international Thr Citizen Friday, April 6, 1984 —2 OVERNIGHT CLASHES Repair job Fierce fight in Beirut BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon’s warring factions fought their heaviest battles of the last 10 days in and around Beirut early today as the government assembled a 2,000-member police force intended to separate the combatants. Explosions rocked several Beirut neighborhoods, including the old commercial district, the port and the suburbs. Flares illuminated the night skies and ambulances raced through the streets with wailing sirens. Four people were killed and 21 wounded in overnight duels with ar- Christadelphians Public Lecture One Religion Will Prevail" Speaker: Terry Houghton Gold Cap Room 210 Sunday 7:30 PM tillery, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns, police said. Despite the escalation of fighting, local radio stations said President Amin Gemayel hoped that planned summit talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus next week would help him stabilize a ceasefire and form a national coalition government to introduce political reforms. Syria, a longtime supporter of the anti-government militias in Lebanon, has been working with Gemayel’s administration on an increasingly close basis since the multinational force withdrew from Beirut. Besides the fighting along the Green Line separating Christian eastern Beirut from the mostly Moslem west and in nearby hills, heavy battles also raged during the nigth around the strategic town of Souk el-Gharb, police said. The hilltop town controls the mountain routes to Gemayel’s presidential palace and the Defence Ministry compound on the hills east of the capital. The army’s 8th Brigade and Syrian-backed Druse rebels accused each other of mounting overnight ground assaults to improve their positions, using field artillery and tank cannons to back up the attempted advances. The state radio and private stations said a military committee representing the army and all the warring factions was trying to negotiate a ceasefire. The committee, received its mandate last month from Lebanon’s factional leaders during a conference in Switzerland, has agreed to the key points of a new disengagement plan which calls for combatants to pull back 300 to 700 metres from fronts along the Green Line and in the central mountains east of the capital. The buffer zones would be patrolled by Lebanese police and army reserve members. Annual Stock Reduction DOORS — WINDOWS — CABINETRY Sale Buy Direct From The Factory & Save! 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(AP) — Five astronauts rode the U.S. space shuttle Challenger into orbit 466 kilometres above the Earth, highest yet for a shuttle, and set off today in pursuit of a crippled solar observatory for a daring first attempt to repair a satellite in space. The mission, in which a free-flying astronaut will put a jet-powered backpack to its first practical use, began with a rumbling liftoff on schedule at 8:58 a.m. EST. Accompanying the crew were 3,300 honeybees and the shuttle’s heaviest cargo so far — an 11-tonne package of experiments, including 13 million tomato seeds, that will be dropped off in orbit and picked up next year. The Canadian-developed robot arm will be involved in the satellite repair exercise and will place the bees in orbit, and a Canadian-designed movie camera will be tested. Commanded by Robert Crippen, the first astronaut to make three shuttle flights, the 100-tonne space plane rose from its launch pad swiftly on the powerful thrust of its engines and darted eastward over the Atlantic Ocean. As the astronauts soared into orbit, the target satellite was half a world away, 18,500 kilometres in front of the shuttle. Crippen will lead Challenger on a chase of 1,320,000 kilemetres over two days until he moves to within 60 metres of his goal. It was the 11th shuttle launch, the fifth for Challenger. The flight is to end next Thursday with the second landing back at Cape Canaveral. Crippen is in charge of an all-rookie crew of pilot Dick Scobee and mission specialists Terry Hart, George Nelson and James van Hoften. Their journey puts a record 11 people in ^xspace at the same time, including five cosmonauts and an Indian astronaut who are travelling on the Soviets’ Sa-lyut 7 space station. The old mark of eight was set in February when five astronauts and three cosmonauts were aloft. With the skies so crowded, NASA had only seven minutes, 45 seconds of leeway for today’s launch. The United States and Soviet Union have an agreement not to come within 320 kilometres of one another’s spacecraft, and liftoff any later would have put the shuttle and space station closer than that. Challenger’s mission calls for it to rendezvous with the Solar Maximum Satellite, which has been wobbling and spinning slowly since losing its control system nearly three years ago. SEX KILLER HEADING NORTH? by JULIET O’NEILL WASHINGTON (CP) — Christopher Bernard W’ilder, a photographer charged with kidnapping a woman and wanted for questioning in the disappearance of six other women, including two found murdered, was placed on the FBI’s list of 10 most wanted fugitives Thursday. The RCMP is involved in the case on grounds he may flee to Canada and a Federal Bureau of Investigation alert has been sent to authorities at border crossings and airports. The FBI held a rare news conference Thursday to publicize the case in hopes that tips from citizens will lead to capture of the Australian-born man who was last seen April 1 in Las Vegas, Nev., and is believed to be heading West. He was described as being a six-foot, 180-pound white male with brown hair, blue eyes and a long scar on his right an- kle. He is balding and may be clean shaven although, when last seen, he had a neatly-trimmed beard. lie habitually bites his finger nails. FBI spokesman Oliver Revell said he is an “extremely active, very dangerous, badly wanted fugitive" who is suspected in a series of disappearances of young beautiful American women, most with aspirations to become models. “He is known to randomly approach attractive young females in shopping malls and business areas,” the FBI said in a prepared statement. "After identifying himself as a professional photographer, he comments on a young woman’s appearance and attempts to persuade her to accompany him from the area for photography sessions. If rejected, he has beaten and forced victims to accompany him." The FBI said he is a part-time photographer, carpenter and race car driver who has also gone by these names: Lynn Thomas Bishop, L. K. Kimbriell, Chris B. Wilder and Lynn Ivory. Australian national police and the RCMP are co-operating in the effort to capture Wilder. Revell said it is believed Wilder may go to Canada if he wants to get out of the United States because it has “a culture he will be familiar with.” Wilder is the 385th person to be placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list since 1950. Officials said 109 of them have been captured after reports of sightings from citizens. Nine of them were captured in Canada. Wilder was convicted of sexual battery in 1980 in West Palm Beach. Fla.. The FBI issued a warrant for his arrest two weeks ago on charges of kidnaping in the case of an unidentified woman who was abducted from a shopping mall in Tallahassee, Fla., and taken to a motel in Bainbridge, Ga., where she was raped and tortured. He is also wanted for questioning in the disappearance of six other American women and by Australian police who charged him with bond default and failure to appear in connection with sexual assault charges laid in April, 1983, in New South Wales, Australia. He is a suspect in the murder of Teresa Wait Ferguson, abducted last month at Merritt Island, Fla., and Terry Diane Walden, abuducted last month at Beaumont, Tex. Their severely beaten bodies were recently recovered, the FBI said. He also is a suspect in the recent disappearances of Rosario Gonzalez and Elizabeth Ann Kenyon from Miami, Fla., and Sheryl Lynn Bonaventura, who was last seen at a shopping mall April 1 in Las Vegas, Nev. 'Gaye left his music as legacy' LOS ANGELES (AP) — Friends and colleagues of Marvin Gaye, including Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Dick Gregory, mourned the slain soul singer at a memorial service but offered thanks for his music and friendship. “I will miss Marvin’s smile, with that little half-grin,” Gregory, the comedian-turned-political activist, said in a eulogy Thursday. “When he smiled, you knew what a good day in June looked like.” “We’re sharing a great loss with the world, but not really, because his music will always be left as a legacy,” singer Robinson said of the man whose hits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine, What’s Goin’ On and Sexual Healing. About 450 family and friends gathered Thursday — proclaimed by Mayor Tom Bradley as a day of mourning for Gaye — at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills to say a last goodbye. Gaye’s body lay in an open casket in the chapel, which was filled with flowers and the electronic equipment that helped Gaye make his music. “He’s somewhere where nobody can hurt him from now on,” Robinson said. Wonder, playing a synthesizer in the funeral hall, sang a tribute to his longtime friend. Accident kills 31 RANGOON (Reuter) — At least 31 people were killed and 32 injured when a crowded train derailed while crossing a bridge in southern Burma, sending several cars plunging six metres into a dry streambed, officials said Friday. RENO NONSTOP CHARTER April 19th-22nd INCLUDES: Roundtrip Airfare Prince George to Reno, accommodation at the Eldorado Hotel, Air and Hotel Taxes, Transfers, Coupon book and Escort. 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No group claimed to be organizer of the demonstration, but some of the estimated 4,000 protesters said they were connected with the Honduran Human Rights Commission, a group that criticizes government repression. The protesters also spoke out against an organization called the Association for the Progress of Honduras, saying it was the source of belligerence toward neighboring countries. The association of businessmen, government officials and military officers was set up two years ago by Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who was ousted Saturday as chief of the Honduran armed forces. Alvarez Martinez, who had been considered the most powerful man $1 MILLION PRIZE in Honduras, left Costa Rica and travelled to Miami, Fla., a source at the international airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, said. One criticism of Alvarez Martinez was that he used the issue of national security as an excuse for repression, including political arrests. ★ ★ ★ SAN JOSE (AP) — Canada is willing to increase substantially its economic aid to Costa Rica and will send a technical team to determine exactly where the money should go, External Affairs Minister Allan MacEachen said Thursday. MacEachen ended a three-day visit and left for Bogota, Colombia, on a Latin American trip that will also take him to Honduras and Nicaragua. “We have provided in the past lines of credit to Costa Rica in the amount of $15 million,” MacEachen said. “That has been mainly used to purchase railway equipment and fertilizer.” He said a Canadian technical mission will discuss further aid needs with Costa Ricans. He said Canada will increase aid to Honduras as fast as that country can absorb it but said more help for leftist-governed Nicaragua depends on the attitude of its leaders. “In Nicaragua we had recently extended a line of credit and we would be more agreeable to increasing our aid if the developments in Nicaragua were in a direction of those originally espoused by the Sandinista leaders,” MacEachen said. Ex-wife wants share WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A woman who says her marriage crumbled while her husband spent $75 a week on lottery tickets contends she deserves a share of the $1 million the man won one month and two days after she divorced him. But the ex-husband, who has since quit his factory job, says he spent just $15 a week buying chances in the state’s lottery games, and argues that his child-support payments should be cut in half because he now has custody of one of the couple’s teenage children. Nancy Anderson, 34, an administrative secre- V tary who has since remarried, filed suit against her ex-husband, John Radzik, in Worcester probate court to change the provisions of the original divorce settlement drawn up before the big win. Radzik won $1,003,700 playing the state’s Megabucks game Aug. 27, 1983. He receives the money in 20 equal annual payments. In a hearing Thursday, Anderson said she is asking for a lump sum to compensate for tho emotional hardship she suffered during the three years that Radzik spent $75 a week on lottery tickets. She did not demand a specific amount. R*pr«Mntatlv« To the Exhibition Grounds We’ll Be There Saturday, April 7th 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Shrimp Meat......................ib *5,95 Lobster Tail m......ib.’12.95 Crab Meat 04«.)............’8.95 Salmon Steak...................ib. *3.49 Seafood Sticks................ib *4.95 Save On These Super Weekend Specials KANAKA SEA FOODS Anderson is also asking for increased child support payments. She has custody of the couple’s daughter, Cynthia, 15, and receives $120 a week from Radzik. Judge William McManus took the case under advisement and said he would rule early next week. At the hearing, the judge agreed to Rad-zik’s offer to pay $10,000 a year per child for college education. Radzik also said he would help pay for graduate school if the children want him to. “He wants to support the children,” said Rad-zik’s lawyer, Conrad Fisher. “There’s no question about that. “She’s remarried, she’s got the house, she works and earns a pretty good living. According to her, when he was buying the lottery tickets, he wasn’t being a very nice man. But, boy, suddenly he wins. ...” Radzik worked on an assembly line at a glass-fibre factory for 12 years before he won the lottery and quit his job. At the hearing, Radzik said he spent only $15 a week on tickets, and that his support payments should be cut in half to $60 a week because he now has custody of the couple’s son, Stephen, 14. “Mr. Radzik will be earning $50,000 a year before taxes from the lottery, and about $34,000 a year after taxes,” Fisher said. “It really doesn’t come to that much at all. It’s an awful lot less than it seems.” WASHINGTON (AP) — President Reagan fired another round at Congress today for second-guessing him on foreign affairs, saying legislators should not meddle once U.S. goals are set. His blast at “activism” on Capitol Hill dominated a policy speech in which Reagan reaffirmed his determination to reduce nuclear weapons but offered no new initiatives to woo the Soviet Union back to the bargaining table. He ruled out “*implis-tic solutions” to tne weapons buildup and informed Moscow that deterrence would remain the cornerstone of his foreign policy. In criticizing Congress, the president said “if we are to have a sustainable foreign policy, the Congress must support the practical details of policy, not just the general goals.” Couched in an appeal for bipartisanship, Reagan said ‘‘legislators must realize that they, too, are partners.” Behind the criticism, which has already led to a feud with House of Representatives Speaker Thomas O’Neill, is White House irritation with efforts by Congress to limit U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central America. A senior U.S. official, briefing reporters on the speech, said that when American lives are at stake and after some public debate, Congress should restrict its objections to meetings with Reagan, letters to him and other private forums. “Full and open debate is fine before the decision,” said the official, who declined to be identified. “Full and private criticism is fine after that.” Reagan, in the remarks prepared for the Georgetown Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said Congress has a responsibility “to go beyond mere criticism to consensus-building that will produce positive, practical and effective action.” Dad sold 23 kids — mom LISBON (AP) - A woman who gave birth to her 25th child this week says her husband sold 23 of their children to other families, the state-run news agency ANOP reports. The report quotes Cor-ina da Costa Braz, 38, as saying two of her children are in West Germany and that one, a six-year-old boy, lives with her and her husband at their home in Sao Bartolomeu de Messines. She does not know where the other children are. The woman said her farm laborer husband, Jose Coelho da Silva, sold their children for about $7,500 each.