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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-30-1975 The BG News October 30, 1975 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News October 30, 1975" (1975). BG News (Student Newspaper). 3161. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3161 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. An Bowling Green. Ohio Independent nmrnitfi UJmmm 30,1975 Student Volume 59/Number 22 Voice THe BG news Beirut evacuated as fighting continues BEIRl'T. Lebanon (AP) - Security about a dozen guests, including several 115 wounded during the previous 24 department of the Palestine Liberation professor of journalism on a leave of Lebanon's civil strife worsened. forces in armored cars evacuated a American newsmen and Dutch hours. Organization, said guerrillas have not absence from the University is Tom Carolan, a state department do/en foreigners trapped in two Ambassador Harry Jorissen and his Cars with loudspeakers circulated in participated in full in the Lebanese scheduled lo leave Beirut today and offical monitoring the flow of tourist hotels as advancing private wife. the Maronite Christian stronghold of fighting. fly to Athens. Greece, a U.S. State American citizens from Lebanon, said armies of Moslems fought to take the The guests iay on the floor during Ashrafieh. calling on residents to go to "Had we participated, we would Department official in Washington said no official evacuation order has been hotel district from Christian control. the bursts of fire, according to basements to escape an expected certainly have finished off the yesterday. issued, but most Americans who The leftist Moslems, using machine Washington Post correspondent rocket and mortar attack from Phalangists within 24 hours." he said. Dr. Fisher was teaching at the would be evacuated are leaving of their own volition. He said all Americans guns and rockets, moved to within 100 Jonathan Randall, one of those inside. Moslems. • • • American University of Beirut and the yards of the stricken 500-room Moslem snipers in a 40-story In Damascus, guernla leader Zuheir Lebanese National University under a who want to leave should be out of Holiday Inn. where gunmen of the building dominated the hotel area. Mohsen. head of the military Dr. Harold Fisher, associate Hayes-Fulbright fellowship when the troubled nation by tonight. right-wing Christian Phalange Party They were armed with Soviet-made were shooting back off the roof. Siminov rifles with telescopic sights. "I'm going to be sleeping in the 50-caliber machine guns and multiple Holiday Inn tonight." one of the launchers fot Katyusha rockets. Moslem fighters told Associated Press correspondent Edward Cody. "I'm PHALANGISTS tried to dislodge going to have a bath and shave and them with light weapons and 106-mm sleep nice." recoilless rifles, blasting holes in the INTERNAL security forces moved concrete superstructure. in under fire to evacuate the last "The situation li getting worse and foreign guests from the Holiday Inn worse." said an official. Fires burned and the Phoenicia, another 500-room in most quarters. Police could give no luxury hotel next door. The Holiday casualty tolls. Inn was riddled with bullet holes, and "Nobody is counting any more." a rocket hits started two fires. policeman said. The waterfront St. Georges Hotel, The death toll in the seven-month also used as a position by Christian civil war is now estimated at about gunmen, came under heavy fire from 6.500. Officials said early yesterday at Moslems, preventing evacuation of least ''1 persons had been killed and Hearst ally indicted SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Soliah, a former high school Steven Soliah. the 27-year-old football and track star from Palmdale. housepaintei accused of harboring Calif., was taken into custody on Sept. Patricia Heaist. was indicted yesterday 18. the same day Hearst and three by a federal grand jury on a charge of fugitive companions were arrested in robbing a hank in which a woman San Francisco. customei was killed. Soliah is believed to have been VS. Atty. Dwayne Keycs said he Hearst's lover in the ninths after the would seek the death penalty against newspaper heiress was kidnaped from Soliah. who is presently in cUStod) "> her Berkeley apartment in February San Francisco. 1974. In a tape-recorded jail Non-stop fighting continues to rage in the streets of automobile in the Ras el Nabeh district. (AP conversation with a childhood friend. Beirut. Here, an unidentified member of one of the Wirephoto) U.S. DISTRICT Court Judge Sherill Hearst told of living with Soliah and Beirut warrior warring factions scuttles past an abandoned Halbert set bail on the bank lobhery described a brief kiss exchanged in a charge at S250.000. Soliah already is courthouse corridor. being held on $75,000 bail on the harboring charge. SOLIAH is accoused of harboring The indictment stems from the Hearst by renting the hideout April 21 robbery of a branch of the apartment used by her and artist Crocker National Bank in suburban Wendy Yoshimura. He has pleaded Five-week break approved Carmichael in which four robbers stole innocent and is scheduled to stand SI5.000 and shotgunncd to death a trial Dec. I. 42-year-old housewife. Soliah's two sisters - Kathleen. 29. Pat Thomas McGeein, coordinator of facility buildings on campus must be kept consumption for December and The indictment did not mention and Josephine. 24 - are being sought Staff Reporter planning, revealing that no appreciable heated during the break to prevent January does not reflect the absence Hearst or any other figures linked to for questioning about SLA activities. energy savings would result from the freezing of water pipes. of students on campus. Coal the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Kathleen is the girlfriend of James A 1976-77 academic calendar giving revised calendar. He said the cost difference between consumption remains essentially the Army (SLA) although investigators arc Kilgore. 26. a housepainting buddy of students a five-week break between heating a building for occupancy and same whether or not buildings are in known to have been exploring the Soliah's who reportedly has been fall and winter quarters was approved "I DONT think it's going to impact heating it for safety is difficult to use. possibility that other SLA members named in a federal complaint on yesterday by Academic Council costs significantly," McGeein said of measure. The calendar approved by council may have been involved. unspecified charges. despite a presentation by Robert the calendar change. He explained that McGeein added that University coal provides for the beginning of fall quarter on Monday, Sept. 13, with exams beginning Friday, Nov. 19 and ending Tuesday. Nov. 23 with no exams on Sunday. Winter quarter begins Jan. 3, with Mayoral candidates explain views exams Monday, March 14 through Thursday, March 17. Spring quarter By Gail Harris incumbent Charles Bartlett. Each adding that his platform has tenant union should be created. recouping the losses that have begins Monday, March 28, with exams Staff Reporter person was allowed to speak for seven "something for everyone." Dickinson said these were important occurred during the last several years." beginning on Monday, June 6 and minutes. Dickinson said he wants to see all issues because many students and A licensed plumber, Perkins said he ending Thursday, June 9. Three mayoral candidates explained DICKINSON, an independant. railroad crossings upgraded. He landlords often arc involved in has helped to move water, sewer and Considerable debate occurred over their platforms to the public at a stressed that students should be more proposes that dashing lights and conflicts. waste treatment projects forward. He the academic advantages of the new luncheon meeting yesterday sponsored involved in community affairs and that warning gates be installed at all Dickinson said he thinks a law should said he thinks the city needs and calendar, which needs approval by by the Chamber of Commerce. there should be more communication crossings. be passed calling for a $5 maximum would profit from a new waste University President Hollis Moore Jr. The candidates are Robert between the city and the University. He also said he thinks the city needs penalty for possession of marijuana. "I treatment plant. and the Board of Trustees to be Dickinson, junior (Ed.), ward one "I want to represent students, but to form a commission to deal with don't think someone should have a Mayor Charles Bartlett. who seeks implemented. councilman Alvin Perkins and I'll also represent everyone," he said. tenant and landlord rights and that a criminal record just because they have re-election, said he is pleased with the Dr. Wayne Johnson, associate marijuana," he said. progress of the community over the professor of quantitative analysis and ANOTHER POINT of Dickinson's last few years. He said he thinks control, said the five-week break will platform is the creation of a shuttle administration is responsible for many be an advantage to students engaged in bus in the city. He said this would be dramatic changes. winter quarter internships. hcrieiiticul to all citizens, especially the elderly and the poor. Bartlett said that for the first time THE EARLY start of fall quarter Democratic candidate Alvin Perkins, in the history of the city, an was discussed as an advantage in who has served as a councilman for the agreement was made to use Board of student teaching projects, allowing last four years, said he thinks the past Education facilities for city recreation.