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banese factions sign peace agreement

S ria (AP) Lebanon’s •»* ;: -fid Kristian militia chieftains i Syrian-sponsored armistice • ■ ■ od (■: end the decade-old civil war ■•" the,-: clnrned more than 100,000 lives. L ;unK'se radio stations interrupted programs to announce the signing, ■: !g ! accord a “historic document, die new start for Lebanon.” ■ - the three most powerful ■f a:,r : e militias put their signatures to die peace pact in a Damascus ceremony under the auspices of Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam. Druse chieftain Waiid Jumblatt signed for the Progressive Socialist Party, Justice Minister Nabih Berri signed for his Shiite Moslem Arnal movement and Elie Hobeika signed for the Lebanese Forces, ‘he most powerful Christian militia. They shook hands after the signing while U: r aides hugged, kissed and exchanged congratulations.

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terrorist bases, Israeli planes will have to penetrate a curtain of Syrian surface-to-air missiles. (N.Y. Times map)

“It’s over,” Berri told reporters after the conclusion of the accord, which resulted from three months of negotiations under Khaddam’s sponsorship. Some 40 Moslem and Christian politicians attended the signing ceremony at Syria’s invitation. Syrian state radio said the signing heralded “Lebanon’s salvation.” Jublatt and Berri had arrived in the Syrian capital by early morning for the signing, but the ceremony was rescheduled after Hobeika was delayed by a snowstorm that swept through the central Lebanese mountains at midmorning, his aides said. The peace accord is the first concluded by militia chieftains who control Lebanon’s guns and warriors. Scores of previous agreements concluded by politicians without military power collapsed in the fighting.

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12 U.S. citizens still hospitalized

5 Americans among terror toll

ROME (AP) The death toll in the bloody terrorist attacks at Rome and Vienna airports rose to 18 when two wounded Americans died today, and fears of more violence prompted Italian police to call an emergency meeting. At least 121 people were injured in the two attacks, which occurred almost simultaneously Friday morning when terrorists opened fire with automatic weapons and tossed grenades near checkin counters of El A 1 Israel Airlines at the two airports. “They have again bloodied Christmas,” said Italian Premier Bettino Craxi, referring to last year’s terrorist attack on a train near Bologna that killed 15 people. Five of the 15 slain in Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport were Americans, authorities said. A State Department spokeswoman in Washington said there are 12 Americans still hospitalized, with seven or eight others treated and released. Four assailants were slain, three in Rome and one in Vienna, and three were captured in the two attacks. Besides the assailant, two other people died in the Vienna attack and at least 47 were injured.

Will--or can-lsrael retaliate?

A curtain of Syrian missiles poses limit to military options

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service JERUSALEM Although the Palestine Liberation Organization denied involvement in the attacks in Rome and Vienna, Israeli officials blamed the guerrilla group Friday and made it clear that Israel would respond at the appropriate time and place. “Israel is shocked and outraged by these two new acts of senseless terror against innocent civilians,” a foreign ministry statement said “The terrorist attacks come against a background of declarations by the head of the PLO, and those Arab states that support this organization, that these terrorists will cease terrorist operations outside of Israel. Israel will continue its struggle against terrorism in every place and at any time it sees fit.” Meanwhile, Israeli analysts said Israel’s ability to retaliate for the attacks had been limited by Syria’s decision to move mobile surface-to-air missiles into Lebanon. In the past, Israel has often retaliated for terrorist attacks abroad by bombing Palestinian guerrilla bases in Lebanon, regarding these as convenient “return addresses.” To do so now, however, Israeli jets would have to penetrate the new curtain of surface-to-air missiles Syria has drawn over the Bekaa region in Lebanon, which could lead to an all-out war with Syria, the analysts said. Since Israel already destroyed the main PLO compound in Tunisia last October, that, too, is no longer an option for retaliation. The analysts said new PLO offices in Baghdad would not be easy to reach and were widely dispersed. This would seem to leave as the only option for retaliation a more surgical strike against specific individuals, the analysts said. To appreciate the full Israeli quandary, officials said, it must be understood that the Syrian decision to deploy the SAM-6 and SAM-8 mobile batteries a few miles inside Lebanon, for the second time in a month, was as much a political statement as a strategic military maneuver. It was apparently designed, Israeli officials say, to send Israel and the United States clear signals about Damascus’s intentions to change some of the rules in the Middle East. To begin with, said Itamar Rabinovich, an authority on Syria at Tel Aviv University, the Syrians apparently are trying to establish a new relationship with Israel in Lebanon after the Israeli withdrawal. While Israel wants to hold onto all of its old perquisites in Lebanon, particularly its freedom to fly reconnaissance missions over the Syrian-controlled Bekaa, the Syrians want to reverse once and for all this free Israeli access to their neighboring client state.

Reagan tapes message to Soviets

LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Reagan is interrupting his holiday today to deliver his weekly radio address and record a televised message to the Soviet people to be broadcast by state-run Soviet television on New Year’s Day. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will address Americans at the same time in the unprecedented exchange of greetings announced by the two governments on Friday. The messages are to be recorded in advance and made available for radio and

New England fishermen begin strike

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Quick resolution is unlikely in a fishermen’s strike that is costing the nation’s richest fishing port at least $1 million a day and could have an impact on Boston and New York restaurants, officials say. About 750 fishermen rejected boat owners’ demands for a higher share of profits and 150 walked picket lines Friday on piers in New Bedford and Fairhaven, carrying signs that read, “On Strike” and “Unfair.” Negotiations will not be scheduled until after Jan. 1, federal mediator Austin Skinner said Friday. “I don’t think anybody really wants a long strike, but there are some real philosophical differences that

Authorities there said none of the casualties were Americans. Austrian officials did not give the identities or nationalities of the terrorists who attacked there, but an Italian police official said the four terrorists that struck in Rome “without a doubt” were Palestinians but their countries od origin were unknown. “They call themselves the martyrs of Palestine and it appears that it is in reprisal for the bombing in Tunisia, where also several civilians, women and children, were killed,” deputy police chief Riccardo Infelisi told The Associated Press in an interview. The Oct. 1 Isreali air raid in Tunis was against the PLOi headquarters. At least 60 people were killed in that attack. Craxi said, “They (the terrorists) probably belong to the extreme ArabPalestinian fringe, either acting on their own or as a crazy splinter group.” PLO officials at the group’s headquarters denied involvement, although Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Meir Rosenne, told CBS Morning News he believed the PLO was responsible.

“By sending the missiles back, the Syrians are signaling Israel that they intend to reassert their hegemony over all of Lebanon and its airspace and to test Israel’s willingness to resist this new situation,” Rabinovich said. The Syrians are also indicating that no one in the region should consider them prey to American influence, the Israeli analysts said. Israeli officials now recognize that not only did they provoke Damascus by shooting down two Syrian MIGs over Syrian territory Nov. 19, but they also compounded the situation by announcing two weeks later that thanks to American mediation Syria decided to remove the mobile batteries. “The Syrians do not like to be depicted as being subject to either American or Israeli pressure,” a senior Israeli official said. “We should have kept the whole matter secret.” In addition, President Hafez al-Assad of Syria seems to be sending a signal to the Arab world, and particularly King Hussein of Jordan, who is lo arrive in Damascus on Saturday for a state visit, that if the Arabs stand firm they can get what they want from Israel. “This move is very much directed at King Hussein,” said Abba Eban, chairman of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament. “What Assad is saying is that we are the bosses, we create the situations to which others react, we are the dynamic initiating party in the Middle East, and don’t think you can start making peace without us.” Given this Syrian approach, the analysts said Israel had a number of options. The first is to send Israeli aircraft to destroy the missile batteries, as Israel did in June 1982, when it destroyed 19 Syrian SAM launchers in one afternoon. But officials say this option has drawbacks. For the Israeli air force to destroy the Syrian mobile batteries requires it to use extremely sophisticated electronic countermeasures.

television broadcast in the United States at Ip.m. EST, 9 p.m. in Moscow. That’s prime time in the Soviet Union and a half-hour before U.S. coverage of the New Year’s Day football bowl games begin across the United States. The New Year’s greetings, which a White House spokesman said would run about five minutes each, culminate more than three years of administration efforts to give Reagan access to Soviet air waves. The president first proposed the idea in a June 1982 speech to members of the British

have created problems.” The strike will cost New Bedford’s economy $1 million a day, estimated New Bedford-area Chamber of Commerce executive director James Mathis. It also will mean greater demand in Boston for Canadian and Maine sea products, predicted Roger Berkowitz, a Boston seafood restaurateur. “A lot of what New Bedford is doing now is going to New York and might impact that market more so than ours.” David Barnet, an attorney for the 32member Seafood Producers Association, said that while boat owners didn’t want a strike, they were prepared “for a long siege. “During the winter months, it’s cheaper

In Israel, Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Israel “would defend its citizens,” an apparent hint at possible retaliation. Police and hospital officials said Don Maland, 30, of New Port Richey, Fla., died at Rome’s St. Giovanni Hospital early today. Later, the Italian Interior Ministry said Elena Tomarello, 67, died in San Camillo Hospital. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Deborah Cavin confirmed Ms. Tomarello was an American. Her hometown was not immediately known but Ms. Cavin said Ms. Tomarello’s relatives were from Naples, Fla. “Apparently the (U.S.) Embassy says > there are 12 Americans remaining in the hospital. Seven or eight were treated and released,” Ms. Cavin said. U.S. Embassy spokesman Mark Dillen confirmed that Frederick Gage, previously reported killed, was an American. Gage, 29, of Madison, Wis., was a member of the board of directors of the Capital Times Co. The other Americans killed were 11-year-old Natasha Sophie Simpson, daughter of Victor Simpson, the AP news

SHIMON PERES No easy choice

Parliament in London. The latest move toward a lessening of tensions was disclosed in simultaneous announcements on the same day that the two superpowers traded bitter words over Afghanistan. In statements marking the sixth anniversary of the Soviet invasion of that country, Reagan accused Moscow of adopting “barbaric methods of waging war.” Reagan and his wife, Nancy, arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to begin a weeklong California vacation.

to tie up than give in to demands.” The fishermen’s union broke off talks with the owners last week when the association stuck with its demand to split catch profits evenly between crew members and boat owners and operators. Fishermen earn 58 percent of the catch on large boats called draggers and 64 percent on boats that fish for scallops, shares established a decade ago, Barnet said. The rest of the profit goes to boat owners and captains. The union represents 750 people, about one-third of New Bedford’s fishermen, but district spokesman Joe Piva said he expected nonunion fishermen to honor the strike.

editor in Rome; and John Buonocore, 20, of Wilmington, Dela Interior Minister Oscar Scalfaro called an emergency meeting today of top police and security officials, and many officials urged stricter security measures and controls on foreign entrants and arms dealings. “For months international terrorism has made a steady, dreadful escalation,” said Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini. “Now we have arrived at the point of one murder for a nother. ’ ’ An Interior Ministry spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, raised the number of those injured in Rome to 74. He also said four terrorists, and not five as earlier reported, carried out the attack, hurling hand grenades and firing Sovietmade Kalashnikov automatic rifles at holiday travelers in the Leonardo da Vinci airport’s departures area. “The screaming, the yelling, it was very loud,” New Yorker Jon Pollock, at the Rome airport during the attack, told the AP. “I saw Italians firing everywhere. I saw people dying. They were all over, dying, dead. Bleeding all over the place.”

In the past, these electronic countermeasures involved the use of decoy aircraft that prompted the Syrians to turn on their missile radar at the wrong time, or for too long a period, enabling Israeli aircraft to fire anti-radiation missiles down the radar beams. At the same time the Israelis used jamming devices to confuse the radar guidance of the Syrian missiles. Israeli officials have no doubt that the Syrians and their Soviet backers have learned the electronic lessons of the June 1982 debacle. Israel, it is assumed, has also learned the lessons that the Syrians have learned and devised the appropriate electronic countercountermeasures. For Israel to use this sophisticated electronic intelligence in something less than an all-out confrontation would be a great waste, Israeli military sources said. Even more so if this technology were used to destroy mobile missile batteries, which, like a field of mushrooms, would immediately spring up anew. In addition, if Israel starts destroying Syrian SAM-6 and SAM-8 launchers in Lebanon, the Syrians are almost certain to respond by firing their new SAM-2 missiles located just across the border in their own territory. Israel would have to destroy those missiles as well, and that would be an act of war against Syria proper. This could lead to an all-out confrontation, for which the Israeli public has not been prepared. “The Israeli public is in no mood for a full-scale war with Syria,” said Moshe Maoz, an expert on Syria at Hebrew University. “People here are still getting over Lebanon.” Finally, for Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel to enter into a conflict with Syria now' would be to play into Assad's hands, by disrupting whatever progress Israel has made in improving relations with Egypt and nurturing Jordan toward negotiations, Israeli analysts said. With all of these constraints in mind, however, if Israel simply allows the new situation created by Syria to take hold, it will be paying a heavy price in its own long-term deterrent power, Rabinovich said. Israeli leaders are now trying to negotiate between these equally bad options. They seem to have decided to avoid flights over the Bekaa for now and to try collect the same data in other ways, probably through pilotless drones. At the same time, they are quietly working through American mediators to persuade Damascus to pull back, while also warning the Syrians publicly and privately that if they fire at any Israeli planes Israel will have no choice but to react. “We do have an ability to act,” Eban said, “so that action might not be necesssary provided the Syrians understand that.”

Herb isn’t laughing WESTFIELD, N.C. (AP) - Burger King’s television commercials about an out-of-touch loser named Herb has a Herb here sizzling over his name being used as the butt of a joke. “At first I thought it was funny, but I’m getting comments from people about 15 times a day,” said Herbert Paul Schenck. “They’ve got an ad out now that says, ‘Hey, nincompoop.’ People say, ‘Yeah, I know you. You’re that idiot on TV.’ So I told them I’m tired of their smear campaign against Herb.” Schenck, a 32-year-old printer, has asked other Herbs to join him with public complaints and pickets. “I want an apology and I want them to stop it, if I have to hold them hostage with a ketchup bottle,” he said. The national hamburger chain began airing the commercials Nov. 1, portraying “Herb” as the only person on Earth who hasn’t sampled its wares. Most of the 200 Herbs who've written Burger King about the S4O million advertising campaign like it, and only four or five have complained about it.