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Beirut militias agree
to limit territory fights
64th Brigade lands in Honduras
r U.S.-led military maneuvers
I United Press International
he first of 1,000 fresh U.S.
The (fops arrived in Honduras
her the ItMonday to take part in another
rorthemetofU.S.-led military maneu-
tny are sers, called Grenadier I, a U.S.
recording! Siluary official said.
Rn Nicaragua, the Sandinista
cide wheiiwy said U.S.-funded rebels
dam has fled 30 government troops in
fore he ufllu ee-day attack on a north-
vhether ;!rn town.
owed todflkil. James Strachan, spokes-
g bydredfln for the U.S. military pres-
mvictionsfle in Honduras, said 100 to
ialifornia jOO troops of the 864th Brigade
the Naiinflan arriving in the northern
omstaleof San Pedro Sula from
fort Louis, Wash.
fltrachan said the maneuvers,
■ich will begin April 1 and
end June 30, will involve 1,000
U.S. troops in the construction
of two airstrips and counter-in
surgency exercises.
The rest are expected to ar
rive by the end of the week to
join 1,700 UjS. servicemen al
ready in Honmn as carrying out
reconnaissance missions.
Strachan said the maneuvers
are to train the Honduran army
and “demonstrate the interest
the United States has in this
part of Central America.”
Honduran military sources
have not specified how many
Hondurans will participate.
Strachan told United Press
International he had no infor
mation about the reported par
ticipation of Panamanian and
Salvadoran troops.
Gen. Manuel Antonio No
riega, chief of Panama’s Na
tional Defense Force, said in El
Salvador last week that 250 Pan
amanian troops would partici
pate in Grenadier I along with
an undetermined number of
Salvadoran troops.
On Sunday, some 750 Hon
duran troops and 250 U.S.
troops of the 82nd Airborne Di
vision based in Fort Bragg, S.C.,
staged a mock invasion of Hon
duras in an operation coded
“Lightning I.”
Also in Honduras, the Popu
lar Liberation Movement, a
guerrilla group that was last
heard from more than a year
ago, claimed responsibility for
exploding four bombs — two in
the capital and two in San Pedro
Sula — that killed a guard.
One bomb exploded just af
ter midnight Sunday outside
the Supreme Court in Teguci
galpa, and the other outside a
military cadet school. The
guard at the court, Maximiliano
Banegas, was killed in the ex
plosion, which shook nearby
buildings and knocked out win
dows.
In other fighting, U.S.-
funded rebels of the Honduras-
based Nicaraguan Democratic
Force attacked the town of San
Rafael del Norte, 36 miles north
of Managua, setting off a three-
day battle that left 30 govern
ment soldiers dead .
^Repentant spy receives award
: gti
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presi-
ihers andUeni Reagan bestowed the na
ught witlLn’s highest civilian award
nfield ffl Monday on Whittaker Gham-
i. Ihec bers, a repentant Communist
he threcjspy who helped to inspire Rea-
aid thenBn’s 0 wn conversion to politi-
he gusto jcal conservatism,
some toflfchambers, who died in 1961,
and 13 other luminaries were
lid, ‘He'i hbnored at the White House as
i who ^recipients of the prestigious
;aid. [Presidential Medal of Freedom,
driverklllFor Reagan, the ceremony
armed jheld a special poignancy be
d-16 madcapse the recipients included
ie trio sMactor James Cagney, a longtime
“it woulHollywood friend and onetime
;ause thejmentor.
rmy did i® Senate Republican leader
jomalapa Howard Baker, who is retiring
d driver a® m the Senate this year, also
a gueijwas among the medal winners,
ay mortHPosthumous awards were
and beinigiven to assassinated Egyptian
ble,"joii#resident Anwar Sadat and
und and baseball great Jackie Robinson,
[la’s lessoi the first black in professional
-60 maqsports.
■Cagney, 84, sat in a wheel-
run wasjfflair during the awards lu ri
al jazz,Icheon. Reagan lauded the ac-
nded mt tor, whose first made-for-
a bandouelevision movie was to be
is my chtfloadcast Tuesday night, as “a
: while Dtjgiaiit in the world of entertain
ment.”
?ere surpift “Could I a< Jd something
iencywMse?” Reagan interjected as the
ght he ^applause subsided. “As a great
r of the-star at the same studio where I
jjn.” (started, he was never too busy
to hold out a hand to a young
xplainedjfellow just trying to get under
a poorjway.”
-e just Pf; Cagney, his eyes filled with
ie trio w* tears, clasped hands with the
tstrip. 73-year-old president as he was
landed the medal. Mrs. Reagan
kissed him on the cheek.
Since 1945, the Medal of
Freedom has been presented to
more than 220 individuals for
distinguished government serv-
e, humanitarian work and
other achievements.
^Chambers almost simulta-
neously eschewed communism
d atheism and, in 1948, told
ingress he was part of an
file cell” of Soviet agents
ose mission was to infiltrate
the U.S. establishment. He sin-
ed out Alger Hiss as an ac-
mplice, saying Hiss gave him
secret State Department docu
ments to be passed on to the So
viets.
Hiss eventually was convicted
of perjury — for lying about his
espionage activities — and sent
to jail. He repeatedly has ap
pealed his conviction. His latest
appeal to the Supreme Court
was rejected just last fall.
Reagan said Chambers, a se
nior editor of Time magazine
when he appeared before the
House Un-American Activities
Committee in 1948, “stood
alone against the brooding ter
rors of our age.”
“Consummate intellectual,
writer of moving, majestic prose
and witness to the truth, he be
came the focus of a momentous
controversy in American his
tory that symbolized our coun
try’s epic struggle between free
dom and totalitarianism,”
Reagan said — “a controversy
in which the solitary figure of
Whittaker Chambers personi
fied the mystery of human re
demption in the face of evil and
suffering.”
United Press International
BEIRUT — Rival Moslem
and Christian militias agreed
Monday to refrain from grab
bing territory vacated by de
parting French peace-keepers,
and France was reported ready
to deploy cease-fire observers in
Beirut.
State-run Beirut Radio said
French Ambassador Fernand
Wibaux met with representa
tives of the country’s main war
ring parties and reiterated his
country’s willingness to send ob
servers to monitor a cease-fire
in Beirut.
The independent Interna
tional News Agency quoted dip
lomatic sources saying 40 ob
servers would be in position in
Beirut Wednesday.
But despite signs of progress,
new fighting broke out along
the Green Line dividing Chris
tian east Beirut from the Mos
lem west.
Shells falling into residential
neighborhoods killed at least
five people and wounded 17,
security sources said. At one
point, Lebanese army tanks po
sitioned near Christian fighters
in east Beirut fired at Moslem
miltiamen, the rightist Voice of
Lebanon radio station said.
In another development, a
caller claiming to represent the
Islamic Jihad (Holy War) orga
nization said the group threat
ened to “liquidate” Druze Mos
lem leader Walid Jumblatt.
Islamic Jihad is the same
group that claimed responsibil
ity for the Oct. 1983 suicide
truck bombings that killed 241
American servicemen and 58
French peace-keeping troops.
In a call to the Beirut bureau
of a foreign news agency, the
caller accused Jumblatt of being
“a famous Israeli agent” who
was serving Israel’s interests in
Beirut and demanded he pull
his militiamen out of West Bei
rut.
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Earlier in the day, Jumblatt
handed captured Mourabitoun
positions to police and the Leb
anese army’s 6th Brigade,
which had remained neutral in
the February fighting between
the Druze and the army.
Druze and Shiite Moslem
fighters, who together drove
the army out of Moslem West
Beirut Feb. 6, last week
smashed a militia called the
Mourabitoun made up of fight
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The attacks on the Mourabi
toun came amid charges that it
was swelling its ranks with Pal
estinian guerrillas, who were
chased of Beirut after Israel’s
invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
A return of Palestinian guer
rillas to Beirut would be likely
to invite new Israeli attacks.
The threat against Jumblatt,
raising fears of even greater
chaos in Beirut, coincided with
the withdrawal of French
peace-keepers from the battle-
scarred capital.
The French Defense Ministry
has announced the 1,250
French troops in Beirut will pull
out by Saturday — about a
month after American, Italian
and British forces departed be
cause of the virtual collapse of
the Lebanese army.
The French troops hold posi
tions along the Green Line and
are responsible for keeping
open the only road now linking
the Christian and Moslem sec
tors of Beirut.
Meeting under French pro
tection in a building on the
Green Line, a committee of
four men representing Leb
anon’s main warring factions
agreed the rival groups would
refrain from grabbing land be
ing vacated by the French.
Beirut Radio said the com
mittee agreed Lebanon’s Inter
nal Security Forces, a paramili
tary police unit, would take up
the French positions so that the
road between East and West
Beirut can remain open.
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