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For more information, please contact [email protected]. f:.o4Z. t VJ-Ls 57?5'1"724 UN '3Qv.J NEW MEXICO , cr CCJ No~~'~~~~~a~i~ ~obo Vol. 88 No. 65 Friday, N~vember 18, 1983 French Avenge Bombing BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)- Arafat, beleaguered chief of the strategic city that guards the south French jets swooped deep behind Palestinian Liberation Organiza east approaches to the capital. Syrian lines in eastern Lebanon tion, vowed in Tripoli ''to fight to . "To the guys coming in, keep Thursday and smashed Iranian gu~J:• the end" despite the fall of his last your heads low,'' Lance Cpl. John rilla bases in Baalbek in retaliation Lebanese stronghold to Palestinian Pugh, of Brighton, Tenn., said in a for the Beirut bombing that killed 59 rebels who loosed new rocket and word of advice to the new Marines. French troops last month, mortar barrages. "rt is going to be cold and wet, The attack came a day after Israeli Arafat, whose hand was bloody but stay awake," said Pugh, who jets destroyed training camps, arms and bandaged, admitted he lost most lost 12 friends in the Oct. 23 blast depots and command centers of the of the refugee camp of Beddawi, but and promised to ''get down on my militant Islamic Amal militia in re said 600 Arafat loyalists launched a knees, kiss the ground and thank the tribution for the Nov. 4 bombing of counterattack within the fallen camp Lord for being alive" when he gets Israel's headquarters inTyre. in a desperate bid to rejoin 5,000 home. State-run Beirut radio and the sta comrades who retreated to Tripoli At night three bombs went off in tion of the Phalange militia reported earlier in the week. west Beirut, destroying a carpet heavy casualties in Baalbek, 42 In Beirut, Marines fresh from the store, a clothing outlet and a car. No . miles east of Beirut and l 0 miles invasion of Grenada came ashore to one was injured, largely due to a north of guerrilla targets Israel de join the multinational peacekeeping curfew that kept the streets of the molished in the Bekaa Valley 24 force and replace the badly depc Moslem area deserted at night. hours earlier. - 'leted 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, The French Defense Ministry in They said 12 Super Entendards which lost 239 men in. a suicide Paris said all jets returned safely to destroyed a Baalbek hotel Iranians bombing attack Oct. 23. their base on the aircraft carrier used as a dormitory, a training base Simultaneous bombings by ter Clcmenceau. in Ras el Ain three miles to the east rorists driving trucks loaded with ex It said they hit "military targets" and the Sheikh Abdullah barracks plosives leveled the Mariate head near Baalbek, an eastern city behind Scott Caraway that housed Iranian and pro-Iranian quarters at the airport and a French Syrian lines where Iranian Revolu fighters of the Islamic Amal. barracks in west Beirut.· The French tionary Guards took up positions UNM Coach Gary Colson gets bailed out during Smoke-out. The French attack came as Yasser lost 59 paratroopers. shortly after the June I 982 Israeli On Nov. 4, an almost identical invasion. suicide bombing destroyed Israeli "Of primary importance was the headquarters in the southern city of prevention of new terrorist actions Millions Grapple with Smokeless Day Tyre, killing 61 people - 29 Israeli against French forces in Lebanon soldiers and 32 civilians. through a first strike," the ministry (UPI) - Millions of American nerves or drooping spirits of those Psychiatric first aid in the Smoke As the Marines landed, the thump said, noting President Francois Mit smokers, pitting their willpower shunning cigarettes for a day could out came via one-minute inspir of artillery echoed from the moun terrand vowed in a television against their craving, tried to kick not be determined, but it provided ational messages. Jittery smokers tains behind their base as Moslem address Wednesday the attack on the their addiction to nicotine for 24 food for very serious thought. tapped in by dialing 900-210-K-W- militias dueled with Lebanese army French barracks "would not go un hours Thursday in the seventh Surgeon General C. Everett 1-T. garrisons in Souk el Gharb, the punished." annual Great American Smokeout. Koop's report said heart disease Some drew on help from friends caused by cigarette smoking will kill and relatives. Others resorted to 170,000 Americans this year and tricks such as snapping a rubber could eventually take the lives of 10 band on the wrist when the yen be percent of the population, Donating Blood Has Benefits came overpowering. Some were "Unless smoking habits of the By George E. Gorospe faced with the peer pressure of American population change, "public humililation" if they gave perhaps 10 percent of all persons People who donate blood are in before the midnight deadline. now alive may die prematurely of generally healthier for it, because Thousands dialed recorded mes heart disease attributable to their giving blood stimulates the body to sages from psychiatrists through a smoking behavior," the report said. produce antibodies that fight infec nicotine hotline set up with the coop tions, says Gary Mays, director of eration of the American Psychiatric Koop's report also noted a decline the Yale Blood Plasma Center. Association. in the number of regular smokers in "There are definitely some be During last year's Smokeout, 19 the U.S. population from 42.8 per nefits to donating blood. Here, the million people tried but only 4.5 cent in 1966 to 33 percent in 1980, donor gets a $250 lab workup that million made it through the 24-hour with the decrease most prevalent can detect any viruses or infec period without lighting up, the spon among older men. But the average tions, .. Mays says. • 'They also have soring American .Cancer Society smoker went through 21.7 cigarettes a physical examination from a qual· said. a day in 1980, up slightly from 20 in ified doctor on the premises and they Midpoint in the nicotine fast that 1970, the report said. get an ongoing medical checkup. started midnight Wednesday, the Koop said new research has These benefits, of course, are tied to newest U.S. Surgeon General's re shown that the increased risk of our efforts to ensure the quality of port on smoking and health came out death from heart disease begins to the plasma we get.'' in Washington. recede almost immediately after a About 70 percent of the clients The effect it had on the wobbly cigarette smoker quits. who donate at the center, 122 Yale Blvd. S.E., are students from the University of New Mexico. "We opened the center in Febru Movie Activities Set ary 1980 near the University be causr. we wanted students as clients. Jly Steve Shoup They are generally less interested in the money and more interested in the A number of activities are planned, both locally and nationally, in response process of extracting the plasma to the broadcast of the ABC Television Network movie The DayAfter. from the whole blood, and in when Scott Caraway Several area anti-nuclear groups are planning forums and discussions, and and how it will benefit someone in nationally televised panel discussions will follow the movie. need. They are generally more in Gary Mays stores another pint of plssma in the freezer. A pubHc viewing of the movie, which graphically shows life in a Midwest telligent, they are usually healthier town before, during and after a nuclear attack, will be held at the International and they are not transients," Mays ter which took transients moved reason, men seern to be more afraid Center,.l808 Las Lomas Ave. N.E. The movie will be broadcast at '7 p.m. says. · downtown, Mays says there had of the needle than the women. The Sunday on KOAT Channel 7. The center does not take tran- been a lot of confusion about his own only real way to find out that it Following the movie, at 9:25 p.m., Channel 7 will present a panel sients be<::ausc there is a higher risk business. Students were reluctant to doesn't hurt is to go through the discussion by several New Mexico experts who represent both sides of the they will have hepatitis or other con- come to the Yale center because of donating process.'' nuclear disarmament issue. , taminants in their blood 1 Mays says. the many transients they thought At l 0:35, ABC will broadcast Viewpoint, a discussion of nuclear weapons .. Another of our centers was would be there, says Mays. But issues hosted by Ted Koppel. .. opened up dose to the university hl()re students ate finding out that Rehabilitation A forum s<::heduled to be presented Monday by several anti-nuclear groups campus at Las Cruces, and at the this not the case and are coming in to will deal with the despair and other psychologkal problems that may be beginning, when business was stow, donate, he says.