The Michigan Daily-Saturday, July 10, 1982-Page 3
LEADERS WAIT FOR U.N. PEACE FORCE
PLO reverses evacuation policy
From TheAssociatedPress -
The Palestine ' Liberation
Organization declared yesterday it will
not consider any evacuation of its
guerrillas from Beirut until a United
Nations peace force arrives to
disengage the PLO-Israeli combatants.
That new twist came as U.S. and
Lebanese negotiators discussed a plan
to evacuate the guerrillas to Syria by
bus after the embattled PLO dropped
demands for a political and military
presence in Lebanon.
SYRIA INDICATED it would not ac-
cept the guerrillas, however, and atop
U.S. negotiator flew to the Syrian
capital of Damascus to reopen
negotiations.
The new PLO stance marks a con-
siderable softening of earlier public
statements, in which PLO leaders said
they would "fight to the death," rather
than leave their Israeli-encircled
stronghold in west Beirut. "If I leave
'U' pianist
awarded
diploma in
Moscow
contest
From AP wire reports
Judges in the prestigious inter-
national Tchaikovsky competition an-
nounced yesterday that none of the thir-
teen piano finalists, including Jonathan
Shames from the Uiversity of
Michigan, merited the coveted first
prize.
Shames, 25, is a pianist studying un-
der Theodore Lettvin at the Univer-
sity's School of Music. He was among 13
piano finalists awarded diplomas.
ALTHOUGH NO gold medals were
granted, the judges awarded silver
medals Thursday to pianists Peter
Donahoe from England and Vladimir
Ovhicnikov from the Soviet Union.
"Sometimes a competition decides
that none of the contestants mesure up
to the standards of previous winners.
That was the case this time," explained
Fernando Laires, the only American on
the 15-member piano jury.
Members of the piano jury said
Donahoe, 29, "played significantly bet-
ter than the others in the final round,"
but was hurt by his original approach to
a Lizst concerto in the semi-finals.
A Soviet jury member said Ov-
chinikov played more conventionally,
but the 24-year-old graduate of
Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory
was considered too inexperienced to
win top honors.
Making the finals in the-Tchaikovsky
competition, held every 4 years, is con-
sidered a major career milestone for a
young musician.
A total of 318 musicians from 44 coun-
tries entered the competition. It began
June 10and ended Thursday.
Beirut, it would only be to go to
Palestine," PLO leader Yasser Arafat
told reporters last week.
As the talks entered a critical phase,
Israeli forces mounted a furious land-
sea bombardment of the PLO enclave
in west Beirut that appeared to be one
of the heaviest since the Israeli in-
vasion of Lebanon on June 6.
THE NEGOTIATIONS are being
conducted in Beirut through U.S.
presidential envoy Philip Habib in an
effort to avert a threatened all-out
assault by Israeli forces on besieged
west Beirut.
Hani el Hassan, political adviser to
Arafat, accused Habib of reneging on
an agreement dealing with the arrival
timing of an international force of U.S.
Marines and French paratroopers to
oversee a disengagement of the Israelis
and guerrillas. He gave no details of the
purported agreement, but said, "We
are not ready to discuss any details on
the evacuation until the U.N. force
arrives."
In Tel Aviv, however, Deputy Prime
Minister David Levy sounded an op-
timistic note. He told Israeli Television,
"The information we have in our hands
shows that there is a good chance that
the diplomatic efforts have borne fruit
and there will be an agreement."
ISRAELI gunboats, tanks and field
artillery unleashed the massive
shelling of Arafat's headquarters com-
plex in west Beirut's Fakhani district
and adjacent residential areas at dusk,
lighting the night sky with flashes of
explosions.
PLO guerrillas fired volleys of Soviet-
made rockets on Israeli positions in
Beirut's southern and eastern outskirts
and several missiles hit the presidential
palace in suburban Baabda, wounding
three guards, according to police.
President Elias Sarkis was not in
Baabda, 5 miles east of Beirut, when
See PLO, Page 4
Carry a big stick Dol ht yELLB L
Sampson, guard dog at a service station on Ashley Rd., speaks softly and still scares away prowlers with his ferocious
glare.
Page testifies on sex with reps.
WASHINGTON (AP)- A former
congressional page told House ethics
committee investigators yesterday that
he had homosexual affairs with three
members of the House and arranged a
similar liaison between a senator and a
male prostitute, the youth's attorney
said.
But the credibility of the former
page, Leroy Williams, 18, remained at
issue. The youngster, who earlier tur-
ned the names over to the FBI,
acknowledged that he had flunked an
FBI lie detector test on the charges.
CAPITOL HILL sources said only one
of the names on Williams' list also was
on the list given them by law enfor-
cement officers who have heard related
allegations from other pages.
At least one other page, Jeff Opp, is
known to have told law enforcement of-
ficers of sex and drug parties involving
pages and congressmen. But Opp says
he did not participate in the parties.
Sources said other pages also have
talked with law officers but did not give
an overall number.
THERE IS no firm estimate as to how
many congressmen have had
allegations lodged against them and
whether all-or any-are being taken
seriously. One source said there were
indications a "couple of the other pages
who have talked" with the FBI might
have a vendetta against certain mem-
bers.
House sources say their list, provided
by law officers, includes three
Democrats and three Republicans-
and that some of those allegations in-
volve drug use, not homosexual sex
withpages.
Senate sources say no senators are
implicated as far as they know. An FBI
spokesman indicated earlier that agen-
cy's list had only two or three members
of Congress on it. And now Williams
says he personally had sex with three
House members and set up a senator
with a male prostitute.
Williams' attorney, Bob Scott, told
The Associated Press that all three
alleged liaisons between congressmen
and Williams occurred between Sep-
tember and November of 1981. All three
affairs occurred in the individual of-
fices of the congressmen, he said, and
all occurred after the House had
recessed for the night. Williams left
Capitol Hill in January of 1982.
ETHICS COMMITTEE sources did
not deny that four names were given to
the investigators.