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2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 8, 1989 World aed Nation Lebanese From Associated Press reports BEIRUT, Lebanon Gen. Michel Aoun said Thursday that U.S. foreign policy is "biased and shortsighted," then asked American help in what the Christian leader calls the war of libera tion against Syrian troops in Lebanon. Aoun said the U.S. withdrawal of its last diplomats Wednesday was based on "rumors, false suppositions and unconvincing reasons." He likened the 6-month-old battle between his 20,000 Christian soldiers and a Moslem alliance led by the 40,000 Syrians to what Americans' "forefa thers did ... 200 years ago" in the Revolutionary War. Syrians and Christians exchanged artillery fire for five hours before dawn Thursday and police reported two dead Iraqis to vie in solving ancient mystery From Associated Press reports BAGHDAD, Iraq President Sad dam Hussein has offered $1.5 million to any Iraqi who can solve a 3, 000-year-old puzzle how King : Nebuchadnezzar managed to water the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Archaeologists are divided over ; whether the gardens, said to have graced ; terraces hundreds of feet above the ; palm-fringed Euphrates, existed. They ; reputedly were built by Nebuchadnez zar in the 6th century B.C. to enchant ; his homesick queen, the Median prin ; cess Amytis. ; The ancient Greeks considered the ; gardens one of the Seven Wonders of ; the World, but Nebuchadnezzar made ;no mention of them in his detailed writings, and no conclusive evidence ; they existed has been uncovered. But the Iraqi government, which is ; rebuilding the city where Nebuchad ; Viezzar ruled ancient Mesopotamia from ; 604 B.C. to 562 B.C., believes they did ; Sexist, based on findings by German 'archaeologists who first excavated ; Babylon more than 75 years ago. Hussein, who is known as Saddam throughout Iraq and the Arab world, ; announced a $1.5 million prize for ; whoever comes up with the most plau ; sible watering system, and $750,000 to ; the runner-up. Hillel Shabbat Services & Dinner I fl Shalom (Hi 13 J J fA VX .... .. IV , J I Join (Is For Your Pro-Game Warm Up and Post dame Cool Down! We'll Bg Waiting For You With Fun! Food! Friendliness! Q Drink! genera! and seven wounded. At least 830 people have been killed and 2,462 wounded since the artillery war began March 8. Nearly all the vic tims have been civilians. The U.S.-trained general said he would welcome the return of Ambassa dor John McCarthy and other Ameri can diplomats to Lebanon only if Washington recognized his Christian cabinet as the legitimate government. His government competes for power with a Moslem Cabinet led by acting Premier Salim Hoss. McCarthy, who had been in Lebanon since the rival regimes were created a year ago, avoided taking sides by not presenting his credentials to either. U.S. military helicopters evacuated the 30 remaining Americans from the The winning system likely will be used if the Iraqis decide to go ahead and reconstruct the hanging gardens as part of their effort to restore the crumbled city in what is now central Iraq. No modern technology can be em ployed in the watering system, only the primitive tools available in 6th century B.C. Mesopotamia. Hussein said the contest is for Iraqis only and will be judged by Iraqi archae ologists, but Iraqi embassies around the world reportedly have been flooded with telephone calls, cables and letters from foreigners eager to participate. Archaeologists have been excavat ing Babylon for decades but have never been able to figure out how the Meso potamians, without modern pumping systems, watered the gardens that re putedly were on terraces high above the Euphrates River. Legend says the terraced gardens had seven levels, and the most likely method of watering them was a type of system that hauled buckets up from the Euphrates. Some scientists believe the gardens may have been as high as 365 feet above the ground. Officials said scores of Iraqi engi neers and architects have ideas on how the Babylonians did it, but they refuse to give details. Friday, Sept. 8 6:30 PM Both Reform and Egalitarian Conserva tive services will be conducted. We will be together for dinner. Dinner: $5 Hillel House 210 W. Cameron Ave. norm vmw. n calls for U.S. Embassy compound in east Beirut on Wednesday morning. "It is pitiful that American-Lebanese relations should deteriorate to that point due to the stubbornness of the American Embassy ... backed by a biased and shortsighted foreign pol icy," Aoun said. He was clearly angered by the State Department's declaration Wednesday that it evacuated the U.S. diplomats because Aoun threatened to expose them to a "good dose of Christian ter rorism." Speaking to reporters in his bunker under the shattered presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, the 54-year-old Maronite Catholic general urged the "American people and their elected representatives to ignore their State The Soviet news agency Tass re ported last month that Leonid Khase nevich, an engineer from Minsk, claimed to have solved the mystery and wanted to take part in the Baghdad contest. "A hitherto unstudied hydraulics phenomenon, which I discovered in 1982, helped me solve this puzzle," he was quoted as saying. Khasenevich, a hydrologist for 30 years, said that after experimenting with models, "I came to the conclusion that parts of the construction may be un earthed on the Hill of Babel" near the Congress tire amount that organization requested, Elliot said. The executive branch of student government requested $4,700 to do nate to Project Uplift, Elliott said. This is an addition to the $2,000 that Project Uplift was allotted last year when its original budget was reduced from $6,700 because the congress lacked information concerning the group. "We found out more information about it, enough to decide it was a good program," Elliott said. Project Uplift has been funded in the past, and the total amount allotted the group makes up only 10 percent of its budget, he said. Subsequent appropriations amount ing to more than $ 1 1 ,000 were requested for a desktop publication system to be used by the Phoenix, the Cellar Door and other small student publications, Reaction education and treatment. Only one in seven addicts who need treatment receives it, said Rep. David Price, D-N.C. Most addicts can't afford drug reha bilitation treatment, which is often not covered by insurance policies, said Tammy Beck, a nurse at Care Unit Hospital in Salisbury. The president's plan does not allow for increased treat ment funds. n CAROLINA'S Neishborhood Bar & Grill 1506 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC UoSo aid Department's policy." Americans should "support all the Lebanese, Moslems and Christians, in our war of liberation' ' against the Syri ans, he said. Syrian soldiers are in Lebanon under a peacekeeping mandate the Arab League issued in 1976, the year after the sectarian civil war began. At least 150,000 Lebanese have been killed in the war. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said Wednesday that a leader of Christian youths who massed outside the embassy before the evacu ation told diplomats they could move in and out of the compound only "at their own risk." Aoun said her remarks were "a calculated but crude personal attack on me." biblical tower where God punished the presumptuous children of Abraham by making them speak in different tongues. He refused to give details of his findings, but noted: "I believe the tech nology of water inlets was primitive and did not require large mechanisms, which would have spoiled the beauty of the famous gardens." Robert Koldewey and Walter An drae, the German archaeologists who excavated Babylon before World War I, believed that underground chambers beneath what were once the towering walls of Nebuchadnezzar's palace were the foundations of the hanging gardens. from page 1 Recommended Finance Committee Allotments BSM $22,380 Carolina Quarterly $3,000 NCSL $1,953 Executive Branch $4,700 SAFE Escort $650 Elliott said. Donnie Esposito, finance commit tee chairman, said he expected the congress to raise questions concerning the system. "It's a very large appropria tion. I would foresee a lot more scrutiny of the equipment they need." Congress has about $75,000, Espos ito said. If the finance committee's recommendations are approved, about $30,000 will be left, he said. from page 1 The plan also doesn't place enough emphasis on drug education for par ents, Yates said. Others commend the plan's purpose, but are skeptical about whether the plan will be put into action. "Putting a plan like this into place is going to be the major episode," Yates said. Funding the plan is also a concern. Funding for last fall's drug bill fell short of the requested amount, and funding could also be insufficient for this year's plan, sources said. Read Omnibus on Thursdays The student pick-up for the Blue-White basketball game will be held on Monday, Septem ber 1 1th between 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. The q a me will be played in Carmichael Auditorium immediately following the South Carolina-UIMC football qame on November 1 1th. The Blue-White game is already a sellout to the general public. Only UNC student tickets remain and those tickets not picked up by students will be sold to the general public. We therefore urge students to pick up their tickets as soon as possible. There will be only one Blue-White game played this year. How To Get Your Tickets: Present your picture I.D., registration card and athletic pass at the Smith Center Box Office between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Students may also Durchase Quest tickets at mentarv student tickets. Student nrauns of 50 ot mare ere welcome to send a representative to the Ticket Office with the group's athletic passes for block seating. FOR FMENDS, FITNESS & FUN you sliould come tiome to we offer: clubhouse with weightroom, 6 9 or 12 month leases tanning bed & jacuzzi, game room, pool located within 5 minutes of spacious 2 & 3 bedrooms campus First & Last Month's Rent FREE, Only With 12Mth. Lease 929-2 1 39 Hivy 54 ByPass, Carrboro Vote favors banning smoking on all domestic From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON A Senate subcommittee voted today to perma nently forbid smoking on all domes tic airline routes, expanding the cur rent ban covering flights lasting only two hours or less. On a unanimous voice vote, the Senate Appropriations transportation subcommittee adopted an $11.9 bil lion spending bill for transportation programs for fiscal 1990 that includes the strengthened smoking prohibi tion. The 1990 fiscal year begins Oct. 1. There was no debate on the smok ing provision. The full Appropriations Commit tee planned to vote on the bill later in the day. Subcommittee Chairman Frank Lautenberg, D-N. J., who spon sored the proposal, said he expected to prevail there but to face a tough fight from tobacco-state senators when the legislation reaches the Senate floor next week. "We hear rumblings in the woods that the war drums are being beaten and we expect a full-dress battle in the future," he said. On Aug. 3, the House adopted legislation that would permanently extend the current ban on cigarette smoking on flights of two hours or less. The existing restriction, enacted two years ago, will otherwise expire next April. House sponsor Richard Durbin, D-Ill., was blocked from offering an amendment that would have applied the prohibition to all domestic flights. Hispanic votes targeted WASHINGTON Hispanic immigrants register to vote at a sig nificantly higher rate than most Americans and are "almost up for grabs" by both Republicans and Democrats because many have not decided which party they favor, a Latino group said in announcing results of a survey yesterday. The telephone survey of 1,635 ungarian H pledge to share power From Associated Press reports BUDAPEST, Hungary The Communist Party will rum over mil lions of dollars to the government and open its books for inspection as it pre pares to share power, the state newspa per said today. Imre Pozsgay, a reformist member of the four-man Communist leader ship, made the pledge Wednesday to opposition groups discussing the po litical shape of Hungary as the country gears up for free elections next year, the paper said. The talks, focusing on preparations for the first free elections since the 1948 Communist takeover, frequently have been bogged down. But the newspaper, Magyar Hirlap, reported some progress after the Wednesday session agreed to increase the number of seats in Parliament from 350 to 374. Other issues remained in dispute, it said. 5.00 in addition to their corrmli- (CAROLINA APARTMENTS sCZZS, EE airline flights News in Brief immigrants from 17 nations showed that 81 percent of the naturalized immigrants are registered to vote, compared with 70 percent of the general U.S. voting age population, the National Association of Latino , Elected and Appointed Officials said. Forty-nine percent of those inter viewed, all of whom were either naturalized citizens or legal perma nent residents of the United States, said they had "no preference" be-, tween the major U.S. political par- ties. : "This is a large population that is : almost up for grabs," said Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif., president of the association's educational fund, -which conducted the survey. ; "Republicans and Democrats have : an open field to go out into the Latin community and convince them that their party and platform is the best," : said Roybal, a Hispanic from a Los ; Angeles district with the heaviest concentration of Hispanics in his state. Accident kills African workers ' JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A truck filled with laborers and children veered off a bridge and plunged into a rain-swollen river Thursday, killing at least 40 people, officials said. More than 50 people were be lieved to be in the truck when it crashed through a bridge rail and fell 50 feet into the Olifants River, 150 miles north of Cape Town, police said. The passengers were black women farmworkers and about 10 children who were being transported from a farm to their home. Ten people survived by swimming to shore or clinging to branches until they were rescued, police said. Communists MTI, the"state news agency, said Pozsgay was defeated in an election Wednesday of delegates to the Oct. 6 Communist Party congress where re formists are expected to battle ortho dox Marxists over the Communist Party's future. He will have a vote at the session anyway because he is a member of the 1 13 -member Communist Party Central Committee, but his defeat was seen as a victory for those in the party who oppose the rapid pace of reforms. Leading Communist reformist Zoltan Szabo told reporters the Communist Party's oligarchy was becoming ac tive, now that it has realized it may be in danger of losing control of the party. The Communist leadership decided in February to permit multiparty elec tions by June 1990. The decision was part of the reforms that have kept Hungary. in the forefront of change within the Soviet bloc. rvn
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