0 Pcage 2- The Michigan Doily - Wednesday, October 19, 1983 Lebanese factions to begin peace talks a < BEIRUT, Lebanon - Despite an escalation of fighting in and around the capital, the government said yesterday Lebanon's warring parties would hold a peace conference at Beirut Airport behind the lines of the U.S. Marines. The announcement on official Beirut radio said Foreign Minister Elie Salem asked the multinational peace-keeping force - including troops from France, Italy, Britain, and the Marines - to provide security for the talks starting tomorrow. WITHIN HOURS of the announ- cement, the thud of shells could be heard throughout the capital. Beirut Radio said Lebanese troops and anti-government rebels fought rocket and mortar duels along a line ex- tending as far away as Khalde, 9 miles to the south. A U.S. Marine spokesman, Maj. Robert Jordan, said the fighting in Beirut and the Shouf mountains overlooking the capital was not close to the Marines' positions. "But we can see flashes and hear ex- plosions in the ridge beyond Souk El Gharb and Aley (in the Shouf moun- tains)," Jordan said in a telephone in- terview. "The explosions sound pretty big." The conference delegates, including leaders of Lebanon's main warring fac- tions, are to discuss new power-sharing arrangements to put an end to civil strife that has flared over the past eight years. The choice of Beirut Airport for the meeting was a concession by the gover- nment, which at one stage demanded the talks take place in a building that would symbolize President Amin Gemayel's dominance of the meeting. The airport is situated behind the lines assigned to the 1,200-strong multinational peace-keeping force sent to Lebanon a year ago following Israel's invasion. AP Photo Tragic ride An investigator studies the scene yesterday of Monday night's fatal accident at the Texas State Fair. One person died and seven were injured when a car broke loose from the ride. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports European arms talks resume GENEVA, Switzerland - American and Soviet negotiators resumed talks yesterday to limit nuclear weapons under a new Soviet warning that basing NATO missiles in Europe would be met by a fresh threat to the "United States itself." Negotiators at the Intermediate Nuclear Forces talks to limit medium- range missiles met at Soviet delegation offices in their %/296th session since beginning discussions in November 1981. Separate delegations to the parallel Strategic Arms Reductions Talks on intercontinental weapons met at the U.S. office for their 58th session since those negotiations began in June 1982. There was no indication of any easing of the deadlock in both sets of talks. The INF negotiations have taken the foreground as the December date approaches for beginning deployment of NATO's planned 572 cruise and Pershing-2 medium-range missiles in western Europe. Senate stops Helms bid to block King holiday legislation WASHINGTON - The Senate, in a bitter revival of the civil rights debates of the 1960s, crushed efforts yesterday by Republican Jesse Helms to block establishment of a federal holiday honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leading a small group of conservatives, the North Carolina senator said King's affiliations with "far left elements and elements of the Communist Party USA" disqualified him for status as a national hero. Supporters of a holiday to celebrate the civil rights leader's birthday denounced Helms for running a "smear campaign." Helms, convinced the black leader was a communist, asked U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith to release immediately records from FBI surveillan- ce of King that were ordered sealed for 50 years in 1977, but the judge rejec- ted his request yesterday afternoon. Senate leaders had said the debate would proceed regardless of the court ruling. On a key 76-12 vote, Helms failed in a bid to have the bill sent to the Judiciary Committee for study. He argued the Senate should have hearings on the measure, as did the House, which approved the hliday 338-90 Aug. 2. The Senate was scheduled to vote today on the holiday legislation itself, and Republican officials said it is expected to be approved by a wide margin. Israeli elect new finance chief JERUSALEM - The Israeli Parliament by a vote of 60-48 yesterday ap- proved a political hawk and promoter of Jewish settlements in the West Bank as the country's new finance minister. Yigal Cohen-Organ replaces Yoram Aridor, who resigned Thursday in the midst of one of the worst economic crises the Jewish state has known. The annual inflation rate is 131 percent and a foreign debt totals $21.5 billion. Cohen-Organ's appointment means the top posts in Israel will be held by right-wingers who opposed the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty - Cohen-Organ Defense Minister Moshe Arens and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who also holds the foreign Ministry portfolio. Cohen-Organ, 46, is building a house in Ariel, a Jewish town in the heart of the West Bank, and owns a firm that is trying to attract investments in high- technology plants to be built in the West Bank and elsewhere. In the debate before the Knesset approved Cohen-Organ, the Labor Party said the government's policy of building settlements on the West Bank was partly responsible for Israel's whopping deficits. New food stamp 'reforms' costly WASHINGTON - Some Reagan administration "reforms" intended to cut waste and fraud in the food stamp program are costing more to administer than they'save,state program administrators told Congress yesterday. A panel of food stampofficials from eight states urged Congress tobserve a moratorium on any further changes in the $12 billion program and to give them breathing room to implement changes already ordered. "In our judgment, what the food stamp program needs most of all now, and deserves, is stability - a period of rest from legislative and regulatory reform," said Donald Roark, Mississippi welfare commissioner and chair- man of a national food stamp policy committee. Congress, at the insistance of the administration, has ordered some 90. changes in the government's primary food assistance program since 1981, most of them aimed at cutting the estipated $1 billion in annual losses to. waste and fraud. New auto safety rules proposed WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration proposed new auto safety rules yesterday that eventually could make air bags or automatic seat belts a standard feature in automobiles sold in the United States. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole outlined several options under consideration. One option would require that all cars be equipped with automatic crash restraints - air bags or passive seat belts. Other possibilities could include requiring only air bags or only automatic seat belts, or requiring such protection only for the driver, said a Transpor- tation Department proposal. The department also might seek federal legislation to require or encourage states to adopt and enforce mandatory usage laws for existing manual seat belts. And manufacturers might be required to offer air bags or automatic belts as an option. Dole said if' a decision was made to go ahead with the devices, auto manufacturers would need a two-year lead time to tool up for the project. r 1 $Bidiigan WaiI Wednesday, October 19.1983 Vol. XCIV-No. 37 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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