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_ allowing... U.S.
‘operations, and installations
on its territory.

These: boys are the “Lightning
Duo'';.Gerry Stacey, left; and Don
Petitpas an the right.
struUrmmed their way Into the

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decided.to take an early curtain
Their act was part of the
Terrace Kinette’s Gong Show held
at the Legion on- Wednesday.

. BEIRUT (Reuter), - cael : Shella’ crashed into.

reiidential Moslem and’ ‘Christian ‘sectors of.
‘Beirut during the night and. ‘fighting continued

today as’ Lebanon’s - leaders worked aut

strategy for next week's peace talks in' Swit-
gerland,

A number of people w were wounded in heavy

clashes along the Green Line. that divides
‘Beirut ‘Into the. Christian -east and the
predominent’ Moslem west, and by artillery
shells and rockets which-exploded in several

parts of the’ capital, residents and local radio :

stations reported.

Heavy clashes were also reported from’ the

nearby Shouf ‘niountains' where the Lebanese
army confronts Druge Moslem milltiamen, and
from the southern coastal region north of Sidon
‘where Druse and Christian. Lebanese Forces
militias exchanged ‘fire today.”

Artillery exchanges’ were reported Wed-

" -nesday night around the Lebanese army-held

town of Souq al-Gharhy. ‘about 14 kilometres
southeast of Beirut;

Leaders of the’ country’s warring factions -

were holding separate meetings to plan for the
second round of the national reconciliation

* conference due to begin Monday in Lausanne,
Switzerland. .

The, Christian Phalaige party, headed by
President Amin Gemayel’s father Pierre, was
meeting today with the: National Liberal party
of ‘ex-président Camille. Chamoun, the

- Lebanese Forces and the’ Union of Christian
Associates. : .

* government hoped ‘to: ;secure a stable truce |

The thrée main opposition - leaders. ‘of. ‘the
National Salvation Front — Druse chief Walid

Jumblatt, former president Sulleman Franjieh
and former premier Rashid Karami — — planned
to meet in Damascus on Saturday..
WILL JOIN THEM .

They will be joined by Nabih Berri, leader of
the Shiite Moslem Amal movement, to -co-
ordinate their approach at Lausanne, op-
position sources told Reuters news agency.

Gemayel, who will chair“ the Lausanne

meeting, was expected to arrive there Sunday.
. The Lebanese-born Saudi mediator, Rafiq al- -

Hariri, contacted varlous warring groups to try

to shore up a ceasefire arranged last weekend:

- but by late morning shells and rocket-propelled
grenade explosions were still rocking the
capital. . ‘

Diplomatic | sources said the Lausanne

- conference is expected to last two or three days

and to deal only with broad outlines of political

Teforms in. Lebanon: A new ‘government of
national unity . ‘would be formed to work out
details. a

Diplomatic ‘sources - “paid the Lebanese

before. the Lausanine-conference began.

Only one of the crossing points between”

” . eastern and western Beirut is open, under the

_ Supervision of French troops stationed in ne-

" man’sdand,-- ‘ Thousands of vehicles pass" ,

- through it daily...

Beirut airport has been closed since the start

of the February Fighting. But there was no -

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Berri and Jumblatt have prépared a joint’
document detailing their plans to-abolish the
system by which: political power is shared
between Lebanon's seven largest religious
communities,

Right-wing Christian. groups have ‘always
resisted such proposals . for ‘fear of losing
Christian privileges written into the ayatem in
the 1040s. *

The ‘Laussane conference mainly concerns
an armed struggle limited to the small central
part of the country not occupied by Syrian or
Israeli troops.

. Although. politicians: from the - Syrian-

~ controlled north and the Israeli-held south‘are

also. taking part, the spotlight will be on

‘warlords who are more independent of foreign

forces.

The central conftict pits the regular army
against a mainly Moslem alllance dominated
by Druse and Shiite militias.

The Moslem alliance is also at war with the
right-wing Christian Lebanese Forces mainly
stationed alongside the army in areas north
and east of Beirut. = -

The theatre of war stretches from Syrian
lines 40 kilometres north of Belrut to Israeli
lines 35 kilometres south: The area is less than
one-fifth ofall Lebanon. but,. with Beirut at its

centre, it containg about 70 per cent: ‘of the :: 3

country’s. popillation, | a

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Soviets accuse - U Ss. of Guif. tensions

MANAMA, "Bahrain ;

fighting entered a second

Traq’s . alleged . use’ of

The United States,. which

“two days toretake the man- '

(Reuter) — The escalating |

Tran-Iraq war.assumed new
international

heightening tension in the
Persian Gulf,

“As the Jatest phase" of

overtones to. retake
after the Soviet Union ac- -

cused the United States of

“week today, Iran said it has

repelled a second Iraqi bid
the oll-rich
Majnoon island in mar-
shiand straddling their

: southern border,

International _ condem-

‘nation ‘also mounted over

Honduras orders top diplomat expelled

TEGUCIGALPA (AP). —
Honduras has ordered a top

- Nicnraguan Aiplomat ex+

pelled |: . Spreading
Comat - propaganda,
while. Nicaragua, . in . turn,

claims, Honduran. troops:
participated in an attack on-
_ one of its border towns. —
The Honduran foreign |
_ minister, Edgardo ‘Paz Fore:
( Barnida;” on? Wedriesday:! D'Es
—-necuseéihNicarsgitin tha ge ain
d’afhnifes ‘Javier! apie A Mg he nr bateitet
Ibarraof ‘making his em-.

bass" “am. agency of

Marxist propaganda . .. in’ -
favor’ ‘of Sandinism,” a’

reference ‘to Nicaragua's

rulisig’ Sandinista National:

Liberation Front.:
The diplomat was given 48

hours to leave the country. -

Aviles Ibarra, at a news
conference last
criticized Honduras for.

military

A Nlearaguan Foreign

Miniatry .. Statement called .
‘the .- expulsion : unfriendly
and sald it was. “directed .
toward’ deterlorating still
further the ‘relations bet-.

ween the two countries and
falls :within. plans of the
North; - American = ad-
ministration to. promote a
climate:: of - tension. . that
makes possible higher acts

of | ‘aggression: ‘against
Nicaragua. "
The United States aids the

Honduras-based.. - Nicara-
guan Democratic Fore, the
larger of = two,
fighting: the ‘Sandinista
government, Another rebel

group, ‘the Revoluttonary ,

Democratie’ ‘Alliance, is
based in Costa lea.

‘Honduran 7
“growing involvement" in

week, .

‘unidentified: planes
‘tacked the border post of

. GFOUpE -

Nicaragua a charged
Wednesday that Honduran
soldiers and Honduran-
based Nicaraguan ‘rebels
attacked the village of Santo
Tomas del Norte

“north

A Plaga “note wen
ater ,

Wal

g. Killed,

ed int
ana

‘in the attack Monday.
The ‘nate accused
army ~

‘the

a
cross-border attacks by the
guerrillas. .

A second note protested a
rebel attack Tuesday night
on the Montelimar military
base, 59 kilometres south of
Managua,

after’ ‘government soldiers

returned ‘thelr fire, - the
ministry sald,
A Defense Ministry

source, who asked not to be
identified for protocol”
reasons, also ‘said. two

330 kilometres
of | Managua,

Leymus,
northeast .

, early Wednesday. 7
' In El Salvador, rebels and

government troops * Wed-.
nesday fought in two sec-
tions of the eastern province
of San Miguel, sald military
sources in the region who’
asked not tobe identified for
security reasons:

KILLED CIVILIANS

The: rebels’ * clandestine

Radio Venceremos said the”

military ‘killed 10. civilians
“in one of the heaviest aerial

attacks = in ‘months on

in. :
‘Chinandega. provnee, 240
* Kilometres ~

of
" Managua, the capital.

* .mhand of troops based at the

hal seats i a gee seme ee a ,

~. March 25

_ Armed © boats’
‘attacked, then headed off

at- «

Guazapa Voleano, a. rebel-

controlled area-north of San.

Salvador: The army sald a
major weekend raid on the
area was aimed at a “large
‘concentration of rebels."

‘Col. Mauricio Guzman
Aguilar, second in com-

‘éity of San Miguel, said his

Apresidential)

Agreement called unrealistic

“ EDMONTON (CP) — A major accord
already killed lakes and severely damaged

reached on acid rain included only the |

federal. - government and

provinces east of ‘Saskatchewan, Alex
senior acid. rain program.
Tanager for the federal
Protection Service, said Wednesday.
Saskatchewan Environment Minister
Neal Hardy said ithe agreement to cut
‘ Canadian emissiotis cauiing acid tain in’
half by 1994; reached Tuesday in Ottawa, is
wirealistic and will.likely mean little to that

Manson,

province's polluters. .

“Nationally, I don't think they can do it,””

he said.

“Andin Saskatchewan, it’s preity hard to
cut back from very little. The first 25 per
centis always the easiest. After that, it gets

tough.””

Alberta Environment. “Minister Fred ~
Bradley has previously stated an aim of
holding the line on emissions until the year

2000. °

. Féderal Environment Minister Charles
_Caectia called the agreement “a statement
in principle and political will," but was
short on specifics of where the controls
would be imposed, how they would. work

and who would‘pay.

Hardy said he felt no need.to attend a
meeting most relevant to provinces in the

elections."

will not disrupt them. ~~

The far-tight ‘Republican

Nationalist Alliance on
Wednesday asked
Central Election Council to

reject a petition by the

moderate ..- Christian

40, Democrats to disqualify, the:

. The Christian” Democrats

- on
Leftists are boycotting the
elections, but have said they. a

the

Monday said.
‘d’Aubuisson was ineligible
because it was commonly

“believed, and had been

charged in “the foreign
press,” that he was behind
the 19380 murder in’ San
Salvador of Roman Catholic

Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo

“Romero. He-also was ac-
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chemical weapons and a
third non-[ranian merchant
ship: was reported hit by
Iraqi attacks in the gulf.

. The official Soviet news

agency .- Tass said
Washington . is trying to
establish control ‘over seq
and air space in the area in -
violation ‘of international
Jaw. . .

“The amassing of US.
warships and. warplanes in
the Persian Gulf area is
dramatically escalating

tension and provoking 1a-

conflict situation,”. Tass
said. | .
Washington is imposing
procedures even more
restrictive on .ships and
aircraft in the area than
those applied _in waters
direct’... U.S,
_ jurisdiction; ‘Tass. sald.

new act of lawlessness" and -

will not. recognize limits’

imposed on navigation in

has 30 warships near’ the

Stralt of Hormuz- at the .
entrance to the gulf, backed

by ships of the British and -

French navies, is pledged to
keep the sea lane open to

tankers which carry one-’

sixth, of the West's oil
‘ supply.

Threatening dire con-
sequences if the United
States intervenes, Iran has
said it will blockade the
strait if Iraq disrupts

Iranian oll exports by. |’ §

striking at its Kharg island
oil terminal.

Iraq, which has used
Soviet missiles i attacks on
fan, said Wednesday it has
signed an accord under
which Moscow . will’ help
plan a nuclear plant ‘to

replace one destroyed in an. -
_ + ‘Israeli air raid three years
Moscow denounces: :thip:s.ago, -

Meanwhile, Iran. sald it

killed or wounded 850 Iraqi ©

soldiers as Baghdad

made Majnoon island in the “
marshlands of southeastern .
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_ Acid rain — precipitation, industrial
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Although no existing damage has been |

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Ron Irwin, Liberal MP for Sault Ste.
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‘parliamentary subcommittee on acid rain,
said recently Saskatchewan has lost a
reputation it once held as a pace-setting

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