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age 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, November 16,1983 i i , ■ Beirut killing breaches truce United Press International BEIRUT — Moslem mortars nd rockets blasted Christian ast Beirut for a third day Tues- lay and pounded a key moun- ain outpost in the worst breach •f the cease-fire in seven weeks, 'olice said at least four people /ere killed. U.S. F-14 Tomcats streaked cross the hills east of Beirut to acate the Moslem batteries after hells fell into the sea not far rom 30 ships of the U.S. 6th Teet anchored 1 Vz miles >ffshore, Lebanese security ources said. In the northern port of Tri- >oli, Palestinian rebels struck with tanks, artillery and rockets in a three-front onslaught that trapped civilians in deadly cross fire. There were conflicting re ports on the success of the blitz, which capped a 12-day rebel siege of the sprawling port and the decimation of the neighbor ing Beddawi refugee camp — Arafat’s last outpost in Lebanon. State-run Beirut radio said the Syrian-backed rebels, opposed to Arafat’s rule of the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion, captured land up to the outskirts of Tripoli “in quick advances” an hour after dawn. It also said the few Arafat fasser Arafat’s last strongholds . loyalists still in the Beddawi camp would retreat “within hours” and stage a last stand with 5,000 comrades who moved with their mobile rocket launchers and guns to Tripoli’s densely populated neighbor hoods. But Wafa, the pro-Arafat news agency in Cyprus, said the blitz was repulsed and Arafat’s outnumbered forces destroyed 14 tanks and captured 51 rebels, including the leaders of two re bellious PLO factions. Police in Beirut said at least four people were killed and 12 were wounded in the new attacks there. Three people were killed in shelling Sunday and Monday. Fifteen shells crashed into re sidential areas in the morning, including Sin el Fil, where Presi dent Amm Gemayel has a home. He was at the suburban Baabda palace at the time. A shell also exploded on the steps of the Palace of Justice and a rocket hit a hospital in the Ashrafiye area, forcing doctors and nurses to evacuate patients. Schools closed, sending stu dents home, and the radio of the right-wing Phalange militia that controls east Beirut warned resi dents to stay indoors. Prime Minister Chefik Waz- zan, a Sunni Moslem, held an emergency meeting with Gemayel and appealed for an end to shelling of civilian areas. “This kind of situation cannot prevail,” he said. State-run Beirut Radio said Lebanese army positions at Khalde on the coastal road south of Beirut were shelled and artil lery also pounded the army-held outpost of Souk el Gharb, 8 miles southeast of the capital in the Shouf mountains. The garrison, which repelled a three-week Druze Moslem onslaught in September, is the army’s last line of defense of Beirut. It guards the main southeast approach to Beirut and, if it fell, it would place the capital within the gunsights of the Druze’s heavy artillery. apan stops Soviets in air defense test .M S C. yNjGGlb CINEMA^ presents More Entertaining Than Humanly Possible! WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. RUDDER THEATRE $1.50 w/ TAMU I.D. United Press International TOKYO—Japanesejet fight ers scrambled Tuesday to inter cept three Soviet bombers that violated Japanese airspace in a test of the country’s air defense system. A spokesman with the Self- Defense Agency said no gunfire was exchanged and the intru sion was an apparent protest against President Reagan’s visit to Japan last week. Two TU-16 Badgers and a TU-95 Bear of the Soviet Air Foi*ce flew into Japanese airs pace for about 90 seconds over the Sea of Japan in the Tsushima Strait separating the Japanese is land of Kyushu and South Korea. 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So look for an application on campus. And remember, receiving an American Express T-shirt is as easy as filling out an application. The American Express Card. Don’t leave school without it.“ ) American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 1983 the Soviet action as a protest against the presence of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Japan,” the spokesman said. The TU-16 Badger is, accord ing to Jane’s All the World’s Air craft, a long-range strategic jet bomber and the “K” model can carry out electronic surveillance. The TU-95 Bear, also used on reconnaissance missions, is a large-scale bomber considered the Soviet equivalent to the American B-52. The three bombers were part of a Siberian-based, 10-aircraft formation that flew south through the Sea of Japan, the spokesman said. When the Japanese fighters rose to intercept them, the bom bers turned back into interna tional airspace. On Sept. 13, shortly after Soviet jets shot down an un armed Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 west of Sakhalin Island, two Soviet Backfire bombers and a Soviet reconaissance plane approached Japanese airspace off western Japan but were :k d i I turned back by Japanese fighters. Tension has increased in the Far East since the Korean airlin er was shot down Sept. 1. The Soviets have increased fighter groups in the region and have conducted a series of war man euvers using live ammunition in the Sea of Japan. The United States, Japan and South Korea have also carried out air, land and sea war games in the past two months. Around town Prof to show movie images of Texas “Cowboys and Cadillacs,” or the images of Texas as portrayed in movies, will be the topic of a slide show and lecture tonight by Don Graham, professor of English at the University of Texas. The presentation, sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of Philosophy, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 165 Blocker. The lecture is free and open to everyone. Open house to be held for bonfire The annual bonfire ’83 “open house” will be held Thurs day from 3 to 6 p.m. Faculty, staff, students and local resi dents are invited to tour the bonfire site. Bonfire coordina tors will be on hand to answer any questions, and coffee and cookies will be served. City sponors Christmas card contest Entries are being taken for the Second Annual Christmas Card Contest sponsored by the College Station Parks and Recreation Department. Tne winners will be given two four by eight foot plywood panels for painting their original de signs. The giant cards will be displayed in front of the dty offices. Cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. The deadline for design entries is Nov. 22. For more information, contact the College Station Parks and Recreation Department at 764-3773. Groups presen t display on Vietnam The Vietnamese-American Student Association and the Vietnamese Former A&M Student Association will present a display titled “Vietnam: The War, the Arts, the Country and the Organization.” It can be seen in the lobby of Rudder Tower from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thursday. The groups put together the display share its heritage, and to malte students more aware of the presence of Vietnamese culture at Texas A&M and its contribution to the University. Aggieland photos still being taken Juniors, seniors, veterinary and medical school students can have individual pictures for the 1984 Aggieland taken at Nov. 14-18 and Nov. 28 through Dec. 2 at the Yearbook Associates office at 1700 S. Kyle behind Culpepper Plaza; and Dec. 5 through 9 at the Pavilion on campus. To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion office in 216 Reed McDonald. Jewish reformist warns of Jackson candidacy United Press International HOUSTON — Although presidential candidate Jesse Jackson stirs deep concern among Jews, his candidacy should not be turned into a black-Jewish confrontation, a leader in the U.S. Jewish reform movement said Tuesday. Albert Vorspan, Union of American Hebrew Congrega tions vice president, said Jack son’s candidacy will show Amer ica problems which other candi dates may overlook. Vorspan described Jackson as a show man, a demagogue and an opportunist. . .a symbol of black aspirations of the time. “Jesse will infuriate us and he will shuffle and hustle a bit, but he may just help to expose the American people to the real world,” Vorspan said. “If he can articulate the pain in the streets and the despera tion of those blacks and others who feel rejected and outcast in our society, America will gain, even though Jackson loses. “An undertanding of the hurt and fear and despair, of what is really happening in that other America, cannot come from the board rooms and ex ecutive suites and think tanks which advise the President and candidates.” Because of Jackson’s pre vious expressions of sympathy for the PLO and Yassir Arafat, many Jews have turned against Jackson. “Does that mean that we should ignore his views and his record, especially his theatrical embrace of Yassir Arafat and his tie to Arab groups, which stir deep and justifiable concert among thoughtful Jews? 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