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r -IqL .Special Po ity Election lStatesman Preview V, Newspaper for the State University Monday, Oct. 4, 1982 of NeN York at Stony Brook Volume 26, Number 12 -Page IE and its surrounding comnnunities I - A - - - I - I 77W? 4 _ _T - > A Israeli Troop Bus Is Ambushed Beirut, Lebanon (AP)-Gunmen Several dailies quoted official sources Moslem-populated town on the Beirut- raeli troops have sealed off Aley. Leba- nese police said Israeli ambushed an Israeli troop bus yes- as saying Gemayel would announce his Damascus highway about 10 miles sou- soldiers and terday near a mountain village, and an choice for prime minister today. theast of the capital. Christian militiamen set up check- Israeli army spokesman said there U.S. presidential envoy Philip Habib A spokesman for the Israeli press of- points around the village. were casualties. Lebanese news media was reported to have left Syria to con- fice near Beirut, who would identify said the attackers used rocket- tinue his mission to secure withdrawal himself only as Lt. Stuart, said the It was not clear who was responsible propelled grenades and automatic of all foreign troops from Lebanon. Is- troops were riding in a civilian bus and for the attack. The Palestine Liberation rifles. raeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir were attacked at 3:30 PM, 9:30 AM Organization is believed to have about In Beirut, Lebanese newspapers re- said in New York that Habib told him EDT. 10,000 fighters among the estimated ported that President Amin Gemayel the armies would leave "by the end of Voice of Lebanon said Israeli helicop- 25,000 Syrian troops in northern and wants to form an interim Cabinet, this year." * ters evacuated soldiers wounded in the eastern Lebanon. headed by Lebanon's security chief and The rightest Christian "Voice of Le- attack and a curfew was imposed in the A land mine exploded in downtown including other military men, that banon" radio station said an unknown village, about six miles in front of the Beirut, wounding at least six people, would have wide powers to impose law -number of Israeli troops were killed or Syrian lines. but the rest of the city was quiet and order. wounded in the attack near Aley, a Lebanon's state-owned radio said Is- yesterday. -News Digest -International- "It is necessary and urgent that following the exam- Chicago -The killer who put cyanide in Extra- ple of the poor man St. Francis, one decide to abandon Strength Tylenol bottles used a form of the poison Warsaw, Poland-Archbishop Jozef Glemp, leader inconsiderate forms of domination, capture and cus- available in school chemistry labs and metal plants, of Poland's influential Roman Catholic Church, is tody with respect to all creatures." an official said yesterday as chemists and detectives taking a tougher stand in defense of Solidarity as the searched for clues to the poisonings of seven people. martial law regime mulls plans to outlaw the now- .*** Police said they had several leads in the investiga- suspended independent union. tion, including a shoplifter arrested in last August for Glemp, criticized in the past for being too soft on stealing Tylenol and reports of suspicious customers the 10-month-old martial law government, "is really Naples, Italy - Police have captured a Red Bri- at stores where the poison was found on shelves. Po- setting out some sharp words," a Western diplomatic gades leader believed to be the architect of the terror- lice artists were sent out to interview employees. source said last week. ist gang's bloodiest attacks in recent months, Two police officers who picked up what are be- "He seems to be really worried about what could investigators said Sunday. Vittorio Bolognesi, 32, the lieved to have been Tylenol capsules in a parking lot happen this month," said the source, who declined to head of the Red Brigades in Naples, was nabbed in his be identified. apartment last week, police said. There were nine The primate's shift apparently stems from growing arrest warrants against him, officials said. 1TYENOL speculation that the government will ban all trade Five other terrorists and a large a cache of arms and unions, including Solidarity, under a new trade union ammunition were seized at three terrorist hideouts law that is expected to come up for parliamentary during a major anti-terrorist drive launched last week debate this month. in Naples, police said. The arrests were described by Both the church and Solidarity supporters have one offical as "the biggest blow against terrorism" since special forces raided a Red Brigades hideout in spoken against an outright ban of the union, which became ill the next day, and authorities were running was suspended when martial law was imposed last Padua in January and freed U.S. Brig. Gen. James Dozier after 42 days of captivity. Hundreds of sus- tests on the pills to see if they were contaminated by Dec. 13. But while the Solidarity underground cyanide warned of protests against such a move, the church pected terrorists and their supporters were arrested Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner, who is has, until recently, urged restraint before and after the Dozier search. and appealed leading a task force of 75 investigators, said yesterday against any new violence. * ll1~~~~~* 4 that authorities believe the poisoned capsules were placed on shelves "probably the day before" the first * * * three deaths were Sudan announced yesterday that it is prepared to reported Wednesday. "It is an act send troops to aid Iraq against Iran's latestoffensive in of a random murderer who filled the Madrid, Spain-Three army officers arrested this capsules with cyanide and then placed them in the weekend were reported to be planning a military the 2-year-Old Persian Gulf war. Saudi Arabia warned Iran faces a "no holds barred" war with the entire stores," said Fahner, who is heading a task force of coup for Oct. 27, a day before national elections that some 75 investigators from 15 state, federal and local are expected to result in a socialist government. Arab world if it does not respond to mediation efforts. Radio Baghdad claimed yesterday that Iraqi forces agencies including the FBI. Forty-three state chem- The Defense Ministry identified the three officers ists repulsed a third Iranian attack into Iraq in as many were working around-the-clock in the as Col. Luis Murnoz Gutierrez, Col. Jesus Crespo Cus- investigation. pineda and his brother, Lt.Col. Jose Crespo Cus- days while Iraqi warplanes made 'direct and very effective hits" against Iranian positons. The broadcast Fahner said evidence indicates a single person pineda, and said they were arrested Saturday for "went around said Iranian units tried to cross into Iraq near the the Chicago area salting the store "activities against the security of the state." shelves Iranian city of Sumar, about 100 miles eastof the Iraqi with one bottle of contaminated Tylenol at a The newspaper El Pais, quoting Interior Ministry time." capital city. "Our forces intercepted the enemy and The stores were as much as 40 miles apart in sources, said yesterday that the three were planning the northern part of Chicago. after fierce fighting that lasted two hours he was to stage a coup on the eve of the general elections. Police also said yesterday that a fourth batch Another daily, Diario 16, said the planned coup was forced to retreat, suffering very heavy losses in human lives and equipment," the broadcast said. number of the capsules was involved in the deaths. A named "Operation Cervanbes" and was backed by woman who died in Winfield, a far west suburb of other right-wing military officers involved in a failed Tehran radio, however, claimed "guerrilla groups" backed by artillery had 'penetrated enemy territory" Chicago, had capsules from lot MB1833. There was coup attempt on Feb. 23, 1981. initial confusion yesterday killing 100 Iraqis and wounding 150 others. over the batch number in that case The broadcast said two Iraqi vehicles, three tanks and because she apparently mixed Extra-Strength Ty- lenol capsules with five large ammunition dumps were destroyed. The regular Tylenol. The first two batches implicated, lots MC2880 and Beirut, Lebanon - Six Israeli soldiers were killed attack was the third since Iran announced last Friday that "lightning" offensive had recaptured 60 square 1910OMD, were recalled nationwide by the manufac- Sunday and 22 others wounded, half of them seriously, miles of Iranian territory, along with high ground turer. McNeil Consumer Products Co., a subsidiary of when ambushers fired automatic weapons and bazoo- Johnson & Johnson. overlooking the Iraqi border town of Mandali. Iraq kas at a troop bus east of the war-torn Lebanese capi- denied the loss of ground, and said the Iranian The last known victim, 35-year-old flight attendant tal, the Israeli military command said. offen- sive was repulsed. Paula Prince, was found dead Friday night in her The Israeli troops were "combing the area" for the Chicago apartment, a few steps from a 24-capsule assailants, who attached near the mountain village of bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol she had bought at a Aley, the command said in Tel Aviv. It did not identify .^ nfa n·s' ------- nearby drug store. Authorities believe she died who was suspected of carrying out the attack. Wednesday. The rightist Christian "Voice of Lebanon" radio sta- All the other contaminated bottles contained 50 tion also reported the attack but gave differen t figures. Houston - Indian President Zail Singh has entered capsules. It said seven soldiers were killed and 15 wounded near Texas Heart Institute for an examination and possible The pills in Miss Prince's apartment were from a Aley, 10 miles southeast of Beirut and six miles in front coronary bypass surgery.