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Tfie weather good morning BG News Wednesday Bowling Green State University October 6, 1982 Mennonite found guilty in non-registration case CLEVELAND (AP) - A Mennonite 674,000 young men have not regis- prevented him from registering. college student, who said he did tered, the government estimates. "I knew I was breaking the law, but "what I felt I had to do," was con- The maximum sentence is five I believe it is wrong to send a message victed yesterday of failing to register years in prison or a $10,000 fine. of hostile intent to any other country," for the military draft, becoming the he testified, quoting from the Bible third man in the nation convicted SCHMUCKER'S CONVICTION and citing Jesus as a pacifist. since registration was resumed. came the day after Benjamin Sasway, Schmucker wrote the Selective A U.S. District Court jury of eight 21, was sentenced in San Diego to Vh Service in 1980 to state his intent not to women and four men deliberated a years in a federal work camp. register and continued to refuse to do little over an hour before returning Another man, Enten Eller, 21, con- so after being interviewed by the FBI. the verdict against Mark A. Sen- victed in Roanake, Va., was placed on mucker, 22, of Alliance. probation in August on condition that "IT SEEMS evident to me that "I bear them no ill will," said he perform community service work Mark desired to be prosecuted," said Schmucker, a senior at Goshen Col- and register within 90 days. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Arbez- lege in Goshen, Ind. "I did what I felt I nik. "We gave him every opportunity had to do. I've never denied for one Schmucker, whose father was a to register." moment that I did not register. The conscientious objector during the Ko- Arbeznik had unsuccessfully sought verdict occurred as I expected it to." rean War, refused an offer to sign a Justice Department authority not to Schmucker, who remains free on registration card when it was shown prosecute Schmucker, according to $2,000 signature bond pending sen- to Turn during his testimony Monday. an affidavit filed in the case. tencing Oct. 19, became the third He said after the verdict that while person convicted for failing to fill out He said his religious beliefs as a he personally had sympathy for the a Selective Service card since the Mennonite, a Christian sect whose defendant and his beliefs, it did not government resumed the require- members generally are pacifists op- stand in the way of his duty to pros- ment for registration. An estimated posed to any kind of military service, ecute him. Hundreds arrested in Lebanon, allies' hidden arms confiscated BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The Leb- 450 people had been seized during the as part of the government's campaign anese army arrested hundreds of army sweeps. to capture the weapons of leftist mili- people in Moslem west Beirut yester- tias. day in its biggest show of force since SOLDIERS CLOSED streets in the Police sources said those arrested the 1975-76 civil war. central shopping district of west Bei- were being questioned by the Leb- Hidden arms also were confiscated rut and checked documents of pedes- anese intelligence agency. There was in the former stronghold of the Pales- trians and people in automobiles. no information on where the suspects tine Liberation Organization and its They blocked street corners with ar- were taken. leftist militia allies. The operation mored personnel carriers as soldiers SECURITY SOURCES said large was part of a government crackdown with bullhorns warned residents to quantities of ammunition and weap- on PLO remnants and leftist militia in cooperate. ons left behind by departed Palestin- the Moslem sector in an attempt to Palestinian refugees said the move ian guerrillas and coaches of arms reassert control over the war-torn was aimed at intimidating them and from leftist Lebanese militiamen country. forcing them out of the country. West- were also seized. ern diplomatic sources said those Lebanese Moslem leaders last The state television said some of arrested included Palestinians - some week charged the army was carrying those arrested might be deported, and whose papers were in order - as well out indiscriminate arrests, especially a Saudi Arabian magazine quoted as Asians and other foreigners with- in the Bourj el-Barajneh Palestinian President Amin Gemayel as saying out residency permits or with permits refugee camp. Palestinians who entered Lebanon that had expired. Diplomatic sources said 2,000 were illegally must leave. There are an estimated 300,000 to arrested last week and 600 still were being held. Prime Minister Shafik Military officials refused to say 500,000 Palestinians in Lebanon, fol- Lir Kellv how many people were rounded up, lowing withdrawal of the main body of Wazzan was quoted in local newspa- Dr. Cloy Williams, associate professor of health, physical education and but reporters saw trucks filled with PLO fighters in August. pers as saying the army was rounding Award recreation, receives the praise of his students in the form of a message on the people, some blindfolded, being Other sources said Lebanese with up illegal aliens, escaped convicts and Winner: chalkboard. Williams was one of five teachers given an outstanding teaching driven away. Security sources said illegal weapons also were rounded up those whose papers were not in order. award by the Undergraduate Student Government Friday. in the British official discusses pipeline aided the U.S. in an embargo during Sitience in negotiating through the Oppenheim said the FalkUinds war NEWS by Tracy Collins "Britain considers America to be editor its closest ally," Oppenheim said. the Iranian hostage crisis - at a great nited Nations, when it was perfectly was not declared by British Prim- "There was no great bitterness at the cost - but that there is no parallel clear that the Argentines were using Minister Margaret Thatcher simply Tampering continues President Ronald Reagan's policy time of the Argentine war because of between supporting the United States delaying tactics in the negotiations,' because of patriotism, but "because a calling for a materials embargo to- the stand they took, because we real- when they nave suffered an atrocity she said. very basic principle was at sts.ke, one RIALTO, Calif. (AP) — A woman ized the interests the United States and supporting them when the matter that she and Parliament and the peo- suffered severe eye burns after ward the Soviet gas pipeline has "IF WE HAD WAITED for the caused bitterness among the United has in that region. There was disap- is an economic one. ple felt was worth dying for. And that using a new bottle of drops, but pointment, but no bitterness. United Nations, we would still be is the principle of self-determin- authorities who tested the medica- States' NATO allies in Europe, negotiating, and instead of 10,000 sol- according to The Right Honourable "But there is great bitterness in In further addressing the war over ation." tion said today the eye drops were Europe concerning the pipeline. We the Falkland Islands, Oppenheim said diers, there would be twice that many "normal" and didn't cause the wom- Sally Oppenheim, a member of the - reinforced - and in an unassailable Despite the enormous cost oi' the British Parliament. do not believe the building of the if Great Britain had relied on the war to Great Britain, Oppenheim said an's injury. pipeline in any way aids or gives United Nations to settle the dispute, position. And the Falklands would A doctor who treated Ihe woman at In a lecture Tuesday sponsored by still be under the boot of a govern- the battle was worth the effort, if only the University Acti'ities Organiza- power to Russia." the islands would still be in Argentine to serve as a deterrent to those \»ho an emergency room had said the OPPENHEIM SAID she believes hands today. ment which is not democratic, and woman burned her eyes Monday af- tion, Oppenheim said the matter is under which they did not want to wished to violate the principles of s elf- "purely economic," and that an em- there is no justification in Reagan's "Our government showed great determination in the future " ter using a bottle of Visine A.C. policy. She added that Great Britain live." solution. But lab tests showed noth- bargo is inappropriate. ing wrong with the solution the woman said she used, said Anthony Students benefit from program Longhetti. director of the San Ber- Company urges retailers nardino County sheriff's crime lab. Longhetti said his lab tested both to discard their Tylenol Learning in an enriched setting the solution the woman used and another bottle purchased by police at SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (AP) - ately," Foster said. "The product was by Julie Thornton said. "They make you search your- strate the skills and interest required the same store. Strychnine in Extra-Strength Tylenol picked up within a 25-mile radius by copy editor self." for the classes will be accepted, de- Asked about the hospital doctor's capsules purchased in an Oroville, our people." pending upon room available in the test, Longhetti replied: "He's incor- Calif., drugstore caused a 25-year-old It was not immediately clear why Students who are oriented toward GAUSE TOOK 10 hours of honors program, he said.