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to rami fights to hold Lebanon unity
I' United Press International
"j nirl/t BEIRUT — Prime minister-
' esignale Rashid Karami
truggled Tuesday to keep Leb-
)i a first-roLri|« n ' s new national unity gov-
l-round picks, rninen i alive amid more fight-
a linebacko 1 g be^een Lebanon’s Moslem
nd Christian factions,
a choice a«|| Beirut radio said Karami,
w Orleans, llitlj () announced his 10 -man
ansas defenji:^i)inet lineup Monday, tele
rot and Cinci, r 4 0ne( j SO me of the new min-
Irom New En^ terS) apparently to discuss
i dozen straigLijjjite Moslem leader Nabih
ds by namin.{ er ,i s refusal to join the na-
lefensive enc [oral unity government.
Beni was in Damascus for
J|s with Syrian officials, who
is finally sete ave been trying to broker an
player by
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end to Lebanon’s nine-year civil
war.
Walid Jumblatt, Berri’s
Druze Moslem ally, was consid
ering rejecting his Cabinet post
as head of tourism and public
works, aides said.
Karami, 62, a pro-Syrian
Sunni Moslem who served as
prime minister nine previous
times, remained optimistic his
new government would hold to
gether.
“All problems have a solu
tion,” Karami told the Ameri
can Broadcasting Corp. radio
network. “Berri is a friend and
brother. We have cooperated
before and we will continue to
cooperate.”
Asked whether his prospec
tive Cabinet of five Moslems
and five Christians had fallen
apart, Karami replied, “I hope
not.” The first Cabinet meeting
is scheduled for today.
Karami had no immediate
comment on a report that
Greek Catholic leaders “sus
pended” Joseph SkafTs ap
pointment as information min
ister. Skaff is a former defense
minister.
Karami last Thursday was
asked by Christian President
Amin Gernayel to form a new
government with a mandate to
unite the Moslem and Christian
factions. He announced the
Cabinet without consulting the
nominees.
Berri, leader of Amal, the
powerful Shiite militia, almost
immediately said he would not
join the Cabinet as justice and
hydroelectric utilities minister
because it did not have 26 mem
bers as Gernayel agreed in talks
with Syrian leader Hafez Assad.
As Karami tried to keep his
new administration from col
lapsing, sectarian fighting
erupted in Beirut.
Three people were reported
wounded by sniper fire in the
center of the capital, where
Moslem militiamen face Chris
tian gunmen and units of the
Christian-led army across the
Green Line
west Beirut.
between east and
Police said several rockets
and artillery shells crashed into
Christian east and Moslem west
Beirut in the morning. The
fighting tapered off to ma
chine-gun duels and sniping
later in the day.
leaders Camille
an 84-year-old for-
Chrislian
Chamoun,
mer president, and Pierre Gem
ayel, the president’s father and
founder of the right-wing Pha
lange party, were reported re
ady to accept Cabinet posts
“only in spite of Berri and
Jumblatt.
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alesa sneaks in parade, flashes V-sign’
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, > .km—.. ARSAW, Poland — Solida-
Javid Lewisol^ j eac j er Lech Walesa sneaked
into an official May Day parade
— held to mark die socialist ob-
City used the jervance of International
d to taki Workers Day — in Gdansk
if Iowa and SeTuesday and flashed a V-for-
st two (Me,victory sign in the face of Com
be USFL, gUmLnisl Party officials.
Illinois corneip'Dignitalics including the
aylor. province’s military governor
‘stiffened” when they saw the
Solidarity display, a witness
Hd. One senior military officer
lui led his back on Walesa and
l^koned to riot police, who
hed at the marchers with
her clubs swinging,
die police missed Walesa by
eral feet and the Nobel
ace Prize winner made his
indale, N V way safely home,
ped a penaltyB“We said what we feel ... We
e second peri told them, l ight to their faces,
’ scored 1:3" what we think and what our
anders. opinions are,” Walesa said,
nan Gord ^Solidarity’s attempted take-
isurancegoal over of the Gdansk parade was
1 period to spwf
i their bid to i
inadiens as tin
five straightCi
was broken
(he pass
an embarrassment to the gov
ernment, particularly since
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the
Communist Party leader, is
leaving for Moscow in about a
week to meet with Kremlin
leaders.
Journalists reports indicated
hundreds of people were de
tained or arrested. Official fig
ures were unavailable.
Walesa sneaked into the pa
rade with what witnesses said
were about 10,000 supporters.
“The officials on the stand
were stupefied. They didn’t
know what to do,” one witness
said.
Solidarity members sur
rounding Walesa unfurled ban
ners and shouted slogans de
manding freedom for more
than 400 political prisoners
held by the Communist regime,
and called to onlookers to join
the union’s campaign to boycott
national elections in six weeks.
The government’s chief
spokesman, Jerzy Urban, said
the version of events reaching
him indicated Walesa “found
no support in the streets, and
returned home.”
Urban described Solidarity’s
protest efforts nationwide as
“pathetic.”
Western correspondents
watching parades and protests
around the country counted
30,000 to 35,000 people in
volved on Solidarity’s side, com
pared with Urban’s assessment
of less than 8,000. /
But the union’s turnout was
less than half as big as it was for
last year’s May Day protests.
In Wroclaw, police used tear
gas to disperse a crowd of 1,500
to 2,000 people shouting slo
gans such as “There is no free
dom without Solidarity” and
“Only the insane will turn out
for elections.”
Riot police in Warsaw blasted
demonstrators with water can
nons outside two churches and
near the main gate of the Huta
Warszawa steel plant.
A number of Western corre
spondents and their Polish staff
were detained briefly at demon
stration sites by police who
seized notes, film, press creden
tials, audio tapes and video cas
settes.
Among them were represen
tatives of UPI, the New York
Times, CBS-TV, the West Ger
man ARD network and the
Spanish EFE agency.
At a May Day rally in down
town Santiago, Chile, attended
by tens of thousands of govern
ment opponents, riot police
fired teargas and rubber bullets
to disperse stone-throwing
youths.
The rally, organizied by an
opposition coalition, was the
first authorized by the military
government since Gen. Au-
gusto Pinochet overthrew Salva
dor Allende in 1973.
Marches in many European
cities took on an anti-American
Lone as demonstrators pro-
__ tested U.S. policies in Central
America and missile deploy
ments in Western Europe.
In France, 15,000 workers
marched in three separate dem
onstrations through Paris, re
vealing the split in labor ranks
caused by Socialist President
Francqis Mitterrand’s austerity
program.
In Britain, the Communist
party declared a day of solidar
ity with coal miners who have
been on strike for two months.
May Day speakers in Havana
protested U.S. sea, land and air
maneuvers in the Caribbean, in
cluding a mock assault at the
Guantanamo naval base.
Some 50,000 Brazilian work
ers protested two decades of
military rule at May Day rallies
in Sao Paulo.
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BOGOTA, Columbia —Pres
ident Belisario Betancur de-
_ iP re< J a stale of siege Tuesday
i I m following the machine-gun as-
I j sasstnalion of a justice minister
* g ** whose death was believed
linked to his crackdown on Go
's into the jwjnbia’s
: the kicking trade.
ly.” IrThis is a sad lime for our
Hjiitry. But we will not permit
tyer personiByone to attempt to destroy
randt indicalBr society,” Betancur said in a
ties seen ipCBlionwide broadcast hours af-
tyed a large let Justice Minister Rodrigo
ns. pant Bonilla died in a blast of
machine-gun fire.
| “We will, above all, advance
y. e / y J C i 0[IiP l r war a g a * nsl <be drug traf-
, ‘ , , ftckers,” Betancur said. “We will
win because there is no hurry
on our part to avenge the death
of our patriot, Lara Bonilla.”
^ ii Betancur extended nalion-
DJn, w ' t * e a slale of siege already in
1 IfecL in four of the nation’s
a MAldP ov ‘ nces anc * ca ** ec * an emer-
My*gency cabinet meeting to dis-
,|Hss security measures. Na-
I anana (. t j on ai police and the military
. ll were pul on alert,
ltd base ,MUnder the stale of siege, all
y BelljuggiigJ arantees uru j er conslitu-
umpire ii L jI are SUS p en ded.
? the ball apPHUf ter bis statements, Belan-
■vall befote CU] | e( j ca bi ne i ministers and
military officials to a cathedral a
i scored ui' blLtk from the presidential pal-
i ror ol im ace f or a serv ice honoring Lara.
-^lf to ngl" Thousands of people, many
Jiff Johns 01 11 v j n g w bire hankerchiefs,
ing Fotoiii jj I)e( | t be streets during the
[ocession.
—j-HLara, 40, who took office
■ 3 B ) (,niv eight nionlhs ago, began a
f tough campaign against the
drug trade within weeks of his
appointment, charging that
crime families were influencing
political elections with “dirty
money.”
Fifty-seven percent of the
arijuana and 50 percent of
e cocaine illegally imported
it to the United States conies
rom Columbia, according to
the U.S. Justice Department.
He had reported receiving
death threats connected to the
crackdown on drug traffickers.
Lara was slain Monday night
by two assassins on a motorcycle
he traveled home in his
[eam-colored Mercedez Benz
icorted by a police car and a
ilaiion wagon carrying his four
personal bodyguards.
I The man on the back of the
motorcycle opened fire with a
submachine gun at an intersec
tion, blasting the minister’s car
with more than 20 bullets, and
hurled a grenade that stopped
tlte police car, police said.
I Lara was hit 13 times in the
head, chest and arms by bullets
that smashed through the win-
fdows, doors and seats of his
Mercedes.
His bodyguards leaped out of
eir station wagon and opened
e with submachine guns, kill-
g the driver, Ivan Dario Gui-
), and wounding the rider,
ton Velasquez Arena.
Both were armed with sub
machine guns and wearing bul
letproof vests, authorities said.
Velasquez, 23, said he and
Dario each were offered
$20,000 in Medellin, Columbia,
to kill a high government offi
cial, police said. He refused to
say who paid them, and denied
knowing the victim was Lara.
Medellin, 150 miles north
west of Bogota, is considered
the center of Columbia’s drug
trade.
El Tiempo, a Bogota newspa
per, reported Tuesday that in
an interview four hours before
his assassination Lara had again
said he feared for his life.
“These guys are out to kill
me, and I have to take all kinds
of precautions,” Lara told the
newspaper.
Lara, a former senator, had
been scheduled to take an am
bassadorial post within a
month, a government official
said.
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