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Israeli forces
tighten grip
By the Associated Press
Israeli land, sea, and air forces
tightened their noose around PLO
guerrillas and their top leadership in
West Beirut yesterday in a decisive
drive of the nine-day invasion. PLO
chief Yasser Arafat was quoted as
declaring he would not surrender.
"There is no power on earth that can
force us to lay down our arms," Arafat
told guerrillas on a tour of west Beirut,
according to the Palestinian news
agency WAFA. The report apparently
also was designed to refute rumors the
PLO chief had fled to Syria. Arafat's
whereabouts could not be independen-
tly confirmed.
EXTREMIST Palestinian leader Dr.
George Habash vowed to turn west
Beirut into a "new Stalingrad" if the
Israelis stormed in.
The Israelis said they would stay out
to avoid bloody street battles, and the
guerrillas clearly were faced with the
prospect of surrender. By sundown the
guns were virtually silent around the
Palestine Liberation Organization's
10-square mile zone: on Beirut's
southern flank.
Israeli gunboats, jets and armored
columns led by Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen.
RaphaelnEytan controlled all of
Beirut's land, sea and air routes, and
Israeli airborne unita were camped at
the barracks near the presidential
palance in Baabda.
Eyton, told a Tel Aviv news conferen-
ce the fate of Palestine Liberation
Organization leaders trapped in west
Beirut was in the hands of the Lebanese
government.
"I THINK this is Lebanon's problem
not ours," he said, apparently
dispelling any prospect of Israeli troops
going into west Beirut to hunt down
PLO chiefs.
Eytan also said, "We'll have to see
what will be the fate" of hundreds of
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guerrillas captured by Israel, who he
said included terrorists of the Italian
Red Brigades and' West German
Baader-Meinhof gang.
In Tel Aviv the Israeli Foreign
Ministry said yesterday that Lebanese
estimates of the casualties in the Israeli
invasion of Lebanon are greatly
exaggerated, but a debate over the
steep human cost broke out in Israel as
the bodies were being counted.
Lebanese police in Beirut said
yesterday that 9,513 people had been
killed and 16,608 wounded, most of them
Lebanese and Palestinian civilians,
since the Israeli army invaded Lebanon
June 6.
ISRAELI officials list their own
losses at 107 soldiers killed and 84
wounded, and have not released
estimates on Lebanese or Palestinian
casualties.
There were claims that 600,000
Lebanese and Palestinians had become
homeless refugees.
See ISRAELIS, Page 5
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Psychiatrist reveals poem
Hinckley wrote to her
WASHINGTON- A government psychiatrist said yesterday John Hin-
ckley wrote her an affectionate poem, but rejected suggestions the young
gunman tried not to appear "crazy" during talks with her in hope of forming
a relationship.
"Let's go have hamburgers on a beach surrounded by mermaids flapping
their fins," Hinckley wrote in the poem to prison psychiatrist Sally Johnson
two weeks after his arrest for shooting President Reagan.
Hinckley, 27, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to the March 30,
1981 shooting attack. While Hinckley looked pained, Dr. Johnson Saturday
became the second expert prosecution witness to testify he was sane the day
of the shooting.
World leaders express
condolences at Saudi King's death
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia- Thousands of Saudis pledged loyalty to King
Fahd yesterday as leaders from the Arab world and the West came to ex-
press condolences at the death of King Khaled, the state-run radio said.
Vice President George Bush and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
were flying to Riyadh from Washington as President Reagan's represen-
tatives.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in a gesture of peace and respect,
came with Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry, Somali President Siad
Barre, Sultan Qaboos of Oman and Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed
Mazali.
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, and British Foreign Secretary
Francis Pym went to Riyadh to represent Britain at the condolence
ceremonies for Khaled, who died of a heart attack Sunday at the age of 69.
Cancer drug shows dramatic results
NEW YORK- A type of lung cancer in mice has been virtually cured by a
new anti-cancer drug that the National Cancer Institute said yesterday is
one of its most exciting new finds in the last five years.
Ven Narayanan, chief of the drug synthesis and chemistry branch at the
institute, said the new drug was "unique" in its ability to fight mouse lung
cancer.
pBe said he and his colleagues "are moving along as rapidly as we can" to
complete the animal tests that must be done before the drug can be tested on
humans. The animal tests may be completed by the end of this year, he said.
He cautioned that the success of the drug, Tiazofurin, with Lewis lung car-
cinoma in mice does not mean that it will be successful against human lung
cancer.
Researchers do not know how similar that type of mouse lung cancer is to
human cancer, he said.
Reagan aide vows endless
U.S. war on terrorism
BALTIMORE - The United States won't give up an "endless, unconven-
tional, undeclared war" against terrorism, a Reagan administration official
said yesterday at an international conference on treating disaster victims.
"The dangers posed by groups who have no interest in preserving the pr-
esent world order are bound to escalate as they seek new and more effective
ways to destabilize an international system they despise," Deputy Transpor
tation Secretary Darrell Trent told the opening session of the four-day First
Interantional Conference on Emergency Medical Services.
"In essence, we are engaged in an endless, unconventional, undeclared
war against multiple and often invisible enemies who seek to topple the
established order," said Trent who has written a book about terrorism.
"Because of this phenomenon, the global security landscape has been
unalterably transformed," he said. "Given the problem at hand, I believe
that we must seek new and better ways to protect the lives of key public of-
ficials from would-be assassins and terrorists."
State Supreme Court throws out
cases based on warrantless search
LANSING - The Michigan Supreme Court, in two cases yesterday, threw
out convictions based on warrantless police searches of private automobiles.
The rulings came a week after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled police
without warrants may search containers they see in stopped cars.
In one case, appealed from Barry County Circuit Court, a divided high
court ruled sheriffs deputies had no right to search for weapons in a car they
had stopped for speeding.
In a second case, the court unanimously reversed Edward Freeman's
Oakland County Circuit Court conviction for carrying a pistol in an
automobile.
In that case officers were checking a car stopped with its motor running
late at night in a private parking lot. After spotting an open bottle of beer,
they searched the vehicle and found a gun.
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Argentine and British forces
declare Falidands cease-fire
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Moore, who led 9,000 troopers in the
successful offensive against the Argen-
tines.
It said. Argentina's military
president, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri,
would address the nation on television
and radio.
The communique said the cease-fire
was "de facto," meaning it had in fact
occurred, but added the truce "has not
been agreed to officially by either of the
two sides."
Argentines reacted bitterly to news of
the cease-fire and the apparent triumph
of Great Britain in the Falkland Islan-
ds.
ON CALLE Florida, a pedestrian
'mall that bisects the downtown area,
about 200 people, some shouting
angrily, gathered in front of a large
board at an office of the newspaper La
Nacion on which the latest developmen-
ts were posted.
"It's not fair! They (the British) out-
number us 15 to 1!" yelled an elderly
man, shaking his fist.
"Long li'e the fatherland !" shouted
another.,
Some publicly expressed doubts
about the government's handling of the
undeclared war-which comparatively
few Argentines have done since this
country seized the South Atlantic ar-
chipelago April 2.
"WHY DID they send our young boys
to fight against professionals?" said
one man.
President Leopoldo Galtieri called
the members of his military junta
together for an emergency session that
also included the Falklands comman-
der, Menendez. Earlier, faced with
Argentina's deteriotating position, he
dispatched a message to Pope John
Paul II expressing his country's
willingness to end the fighting.
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