PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, March 14, 1978 * 50 dead in Lebanon after - Syrian counter-attack ‘Thousands of- Israeli troops routed Palestinian guerrillas : from key bases across southern Lebanon today. and Israeli warplanes fired rockets that killed Arab refugees in camps around Beirut,. witnesses reported. Syrian gunners in Lebanon claimed to have hit’ one Israeli plane.n Across Lebanon, reports of casualties § among Palestinian and Lebanese refugees reached 5) and there were indications of many more dead and wounded. Israel sald the aim of the assault was to clear a guerrillafree strip along its northern frontier and deter repetitions of the terrorist raid last weekend in whicm 33 «Israelis died. It was believed to be the biggest Is- raeli attack ever, and the Palestinians said 25,000 Israeli soldiers were in- valved, - Dreams of Middle _. East. peace gone Among the, casualties produced by Israel’s sudden attack on southern Lebanon may be the dreams of dimmx Carter and Anwar Sajat for Middle East peace, Both the U.S. and Egyp- tian presidents have been left'in difficult positions by the largescale Israeli attack on Palestine guerrilla bases in southern Lebanon, an area mot controlled by Syrian- dominated Arab peacekeeping forces in _ Lebanon. _As thousands of Israeli troops attacked by land, sea and air, Israeli spokesmen claimed the invasion was justified on grounds of protecting Israel against terrorists from Palestinian bases in the area. Three days earller, 33 Israelis and nine terrorists were killed after the terrorists infiltrated. Israel ‘and commandeered a bus. But in many world capitals the Israeli reaction was seen as overkill that could disrupt Middle East peace efforts and perhaps lead to Israeli- confrontation. SADAT IS QUIET . - Sadat, who has staked his ‘ epreer on his efforts to reach a peace settlement directly with Israeli leaders, initially reserved comment on the Israeli invasion. Earlier, he had condemned the terrorist “action: ~ Sadat’f muted reaction,. however, was certain to ‘widen, the e already:large gap Ai him a ek rest. aie | i ‘al ateet ane 4 ee to his: unilateral dealings .. with Israel. ‘ _. Thealternatives facing the Egyptlan president are to risk collapse of the peace efforts—a development that he has said would be soon followed by his resignation— or to risk being branded as a _ traitor to the Arab cause. ’ Remaining comparatively silent In the face of what many of his people would see as Israeli aggression could also’. ¢ost him domestic Support. CARTER HAS PROBLEMS The Israeli invasion also ereated problemf for Carter, whose officials: reacted at .first with bland attempts to treat the situation as one far removed from crisis: With the United. States eriticized by African and other developing countries for a ig to condone Somali's attack on Ethiopia, Carter has already been -hampered in his efforts to Improve U.S. influence in the Third World. - “ Condoning a large Israeli - Invasion of Lebanon, even - with Israeli promises of- nguick withdrawal, would _only- compound that public: relations problem. . Yet criticism of Israel would inflame politically- » powergul groups in the United States which feel harsh with the Jewish state. It would also create thouble in Congress for Carter's delicately-balanced plans to provide aircraft to Israel, Saudi Arabia and- nEgypt at the same time, Carter has vowed that the aircraft plan is an indivisible package and if a pro-Israell Congress rejects shipments of aircraft to Israel's potential enemies, he will stop the Israeli shipments. But if the package deal collapses, relations with the - other parties will he strained, possibly reducing U.S. influence in the vital areas of Middle East diplomacy and oil pricing. With the Israeli ttvasion causing such problems, Carter and Sadat un- derstandably could only hope that the invasion would be quickly over and quickly forgotten, aa many previous qaraeli retaliatory raids have Nuclear Explosion — China exploded a nuclear device in the atmosphere Wednesday at its Lop Nor test site in its northwest area, the United States energy department re- ported. PThe agency sald the ex- plosion was monitored at midneght EST, It said the device had an logive yield of leas fhan 20 Thea agency said the Us, Environmental Protection Agency would monitor the radiation effect. innthe at: mosphere. Briefs MINERAL DISCOVERED BUENOS AIRES (AP) — A mineral discovered five years ago.in Argentina has been formally accepted by’ the. International. Mineralogical Association andnamed surita. 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BELMONT LEASING LTD, 1140 MARINE DRIVE NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C, D.cce7Pa The Palestinians denied they had lost some of the- ground witnesses claimed they hadnand said fighting continued in the border areas 18 hours after it began. “The Jews fell on our heads from the sky and ted arrows of red-hot fre right into our home,” Suad Rajeh, 17, said as -she lay. bleeding in B Beirut. “They stayed less than two minutes, disap- peared briefly, then came hack and hit again.” ‘Lebanese air controllers and witnesses sald that, in three separate raids, a force of at least six warplanes hit Damur, eight kilometres south of Beirut, from which the Israeli military say terrorists sailed to launch Saturday's attack. The Sabra, Ozai and Bourj Barajneh camps on the edge of Beirut also were hit in the strikes CIVILIAN CENTRES HIT n Numerous sources said civilian centres were hit. Dr. Fathi Arafat, elder brother of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, said rockets hit a hospital in Damur, a town crammed with 10,000 refugees Ten residents at Ozai were killed, other residents said. Dr. Arafat, opening sacks containing the bodies of two ‘dead children at Sabra, DAILY HERALD “STRIKE IT ee asked ‘Afsoclated. Press reporter Aly Mahmoud; “Do these look like military tar- gets to you? They rocketed the camps in- discriminately." Hospitals at Txre,nin southern Lebanon 17 kilometres from the Israeli border, said at least 35 persons were killed in naval arid air strikes. : Other reports from southern Lebanon, about 95 kilometres from Beirut, indicated Israeli tanks and troops were deploying in a prong moving north along - the Mediterranean coast and the other west to.the sea—to surround the guerrillas in - ‘the southernmost border area. 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