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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, November 9, Page Two 1982 FCr.l TK2 associated rci33 IH7ERHA7E0HAG. Begin testifies on massacre Prime Minister Menachetn Begin testified Monday he feared waves of revenge killings against Lebanese Moslems for the murder of Christian leader Bashir Gemayel.but never imagined a slaughter of Palestinian civilians. Begin also told the commission investigating Israel's conduct massacre that he had no advance during the knowledge of the Israeli military's decision to send Christian Phalange militias into the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. But he defended the decision by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Raphael Eytan, repeatedly asserting that "it occurred to no one that atrocities might be committed." testimony, broadcast live on Israeli radio, Begin's shed little new on events leading to the operation, which he said was designed to sweep the camps for Palestinian guerrilla resistance. The three-ma- n panel closely interrogated Begin on what his knew about the massacre and when, questions government which many Israelis anguished over when they demanded a judicial inquiry into the murders of hundreds of Palestinian refugees. le probe, but relented under Begin had opposed a within his coalition discontent of and rumblings public pressure government.' The prime minister testified no one reported to him about suspicions the militia operation had turned into a massacre that led Israeli army officers to halt the Phalangist action. JERUSALEM mid-Septem- 47-min- full-sca- to Poland Pope plans visit and church The nation's WARSAW, Poland top military leaders said Monday that Pope John Paul II will visit his homeland in June, an announcement seen as an effort to defuse protests planned by the outlawed Solidarity union. At the same time in Wroclaw, security agents arrested Solidarity national commission member Piotr Bednarz and 12 news agencey at a clandestine meeting, the state-ru- n PAP reported. The arrests removed Bednarz from the strikes underground commission, which called for eight-hoand nationwide marches Wednesday, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration by a Warsaw court. The union, suspended when the government decreed martial law 1 1 months ago, was formally outlawed Oct. 8 under a tough new labor law. The announcement of the pope's visit June 18 was made ers four-memb- er ur chief Gen. jointly by Communist Party and martial-laWojciech Jaruzelski and Roman Catholic Archbishop Jozef w GlemD after a meeting. Paper reports Afghan woes MOSCOW The Soviet armed forces newspaper on Monday acknowledged that opponents of the Kremlin-supporte- d regime in Afghanistan are inflicting "immense damage." on that country's economy. The unusually detailed article in Red Star also strongly suggested that Soviet forces have suffered heavy losses since they were sent to the country in December 1979 to help the government suppress a Moslem rebellion. It quoted a leading Afghan official as saying, "the Afghan peoples trust in Soviet soldiers did not come by itself: a big price, was paid for it. The article further acknowledged that the rebels achieved some early successes, in part because of what the article described as mistakes by the Afghan Communist Party in early 1979. But Red Star correspondent V. Skrizhalin, a lieutenant colonel, concluded that actions by enemies of the Afghan regime are "becoming increasingly more futile" and that the government is making progress. NATIONAL Jail fire kills 2?; injures 61 BILOXI, Miss. Twenty-seve- prisoners died in their n county jail cells early Monday when a former mental patient set a fire in a padded cell and thick, choking smoke raced through the ventilation system, knocking out the jailer who had the keys. An additional 61 people were injured, including firefighters, police officers, jailers and inmates of the Harrison County Jail almost all by smoke inhalation. Hospitals said 10 inmates and a jailer were in critical condition. The former mental patient was being charged with 27 counts of capital murder, said Albert Necaise, the district attorney for Harrison County. Those killed included 25 men and two women. The inmates were asleep when the fire started at about 1:30 a.m. and they were quickly overcome by smoke from the smoldering polyurethane, a synthetic material used as protective padding in an isolation cell, said Harold Windham, an assistant fire chief. The Justice Department disclosed Monday that it has been investigating complaints of overcrowding and "environmental deficiences" at the Biloxi jail. Court to rule on car restraints WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether someday all new automobiles sold in the United States will be equipped with air bags or automatic seat belts. At issue in a case of enormous importance for struggling automakers is whether federal safety regulators wrongly lifted a September 1983 deadline for installation of such passive restraints. A federal appeals court said yes, and reinstated the deadline. Refused to become embroiled in the glut of lawsuits growing out of the Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse that killed 1 14 people and injured more than 200 others in Kansas City last year. The justices turned away a dispute over how the more than 300 legal actions should proceed in state and federal courts. Agreed to decide whether a South Dakota man can be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for writing a nt crime. phony S 100 check his sixth conviction for a Said it will decide whether a man convicted in the Black Liberation Army killing of an hitchhiker in Jacksonville, Fla., eight years ago was unfairly sentenced to the electric chair. non-viole- so-call- 1 Sil& pierced and pretty 110 ct 14 ct 13 ct Buttercup earring ed i Marine exercise upsets Spain WASHINGTON U.S. Marines are about to make an unpublicized practice landing on the Moroccan coast, exacerbating delicate talks with a new Socialist government in Spain, which already is balking over Arnerican military bases and its membership in NATO. "We would not like it," said a Spanish diplomat who asked to remain anonymous. The official objected to the location of the impending Marine landing, near Spanish enclaves on the Moroccan coast across from Gibraltar. The exercise comes at a time when the Untied States faces the possibility of tough negotiations with the new Socialist Spanish government over continued American use of key bases in Spain. The new Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said during the recent election campaign that he would try to renegotiate a base agreement with the United States signed only last July. Problem won't delay launch CAPE CANAVERAL, FUu A helium leak derailed Columbia's countdown for nearly seven hours Monday, but officials said the problem would not delay the planned Thursday launching of the space shuttle on its first satellite-haulin- g mission. Test conductor Gilbert Whittaker termed the leak "no real five-da- y countdown has more than 20 problem" and noted the hours of hold time built in to handle such contingencies. He predicted the count would be back on schedule by Tuesday morning. Gene Thomas, a project engineer, reported the leak was discovered in a helium regulator in one of 44 small jets used to steer the ship in orbit. He said the faulty unit was deactivated and its function shifted to a redundant system. REGIONAL Witness blames pressure SALT LAKE CITY Atomic Energy Commission researchers were under tremendous pressure during the 1940s and 1950s to develop nuclear weapons faster than the Soviet Union, a former director of the Los Alamos Laboratory testified Monday. The Soviet Union's development of a fission bomb in 1948 "came as a great surprise to us," said Dr. Norris Bradbury, who headed the AEC's laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., from 1945 to 1970. "The pressure became enormous to the United States' lead over that particular adversary," he said. Bradbury testified during the massive trial here of a lawsuit alleging fallout from opern-a- ir atomic testing in Nevada during the 1950s and early 1960s caused cancer in people downwind. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins is hearing 24 representative cases chosen from among the 1,192 plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The plaintiffs allege the government knew or should have known that fallout was a health hazard but failed to warn the public. Superfund' to the rescue SALT LAKE CITY State officials are reviewing a list of hazardous waste sites for possible cleanup under a federal Environmental Protection Agency program. Congress set aside several billion dollars for the EPA's "Superfund" program to cleanse hazardous waste sites around the country. About 400 sites have been approved for possible inclusion in the program. Oil sludge buried in Salt Lake City's Rosewood Park was ranked 400th on the list, but the final agreement was signed last week for the site's cleanup. Dale Parker, director of the Utah Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste, said the state may not have any other hazardous waste sites considered dangerous enough to be eligible for the Superfund. "We haven't found anything yet that's dramatic," he said. State officials are examining two buildings constructed in Monticello with radioactive sand. Larry Anderson, director of the Utah Bureau of Uranium Mill Tailings, said the problem in Monticello is similar to that in Salt Lake County, where several buildings have been constructed over old Vitro uranium-mi- ll tailings. so-call- ed 60.00 150.00 225.00 $5.00 extra We're at our new location at 260 South Main o |