ee » today showed: 26 peole had
: been killed, and wounded

: ‘in Chrigtian East Beirut and. :
* in suburbs, and-eight were

“diction was ‘hot known, ‘The ao
' Saudis ‘have after ‘tried’ to =

= areas in a a month.

| iP
banon, - including: recent |

‘lforts to * ‘disengage he’ mé

iintry’ 8 warring: factions, |.

Official. ‘truce’, “held

elsewhere in‘rain-drenched
Beirut today after shelling.

attacks ‘Monday that ‘were .
the “worst on residential:

"Police “figures” issued’:

“.- WdHed- and 25: wounded “in.

.'s Druse mountain. towns in
> the 13hour bombardment.

" °ABDUCTS PLO: LEADER

said:

‘In Damascus,’ officials
“Talaat _Yaacoub, .

VANCOUVER (CP)

:’ Two: Vancouver brokerage

houses that specialized - in
gold futures trading - have »

. shut thelr.doors;’. °. 0+.

Spe!

: 7 everything.

a compaiy’s - -office ‘door."on:
7 Monday: ‘telling. the firm’ 3.
-) brokers their services. werd’.
“no longer required because “

. ‘the company could not meet"
‘its finsncial obligations, . ”

‘Eniployees of: King Lung
Commodities Ltd.. said
Monday they fear ; : their’,
clients: . might bave.: Jost” :

Tey raid a notice’ on ithe:

f

“E can’t believe it,”:said —

one: broker, . who asked.to

-* Gents had® about $70,000:. ‘|
worth of business with ther Ty

remain, anonymous. "My

(King Lung Commodities) :

. cand now they could lose it
al;

: Brokers -

fon . eominciiies
, Yearegme! = fe “5Cam., 7
fivaliés

‘Superintendent.
Rilpert “Bullock.

~~ said. Bullock said his in-,

veatigators had interviewed
Yearcome officials ‘but hed:

“© not yet filed a report. |

- Both - King ‘Lung : “and

: Yearcome were ‘A source of

controversy in Vancouver’ i]

brokerage - - eommunity:
because | they: ‘operated

" without’ * government. “
regulation,

The Commodity Contract
Act, ‘passed by. the B.C.”

*, Jegislature in 1978: . to’.
regulate -. commodity
ztrading;’.. was. never

 prociainied into law..

. Both firma’ had been in-
vestigated by Bullock’s

‘ office | in: 1982 and: 1983 _

following complaints from—

_ clients who said they had
“Tost money as: a result of -

questionable -

7 tadlg

. practices,

NO POWER
But Bullock said: his: in-
vestigators. found .- that,

* because there is no com-

Bolide’ said’ a. fragile,” °-" éwé., canter C iar
abduction and said Yaacoub: at ‘the “city's” ‘altport, the

‘ brokers

was taken\a away because of ,

‘his support for “the: traitor
Arafat. (0°)

Yaacoub, oy ‘those ‘seotip is”

. one ‘of the eight factions in
’ the Palestine . Liberation

Organization, Tefuged to

“support .

‘mutiny. . against Yasser

. Arafat's ‘Jeadership. lake
Syrian-backed ° rebel :

of Tripoli last month...
In other developments .
today: ae

~ modity law in B. Cc. , they had
no power over commodity
engaging - in.
"practices that are outlawed.
in trading: of securities such
‘BS stocks ar ‘bonds,

welt

” Some Vancouver com-

“modity brokers also trade in.

f the M

radio said.

—Ageneral protest strike
‘was | “observed in most of
southern _ ‘Lebaron: . - in
response to a call’ by Amal,
the country’s Jargest Shiite

a. Syrian-backed “ Moslem militia, the. ‘state ‘:

Statement| saying |

“and? “mass elimination . of
olive and orange groves for
security |, considerations”
_were a “model of the ‘in-
“tolerable, -- oppressive

. investigating the King. Lung.“

closure but had been unable ©
to contact ~~ company.

directors by late Monday. *

The company, ‘with some 60
employees, '~’ - established

« ktgelt ine Vancouver about

“securities, allowing. Bullock “W>  -

to ‘regulate: ther. Others are”
"regulated". because: their
parent. firms are members ;
af U.S, or. Canadian com-
“modity ‘exchanges, which. °

‘set standards. for the

practices, of member firms.” f
, Bullock gad his office was.

a Ltd, apparently oS
* ek so date, last meet if

pada i.

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‘Druse « fighters’; withe ;
their representative from a: "” Hebanese oo
“four-man -

a truces, .
~vadio’ said: Amal Issued a

that ”
Agraelit troops searching, ‘.
forces drove. Arafat and... 'mosques- with ‘police ‘dogs’
“loyalist fighters out of the-:
‘northern Lebanese port city

suburban’ *

ver a:40-kilometre ee runs They
editerranean coast’ .t

Progressi cialist party
and the’ rightist” chiiétian’

ew.’ Phalange. -parly.:.agétised’ mi
s’---each other. of shelling first.
tin Monday’s attacks:

*

Police sald ° today’. the’

eo warring | factions’ failed . to o
oreach .° a.

ceasefire .

agreement - ‘because the

security com:
mittee that works: out Buch

“the ‘day,
- shook.
“palace -

During.
plosions ,
presidential

‘the.

envoy Donald Rumsfeld and
President: Amiri’ Gemayel -

met, Police: said a few |

rounds crashed about one

Brokerage. houses. shut their doors.

‘a broker last Friday: at the -
Intemational

two years ago.
King Lung broker James
Chiu said company

presidenl Peter Cheung is

currently. in’ Taiwan and -

"claimed company manager’;
; Mark Chow. was last seen by

ex- o

“Baabda’ while .
-ULS:. special . Middle ‘East

th five Druse towns: in: the:
entra : Lebanede « mioun:
dirs ~ by ae Christian’

Druse fired firsts”

The Druse sect is an ofr

shool of Islam and »

‘inilitia, supported by ‘Syrian:
“forces; has been fighting the ;
‘and:

‘army

“Christian militias: © for

-contral of some. mountain. | p=

an

areas in Lebanon. ...

_. “Rumsfeld declined - 46 .
“speak to reporters after ‘his ;

Gemayel.- Local
“.Gernayel on the outcome of
his talks ‘with Syrian and
Israeli government leaders
on ways of easing Lebanese

wees

Vancouver :
” Airport,

King Lung and Yearcome 4

did most of their trading in
gold futures on. the Hong
_ Kone sold exchange. -

. tensions. a
Gemayel; in, an interview i”
_ with “the ,Paris, daily Le -
© Monde’ ‘published Monday, |

repeated : as ‘call. ‘for op-

position forces to: share both .

“power and the risks of. anew:

government; But he"
ue charged « they threw . up’
barriers ‘against
OSON OF
2, SPIRIT
The best beloved of all

‘in’: three-hour meeting with —
“radio.
‘Stations said he: briefed <

% government; :
“everything’ is negoliable;"" ° ‘
: 'Gemayel: was quoted as

Saying: ‘thal during talks in

“Geneva, Switzerland,
November, he urged op-
‘position: leaders lo Join the “|

saying ~

last

“things In my sight Is
. [ustice:, turn not away
therefrom if = thov
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it not that | may confide
In thee. By ls aid thou
- shalt see with thine own
” eyes and not through the
-eyes of others, and shalt
Know of thine own.
knowledge and not
“through the knowledge
af thy netghbour.
Ponder -this In . thy
heart;, © how It
‘beehooveth thee to be.
Verily justice is My gift
fo thee and the sign of
My Loving-Kindness.
Set It then before thine

ayes:: ;
Baha‘u’llah

the |

factions: spare

:durther. :
“collapsed | Jast: ‘Thursday,

“Police said: the read ‘from
‘Beirut’ to ‘the presidential
Palace -in Baabda came

“to

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-Monday’s bombardment
was Lhe fifth straight day of
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