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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, March 31, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes March Lebanon Battle intensifies 2day death toll rises to 32 world Toda Lebanon a heavy fighting erupted again saturday morning Between Christian militiamen and palestinian and moslem fighters around Rais ing the death toll from two Days of fighting to israeli forces raided the shiite moslem Vil Lage of Baa saturday outside their South Lebanon occupation and villagers said israeli soldiers killed five men trying to flee As the israelis the Battles Between Christian militiamen in villages just to the East of Sidon and palestinian and moslem fighters in refugee Camps on the cites outskirts followed an overnight Lull brought on by a ceasefire Sidon mayor Ahmed Kalash speaking with report ers at the Hammoud the cites largest facility put the casualty toll at More than 40 people dead and 100 wounded on saturday alone in what he described As a plot to create mortars and artillery shells could be heard exploding at a rate of four a minute in the refugee Camp of Ein Al Hilweh As hundreds of people fled from the area and the nearby Mich Mich refugee smoke could be seen rising from a lebanese army Camp on the mar Elias Hill that was being shelled East of the Sidon streets were virtually at the officials said 11 people had been killed in the Ein a Hilweh Camp saturday including a woman and apparently died when a mortar hit a vegetable stand in the the latest casualties brought the toll from the two Days of fighting to 32 killed and More than 133 according to Hospital Kalash said the higher death figure he cited included bodies brought to other hospitals that were impossible for reporters to British businessman Brian Kidnap Ped on March 15 in mostly moslem West was freed unharmed according to British became the second Westerner to be released among the eight europeans and an american who have been abducted at gunpoint or disappeared in Lebanon since Levick was manager of an Oil company in on British scientist Geoffrey was he had been held for two Nash was the first Kidnap victim in the recent spate of abductions of the kidnappings of Nash and Levick had both been claimed in Anonymous Telephone Calls or statements by two the jihad or islamic holy and a new the Khaizar a Khaizar brigades delivered to a Western news said the Day before Nash release that Levick and a French embassy Danielle would be released very there was no word saturday on the whereabouts of a Secretary at the French who disappeared March along with her Marcel an embassy protocol that same Marcel the French vice Consul in was abducted by armed men As he walked to work at the embassy in West shoppers flee scene of strike a photo a plainclothes policeman brandishes a gun As shoppers Rush out of the shoe Mart store in while philippine officials Chase away a group of striking work some of the stores employees have been on strike for nearly two weeks and police have twice broken up their picket lines with fire hoses and Dies in South Africa violence South Africa up the four year old son of a Black town Council Secretary died Early saturday when Black radicals torched his mothers Home in the Southern coastal City of port raising the death toll in two weeks of race violence to at least police Law and order minister Louis be Grange clamped a ban on All meetings by 29 prominent dissident organizations in the port Elizabeth the worst hit in South Africa deepening eco nomic has been the Center of riots triggered by opposition to segregated Black town the which also covers areas near Johannesburg and prohibits meetings by the dissident United democratic front and 28 civic and women groups Wonlu Janem More than 100 people have died in race violence this Council members and their and Black police men have been the targets of attacks in the past two the worst incident came last when a mob hacked site phage town Council member Tom Kinikini with knives and axes and then burned him alive As they danced around about 15 Miles from port was the scene of a police slaying March 21 of at least 19 Blacks marching to the funeral of three riot police said arson and looting continued in Black townships around port officers used tear rubber bullets and shotguns to disperse crowds of up to 200 people who burned Auto houses of Black policemen and at least six people were police but they gave no details of injuries sustained in the a photo Jacksons new beat superstar Michael Jackson wears a policeman helmet during a visit to Marylebone police station in he stopped there to thank the officers who have been protecting him during his stay in 70 German policemen charged with Roadside bribe taking Germany up dozens of police across West Germany Are involved in traffic ticket taking bribes from truck Drivers that included sides of electrical goods in one a Cement it was we Are investigating in according to our present the Trail of corruption leads throughout the Federal said Klaus state prosecutor in Daubmann said an investigating team had kept surveil Lance on Highway police Over two years and turned up a mass of evidence of mostly involving Roadside checks by officers on truck the investigators catalogued cases of police demanding whole electrical goods and even the Cement mixer from Drivers under threat of a ticket usually for mechanical deficiencies in their so 70 including three senior police offi have been charged with he libyan troop presence in Chad called grave danger1 for Africa Togo a president his Sene Habre of Chad said that Libya has continued to increase its presence in the Northern part of the country and that there Are now libyan troops in the with tanks and sophisticated air speaking at a news said Libya is completing a runway in the North that will be capable of receiving any kind of the libyan presence in Northern Chad camouflaged under the presence of chadian elements which Are in fact constitutes a grave danger and a very great preoccupation for Chad and for the rest of Afri the president told under a Mutual withdrawal agreement with France last All libyan troops were to have been pulled out along with the France finished withdrawing its troops in president Francois Mitterrand has since admitted that Libya has failed to Honor the British Drivers must Stop to use car phone or face Fine London a Drivers who use their car phones while on the Road risk a Fine and up to five negative Points on their driving the transport ministry it said Drivers were advised to Stop their cars when talking on the twelve Points Means automatic suspension of the driving  
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