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2 battles in Middle East; 2 soldiers kille •
Israeli battle bloodiest in 7 years
By SUSAN POYAS
Associated Press Writer
MENARA, Israel (AP) Palestinian guerrillas on a
hostage-taking mission sneaked into northern Israel and
killed two soldiers yesterday before being slain in the
bloodiest infiltration battle in seven years, the army said.
The firefight in an apple orchard followed a week of
violence in northern Israel. The, army said the strife was
linked to a scheduled meeting in Algeria today of Pales
tinian leaders to map out a new political and military
strategy against Israel.
Although the army did not say how many guerrillas
were involved, news reports said there were three.
At sundown, two Israeli helicopter gunships fired rock
ets at a Palestinian refugee camp near the south Lebanon
port of Tyre, apparently in retaliation for the infiltration.
Police said two Palestinians were wounded in the raid on
the Rashidiyeh camp, the first attack near Tyre since
Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982. Israel withdrew . the
bulk of its forces three years later, but maintains some
troops in a buffer strip in southern Lebanon.
The stepped-up violence followed a 14-hour battle Satur
day in southern Lebanon, in which Israeli troops killed 18
Iranian-backed Shiite Moslem fighters.
And in the occupied Gaza Strip, about 5,000 Palestinians
demonstrated at Islamic University yesterday. Nine
students were hospitalized after Israeli soldiers beat
them with clubs, Palestinian sources said.
The army identified the infiltrators as members of
Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah wing of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, which has stepped up military
Return of
threatens
By JOE MACENKA
Associated Press Writer
RICHMOND, Va. National
Guardsmen helped patrol Richmond
streets Saturday and crews sand
bagged huge pumps as the rain-swol
len James River threatened the city
with its second major flood in 17
months.
"We're holding our own, but it's
getting close,!" said William W. Cos
tin, chief of emergency communica
tions for the Richmond Department
of Public Safety.
City Manager Robert C. Bobb de
clared a state of emergency Friday
as the river crawled over its banks
toward Shockoe Bottom, a low-lying
section where old factory buildings
are being renovated into restaurants,
nightclubs and shops. Merchants
moved their inventory to higher
ground.
The river crested at 24.89 feet,
nearly 16 feet above flood stage, at.
11:30 p.m. Saturday, said Melvin
Rager of the Department of Public
Safety. The National Weather Service
said the river should fall below flood
stage by late Tuesday morning or
early Tuesday afternoon.
When the river crested, about 1
square mile was under water south of
the river the site of a grain mill, a
fuel tank farm and warehouses and
a smaller area was under water on
the north bank, Costin said. The city
covers 62.5 square miles.
Elsewhere in the state, one person
was killed and another was missing
after three days of storms brought
3.36 inches of rain to Richmond and
more than 4 inches to parts of western
Virginia. Richmond had sporadic
drizzle Saturday. The flooding closed
hundreds of roads around the state
activity recently in an apparent effort to regain the
support of hardliners.
The guerrillas penetrated northern Israel in pre-dawn
darkness near the isolated Menara kibbutz, or communal
farm, where several hundred people live near the Israeli-
Lebanese border, the army command said.
The Palestinians crossed electronic fences and security
ditches in a light rain to reach the orchards between
Menara and the neighboring Yiftah kibbutz, military
sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Israeli soldiers spotted the guerrillas' tracks and found
them hiding nearby, the army said. All the Palestinians
were killed in the ensuing firefight, it said.
The army declined to say how many guerrillas entered
Israel, but Israel radio and Lebanese reporters said three
men crossed the border.
The army said the guerrillas planned to take hostages
at either Menara or Yiftah, apparently to negotiate for
the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The attack was the most serious infiltration since April
7, 1980, when guerrillas entered the border kibbutz of
Misgav Am and killed three Israelis, including a 21/2-year
old boy. An army anti-terrorist unit stormed a nursery
where hostages were being held and killed all five
guerrillas.
News of yesterday's border penetration was blocked by
the military censor for nine hours, until the army had
time to notify the families of the slain soldiers, identified
as Sgt. Yosef Allon, 21, of Arad, and Lt. Yoav Sharon, 22,
of Haifa.
Soldiers searching the guerrillas' bodies found knives,
grenades, LAU missiles and pamphlets calling for the
release of Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israel.
flooding
Richmond
and forced scattered evacuations
A network of large pumps has been
in place in Shockoe Bottom for a
number of years, Costin said. The
pumps lower flood levels by sucking
water out of the river and diverting it
to a point downstream from the city.
"If the pumps don't shut down, we
can hold that (crest) to somewhere
between 22 and 25 feet," he said.
When heavy rain in November 1985
sent the James above the 30-foot
mark, the pumps failed when the
water surpassed 22 feet.
"We're hopeful that the pump sta
tion will continue to operate," Bobb
said. "We have crews standing by
sandbagging the pump house. If we
are unable to keep it going, then we
anticipate considerable flooding with
in the Shockoe Bottom area."
As the water crept across low-lying
roads Saturday, authorities closed
one interchange on Interstate 95 and
the 14th Street Bridge over the James
River. The Boulevard Bridge, anoth
er major span, also was to be closed,
Bobb said.
About 150 National Guardsmen
were called in to help police with
security and traffic control and about
1,000 city employees were told to plan
on working through the weekend. No
injuries or arrests were reported.
Guardsmen were stationed at
Shockoe Bottom intersections and
Army helicopters hovered overhead
as merchants took inventory and
equipment from their stores to be
moved to higher ground.
"You just don't get a sensation that
in an hour or two you're going to be
standing in two feet of water," L.
Barnaby said as he positioned sand
bags outside the entrance to his print
ing shop.
Japan warns U.S.: trade move may be copied
By STEVEN K. PAULSON
Associated Press Writer
OISO, Japan Foreign Mhuister Tadashi Kura
nari warned yesterday against the United States
becoming protectionist lest other nations follow
suit, but two U.S. government officials predicted
tougher American trade policies in the future.
"It is obvious that if the U.S. turns protectionist,
it would not only have enormous consequences in
itself for the free trade system, but would most
likely make other countries take similar steps
induced by the American action," Kuranari told
Mayor:
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) —'A 3,000-
ton bargeload of garbage from New
York has been moved from an oil rig
where it was moored, but it will be a
hazard as long as it is in the Gulf of
Mexico, an official said yesterday.
"According to the captain,' it's
going to stay approximately 17 miles
south of Grand Isle until sometime
early in the morning (today), at
which time they'll take off," said
Grand Isle Mayor Thomas A. "Tom
my" Marullo. He said he did not know
the barge's destination.
The barge appears to be in good
shape and the water around it looks
TWA hijack victim lives to write about it
By MARYANN MROWCA
Associated Press Writer
BOSTON The picture of an Arab hijacker
waving a gun in front of John Testrake's face as
the airline captain peered from the window of his
cockpit in Beirut shocked the world with the
horrors of terrorism.
Nearly two years later, the Trans World Airlines
pilot almost smiles as he recalls the incident,
which he says was staged by his captors.
"It didn't bother me then and it doesn't bother
me now," he said in a recent interview here.
"Everybody else thought it was a big deal, but I
didn't."
Israeli gunships
rocket Palestinian
refugee camp
Two Israeli helicopter gunships rock•
eted a Palestinian ref ugeecamp yes
terday, police said. In a separate
incident, Palestinian guerillas on a
hostage•taking mission sneaked into
northern Israel yesterday and killed
two soldiers before being slain in the
bloodiest infiltration battle in seven
years.
oil rig
clean, said Marullo, who flew over it
in a helicopter.
However, he said, it will be a haz
ard while in the Gulf.
"If they're offshore and a little
front comes through, I shudder to
think what will happen. The garbage
will roll off," he said.
The garbage came 1,400 miles from
Islip, N.Y., which is running out of
room in its landfill and no longer
accepts commercial solid waste. Offi
cials in North Carolina, Alabama and
Louisiana have said they don't want it
in their states.
An April 23 hearing has been sched
uled on whether the garbage could be
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AP Graphic
the Shimoda Conference, held to promote relations
between the U.S. and Japan.
The Shimoda Conference began one day after
President Reagan slapped punitive 100 percent
tariffs on Japanese electronic goods for alleged
violations of a semiconductor accord allega
tions Japan denies. The sanctions affect tele
visions, desk and laptop computers, calculators,
and rotary and other power tools.
Also attending the conference are U.S. trade
representative Clayton Yeutter, former Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance, House Majority Leader
Thomas Foley, Sens. William Roth and John
moved but still a problem
Testrake said he wrote a book, released this
month, about the hijacking of TWA Flight 847
shortly after it left Athens on June 14, 1985,
because he wanted "to correct some of the miscon
ceptions which are so prevalent in the United
States regarding" the Mideast.
"I have no maudlin desire just to perpetuate the
thing in itself," said the 59-year-old pilot from
Richmond, Mo. He calls his Shiite Moslem captors
"the bitter harvest of the Palestinian tragedy"
rather than terrorists.
Like many other Americans, Testrake said, he
had "pretty minimal" knowledge about the con
flict in the Mideast before the hijacking.
"I learned the other side of the story" during the
Bloody Lebanon battle
leaves 18 Shiites dead
TEL AVIV (AP) Shiite Moslems
launched a predawn attack Saturday
on an Israeli military outpost in south
Lebanon, but the Israelis and their
allies repulsed them, killing 18 guer
rillas, the Israeli army reported.
An army spokesman said four Is
raeli soldiers suffered minor shrap
nel wounds in the battle, one of the
bloodiest in the area since Israel
established its "security zone" in
south Lebanon.
According to a military commu
nique, dozens of Shiite Islamic Resis
tance guerrillas attacked an outpost
of the Israeli army and the South
Lebanon Army militia located about 5
miles west of the Israeli border.
The communique said the Israelis
and their mainly Christian allies
drove back the attackers to the
boundary of the "security zone."
They found 18 bodies; and it appeared
more guerrillas had been killed or
wounded, the army said.
The communique said the attack
ers left behind large quantities of
weapons, ammunition and rocket
propelled grenade launchers.
disposed of at a Louisiana dump, but
the barge was moved out of Louisiana
water late Friday, at the request of
the state Department of Environmen
tal Quality.
Dark, smelly puddles were seeping
over the side of the barge and into the
water, violating state water quality
regulations, according to Dale Give
ns, assistant secretary of the depart
ment.
In addition, he said, inspectors
found bedpans and syringes in the
garbage Friday, increasing concern
that the load might carry infectious
material.
National Waste Contractors, a com-
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Monday, April 20, 1987
According to the Islamic Resis
tance, the guerrilla arm of Hezbollah,
about 50 fighters staged the predawn
assault. The group said in a
statement that "the enemy deployed
tanks, helicopter gunships and artil
lery in the battle."
Hezbollah, or Party of God, is made
up of Shiite Moslems loyal to Iran's
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
About 2,000 Israeli troops and 1,500
South Lebanon Army militiamen con
trol the so-called security zone, a 6-to
-10 mile belt which Israel established
in 1985 after the withdrawal of its
occupation army from south Leb
anon. The Israelis invaded Lebanon
to halt guerrilla attacks on northern
Israel.
In another incident, a resident of
Marjayoun in south Lebanon was
killed when a rocked slammed into
the Christian village, Israel Radio
reported.
The radio quoted security sources
as saying guerrillas have been trying
to disrupt Easter celebrations in
Christian villages in south Lebanon
during the past week.
Rockefeller, and former Japanese ambassador to
the United States, Yoshio Okawara.
"There is, frankly, a dangerous disparity of
attitudes in the United States and Japan at the
moment," said Foley, a Washington Democrat.
"Japan feels its actions to open its markets have
not received sufficient attention in' the United
States, and the United States feels Japan isn't
taking enough action to solve the problem."
Foley said Congress is almost certain to pass a
tough trade bill and that the House wants "much
tougher procedures than the administration is
willing to accept."
pany which gives a Birmingham,
Ala., post office box as its address in
New York incorporation papers, was
hired to haul the garbage out of Islip.
Its owner, Lowell Harrelson, has
not returned telephone calls either to
his home in Bay Minette, Ala., or his
office there, called National Plumb
ing Contractors.
Louisiana officials contend that the
bargeload violates several state regu
lations: The load's owner is not regis
tered in the state as a waste operator,
or handler, the waste is baled rather
than loose, and it was carried in an
uncovered vessel rather than a cov
ered one.
hijacking and 17 days in captivity, said Testrake,
who recounts the ordeal in "Triumph Over Terror
on Flight 847," published by Fleming H. Revell Co.
"While I can't sympathize with the specific
actions which they used, still I can understand the
desperation that causes (them) to do these
things," Testrake said.
He said it bothers him that the United States
does not appear to have made any positive moves
since the hijacking to resolve the Mideast conflict.
"Our government persists in maintaining this
totally hostile attitude by treating this whole
problem as if it's some violent criminal plague
which needs to be ruthlessly eradicated," Tes
trake said.
state news briefs
Coroner confirms police suspicions
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Human remains recovered from a
kitchen freezer belong to one of two women killed in a basement
dungeon, according to a ruling that confirms police suspicions.
Dr. Paul Hoyer, assistant Philadelphia medical examiner, said
he made the ruling based on X-rays of 24 potmds of mostly burned
limbs found in Gary Heidnik's north Philadelphia home.
The pictures were compared to X-rays taken of Sandra Lindsay's
wrist and elbow after a fall, last spring, Hoyer said,
Acquitted wrestler returns charges
PITTSBURGH (AP) Professional wrestler James "The An
vil" 'Neidhart sued a USAir flight attendant for slander and libel a
day after he was acquitted of assaulting her.
Neidhart, 31, of Land 0' Lakes, Fla., said Ava Winston lied when
she told investigators he punched her during a dispute over two
beers he ordered on a flight from Tampa, Fla., to Pittsburgh in
January.
Neidhart was acquitted Thursday in U.S. District Court on
charges of assault and interfering with a flight attendant after his
attorney called 18 witnesses who testified they never saw any
punches thrown,
Easter Mass shared with Soviets
PHILADELPHIA (AP) While Christians across the state
attended Easter services, about 1,600 Ukrainian Catholics in
Philadelphia shared a mass with their Soviet brethren through a
Voice of America broadcast. '
"It was a very joyful and'emotional service since this was the
onjy live contact about 90 percent of the congregation would have
with their loved ones behind the Iron Curtain," said Monsignor
Michael Fedorowich, one of the concelebrates at the Immaculate
Conception Cathedral.
The Soviet officials abolished the. Ukraine Catholic Church in the
country more than 40 years ago and prohibits members from
openly praying, according to Fedorowich.
"It was a message of hope, that despite persecution at the
Ukrainian Church, the Ukrainian people will rise again from their
subjugation and slavery as did the Christians with the resurrection
of Jesus Christ," he said.
nation news briefs
Smithsonian: TV dinners historic
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) If you are old enough to remember
balancing a TV dinner on your lap and watching Guns mohe or I
Love Lucy on the flickering black-and-white tube, you probably
didn't realize you were eating from a piece of history.
An aluminum tray that contained one of the first Swanson frozen
dinners to hit the market in 1954 was presented recently to the
Smithsonian Institution.
"Everyday items that you or I don't even think about will be
history tomorrow," said Dr. Terry Sharrer, a curator at the
National Museum of American History.
"Just like the shoehorn or butter churn, these items represent
popular culture," Sharrer said. "This metal tray is a piece of
Americana. It is something many of us grew up with."
By giving the TV dinner tray to the Smithsonian, Revelle said, his
company "hopes to show future generations how 20th century
Americans really lived."
Judge: open mind on Hinckley
. WASHINGTON, D.C. ( AP) U.S. District Court Judge Barring
ton D. Parker said yesterday he can't help but think of John W.
Hinckley Jr.'s victims but said he could rule impartially on the
presidential assailant's release.
"It is an awesome decision to make. No one can predict with any
degree of certainty what the . . . result will be," said Parker, who
was interviewed on CBS-TV's Face the Nation.
Parker presided at a hearing last week in which St. Elizabeths
Hospital sought a 12-hour pass for Hinckley to make an unescorted
Easter visit to his parents in Northern Virginia.
The federal mental hospital withdrew the request Wednesday
after the unexpected disclosure in court that Hinckley exchanged
letters last year with triple-murderer Theodore Bundy, who awaits
execution in a Florida prison.
Civil disobedience to return
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Groups opposing American policy
in Central America and Southern Africa are planning a demonstra
tion next weekend perhaps the largest since the Vietnam protest
days culminating in what is billed as "civil disobedience" at the
entrances of the CIA.
"As of now, there are 1,000 buses scheduled to arrive Saturday
and, we have 200 coalitions nationwide sending people," said Ned
Greenberg of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in
Central America and Southern Africa:
A similar program is planned for San Francisco.
The Washington demonstration will extend over three days.
Saturday is taken up with two rallies, one on the ellipse behind the
White House in the morning, the other at the Capitol after a mile
long march,
world news briefs
Rebels surrender in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Raul Alfonsin
announced yesterday he had obtained the surrender of about 150
armed rebel soldiers after talking with their leader at the base
where they had been holed up for three days.
"Compatriots! Happy Easter! The armed men have ceased"
their mutiny, a beaming Alfonsin told 400,000 cheering people
packed in the Plaza de Mayo in downtown Buenos Aires after he
returned from the suburban military base where the rebels had
occupied an infantry school since Thursday.
The mutineers, who had been holding about 2,000 loyal govern
ment troops at bay at the Campo de Mayo military base, were
demanding an amnesty for officers accused of human rights
violations under previous military governments.
Manila in the dark after outage
MANILA (AP) A power failure yesterday darkened Manila
and much of the island of Luzon, affecting millions of homes and
businesses and prompting increased security around the presi
dential compound. _
A spokesman for the National Power Corporation blamed it on
line trouble, but an engineer said that couldn't be determined until
power was completely restored, probably by early today.
Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo blamed the outage on local
failures in central Luzon that he said sparked a "chain reaction"
affecting the entire island grid.
Arroyo said there was no indication of sabotage,
Sinhalese reseftlement scheduled
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) Thousands of Sinhalese will be
armed and trained by the military, then resettled in the area where
Tamil rebels slaughtered 127 Sinhalese three days ago, the govern
ment said yesterday.
The action was triggered by the Good Friday massacre on a
jungle road in the eastern Trincomalee District.
An official spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
more than 5,000 people, mostly Sinhalese, would be involved in the
resettlement program. He said they would be given shotguns and
other weapons and trained by the army.
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