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Hundreds of Palestinian refugees killed
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Hundreds of
Palestinian civilians were massacred in two
refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut, ap-parently
by Lebanese Christian militiamen
given control of the camps by Israeli occupa-tion
forces, reporters at the scene said Satur-day.
Three United Press International report-ers
saw bullet- tor- n bodies piled in groups of
ten or more scattered through the Sabra and
Chatila camps.
The rampage apparently began Friday.
Reporters who tried to get into the camps
early that day discovered the Israelis had
turned them over to the militia of the Pha- langis- ts,
the Israeli- allie- d Lebanese Chris-tian
group that has repeatedly threatened
the Palestinians.
With Israeli soldiers manning a hill less
than a quarter mile away from the Chatila
camp, the Phalangists apparently rounded
up and killed everyone they could find.
At the United Nations, Palestine Liber-ation
Organization representative Zehdi La- -
bib Terzi claimed that as many as 1,500 civil-ians
had been killed. He was still attending a
U. N. session late Saturday and unavailable
for further comment.
The U. N. Security Council, after two hours
of private consultations, convened an urgent
meeting Saturday night to consider sending
troops back into west Beirut to prevent fur-ther
bloodshed.
Arab nations planned to ask that 5,000 U. N.
troops in south Lebanon, members of the
earlier peacekeeping force, be sent in to pro-tect
civilians and that the Council's five per-manent
members then send additional
forces, according to Jordan's ambassador,
Hazem Nuseibeh.
Earlier, U. N." Secretary General Javier
Perez de Cuellar agreed with an urgent ap-peal
from the United States, France and
Italy to send additional U. N. observers to
west Beirut.
The Italian government asked that the
French, Italian and U. S. peacekeeping -- force
be reinstated, but the State Department said
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Enid Fink, 70, above left, her sister Alice Thompson, 61, and
Dick Cook, 85, stand in front of their home next to Sky Rim Sta-bles
on Wagon Trail Road. They are opposed to the, city landfill
proposed for the area surrounding the lake at right, which lies
directly south of their property. The sitef. is one of two " proposed
as landfills.
there was no contemplation " at this time" of
sending U. S. forces back to Lebanon.
In Jerusalem, a senior Israeli official said
the Lebanese army had agreed to move into
the Chatila, Sabra and Fakahani Palestinian
refugee camps on the outskirts of west Bei-rut
at 10 a. m. this morning. ( 1 a. m. CDT).
The massacre of the Palestinians in the
two camps spurred negotiations that had
been scheduled between the Lebanese and
Israeli army officers, the official said.
He also said the Israelis turned over the
main financial street of west Beirut to the
Lebanese Saturday " by Israeli initiative
alone."
The official stressed, however, that this
did not signal the start of an Israeli withdra-wal
from west Beirut, as demanded by Pres-ident
Reagan and the U. N. Security Council.
It was impossible to get an accurate esti-mate
of the total number of Palestinians shot
to death at the camps because the bodies
were strewn across several acres. It ap-peared
the final toll would be well over 1,000.
A spokesman for the Phalangist Lebanese
Front, who asked not to be identified, said,
" The Lebanese Front were never in the
camps." Western reporters, however, saw
Phalangists in the camps Friday.
Palestine Liberation Organization leader
Yasser Arafat, in an interview from Damas-cus,
said intelligence reports showed Israelis
not militiamen massacred the civilians.
" They ( the Israelis) sent special comman-dos
with guides only from Lebanese army
Maj.) Saad Haddad," he said.
Israeli officials expressed shock but said
they had prevented an even greater mas-sacre.
One senior Israeli official said, " The mo-ment
we heard what was going on, we moved
to stop it," but admitted he didn't know what
time that was.
In Washington, Reagan expressed " out-rage
and revulsion" at the slaughter and
said Israel had failed to carry out its prom-ise
to prevent such incidents.
At the Chatila camp Saturday, there were
no guards or gunmen anywhere in the camp
and no one left alive to tell what happened.
The camps had been under the control of
the regular Lebanese army until the Israeli
advance on west Beirut three days ago in the
aftermath of the assassination of tebanese
President- elec- t Beshir Gemayal, leader of
the Phalangists."
The Israeli officials said an investigation
of the massacre will be made.
The I Lebanese government radio, in its
first comment on the massacre, blamed it on
the Christian militias of renegade Lebanese
army Maj. Saad Haddad, who controls a
strip of territory on the Lebanese- Israe- li bor-der
in the south and whose troops had been
reported seen in the camp Friday along with
the Phalangists.
Under the U. S.- sponsor- ed agreement to
evacuate Palestinian guerrillas from Beirut,
guarantees were provided for the security of
the refugee camps, which also had served as
bases for the PLO.
Neighbors oppose potentiaMahdfill site
By Bob Rose
Missourian staff writer
They don't make men like John
Neihardt any more.
That is the sentiment of several
people who live north of Columbia
and Gnd their homes and Neihardt's
as potential neighbors for a new city
landfill.
The poet laureate of Nebraska and
former University professor died in
1973, but for his daughter, Alice
Thompson, Neihardt's home on Wag-on
Trail Road off U. S. 63 N. has
served as a lasting memory.
Now she is ready to share that
memory with others.
Mrs. Thompson, 61, is working on
restoring the home of her father,
who was the author of books and po
etry about the American Indian. She
says she would like to open the home
to the public, but she fears that the
city's plans to locate a landfill on
property adjacent to the Niehardt
place would cause havoc.
This location is the so- call- ed
" western" site, and while another
site east of Route B is being consid-ered,
the city has indicated this one
is the preferred location for the land-fill.
The existing landfill will reach
capacity next year.
Mrs. Thompson says the noise,
odors and debris from a landfill
would ' upset the beauty of the area
surrounding the Niehardt home.
" Other people said it's like a
heartache," Mrs. Thompson says.
People now use the area at the land-fill
site to fish, swim, hike and ride
horses.
" It would be great if I had enough
money," she says. " I'd buy the thing
( landfill site) and call it Neihardt
Park."
Mrs. Thompson says she is wor-ried
that many Columbians will not
even realize that her father's home
is in the area. She says the city is ig-noring
the merit of Neihardt's works
and concentrating too much on eco-nomics.
" It seems almost unbelievable
that they can do that sort of thing,"
she says. " If we could just think a
little more about the great things
men do and not about the material
things."
Jo Sapp, one of Mrs. Thompson's
neighbors, agrees. As a graduate
student in the University's English
department, Mrs. Sapp is aware of
Neihardt's prominence. She has
posted a note near the English de- partm- erit
offices seeking support
from other teachers in an attempt to
save the land near Neihardt's' prop-erty.
A local attorney and an official
from the state Department of Natu-ral
Resources admit. the Neihardt
preservation plea is not a strong one
legally, but it may carry some politi-cal
clout.
Mrs. Thompson says she doesn't
worry about the political end. In-stead,
she wants to alert people to
the significance and beauty of the
land which faces the possibility of
becoming a city dump.
A Columbia man at one of the
lakes on the dump site shares that
wish. He pulled his two sons out of
school for a day last week so they
could join him fishing.
" I've come out here since I was a
kid," he says. " It would be a shame
if anything happened here."
But just as the city has had to
search for a new place to dump its
trash, the man soon may have to
search for a new place to take his
boys to fish.
The Columbia Missourian will re-port
on the other proposed landfill
site on Tuesday.
The star on the map at right
indicates the location of the
' western' landfill site
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Ballot buster
Experts question effect
of 48 voting decisions
ByJimHirsch
Missourian staff writer
You walk into the voting booth.
There you confront nuclear weapons ,
and beverage containers, building- cod- e
fees and cost- of- livin- g adjust-ments,
reapportionment and obliga-tion
bonds, square dancing and di-vorces.
It's Nov. 2, and you're double- parke- d.
You gaze at your 12- pa- ge election
ballot, a 48- decisi- on journey through
bureaucratic legalese.
Voting is your indispensable input
into the political process, your demo-cratic
duty, the ultimate expression
of public will.
So you sift, through the proposals'
Jungle- gy- m . wording: the " applica-ble
provisions" and " user fees," the
" cost impacts" and " per diems,"
the " increases in bonded debt au-thorizations"
and " allowances for
costs in inflationgrowth," trying to
understand
While the large number of items on
-- November's ballot may reflect de-mocracy
in action, some area ex-perts
question the practicality and
effectiveness of a ballot which in-cludes
24 referenda and decisions on
24 public offices.
" What it probably means is com-plete
confusion," said John E. Bal-lard,
state specialist in governmen-tal
affairs and a member of the
University Political Science Exten-sion
Division. " It's an ungodly
amount to ask voters to decide on.
Some' may just throw up their
hands."
David Leuthold, a political science
professor at the University, also
worries thai voters, facing this spate
of issues, will not have adequate
time to study them.
" Many voters are responsible and
intelligent, but this may wear them
out," he said.
Both Ballard and Leuthold said
voter " drop off" may occur. " Re-search
shows ' that voter interest
trails off as the voter goes through
the ballot, and the issues at the end
get less attention and are voted on
less than the issues at the begin-ning,"
Ballard said.
The first item on the ballot is the
U. S. Senate race, matching Republi-can
incumbent John Danforth
against Democrat Harriet Woods.
The nuclear freeze proposal is at the
end of the ballot.
" People will have to know how
they're going to vote before they go
in," said Director of Elections Wen-dy
Noren, who said this will be the
longest ballot in recent memory.
But Carolyn Leuthold, president of
the League of Women voters, won-ders,
" Will you have to bring in a
cheat- she- et just to remember what
to vote for? If people are less in-formed,
they'll just stop voting."
One possible consequence of the
long and complex ballot is that vot-ers
may- - skip its-- less publicized
parts; most agree that the turnout
win not be affected significantly.
Leuthold says he believes that it
will be important for campaigners to
make an extra effort in disseminat-ing
information to clarify the issues
for voters.
Mining interests dig at wilderness- are- a bill
By Sara Grosvenor
and Ellen Hosmer
Missourian staff writers
There's a battle raging over a
patch of ground called Irish Wilder-ness
which lies among the hills of the
Ozarks.
It's not like the Civil War conflict
that destroyed a settlement there in
the 1860s. Nor is it reminiscent of the
logging efforts in the late 19th cen-tury
that left the landscape riddled
with scars.
This is a battle of ideologies. Its
weapons are words delivered in vol-leys
of congressional bills, letters
and rhetoric.
Wednesday, the Senate Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources
passed bills to incorporate the 17,562.
acres of Oregon County's Irish Wil-derness
and 6,888 acres of Texas
Insight
County's Paddy Creek in the Nation-al
Wilderness Preservation System.
Both areas are in the Mark Twain
National Forest in southern Missou-ri.
The full Senate is' expected to pass
the bills this week. But if the mea-sures
dont win approval in the
House before the congressional re-cess
in October, the process will
have to begin again when Congress
reconvenes in January.
Reclassification of the Irish and
Paddy Creek areas would raise to
72,455 acres (. 16 percent of the state)
the number of Missouri acres in the
preservation system six other
Missouri wilderness areas already
are protected.
The Paddy Creek proposal has
drawn little opposition. But rep-resentatives
of both the Reagan ad-ministration
and the national mining'
industry have decried inclusion of
the Irish area in the wilderness pres-ervation
system.
The qualities which make Irish a
prime target for conservationists are
the same ones that make it so attrac-tive
to industry. Since logging opera-tions
there concluded more than half
a century ago, timber has been al-lowed
to reclaim the land. And be-neath
100- fo- ot trees lies the promise
of extensive mineral deposits.
The Irish is 40 miles south of the
Viburnum Trend, one of the largest
known lead reserves in the world.
The trend produces about 85 percent
of the lead mined in the United
States, according to Clayton Johnson
of the University's geology depart- -
ment.
Though the trend contains a 50- - to
100- ye- ar supply of lead, mining com-panies
look to the future and to the
fringes of the Irish Wilderness. They
think that the trend might extend
within the wilderness, and they
would like to conduct mineral explo-ration
there.
Mining company officials decline
to comment, but Johnson is willing to
speak for those searching the wilder-ness
soil for hidden mineral deposits.
" We know there are the same geo-logical
formations inside the area,"
Johnson says, " and there is no rea-son
to believe that they were not the
same geological conditions that pro-duced
the Viburnum Trend."
Groups seeking protection- o- f the
Irish Wilderness believe there's
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J5 Chinee
Vibaneeiion
From Chinese students attending local institutions to Co-lumbia
residents, visiting the world's most populous country,
the connection between China and Columbia is a far- reachi- ng
one. Today's Columbia Missourian explores this influence in
a special section, The Chinese Connection.
Ill town
today
Noon Museum of Art and Ar-chaeology,
25th anniversary,
tours, films, live music and free
refreshments.
Noon Last day of Energy Expo-sition,
Biscayne Mall, sponsored
by the County Energy Project.
Free and open to the public.
1 pjn. Jazz Festival, Shelter In-surance
Gardens, 1817 W. Broad-way,
free and open to public.
Monday
7 p. m. City Council meets, Coun- ty- Ci- ty
Building.
8 p-- m. " On Golden Pond," Uni-versity
Theater, Fine Arts Build-ing.
Tickets: $ 5 general admission,
$ 4.50 -- faculty and staff, $ 2.50 for
students and senior citizens.
8 p-- m. Faculty recital by flutist
Steven Geibel, Fine Arts Recital
Hall. Free and open to the public.
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