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1I//-VOI r\ A ISir> IM ATI/"'»IM Wednesday August 21, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 7 •Kv.ij-m.-nr nw^mmmmnj j. . iutt SHOE by Jeff MacNelly Celling beer at sports events troubles six of 10 Americans Associated Press NEW YORK — Six of 10 Ameri cans say beei sales at sporting events should be restricted because drink ing contributes to rowdyism, accord ing to a Media General-Associated Press poll on spectator violence. Respondents in die nationwide telephone poll were asked to choose between two statements: “The sale of beer at games contributes to spec tator rowdyism and should be lim ited” or “Keer sales should not be limited because it would unfairly in convenience the majority because of the problems of a few.” Sixty-two percent of the 1,517 re spondents said beer sales should be limited, while 53 percent said limit ing beer sales would be unfair to the majority of spectators who behave. Five percent were unsure. Lebanon’s car bombers kill 44 in Tripoli Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s car bombers struck in Tripoli on Tuesday, apparently luring people into a main square and then detonat ing a bomb that killed 44 people and wounded 90, police reported. Beirut was rocked by the fiercest artillery and rocket barrages in six 'months. Police in the capital said 40 people were killed and 143 wounded in 24 hours of heavy fighting be tween Christians and Moslems in a resurgence of Lebanon’s decade-old civil war. The car bomb was the fifth in Lebanon’s major cities in a week. A total of 143 people have been killed. An anonymous caller who claimed to speak on behalf of the Revolution ary Christians of the Cedars, a hith erto unknown group, telephoned a Western news agency in Beirut to say it planted the bomb. The caller, speaking in heavily ac cented French, declared: “We want to assure the whole world that no Moslem fundamentalists will con tinue to live on Lebanese soil.” The car bomb was parked near the homes of Sheik Kenaan Naji, leader of the f undamentalist Sunni Jundullah militia, or Soldiers of God, and his aide. Sheik Abdel-Ka- rim Badawi. Police said Naji was wounded and hospitalized, but had no word whether Badawi was hit. Jundullah, armed and bankrolled by the Palestine Liberation Organi zation, is one of the main factions that has battled with the Syrian- backed Arabian Knights militia for Control of Tripoli, 50 miles north of Beirut. Some intelligence officials specu lated that Tuesday’s bombing was linked to Syria’s campaign to crush Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization in T ripoli. Support for limited beer sales is one indication that many Americans are concerned about violence in the stands. Nearly four in 10 respon dents said they had witnessed fights among spectators at a game. Four teen percent said they had felt per sonally threatened by rowdy fans. While many were concerned about violence, 56 percent said last spring’s deadly riot at a soccer match in Belgium would not likely be du plicated at a U.S. sporting event. Al most four people in 10 disagreed, saying such riots were likely to occur. Rowdyism has also become a con cern in the United States. Alcohol- free sections, low-alcohol beer and limited sales of beer are being tried in baseball parks this summer. Respondents in the Media Gen eral-A P poll were asked if they thought some sports encouraged vi olent behavior among fans, and 62 percent said yes. Forty-nine percent of the respon dents said sports teams should face disciplinary action if their fans are consistently violent while 45 percent said the teams should not be blamed. Slightly more than half said they thought professional sports teams provided adequate security for spec tators. The poll also found that two- thirds of Americans considered themselves sports fans and half at tended live sporting events several times a year. Respondents in the Media Gen eral-Associated Press poll included a random sampling of 1,517 adults across the country July 5-13. Gunmen kill Israeli diplomat Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — Gunmen firing from a speeding car killed a junior Israeli diplomat on Tuesday and wounded two other embassy em ployees — his wife and his secretary, Egyptian authorities said. It was the second attack on a Cairo-based Israeli diplomat in little over a year. A group using the name “Egypt’s Revolution” claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s shooting and vowed to keep striking “until the Israeli colo nialists leave the country.” The same group claimed the June 1984 attack, in which no one was killed. An Interior Ministry statement and the Israeli Foreign Ministry identified the assassinated diplomat as Albert Atrakchi, 30, an adminis trative attache posted to the Cairo embassy three months ago. The other victims were his wife liana, 24, and Mazal Menashe, 22, his secretary, who is also the wife of another Israeli diplomat. The min istry did not describe Mrs. Atrakchi’s post in the embassy. They were re ported in “reassuring” condition af ter surgery, according to an Israeli report. Egypt, which signed a 1979 peace treaty with Israel, is the only Middle Eastern country that has diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Most Arab nations severed relations with Cairo and the treaty has remained controversial inside Egypt and in the Arab world. South African homes searched Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Af rica — Security forces ringed a riot-prone black district with about 80 armored personnel car riers on Tuesday and searched the houses, using dogs. A black policeman in another town shot his way out of an angry mob, killing one man. Police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators near Cape Town and Johannesburg, wounding several. Officers at Witbank, 57 miles east of Johannesburg, ar rested scores of school-age youngsters in pre-dawn raids on their homes, said Maj. C. Bloem, chief of the Witbank police. Bloem said the youths were ar rested in connection with rioting, arson and looting, part of the tide of anger against white rule that has swept South Africa for a year and cost more than 600 black lives. The government announced one month after it declared a state of emergency that it was holding 998 people without charge or access to legal advice. Police headquarters in Pretoria said more than 2,000 people had been arrested under the emer gency and the others were re leased. The emergency was an nounced July 20 and imposed the next day in 36 black areas most affected by the uprising against apartheid, the system of race seg regation that guarantees privilege for South Africa’s 5 million whites and denies rights to the black majority of 24 million. Residents of Diepkloof Zone One in Soweto, the black city of 1.5 million people outside Johan nesburg, awoke Tuesday to find a ring of about 80 armored person nel carriers around their neigh borhood of two-room shacks. Security men moved from house to house with dogs. A po lice spokesman in Pretoria said the army had only a support role, but residents said soldiers joined in the searches. The spokesman in Pretoria said only that the sweep was “a crime-prevention operation,” and the number of people arrested would be revealed Wednesday. As residents were questioned and cleared, police stamped their hands with small red-ink arrows that would get them through checkpoints in the rutted dirt streets of the black ghetto. Such occupations of black dis tricts have been a government tactic since November. This was the first time in the year of vio lence that troops took part in a police dragnet in Soweto. One fatal shooting occurred in a black area at Bethal, a small farming center 68 miles southeast of Johannesburg. Police said an angry mob sur rounded a black officer on his way to work, called him a collabo rator with the whites and threat ened him. They said he fired his pistol at the crowd, killing a man, then arrested a woman and got away. Black policemen and township councilors, considered to be sell outs to white rule, have become targets of black mobs and many have been killed. Police fired rubber bullets into about 400 people protesting inad equate housing in a mixed-race district on the eastern fringe of Johannesburg, wounding 10. They reported eight arrests. Falwell refers to Tutu as v a phony 7 Associated Press NEW YORK — The Rev. Jerry Falwell, returning Tuesday from a five-day trip to South Africa, called black Anglican Bishop Des mond Tutu a “phony” and pro posed an American campaign of reinvestment in the white-run country. Falwell, head of the fundamen talist Christian group Moral Ma jority, told reporters at Kennedy International Airport that Ameri cans are getting a slanted version of events in South Africa. He said he was assured by South African President P.W. Botha that his government is sin cerely interested in reforming apartheid, the system by which South Africa’s white minority re tains power over the black major ity. 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