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Photo by BILL HUGHES
Monique Dubrule, a junior
floriculture major, deals blackjack
to surrounding people at the Aggie
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Dubrule was working for the El
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I National Guard troops dug
out hundreds of stranded
lorniai’ motorists and wrestling fans had
. Hfc spend the night in a school
ld [ a1 ' Mym as a raging bli/zai d hlained
"i‘l^Bar 11 deaths shrieked through
OClETiiHastern North Dakota and vvest-
uatiu^dl [ni Minnesota Sunday.
ardinll'J I Morning winds gusted to
M jiore than 60 mph over south-
ill i ll-Km Iowa and across northern
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Slakotas into western Illinois.
I Four people were found
lullbeheloBead of carhon monoxide
Boisoning in their car near Far-
djudod-' Jo, N.D. A North Dakota father
iOG.RoihHid son were killed in a car acci-
um.H,. Ilent.
iioreinfotB “It’sentirely possible the ex
haust plugged up with snow,
and the inside of the car was
I Bonded with carbon monoxide,”
"laid Cass County Deputy Coron
er Robert Geston.
Five Minnesotans died of exp
osure in the blizzard. The deaths
included one elderly couple,
who died in the snow and cold
when they went for help after
leircar ran off the road.
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Minnesota State Patrol dis
patcher Loren Simon answered
calls from people Sunday look
ing for friends and relatives
stranded in the blizzard that
struck suddenly Saturday night.
“We have CB reports of
stranded people,” Simon said.
“We can’t get to them until the
snow lets up. I bis thing hit so
suddenly, so vicious. The wind
and snow came all of a sudden,
all at the same time.”
Minnesota State Patrol Lt.
Tony Kozqjed called it “the
worst storm we’ve had this win
ter. We have the freeway shut
down.”
Minnesota authorities said
some stranded motorists broke
into empty homes to get shelter
Saturday night.
The road closings stretched
east, as blizzard conditions
pushed into Iowa. One motorist,
Pat Warner, said he waited for
help in his stranded car in east
ern Iowa.
“I really thought we were
going to die,” said Warner after
his rescue by a schoolbus car
rying high school students and
their coaches from Fort Dodge
to Mason City, Iowa, to a basket
ball game. “At one point, I tried
to walk about 50, feet outside and
my mind slopped working, so I
ran back into the car.”
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BEIRUT — Refugees
poured out of the city's Moslem
Shiite southern suburbs Sunday
in cars packed with mattresses,
blankets and other belongings to
escape four days of warfare that
has left hundreds of homes in
ruins.
Toufic, a photographer who
asked his last name not he used,
was caught in a crossfire while
trying to take close-up shots of
fighting between the Shiite
Amal militiamen and govern
ment troops.
When he finally returned to
his home in the southern sub
urbs Friday, he saw blood
splashed amid the rubble of his
shell-blasted house and broke
into tears. The blood was his
wife’s.
“My wife has been in the in
tensive care ward since Friday.
The doctor says she has a 40 per
cent chance of recovery,” Toufic
said, adding he had no home to
return to.
An estimated 150 people
have been killed and another
560 wounded since the latest
round of civil warfare erupted,
this time between Syrian-backed
Shiite Moslems and government
troops.
Gemayel wants
cease-fire observed
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BEIRUT — President Amin
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Spbserve a cease-fire and called
on opposition Moslems to renew
Geneva talks on national recon-
iliation.
Gemayel, in a 30-minute
address on stale television and
radio, accepted the resignation
of Moslem Prime Minister Che-
fik Wazzan’s government and
expressed his concern over re
newed fighting in Beirut that
has killed 150 people since
hursday.
The U.S.-backed Lebanese
leader said he will present a
.working paper to a second
Geneva conference to begin
Feb. 27 outlining religious,
administrative, social and secur
ity reforms in Lebanon.
The country’s majority Mos
lems want a greater representa
tion in the minority Christian-
dominated government.
“Everything is open to discus
sion with the opposition,”
Gemayel said, dismissing calls
for his resignation made this
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U.S.-negotiated May 17 security
agreement with Israel as a
means of guaranteeing an even
tual Israeli withdrawal.
The president, however, rei
terated his government’s posi
tion that he will seek other ways
if possible to secure the pullout
of all foreign forces from
Lebanese soil. He did not elabo
rate.
In extending his hand to the
opposition, Gemayel pledged
closer ties to Syria, the main sup
porter of the opposition
Lebanese National Salvation
Front. Syria demands abroga
tion of the security accord.
The Salvation Front last Fri
day called for a return to the
Geneva negotiating table, but it
also demanded cancellation of
the May 17 agreement and with
drawal of the U.S. Marines from
Beirut.
Gemayel said he would name
his new government soon but he
did not identify any candidates
for the 10-member Cabinet.
In calling for a more secure
cease-fire, Gemayel said a com
mittee of the warring factions
must be re-established and sug
gested a group of retired army
officers be named to supervise
the truce.
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Beirut Radio quoted Moslem
leaders as saying several
thousand residents of the south
ern suburbs were homeless,
more than 100 houses destroyed
and twice as many damaged
during the four days of fighting.
“Nothing has been gained by
all this. The fighters are stilL
there and they’re still armed ex
cept now they’re more ruthless
than before,” said Abu Talal.
A bulky man, Abu Talal
shrugged his shoulders in a sign
of despair. “I w'ent out today and
spent 1,200 Lebanese pounds —
about $200 — to buy blankets
for the wife and the kids.”
A former Lebanese army
officer, Abu Talal has eight chil
dren. He said relatives and
friends took them in by pairs.
Some refugees stayed behind
in makeshift shelters. Others
sought out abandoned apart
ments in predominantly Mos
lem west Beirut.
“Is anybody home? We heard
there’s an empty apartment
here,” one refugee said.
The woman who opened the
door in a west Beirut apartment
building stood motionless be
fore the two young men at her
door.
“We were told there was an
empty apartment in this build
ing. I need it for my sister,” the
younger one said loudly.
The older one said, “It’s for
his sister, you understand. ITLT
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destroyed.”
“I’m sorry I can’t help, but the
To the south in Beirut’s Shiite
Sniftklbrn suburbs, modern
high-rise apartment buildings
that once lined Moawad street
were turned into gaping ruins
'fty fighting.
/ Amal lighters built new sand
bag fortifications along the out
skirts of the suburbs. In the dis-
apartment is occupied,’’«aid the i .tence, mdrta'r rounds thun-
woman as she eyed the would-be ’ tiered alternately with the crack-
squatters. >i , : ling,cjf gunfire: