Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 15:15:45 +0200
From: Elie Wardini <e.d.wardini@easteur-orient.uio.no>
To: e.d.wardini@easteur-orient.uio.no
Subject: A News Blurb

>From al-Nahar 23rd. June 1995 page 6:
(a quick translation)


A Press Confenrence to Defend The Archeological Sites of the City:

The Intellectuals of Baalbak want to Stop the Plans for New Roads

At 12 o'clock noon time today [23rd. June 1995] the Union of Intellectuals
in Baalbak will hold a press conference in the offices of the Journalists
Union in order to protect their city and save its historical sites.

The intellectuals of Baalbak are demanding that the state ignore the road
plans that pass through the archeological sites since these roads will be
the cause of their destrcution and will open them for stealing and
disappearence.

The Union (of intellectuals) are appealing to the president of the Republic
and all the authorities to give orders to stop to occurence of one of the
many massacres against history and the future due to the dangers that
threaten the city.

The Union (of intellectuals) are appealing to the UNESCO and the United
Nations to interfere to protect the archeological sites of Baalbalk which
archeological and historical importance goe beyong Lebanon especially if
the state does not respond to their cries of grief asking to stop the new
raod plans.

The intellectuals of the region are expressing their fear that there be
constructed an electrical transformer infront of "Jupiter" and infront of
"Baccus" a grocery store. THis especially after installing electrical
transformers at the spot where the statue of Khalil Mutran stood!

These (Intellectuals) raise their voices loud against everything that may
hurt Baalbak, the city that stands elevated in history loaded with history.


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