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NEWS TRIBUNE. City. Sundoy. October 12.1975 Lebanon: Playground becomes battleground BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A perfectly respectable company vice president who has never handled firearms goes out and buys a submachine gun because he hears a rumor that "the Moslems are coming to kill all the Christians on Verdun Street." All night long he waits on his balcony with 1,200 rounds of ammunition. The invasion never materializes but he fires off a few clips anyway, along with several other equally respectable Lebanese gentlemen doing the same thing on their balconies.

The security guard at the Chase Manhattan Bank has a new chore: Checking the pistols and rifles brought to work by employes. But the bank is seldom open these days. An American housewife evacuates her apartment during a street battle and returns to find the back of her bird cage smashed open by a bullet. The canary is still inside, singing, as her Lebanese in-laws arrive with a household of furniture from another combat zone. The anecdotes reflect a new and terrifying lifestyle in Lebanon, once billed as the "Switzerland of the Middle East." a i Christian-Moslem warfare have ruined Beirut's image as an Arab playground and the Middle East's financial capital.

Repeated rounds of street fighting, pun- ctuated by uneasy cease-fires, have left about 6,000 dead and 18,000 wounded. Shipping, commerce and banking have been paralyzed, with losses estimated between $2.5 to $10 billion. Machine gun duels, bomb blasts and rocket salvos have closed 76 banks, traditional conduits for billions of petrodollars from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. First National City Bank of New York chartered a jetliner to evacuate more than ISOnon-Lebaneseernployes and dependents to Athens, Greece. They are still there.

Luxury hotels on Beirut's "Gold Coast" are empty of holiday-makers. Foreign businessmen are leaving for more peaceful countries, or at least sending out their wives and children. So far, there have been no foreign casualties and embassies have not issued formal evacuation orders. Diplomats privately estimate that Lebanon's foreign community of about 15,000 has shrunk by half. The U.S.

State Department has officially classified Lebanon as a hardship post, meaning diplomats are now entitled to regular "rest and recreation" leave outside the country. "Lebanon has just become a nasty place to live," said one American banker's wife as she boarded a plane recently for Athens. "My children missed school, my husband could not get any business done. We were running out of food, they turned off the water and the explosions were keeping us awake at night." She did not come back. Lebanon has been plagued by periodic outbreaks of civil unrest since the U.S.

Marines landed here in 1958 to avert a civil war. But even the marines were greeted by similar soft drink vendors, and the only real hazards were Israeli reprisal raids against Palestinian guerrilla camps. Beirut remained a pleasant if expensive place to live until last April, when religious and political rivalries escalated into a full-scale sectarian war. Although the crisis has religious overtones, political and economic factors play a significant role. Moslems demand a greater share in the power and wealth of the Christian establishment, which is largely conservative in outlook.

Another issue is the presence in Lebanon of armed Palestinian guerrillas who are virtually immune from control by the Lebanese government. While the majority of the Palestinians have remained on the sidelines, radicals have joined the fight on the side of the Moslems. Foreign families and well-to-do Lebanese enjoyed spacious, modern apartments with beach clubs on their doorsteps and ski slopes a half hour's drive away. High-rise buildings had waiting lists of tenants ready to pay up to $25,000 annual rent. Business boomed, foreign inveslment was welcomed and the Lebanese descendants of Phoenician traders provided a well-educated, Westernized labor pool.

Christians and Moslems bragged to foreigners about their unique coexistence formula, calling it the "Lebanese miracle." Now one can hear the sounds of battle from nearly every residential quarter. Businessmen see clouds of black smoke rising from their office districts, while their wives scramble for dwindling food supplies in the few shops that open during cease-fire periods. On Oct. 7, 36 housewives were killed or wounded when a mortar shell struck a bakery as they were lining up for bread. Gunmen of a dozen private armies prowl city streets, erectng roadblocks and stopping unwary motorists.

A Lebanese identity card, which lists religion, can be a lifesaver or a death certificate, depending on what neighborhood a resident is in. Lebanese army troops and security forces patrol only those areas where there is no street fighting. Beiruts have long ago i i a i proclamations, government pledges to restore security and optimistic predictions issued by a "national reconciliation committee." Hamra Street, a boulevard of flashy boutiques, movie theaters and sidewalk cafes, currently has four security checkpoints within sight of each other. One block away, Palestinian guerrillas and left-wing Moslems man nightly roadblocks of their own. Residential and commercial areas outside the main combat zones are tightly shuttered, giving some parts of Beirut the appearance of a ghost town.

The streets are eerily deserted, piled high with rotting garbage. Service are rapidly disintegrating, because government employes cannot get a i a telecommunications have been disrupted for months. Water and electricity suffer periodic cutoffs. Garbage collection has lagged so badly that doctors are now warning of typhoid and other possible epidemics. Snipers, hit-and-run bombers and government-imposed curfews discourage all night life.

Lebanon's new life style has also created a variety of neuroses in children. Lawyer says Hearst unable to stand trial BOSTON (AP) Patricia Hearst was "drugged by force" and is "not capable of standing trial or assisting in her own defense," one of her attorneys says. Albert Johnson said in an interview in Sunday editions of the Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser. Miss Hearst "shows no acute distress and she doesn't hallucinate, but she's confused by questions which have anything to do with time span," Johnson is a partner of F. Lee Bailey, who recently took charge of the Hearst defense, and was part of a defense team that spent 70 hours with Miss Hearst since her capture.

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16, 1905 at Springfield, the son of Charles and Cora Sloan Atwell. He was married June 9,1928, in Tuscumbia, to the former Miss Lucy Adams, who survives. Mr. Atwell was a former resident of the Iberia area and had retired from his own business last year. Other survivors include: One son.

Max Atwell, DeSoto, two brothers Lloyd Atwell, Kansas City, and El vie Atwell, Overland Park, two sisters, Mrs. Zella Fisher, Golden, and Mrs. Selma Busby, state of California; and five grandchildren. Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, at the Stevenson Funeral Chapel, Iberia.

The' Rev. Tom Adams will officiate. Buriar will be in the Iberia Cemetery. Mrs. FernSilvey dies in hospital Mrs.

Fern Silvey, 63, of Gravois Mills, died Thursday at the University of Missouri Medical Center, Columbia. Mrs. Silvey was bom July 16, 1912, in Morgan County, the daughter of George and Rita Walters Hoist. She was married on Aug. 22, 1946, to Marshall Silvey, who died in 1967.

Survivors include: One son, Dean Silvey. Gravois Mills; two daughters, Mrs. Patricia Smith, Auzusa, and Mrs. Rita Barker, Kansas City; two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Hibdon, Versailles, and Mrs.

Maxine Wilkens, Virginia Beach, one brother, Earl Hoist, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and eight grandchildren. Services were at 3 p.m., i Saturday at the Scrivner Chapel, Versailles with the Rev. Curtis Wilson officiating. iJ Burial will be in the Versailles Cemetery. Mrs.

Mrs. Heimericks dies at age 90 Mrs. Elizabeth (Betty) Heimericks, 90, of 208 Main died Friday at the Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, following a month-long illness. She was born March 12,1885, in Wardsville, daughter of Peter and Mary Stockman Eveler.

She was married Nov. 11, 1908, in Jefferson City, to Bernard (Ben) Heimericks, who died in 1947. Mrs. Heimericks was a member of Altar Sodality of St. Peters Church, a past 4-H leader and past president of the Schumate Chapel Extension Club.

Survivors include: Three sons, Paul Heimericks. 208 Manila Robert Heimericks, 619 Tomlee and Ralph Heimericks, St. Louis; two daughters. Mrs. Leo (Her-' maina) Meyer, St.

Louis and Mrs. Edward (Kathryn) Kolkmeyer, Eldon; two sisters, Mrs. Joe (Emma) Schulte, 22 Polk and Mrs. Emil (Aurelia) Roling, 624a Clark- 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

at the Dulle Funeral Home, the funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Peter's Catholic Church. The Patrick Daly will officiate, and burial will be in the Resurrection Cemetery. Daily record Hospital admissions St.

Mary's Mrs. Verda Wood, Etterville; Mrs. Janie Clarke, Route Lawrence Swillum, 2106 St. Mary's Blvd. Mrs.

Katherine Renner. 1506 Ridgewood Dr. Charles E. Still Mrs. Mary Giesing, 108 McKinley William Rinne, Bland; Mrs.

Bonnie Climax Springs; Mrs. Patricia Frey, Waynesville. Mrs. Elizabeth Albert, Route Mrs. Sharon Gibson, Cedar Wood Terrace Jesse i a Eldon; Craig Rehagen.

Star route Ralph Forgey, 1005 W. McCarty Two injured Two Jefferson City residents received minor injuries in a two-car accident in the 2100 lock of Missouri Blvd. Saturday afternoon. Police said an eastbound car driven by Eric McGeorge, 19, of 726 Ohio was struck by the westbound vehicle of Dies Lawson, 69,118 Westmore which attempted a left turn into the path of the McGeorge car. Passengers in the McGeorge i Mrs.

Gwedolyn McGeorge, 19, and her 1-year-old duughter Alicia were treated and released from Charles E. Still hospital. Mrs. Mamie Bolfing, Route Mrs. Karen Meller, Lohrnan.

Memorial Mrs. Ruby Stout, 703 Belmont Henry Rudy, I i a Mrs. Mary Lou DelCour, 306 Hickory St. Mrs. Mary Abbot, Eugene.

Police reports Harold Vieth, 1510 St. Mary's reported Friday the theft of a CB radio antenna from his truck while it was parked in front of his residence. Value of the antenna was listed at $25. George L. Land, 923 Harding reported Friday the theft of a tool box and its contents from his truck.

Value of the items was listed at $150. Weather The Thermometer High yesterday 80; Low yesterday 48; High past 57 years 92 in 1928; Low past 57 years 30 in 1952. Precipitation News Tribune Weather Bureau Reading 0 for past 24 hours ending at midnight; heaviest rain same date in 57 years 1.58 in 1931. Total to date this month Normal this month to date 1.62; This year to date 31.00; Normal 33.75. The Sun Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow 7:16.

Vincent Eiken dies Saturday Vincent Eiken, 86, Taos, died Saturday in St. Mary's Health Center after a long illness. He was born Aug. 24,1889, in Taos, the son of Herman and Elizabeth Bernskoetter Eiken. He was married April 19,1921, in Taos, to Adela Kerperin, who died Oct.

4,1955. A member of the Holy Name Sodality of St. Francis Xavier Chruch, Mr. Eiken worked in the Eiken Store, Taos, for more than 60 years. Survivors include: Three sons, Silver Eiken and Edward Eiken, both of Taos, and Joseph Eiken, Anaheim, seven daughters, Mrs.

Paul Forck, a a Winkelman, Freeburg, Mrs. Park Harden, Blue Springs, Sister Fransica Eiken, San 'Antonio, Sister Adela Eiken, St. Louis, and Miss Frances Eiken and Miss Susanna Eiken, both of Taos; 31 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. The rosary will be prayed at. 7:30 p.m.

Monday at the Dulle Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Francis Xavier Church, with the Rev. William Flanagan officiating.

Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Harrison English dies at St. Louis Harrison English, 64, St. Louis, and a former Jefferson City resident, died Friday at Bethesda Hospital, St. Louis.

He was born July 5, 1911, in Callaway County, son of Luther and Georgia Ann English. He was employed by Judge Iven Holt in St. Louis. Survivors i one brother, Charlie English, Holts Summit, and one half-brother, Edward Johnson, Kansas City, Kan. Services will be at 10 a.m.

Monday at the Ellis Funeral Home, St. Louis, and burial will be in St. Louis. Mrs. Ethel West dies in hospital Mrs.

Ethel West, 81, of Star Route 2, died Friday at a Jefferson City hospital. Mrs. West was born June 10, 1894, at Vienna, the daughter of Lazarus and Linda Mahon Stewart. She was married June 1. 1918, to Robha G.

West, who died April 9,1961. Survivors include: One daughter, Mrs. Carl Huber, Star Route 2, one sister, Mrs. Ida Dalton, St. Louis; and seven grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m., today, at the First Baptist- Church, Belle with the Rev. James Noble and Brother Davidson officiating. Burial will be in the Liberty Cemetery south of Belle. Arrangements were made by Sassmann's Funeral Home, Belle. Mrs.

McDaniel dies at hospital Mrs. Amelia P. McDaniel, 90, of 214 Lafayette died Saturday afternoon at a Jefferson City hospital. Mrs. McDaniel was born Feb.

8, 1885, at Jefferson City, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Boillot. She was married Dec. 24,1905 to George W.

McDaniel, who died July 6, 1966. Mrs. McDaniel had lived in Jefferson City for 30 years and was a lifelong member of the Methodist church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Morton Chapel, Linn, with the Rev.

Charles W. Miller officiating. Burial will be in the Linn Memorial Cemetery. Macaque twins Twin 8-day-old macaques born at the mother was brought to the center from University of Washington's Regional Java last summer. She was given a Primate Research Center are given a tranquilizer while the babies were weigh-in at the Seattle facility.

The boys' examined. (AP wirephoto) Parents complain of increased bed-wetting by the children, insomnia, hysteria' and fear of loud noises. One American couple' wanted to get their 12-year-old daughter away from it all, so they sent her to summer camp the Lebanese mountains. When she retur-I ned, they asked her what she had done. "I learned karate and how to shoot a gun," she proudly replied.

Lebanese schoolchildren have already lost up to two months of classes. So far, the American community school is the only educational facilty which reopened on schedule after the summer vacation. Wealthy Lebanese are sending their- children to boarding schools in France and Switzerland, a big wrench for close-knit Arab families that traditionally keep their offspring at home until marry. a Lebanese are talking or emigrating, which would aggravate an? already existing brain drain from small country of 3 million. "I used to think Lebanon had a future.

defended Lebanon against all critics. Now! I have to admit they were right," said" Talal Bajour, an architect whose office was destroyed by mortar fire. "There is something rotten in this country." Fitzgerald graves to be moved ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) The remains of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, will be moved next month to a Roman Catholic cemetery that 35 years ago rejected the famous author as unsuitable for burial there.

Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby," "Tender is the Night" and "This Side of Paradise," told friends he wanted to be buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, where his Rockville-born father was buried in 1931. But when the author died in 1940 at the age of 44, his request was denied by the Church on grounds that he was not a practicing Catholic and that his books were not the kind of reading material that found favor with Church officials. The author's body was buried instead in an inconspicuous grave in the Rockvilie Cemetery, also called the old Union Cemetery, across the road from St. Mary's.

Zelda Fitzgerald, who died in a North Carolina sanitarium, was buried next to her husband in 1948. Man breaks glass door A Jefferson City man was treated at Charles E. Still Hospital early Saturday morning after he fell through a glass door at the News Tribune 210 Monroe St. Police said the man apparently was drunk when he broke the door about 2 a.m. After being treated at the local hospital, the man was taken to the state mental hospital in Fulton.

Black African leaders fear nuclear arms race BONN, West Germany (AP) Black African leaders say they fear their continent may be on the verge of a nuclear arms race between antagonistic racial blocs with the atomic know-how provided by West German companies. Dr. Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigeria's chief delegate to a foreign policy symposium here last week, said the Africans were worried that West German firms were passing on potentially dangerous atomic knowledge to white-ruled South Africa with or without official support. He said economically more advanced black states may also try to acquire nuclear know-how if the apartheid regime develops technology putting the A-bomb within reach. Akinyemi is head of the Lagos government's Institute for International Affairs.

His concern was publicly echoed at a news conference Friday by speakers from Tanzania, Sudan and Ghana. Kenyans and other black diplomats attending as observers said they privately shared Akinyemi's fears. The controversy was sparked by a black liberation front's publication of what it said, were top-secret documents stolen from the South African Embassy in Bonn. The African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) said the papers prove that senior German officials have backed known plans by German concerns to supply reactors to South Africa and help it build a uranium enrichment plant by the mid-80's. Enrichment is the last step before developing a bomb.

The West German government rejected as "absurd" ANC charges that it conspired to give South Africa the A- bomb and said it will not authorize exports of enrichment technology to South Africa. Neither Bonn nor South Africa has denied the authenticity of the published documents. The government confirmed Kraftwerk Union AG of Muehlheim applied for government credit insurance to backstop its planned bid for a South African reactor contract against U.S., French and other competitors. Armin Gruenewald, deputy spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, said the government has sunk $7 billion into nuclear research and technology and no one can' expect it to withdraw entirely from nuclear technology exports and let the investment go down the drain. South Africa controls more than 20 per cent of the world's proved, exploitable uranium resources and provides West Germany with 40 per cent of its uranium supplies.

DeLong's Continued from page 27 and any dust produced goes into a baghouse where it's collected on a filter. The cleaned air is vented out. The baghouse insures 99 per cent collection efficiency for DeLong, and the method continues to pay for itself because the BB's can be re-used. i According to Michael T. Marshall, air quality program director for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, success is a good exam- ple of what can be done to solve air pollution problems.

"His firm is one of many in the state now coming into compliance with regulations on air quality," said Marshall. As for DeLong, he said he hopes his success story will raise the consciousness of others to the possibilities of solving air quality problems..