European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse D major shipping Carrier suspended by Navy Page 2 o candidates count Down to sunday s debate Page 5 o gis swapped Long hike for Long flight Page 9 d red sox beat Yankees with 9th inning ratty Page 26 the stars and tripes author Ted unofficial pug cation for the . Ahmed Force a vol. . 160 sunday september 25,1983 � t a i d 8693 a embassy workers evacuated Beirut crisis forces prudent . Exit Beirut Lebanon a Twenty two . Embassy employees have been evacuated from this City As rival governments Man Euver for control of Lebanon an american official said saturday . Charge d aria Iris Daniel Simpson made the decision to evacuate he employees whom a . Embassy official described As not key the official who spoke on condition of anonymity de scribed the move thursday night cos a prudent precaution Ary measure acc Auscoe the deepening political crisis. The official said the americans were flown from a lebanese army base North of Beirut to Warnaca Cyprus by three . Navy helicopters. Simpson and senior embassy Slaff were joined sat urday by the new . Ambassador John Mccarthy pro democracy burmese groups to form coalition Rangoon Burma a opposition leaders said saturday they would form a United front of Stu dents workers and other groups demanding Restora Tion of democracy from Ine new military regime often. Saw Maung it was the first formal opposition attempt to unite the pro democracy forces in Burma where the military regime has cracked Down on anti government protes ters since tatting Power in a coup last sunday. Brig. Gen. Khin Nyull chief of military Intelli gence said Friday that 263 people including 238 civil ians had been killed As of wednesday according to a foreign military attache. In another development the state department said Friday in Washington that it is reducing its embassy staff in Burma because of the unrest. It did not give any figures. The official american presence in Burma is normally about 50 people. Friday s opposition announcement was made by prominent dissidents Aung Gyi tin of and Aung san Suu Kyi. A spokesman for the three Tun shwe told the associated press that Many groups had requested the formation of an umbrella group. In a broadcast Over nationwide radio and television Friday saw Moung repeated promises that the Mili tary would step Down in Lavor of whoever won Multi party elections id be held As soon As peace is restored. He gave no Dale for the balloting. But he warned that lawlessness looting and destruction of Public properly. Will be dealt with sternly the opposition has asked for a meeting with saw Maung and demanded a halt to arrests of in Lemoc Rucy students and Buddhist monks bul the general did not address those issues. Who arrived by helicopter from Cyprus. Mccarthy re placed John Kelly who left Lebanon on sept. 16, an embassy official said. Kelly was reportedly suffering from a heart ailment. The five Man syrian backed Cabinet of acting prime minister Salim Hoss meanwhile met in West Beirut sat urday and instructed its defense minister to order Christian array commander Gen. Michel Aoun to resign As prime minister of the newty appointed rival Cabinet. But Aoun refused to surrender control of the six Man military Cabinet that Christian president Amir Gemayel appointed five minutes before Gamay cd s six year term expired at Midnight thursday. The split Between the established lebanese Cabinet headed by Hoss who is a sunni moslem and the 2 Day old rival group headed by Aoun brings closer than Ever a formal partition of Lebanon into separate mos Lem and Christian slaves. Immediately after Hoss met with his Cabinet sat urday the Cabinet announced that Aoun would face disciplinary measures if he did not leave politics. But Aoun rejected the threat at a news conference at the presidential Palace five Miles inside the Christian heartland North of Beirut. The Hoss Cabinet has no Legal said Aoun 53. "1 shall Issue a directive to All civil servants not to Lake any orders from the resigning Hoss Cabinet or face Legal the general insisted his Cabinet had legally incr see embassy on t ack Page record setters saturday As a Day of Golden records in Seoul. Setting the Pace in South Korea were Jackie Joyner Kersaw right a id Ren Johnson. Joyner pc few of St. Louis ml., broke her own record in the heptathlon piling up 7,291 Points in the olympic Competition. Johnson also broke a record of his Orvn. The Canadian sprinter breezed Down the Loo Mettr track in 9.79 seconds. Fur details see sports Section Bank bombed another attacked in w. Berlin Berlin a suspected leftist militants firebomb cd a Bank Early sat urday and smashed a window at another As police braced for a massive Demon stration against the world Bank let Erna Lionais monetary fund conference. Police said they think inc attacks were linked to opposition to this Weck i finance meeting in West Berlin. See re lated Story photo Page 2, Story Page z8. They also four that there could be More violence sunday when up to 40,000 protesters plan to demonstrate in West Berlin. The Bank attacks occurred during Clos ing hours. No one was injured police said and damage was i he in the first attack the assailants broke a window at a Bank in the Neu Kolln District and threw a firebomb inside police said. Firefighters quickly arrived and put out the Blaze according to a police statement. Hours later vandals hurled chunks of pavement at a Bank in the scinic Kondorf District smashing a Large window police said. No Money was taken in either attack police said. Organizers of sunday s demonstration renounce violence and say their aim is to hold to peaceful action that will draw at Tention to what they Call unfair treat ment of third world countries by the Industrial nations. Hut they say they fear that violence could break out nonetheless. If the police restrain themselves it will go Well. If they Don to we arc worried there could be some trouble said Udo Wolf a West German in his 20s who helped plan the demonstration. We Are telling people not to let them selves be provoked. It s obvious that we want the demonstration to proceed peacefully because if there s trouble the police will break it up and that would defeat our
