ipiry g)""T,yrrjnr-i'- itliHt M v iii I m (ul Into Number The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, Mjshu lljiinlton W lift jtfd BETHLEHEM. Occupied West Bank Ihuuvuidi ut pilgrim Irmii iruunii lie wur!J loudt-miu the i hurch ul the Njtiwty oil ( hristiiia-- . I)jv to sing and pray in a medley ot l.ipguages uu-- the .site where the 'linst ehild was bom Choir muic echoed through the i liurch and bells pealed outside to i all wurshipers to prayer. .Ia--was conducted in the grotto beneath the church where some pilgrims waited in line tor as long as 3U minutes to touch the silver star marking the spot where Mary is believed to have given birth to Jesus By I s non-sto- p Most pilgrims did not seem to mind the delay Joseph W ood, a t pilot from Nashville. Tenn. said Christmas in Bethlehem was an expe-- t lence unlike any other There is a special atmosphere, Lti-v- ol places seeing bihbc.il ar-ol- d signill- - ar.ee." he said iNew Yorker Judy Bensmihon. .itt said. I think I'm really privileged to be here " ( hristmas was no holiday tor most If). Olid Christian residents of ot tlie this Palestinian town in the Israeli occupied West Bank The rest ot the town s 50.UUU people are Moslems "Most Christians in Bethlehem depend on tourism so we have to work on Christmas. said Anwar Sac3. 40. who owns one of the towns largest souvenir stores Saca said he worked until a rn. Christmas morning and would do most of his celebiatmg alter his shop closed Wednesday night Despite the hard work. Saca. a Homan Catholic, said he never tires ot Bethlehem's holiday celebrations. Heople are coming trom around the w orld You (eel these are very special days in Bethlehem." he said Christmas Day celebrations were subdued in contrast to the holiday-makinof Christmas live Israel radio said police arrested one pick pocket and booked 40 people tor drunken behavior. Security appeared more relaxed Wednesday compared with Tuesday night when 350 Israeli soldiers guarded Manger Square. On Christmas Day. no Israeli soldiers were visible ami Bethlehem's Arab police stayed away as well Geurge Samour, director of the local tourism office, said fewer tourists 1 otten-bois-tero- attended Christina Eve celebrations than (he 5. lint) he estimated nine jst year "Most of the people in Manger Square were trom the area, not overseas. he said "People are reluctant to travel to the Middle East alter the recent hijackings " Some shopowners complained that the decrease in tourism hurt their sales "We closed at 7 o'clock last night, the earliest ever on Christmas Eve. We didn't even do $10 of business. There are just no tourists." said old Epiphany Tabush. the owner ol The Nativity Store Christmas Eve celebrations included a Midnight Mass presided over by the Human Catholic Patriarch of Jee rusalem. Monsignor Giacomo Beltrilti The town's mayor, Elias Freij. a Greek Orthodox Christian, held his traditional Christmas Eve reception, which was attended fur the second straight year by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Peres, accompanied hy Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, told the guests that "there is an air of peace now blowing in our region Let us learn to breathe it properly " 2(i, 14115 Gui-sepp- Associated in Bethlehems Manger Square on Christmas Eve to observe high Pilgrims gather Hi ess I uset puof' Mass. Fears of terrorist attacks reduced the number of tourists from last year. Foreign Briefs 6 Hostages Relatives Hold Vigil; Another Family Claims Body BEIRUT. Lebanon (UFI) - Relatives of French hostages being held hv Moslem extremists maintained a grim Christmas vigil in Beirut Wednesday as family members claimed the body of a kidnapped Lebanese Jew shut by Ins captors. A police spokesman said relatives, of Haim Cohen Halnla identified a corpse found Tuesday in a square dear devastated downtown Beirut and took it away for burial. Halalah. 3y, was shot in the head with a 6 mm pistol. ; The Organization of the Oppressed-othe Earth said it "executed" Hala-ta- . who was kidnapped from his home March 25, in revenge for Israeli gun New Soviet The Moslem fundamentalist group to free the four members of west Beirut's small Jewish community if an Israeli-backemilitia released an estimated 300 Shi- earlier had offered in southern Lebanon. Military sources said either Israeli or Israeli-backe- d forces mortared the southern Lebanese market town of Nabatiyeh and two villages before dawn. There were no casualties reported and no reaction from the Stamp Honors Samantha Smith ; MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union has issued a postal stamp in memory of Samantha Smith, the Maine schoolgirl who wrote to late Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov asking that the superpowers work for a more peaceful world. Smith of Manchester. Maine, toured the Sbviet Union as Andropov's guest in July 1983 and received worldwide attention as a young peacemaker. She died at the age of 13 in a plane crash in Maine on Aug. 25. The stamp bears an artist s rendition of the smiling school- five-kope- k girl and her name in Cyrillic letters. Five kopeks (about six cents) is the postage for sending a letter within the Soviet Union. UNBUMBUVU. South Africa (AP) Zulu and Pondo tribesmen battled with hatchets and homemade guns and knives over the past three days, - leaving 40 dead and about 5,000 wounded, police said Wednesday. The fighting was in Natal Province on South Africa's eastern coast, where Pondo lands are next to Zulu territories. -- k SIZES 8-1- 8 JOGGING SUITS S. Afriea Police said they did not know what in the ancaused the latest flare-u- p cient rivalry between the two tribes. In the past, battles have started over such issues as a stolen cow or a suspected sexual transgression. About 2.000 Zulus and 3.000 Pondos were wounded in the fights, police said. They gave no breakdown on the deaths. With Help Ominous Omen Comes True A man .TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) was fined $150 for smashing the window of a car when he became angry fortune message he over a BOYS "Several years ago this girl wrote a letter to Moscow, tfien visited the Soviet Union, where "she became convinced of the sincere striving of Soviet people for peace," the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva wrote in a brief article accompanied by a photo of the new 1985 stamp. "Samantha was received as a little ambassador of peace." the newspaper said. 40 Killed as Tribesmen Battle in bad-luc- o ners shelling southern Lebanese villages. It threatened to kill three other Jews who were also kidnapped ite Moslems being held selected at a temple, a newspaper said Wednesday. 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