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Show Page 2 THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. Tuesday. March 12. 1985 orld Mound s The latest in national and international news from United Press International ..X - a koMst moo I mine Conference Lebanon Sends Reinforcements aises $2.5 Billion To Aid ,Sfae,s ? Soulher" Border - GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) -A United Nations conference on famine relief received pledges of 2.9 billion to help feed drought-stricke- n African countries in the next year, and the United States pledged more than a third of the The Lebanese army sent more troops and tanks today to its front lines with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon after a day of heavy fighting that left at least 33 people who arrived Sunday from a tour of n three African nations, pledged the United States drought-stricke- would donate $1 billion. On the first day of the two-daconference, pledges doubled the U.N.'s requested $1.5 billion but some of the aid had been announced beforehand aud was not entirely new. The meeting was being attended by 105 countries and 60 private and U.N. aid organizations. Italy told the conference it was creating a special, $950 million fund for emergency relief, the bulk to go to Africa. y t I I U U: l 1 L J 1 Vice President George Bosh Addresses UN Famine Meet Switzerland announced it was giving $110 million, Japan $230 mil- is already a success." During his speech to the meeting. Bush called on all nations to put aside political considerations and help end the worst famine of lion, West Germany $540 million and Britain $143 milUon. , "We have reached more than we have expected," conference spokesman Djibril Diallo said. "It the century, saying, "Families can't eat ideologies." China Lauds Chernenko But Cool to Gorbachev Chinese leadPEKING (UPI) ers mourwd Soviet President Chernenko today as a man who bad worked to improve Si Kon-stant- in relations but greeted a peace overture by his successor, wikhaei Gorbachev, only tersely. "President Chernenko had expressed more than once the hope for the development of relations with China," Chinese President Li Xiannian and other leaders said in a condolence message quoted today by the offical Xinhua sews agency. t relations io many fields have improved, thanks to the efforts made by both sides," the message said. "The Chinese government sincerely hopes that the relations between the two countries will develop farther." However, the government "offered only a terse official statement acknowledging an appeal by Gorbachev for steps to mend the rift between the two communist giants. : The Soviet Union "would like to see a serious improvement of relations with the Chouse Peoples and believes that, given re "Saw-Sovie- Re-piil- ic r f Ifm CBAFES Craaaar I dead. President George Bush, ' ciprocity, this is quite possible," Gorbachev said in his maiden speech as Soviet leader. In a cool official reply, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman simply said, "We have taken note of the positive attitude towards the reladevelopment of tions expressed by General SecreSino-Sovi- In Beirut, the independent Al Anwar newspaper said a southern Lebanese girl was the suicide driver who steered an explosives-packe- d truck into an Israeli army convoy near the Israeli border, killing at feast 12 soldiers. The two nations have expanded their trade, economic, scientific and cultural exchanges over the past year, bat major political strains continue to block a political rapprochement. Peking has repeatedly said no significant thaw in relations will be possible unless Moscow reverses its military buildup on China's northern border, ends its backing for Vietnamese forces occupying Cambodia and removes its troops from Afghanistan. The message of condolence carried today by Xinhua said Chernenko "bad worked effectively in many fields in the interest of the Soviet state and the people. His death is a great loss to the Soviet people." IV 'A m POTATOES Lebanese officials have said Monday's clashes with the Israeli army in Zrariyeh, a Shiite Moslem village 9 miles northeast of the southern port of Tyre, were triggered by Israel's desire to seek revenge for the bombing. Israel has denied the charges. Al Anwar, quoting "sources close to the national resistance," said, "The hero of the suicide attack was, in fact, a girl from southern Lebanon." The newspaper did not further identify her, but said she "apparently had no trouble getting that close to the Israeli border." In the south, Lebanese army reinforcements were seen today heading to the "confrontation lines" facing the Israeli army. Lebanese military sources said more troops were sent to Zrariyeh. The sources, however, 9 - to escalating "barbaric acts." "At least once the council should show mat it can meet its responsibility and show itself worthy of the confidence entrusted to it," Lebanese Ambassador Rachid said Monday as the Security Council resumed debate on the crisis. Diplomatic sources said when the draft is put to a vote, the United States is almost certain to use its veto if the proposed condemnation receives the nine votes needed for approval in the Fak-bou- ry council. Fakboury read a report on fighting in Zrariyeh, a Shiite village 9 Iraq acknowledged the ground assault but said Iranian troops were "crushed and many killed or captured." "The attacking Iranians have been surrounded and our forces are tightening the noose around them," 4 239' 4- II TC230T 4 4k : CHEESE , 1 n cnnum r:uccns diers captured by the Israelis were released after interrogation. vetoed the Lebanese resolution condemning Israel. .....1M u, snw PubMwd Sunday through Friday by Scrippf Icogut Ntwpaptrv Inc. 1555 North 200 Wort, tWo. Utah 84604 6 t. JENSEN. PubMMr N. IAVEU CWTISTENSEN, Edfegr fmtntfm Entered o Mcond daw manor at the pod offcc m fmo. Utah f O K 143060 miles northeast of the port of Tyre in which at least 32 people were killed and 10 Lebanese soldiers were captured by Israeli forces. A Lebanese reporter who toured the village following the raid, said bodies, some disembowled and their hands cut off, were scattered around the village. The reporter, who declined to be identified, said walls were painted with the slogan, "This is the Israeli Defense Forces' revenge for any spilled Israeli blood." U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpa-tric- k told the Security Council last week that Lebanese Shiite Moslem guerrillas threatened the lives of VS. and British diplomats if they 1 7t DRUMSTICKS Israeli soldier weeps at grave of fellow soldier who was killed Sunday in a bomb attack in southern Lebanon. tiSk Quito, 2M-2m, vf, b. major resistance base in Cambodia, a Thai military spokesman said. 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The winter forced a hill in the conflict between Afghan guerrillas and Soviet occupying forces. t Soviet bombing raids on civilian targets in the provinces of Kapisa 73 awiaMtsiMr Strna Afghans, Russ Prepare for Spring Push -S- 1" SACK BAB MEMBEI United tmn Intel nonunol Audit Bvroov of Circulation NEA r.:sAT LOCKER BEEF Stubborn Cambodian Rebels Defy Viets . BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -Remnaots of a routed guerrilla army held out stubbornly today against Vietnamese forces who drove their comrades from the last q if United Nations Votes Today on Massacre LeUNITED NATIONS (UPI) banon says a U.N. Security Council veto of its resolution condemning Israeli military raids would make the organization a "silent witness" M 0- ASPARAGUS had no immediate comment on an Israel radio report that 20 Lebanese sol- - et tary Gorbachev." 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