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Peace activists scale
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
B i Ben c o
LONDON (UPI) - Two mountain-
climbing peace protesters, who foiled
police by emerging from the roof of a
double-decker bus, scurried up the Big
Ben clock tower yesterday and unfurled
a banner reading- "Time to Stop
Nuclear Testing."
"This is an international clock, and
it's time to set back the doomsday
clock," said spokeswoman, Carrie
Kruse, of the environmental group
Greenpeace.
"We are speaking to all nations
for a comprehensive test ban
treaty."
The climbers, experienced moun-
taineers Ron Taylor, of Britain, and
Renato Ruf, of Switzerland, foiled
security officers at the tower by coming
through a hole int he roof of a specially
adapted double-decker bus and then
throwing grappling hooks onto the
structure.
Hundreds of sightseers gathered at
the base of the tower to watch Taylor
and Ruf relax in hammocks suspen-
ded nearly 200 feet above the ground.
They carried enough food to last four
days, but came down after 10 hours
because of cold and muscle cramps.
ck tower
Police arrested them when
touched the ground.
they
Before their descent, a letter calling
for a nuclear test ban treaty was
delivered to Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, a spokesman for Greenpeace
said.
The letter called on Britain, the
United States and the Soviet Union "to
conclude a comprehensive test ban
treaty as required by countless U.N.
motions.
"Until such time as the governments
pay something more than lip service to.
these issues protests will continue," the
letter said. % Ruf and Taylor reached
the clock face in only 10 minutes by
climbing up scaffolding in place for
restoration work on the tower, which is
next to the tightly guarded Houses of
Parliament.
Another Greenpeace activist, Led
Snellick, chained himself to an elevator
inside the tower to prevent police from
going up.
The demonstrators trained for the
climb by scaling catwalks in a factory
in Hamburg, West Germany, Miss
Kruse said.
Shelling kills 44 in Beirut
BEIRUT - Heavy artillery and
rocket fire tore through Beirut
yesterday, killing at least 44 people
and wounding at least 227 others in
the deadliest fighting since Moslem
militiamen seized west Beirut in
February.
The five-hour onslaught of rocket,
mortar and artillery fire erupted
during a Parliament debate on a
government peace plan and later
engulfed residental areas in east and
west Beirut and the suburbs.
House considers
immigration bill
WASHINGTON - After years of
delay, the House of Representatives
voted yesterday to take up the
emotional issue of illegal im-
migration, with all sides agreeing
that the country must regain control
of its borders but disagreeing on how
to do it.
Before the chamber was a
measure to discourage illegal aliens
from sneaking into the country but
accepting those who got here before
1982 and made a life for themselves.
But the bill also would seek to curb
the influx of more illegal aliens by
threatening to fine employers who
give them jobs.
Heat wave claims 10 lives
An unusual early June heat wave
steamed the cities of the Northeast a
fifth consecutive day yesterday,
sending hundreds of people to
hospitals, buckling highways and
setting records for power consum-
ption.
At least 10 deaths have been at-
tributed to the weather since tem-
peratures began climbing Thursday,
including five drowning deaths in
Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Weekly gross earnings rise
WASHINGTON - Average
weekly earnings of people with full-
time jobs rose 5.4 percent in the first
quarter of 1984 from a year earlier, eclip-
sing the pace of inflation, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The bureau reported that "usual
weekly earnings" of individual job-
holders averaged $325 in the first
quarter. This reflected gross ear-
nings, including overtime, tips,
commissions and other income sup-
plements, rather than take-home
pay.
U.N. arranges cease-fire
in Persian Gulf
ABU DHABI, United Arab
Emirates - Iran and Iraq battered
each other's border cities yesterday
only hours before the start of a
limited cease-fire arranged by the
United Nations to protect civilian
targets in the Persian Gulf war.
At least 30 people were reported
killed, including 28 slain when four
Iraqi missiles hit Dezful, Iran said.
Kuwait, meanwhile, blamed Iran
for the latest missile attack on a
Kuwait tanker in the Persian Gulf,
and foreign ministers of the six-
nation gulf alliance agreed to meet
in Saudi Arabia in another attempt
to assure a steady supply of oil for
world markets.
26 mutineers die in
battle with Indian police
CHANDIGARH, India - Indian
security forces battled Sikh militan-
ts yesterday, killing at least 26
rebels and arresting hundreds of
others who mutinied during the
weekend to protect the storming of
the sect's sacred Golden Shrine,
news reports and officials said.
Troops deployed to hunt down
about 500 militant Sikhs, including
an unspecified number of mutineers,
also shot and killed three uniden-
tified people wio refused to stop at a
roadblock in the Varanasi area of
northern Uttar Pradesh state, of-
ficials said.
Sikh troops, considered among In-
dia's finest soldiers, mutinied at
three posts Sunday, killing at least
five people and leaving many in-
juried, the officials said.
Swiss tighten security
for Pope's visit
VATICAN CITY - Pope John
Paul II's pastoral visit to Swit-
zerland, canceled after the attempt
on his life three years ago, is finally
getting under way teday. Be has
stopped there briefly, but this
week's trip is the first major papal
visit since the 15th century.
The Swiss appear to be taking no
chances with the pope's safety.
Planes will not be permitted to fly
below 7,500 feet where the pope is
touring, dogs will search buildings
for explosives, soldiers will reinfor-
ce police guard units, and metal-
detector gates are being installed at
the sites of outdoor Masses.
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