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Show 5 Py QOGtotes 2 years &tiEiifl : World Friday, September I, I9S9 Th laily Herald, Provo. Utah - including a military parade and air show. A special session of the General People's Congress, or parliament, also was planned. Twenty-one-gu- n salutes boomed for arriving guests, including Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and presidents Hafez Assad of Syria, Chadli Bend-jedi- d of Algeria and Zine El Abi-diBen Alt of Tunisia. The arrival of King Hassan II of Morocco was announced by a blar Col. TRIPOU, Libya (AP) Moammar Gadhafi celebrates 20 years in power today with a peace accord with Chad and festivities ' attracting a host of African and Arab leaders. v Today is the 23th anniversary of the coup that deposed the aging, King Idris and estab-- i lished Gadhafi and his radical revolution. Gadhafi spent Thursday welcoming foreign leaders who were to ? attend the anniversary festivities, : o-Western ne ditq A:1 ptoc; poaeo ing horn as he sailed into Tripoli's some Western governments. De Michelis, in comments apparharbor aboard a small white ship flanked by escort vessels. ently aimed at his country's WestA Western diplomat, speaking on ern allies, said Italy welcomed efcondition of anonymity, said Libya forts to resolve differences with also sent invitations to President Libya so the nations can talk "in a Bush and British Prime Minister climate entirely free of suspicions Margaret Thatcher, whose coun- of any kind of action deemed unactries accuse Gadhafi of supporting ceptable to the international comterrorism. munity." His attendance and that of Western leadThe highest-rankin- g envoys from Egypt and er to attend was Foreign Minister Gianni de Michelis of Italy, whose Chad underlined the success of irritated Gadhafi's efforts in recent years to high-ranki- participation reportedly mov- - away from a radical, policy to one of cooperation with his North African neighbors and Western Europe. Libya was at its most isolated in April 19S6 when UJS. warplanes bombed this Mediterranean port and Benghazi. Gadhafi's adventurism over the years has created other enemies he now wants to turn into friends, aides say. On Thursday, Libya and Chad announced that they had signed an years of warfare that began when Libyan tanks invaded northern Chad and soldiers annexed the mineral-rich Aouzou desert strip. The accord calls for the countries to reach a political agreement over border region the within a year or turn the dispute over to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. accord to end and hostilities 16 J Strolling families have crowded downtown streets, enjoying the flags and strings of lights bah-loon- I Christian : r claims Moslems repulsed BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - ? I I Syrian troops bombarded the Christian ' heartland today in fierce artillery battles that left at least seven people dead and 55 wounded. " Police said the casualties came after midnight in clashes that esca-- , lated after the Christian leader, Michel Aoun, claimed his ,; Gen. troops repulsed two infiltration atmilitiatempts by Syrian-backe- d men during the night. The latest casualties raised the overall toll in nearly six months of "fighting to at least 819 killed and 2,409 wounded. t I I I Police said the Syrians were shelling the entire Christian enclave north of Beirut. J The Christian port of Jounieh north of Beirut was pounded by hundreds of shells and rockets. A police spokesman, who cannot m be named under standing regula-- , tions, said 80 shells a minute were " hitting the enclave as Christian gunners tried to knock out the ' Syrian artillery. $; Apartment buiLings burned out iM of control in both parts of divided Beirut and other areas as the Syrian army and Christian forces bat- . tied through the night and morning. , One Christian shell blasted the second-floo- r apartment of Mustafa Najjar, 33, a soundman with the London-base- d Visnews television agency, in the Aishe Bakkar neighborhood of Moslem west Beirut. Najjar carried his son through daughter and the flames to safety. But his wife, Amal, 27, was burned to death, neighbors said. She was one of seven civilians killed Thursday. Ambulances sped through the desstreets of west erted, smoke-fille- d Beirut taking casualties to hospitals. About 90 percent of the city's 1.5 million people have fled the carnage in recent weeks, leaving an estimated 200,000 people huddling in basement bunkers and underground d capital. garages in the Shells exploded around the once-. shell-blaste- w thriving Hamra business section and the . Ras Beirut 'A spokesman for Aoun's command said the night-tim- e attacks by Syria's allies in Beirut and east " Lebanon were apparent infiltration attempt to probe Christian defen--' ses. The spokesman, who declined to be named, said one group of 12 tried to penetrate from , militiamen d Moslem west Bei. rut near the harbor on the eastern " end of the capital's dividing Green Line. Another group tried to "infiltrate across our lines" in the sector on the mountainous eastern flank of the Christian enclave. " "Both attempts were repulsed," the spokesman said. "We believe , they were reconnaissance attempts by Syria's allies to feel out our combat readiness." He said Aoun's 155mm guns scored several direct hits on a Syrian ammunition dump in the mountain town of Bolonia, 15 miles northeast of Beirut. "The depot exploded in a ball of fire that was followed by a chain of blasts in the pine woods around Bolonia," the spokesman said. The Christians claimed their forces knocked out a Syrian tank in the Druse Moslem hamlet of Abadi-yesix miles east of Beirut with 106mm cannons. Syrian headquarters in Lebanon declined comment on the Christian claims. Police said Syrian guns in west Beirut were shelling the stretch of Mediterranean coast north of Beirut held by the Christians. The enclave is ringed by Syrian troops and their allies on its three landward sides. A witness in west Beirut said Syrian artillery fire forced "a big coastship" off the Christian-hel- d line to flee when it tried to run the blockade the Syrians imposed in to stop arms and other " . residential neighborhood in the city's Moslem sector at noon. Syrian-controlle- it Ein-Tuffa- i h, SCl. le mid-Mar- 1 UTAH'S LAHQSST SPECIALTY L ch supplies reaching Aoun's belea- guered forces. "The ship turned around when the shelling started," said the witness, fcho spoke on condition of "Shells are falling around it. Aoun'i men are shelling the Syrian artillery to take the pressure off it." anonymity. Tz & I . ir tt FUiaTuT.: g&. - ir 1" "i r r 0TOP.2 n. Hin V 77S Uf tta& f? sftoppt EhI 1300 South Southtttl CorMr Tho Unlwfttty MtU Pwklng Lot ""ttJyiaw'" CASH AND CARRY 22S-C30- 3 OR 90 DAYS Of ! fft SAME AS CASH! if 'I.. 5 i |
