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Show 10A The Salt Lake Tribune, Juesday, May 7, l'k5 Death Toll Rises to 40 as Battles Rage Across Beiruts Green Line Blanche Presi Writer BEIRPT Lebanon - ( hristiari and Moslem gunners battled across the By Ed Ai mx lated and 254 wounded since the Among Mondays casualties were Lebanese army soldiers who suf fered bullet and shrapnel wounds in the Ras neighborhood that runs along the battle zone dividing line Monday in bloody artillery duels that have c la'med doz ens of victims in the past week many of them civilians killed by stray 12 shells President Amin Gemayel met with the militia commanders from both sides in an attempt to arrange a cease-firand and a neutral zone between the two parts of the city Police reported 11 people killed Gemayel Losing Power? The demarcation line between the capital's Christian and Moslem sectors has become a wasteland Even the dogs have gone The only sign of life is an occasional militiaman redeyed and unshaven, slipping from one bit of cover to the next e and 67 wounded since Sunday night 40 dead That raised the known toll to X-Rat- BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI; - As tactional fighting raged in Beirut Monday Moslem gunmen raided a theater showing a sex film and forced the audience to fill sandbags on the city s front lines damentalist Moslem militia, assailed the theater goers for wasting time watching depraved movies, the witness said The sandbags will be used by the fighters to strengthen their positions along the Green Line, which divides Beirut into Christian and Moslem sectors Militiamen from both religious communities have been fighting along the Green Line since April 28 A least 30 people have been reported killed and another 230 wounded in the citys latest sectarian violence e witness said the militiamen stormed a theater in mainly Moslem west Beirut and forced the men who were watching an movie young and old alike -into trucks and drove them to the city's Green Line, where they were ordered to fill sandbags A L The fighters, members of a fun ' r I I multi-barreie- 1 I . 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