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A2 Th News-Journal paper Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1984 In the world Salvadoran rebels ambush train, kill 18 Geimayel flies to Damascus meets Assad a A rv" hi A -T5'X I 3 A Salvadoran woman weeps frWi Los Angeles Times SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador In a carefully planned attack marking a new offensive, guerrillas ambushed two trains carrying freight and passengers, killing at least 18 soldiers and civilians, El Salvador's armed forces said Tuesday, i The ambush occurred Monday in rolling sugar-growing country about 80 miles northwest of Sa'n Salvador as the trains made their way toward the capital from the western provincial center of Santa Ana. Rebels of the Popular Forces of Liberation, who had announced a new offensive against military targets on Monday, claimed responsibility for the attack. Three children were among those who died in the crossfire between guerrillas and troops of the Salvadoran Treasury Police, who wefe guarding the trains. In all, an armed forces communication said, ten civilians and eight soldiers died and another 14 civilians and seven soldiers were wounded.

Survivors said the attack began about 5:30 p.m. Monday when two remote-controlled mines exploded in front of the first train, a freight carrying aviation fuel and cement. A second train, carrying more cement and a car with about 50 passengers, most of them peasants, became caught up in the shooting that followed. Salvadoran guerrillas, who recruit heavily among the nation's poor, are usually careful not to inflict civilian casualties, and a special guerrilla radio broadcast Tuesday made an obvious attempt to mute the impact of the civilian deaths. Iran using children in war, Iraq claims AZAIR, Iraq Iranian fighters being sent across the border into Iraq are a motley group ranging from young children to clergymen.

An Iraqi field commander says they are largely volunteers with minimal training and appear to be in "a total state of chaos." About 150 Iranian prisoners, ranging in age from nine to 57, were being held Tuesday in the marshlands of Azair in southern Iraq. European truckers end blockade at pass INNSBRUCK, Austria More than 2,000 protesting truckers today ended an eight-day blockade of the Brenner Pass, the main link between Italy and northern Europe, after meetings with Austrian and West German government officials. Trucks started moving shortly after 8 a.m. at the pass and two other border crossings into Italy. 7 killed, 5 missing in freighter explosion TAIPEI, Taiwan Seven people were killed and five were reported missing today after an explosion severely damaged a small freighter on the Taiwanese island of Penghu, police reported.

A police spokesman on Penghu, contacted by telephone from Taipei, said 17 other sailors and longshoremen suffered severe burns from the explosion and a fire that followed. 2 sentenced to death by stoning for adultery ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates A United Arab Emirates court has sentenced an Indian man and a Sri Lankan woman to death for adultery, the Kuwait News Agency KUNA reported here Tuesday. It said the court ordered that the two be stoned to death. Heineken kidnapping suspects arrested AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -Police in Paris arrested two leading suspects in the kidnapping of brewery chairman Alfred Heineken, Dutch police said. Police spokesman Bernard Scholten said Cor van Hout, 26, and Wim Holleeder, 25, both of Amsterdam, were picked up at an apartment house in Paris by two Dutch detectives acting in cooperation with French police.

France gives U.S. not been made public in advance, although Syria's official news agency said Tuesday night that it was imminent. Gemayel, whose army has been splintered by Syrian-supported Druse and Shiite Moslem rebels, has not visited Syria since he assumed power in September 1982. Beirut newspapers said the trip would underscore "a final resolve" by the Gemayel government to scrap Lebanon's May 17 troop withdrawal pact with Israel. Syria and its Lebanese anti-government allies have been demanding cancellation of the accord as a precondition for reconciliation talkes to end Lebanon's almost nine-year-old civil war and form a national coalition cabinet.

There have been numerous reports that Gemayel would annul the accord with Israel, but he has delayed action because of objections by some of his Christian allies. The agreement calls for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon. It never went into effect because Israel stipulated it would pull out its troops only if there was a simultaneous withdrawal of Syrian forces. Syria refused to agree. A diplomatic source in Washington said the Gemayel-Assad summit became virtually inevitable when Gemayel was turned down last week in an appeal to the Reagan administration for U.S.

air and naval firepower to turn back any further moves by Syrian-backed forces into areas controlled by his government. By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon President Amin Gemayel, seeking to save his government from a challenge by Syrian-backed rebels, flew to Damascus today to discuss Lebanon's future at a summit meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Assad led the official welcoming delegation as Gemayel, accompanied by Foreign Minister Elie Salem and other aides, landed in a chartered plane at Damascus airport. The two leaders then headed for talks at Assad's presidential palace. In west Beirut, a car bomb exploded today in front of a 12-story apartment building, killing two people and injuring at least 50, rescue workers said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived at midday to visit U.S. Marines, who have been stationed on Navy warships off the Lebanese coast since their withdrawal from Beirut last weekend. Weinberger, traveling from Britain after a two-day visit, came ashore early in the afternoon for talks with U.S.

Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew at the American Embassy in west Beirut. Beirut newspapers had speculated that Weinberger might call on Gemayel and Defense Minister Issam Khoury before returning to the United States on Thursday. The date of the summit meeting between Gemayel and Assad had Iran calls AP over the body of her young son. U.S. presence in Gulf 'blackmail' Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus Iran said today that the U.S.

military presence in the Persian Gulf is "an act of aggression and blackmail" and warned that Washington must take responsibility for any incident in the area. A statement by Iran's Foreign Ministry, broadcast on Tehran Radio, said conditions established by the United States regarding air and sea movements around the U.S. vessels violate international law and represent support for Iraq, with whom Iran has been at war for 3 Vi years. "The IslamieRepublic of Iran, considering its responsibility to protect its sea and air borders, will under no circumstances accept this and strongly condemns it," the statement by an unidentified ministry spokesman said. The United States, which has five Navy ships in ihe Gulf and 30 more in the Indian Ocean, has declared a five-mile safety zone around them.

President Reagan sent the flotilla into the Gulf region in response to Iranian threats to close the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the non-Communist world's oil trade passes. On Sunday, one U.S. ship fired machine-gun shots and flares at an Iranian frigate and an airplane to warn them off after they had approached too closely. The statement today represented the first Iranian reaction to the incidents but did not mention them directly. In fighting Tuesday, Iraq claimed it had won the biggest victory of the war by crushing an Iranian offensive and driving Iranian forces back across the border near the sduth-ern city of Basra.

crash of U.S. plane site for D-Day rites PARIS France on Tuesday formally ceded to the United States a site at Utah Beach for a monument to all Allied troops who fought in the 1944 D-Day landings and the subsequent battle to free Normandy. The monument will be dedicated at ceremonies June 6, the 40th anniversary of the World War II Allied invasion of Europe. Compiled from dispatches Public editor To comment about the accuracy, fairness or adequacy of news coverage, call the public editor, 573-2142, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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Chief Master Sgt. C. Strongwell said nine of the 10 crew members and six combat controllers and one para-rescue person on board were from the Rhine-Main U.S. air base near Frankfurt. The other American crew member was from the base at Zaragoza.

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