European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday october 14, 1990aoun gives up after losing Battle Beirut Lebanon apr Allied government and syrian troops on Friday forced Christian Gen. Michel Aoun to surrender assaulting his stronghold by air and land to end his 11-month Mutiny. Aoun who fled to the French embassy told his forces to pay allegiance to the government of president Elias Herawi. That administration is trying to end a 15-year-old civil War among Christian and moslem factions. Aoun out manned and outgunned had opposed the governments peace plan that gives the moslem majority an equal share of Power. Aoun said the plan had no timetable for withdrawal of the 40,000 syrian troops from Lebanon. Several of Aouni a battalions surrendered saturday on his order and fighting was gradually tapering off at the major entry Points to his stronghold in Lebanon a Christian enclave witnesses and police said. Civil aviation authorities ordered Beirut Airport closed. France granted political Asylum to Aoun the French foreign ministry said saturday in Paris. French foreign minister Roland Dumas telephoned Herawi and discussed a plan that would allow Aoun to be flown to exile in Paris. Herawi asked for a French pledge that a Oun would be prevented from taking part in any political activity a radio report said. A this is a historical moment heralding the reunification of the lebanese army and the return of peace to Lebanon a said Era win a prime minister Salim Hoss. He called for lebanese to close ranks behind his government. Aoun who had served As caretaker prime minister had refused to step Down in november when Herawi was elected president. On saturday Era win a 20,000 army mainly moslem and commanded by Gen. Emile Lahoud teamed up with thousands of syrian troops and hundreds of tanks in a three pronged ground assault on Aouni a enclave in Lebanon a Christian zone. The attack was spearheaded by two hours of syrian Quot a a file lebanese Gen. Michel Aoun. Flees to French embassy air and artillery bombardment of Aouni a Palace Headquarters East of Beirut. Moslem West Beirut where Era win a government is based erupted in jubilant gunfire Over the surrender. Lebanese and syrian soldiers in charge of Security in the moslem sector shot sustained volleys of machine gun fire into the air. Era win a army entered the Palace in suburban Baarda soviet court convicts rightist in landmark anti semitic Case Moscow up a member of the rightist Pamat group was convicted Friday and sentenced to two years in a labor Camp for inciting hatred against jews in a landmark prosecution against anti semitism. Konstantin Smirnov Ost Shvili 54, could have been sent to prison for up to five years. Ost Shvili shouted a Stream of anti semitic outbursts at the three Ost Shvili judge tribunal while the findings against him were being read but fell silent As the sentence was pronounced. The sensational Case grew out of a Jan. 18 raid by Pamat members on the Moscow House of writers. Witnesses told the court the raid was Lead by Ost Shvili who was quoted As Yelling through a megaphone a your Day is Over. Neither the communist party nor the Kab secret police can help  Osta Shvili a conviction the first prosecution of a Pamat member came amid widespread jewish fears of pogroms and a record emigration of soviet jews to Israel. The communist party newspaper pravda conceded several months ago that anti semitism was growing but vowed that it would be checked. Ost Shvili in a Light Blue coat Over a Navy Blue jogging suit was dwarfed by Interior ministry troops As he stood in the Dock. A where Are the russian witnesses a he shouted at one Point when Sutarov noted the testimony of a a Weinberg Quot and other witnesses with obviously jewish names. His admirers threw bouquets of red carnations at him and they covered the floor of the Dock. The Pamat whose origins Are disputed emerged into the open in 1987, advocating the preservation of old russian monuments and blaming a a zionist masonic conspiracy for All of the soviet unions ills including communism. The organization has split into numerous factions and had a feeble showing earlier this year in local elections. Shortly after midday saturday and the Palace True Fri surrendered according to Beirut radio reports thous also ordered his advancing units backed by syrian troops to take Over the defense ministry compound in nearby Yarze a without shooting and  thousands of Aouni a supporters had formed a human shield around the Palace to help the Quot eneral deter a syrian assault. Some radio reports said the Sun porters left after Aoun told them to go Home at night Friday. A a Aoun 55, escaped assassination Friday by a moslem shiite gunman who aimed a pistol at him As head dressed cheering supporters. The crowd roughed up the gunman and bullets went astray wounding an Aoun aide. Herawi Aoun and Lahoud Are maronite catholics the largest Christian sect and the dominant Power in Lebanon since it gained Independence from France in 1943, Aoun has tried to establish himself As the legitimate authority in Lebanon since september 1988, when he was appointed As caretaker prime minister by dear time president Amin Gemayel. Y p g Herawi was elected president nov. 24, 1989, with a mandate to enforce a peace plan brokered by the Arab league of nations to end the country a civil War. The agreement stipulated an equal distribution of Power Between the two major religious groups. After his election Herawi promptly dismissed Aoun As army commander and interim prime minister but the general denounced Herawi As a syrian puppet and refused to leave the presidential Palace. In an Effort to bolster his own administration Aoun waged an unsuccessful War to oust syrian troops from Lebanon. He also battled forces of rival Christian militia Leader Samir Geagea a supporter of the new government. Aouni a Battles with the syrian army from March to september 1989 killed 929 people and wounded 2,744. His fight with Geagea from january through september of this year killed 1,046 people and wounded 3,222. World today Dubcek planning to visit Netherlands for 2 Days the Hague Netherlands apr Alexander Dubcek the president of the czechoslovak National Assembly will come to the Netherlands on nov. 7 for a two Day visit the dutch parliament said Friday. Dubcek was a key figure in last years peaceful revolution toppling Czechoslovakia a communist regime. He will visit the dutch parliament and deliver a speech at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam according to dutch parliamentary spokeswoman Jacqueline de Nennie. Further details of his visit Are still being worked out she said. Dubcek 68, is a former Leader of the czechoslovak communist party. He was one of main institutes of Reform during the so called Prague Spring of 1968 before being removed from office and deported to the soviet Union. Vietnam War peace broker be due Tho Dies Bangkok Thailand apr be due Tho a hard unein0mmudlsl revolutionary named As a co Winner of the 1973 Nobel peace prize for negotiating a settlement in the Vietnam War died saturday in Hanoi. Official accounts say he was 79. The foreign ministry in the vietnamese capital said by Telephone that Tho died Early in the Day but it eave no details. Japan s Kyodo news Agency reporting from Hanoi said he died of Throat cancer. He had been hospitalized at an army facility since returning in april from treat ment m Paris the report said. Tho shared the Nobel prize with then Secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Together they negotiated the Paris peace accords of 1973. But Tho turned Down the prize saying Vietnam remained at War. The guns fell silent two years later when communist be due Tho forces Defeated the  Saigon government and unified the country. Tho one of the organizers and theoreticians of the communist revolution in Vietnam remained in the ruling politburo after 1975. He was believed to have played a key role in Vietnam a invasion of Cambodia in late 1978. But in 1986, he was removed from the politburo As aging veterans gave Way to More Liberal leaders seeking economic Reform. Western diplomats have speculated that in recent years thou a Power had ebbed but that he remained an important figure in the party a conservative ranks. His official position was adviser to the party scentral committee. During a stalemate in the War the United states and North Vietnam in 1968 opened talks on a cease fire. Tho was officially described As special adviser to his delegation but it became apparent that he held the real Power to negotiate. It resulted in the withdrawal of . Forces from Vietnam the Exchange of prisoners and the splintering of South Vietnam into communist and Saigon controlled zones. But True peace failed to materialize As each Side accused the other of  Tia Aoraham fonts