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A6 THE PANTAGRAPH, SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1983 World welcomes 1983 with fireworks, prayers Fireworks lighted night skies around the world on New Year's Eve as 1983 arrived, circling the globe with prayers of thanks and hopes for the future. Cardinal Terence Cooke, archbishop of New York and vicar-general for the U.S. armed forces, celebrated a New Year's Eve Mass at Beirut airport for several hundred Roman Catholics among the 1,200 U.S. Marines who are part of the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

Lebanese President Amin Gemayel pledged in a New Year's address to the nation to restore Lebanon's sovereignty in negotiations with Israel and the United States for the withdrawal of foreign troops from his war-ravaged country. Lighthearted celebrations, undampened by a year of severe economic recession and wars all over the globe, broke forth noisily from Asia to Europe and the times is visiting Shinto shrines to offer prayers for the coming year. Priests at Tokyo's Meiji Jingu, one of Japan's largest shrines, said as many as 4 million people are expected to visit the shrine during the first three days of the year. Manila street vendors sold hats horns and noisemakers to Filipinos for their night of revelry. In Rome and other Italian cities, partygoers set off firecrackers and rang out the old year in the customary way throwing old furniture, junk and bottles out of their windows.

Pope John Paul II thanked the Lord for the blessings of 1982. In a candlelit Mass in the Church of Jesus, the pope said, "We want to give thanks for the world, give thanks for our existence, which is the fundamental good of living things and the gift of our Creator." Associated Press In London, more than 100,000 people packed Trafalgar Square as Big Ben rang out 1982 with 12 resounding booms. Some revelers splashed in the fountains at the foot of Nelson's Column while others popped champagne bottles, blew on trumpets and hurled paper streamers. West Germans have been setting off firecrackers for days, creating a din in the city centers despite government prohibitions against fireworks at any time except from midnight Friday to 1 a.m. Jan.

1. West Germans bought $40 million worth of firecrackers, rockets, Roman candles and sparklers for this year's celebrations, about $8 million more than last year. Swiss Alpine resorts swarmed with celebrities on New Year's Eve, including Spanish King Juan Carlos and his queen skiing near Gstaad. Sen. Edward Kennedy, and family members moved into a hotel near St.

Moritz. Also around St. Moritz were Stavros Niarchos, Tina Onassis, Dewi Sukarno, and many more of the rich and famous. The Soviet Union's Communist Party leadership said in its New Year's message "our people are confident in their future. Let the new year bring happiness and joy to all Soviet people, to every family." Lech Walesa, leader of the outlawed Polish labor union.

Solidarity, was quoted as saying that with the suspension of martial law in his country he has "high hopes that the situation will improve and things will get better for all of our people." The New York Post also quoted Walesa as saying he looked forward to visiting the United States in the near future. China greeted the New Year with calls for frugal celebrations. The Communist Party's Discipline Inspection Commission noted rules against celebrating with public funds and warned party members against extravagant consumption. Chinese take one day off for the New Year on Jan. 1, then celebrate the lunar new year for four days starting Feb.

13 this year. The season is one for family reunions and weddings. Soldiers along China's southeast coast used balloons and rafts to float New Year's gifts to the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, held by the rival Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan, Peking's Xinhua news agency said. In Japan, the New Year is a long and leisurely holiday, with nearly all businesses closed down until Jan. 4.

Families gather for "oshogatsu," a three- to five-day period of feasting, holiday-card games and marathon television shows. One of the most popular oshogatsu pas Polish chief warns of difficult new year at midnight Thursday, slightly more than a year after its imposition. "In the 1950s we had Stalinism, but it wasn't written into law. Now it has been put into legislation," said one government employee, referring to legislation that gives authorities much more control than before the declaration of martial law on Dec. 13, 1981.

"This suspension is a lot of nothing," said a middle-aged woman walking her dog. In his speech, Jablonski expressed gratitude to the soldiers of the Polish People's Army and for security police "who guard the rule of law and order." He added: "On this New Year's Eve, let us greet the peoples of the Soviet Union who are celebrating the 60th anniversary of their statehood." A senior Polish Communist, party secretary Kazimierz Barcikowski, repeated the official statement that no date has been set for complete lifting of martial law, but predicted that it "can be worked out during the coming year." Suspension of martial law made little immediate difference in the life of the average Pole. WARSAW, Poland (AP). Polish head of state Henryk Jablonski, in a somber New Year's Eve speech, warned his countrymen that "the coming year will not be an easy one." Jablonski's speech, broadcast over state television, came as Poles reacted with skepticism and foreboding to the suspension of martial law, resentful of tight new controls aimed at preventing a fresh challenge to communist rule. The "fierce conflicts" of 1981 have not "been fully overcome yet," Jablonski said, blaming much of Poland's trouble on "restrictions imposed on us by the United States and some NATO states." Jablonski is chairman of the Council of State.

The real power rests with Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, the premier and defense minister who also was the martial-law leader. Units of blue-coated police, with machine pistols slung over their shoulders, mingled with vendors peddling bright balloons which Poles use to decorate their homes on the New Year. A chilling fog and slushy streets contributed to an overall mood of gloom as residents of Warsaw pondered the suspension of martial law Salvador calm after violent year SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador MP) Calm reigned in most of El Salvador on the last day of 1982. Only isolated incidents of leftist guerrilla violence were reported yesterday around the war-torn Central American country.

Government statistics released this week showed 1.040 soldiers were killed in the first 10 months of this year. There were no estimates on the number of rebels killed. Human rights groups estimate 38.000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the 3-year-old civil war, and both sides have predicted more intense fighting in 1983. A far-right group, meanwhile, warned that provisional President Alvaro Magana could be ousted for ordering his Cabinet members to resign earlier this month. In a paid advertisement in the Diario de Hoy newspaper, the far-right Salvadoran Feminine Front, linked to the Republican Nationalist Party, known by its Spanish initials as ARENA, complained Magana overstepped his authority.

The group noted that Magana was not publicly elected and is not a member of any political party. It said he has no right to demand the resignations of the ministers because they were chosen through political bargaining among the country's three most important parties. Magana requested that his 14 ministers offer their resignations. Magana was selected president by the Constituent Assembly elected in a popular vote in March. Japan's head Filipino street vendors in Manila tested their merchandise yesterday in preparation for New Year's Eve celebrations.

U.S. role in Lebanon talks questioned invaded June 6 to rout the Palestine Liberation Organization remain in Lebanon. Lebanon's privately-owned Central News Agency, which is close to Gemayel, said Habib is expected to arrive in Beirut next Wednesday with "new ideas" aimed at getting rid of such obstacles. The agency, quoting unnamed sources, said the veteran mediator would not participate in the tripartite talks but would "supervise" their progress. Habib was also expected to visit Israel, Syria and Saudi Arabia the agency added.

In Tripoli, 50 miles north of Beirut, a week-old cease-fire collapsed as rival Lebanese militias bombarded each other's positions with artillery, mortars and rockets. guerrillas in Syrian-controlled Lebanese territory. It will be the third time the delegations have met. After last Tuesday's opening session in Khalde and Thursday's meeting in the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona, differences remain over the agenda for issues to be dealt with. In addition to the agenda, a new problem surfaced over the U.S.

role in the withdrawal talks. "Israel contends the talks are direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, with the United States participating as a witness or observer," a Lebanese official said, declining use of his name in keeping with Lebanese government regulations. "Lebanon insists that the United States is a full-fledged participant and partner in the tripartite talks." A new controversy flared yesterday over the role of the United States in the Israel-Lebanon talks, and there was a report that special U.S. envoy Philip C. Habib will fly to Beirut next week to help solve the problem.

Fresh fighting also broke out in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli and the Israeli-occupied central mountains, and President Amin Gemayel appealed for a peaceful and "liberated" Lebanon in the New Year. Lebanese, Israeli and U.S. delegates are to resume their negotiating efforts Monday in the Beirut suburb of Khalde for the withdrawal of all Israeli. Syrian and Palestinian troops in Lebanon. It is estimated by diplomats in Beirut that the Israelis have 25,000 troops in Lebanon, the Syrians 30,000 and that there are 6,000 to 8,000 PLO A senior Israeli official said Lebanon proposed introducing an item to the agenda entitled "the future role of the United States," but that it was struck down by mutual agreement after Israel argued that since the Americans were at the talks there was no need to put the question of their future role on the agenda.

The Israeli official, speaking to reporters in Jerusalem on condition he not be identified, also said his government instructed its negotiators to stand firm on Israel's demand for normalizing relations with Lebanon. "This is for us of fundamental importance," he said. Israel has sought to discuss the establishment of normal relations before withdrawal and security issues, while Lebanon has maintained that it is impossible to consider such relations while Israeli troops who Associated Press Arafat stays firm on Palestinian state demands vows to keep arms pledge TOKYO (AP) Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said in a New Year's news conference that Japan's 'honor is at stake" in fulfilling its promise to the United States to improve the country's defense capabilities. Nakasone, whose government on Thursday approved a 6.5 percent increase in the 1983 defense budget, said Japan "must strive at least as hard as the democratic countries of Europe in building up the nation's defenses." "Japan is a member of the Free World as well as a trading nation, and for a trading nation peace is indispensable," he said. "Japan has now moved into a bigger house, so the insurance premium has also gone up." The 6.5 percent boost in defense spending compared to an overall budgetary increase of only 1.4 percent.

Nakasone said Japan "must keep its promise," made by former Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki in a May, 1981 summit with President Reagan, to put more efforts into defense. U.S. -Japan ties, Nakasone said, are "unique" because of the U.S. -Japan Security Pact under which United States maintains military bases in Japan. The conservative prime minister, who succeeded Suzuki on Nov.

27, is scheduled to visit Washington Jan. 17 for a meeting with Reagan. can administration utilizing the criminal mercenaries in the Israeli army. "The aim of this massive campaign was to subjugate the region to American hegemony and to subdue its will," he said. WAFA said Arafat's remarks were made in a "militant message" delivered from Tunis, Tunisia, to the "Palestinian masses." "Israel participated in this campaign with the hope of transforming its role from that of a watchdog to that of a junior partner in this massive slave trading that our region and peoples are being subjected to," Arafat said.

In an apparent effort to appease radical Palestinian and Arab critics of his talks with Jordan's King Hussein on a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation, Arafat was quoted as saying: "There shall be no solution, no peace and no stability in this region by jumping over the rights of the Arab nation and its central cause, the cause of the people of Palestine. "They have the right of return, the right of self-determination and the right to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital under the leadership of the PLO," he said. to 2 2. r- CD Z-CO OPEN NEW YEAR'S DAY 12-4 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) PLO leader Yasser Arafat, in an address commemorating the Jan. 1, 1965 launching of his guerrilla movement, said yesterday that the Palestinian people will settle for nothing less than an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

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