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Show Vol. 228, No. 45 Salt Lake City, Utah Monday Morning November 28, 1983 Gemayel Leaves for Rome, U.S. ... .Fire Rival; By Samir Ghattas Associated Press Writer TRIPOLI. Lebanon Rival Palestinian soldiers traded fire sporadically across their cease-firline Sunday, and Beirut radio said Druse and Christian militiamen renewed artillery clashes in the Chouf Mountains. President Amin Gemayel left for Rome and Washington to try to get foreign troops out of Lebanon. There were official reports from Damascus that Syrian President Hafez Assad met with leaders of his party, countering widespread rumors that he was dead or seriously ill. Assad has not been seen in public for two weeks. e For the second day, the Syrian military command said its forces had confronted" a U.S. 4 reconnaissance jet over the Metn Mountains northeast of the Lebanese capital. Saturday, the Syrians also said they "confronted a U.S. warplane. Disengagement Agreement Neither communique indicated whether the Syrians had fired on the jets. US. officials routinely refuse comment on reconnaissance flights. The scattered shelling in Tripoli came despite an agreement between supporters and opponents of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to end weeks of warfare and withdraw from this northern port city. F-1- Ahmed Abdul-Rahma- spokes- i, man for Arafat, said Rashid a former Lebanese prime minister, was expected to announce details of the disengagement agreement in Damascus on Monday. The agreement, announced Friday by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Syria, calls for a political settlement of the PLO dispute and the evacuation of both sides from the Tripoli area within two weeks after Karami finishes work on the details. The radio reported renewed artillery clashes between Druse and Christian militiamen in the Chouf area, about three miles from Israeli lines in southern Lebanon. Ka-ram- The broadcast said two people were killed and six were wounded in the artillery clashes. The Druse and Christian militias have battled intermittently since a Sept. 26 ceasefire in their long war. Gemayel flew from Beirut to Rome on Sunday for three days of talks with Italian officials. He was scheduled to go next to the United States to try to convince President Reagan to amend or renegotiate the May 17 agreement to withdraw Israeli forces from Lebanon. The United States helped negotiate the arrangement. Syria and its leftist allies in Lebanon have demanded the agreement be canceled because it gives Israel political, economic and security concessions in Lebanon. Representatives of rival Lebanese factions adjourned their national reconciliation conference in Geneva, Switzerland, last month to give Gemayel time to negotiate the removal of Israeli, Palestinian, Syrian and other foreign forces. Spadolini Meets Gemayel Italys defense minister, Giovanni Spadolini, met Gemayel at Romes Ciampino Airport, but neither man made any statements to the news media. Gemayel was to meet Monday with Socialist Premier Bettino Craxi and with Pope John Paul II. Italy has 2,100 troops stationed in n Lebanon as part of a g force. The other contingents are from the United States, France and Britain. In Damascus, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported that Assad met Sunday with leaders of his ruling Arab Socialist Baath Party. The agency said the party officials stressed that Syria was on the right political course, and determined to continue to carry on Syrias current policies." Assad has not been seen in public since Nov. 13, when the government announced he hid undergone an appendectomy. But the government has reported several meetings since between Assad and officials of his government. On Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam was reported to have briefed Assad in the hospital on his talks with Lebanon's foreign minister, Khalil Salem. Film Clips of Assad Israeli television carried film clips from Syrian state television showing Assad smiling and chatting with Cabinet ministers in his office. The Syrians said the film was taken Associated Press Laserphoto boar and four piglets look for food around launching near space shuttle Columbia, due for liftoff Monday. pad A sow, four-natio- peace-keepin- Associated Press Loserphoto Spanish paramilitary guard, right, checks wallet handed to him by fireman while rescuers dig through debris of burned jet fuselage that crashed near Madrid, Spain. Spanish Officials Hope Black Box Will Shed Light on Plane Disaster The Spain (AP) charred remains of scores of unidentified victims of the Avianca airline disaster lay in rows in a Madrid airport hangar Sunday as stunned relatives filed past. The fiery crash of the Colombian Boeing 747, one of the MADRID, On The Inside Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 A-- Todays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Cloudy, chance of snow. Highs 40, lows near 20 Details C-- near worst crashes in aviation history, killed 183 people. Avianca's Paris to Bogota flight crashed and exploded in a hilly area five miles east of Madrid's Barajas airport shortly after 1 a m. Sunday. Airport officials said the jumbo jet carried 170 passengers, 20 working crew members and four airline workers who were not on duty. Only 11 of the 194 people aboard survived the impact and inferno, and four of them were in very serious condition, the officials said. Avianca officials said the plane, rented from Scandanavian Airlines System, was scheduled to stop in Madrid and Caracas, Venezuela and that many of those aboard were French and German citizens. It was not immediately known if there were any U.S. citizens aboard. Searchers said they had found the flight data recorder, or black box, which records information about the airplane's course and a recording of conversations L ,he cockpit. Officials said it could help determine what caused the crash. Among those reported dead was Peruvian poet Manuel Scorza considered one of Latin America's best writers. He was on his way to a conference in Bogota. Also among the reported dead were five Swedish couples on their way to Colombia to pick up five or 10 Sunday. Syrian state television also showed Baath leaders congratulating Assad on his recovery and later phans for adoption, Swedish officials said. They said the children were waiting for their future parents at orphanages in different parts of Colombia. The plane was flying in clear skies See Page 2, Column 1 reported that Syrians danced and sang in public to show their jubila- Europes Cooperation On Spacelab May Aid Future Projects By John Noble Wilford New York Times Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -American and European space officials said Sunday that the partnership that produced the Spacelab, scheduled to fly aboard the space shuttle Columbia Monday, is likely to be extended to other cooperative space ventures. This would probably include major European participation in any American effort to develop a large space station, they said. Preparations continued to run smcothly toward a planned liftoff at 11 a m. EST (9 a.m. MST) for the ninth space shuttle mission and the first to carry a large pressurized laboratory where astronauts and scientists can conduct a host of experiments and scientific observations. tion. Syrian officials have said only that Assad, 53, is recovering from an appendectomy. Diplomats around the Middle East had speculated that he might be dead or dying. Chuckle Todays Tact: The ability to shut your mouth before someone does it for you. Scotland Yard Admits Its Baffled By Theft of $40 Million in Gold New York Times Service LONDON Yard - Scotland it baffled million would make the robbery largest in history. Insurance companies have offered $3 million for information leading to the recovery of the loot and the arrest of the thieves. But a police spokesman said there had not been a single response to their appeal for information from people who might have seen suspicious looking vans in the warehouse area early Saturday. It is still not known how the band of six robbers managed to penetrate the sophisticated security devices surrounding the big corrugated steel warehouse in Hounslow, adjacent to Heathrow. The building was protected with alarms, searchlights, closed-circutelevision cameras and heavy automatic doors. $40 ad- mitted Sunday night is by the theft Saturday of about 340 million worth of gold bullion and a quantity of diamonds from a securi- ty company's warehouse near Heathrow Airport. We do not have a single solid clue, one policeman said. The police sources said the gold, consisting of 6,800 bars packed in 76 gray cardboard boxes, may have already been melted down to obliterate identifying marks. If so, the sources said, it may already have left the country. The small quantity of diamonds stolen bore no identification marks and cot M easily be sold. The police estimate of the value of the gold at one of the it The owners of the warehouse, t Ltd., a subsidiary of the Brinks-Ma- American security company, are believed to handle half the bullion traffic in and out of London. Sunday night, Robert Gordon, one of the insurance underwriters, said on television the gold had arrived at the warehouse Friday evening for shipment Monday. He said the diamonds were worth about $175,000 and the thieves also had taken travelers checks and scrap gold, whose value was unknown. Unconfirmed reports in the City, London's finacial district, said the gold belonged to the Trade Development Bank, a subsidiary of the American Express Co. (Copright) (The television networks plan coverage of the launch beginning at 8 51 a.m. MST.) Weather Problems weather gave launching the Only officials at the Kennedy Space Center any cause for concern. A cold front moving here from the west threatened to bring rain and possibly thunderstorms by about liftoff time. But at a preflight news conference, the storm clouds were of only passing interest compared with the more clement weather for cooperation in space flight that officials said lies just over the horizon. James M. Beggs, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the flight of the European-buil- t Spacelab on the Columbia was a very, very important mission" because it should open the door to further cooperation with the Europeans. Continue Cooperation Eric Quistgaard, director-generof the 11 nation European Space Agency, said the European governments had expressed great interest in continuing to cooperate with the United States in major manned space systems." He said Europe "will be prepared to participate in one way or another in the space station project, which NASA hopes to get under way next year. A decision is expected to be made soon, perhaps this week, on whether the Reagan administration will approve the inauguration of the project to develop, at a cost of $9 billion, such a large orbiting research and observation station to be operated continuously in the 1990s by astronauts and visiting scientists. Beggs is scheduled to meet with President Reagan Tnursday to discuss the space station project. The flight at hand, a planned nine-da- y mission, is expected to give scientists and engineers a foretaste of the opportunities and possible problems associated with a large research facility in space. Samuel W. Keller. NASA's deputy associate administrator for science See Page 2, Column 3 Ameri-can-Europe- Futurists Wonder If the Family Will Still Be Around in 2000 By Joan Mower Associated Press Writer Ed Cornish WASHINGTON doesn't have much time to worry about the mundane concerns that weigh heavy on most Americans. He's too busy with the future. As president of the World Future Society, Cornish is usually focusing five to 20 years ahead, anticipating what life will be like down the road, what problems the human race will encounter, and how best to solve them The idea of futurism is to make the future a more serious part of our everyday lives and thinking," Cor - nish said in a recent interview at the society's headquarters, the top floor y of a red brick building in suburban RKhesda, Md. "Futurists try to help people understand the nature of changes in the world so they can prepare, he two-stor- said. Grown to 31,000 Established by Cornish and three others in 1966, the society has expanded to 30.000 members in 80 nations with 30 U.S. chapters. Work, the economy, lifestyles, natural resources, space, technology these subjects are the domain of futurists. What do the futurists foresee? By the year 2.000, Cornish said the traditional American nuclear family may disappear and word processors could transform the typical office into nothing more than a portable package of equipment Defied Cultivation Futurists say tomorrow's managers will rely more on intuition in making decisions, and technology will open the way for new careers in information and space. For instance, Cornish says an enterprising businessman might do well raising trufP.es, the world's most expensive vegetables costing $50 apiece. X Until 1977, the truffle defied cultivation. But a French agronomist succeeded in growing a truffle in his laboratory, and today the door is open for farmers who want to raise them. Cornish is guardedly optimistic about the future in which people may have more career opportunities, longer lifespans, and better health. On the downside, he fears the world economy, bogged down by skyrocketing debt, could crash, and water shortages could become severe. In 1967, the first issue of the society's magazine, "The Futurist, out- - lined some of the trends of the future. Among the correct predictions Man would soon walk on the moon; cities would experience population explosions; exploration of the oceans surfaces would boom; and medical science would permit artificial organs to be transplanted. But the futurists missed in some areas. They failed to foresee the energy crisis and its implications, and they didn't understand the importance of the economy, Cornish said. Concern About Economy Economists thought they had things pretty well in hand at that time, Cornish said. Now, there is real concern about the economy." Seventeen years ago, futurists also believed technology would exist to permit the widespread desalination of ocean water and language translating machines would be used frequently. That hasn't happened," Cornish said. Rep. Bob Edgar. a , thinks the society has performed a valuable functions, despite some spotty predictions. Edgar, chairman of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, said his only criticism of the organizatipn is that perhaps its e Page t. Column 1 D-P- fo-Se- J t |
