Beirut Evacuation Resumes After Halt
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Monday Oceanport woman says Yanks1 Righetti battles Specials British sailor hit her, A4 sophomore jinx: Sports The Daily Register Itlonmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 105 NO. 49 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, AUGUST 23,1982 25 CENTS Bridge Beirut evacuation closing is resumes after halt bemoaned By MARK GRAVEN By FAROUK NAS8AR MONMOUTH BEACH - Sailboat owners BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese army who have had the wind knocked out of their sails trucks carried a third boatload of about 1,000 by the state's decision to indefinitely close the Palestinian guerrillas to the port of Beirut today Highlands drawbridge for repairs are kicking i to be loaded aboard a ship for Aden. a storm. Their departure for Marxist South Yemen, at "Without getting hysterical, the situation is the southern'Up of the Arabian peninsula, will terrible," said Michael Bressler, dir bring to about 2,500 the number of Palestine public works for Ocean Township, who i Liberation Organization fighters evacuated boat with a mast too high to get from Beirut to about 2,500 in three days. bridge. As they had on Saturday and yesterday, The boat owners assert leftist Lebanese Moslem militiamen allied with knew the bridge was in poor condition long ago, the PLO fired farewell machine-gun and anti- and should have done preventive maintenance to aircraft barrages Into the air as the truck con- bead off problems. voys wound slowly through the city. And many of the boat ovfowtsare distressed Portraits of PLO chief Yasser Arafat were by what they perceive as indiffeience by the attached to the muzzle of the unloaded sub- general public and local officials to their plight. machine guns of the departing guerrillas. They The state Department of Transportation or- flashed the "V" for victory sign with their dered the 50-year old drawbridge shut down last fingers and chanted "Palestine, Palestine, we week to repair worn gears in the machinery that are coming" in Arabic. opens and closes the bridge. The order does not The first batch of 397 evacuees arrived in affect motor traffic passing over the bridge on ARRIVAL PROM LEBANON — PLO guerrillas hold portraits of PLO leader Yasser Jordan and Iraq via Cyprus yesterday, and the Route 36, but it means that boats with tall masts Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan shortly after arriving at the Al-Mafraq air base In second group of 1,005 were at sea bound for that can't get under the bridge's clearance — 35 northern Jordan yesterday. The guerrillas were met personally by King Hussein. Cyprus and Tunisia. feet at high tide — are trapped upriver. Most of those going to Aden were members This was the first weekend that owners of of Dr. George Habash's Popular Front for the tall-masted vessels were stranded in the Liberation of Palestine, which heads the PLO's Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers. The rivers radical faction, and the pro-Moscow Democratic don't have wide enough channels to provide good Shultz to Israel: Start Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by sailing for the bigger boats. Nayef Hawatmeh Some boat owners showed up at marinas in As the evacuation continued, Arafat's chief Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright yesterday to security aide Salah Khalaf, who uses the alias check on their boats and commiserate. West Bank pullout Abu Iyad, vowed an "underground war against "We Invest $50,000 in a boat and we have to Israel throughout the world," the PLO radio just sit here and look at," lamented one disgrun- station reported. teled owner.. ByGENEGRABOWUU land it seized in that conflict. Bressler took a different tack and motored "Our underground fighters will penetrate Because of its security concerns as well at around in his sail boat on the Shrewsbury. Israel from all directions," he said . "They will WASHINGTON <AP) - Secretary of State biblical interpretations, Israel has vowed to "It's not my idea of fun; it's just not the soon be reaching the West Bank and Gaza Strip George P. Shultz says Israel should begin partial maintain final authority over the West Bank, EMOTIONAL DEPARTURE — A Palesti- same as sailing," said Bressler. withdrawal from the West Bank to comply with which has a majority Palestinian population. and make (Prime Minister Menachem) Begin nian woman dances in the street waving a pay dearly for the Beirut bloodbath." A group of boat owners at the Nauvoo Marina terms of a United Nations peace resolution for Shultz, appearing on NBC's "Meet The rifle over her head yesterday following the in Monmouth Beach were trying to make the The PLO dispersal began Saturday under a the Middle East. Press," said the language of the 1(78 Camp departure of her husband, a PLO fighter best of the situation by having an impromptu plan drawn up by U.S. presidential envoy Philip While Palestinian fighters were being es- David agreement on the West Bank issue, "ob- being transported to Tunisia. cocktail party on board their boat. viously can be interpreted in many ways. Cer- C. Hablb to evacuate the guerrillas, the PLO corted from Beirut on the second day of an "It's frustrating," said Domenic Alfano, a tainly one of those ways is that some shift in the organization and Syrian troops from west Beirut international evacuation plan, Shulti said in a yesterday afternoon after the guerrillas bound boat owner from Little Silver. "There are nice television Interview that Israeli concessions in practical borders now will take place." in two weeks. for Tunisia loaded jeeps aboard the Cypriot winds today, but we can't take advantage of the disputed territory are called for. PLO spokesmen said none of their senior Shultz said the Palestinian people "should ferry chartered to carry them to Larnaca, on the them." leaders has left Beirut yet. The PLO-controlled "I think (resolution) 241 has that Implica- have a part in determining the conditions under southeast coast of Cyprus. The boat owners saw a ray of hope in an Palestine News Agency said Arafat toured his tion in it," he said yesterday. The secretary which they are governed," but he stopped short announcement this weekend that the state is added, however, that the wording of the resolu- of endorsing the idea of an independent Palesti- organization's frontline positions in and around Israeli spokesman Uri Porat said his govern- ment lifted the blockade after US Ambassador considering opening the drawbridge at least tion is vague enough to permit "lots of room for nian state on the West Bank. Beirut yesterday as Israel halted the evacuation once a day. negotiation." Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- for six hours. Samuel Lewis promised Begin a written Ameri- Resolution 242, approved after the 1067 Arab- berger said the United States is developing a Israeli gunboats blockaded the port of Beirut <s+ See Evacuattoa. page Al See Bridge, page Al Israeli war, requires Israel to withdraw from See Shlilli, paft A3 Parlin miss is picked as Miss Jersey Shore By LAURA QU1NN ASBURY PARK - When the Master of Ceremonies finally stopped singing and the trembling contestants struck their last group pose, Ivy Lisse Martez put down her popcorn, clasped h,er greasy hands together and prayed that her cousin, Lydia Flgueroa, would win. "She worked so hard!" Ivy said in com- miseration seconds after it was announced •••Mr •*•)• k* Cwl Partaa that, not Lydia, but Dawn Ciavarro, of Parlin, was the 1982 winner of the Second RIVER RUN — Two Super Stock Runabouts zoom around a turn in fleet of spectator boats floats on the northeast end of the race Annual Miss Jersey Shore Pageant, which one of the heats of the 43rd National Sweepstakes Regatta, as a course, enjoying a front-row seat on the weekend's events. took place at the Paramount Theater last night. "She didn't smile enough!" said the mother of contestant Tracy Danks while her three drowsy youngsters, having barely en- Regatta crowd doubles in size dured the four-hour pageant, looked up at the dazzling stage in perplexity. By USA PODERARO Others admired the speed and the swift "At least she got something," muttered Ex-Oceanport resident moves of the machines around the turns. spectator Skip Vaught as he watched his RED BANK - Sunny skies, cool breezes, and "I only wish I had moves like those boats. friend, Trad Perotto of Point Pleasant, ac- the sheer excitement of power boat races on the speeds to victory, Bl They sure know how to move quickly on the cept third place in the contest. Like many of scenic Navesink River drew an estimated 2,000 curves," said Tom Murtha, 24, of Red Bank the friends and relatives of the more than 30 spectators to the second day of the 43rd annual grinning behind a pair of mirror sunglasses. losing contestants, Vaught knew no reason National Sweepstakes Regatta yesterday - "The races are exciting, a natural way to spend why his favorite competitor was denied the nearly double the size of Saturday's crowd. people." a Sunday." throne. Young and old from all over Monmouth And as always, many diehard Jersey Speed Some spectators regarded the National But, according to pageant producer County covered the hill of Marine Park, lined Skiff fans congregated on the shores along the Sweepstakes Regatta as an event which draws Joseph Santoro of Belmar, the winner of the the adjacent banks of the river, and bobbed up Navesink to watch the native fiberglass craft the community together. "I think the races are Miss Jersey Shore Pageant must possess a and down in motor boats anchored off the north- skip like stones across the water.