European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 27, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 statesman w. Averell Harriman Dies Yorktown Heights . Up1 w. Aver Ell Harriman a former Diplomat and adviser to demo cratic presidents from Franklin d. Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter died Early saturday at his Home in sub Urban new York. He was 94. A family spokesman said Harriman had been unfailing health for a month with a kidney ailment and pneumonia. His third wife the former Pamela Bigby Churchill and two daughters Shirley Fisk and mrs. Stanley , were with him at his suburban  Home when he died. Harriman was born in new York City on nov. 15,1891, and was elected governor of new York in 1934. The multimillionaire was a member of the Republican party for a time a Polo Star head of the Union Pacific Railroad Secretary of Commerce ambassador to the soviet Union and Britain and a guiding spirit inthe creation of the North Atlantic treaty organization and the Marshall plan. He switched from the republicans to the Democrat with the Advent of the new Deal under Roosevelt was an Early advocate of social Security and helped draft the first Public housing Bill. He remained Active in foreign affairs into his 90s. Roosevelt sent Harriman to London in 1941 to help prime minister Winston Churchill with Britain s War Effort and the following year Roosevelt named Harri Man ambassador to Moscow. Harriman was present when the Atlantic charter and the four freedoms were framed. He also took part in the big three meetings of for Churchill and Sta Lin at Tehran and Yalta and the Potsdam meeting of Stalin Churchill and president Truman who name Harriman ambassador to Britain in 1946. Harriman became Secretary of Commerce and chair Man of the president s committee on foreign Aid which Laid the basis for the Marshall plan. In 1948 hews the . Representative in the european recovery program. In 1950, when the North korean communists at tacked South Korea Truman summoned Harriman to Washington As his adviser and global trouble shooter. Shortly after Jimmy Carter s election in 1976, har Riman travelled to the soviet Union to explain Ameri can politics to soviet president Leonid Brezhnev who was disturbed by some of Carter s Campaign statements. He was honoured in 1985 by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Harriman became an icon of the National demo cratic party appearing at party functions with his wife and lending his name to major Campaign fund raising efforts for Liberal democrats. In a statement Pamela Harriman said her husband shared fully that great gift of his life and held More important government posts than any member of his generation. To his country and the world he was one of the outstanding men of the 20th Century a Span of time with which his life so closely coincided. He was a pub Lic servant in the truest sense of the term she said. She is the daughter in Law of the late British Leader Winston Churchill with whom Harriman worked closely during world War ii. For his family he was husband father Grandfather and great Grandfather the Best of friends and we Loveo him very dearly she said. Averell had a Long and rewarding life and he use that great gift with a sense of High purpose and Dedica Tion funeral services will be held tuesday at noon at  Church in new York City. Burial will be Pri vate at his family estate in Harriman . Shiite rioters ransack moroccan embassy in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a shiite mos Lem zealots swarmed Over the Walls into the moroccan embassy on Friday ransacked the building and burned portraits of King Hassan ii to protest his meeting with Israel prime minister Shimon Peres. The commander of the lebanese police guard said there were no casualties. He said the embassy s six Man staff Low ered the big moroccan Flag and quietly slipped away in two cars Naif an hour before the attack adding they must have anticipated what was coming,." police said the assault climaxed Anjou Long demonstration by about 2,000 men and women shouting death to America the great satan Down with traitor passant and Peres will roast i hell they were from the Hezbollah or party of god the most militant Leb anese shiite group Allied with Iran. Dozens of the women wore Chad cars the Black head to Loc gowns that obscure All but the hands and eyes. It was the most violent protest so far in the Arab world against the two Day meeting last week of the moderate pro Western Monarch and Peres at Hassan summer Palace in if Ane Morocco. Protesters waved portraits of the fleece visage iranian extremist ruler Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini an Shook fists As they shouted. Then they surged Forward some clambering Over the Walls and others smashing Down the embassy Gate. Enraged Hezbollah members ripped portraits of the King from their frames and burned them ransacked ambassador Abdul Karim Bennani s second floor office and set his files ablaze. The embassy Emblem was torn from the Center of the main Balcony an thrown onto a Bonfire of moroccan flags. Gaps in the smoke billowing from Sev eral fires revealed portraits of Khomeini Bobbing on the balconies of the four Story embassy building which faces the Mediterranean in Beirut s Southern coastal District. Firefighters sprayed streams of water on the Structure to keep the fires from spreading and Little damage was evident beyond broken windows and shutters. The police guard commander who would not give his name said his Small detachment of about a dozen men  Stop the assault. In front of this huge number of demonstrators we were incapable of doing anything he said. Sheik Ibrahim Al Amin Leader of the Hezbollah marched at the head of the Parade to the embassy after 3 . Prayers Atal raw a mosque in the shiite District of Bir Hassan about two Miles away. It was the second attack in two Pearson an Arab embassy in moslem West Bei rut. The embassy of saudi Arabia since closed was ransacked and set afire in August 1984. Hezbollah members said then that they attacked the embassy to protest saudi refusal to Grant visas to lebanese wanting to make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in saudi Arabia islam s holiest City. Moslem areas in Lebanon observed a one Day strike Friday called by pro Syri an leftist factions and iranian backed moslem groups to protest the Hassan Peres meetings tuesday and wednesday. Syria broke relations with Morocco be cause of the Summit. A Phou protesters Burn moroccan Fla outside the moroccan embassy in Beirut Friday. Rehnquist of forecast despite new charges Washington a the chairman of the sen ate judiciary committee predicts supreme court jus Tice William h. Rehnquist will be confirmed As chief Justice despite new charges that he personally tried to disqualify democratic minority voters in Phoenix ariz., in the Early 1960s. I think hell be confirmed without any difficulty said sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., whose panel will hold hearings on the Rehnquist nomination starting  men Friday challenged Reb Nuisl s statements that he played no part in trying to disqualify Black and hispanic voters in Phoeun. A democratic congressional source who asked not to be identified said All three probably will be asked to testify before the committee. But Thurmond refused to commit himself. He said matters aired in 1971, when Rehnquist was confirmed by the Senate to the supreme court should not be rehashed  Man Charles w. Pine a former democratic state chairman in Arizona said Rehnquist headed a flying squad of eager Beaver republicans challenging the literacy and credentials of voters. Pine said he saw Rehnquist at a predominantly Lack and hispanic polling place in Phoenix either in 1962 or 1964 Challenge the credentials of two Black waiting in line to Vole. In 1971, when Rehnquist was nominated by presi Dent Nixon to the High court he said he directed ballot Security programs for republicans in Phoenix in the Early 1960s, out he denied taking part himself in challenging any minority  has been nominated by president Reagan to succeed Warren e. Burger As the nation s 16th chief jus Tice. Toni House spokeswoman for the supreme court said Rehnquist would have no comment on his Phoe Nix  s version of what took place More than 20 years ago in Phoenix also was challenged by there. Snelson w. Mcgriff who said he saw Rehnquist question a Man waiting to , who is Buck said Rehnquist asked the Man in front of Mcgriff to read a card As an apparent test of  said Rehnquist then backed away from asking Mcgriff to read the card because he must have seen something in my eyes. I was going to push my fist right in his Mouth if asked to read the card Mcgrif said. He said he thought the incident occurred in 1964. Literacy tests were banned by the 1964 civil right act and had been allowed in Arizona before then if they did not amount to  third Man former assistant Federal prosecutor James j. Brosnahan said my Best recollection is that Rehnquist was part of a team of Republican challengers to minority voters in the Early 1960s in , now a lawyer in san Francisco said i recall William Rehnquist was there. I cannot say i saw anything specifically that he  but Brosnahan said he has a very vivid recollection that the gop challengers insisted the voters read from the Constitutionbrosnahan, a Democrat was an assistant . Attorney who was sent to investigate harassment complaint sat a Phoenix polling place