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Show ! uni- - lli- M. n. i U t II. ink Kiltli.n.i Tribal I 1 he action- - Hattie Salt Lake Tribune, Is it snowing outside yours? Terrorists Threaten to iMurder 2 Spanish Officials, Officer A previously unknown BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP1) group threatened Sunday to kill two Spanish Embassy officials and an police officer kidnapped in Beirut unless two Lebanese Shiite Moslems jailed in Spain are freed. In a statement published by the As Safir newspaper, the group calling itself The Black Flags which diplomats believe is composed of relatives of the jailed Lebanese also warned it would mount terrorist attacks on Spanish targets. Spanish Embassy Chancellor Asaad Abdo, Caspar Abdo and police officer Pedro Sanchez, were seized Friday. anti-terrori- st anti-terrori- st 21), 198(1 7 S. African Miners Drizzle Fizzles Killed, 39 Injured Flight of A5 Pope's Doves - Its snowing outside my window, Mr. Wilson! Monday, January JOHANNESBURG. South Africa (AP) Tribal factions angered over a beer-hal- l dispute fought with sticks and iron bars Sunday at Kloof gold mine west of Johannesburg, killing seven black miners and badly injuring 39, police said. South African police headquarters in Pretoria said fighting at the mine, operated by Gold Fields of South Africa, broke out after midnight among Zulu, Pondo and Shangaan miners. In Maseru, the Lesotho government radio Sunday said four paramilitary soldiers were killed Friday in a shootout at a barracks on the edge of the capital. Residents said the city of 55,000 was calm Sunday after an apparent mutiny reflecting political divisions in the small country. A mine spokesman, who refused to be identified under company policy, said the situation there was "tense but under control, and production was not affected. The spokesman said 2,000 miners out of a total 13.000 began fighting after Pondos claimed that a group of Zulus, called Soul Brothers, attacked them at Pondo beer halls. A police statement said seven miners died and 39 w ere seriously injured in the fighting and that four others were wounded and arrested when police moved in with tear gas and shotguns. The fighting reportedly ended about dawn. Fighting between 5,000 Zulus and Pondos near the Indian Ocean port of Durban took 58 lives on Christmas day. Tribal faction fights, often blamed on disputes over marriages, land and water are traditional among the 6 million Zulus, South Africa's largest tribe, and their neighbors. Some analysts say the conflicts are intensified by unemployment and other factors related to apartheid. In Johannesburg, The Sunday Star said one person was shot dead Saturday in Kagiso township, northwest of the e city, when soldiers and police conducted searches. - symbol, but bird found it too cold and flew back inside. house-to-hous- VATICAN CITY (t'PIJ Pope John Paul II Sunday tried to release two white doves as a symbol of peace from the window of his private study overlooking St. Peter's .Square, but the birds refused to cooperate. The pontiff did his part, launching the doves into the cold drizzle that was falling into the square. But the balky birds promptly flew back inside the papal apartments, ignoring the pope who was wagging his finger trying to head them back to freedom. John Paul, laughing, never missed a beat. He told the 10,000 pilgrims and tourists, "One sees they want to bring peace to the pope. Theyll fly later. The birds were the gift of children belonging to Romes Catholic Action society. Thousands of children brought brightly colored balloons to the square and launched them along with the birds as a symbol of their hope for world peace. During his weekly blessing, John Paul said he had special thoughts for our brothers and sisters in Lebanon where the situation has become once again worrying." "We pray for all the Lebanese. . . . Christians and also Moslems, so that peace may be obtained in concord and dialogue, maintaining the dignity and sovereignty of the people and the country," he said in Italian. Sikh Factions Shoot It Out Over Right to Rebuild Throne Room of Shrine AMRITSAR, India (AP) Seventy Sikhs fought with rifles and shotguns Sunday in the Golden Temple, holiest of Sikh shrines, over who would rebuild the temples throne room, police said. Three people were hurt. More than 600 pilgrims and devotees fled as the gunmen fired for about 30 minutes in front of the Akal Takht building in the white marble compound, which covers several square blocks, police and witnesses said. The Akal Takht is the throne room of the gurus and seat of the Sikh religions earthly authority. Amritsar is about 250 miles northwest of New Delhi. Witnesses and police said about 50 armed workers of the Akali Dal, the states moderate governing party, battled about 20 separatist radicals of the Sikh Students Federation. City police Chief S.S. Virk said the sloganshouting youths tried to capture the Akal Takht and fired on the Akalis, who shot back. However, several witnesses said the Akalis fired first at the radicals in the courtyard, which is across the ritual bathing pool from the Golden Temple. Both factions want to rebuild the Akal Takht. It was badly damaged during a three-da- y battle in June 1984 when soldiers stormed the temple to flush out heavily armed terrorists using it as a camp and arsenal. About 1,200 people reportedly died in the fighting. The government rebuilt the Akal Takht afterwards, but many Sikhs believe that in so doing they defiled it. Radical Sikhs plan to demolish the Akal Takht next Sunday on Republic Day, but the moderates want to tear it down the day after. The United News of India said Akali Dal demolition workers arrived at the temple Saturday in 40 buses from across Punjab state, intending to remain in the complex to block the radicals plans to demolish the building. About 50 armed Akalis took up positions Sunday while the radicals were conducting religious ceremonies, it said. The gun battle was the latest in a series of confrontations between Sikh factions. In late November, the head priest of the Golden Temple was wounded by terrorists as he knelt to pray in the temple compound. In New Dehli, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said he would stand by the peace agreement he signed with moderate Sikhs last July to end more than three years of violence in Punjab by Sikhs fighting for more autonomy and territorial rights. There is no question of going back on the accord, Gandhi told a news conference. Under the agreement, the city of Chandigarh will become part of Punjab next week g and some Punjab areas will be merged with neighboring Haryana state. Chandigarh now is capital of both states and is a federally administered terrority. Hindi-speakin- Shevardnadze Leaves Japan After Ties Re-Establish- ing TOKYO (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze left n Sunday after political contacts and discussing a territorial issue Japan says must be resolved before it will sign a treaty with Moscow formally ending World War II. The five-da- y visit was the first by a Soviet foreign minister to Japan since 1976, and marked the first time in eight years that the nations foreign ministers have held regular consultations. Shevardnadze held 11 hours of talks with Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe before leaving for North Korea en route home. Shevardnadze, who last year succeeded Kremlin elder statesman Andrei Gromyko, at a Sunday news conference sharply condemned President Reagans Strategic Dedefense fense Initiative space-base- d research program. He urged Washington to seriously consider Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachevs recent proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons over a period. Shevardnadze said if comprehensive nuclear disarmament were accomplished, then who would SDI be directed against? What would be its purpose? What would be the purpose of spending trillions of dollars? He also took a tough line on what Japan calls the Northern Territories, a small string of islands which both nations claim off the main northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The Soviets occupied the islands in the final days of World War II and fortified them with 10,000 troops. Moscow considers the issue does not exist, but Japan has refused to sign a treaty with Moscow formally ending long-broke- Eduard Shevardnadze Ends Five-Da- y Visit World War II because of the dispute. In a separate news conference, Abe said a communique, formulated after long debate on the territorial issue, was a new starting point from which Japan will strongly and tenaciously negotiate for the return of the Northern Territories. He said the reopening of peace treaty negotiations including the territorial problem with Shevardnadze was an important first step for the future development of Soviet-Japa- n . relations." The two foreign ministers agreed to resume yearly meetings, after an eight-yea- r hiatus. 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