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Show 8A The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday, May Gemayel, Kara mi Set Cabinet Positions 2, 1984 Foreign Brief. Argentina, IMF to Reset Debt BUENOS AIRES, Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon Syria tried to convince reluctant Moslem and Druse militia leaders to join their Christian foes in a new Lebanese Cabinet Tuesday as part of a major political effort to end Lebanons nine-yecivil war. President Amin Gemayel and his Syrian-backe- d prime minister, Rashid Karami, surprised the countrys principal warlords Monday night by nominating them to serve in a Cabinet without consulting them. Gemayel and Karami were trying to forge a Cabinet of five Christians, four Moslems and a Druse in an effort to get the leaders of the rival militias into the government Shiite Moslem opposition leader Nabih Bern immediately rejected the ministries of justice, electricity and water resources, complaining the jobs were too far removed from decision-makin- g in the new govern- Argentina President Raul Alfonsin (UPI) said Tuesday Argentina will sign an agreement with the International Monetary Fund in a few days, permitting rescheduling of the country's $43.6 billion foreign debt. ar Alfonsin announced the accord while inaugurating the first congressional session of his administration with a two-hospeech marking his first 140 days in power. He warned that Argentina, whose leadership he inherited after 71 years of military rule, showed eviand is dent signs of destruction still on the edge of an abyss because of its huge foreign debt and a persisting, three-yea- economic r 16-m- re- cession. Alfonsin said the IMF agreement, which will allow Argentinas 320 international creditors to begin rescheduling foreign debt payments, will be ready within a few days. He said it would allow the country to pay its debt without harming the dignity of its people. long-awaite- d China Reports Increase In Crain Production Chinese grain PEKING (AP) production increased dramatically last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Overall output increased by 32.75 million metric tons to 387.25 million tons, Xinhua said. China reported a harvest of 354.5 million tons in 1982 and 325 million tons in 1981. Xinhua said the increase of more than 62 million ton increase from 1981 to 1983 was 9 million tons more than the total increase for the 15 years between 1952 and 1966. The government has attributed much of the increase to Chinas new agricultural policy, which pays peasants according to their work rather than having all share equally. Iran and NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Iraq each reported fighting Tuesday, but neither reported any advance by its troops. Iraqs military command in Baghdad issued a communique saying its jet fighters, combat patrols and gunners killed 14 Iranian soldiers, wounded many others and scored direct hits on a variety of targets. Iran said it defeated all Iraqi attacks to infiltrate its lines in the north and killed more than 10 Iraqi soldiers. The report by the official Islamic Republic News Agency was monitored in Cyprus. Iraq said its jets struck troop concentrations on the central portion of the front and returned safely to base. It did not specify where the attacks took place or how many planes were involved. Iraqi patrols in the southern sector of the front attacked Iranian forces trying to approach our positions, killing 12 enemy soldiers and wounding several others, the communique said. Nicaragua Accuses U.S. Of Eluding World Court THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) A Nicaraguan official on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to avoid World Court scrutiny because it is unable to disprove Nicaraguan allegations of armed attacks against the Sandinista government. The American strategy in the World Court is a parody, said Carlos Arguello, Nicaraguan ambassador to the Netherlands. He has been his countrys chief representative at the preliminary hearings on the complaint filed April 9 by the Sandinista government against the United States. During last week's hearings, U.S. representative Davis R. Robinson asked for immediate dismissal of the case, claiming that Nicaragua had never accepted the jurisdiction of the court, formally known as the International Court of Justice. Canada, .Moscow Sign Fisheries Agreement MOSCOW (AP) Canada and the Soviet Union Tuesday signed a new fisheries agreement that for the first time obliges the Soviets to buy Canadian-processed fish in return for permission to fish in Canadian waters. Fisheries Minister Pierre Debane of Canada said the agreement marks a new page in our relationship with the Soviets. He said he hoped that Canadian fish sales would expand beyond the $12 million level agreed upon for the first year of the new accord. Soviet Fisheries Minister Vladimir M. Kamentsev had given assurances during talks Tuesday that all things being equal, the Soviets would give preference to buying processed fish from Newfoundland rather than other sources, Debano 4 4 th m Associated Press Laserphoto Another Shasta Living in France France Julie, born from the watches over to a lion of tigress, mating her cub at Animal Park. First such ani- - THOIRY, i I mal is believed to be Shasta, born May 8, 1948, at Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City. Shasta succumbed at the age of 24 July 19, 1972. Colombia President Declares War On Drug Smugglers After Slaying PresBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ident Belisario Betancur imposed a nationwide state of siege Tuesday and declared all-owar against drug traffickers following the as-- i ut sassination ofj No Advance Reported In Iran-Ira- q Fighting added. said his Initial rejection appears negotiable. "Dont worry. AH problems have solutions and Bern is our friend and brother, the Karami told reporters. "We have cooperated before and we continue to cooperate. Karami, a Sunni Moslem who has headed nine previous Cabinets, was an ally of Bern and Jumblatt in the latest rounds of the civil war. Jumblatt, 35, has not made a public statement on his nomination as minister. The Druse sect is an offshoot of Islam. The Syrian government newspaper, Tishrin, said in an editorial that the new Cabinet is a national and courageous government. Syria, the Soviet Unions closest ally in the Middle East, emerged as the main power broker in Lebanon after the peacekeeping effort collapsed in February. Pierre Gemayel, 79, has been named minister of postal, telecomment munications, public health and soBut Syria, which supported Ber-ri- s cial affairs. Chamoun, 84, was given Amal militia and Walid Jumb-latt- s the ministries of finance, housing Druse forces in the recent and government cooperatives. Both round of the civil war, praised the are Maronite Christians. new Cabinet. But the higher council of the Berns office said he went to the Greek Catholic community protestSyrian capital of Damascus Tuesday ed its minimized representation to meet with Syrian Vice President and said in a statement that the parAbdul-HaliKhaddam. Jumblatt ticipation of Joseph Skaff, a Greek Catholic nominated as minister of already was in Damascus. had been suspended. Police, meanwhile, said rival information, The Cabinet is scheduled to hold Christian and Moslem militiamen exchanged sniper fire across Be- its first meeting Wednesday under iruts midcity buffer zone Tuesday. Gemayel at the presidential palace But no casualties were reported and in suburban Baabda, five miles east the fighting was relatively light. of Beirut The two most powerful Christian The Cabinet will formaUy take ofleaders agreed to join the Cabinet fice when it proposes a platform after at first seeming to balk. They which is approved by Parliament. were Phalange Party founder Karami holds the foreign minisPierre Gemayel, the presidents fa- try in addition to the premiership in ther, and Camille Chamoun, head of the new Cabinet. Another Sunni the National Liberal Party. Moslem, former Prime Minister Sa55, was named minister Gemayel and Karami called the lim Bern several times by of education and labor. The defense ministry went to Adel telephone and sent personal emissaries to meet with him in west Bei- Osseiran, 79, a former Parliament rut. speaker and a conservative Shiite State-ru- n Beirut Radio said Khadwith close ties to Bern. dam also called Bern from DamasAbdulla Rassi, 56, a Greek Orthocus to persuade him to change his dox Christian, was named interior mind. minister, and Victor Kassir, 64, also The Shiite leader had made no a Greek Orthodox, was given the new statement on his Cabinet posiministeries of economy, trade, intion Tuesday, but the state radio dustry and oiL By Farouk Nassar Justice Rodrigo Minister tack escaped in the car they had used to block the ministers Mercedes. Betancur said in a television address announcing the state of siege, We are unleashing a war without quarter against the crooks that sow terror in cities, the countryside and towns. He did not directly Lara Bonilla. It is believed that the ambush slaying of Lara Bonilla was arranged by drug dealers .because of the mounting success of his campaign against Cococaine lombia's multibillion-dolla- r and marijuana jings. Lara Bonilla was killed Monday night, struck by 11 bullets fired by two men on a motorcycle and four others who used a car to block the path of the ministers limousine on a residential street in northern Bogota, police said. Four bodyguards in a jeep pursued the motorcyclists and four blocks away from the ambush site they killed one and wounded and captured the other. The captured assassin, Byron Velasquez, told reporters as he was being taken from a hospital to police headquarters that he was paid $20,000 to kill Lara Bonilla. Police identified the slain gunman as Ivan Dario Guisado Alvarez, 32. The four others involved in the at accuse the drug smugglers for the ministers murder, but said the state of siege was ordered so that Colombia could recover its national dignity that has been trampled by drug traffickers, giving us a black image throughout the world. The president said the state cannot take revenge for Lara Bonillas murder, but he told the unwise, the recalcitrant, the proclaimed public enemies that there will be no other consideration than the enforcement of the law. g At least four guerrilla groups also have been battling the government, and police said in March that the guerrillas were involved in the lucrative drug traffic, providing guards for shipments and hidden cocaine laboratories. ently directed at the United States, threatened Tuesday to break diplomatic relations with any country that moved its embassy to Jerusalem. Egypt broke diplomatic ties with El Salvador and Costa Rica last week to protest their decision to move their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Egyptian president told a May Day rally this was a permanent principle of Egyptian policy that would be applied to all countries without exception. Mubarak said the policy was meant to safeguard the provisions of international law and preserve the legal and historic rights of more than 100 million Arabs, 800 million Moslems and 1,000 million Christians worldwide who have rights to holy shrines in Jerusalem. Egypt, along with most countries, does not recognize Jerusalem as Israels capital and has condemned the Jewish states annexation of the old sector of the city, which Israel captured from Jordan in 1967. Egypt has criticized congressional pressure on the Reagan administration to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and praised Reagans opposition to the move. Political sources said Eg;ypt, which depends heavily on American aid, was unlikely to risk a breach with Washington. Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali later told reporters, Thank God, the administration in the United States is against the transfer of the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Betancur did not say if his war against illegal narcotics meant he would reverse his stand of opposing extradition to the United States of Colombians charged there with drug trafficking. DT MEGS Heavyweight WOK set made On March 15, a state of siege was imposed in four provinces where the in U.S.A. by Atlas. Reg. 30.00 guerrillas and drug smugglers were most active. Tuesdays decree extended it to all 23 provinces. The declaration enables security forces to make arrests without warrants, empowers officials to suspend 19 CUP THIS COUPON 10 PIECE FREE WOK COOKING CLASS WOK SET AT MURRAY STORE May 5th May 23rd 11-1:- 00 1 , hiijark pm pm countries to act to end the conflict. 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