European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May rockets support palestinian counterattack Beirut a backed by a rocket barrage from the Hills East of pales Tinian guerrillas tuesday counterattacked the shiite moslem militiamen who have besieged the cites refugee police said 20 people were killed and 62 raising the nine Day casualty toll to at least 389 dead and shiite and palestinian spokesmen said the palestinians recaptured the nursing Home Complex on the Edge of the Sabra Camp in a counterattack that followed a today Lull in the a shiite official claimed 20 of their fighters had been drugged and slaughtered inside the nursing but palestinian spokesmen dismissed the the leftist daily which is close to the shiite moslem militia said amass offensive will go on until the guerrillas in the Camps have been Dis amal seeks to prevent the Palestine liberation organization from reestablish ing itself in Plo fighters were ousted from the Capi Tal during the 1982 israeli palestinians in the Hills East of Beirut unleashed a rocket barrage on shiite strongholds around the Camps to support their comrades at Sabra and it was a bloody a palestinian spokesman said in a Telephone interview from a third refugee Bour Elbara they pounded us with All sorts of weapons weve finally regained the Home of the he spoke on the Condi Tion that he not be some of the 800 elderly patients and Sev eral staff members were evacuated from the and management appealed to families of the remaining patients to remove them the palestinian spokesman said the shiite amal militia lost at least 12 men in the fight for the nursing a key Posi Tion since the first Days of bodies were left in the Street As the shiites re treated under heavy Akef chief of amass claimed 20 of the shiites had been killed in the Home for the Haidar claimed they were drugged with doped Tea served by palestinian then slaughtered like an amal spokesman had claimed that palestinian guerrillas had slipped into the Home from a network of underground tunnels they constructed years ago to link their and slaughtered 12 amal palestinian spokesmen dismissed the re one said by Telephone Why would we kill them we would have taken them prisoner to Trade them for the thousands of palestinians amal is palestinian spokesmen have claimed the shiites massacred hundreds of wounded palestinians and civilians during fighting in the but there has been no Independent confirmation of amal officials have denied any Mas but sources in the militia said it has rounded up More than palestinians since the Battles the palestinian spokesmen said the guerrillas repulsed four shiite attempts to storm the Camp during the night two from the North and two from the on the red Cross hastily abandoned an Effort to evacuate 250 wounded palestinians from Bour Elbara Neh when the fighting Sophie chief Delegate of the International red Cross in said ambulances evacuated 14 people monday from the Camp South of Beirut before the fighting scuttled a ceasefire arranged by druse Leader Walid she said Only six ambulances entered the Camp and 11 turned they flew big red Cross flags and were escorted by druse she said the red Cross will try again to Rescue hundreds of including wounded trapped in Bour Elbar Ajnesh Haifa a palestinian spokesman said there were 250 wounded in the palestinian spokesmen issued a statement saying amal militia stopped ambulances leaving the Camp and beat up some of the wounded at a checkpoint at the Campen reporters and photographers were kept away from the a lebanese present at the scene later said its they beat them i can say no he spoke on the Condi Tion that he not be reporters later saw one of the evacuees was a woman in they saw another woman in an her head and Chest swathed in bloodstained in the same ambulance a Man Lay on his his eyes staring at the the evacuees were bound for hospitals in the Chou mountains East of that Region is controlled by the american Hospital administrator kidnapped by gunmen in Beirut news u Date Beirut up three gunmen kid napped the american University Hospital administrator tuesday As he walked to work in West police a police spokesman said David of was shoved into a station Wagon around after crossing the Street from the american University of Bei rut Campus on his Way to the Hospital com one of the gunmen fired shots near a doctor who tried to Stop the a Hospital spokesman it was the first kidnapping of an Ameri can in the capitals mainly moslem Western Section since Terry Beirut Bureau manager and chief Middle East correspondent for the associated was seized by gunmen March 16 in West Bei Anderson is still missing along with four other four frenchmen and a no one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction of one of the few americans remaining in West he has served As Hospital administrator since last a Hospital spokesman said Jacobson had crossed the Street alone from the where he and had walked through the Hospital s parking lot on the Way to his of Jacobson stopped briefly to talk to a doctor outside the parking lot when two gunmen approached said the who asked not to be the doctor tried to saying Jacobson was the Hospital but the two gunmen were not one of them fired a few shots Between the doctors legs and pushed Jacobson into a waiting station Wagon and sped the spokes Man Hospital officials notified militiamen of the shiite moslem amal which controls much of West we Are searching for an amal spokesman amal controls Security at the where hundreds of shiite fighters and civil Ian casualties have been treated since heavy shiite palestinian fighting erupted last week in West amal and its Allied druze moslem Mili Tia also control the neighbourhoods sur rounding the University and the in a the hospitals faculty and staff condemned the kidnapping and called on Jacobsons abductors to release we feel that this act will have negative effects on the medical functions of the american University they we Call on the pertinent leaderships and authorities to help secure his we also Call on the kidnappers to free Jacobson to enable the Hospital staff to operate adequately and away from present two French citizens disappeared last week on their Way to West Beirut after arriving at the cites Airport from they were identified As Magazine correspondent Jeanpaul Kaufmann and Michel a researcher at the Beirut based Institute of Middle East five americans 37 Wil Liam a embassy official the Benjamin a presbyterian minister Peter a librarian at the american University of Beirut and the Martin Lawrence director of Catholic Relief services in Lebanon were kidnapped Between March 1984 and March 1985 in briton Alec an information officer at the Relief and works Agency for palestinian refugees in was abducted by unidentified gunmen March 25 in West Beirut Southern afghan rebel successes reported new India up moslem rebels battling the soviet backed afghan government shot Down a soviet destroyed four soviet tanks and burned Down a provincial governors a West Ern Diplomat said the who asked that his name be also quoted rebel reports say ing soviet soldiers killed 17 people at a hindu Temple in the Mullah Shah area of May the quoting rebel said guerrillas shot Down a soviet helicopter on May 24 in the Shomali he could provide no More he also cited reports of heavy fighting in the Panjshiry a traditional rebel stronghold Northeast of the afghan capital of but could provide no rebels reportedly attacked a soviet con Voy near the Salang pass the major sup ply route to the soviet Border on May the Diplomat said five soviet soldiers were killed and three tanks another rebel group ambushed a soviet clarification a Story in the May 10 stars and stripes concerning student travel funding May have conveyed the impression that the army had set up a Central Point for processing the portion of student travel for All de sense department not says an army spokesman the processing Point serves Only army members and their Fame the spokesman also pointed out that the program funds student travel from the port to the sponsors Home not just the flight Between the states and an overseas the stars and stripes regrets the Convoy near East of on May destroying a tank and wounding several soviet rebels killed five government soldiers in a May 18 attack on an afghan military Post on the Kabul Ghazi guerrillas reported killing two government soldiers May 17 near Southeast of the Diplomat he said rebels attacked and burned Down the governors office in capital of Herat he could not say whether the governor was at the office at the time of the scattered fighting was reported during the week in other areas of where moslem rebels Are trying to oust soviet troops who invaded the country More than five years ago and in stalled a pro soviet government in a 11 arrested at Church Pittsburgh a police arrested 11 supporters of a jailed lutheran minister when they tried to enter the Church in which he barricaded himself for eight Days to pro test his the congregation of suburban nativity lutheran Church had asked police to keep away supporters of the Daniel who was fired As their pastor after members of the congregation complained of his Mili Tant pro labor students face arrest South Korea a City police have requested warrants to arrest 25 of 73 militant University students who had occupied the Down town information service i officials they said the 25 were the main plotters and instigators of the four Day seizure of the Usis facility and would be charged with violence and interference in official the students occupied the demanding that the United states admit responsibility and apologize for the bloody suppression of an anti government uprising in May the embassy disclaimed any re Zulu petition South Afri Ca up Consul Harry Gei Sel has been handed a petition signed by about Zulu tribesmen who oppose american economic sanctions against South Africa White minority a delegation from moderate Zulu chief mangos thu Buthel Ezis Inka tha which claims More than 2 million presented the petition at the consulate in on behalf of Black South we petition president the senators of the United states of America and its congressmen to reject pressures exerted on them to express Abhorrence of apartheid through disinvestment in South Afri the petition arguing that the withdrawal of investments would penalize Black South africans More than the petition said disinvestment would promote rather than counter political