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Astros (Deshaies 6-3), 8:35 p.m. Details: SportsSection 4'" It's army vs. army in Beijing ENQUIRER NEWS SERVICES BEIJING China teetered on the edge of civil war today as gunfire spread around the capital and opposing armies maneuvered to confront each other in a bloody power struggle. An ominous silence hung over the eastern edge of the city, where camouflaged tanks loyal to Premier Li Deng maneuvered to establish a defensive perimeter. Nine tanks and 10 armored personnel carriers left the square this morning, heading eastward.

A regiment-sized unit of army troops and their commanding officers were said to have rebelled against the bloody suppression and retreated. The withdrawal of the unit, considered one of the most loyal to the government, was evidence of the widening split in the armed forces. Many units refused orders to break through human barriers after martial law was imposed on May 20. Sporadic shooting could be heard in the tense capital Monday and this morning. As the split deepened in Beijing, a Hong Kong newspaper reported that Peng survived an assassination attempt by a police officer in Beijing.

The Chinese-language Ming Pao quoted what it said were informed sources in Beijing as saying Li was shot in the thigh on Sunday in the Great Hall of the People by a young officer on guard at the hall. The paper, quoted by Kyodo News Service in Hong Kong, said the wound was not severe and that the officer was immediately shot to death. With Beijing essentially gripped by anarchy, more than 30,000 troops of a Chinese field army loyal to Deng braced for possible clashes with other army units believed to have opposed the weekend military assault on pro-democracy demonstrators here that left hundreds dead. At least three people died and four were injured Monday as troops armed with machine guns and automatic rifles kept up sporadic, indiscriminate firing. Troop convoys continued to block all main roads into the city.

Major streets were empty for the first time in weeks. Twenty-two tanks of the 27th (Please see CHINA, back page, this section) vV The Cincinnati EnquirerJohn Samora For Guan Xu, left, the word from China was good Monday. She learned that her sister who had been on hunger strike on Tiananmen Square was safe after the weekend's violence. She is comforted by Yan Ni, right, at a pro-democracy rally at the University of Cincinnati. Parents and relatives mourn the death of a Beijing University student, who was killed during fc.

Cxi U.3.3.R.," itfSlJ Troops at Beijing's Tiananmen CHlliriV bpuare were on the 'nqia, defensive today, amid fear that attack from other army units was imminent. In Shanghai, students blocked intersections. Tomb i i 1 lwuyt I Tlinfcnrmn I violence of the last two days. This scene is outside the city's Post and Hospital. ft a Mi if I I Congress braced to deal with Lukens BY ANNE WILLETTE Gannett News Service WASHINGTON U.S.

Rep. Donald E. "Buz" Lukens' refusal to resign from Congress has forced lawmakers into the unsavory position of judging a colleague convicted of having sex with a minor. "We're clearly going to have to deal directly, I think, in the next couple of weeks 'with the question of Buz Lukens," Republican Minority Whip Newt Gingrich said of House Republicans. "It's going to be very painful.

Many of us are very close friends of Buz." Lukens, a Middletown Republican, rejected suggestions and demands by local, state and national Republican Party leaders that he resign his seat. The lawmaker was convicted May 26 of contributing to the delinquency and unruliness of a minor for having sex with a 16-year-old girl last year. The misdemeanor carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and $1,000 fine. Sentencing is expected the week of June 26. Lukens says he is not guilty and plans to appeal.

While party leaders are powerless to force Lukens to resign, House members can expel him. But Gingrich predicted House Republicans would recommend the (Please see LUKENS, back page, this section) "C- (If Inside today a Bush's sanctionsA-6 Reports of mutinyA-6 Beijing: A city trappedA-6 Local business tiesA-6 Cincinnati impactA-6 The Associated Press Sorrow, rage at UC rally: 'Is there know if his family, which lives near the is safe from the fighting. Another student, Xing Ju, said people are afraid to call China because police may listen in. UC students read a letter asking that the Bush administration stop cultural and scientific exchanges with China, recall the U.S. ambassador and protect Chinese students in the United States.

"I am one," he said, before being joined by a half-dozen others who stepped from the crowd. Callers from Beijing have said as many as 7,000 people have been killed or injured as troops opened fire, speakers said. Demonstrators at the UC meeting, some freely crying, chanted in Chinese, "The blood of students is not in vain." Qing Yang said he does not BY SCOTT BURGINS The Cincinnati Enquirer In choked and broken English, Suxu Sun told the crowd Monday how a Chinese tank had rolled over a little girl during fighting in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Sun, who had called a friend in the Chinese capital early Monday morning, relayed eyewitness accounts of how soldiers burned the bodies of dead protesters. They carried signs that read, "Down with Fascistic government," and Stalin, you have perfect successor." Some signs were splattered with blood-red paint.

One just said, "Revenge." Jianshang Yuang told the audience that many Chinese were renouncing their membership in the country's Communist Party because of the decision to unleash the troops on demonstrators. "I wonder if there is justice in this world where?" the 26-year-old student asked. "Please come out." Sun was among the speakers at a meeting of more than 150 Chinese students and others at the University of Cincinnati Monday. Demonstrators with black armbands stood along the walls, chanting in the orderly but intense hour-long meeting. I Editorial, Page A-10.

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District Court in Cincinnati for a lawsuit representing the 14,000 people who live and work within five miles of the plant. The report revealed in opening statements by Stanley M. Chesley, the plaintiffs' attorney, but not presented to jurors estimated that 12.4 lung cancer deaths above those normally BY ELIZABETH NEUS and BEN L. KAUFMAN Cincinnati Enquirer i Some neighbors of the Fernald uranium proscessing plant can expect to die of lung cancer caused by emissions from the northwestern Hamilton County facility, a government consultant has predicted. The revelation came Monday at the Metro Tempo Howard A-7 Lottery Obituaries A-9 B-6 RadioTV B-7 B-9-12 Attorney Stanley M.

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