ifeireli Comiiiittee Studies 'Drastic' Rt 9 Move SEE STORY Shiftily, Milder Sunny and not so cold to- day, Becoming cloudy to- night. Mild again with chance Bed Bank, Freehold f of rain tomorrow. Long Branch J We, Det&Ut J»a!l) j) Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 90 Years VOL. 91, NO. 130 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1968 20 PAGES TEN CENTS Israel Pledges Arabs More Retaliation ; ••• By ASSOCIATED PRESS automatic rifle attack on the plane, which killed one Israeli The U.s; ambassador to Lebanon, Dwight Porter, called Lebanese troops dived for cover, and he planes made two , Undeterred by mounting condemnation from all sides of passenger. on Lebanese Premier Abdullah Yafi to discuss how the low passes and flew ofi unchallenged by] antiaircraft batteries its commando raid on the Beirut airport, Israel yesterday The U;N. Security Council met in urgent session last United States could help Lebanon "restore its commercial or fighter planes based 40 miles away/ promised further retaliation for Arab attacks. Premier Levi night and appeared headed for a vote condemning Israel air fleet," the embassy announced. Lebanon claimed the destroyed ajpcraft were worth more , There was no indication, however, that the United than $50 million, and Arab and Soviet bloc countriesxat the Eshkol declared that Israel will defend itself against aggres- at another meeting tonight. U.S. Ambassador J. R. Wiggins 1 sion "in the place where it is planned and carried out." told the council his government'"strongly condemns the States would go back on its agreement to deliver 50 Phan- Security Council meeting demanded^ that Israel be required ; "States which make it possible'for the terror organiza- attack" and "is prepared to support prompt action by the tom jet fighters to Israel. to pay compensation. tions to, organize and perpetrate acts of terror bear the Security Council to condemn this latest Israeli action." MOST OF FLEET Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. MauVipWthe_cgjincil that responsibility for aggression, a responsibility which they In Washington, presidential assistant Walt W. Eostow Helieppter-borne Israel! commandos destroyed 13 Leban- Israel also should be warned it faced passibKTsanctions if it' cannot disclaim," he said. reported that President Johnson considered the attack ese cargo and passenger planes, more than half the coun- persists in what he called "flagrant aggressive acts." He ; Eshkol and Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, "serious and unwise." Rostow said the United States told try's civil airline fleet, in the 45-minute raid Saturday night. chided the United States for condemning Israel while at the Shabtai Rosenne, said Saturday's raid was in retaliation Israel "it is a grave matter for the regular forces of the They first cleared the parked planes of passengers. One same time selling her Phantom jets. ^or the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al airliner at Athens government of Israel to attack a civil international airport casualty was reported, a guard who was wounded slightly. Lebanon's U.N. representative, Edward Ghorra, noted ! airport Thursday. Greek authorities are holding two Palestin- in a country which has been striving toward moderation in Yesterday, 12 hours after the raid, two Israeli jets that Israel has repeatedly defied U.N. resolutions of con- ian guerrillas who lived in Lebanon for the grenade and the Middle East." flew over the airport to inspect the still-smoldering debris. (See ISRAEL, Pg. 2, Col. 1) ______ Astronauts Spending Day Of Intensive De-Brief ing SPACE CENTER, Houston flight training specialists, The astronauts arrived at Co. .plant at Downey, Califl, •9 which is slated to blast off (AP) — The Apollo 8 astro- will go over their mission 3 a.m. EST yesterday and for closer examination. ,from Cape Kennedy on Feb. nauts engage in the first full "event by event in consider- had their first intensive de- Twelve pictures taken by 28. day • of" intensive de-briefing able detail," a space official briefing session less than 12 the Apollo 8 crew en route The crew is to test the on their flight today as space said. They will follow the hours later. and around the moon—part "back pack" life support sys- officials release part of the same schedule for nine of They were flown here from of the scientific treasure they tem and lunar module for treasure they brought back- the next 10 days, talking with the aircraft carrier Yorktown gathered in their six-day . the moon landing expected to color views unseen before of groups ranging from scien- via Hawaii. They had spent flight—were released yester- be made next summer. the earth and the moon. tists to fellow astronauts. a day on the carrier after day by the National Aero- James A. McDivitt will be Air Forge Col. Frank Bor- Each word will be record- helicopters , plucked them nautics and Space Adminis- flight commander of the lu- man, Navy Capt. James A. ed.'transcribed and prepared from the mid-Pacific at the, tration. nar module and David Scott Lovell Jr. and Air Force Lt. for a final report. end of their moon-orbiting, It was announced at the the command module. Dur- Col. William A. Anders are Break on New Year's mission. space center that Russell J. ing the flight, Schweickart set to talk into tape record- Their only break will come Their spacecraft was taken Schweickart, who was born in and McDivitt will go from ers about their half-million New Year's DayM ' to Honolulu by the Yorktown Wall Township, is expected the command unit into the lhile voyage around the moon "That'll be their first day , where it will undergo Navy to be the second man from lunar module and separate and back. off in many, many weeks,"- tests before being flown to New Jersey to walk in space. the moon craft from the com- The trio, meeting with an official said. the North American Rockwell He will be aboard the Apollo mand ship. When linked to the command ship, Schweic- kart is to leave the lunar module-and enter the com- mand ship. U;S*, Saigon Discuss Talks Schweickart's New Jersey predecessor in space walk- PARIS (AP) — The nego- from North Vietnam and the the Viet Cong which would .tary matters which Washing- ing was Air Force Maj. Ed- MOON VIEW PROM SPACECRAFT — This photograph; v/as. taken from the tiators from Washington and National Liberation- Front nor prove damaging later on. ton would like to deal with win E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. of Apoll)* 8 spacecraft with a long focal length lens, looking south at the large crater Saigon confer today on the an end to the persistent dif- Vance reported JohnSonJs .early in the four-party par- T Montclair. He spent 5'^ hours Goclenlusi An unusual feature of this crater is the prominent Hit that crosses the deadlock still blocking the ferences between Washing- view that, as the President ley—or which might be han- outside the Gemini 12 in 1956. Vietnam peace conference ton and Saigon over tactics. put it, the U.S. government dled in U.S.-North Vietnam- Two of the color pictures crater rim. The three clustered craters are Magelhaens, Magelhaens A and Co- and on a common front to Want Firm Stand desires substantial progress ese talks if the enlarged con- of the earth were taken as lombo A; The crater Goclenius is located 10 degrees iouth latitude, 45 degrees bresent when the conference South Vietnamese dip- toward an honorable peace ference never gets under the spacecraft was la orbit east longitude, and is approximately 40 statute miles in diameter.' finally begins. and wants "to cut out. all of way. Among these are a mu- or near the moon. They show lomats made plain over the (NASA Photo, via AP Wirephoto) Hie session was the sec- weekend that they still favor table arrangements and the tual withdrawal of U.S. and the earth as a glowing sap- ond between America's Cy- a firm stand toward their ad- like. North Vietnamese troops, re- phire half-disc with wisps of tm B. Vance and South Viet- versaries even during the Seek Position establishment of the demili- clouds streaking the deep nam's Pham Dang Lam since present preliminary ar- Amid the protracted dis- tarized zone between the two blue. the U.S. negotiator's return gument over table shapes and pute over conference proce- Vietnams, curbs on North One view, taken as the from consultations last week other status symbols at the dure, the American and South Vietnamese infiltration in- spacecraft was en route to Cong Shoots Down with President Johnson' and proposed four-party confer- Vietnamese have been meet- to South Vietnam through the moon, shows continents other US. leaders. ence. ing almost daily in search of Laos, and strengthening of on both sides of the Atlantic a common position for the the International Control Ocean. The west bulge of A meeting Saturday pro- Overeagerness to get the Commission for Vietnam. duced neither a new bid to conference going, they said, substantive negotiations. Africa shows as a brown patch surrounded by clouds. Three U.S. 'Copters break the procedural stale- would lead to undue conces- Items under discussion Decline Comment sions to North Vietnam and were said to include mili- The east coast of South mate with the negotiators The U.S. delegation de- SAIGON (AP) - The Viet ported lost in combat in South offensive operations, ignor- America is shrouded with Vietnam. • ing the start of a New Year's clined to comment on Prince clouds. The edge of darkness Cong shot down three more American helicopters over As the American helicopter cease-fire proclaimed by the Norodom Sihanouk's state- stands out as sunset moves losses climbed, thousands of Viet Cong.