more accept and welcome. Reagan and Joseph Coors and every right-wing
WFTU trade unionists than we would accept v nut case in the United States,” said Edward
and welcome Gen. Jaruzelski’s appointed sue- Clark of the New Bedford and Cape Cod Labor
cessor to Lech Walesa,” AFL-CIO spokesman Council in Massachusetts. “This organization
Rex Hardesty said last week. Jaruzelski is should be on the side of no additional military
Poland’s Communist Party leader and Walesa aid to El Salvador and no aid in any form to the
is the founder of Solidarity, the Polish trade fascist Contras.”
People in west Beirut, victims of
a string of wars between rival mili
tias over the past 19 months, were
despondent yesterday.
“Everybody lost. I’m’ ruined,”
lamented Mohammed Zbeity, 60, as
he dug through the smoldering ru
ins of his toy shop.
NS A ex-employee
arrested for spying
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A former
National Security Agency commu
nications specialist, originally impli
cated by turnabout defector Vitaly
Yurchenko, has told the FBI he sold
U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and
became on Monday the fourth Ameri
can arrested on espionage charges in
five days.
Early yesterdayb Monday at an
Annapolis, Md., hotel, the FBI ar
rested Ronald William Pelton, 44,
who worked from 1965 to 1979 for the
super-secret NSA, which spies on
foreign communications and breaks
codes.
In a court affidavit, FBI agent
David Faulkner said Pelton told the
FBI in an interview Sunday that he
met with KGB officer Anatoly Slav
nov on several occasions from Jan
uary 1980 through January 1983.
Pelton admitted receiving cash from
Slavnov several times, including a
$15,000 payoff as a result of a trip to
Vienna, Austria, in January 1983,
according to the affidavit.
A federal source, who requested
anonymity, said Pelton had been
fired by the NSA for reasons not
linked to the charges against him.
Several sources’said Pelton was the
second former U.S. intelligence offi
cial whose work for the Soviets was
disclosed by Vitaly Yurchenko, the
KGB general-designate who defected
to the West on Aug. 1 and returned to
the Soviet Union three months later.
The FBI said Pelton went to the
Soviet Embassy in Washington in
January 1980 to offer to spy for the
Soviets in return for cash. On that
occasion, the FBI said, he provided
information about “a United States
intelligence collection project tar
geted at the Soviet Union.”
AP Laserphoto
Pelton had serious financial trou
bles at about the time he, allegedly
decided to begin his espionage activ
ities, having filed for bankruptcy in
April 1979, the affidavit said.
The Pelton arrest came on a day
replete with spy developments in the
capital:
• The United States concluded a
spy swap with Ghana, allowing Mi
chael A. Soussoudis, 39, a cousin of
Ghana’s military leader Lt. Jerry
union movement outlawed by Jaruzelski
The ongoing tension over the federation’s
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Ronald William Pelton
Rawlins, to return to Ghana while
close to 10 Ghanaians “of interest to
the United States” were allowed to fly
to an unidentified African country.
Soussoudis pleaded no contest to
charges under the espionage act and
was sentenced to 20 years in prison,
but that was reduced to time served
since his arrest July 10.
His former lover, Sharon M. Scra
nage, 29, a former clerk in the ClA’s
Ghana station, who pleaded guilty to
revealing the identities of CIA infor
mants to Soussoudis, was sentenced
yesterday to five years in prisoh.
• Israeli officials, who demanded
anonymity, said their government
was investigating whether someone
at their Washington embassy over
stepped his authority in buying classi
fied U.S. documents from Jonathan J.
Pollard, 31, a Navy civilian counter
terrorism analyst who was charged
Thursday with selling secrets to a
foreign power identified by U.S.
sources as Israel.
Federal sources in Washington
have said that Pollard called the
Israeli embassy here before his ar
rest outside its gates and said he had
been discovered by the FBI and
needed help. Those sources added on
Monday that an Israeli official re
plied to Pollard, “If you can shake
your surveillance, we’ll see what we
can do.”
Phila. police
corruption
trial closes
PHILADELPHIA <AP) - A
federal jury heard closing legal
arguments yesterday and then
took off until morning before de
liberating charges against a for
mer chief inspector and two other
ex-police officers accused of tak
ing more than $300,000 to protect
illegal gambling and prostitution.
“I still think this is America,
I’m not guilty, and I can’t see any
other verdict except not guilty,”
said, the fired inspector, Eugene
Sullivan 111, outside the court
room.
Inside the courtroom of U.S.
District Judge Edward Cahn the.
government called defense argu
ments that the three men were
framed by lying witnesses “a
fantasy.”
“The defendants have a' great
er motive than anyone else to
lie,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney
Gerard Egan. “The defense at
torneys would like all this to go
away, all the witnesses, all the
facts, but they told the truth.”
The jury of nine men and three
women listened to six hours of
arguments and the judge’s expla
nation of the 30 counts in the
indictment, then decided to take
the evening off, and come back
fresh Tuesday morning to begin
deliberating a verdict.
Sullivan’s lawyer, Emmett
Fitzpatrick, said testimony of the
government witnesses, which in
cluded five former policemen
who had pleaded guilty, “comes
from a polluted source.”
Egan answered: “Witnesses in
a trial like this have to come from
a polluted source because they
were in a polluted business. The
government didn’t make this
case. These three men made this
case.”
The other defendants are for
mer Lt. Walter McDermott and
former vice officer Robert
Schwartz, who served under Sul
livan when the inspector headed
the Northeast Police District be
tween 1980 and 1983.
They were indicted last May on
conspiracy and extortion charges
in the continuing four-year-old
FBI investigation of corruption.
AP Laso.phslo
state neyrs brief s
tested at 75 percent power
TMI
MIDDLETOWN The Unit 1 nuclear reactor at Three Mile
Island has been brought up to 75 percent power, the highest level in
more than 6'/z years, a plant spokeswoman said Monday.
The 75 percent “plateau” was reached at 5 p.m. Saturday. At the
time, the reactor was producing enough power to supply 362,000
households, TMI said.
Unit 1 was restarted Oct. 3 for the first time since March 1979,
when nuclear fuel melted at Unit 2 in the nation’s worst commer
cial nuclear accident. Unit 2 remains closed.
Unit 1 had been functioning at 48 percent power when operators
began increasing its output early Saturday with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s approval, said TMl’s operator, GPU
Nuclear Corp.
Operators briefly stopped the escalation at 60 percent power to
recheck control systems and collect information on plant condi
tions, GPU Nuclear said. The escalation was halted again at 65
percent to test turbine valves, GPU Nuclear said. v
“Everything went smoothly,” said Lisa Robinson, a spokeswo
man for GPU Nuclear Corp. She added that GPU Nuclear hopes to
bring the reactor to 100 percent power late next month.
Church finds
AMBRIDGE (AP) Computerized mailings often try to add that
personal touch. So when a computer recently sent a letter to the
Holy Ghost Russian Orthodox Church on Maplewood Avenue, it
logically referred to the church as “Mr. Ghost.”
“I didn’t read beyond that,” the Very Rev. Vladimir Soroka said
with a laugh..
But Soroka didn’t throw the letter away. He used it for a Sunday
sermon on the dangers of debt and transgressing reasonable limits.
“Mr. Ghost,” the priest told his congregation, was being offered
a loan “he” could use for a variety of purposes.
“I just wonder what it would have been like if our name was
Resurrection. Church or St. Mary’s,” Soroka said. “Would it have
gone to ‘Mr. Resurrection’ or ‘Mr. Mary’?”
nation news briefs
lowa State runners die in crash
DES MOINES, lowa (AP) A twin-engine plane carrying
members of the lowa State University women’s cross-country team
crashed and burst into flames in a residential neighborhood
yesterday, killing all seven people aboard and knocking out power
to about 1,600 homes, authorities said.
The Aero Commander crashed in a freezing drizzle shortly before
6 p.m., and missed a house by 50 feet, said Sgt. Bill Mullins.
The charred wreckage lay crumpled at the base of a tree on a
sloping street.
“It’s a tragedy, but it could have been three or four times as
bad,” Mullins said.l
The cross-country team and members of its coaching staff were
flying back from an NCAA championship meet in Milwaukee,
where it finished second behind Wisconsin.
The bodies remained in the plane pending the arrival of officials
from the Federal Aviation Administration.
“We heard a terrible roar, then a flash of light,” said Jane
Zepedas, whose home is about 70 feet from where the plane hit in
the fashionable older section of the city.
Flood victims get turkey dinners
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Some 5,000 Thanksgiving dinners
with all the trimmings will be flown into West Virginia’s flood
disaster area as a gesture of “people caring about each other,”
officials said yesterday.
“Operation Thanksgiving” will be a joint project of private
businesses, the Salvation Army and state government.
Salvation Army Maj. Marshall Clary described the effort as a
supplement to regular disaster relief programs, which he said
already have succeeded in providing thousands of flood victims
with basic necessities.
State Finance Commissioner John McCuskey said the idea to
airlift the meals came from Lowell D. “Tim” Basford, acting
director of the state’s Civil Service Commission.
“Tim said, ‘Everyone’s thinking about Christmas for the flood
victims, but has anybody thought that one of our most important
and uniquely American holidays is going to be passing us by?’ ”
McCuskey recalled.
In response, Shoney’s, a regional restaurant chain, and the
Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs agreed to cook enough
turkeys to feed 5,000 people, the officials said. Purity Maid Baking
Co. has agreed to provide 7,500 rolls and Creative Catering of St.
Albans is donating side dishes including green beans and potato
salad.
Kate darkens Florida's Thanksgiving
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) About 60,000 customers remained
without electricity yesterday in the Florida Panhandle, where
Hurricane Kate crippled five counties by destroying roads, tearing
down power lines and severely damaging up to 500 homes and
businesses, state officials said.
Among the hardest hit areas was Franklin County, where Kate
barreled ashore Thursday.
“Franklin lost its roads,” Gov. Bob Graham said. “They lost
their water tank. They had damage to some other public buildings,
extensive damage to homes.
“The county was already on its knees as a result of what
happened in (Hurricane) Elena. They looked like they might be
seeing some light for recovery and now Kate has come along and
put them in the darkness again.”
Damage assessment teams believe 400 to 500 homes and busi
nesses were severely affected by Kate’s high winds and water, with
most of the damage in Franklin, Gulf and Wakulla counties, said
Jon Peck, a spokesman for the Department of Community Affairs
and Division of Emergency Management.
A state of emergency remained in effect in 19 Florida counties hit
hard by Kate, the first hurricane to crash through landlocked areas
of the, Panhandle.
Of the estimated 60,000 customers in Florida still without electri
city Monday, some were not expected to get power until Thanksgiv
ing or next weekend, Peck said.
world news briefs
Possible Shakespeare find debated
LONDON (AP) Some British scholars say they remain
skeptical over an American researcher’s claim to have discovered
an unknown love poem by William Shakespeare in an Oxford
library.
The 90-line poem in nine stanzas that was printed in London’s
Sunday Times prompted John Wilders, a Shakespeare Specialist of
Worcester College, Oxford, to say, “It was so dreadful that at first I
just read the early stanzas and then gave up.”
Professor David Palmer of Manchester University said, “I don’t
think it adds much to Shakespeare’s reputation. It is an overt
display of ingenuity but it has poor poetic quality.”
The poem includes such lines as, “In all duty her beauty
“Binds me her servant for ever.”
And: “Being set, lips met,
“Arms twined, and did bind my heart’s treasure.”
Gary Taylor, of Topeka, Kan., said he found the poem in the
Bodleian Library, written by an unknown scribe in a 1630’s
anthology of English poetry and attributed to Shakespeare.
The volume, tied with pink ribbon, was among 5,700 manuscripts
bequeathed by Richard Rawlinson, a book-collecting bishop who
died in 1755.
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