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Shiites win in fierce Beirut battle
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namem iE | RUT Le b anon (AP) — Shiite
l(Hlt f ' c \isl[€Bn militiamen crushed an out-
d P' a ™|nJd and (unmanned Sunni Mos-
)i e-tourrkj biction Tuesday after a bitter
i , hour battle in the streets of west
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vmiuu, j 0 || te re p ortec i 4() people were
! fed and 190 wounded in the
ters tokrWer struggle between the two
on the; islem militias and in a 16th day of
losefou'hting at Palestinian refugee
and
titudeat Ifvjas the hea\ iest fighting in west
tru| in weeks.
cannon and mortar fire set
>od nucl- ildirgs ablaze and wounded civil-
t, and k-1 Muddled in doorways as gun-
Ellis saic|i,raked streets with fire from au-
ing leant|at|( weapons and recoilless rifles,
an do»- Police said 25 people were killed
•erience d l|l9 wounded in the confronta
tion between Shiite and Sunni Mos
lem factions.
Fifteen people were killed and 71
injured in clashes between Amal mi
litia and Palestinian guerrillas
around the camps.
Justice Minister Nabih Berri, who
heads the Amal militia, claimed vic
tory for his fighters in the battle
against a Sunni faction called the
February 6 Movement, which is
headed by Shaker Berjawi.
The Movement was named after
the 1984 date of a Moslem uprising
in west Berlin against the army.
The fighting Tuesday appeared
to be an attempt by Amal to assert its
superiority in west Beirut.
But in what seemed to be concilia
tory gestures, Berri ordered his mili
tiamen to abstain from looting.
He also offered to turn over all
neighborhoods that have been con
quered by his militiamen to the Leb
anese army.
Sunni political and religious lead
ers have been critical of the militias
that have turned west Beirut into a
haven for kidnappers, assassins and
bank robbers.
Moslem radio stations said a 360-
man army task force was formed un
der the command of Capt. Mah
moud Kassar to move into the en
clave of the February 6 Movement,
which is located off west Beirut’s
Corniche Mazraa commercial dis
trict.
Amal captured the area in a three
pronged offensive.
Hundreds of Shiite militiamen
pushed in behind barrages of T-54
tank fire and 120mm mortars to
overrun Berjawi’s headquarters and
his house.
They set his father’s nearby house
afire.
Berjawi was reported to have es
caped with an estimated 50 follow
ers.
His 100 militiamen also were re
ported to have been supported by
800 other Sunni fighters from va
rious factions.
But they were outnumbered by
the Amal forces, which had superior
firepower.
Amal said its attack followed the
slaying Monday of two kidnapped
Shiites by some of Berjawi’s mili
tiamen.
rinonner takes train home to Gorky, Sakharov
■SCOW (AP) — Yelena Bon-
■r. putimisald Tuesday she sent a telegram
ledtohir her husband, Andrei Sakharov,
■ she would be on the over-
nish po» ;htIrain to Gorky, and if the KGB
artwheel it go through he probably would
et ler at the station.
n Yandei ihe said she hoped to return to
■vercame isccjw in a few days from Gorky, to
ich she and the dissident physicist
Irelandli confined in internal exile, to col-
eated L;ibaggage she shipped separately
:rsi\. months in the West.
I hope they will agree to let me,”
id when T told reporters in her Moscow
a defendt irtment. “I want to see my hus-
i But Dji tdand to rest a bit. If I’m not back
the 58tii e by the 15th (of June), then they
t Jenninfi'en’t let me come. That’s exact.”
vfrs. Bonner, 63, received medical
aveuscomtnient and visited relatives in the
inces,"Bil ked States, then stopped in seve-
i, said.“If West European countries on her
:es, Algera-jfB
way back to the Soviet Union.
She said she was “terribly tired,”
but decided to make the overnight
train trip to the city 250 miles east of
Moscow because she was anxious to
see her husband after the long sepa
ration.
Sakharov, who is 65 and won the
1975 Nobel Peace Prize, was exiled
to Gorky in January 1980 and his
wife was confined to it in August
1984 after being convicted of anti-
state slander. The city is closed to
foreigners.
If Mrs. Bonner is allowed to re
turn to Moscow, she should be able
to give foreign reporters and diplo
mats an up-to-date report on Sakha
rov’s health and living conditions.
Before being restricted to Gorky,
she traveled to Moscow once a
month, buying supplies and main
taining links to the outside world by
meeting with foreigners and diplo
mats.
Sakharov won the Nobel prize for
challenging Soviet policies on hu
man rights and military matters. He
has never been tried or charged with
a crime.
The physicist, who helped create
the Soviet hydrogen bomb, was
stripped of all honors except mem
bership in the Soviet Academy of
Sciences and sent to Gorky after crit
icizing the December 1979 Soviet in
tervention in Afghanistan.
Mrs. Bonner returned to Moscow
for the first time in 19 months late
last November, but refused to talk
with Westerners about life in Gorky.
She said she had agreed not to do so
as a condition of being allowed out
of the country.
Sakharov had gone on three hun
ger strikes in 18 months demanding
permission for his wife to leve the
country for medical attention.
Mrs. Bonner left Dec. 2, was
treated for glaucoma in Italy, then
went to the United States for heart
bypass surgery. Her son by her first
marriage, Alexei Semyonov; daugh
ter and son-in-law Tatiana and Ef
rem Yankelevich and mother Ruf
live in Newton, Mass.
She gradually became more out
spoken, met freed Soviet dissident
Anatoly Shcharansky and Western
political leaders, and wrote articles
about her life in Gorky with Sakha
rov.
In one article, she said they were
virtually isolated, under constant
surveillance and forced to drive to a
town park to listen to Western radio
stations because a device in their
apartment jams radio and affects
television reception.
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25 minulBl
bard orders
rd orobe into
postal finance
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Washington (ap) — The
), Lean..: overning board of the Postal
re- ervke ordered an investigation
uesday of how the agency
1 the tuncP eru l s money, four days after a
trd,” Cumf mer postal governor pleaded
give him u ‘% to embezzlement,
and wort.If addition to the wide-rang-
hat incentJS internal probe of the agency’s
•hthimllr/ocedures for buying equip-
iunds - lenl an< l ‘ ts spending practices,
ie board of governors also di-
scted a review to determine
, , hether the process for selecting
, f ostniaster General Albert V. Ga-
1 cha 7 l0 l las tainted.
: scored a U |
[gainst Mil John R. McKean, the postal
. That adtfrard’s chairman, said, “There is
Hindi be! 0 indication that Mr. Casey is in-
isociation olved in any impropriety what-
g FederaiiTvei. We don’t believe there is
captured By corruption at all.”
Peter E. Voss, the board’s vice
hairman until he resigned,
leaded guilty last Friday in con-
Ittion with a scheme to steer a
'250 million contract to a com-
any whose public relations con
et by Militant was paying Voss a fee.
tnd Bird. 1 L ".
einthepei The reach of the internal
lOattheer robe was broadened to include
re circumstances behind Casey’s
led by nflection, McKean said. This
he second ime after the governing board
H two coif red the executive search firm
for a 5(M iat recommended Casey.
The executive recruiter, Wil-
am A. Spartin, had started a
’ ,u j 1 . , iarch for Casey’s successor in
e ght of Casey’s intention to quit
thalfwIrrlid-August.
Government records show that
artin was a director of the
h company and president of
public relations company that
laccused of funneling money
Voss.
Weinberger: Stealth planes
will cost $277 million each
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger,
going public with heretofore secret
cost information on the radar-elud
ing Stealth bomber program, told
Congress on Tuesday that each of
the new planes will cost only about
$12 million more than the B-l
bombers now in production.
Weinberger, in a one-page fact
sheet intended to protect the Stealth
from budget cuts, said the new
bomber carries a total program cost
of $36.6 billion in fiscal 1981 dollars.
That is the estimate for buying 132
of the new planes, which have been
described as almost impervious to
radar detection.
The B-l program, under which
100 planes are being purchased, car
ries an estimated pricetag of $26.5
billion, Weinberger continued.
“Thus the estimated average cost
per B-1B is $265 million, and the
cost of the far more capable Ad
vanced Technology Bomber
(Stealth) is $277 million for each air
craft,” the defense secretary said.
“The ATB program is on sched
ule; the technology is well under
stood and working, and we expect
the system to be operational in the
early 1990s. In terms of mission ca
pability, the ATB’s unique low-ob
servable characteristics make it far
more survivable than the B-1B.
“This superior survivability, com
bined with the ATB’s payload and
range, substantially increases its mili
tary effectiveness over that of the B-
1B.”
The information released by
Weinberger had been provided by
the Pentagon to top congressional
leaders earlier this year on a classi
fied basis, meaning it could not be
used in public debate.
Congress has to decide this year
whether to give its full support to the
secret Stealth program or to buy
more conventional B-Ts, about
which there is copious information.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., chairman
of the House Armed Services Com
mittee, complained in April that
Weinberger’s devotion to secrecy
was preventing an informed debate
about the merits of Stealth and jeop
ardizing the plane’s future.
The Stealth bomber is under at
tack on Capitol Hill as an unproven
technology that should not be pur
sued at the expense of the B-l. The
debate has sharpened in recent
months because the Rockwell Inter
national Corp., which builds the B-l,
is already beginning to shut down
parts of its production line.
The Air Force had previously
awarded contracts to Rockwell for
100 B-l bombers. Weinberger ear
lier this year said he had no inten
tion of changing the Pentagon’s plan
to replace its aging B-52 bombers
with 100 B-l’s and 132 Stealth
bombers.
Rockwell, in an unsolicited bid de
signed to continue the program, of
fered in March to build 48 additio
nal B-l’s at a new price of about
$140 million per plane in 1981 dol
lars.
AT&T begins hiring temporary operators
WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T
has begun hiring thousands of tem
porary telephone operators to re
place striking workers as negotiators
for the company and its largest em
ployee union huddled in what were
described as largely unproductive
bargaining sessions Tuesday.
Officials for the telecommunca-
tions giant said 2,000 temporary op
erators were hired Monday and an
other 1,000 on Tuesday to help run
switchboards normally staffed by
24,000 union operators in the week.
American Telephone and Tele
graph Co. was struck Sunday by
155,000 members of the Commu
nications Workers of America,
36,000 of them telephone operators,
after the union rejected the compa
ny’s offer of an 8 percent pay in
crease over the next three years.
Herb Linnen, an AT&T spokes
man said Tuesday, “If the strike con
tinues, we’ll hire up to 7,000 tempo
raries to help us through this
situation.”
The union, meanwhile, estimated
that AT&T is losing $50 million a
day because of the strike.
Francine Zucker, a union
spokeswoman, said that figure was
calculated on estimates of lost busi
ness based on the company’s 1985
annual report.
Linnen said, “We’re not able to
quantify the impact at this time. I
don’t know where the union is get
ting its figures.”
Linnen, however, acknowledged
that AT&T’s average response time
in answering calls for long-distance
assistance Tuesday was 15 times
longer than normal.
However, he said the response
time averaged 60 seconds on Mon
day, the first working business day
of the strike. The normal average re
sponse time for an operator to an
swer when a caller dials zero is 2 sec
onds, he said.
uclear safety
Gorbachev calls for creation of international safeguard system
^iTED NATIONS (AP) —Mi
i S. Gorbachev urged the wor
Isday to create without delay ;
jrnational system of safeguar
Jnst such nuclear disasters as tl
losion and fire at the Chernot
T ler plant.
lOi Ji a message to U.N. Secretar
f 10(11 | eral J av i er Perez de Cuellar, tl
lUUIIet leader also urged agreeme
ng governments on measur
nst nuclear terrorism, mentio
42 cases of sabotage at nucle
ities in the West.
orbachev, obviously still smart-
from Western criticism of how
, Clusifi^Soviet Union handled the acci-
M5-261I at ^ ie Ukrainian power plant,
osed that an international
accord forbid “attempts to use nu
clear accidents to exacerbate ten
sions and distrust in relations among
states.”
Soviet officials did not report the
April 26 accidefit until nearly three
days later, after high radiation levels
were reported in Scandinavia and
Sweden demanded an explanation
from the Kremlin.
The death toll from the accident
now stands at 25. A Soviet doctor
said Tuesday that 18,000 people
were hospitalized immediately af
terward, but all except about 300
were released in a few days.
Lessons learned from Chernobyl
“should serve to the benefit of all
mankind,” Gorbachev said in the
message. It was delivered orally by
outgoing Soviet Ambassador Yuri
Dubinin, who has been appointed
ambassador to Washington, and an
English transcript was made avail
able to reporters.
Bv giving prominence to nuclear
terrorism, Gorbachev appeared to
be directing attention to an area in
which the West is more vulnerable
than the Soviet Union. There has
been no suggestion of sabotage at
Chernobyl.
“One cannot but feel concerned
by the facts of purposely inflicted
damages to nuclear power enter
prises, which have taken place in the
West,” Gorbachev said. “Thus, for
example, 32 such cases were regis
tered in the United States from 1974
to 1984. Ten attacks on different nu
clear facilites were undertaken in
Europe from 1966 to 1977.”
Because of shortcomings in exist
ing systems to prevent theft of
highly enriched fissionable materi
als, he said, “There is an imminent
need for an elaboration of a reliable
system of measures to prevent nu
clear terrorism in all its manifesta
tions.”
President Reagan and the leaders
of six other industrial democracies
called at their Tokyo summit last
month for an international conven
tion “committing the parties to re
port and exchange information in
the event of nuclear emergencies or
accidents.”
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