Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, January 9,1976 100 DEAD IN CIVIL WAR: Beirut fighting heats up BEIRUT, Lebanon (P) - Leb- anon's civil war, heated up by large-scale Palestinian involve- ment, left more than 100 per- sons dead and at least eight kidnaped yesterday, officials said. A pall of black smoke hung over Beirut as hundreds of ter- rified residents fled from neigh- borhoods involved in house-to- house fighting. THE FIERCE new clashes spurred talk in Christian circles of partition - splitting Leba- non into separate Christian and Moslem states. Syria reportedly has threat- ened to intervene and even an- nex Lebanon to prevent such a split. Israel has warned it would retaliate the minute Syria mov- ed in militarily. "Gunmen from both sides screamed in agony as they are left to bleed to death because ambulances are turned back at gunpoint by both sides," a po- lice spokesman said of the Bei- rut fighting. BEIRUT Radio appealed ur- gently for blood donors through- out the day, while two hospi- tals were damaged by shelling. A huge fire at a large re- frigeration plant in the eastern industrial area of Beirut raged uncontrolled because firemen were unable to approach through the heavy fighting. Beirut Radio appealed to the combatants to let the firemen through. The fire might spread to a neighboring bottled gas warehouse and set off an explo- sion that would wreck havoc to adjacent factories - "a disas- trous blow to the national econ- omy," the radio warned. A SCORE of smaller fires raged in other scattered points, most of them caused by heavy rocket and mortar fire. The fiercest fighting raged for the second straight day between Palestinian guerrillas and Chris- tian militiamen surrounding Palestinian refugee camps on high ground on the northeastern outskirts of the city. The fighting around the camps at Tel Zaatar and Jisr el-Basha erupted Tuesday night refugee camps is so great at after Christian militiamen re- times "you cannot hear your- fused to allow food convoys to self talk," said one combatant reach the 27,000 refugees in on the scene. and around the camps. The most formidable weapon Tused by the Palestinians was a THIS LED to the collapse of battery of antiaircraft guns on a shaky two-week Christmas high ground, with which they holiday cease - fire. It also re- blasted Christian neighborhoods sulted in the most serious in- below. volvement to date by moderate The Christian militiamen re- Palestinian guerrillas in the 9 taliated with rocket, mortar and month-old civil war. heavy machine gun fire. They The fighting is over Moslem also used five homemade ar- demands for political and eco- mored cars in the fray. nomic reforms and Christian re- The collapse of the cease-fire luctance to grant them until the around Tel Zaatar spread to government clamps down on the most other areas of Beirut by Palestinian guerrillas, nightfall. Many of the sandbag The Palestinians, aided by street barricades and fortifica- left-wing Moslem Lebanese gun- tions that had been dismantled men, were trying. to punch in the last two weeks were has- through the Christian residen- tily re-erected. Police reported tial areas surrounding the two heavy exchanges of fire in most camps to break the food block- Beirut areas where Christian ade. and Moslem neighborhoods abut THE DIN of battle around the each other. Frat fire leaves 2 dead at Ohio State' Italian workers s trik ROME (R') - A million work- ers staged strikes throughout Italy yesterday to back de- mands for new civil service con- tracts, underscoring the eco- nomic unrest that lies behind the country's new government crisis, The protest, planned before Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro's government 'fell Wednesday night, brought state- ments from labor leaders that the crisis could increase the gravity of the economic situa- tion. The government lists 700,- 000 jobless out of a work force of 19.8 million, but industry sources estimate unemployment to be twice that figure. "OUR UNIFIED strategy isn't changing and can't change, not even in the face of a grave political crisis," labor leader Bruno Storti told a crowd of banner-carrying strikers in Rome after a march by thous- ands from the Colosseum to Pi- azza San Giovanni. jThe strike was called by 200,- 000 civil servants, but workers from most industries joined in a show of sympathy and protest ranging from 10 minutes to 24 hours. The walkout closed most gov- ernment offices and some schools, delayed rail and air traffic, and paralyzed Rome's international airport at Fiumi- cio. UNION leaders, calling for a speedy solution to the govern- ment crisis, said the political vacuum could jeopardize key meetings scheduled next week to) resolve the closure of the Leyland Innocenti Auto Coi- pany in Milan, shut down by the British parent company with 4,500 persons put out of work. FRI. - SAT. - SUN. Jan. 9, 10, 11-$3.00 ED TRICKETT GORDON BOK ANN MUIR for the 7th year in a row, The Ark's winter season is joyfully opened with Ed k Trickett and friends . . . this time the friends include the legendary Gordon Bok. /1 i i i F S h e c k f f 17 S t f V c I COLUMBUS, Ohio (A) - Flames swept through an Ohio State University fraternity house early yesterday as pledg- es cleaned up after an initiation ceremony. Two students were killed, fire officials said. Nineteen other members of the coeducational fraternity, Al- pha Rho Chi, escaped the burn- ing three-story structure into snow and temperatures in the teens. Six occupants leaped from a second - floor window, witnesses said. "IT WAS horrible," said Jeff Yocca, a student who lives at a nearby fraternity house and rushed to the burning building to help. FIREMEN SAID two students were injured in the blaze, one critically. Six firemen were slightly injured. Fraternity President John Be- hal, who was in the house when the fire started, declined to dis- cuss the fire. One of the dead students was identified as James Nelson M i t c h e 11, 20, of Washing- ton, Pa., who was asleep on the second floor. A 22-year-old wo- man student, whose name has not yet been released, was found in an upstairs hallway where she was apparently over- come by heat and smoke while' trying to wake others in the fra- ternity house. Mark F. Heinz, 18, of Toledo, was in critical condition at the- University Hospital with severe burns over more than half of 'his body. Dana Kent Moessner, 18, of Columbus was treated at a hospital and released. AP Photo Ape or man? This is Oliver, a creature who may be Ameri a's own homegrown answer to the legendary Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Baldh ded but otherwise exceedingly hairy, he be- longs to Marhathtn attorney Michael Miller. filer claims he picked up the pointy-eared, four-foot-six beast for a measly $8,000, from a 2 animal act somewhere in upstate New York. He plns to put the amiable Oliver, who some'im-s n'lls no a chair and warbles from his seat when he sees peonle sitting and talking, lhromih tests in order to determine whether he is an ape or more closely related to man. Oli 'er weighs abort 120 owinds, and likes to munch on fruits, vegetables, cheese and non'at'y me-ts, according to his owner. 1421 HILL 8:30 p.m. 761-1451 - i 218 api~copat . iueut oloron wtu arbor, Mihar t1818'tdephone 665-0606 -a center for contemporary spiritual expression and inauiry at the University of Michigan. SPONSORING IN THE WINTER TERM, 1976 MAJOR PROGRAMS IN THESE AREAS: MINISTRY FOR EPISCOPAL STUDENTS Counseling on personal and spiritual, matters Sunday. Liturgv each week at oon followed by the common meal and fellowship. STUDIES ON CARL JUNG On-going Jung study group bi-weekly. Workshops, films and other events scheduled over the term. HEALING Monthly discussions on the connections among the healina of body, mind, soul, and community. THE CATHOLIC WORKER Focusing on the ideas and lifestyles of the Catholic Worker Movement and the writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. "Clarification of Thought" discussions periodically. GAYNESS AND SPIRITUALITY Weekly conversations among people of all spiritual paths who relate positively to gayness-Each Sunday at 3:00 p.m. BREAD FOR LIFE Proarams scheduled over the term to keep the world food crisis in mind and to formulate a personal response to our abundance in the face of mass starvation. IMAGES OF THE HOLY A series of original cultural events designed to give a musical, dramatic and artistic voice to the spirit. THE SEED PLOT A scattering of brief courses in the. Free University tradition, to plant ideas in the cracks of your educa- tion and designed to germinate in your future. Scheduled over the Winter Term. MORE IDEAS ARE WELCOME Canterbury House will sponsor additional programs as ideas and issues emerge during the year. Your ideas 1 DAILY OFFICIAL BI H EY--WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND? Square Dancing Friday night ,a Want to come? Friday, January 9 Day Calendar WUOM: John Ciardi, "In and Out of the Dictionary," 10:05 am. Hockey: UM vs. Minnesota-Du- iuth, Yost Ice Arena. 7:30 pm. Music School: Encores from In- terlochen -- featuring SM faculty memn.bers, Rackham Aud., 8 pm; de- gree recitals - Donna Whited, or- gan, Hill Aud., 8 pm; Willard Pear- swn, trumpet, Recital Hall, 8 pm.. 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