The Michigan Daily-Wednesday; October 4, 1978-Page 7
Fighting continues in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-Flames
and black clouds billowed over Beirut
yesterday as Syrians renewed their
shelling of Christian sectors, ignoring
pleas from Lebanese President Elias
Sarkis to end the fighting that repor-
tedly claimed 250 lives in six days.
In New York, U.N. Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim offered his of-
fice to help achieve a Lebanese cease-
fire, and it was' reported the United
Nations was considering the evacuation
of 301 U.N. dependents from Beirut.
OFFICIAL SOURCES said French
Foreign Minister Louis de Guiringaud
postponed a trip to Brazil to work with
U.N. diplomats for a cease-fire.
After a relatively calm night, Syrian
wings of an Arab League peacekeeping
force opened up at mid-afternoon with
an intensive barrage of artillery, rocket
and mortar fire into neighborhoods
where right-wing Lebanese militias
maintain strongholds. Many areas
were reported to be without running
water or electricity.
An estimated 250 Lebanese have been
killed and 502 wounded in heavy
fighting since last Wednesday. In a
television address Monday, a haggard-
looking Sarkis said the fighting in east
Beirut had pushed his nation "to the
verge of collapse." He asked for peace
and promised to establish a new gover-
nment to replace the caretaker regime
of Premier Salim el Hoss.
TUESDAY'S SHELLING apparently
hit an oil storage depot northeast of the
capital, exploding it and ;sending
flames and a black cloud high into the
bright sky over the city.
As in the past, it was impossible to
prove which side started the flare-up,
but the right-wing "Voice of Lebanon"
radio station said the Syrians opened
fire without provocation. The Syrian
command did not comment.
"Syrian forces suddenly opened fire
on women, children and old people in
east Beirut and northeastern mountain
resorts," the radio said. Among the
mountain towns shelled was Beqfaya,
hometown of rightist Phalangist Pasrty
leader Pierre Gemayel.
The radio said Gemayel urged Sarkis
by telephone to "fly immediately to the
United Nations to explain the Lebanese
situation to the international conscien-
ce."
The Syrian-led peacekeepers in 1976
intervened in-and ended-a bloody
civil war that pitted leftist Lebanese
Moslems and their Palestinian allies
against the Christians. The move saved
the Christians, but they now refuse to
yield to Syrian control of their neigh-
borhoods.
French sources in Paris declined to
say what action De Guiringaud would
take, but they said France has con-
siderable influence in Syria and
Lebanon, both former protectorates.
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Guerrillas cult heroes to Nicaraguan youth
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)-Gun-
toting Sandinista guerrillas-not the
traditional cowboy or cop-are the new
heroes of Nicaraguan youths.
The rebels, wearing the black and red
masks of the Sandinista National
Liberation Front and waging a bloody
struggle to overthrow President
Anastasio Somoza, have captured the
imagination of many young people in
this Central American nation.
MANY MORE ARE caught in an
emptional tug-of-war, torn by
polarization between supporters of the
41-year-old Somoza family regime and
its foes.
On one side is the 300- to 400-strong
force of the black-and-red and on the
Council strengthens
police in
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COUNCILMAN LOUIS Senunas, (R-
Third Ward) asked, "What kind of
reasonable purposes are there that
people put a park to after 10 p.m.?"
Councilman Ken Latta (D-First
Ward) replied, "How soon they forget;
I was young once."
Finally, Latta made a resolution to
provide "adequate police protection"
from 9 p.m. through midnight for the
next two weeks on an experimental
basis, and after two weeks Council
would receive a progress report. The
resolution passed unanimously.
COUNCIL ALSO passed unanimously
plans for improved traffic control at the
Liberty/Stadium intersection. The
estimated cost of the work is $73,000.
The eight-phase signal will be regulated
by traffic flow and detectors under the
road surface which will be installed,
accordig to John Robbins, streets,
traffic, and parking director. The ap-
proaches to the intersection will also be
repaved.
The bulk of the work will be done next
spring, but some preliminary work is
possible this fall before the ground
urns Park
freezes, Robbins said.
The approved city historian contract
includes a $3,000 salary, which will be
paid to the Historical Foundation.
The historian services were
designated to begin Sunday, but there is
till debate as to whether Wystan
Stevens, who has been a volunteer
historian in the past, will be retained
with a salary.
STEVENS ALREADY receives free
room and a parking place at Kemp
House as its curator, said Gerald Bell,
Mayor Pro Tem (R-Fifth Ward).
"We already have a city curator,
maybe that's why we don't need a
historian," Bell said. Belcher said he
opposed some of Stevens' demands,
which include no supervision, and a
$15,000 salary with $5,000 for expenses
and hospitalization. He also expressed
concern that Stevens wouldn't produce
anything because he has never
published and never met the deadlines
set by the Ann .Arbor Observer and the
Ann Arbor News for a historical
column.
other the drab olive.green colors of the
7,500-man national guard, the nation's
police force and army.
One pro-Somoza housewife said she
was horrified to find her children
playing war games. She was even more
horrified when she discovered they
were calling themselves "Commandte
Cero" and "Comandante Dos," the
code names used by Sandinista
guerrilla leaders.
THERE IS NO doubt the guerrillas.
have cut a romantic swath in
Nicaragua, where many people are
poor and illerate. The Sandinista raids
are daring and often successful, the
street fighters wear masks and mouth a
modern version of Robin Hood rhetoric.
On top of that they capitalize on the
name of Augusto Cesar Sandino, a
Nicaraguan who fought the invasion of
U.S. Marines in the 1920s and '30a and
who was tricked and slain in 1934 by the
government, then led by Somoza's
father.
During the most recent violence in
Nicaragua, the majority of the fighting
on both sides was done by teen-
agers-both male and female.
"LOS MUCHACHOS" the children
manned the barricades and were the
backbone of the anti-Somoza resistance
in Masaya, Leon, Chinandega and
Esteli. The Red Cross estimated at
least 1,500 were killed.
The national guard troops that
Somoza sent in to retake the cities with
house-to-house fighting were often no
older. At one roadblock outside of Esteli
some soldiers were 16 years old. One
claimed he joined the guard when he
was 11.
The pressure to join one side or the
other crokses all socio-economic lines.
The majority of the Sandinista leader-
ship appears to come from the middle
and upper classes. Many are recruited
in schools and universities.
THE NATIONAL guard remains one
of the few institutions which provide
upwasrd social and economic mobility
for the youth of the lower classes which
fill its rank and file.
But the Sandinistas draw support
from all levels of society, and
widespread opposition to Somoza gives
them a broad base of popular support.
Norberto, a 12-year-old from the
slums of Managua, is nearing the age
he will have to make a decision.
AS HE SAT in the shade of a
chinaberry tree, Norberto seemed on
his way to a choice.
"El pueblo (the public) do not want
Somoza," he said. He pointed to a scar
on a building facade nearby.
"That Sandinista rocket missed," he
said. "But sooner or later they will get
him (Somoza) out of that bunker."
As he spoke, Norberto held a large
cutter ant between his fingers and wat-
ched it passively as it pinched fiercely
at his flesh.
"You know," he said, "it was you
Ameicans who put this man in power,
why can't you remove him as you did
Nison. The situation is getting very bad
here. The national guard is killing too
many people."
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