European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes sunday january 19, 1986page 2 a Phalanx its retake Posi a tinting Lebanor lighting i Sikut Lebanon a president Amin Gemayel syrian tacked leftists and links and recaptured key Crossroads or Northern and cos icon flanks of Lebanon Christian heartland Friday police said. They said 21 people were tilled and 56 mounded in the nigh Long hut tuck place in the Central mountains above ice Acyl s Hometown of Bifaya and near the ancient Pori City of Byblos North of Beirut. The two pronged onslaught that leftist and moslem began Laie wednesday Hocij to cd fairs of another outbreak of Ajak fighting in the 10-year-old civil per. La begun after the bloody Day by com Acyl s right we phalanges party militia and its syrian backed christians. Police said the find toll of thai Battle was 350 killed and by wounded. But Christian rival. Zilic Hob Ivan tas quoted by the Beirut leftist Newsonjr per As Safir Friday As saying 450 of were killed Home to surrendered after 10 hours of Jug that started when his military f. Samir Geagia revolted and joined forces with Gamay cd. The 29-year-old and informed sources injkw1io spoke Jin condition of he his wife ,3-year-old a Hajj de there thursday in Lebanon said he would a Mph however stale radio As would be Back in in two we to regroup and con it Gemayel and Jcj those who think they vanished us will soon fallow us to exile Hobeika As saying. They killed 450, the numerous women of their fall who will soon be wearing Black. Mourning col hcs will demonstrate he magnitude of thai Black Day of the crackdown a second Batch of Hobeika s senior aides was flown in army helicopters to Warnaca Cyprus Friday to join their commander. The fighting imperilled a syrian brokered peace pact among h Bucika s lebanese forces and the two strongest moslem Mili Tias to end he civil War. Geagia s defection enabled Gemayel s 1,000 phalanges is to turn the tables against Hobeika who angered the president by sign ing the dcc.2s Accord with his moslem foes. Gamay cd rejected the pact contending it concedes too much to the moslem Aad ends Christian domination of government. Parliament the ii my and judiciary since Lebanon s Independence from France in 1943. The other two signatories of tie pet druse Leader Walid Jumblatt and Shi Ilc moslem Leader Nabih Berri were in dam ascus holding talks with syrian leaders. Spokesmen for the moslem militias said their assault on Christian territory had Syria s approval. Lebanese army units Loyal to Gemayel tanks and armoured per Njau Iii to beat leftist militiamen of the yrs social nationalist party around Dou War Etc Tbs Bifaya and about 10 Miles Northe the army 11 soldiers were killed and 26 Bifaya do War action. Police said tics were included in their Overall ski a spokesman for the syrian soot a lion Alist party which is made up mostly of christians said Iti assault on Bifaya was stalled by Lack of ammunition. Sfa fue s miraculous fears of blood were elaborate hoax Montreal paper says , que Bec a the tears the sweat he blood1 that appeared on the Cheeks of the statue of the Virgin Mary All seemed miraculous to thousands of believers who wailed in he brutal cold la Sec for themselves. But then the sceptics of modern science and Medicine came up with evidence Sug Gesting it was All a hoax not even a very Clever Hou and overnight the Miracle of melted away. The affair came la a Climax Friday when a Montreal newspaper reported the statue s owner admired he used Oil and drops of his Awn blood to create the effects. Police in this Lakeside town on Mon Treal s Northwestern outskirts estimated 12,000 people flocked Here in less than a week to View what local television stations look to calling the alleged Church officials have been cautious in their statements. The local Bishop the Rev. Charles Valois of is. Jerome diocese called the affair an exaggeration of the cod Seldom Iheaka by extraordinary Means but rather through the Bible and the teachings of the Church the Bishop said. La is not through such Means of these the statue s tears that we axe Gaing to find out what the lord wants to say to us the visitors to paused to gaze and Pray in front of a 2-foot-High statue of the Virgin Mary that teemed to have shed tears of blood. All around were icons most of them reproductions of a single painting of Mary with what looked like sweat or tears running Down the surface. The pilgrimage began after Jean Guy Beauregard a Railroad worker in Montreal said his statue began weeping an dec. S the feast of the immaculate Conception. When the phenomenon began to attract curious crowds Beauregard i landlord asked him to move the statue. He took it to he Home of Maurice and cirouard in . In january the Girouard old reporters the Virgin s ears began to mis with blood and Many of he surrounding icons Cruci fixes and halves also started weeping and bleeding when television newscasts and the front pages of Montreal s newspapers showed the statue i creamy complexion splotches with Bright red stains the mass pilgrimage to sic Marine began. Even temperatures of 15 below Zero did not Slop people from lining up for hours to View the icons and statues. The Bubble burst wednesday with two developments the French language television net work of the Canadian broadcast corp. Bor rowed an icon and took it to a Laboratory where scientists said they found it was coated with pork and beef fat that would naturally Liquefy in droplets and run like tears once the room warmed slightly. It was discovered that Maurice Girouard who had become the spokesman for the Miracle had been convicted twice of illegally practising Medicine. Or. Augusta Roy president of the corporation of Quebec physicians said Cirou ant bad been promising to cure various ills through hypnosis. Roy described the bleeding statue As a pure and simple fraud a hoax an imposture and collective cirouard responded by telling reporters modern science always wants to destroy anything supernatural. He suggested the animal Tat could have been added to the icon after it was taken from his Home for Analy Sis. As for his convictions of illegally practice ing Medicine he said i told you i was a big sinner. I did t hide soon afterwards the Girau Ards met with Church officials and said they were going into seclusion for several Days of prayer. Neither the Girouard nor Beauregard who had been living at their House recently could be located far comment on Friday s edition of the journal de Montreal which said Beauregard iced ill reporters and local police he created the effects under i Rouard i hypnosis pricking his own Finger to obtain drops of blood. The English language Montreal Gazette said it was for the police and the priests to determine whether lie Girouard have done anything illegal or immoral. But the Gazelle said in an editorial the evidence already leads irresistibly to the conclusion that they have done something indecent cruelly exploiting the deep yearning for any sign at Alt that some divinity cares about suffering the town obtained a temporary injunction Friday ordering the Girouard o close their Home to the Public remove the statue and icons and make no Public statements on the subject. Michel Beauchemin the chief of police in , told a Newt conference that he and Federal authorities have not decided whether to press charges against anyone. Brussels Belgium off a pop group is trying Todi Ake the charts Here with a Sonja Boul Bel Gium s bleakest a omens 1985 the stadium riots and italian soccer fans if pulled 39 Peop a Shady vision single just a game is set to Euf Cay rhythm Sec lion and gives a no Falion of the May 29 rioting at Jfe Ysel stadium in which Hundred of Liverpool fans at tacked Jevc nov Turin supporters in an . Killing 39 and wounding Mac than 400 prior to the european or pions cup final. The re caring theme. The Fin Ultsh Lan Elfige song. was re leased a air this month is the Bel Gian Jov Crement denies All Rind by clan a spokesman for a nil records which is producing the Scord said it is on accusation Gamst the attitude of the belgian and the Security forces Durring the crisis. 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Diplomat is torn the Jime Israel hat Tizer Iship to any spokesman Ami by at the president Ler Salem attended by a issador Sven Hirdman israelis whet were among Allenberg saved Hereof him As a lower of Light in irk Lenberg went to Budapest try in 1944, As the nazis were ining to transport hungarian. To death Camps in Poland Ting diplomatic pressure and fake jew dish passports he pulled jews from trains and forced marches and protected them in Safe houses. Mansion swedish and seven Childr Descry the h african ship performs mystery Rescue off Ai Cape town South Africa apr South african ship rescued five Antarctic researchers Drifting on a Sheet of ice off Antarctica s Queen Maud land it we Dis closed Friday by the South african nation Al Antarctic expedition. The organization said thursday mom ing s Rescue was concluded with agreement hat neither the nation Cit hat coun my Caie the government of that Nell Iii did links with South Africa an intimation a became of in legislated system segregation and Heid. A i Arctic expedition oper Ith Africa s three research outposts in Antarctica. They Are an Island in the Kimbull ice shelf and two Inland stations along the Richcr Upland All approximately 3,000 mites South of Cape town and Inland from the Easlen Dell sea. Neighbor there and t wanting to be publicly res cued by South african Runion the soviets maintain two coastal stations along the Princess Astrid coast East of the South african outposts. South Africa views the soviet Union As its no. I enemy saying the soviets Are ing to surround South Africa with Marx isl governed nations and to be planning for what one Day will be a marxist Black majority rated South Africa. The South africans said the researchers were awash for a night and part of a Day on Sheet of ice until the South cd he Agulhas picked up Aradio distress slain i the vessel dispatched to _. A ters which plucked the researchers from the Low
