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Show - Page 2 THE HERALD, Provo. Utah, Thursday. March 22. 1984 World Roundup The latest in national, and international news from United Press International KHV kJ U BottS ttsCOOMt And Joans Druze Crush Sunni Rivals oviefs Blamed for Collision - 1 class attack submarine did not cause any damage to his ship and none of the carrier's 5,000 crew was injured, he said. Rogers blamed the Soviet sub, saying it rammed into the right side of the Kitty Hawk's bow section in darkness but did not appear to have sustained extensive damage. Victor-- Kitty Hawk said today that escort vessels were too far away from his ship to detect a nuclear-powere- d Soviet submarine that struck the carrier. Capt. David N. Rogers, skipaircraft per of the 80,000-to- n carrier, also said the submarine did not have its navigational lights on at the time of the collision in darkness late Wednesday in the southern Sea of fI I 4 A. Japan. "Kitty Hawk has no sonar system of its own but cruisers, destroyers and frigates accompanying it have sonar and other electronic systems that provide a significant capability against submarines," Rogers A 5 panying vessels were 2 Vi miles away from Kitty Hawk at the time of the collision a distance out of normal operating range of sonar systems. . At Least 100 Hurt In Soviet Quake MOSCOW - (UPI) airlift An has been organized to bring food and supplies into an area 1,000 miles south of Moscow devastated by an earthquake that injured at least 100 people, the official So- viet news agency Tass said Wednesday. The official news agency made no mention of fatalities from the quake, which struck at 1:29 a.m. local time Tuesday and registered 7.1 on the open-ende- d Richter scale. Western observers said the establishment of an airlift signified the area was in deep trouble and did not discount the possibility of fatalities. The official government press rarely mentions casualties, and the report of injuries indicated the situation was serious. In El Nicaragua Asks Mine-Clearin- Seek Strike Vote Aid g Nicaragua asked for international help to clear the country's ports of rebel mines and said a mine that damaged a Soviet oil tanker and injured five crewmen was "part of the strategy of the p pp I British Miners American administration." The Soviet Union also blamed the United States for what it called "an act of banditry and piracy" and demanded compensation for damage to the vessel and crew injuries. Wednesday shut down the nation's schools until Sunday's presidential elections in the wake of a bombing that killed two children and an adult in a town outside San Salvador. The mine in Nicaragua's Puerto Sandino harbor, 40 miles southwest of Managua, was hit Tuesday by the Soviet oil tanker Lugansk. ff krJ Salvador, officials r A--- THY LAMA l7"HtM I tot with rtfaf 1 HU HQ hUL M-- l wMlhsJ Q i 1033 The radio reported scores ot Mourbitoun militamen captured Mourabi-touby Druze fighters. The a small Sunni Moslem militia, had controlled the only crossing point between the Christian and Moslem sectors of the city. n, Wranglir ton's SUECE CASUAL Prisoners were taken to the Jal al Bahr headquarters, a building occupied by the Druze militia a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy compound, the radio said. Druze militiamen also arrested the family of Mourabitoun leader Ibrahim Koleilat after storming his residence in the Rawshe district of west Beirut. Koleilat is in Libya on an official visit. M LADIES' M shoot M Vm Dings Phalange radio said Druze and Moslem Shiite Amal militia sur- ay ffAAT wfvi mj rounded Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra and Shatila, diPalestisarming nians who recently received a - French IRUN, Spain (UPI) Iruck drivers ended a four-da- y blockade of the western border with Spain today, accepting guarantees that Spain would provide increased police protection from Basque gangs that have burned some 20 foreign rigs. 1 shipment of weapons. The Mourabitoun radio station was also cap- :N ta dMica f 470 letters. (mm . J (AUGAROQS The new fighting came after one man was killed and three people were wounded Wednesday when residential areas came under shelling and sniper fire along the "green line" dividing the city. jfm tot Sim tured. Police in Irun said the border was opened about 10 a.m. after dozens of trucks parked across the frontier in Hendaye removed their rigs from the highway. 1 two pair and est NJ a sports watch FKEE. CHJ Buy t CTi Ink i . WE STOCK OVU 3000 PR. CF COOTS anti-aircra- ft Truck Drivers End Strike r lama, Nacana, Jwtin, hy tot, toM, Tm, WranUfT Santa taaa, Oaargfa, Haimaa, TimbHanda jeep-mount- closely watch each other's military operations in international waters. 4-D- Twty Don The streets of west Beirut were virtually deserted as Druze militia patrols with guns and heavy machine guns fired volleys in the air. Briefs reminders of Monday's carnage," the conservative Hindustan Times reported. "A putrid stench of burnt flesh" filled the air, wrote the paper s correspondent, Ashok Dash, from the town in Orissa state. se "Looks like a case of the vival of the fittest," a Beirut police source said. "It's big fish eating the small fish." -- for house-to-hou- sur- vessel had been shadowing the Kitty Hawk since March 19 when it left the South Korean port of Pusan to participate in an annual joint U.S. South Korea military exercise. According to Rogers, American and Soviet naval vessels USS Kitty Hawk skipper Capt. David Rogers blamed Soviets sub'i collision with his ship in Sea of Japan Wednesday. g was shot and seriously wounded while photographing the fighting. Mark, 32, of Topeka, Kan. underwent surgery at the American Hospital to remove a bullet and shrapnel in the chest. "We immediately launched two helicopters to see if we could render any assistance to them but the Soviet sub appeared to have suffered no extensive damage," he told reporters. Rogers also said the Soviet However, he said the accom- HAAVeCM fighting. the UPI photographer Leighton Mark in shudder. said. "I presume that the submarine was submerged or partially submerged. That is why it did not appear on our radar scopes," Rogers told reporters aboard the aircraft carrier in the Korea Strait. "I was on the bridge at the time of the incident, monitoring one of the two radars," Rogers said. "We felt a sudden shudder, a fairly violent 8 OFF phalange radio said killed or wounded were people Right-win- 125 , w All BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) -Moslem Druze militamen crushed Sunni Mostheir Libyan-backe- d lem rivals today in fierce fighting for control of the western sector of Beirut, police and witnesses said. The collision between the Kitty Hawk and the 5,200-to-n ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK (UPI) The skipper of the U.S. aircraft carrier 34 ! (1 lor $3.50) -at-r-wrtch Via row W only N mm JLS OS - LONDON (UPI) Traveling pickets brought more than 80 percent of Britain's coal mines to a halt but many union officials, objecting to the lack of a clear mandate to strike, called for a national vote on the walkout.. The state-ru- n National Coal Board said Wednesday only 37 of Britain's 174 mines were operating normally, down from 42 Tuesday. About 138,000 of Britain's 175,000 miners have struck over government plans to close 20 nonproductive mines next year. 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