Page 4-Saturday, July 10, 1982-The Michigan Daily 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. (Continued from Page3) 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.