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Israelis fire
mayor of* Gaza
or lead ingstrike
TE~L AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli "DISMISSING me and my type is not
authorities yesterday fired the mayor going to help solve the Palestinian
of Gaza, the largest Palestinian city problem," Shawa said. "'This will
under Israeli occupation, in the latest make it more complicated. I feel that,
move against Palestinian nationalism, together with our right to our homeland
Israel's Interior Ministry will assume and to self-determination, we
the functions of ' Mayor Rashad a- Palestinians can live peacefully side by
Shawa, who was summoned before the side with Israel. Now they (the Israelis)
Israeli governor of the Gaza Strip, Brig. will have to deal with more extreme
Gen.Yosef Lunz, and dismissed for people in the future."
leading a partial strike to protest Israel, Shawa said, is pursuing a heavy-
Israeli policies. handed policy that will further alienate
IN WASHINGTON, State Depar- the 1.5 million Palestinians in the West
tment spokesman Dean Fischer Bank and Gaza, "and now the attack on
described Shawa as "a legitimate Lebanon will make things more dif-
representative and moderate ficult."
spokesman for the concerns of his Gaza's population of about 180,000
Palestinian constituents" and said U.S. makes it by far the largest Palestinian
officials "deeply regret" his dismissal, city under Israeli occupation. Like
Shawa, appointed mayor in 1975, is most towns in the West Bank and Gaza
the sixth Palestinian city leader to be Strip, it has been relatively quiet since
dismissed since March when Defense Israel launched its invasion of Lebanon,
Minister Ariel Sharon embarked on a especially compared with the two mon-
campaign against Palestinian ths of violent clashes that erupted after
nationalists in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel began firing the radical West
The campaign has continued through Bank leaders in March.
Israel's invasion of Lebanon, launched One violent incident was reported in
on June 6 to drive the Palestine east Jerusalem, which Israel captured
Liberation Organization from Lebanon from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War
and destroy it as a military and and later annexed. A police spokesman
political challenge to Israel. said Palestinian youths, emerging after
The 73-year-old Shawa, a wealthy prayers in Al Aqsa Mosque, threw
businessman, reacted to his dismissal stones at Israeli cars on a road that cir-
by emphasizing his moderation com- cles the walls of the Old City, and a
pared with the radicalism of fired West soldier driving a military car was hurt.
Bank mayors like Bassam Shakaa of Ten Palestinians were arrested, the
Nablus and Kerim Khalaf of Ramallah. spokesman said.
PLO reverses position
on Beirut evacuation,
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
OPEC countries discuss oil
quotas
VIENNA, Austria- OPEC ministers, showing the strains of a troubled
cartel, wrangled in an emergency meeting yesterday over new ways to car-
ve up their oil market while trying to cool tensions between key members.
Marc Nan Nguema, the Gabonese secretary-general of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries, said the 13 ministers likely would agree to
stick with their overall production ceiling of 17.5 million barrels a day,
established last March.
"I think we will stay at 17.5," Nan Nguema told reporters. "Changing the
ceiling is not an issue."
But the ministers faced a more difficult question of how to satisfy Iran's
demand that it be given a bigger share of the production.
Mohammad Gharazi, the oil minister of Iran, said Thursday that his coun-
try would seek t increase its production to 2 million barrels a day, up about
800,000 from its current level. Iran's OPEC quota is 1.2 million.
Gharazi also indicated that increased Iranian production should come at
the expense of Saudi Arabia, which is the cartel's largest producer.
The representatives of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which is at war with Iran,
strongly rejected the Iranian position with comments that were expected to
fan the flames of discord between the Arab members and Iran.
British Rail may fire strikers
LONDON- British Rail threatened yesterday to fire striking train
engineers, whose union immediately accused the Conservative government
of mimicking "Reaganism" in its attempt to deal with the nationwide six-
day-old walkout.
Transport Secretary David Howell warned the striking engineers: "The
strike is bleeding away the resources of the railway and time is very short if
the destruction of the network is to be avoided." He said in a statement late
yesterday that all British Rail employees must realize that "the prospects
for their industry-and their jobs-get bleaker by the day."
Temperatures climbed into the mid-80s in the London area yesterday, the
hottest day of the year, and roads were clogged with thousands of cars,
buses, and trucks. The traffic chaos was the worst since the Associated
Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen walked out last Saturday at
midnight to protest new work schedules.
Federal judge dismisses suit
brought by former FBI director
WASHINGTON - A federal judge dismissed yesterday the $29-million suit
brought against former Justice Department officials by onetime FBI Direc-
tor L. Patrick Gray, ruling that he had no right to collect damages from his
prosecutorsfor a since-dropped"conspiracy indictment in 1978.
U.S. District Judge John Lewis Smith said Gray's civil suit must be
disregarded even if Gray were correct in asserting that his constitutional
rights were violated.
If the law permitted those indicted to collect damages against prosecutors
it "would prevent the vigorous and fearless performance of the prosecutor's
duty," Smith said.
Gray and former top FBI officials W. Mark Felt and Edward Miller were
indicted together on April 10, 1979 on a single conspiracy charge. They were
accused of authorizing illegal, warrantless break-ins in 1972-73, in a search
for fugitive members of a radical antiwar group, the Weather underground.
Felt and Miller were convicted in November 1980 by a federal jury but
President Reagan pardoned them, saying they "acted on high principle to
bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation."
Gray's case was separated before the trial after Felt and Miller contended
that the former FBI director authorized them to carry out the break-ins.
Is D.C. pandapregnant?
WASHINGTON - Is she or isn't she? Not even the zookeepers know for
sure whether Ling-Ling the panda is indeed pregnant.
But just in case, the palatial panda cages at the National Zoo will be closed
to the public next Tuesday to ensure her privacy.
Ling-Ling was artifically inseminated by veterinarians on three con-
secutive days last March. If it worked, she should deliver a cub sometime
between July 20 and Aug. 14.
Since zoo experts have not been able to determine whether Ling-Ling is
pregnant, a round-the-clock panda watch begins next week to record such
behavioral changes as nest building, irritability or restlessness - the same
signs most mothers-to-be show in those long last weeks of waiting.
For six years now, Ling-Ling has come in heat every spring. But season
after season, she has failed miserably to convince her panda pal, Hsing-
Hsing, to be her lover.
Their courtship has been analyzed, their behavior scrutinized, their
failures televised - all to no avail.
Twelve-year-old Ling-Ling has been plenty flirtatious, but for Hsing-
Hsing, six months her junior, love has not come naturally. His naive
behavior has been repeatedly held up to ridicule.
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the rockets struck, the police said.
They said none of the rockets hit the
residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert
Dillon, where Habib is staying.
THERE WAS no estimate of
casualties from the massive bombar-
dment of west Beirut, but the Lebanese
Christian radio station, Voice of
Lebanon, said in an unattributed report
that two Israeli soldiers were killed and
seven were wounded in the pre-dusk
exchanges that brought the renewed
shelling.by Israeli gunboats. Voice of
Lebanon had reported 12 Palestinians
were killed and 18 were wounded in the
daytime exchanges.
Israel's military command had an-
nounced seven Israeli soldiers were
wounded in mid-afternoon artillery ex-
changes.
There was no casualty count from the
PLO, which is backed by the 30,000
Syrian soldiers in Lebanon, most of
whom have regrouped in Lebanon's
eastern Bekaa Valley following bloody
clashes with the Israeli invaders.
Israel also demands that all of the
Syrians leave Lebanon.
ISRAELI JETS flew flare-dropping
sorties over West Beirut, but apparen-
tly dropped no bombs, as huge fires
burned out of control inFakhani.
The~ official Syrian Arab News Agen-
cy in Damascus, rescting to the ides for
busing guerrillas to Syria, said "The
PLO has not suggested such a thing to
us."
"In any case, Syria in normal cir-
cumstances is a homeland for the
Palestinians as well as to all Arabs," it
said. "But under the present circum-
stances, there is no possibility of
moving the Palestinian fighters from
Beirut to Syria because their normal
place is where they are now - awaiting
the return of their legitimate rights."
THE POSITION, however, appeared
to be a statement of principle issued
before the Syrian government was for-
mally consulted by the Lebanese or
U.S. negotiators on the evacuation
plans, and therefore might not be
Syria's final statement.
Habib dispatched his assistant,
Morris Draper, to the Syrian capital
and Lebanese government sources said
Draper would try to get Syria's ap-
proval to take in the guerrillas tem-
porarily pending arrangements to
disperse them to other Arabs tates.
Lebanese Prime Minister Shafik
Wazzan, a key intermediary between
Habib and Arafat, said: "We are
scaling one obstacle after another, but
time is running out and there are
supreme interests we have to have of
which Lebanon is the foremost."
Wazzan insists U.S. and other
peacekeepers be deployed in west
Beirut before the PLO departure
to guard an estimated 500,000 Moslems
against possible reprisals from
Christian militiamen in east Beirut.