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Moslem protestors lift Beirut highway blockade
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Beirut’s
port and international airport re
sumed full operations Tuesday after
Moslem demonstrators demanding
an accounting of the fate of thou
sands of kidnap victims lifted a four-
day blockade of key highways in the
Lebanese capital.
“Everything was very, very
smooth, quiet and normal,” said
Middle East Airlines chairman Selim
Salam. “Let’s keep our fingers
crossed.”
MEA, Lebanon’s national airline
company, carried more than 1,300
passengers on 14 international
flights. At least six foreign cargo
ships unloaded about 21,000 tons of
grain, wood, steel, cars and paper
products at the port.
Both facilities reopened Monday
for the first time since fighting swept
Beirut Feb. 6, but scores of Moslems
had blocked access roads with burn
ing tires and other debris in a protest
over the fate of an estimated 4,000
kidnap victims. Some of the kidnap
pings date to the beginning of the
1975-76 civil war. Most victims are
presumed to be dead.
The demonstrators maintained a
token presence Tuesday at one of
the six main crossing points between
Christian east and Moslem west Bei
rut, but police said they did not stop
traffic.
The protesters, mostly relatives of
the missing people, agreed to clear
the roads after President Amin
Gemayel, a Christian, promised the
kidnap issue would top the agenda
at the Cabinet’s weekly meeting to
day.
The four-day blockade and a gen
eral strike in west Beirut had threat
ened to scuttle government efforts
to reunify the Lebanese capital un
der a Syrian-mediated security plan
in effect since last Wednesday.
Moslem leaders, backed by Gem-
ayel’s promise to the kidnap victims’
families, also helped lift the blockade
by asking all demonstrators to con
fine their protest to a sit-in at Dar el
Fatwa, the Moslem religious head
quarters in west Beirut.
Red Cross officials have accounted
for only about 300 people being held
by Lebanon’s rival Christian and
Moslem militias, which had been
scheduled to release their hostages
last weekend in a deal that fell
through.
Many of the victims families ad
mitted they believe the missing rela
tives were dead.
Sunni Moslem radio said the Cab
inet, which includes Christian and
Moslem militia leaders, would con
sider setting up a special court to
deal with each kidnap claim, and
make reparations to families who
had proof that a kidnapped relative
was dead.
In Israeli-occupied southern Leb
anon, the mayor of a small coastal
village was killed by a bomb blast
when he turned the ignition key of
his booby-trapped car, police said.
No one claimed responsibility for
the killing of Sarafand Mayor Jawad
Khalifeh, described by Lebanese
sources as “a moderate politician ad
vocating a peaceful coexistence be
tween the local people and the re
gion’s Israeli occupation forces.”
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Two gored in Pamplona run
Festival bulls charge crowd
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PAMPLONA, Spain — Two en
raged bulls charged into a crowd at
Pamplona’s famed running of the
bulls Tuesday, severely goring a U.S.
army paratrooper and a British citi
zen in the first serious injuries of this
year’s event.
The injuries came on the fourth
day of the weeklong San Fermin fes
tival, whose running of the bulls was
popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s
“The Sun Also Rises.”
Stephen Townsend, 23, of Nash
ville, Tenn., a paratrooper stationed
at Vicenza, Italy, underwent surgery
after a bull gored him repeatedly
and hurled him against a wall, rip
ping a 16-inch gash in his left thigh.
The second charging bull tore
into British citizen David Crowther,
44, who lives in Fuengirola on
Spain’s Costa del Sol, tearing his
right knee and thigh. After surgery
at the Navarra Hospital, Crowther
was reported iti serious condition.
middle of the herd of six bulls and
six steers nearing the end of the
course when a bull turned and
charged the runners after the ani
mal in the lead slipped him up
against the wall.
“It was absolutely the most horrible
run,” said Milagros Rada, watching
the event from a balcony above her
husband’s butcher shop. “The bull
picked him out.of the crowd.”
Witnesses said Townsend was in the
In the centuries-old festival, thou
sands of men from Spain and other
countries — dressed in traditional
white-and-red costumes — lead the
bulls and steers in a run to the bullr
ing each day.
An estimated 14 people have been
killed since the festival began, and
dozens of others injured.
Sanctuary group wants judge out
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BROWNSVILLE —An attorney
Tuesday asked a federal judge to
disqualify U.S. District Judge File-
mon Vela from presiding at the up
coming trial of Sanctuary Movement
defendant Jack Elder.
Elder, 41, director of the Casa Os
car Romero refugee center, is sched
uled to go on trial Aug. 7 on charges
he transported three illegal Salvado
ran aliens from the Roman Catholic-
sponsored center in San Benito to
the bus station in Harlingen.
Attorney Lisa Brodyaga, founder
of the Proyecto Libertad legal aid
group in Harlingen, told U.S. Dis
trict Judge Ricardo Hinojosa Tues
day that Vela should be removed
from the Elder case because of a
public perception that Vela was un
fair in the previous trial of Stacey
Lynn Merkt, 29, a Sanctuary
Movement member who teaches En
glish at Casa Oscar Romero.
Brodyaga argued that Vela, a
Catholic, felt pressure from
Brownsville Bishop John Joseph
Fitzpatrick’s presence in the court
room during the trial
“He (Belachheb) has been hospi
talized ... according to the informa
tion I have and I’m in the process of
confirming it,” Calisi said. “He’s
been institutionalized in Belgium in
1967 on three different occasions
for violent behavior.
In support of his claims, Calisi
said he had “credible sources” that
on one occasion Belachheb drove his
“auto through a plate glass window
at a night club.”
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DALLAS — A Moroccan, charged
in the shooting deaths of six people
in a night club, had been institutio
nalized in Belgium and once had an
implantation in his body to suppress
his violent behavior, his attorney
claimed Tuesday.
Ted Calisi, court-appointed attor
ney for Abdelkrim Belachheb, 39,
said he planned to travel to Belgium
to obtain his client’s medical records
to prepare his defense.
A grand jury Tuesday heard testi
mony from police Sgt. Bill Parker,
who arrested Belachheb.
Belachheb is being held in Dallas
County jail in lieu of a $1.1 million
bond in the June 29 slayings at the
lanni’s Restaurant and Club, where
six people were shot to death and a
seventh person wounded.
Calisi, who claimed his client had
been hospitalized in Europe for his
psychological problems, said he
planned to file a notice of intent to
use an insanity defense for his client.
Witnesses said the assailant killed
a woman who had spurned his ad
vances at lanni’s, reloaded his auto
matic pistol and picked off the other
victims at random as they sat on
their bar stools. Belachheb was ar
rested shortly after the shootings.
What’s up
Wednesday
TAMU SPORTS CAR CLUB: general meeting at 7:30 p.m.
in 308 Rudder. New ideas for the Fall will be presented.
Thursday
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A county
grand jury began hearing testimony
Tuesday in the Satanic ritual slaying
of a cult member and the witnesses
were given police protection because
of telephone death threats.
Sources close to the investigation
said one of the youths who testified
to the torture killing of a 17-year-old
Long Island boy had knowledge of
the slaying but never notified police.
Northport Village police disclosed
that the six witnesses, all alleged
members of a devil worship cult
called the Knights of the Black Cir
cle, have received telephone death
threats.
The youths have been given im
munity from prosecution in return
for their testimony.
They were among a dozen wit
nesses who were to begin testifying
Tuesday about the bizarre killing of
Cary Lauwers, 17, in Northport
June 17.
Two cult members were ar
raigned on murder charges in
killings, hut one youth,
Kassojr., 17, hanged himself®
county jail Saturday. A second
pect, James Troiano, 18, has
placed under a suicide watch
It was alleged Troiano e;
aged Kasso to commit the muf
and held Lauwers while
slabbed him repeatedly thencul
his eyes. It is also charged
Troiano helped Kasso earn
body into a nearby woods whenl
was buried in a shallow grave.
According to police, the 1
youths chanted salanic slogans
they cut the sleeves from Lau«
shirt, removed his socks and bus
both. Before killing Lauwers,
forced him to say "I love Satan,"
Police believe that Kasso
Troiano were under the influentt
the drug known as angel dustai
time of the slaying. Detectives
that Kasso had accused Lauwers
stealing from him about 10
angel dust.
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