European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes thursday Friday july 4/5, 1991lebanon tightens siege of Sidon Lebanon apr under Parachute flares army troops sought out palestinian fighters in pre Dawn raids around the Southern port of Sidon and tightened their siege of the plots last major stronghold in Lebanon. Staccato gunfire echoed across Hills overlooking the refugee Camps of Ein Al Hilweh and Mich Mich where a nine hour Battle tuesday left 20 people dead a 15 guerrillas two army officers and three palestinian civilians police said. Sixty people were wounded including 35 guerrillas and 17 army soldiers. The rest were civilians police added. They said dozens of guerrillas were arrested As troops rooted out the last pockets of resistance wednesday raising the number of captured palestinians to More than 300. There were no immediate reports on casualties from wednesdays raids. Soldiers erected checkpoints every few Yards on the main approaches to the two refugee Camps tightening the blockade on 5,000 hard Core guerrillas of Yasser Arafat a Palestine liberation organization. The guerrillas retreated into the Camps Home for 60,000 refugees after their defeat in tuesdays Battles. The operation was the army a first in Southern Lebanon since the civil War broke out More than 16 years ago. The army is Likely to turn its attention to the coastal town of Tyre farther South where an estimated 1,000 Plo guerrillas world a lebanese Soldier puts a blindfolded palestinian guerrilla into a truck near Sidon. Are dug in. The defeat of the Plo fighters at Sidon was the latest in a series of setbacks for the palestinians and a signal that Lebanon no longer supports their use of the South As a base for attacks on Israel. It also underscored the governments Hopes that curbing guerrilla activity would persuade the United states to pressure Israel to relinquish the Border enclave it occupies in Southern Lebanon. In Washington on tuesday state department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler called the deployment a an important step toward the objective we All share a Lebanon free of All militias both lebanese and  a we urge All parties including palestinians to cooperate with the lebanese governments efforts a she said. Israel on tuesday renewed its opposition to the dismantling of its self designated Security zone. It also said attacks on guerrilla bases in areas under lebanese army control also would continue. Lebanon a defense minister Michel Murr said the army would not enter Ein Al Hilweh or Mich Mich but warned that heavy weapons should be removed from the Camps by the end of september. He did not say what would happen if the Plo defied the ultimatum. Arafat called tuesdays Battle a a massacre of  he appealed to the leaders of Algeria Egypt and Libya and to the secretariat of the 21-member Arab league to intervene for a ceasefire. The Plo chief in Algeria on tuesday also renewed a demand for a dialogue with president Elias Era wish syrian backed government to regulate the presence of palestinians in Lebanon and their relations with the Central government. The defeat of the Plo fighters was the third major military setback for Arafat in less than 10 years. His guerrillas were forced to evacuate their Power base in Beirut and Southern Lebanon during the 1982 israeli invasion. A year later an estimated 6,000 Plo guerrillas regrouped in Southern Lebanon after syrian troops and syrian backed palestinian dissidents expelled them from bases in Northern  to determine future of Northern Ireland fail a i from wire reports Belfast a talks on the political future of Northern Ireland collapsed without agreement wednesday following two months of on and off meetings aimed at ending two decades of sectarian violence in the British ruled province. British Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke said he had ended the talks because it was Clear that the four parties involved had failed to find any common ground and prospects of reaching any agreement within the 10-week timetable were doubtful. Brooke had hoped the talks among the two main unionist protestant parties the predominantly roman Catholic social democratic labour party and the non sectarian Alliance party would have cracked a 15-year political statement. Disputes Over talks with the Irish government and mistrust among the negotiations however caused lengthy  held in Gandhi killing new Delhi a authorities on tuesday arrested a free Lance photographer in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi the press Trust of India reported. It said officers charged Subha Sundaram 50, who runs a photo news Agency in the Southern tamil Nadu capital of Madras of maintaining close links with the sri lankan tamil militant group of the liberation tigers of tamil eelam which investigators suspect was behind Gandhi a assassination. The news Agency quoted official sources As saying that authorities suspect Sundaram of a role in the conspiracy to kill Gandhi. The arrest brings to seven the number of those charged with involvement in the Gandhi assassination. The news Agency quoted official sources As saying Sundaram had Lent his camera to Hari Babu who was hired by the militant members of the liberation tigers to take photographs of the Public meeting where Gandhi was assassinated. News reports earlier said the militant group hired Babu to use his Media credentials to gain close Access to the former prime minister. Damage assessment team completes visit to Clark a Washington apr a . Military team has completed a damage assessment visit to Clark a in the Philippines As workers on the base packed household goods left behind by americans the Pentagon said tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said the team returned to . Pacific come Headquarters in Hawaii to Analyse its findings before reporting estimates of damage to Clark that resulted from eruptions of mount Pinatubo. The Volcano continued moderate eruptions but there has been no significant Ash fall on Clark for about a week the spokesman said. Officials remain concerned about mudflows from Ash accumulated in previous eruptions that began last month Williams said. Geologists Are not predicting another major eruption he said. About 300 contract workers at Clark used shovels to Clear Miles of drainage ditches used for water Runoff at the base he said. He said looting at the base has been curtailed and workers packed up goods from about 30 Homes tuesday and expected to do an additional 35 Homes wednesday. A we have the ambitious goal to have All the Homes that we need to pack out All of them emptied out by the end of August a he said. More than 20,000 soldiers and dependents were evacuated from Clark and from Subic Bay naval facilities after the eruptions began. Remaining service members Are living in housing on higher ground that is not Likely to be affected by mudflows Williams said. Negotiations Over the future of the bases Are to resume in Manila later this month. The talks broke Down before Pinatubo a eruption with disagreements Over How Long the United states can continue using the facilities and How much it will pay the Philippines for their use. The Volcano killed More than 300 people and its Ash damaged buildings and Farmland Over a wide area. Damage on Clark has been described As extensive. At Subic 160 buildings were destroyed or damaged the runway is still closed to Jet aircraft and the Navy repair facility is operating at 20 percent. Asked whether there was anything left to negotiate after the Volcano Williams said a a what a left to negotiate is the base agreement. I think some of the technical details in the base negotiations Are Well along a the status of forces agreement some of those technical questions. What we Are looking at is such questions As the compensation package and the length of time of the agreement. So those questions have yet to be  israeli officer charged in Case mirroring old testament Saga Jerusalem up a a military officer has been charged with assigning a romantic rival to a potentially fatal Mission in what israeli military prosecutors say is a modern Day re enactment of the biblical Romance of King David and Bathsheba. According to the Bible when King David wanted to marry Bathsheba he dispatched her Soldier husband to a fierce and fatal round of fighting against insurgents on the israeli test Eastern front. In modern Day Israel an officer identified Only As maj. S. From suburban Tel Aviv sent his Soldier rival to an explosives training course during the Gulf War the Jerusalem Post reported tuesday. Israeli military prosecutors charge that maj. S. Fraudulently enrolled his rival a sergeant in a hazardous weapons course so that he could pursue a love affair with the sergeants wife. In the Bible David ended up marrying Bathsheba but he subsequently incurred the Wrath of Nathan the Prophet and divine punishment for sending her first husband on a virtual suicide Mission. Military prosecutors say maj. S. Denies the charges and has sought to shift blame for the episode onto the sergeant saying he has a serious personal