Israelis Follow Jets with Tanks
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Anti-nuclear Israelis groups protest follow jets across nation with tanks By United Press International will dock at the submarine base at Bangor. Thousands of anti-nuclear peace The protesters said that forcinjg By David Zenlan the document. The vote was 11 in activists — from New York City to the 2,700-ton Ohio to stop even brief United Press International favor, one against and three absten the Pentagon to Puget Sound — ly would be a symbol the nuclear tions — Britain, Togo and Zaire. began four days of protest Friday to arms race can be halted by popular Israeli tanks thrust down a main PLO chief Yasser Arafat earlier commemorate the 37th anniversary resistance. road into west Beirut Friday behind appealed to the United Nations to of the atomic destruction of Members of Philip Berrlgan’s a ' devastating artillery barrage dispatch international observers to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. anti-nuclear activists said they against heavy opposition from besieged west Beirut "as soon as In Hiroshima, 43,000 people would spill samples of their blOod Palestinian guerrillas. possible." Israel has refused to prayed silently at 8:15 a.m. — the Friday at the Pentagon. Residents, warned by the Israelis accept any U.N. observers. Zehdi time the bomb' exploded Aug. 6, “We are all complicit in this evil, to flee for their lives, streamed Labib Terzi, the PLO representative 1945. Dqves flew overhead and a bell and if we don’t change we will an trom the Moslem sector. at the United Nations, urged the tolled. nihilate ourselves,” said spokesman The thrust followed a 45-minute council to “take prompt action.” Peter De Mott. ’ air raid during which Israeli jet In Moscow, the official news agen “Hiroshima is not merely a In two blows to the "no nukes” cy Tass charged that President witness of history. Hiroshima is an warplanes demolished a Palestine cause. Congress Thursday rejected Liberation Organization security Reagan is doing nothing to try and everlasting warning for the future of a nuclear freeze by two votes and halt the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. mankind,” said Mayor Takeshi headquarters in the battered and Energy Secretary James Edwards blasted district. It accused Tel Aviv and Washington Araki. said the United States may speed up The air and ground assaults came of cooperating, with "Israel... Protests in many U.S. cities were its nuclear weapons testing to “stay as Lebanese Prime Minister Chefic tightening the military ring around ereai savings! timed to mark either the anniver aliead of the opposition.” Wazzan reported “near complete” the Palestinians while the United sary of the Hiroshima bombing or Edwards Thursday witnessed the agreement on a peaceful evacuation States is putting political and psy that of the Nagasaki bombing on 11th announced U.S. underground of about 6,000 PLO guerrillas chological pressuse on them.” Monday. nuclear test at Yucca Flat, Nev." trapped in west Beirut by the Israeli The Israeli tank force struck down In Seattle, the Coast Guard The House Thursday defeated a invasion forces. the Museum Road that separates formed an escort to keep an es nuclear arms freeze by a two^vote In New York, the United States the main part of west Beirut from timated 50 protesters in boats away margin, and President Reagan vetoed a tough Soviet-sponsored Palestinian camps to the south and 11 M UN ' nd I I from the nuclear missile submarine hailed it as a strong signal to the Security Council resolution calling encountered very heavy opposition III II ' \^ m e HIK 1 1 INN USS Ohio, expected as early as Soviets. Freeze supporters said the for a total ban on military aid to from the PLO, witnesses reported. M..II '.II HI ' I " H' 'I '.M . I ' >" Friday in Puget Sound from sea du n ex ^ u n d will be fought at the polls Israel unless the Jewish state im UPl photographer Fadi Mitri ty ,1"- this fall. fi Uf’l photo mediately halted the bloodshed in reported shells 'Slammed into west Coast Guard ' spokesman Lou Seventy-four people were arrested Lebanon. Beirut every few seconds and had Parris said no one will be allowed in New York for blocking the en PROTESTERS MARCH IN MONTPELIER. VT. The council met briefly for the se started a fire in the large pine woods within 1,000 y ards^ the ship, which trance to a nuclear weaponry “think . costumes depict death at Hiroshima cond time within 12 hours to vote on near the race track along the road. has been at sea since mid-July. It tank.” Mitri said the fighting resembled the exchanges on Tuesday, the heaviest battles since Israel invaded Lebanon on June 6. About 5 p.m. a huge car bomb exploded outside the Ministry of In Manchester man formation in West Beirut on Hamra Sreet, opposite the UPI bureau that was knocked out by a shell Wednesday. Four people were reported killed and 11 injured. PLO leaders frequently gathered at the aids in R.i. rescue information ministry. Before the tank assault, the Israelis had used bullhorns and loud By Raymond T. DeMeo Lingard says the victim's wife told him he had just speakers to urge civilians to get out eaten before going out to swim in the surf, .fudging by Herald Reporter of West Beirut. Fifteen minutes the large bump on the man’s head, Lingard guessed he later the Israelis fired from their Rhode Island’s Mlsquamicut State Beach was fell down in the water, hit his head on a rock, and "just positions at the Lebanese National crowded as usual last Sunday. Dan Lingard, 20, and his started drowning.” Museum seized Tuesday and the two friends, John DuBois and Sean Grady, were About 10 minutes after the man was pulled out an am PLO answered with light arms and enjoying a surf that was higher than usual — about 6 to 7 bulance arrived. According to Lingard, it wasn’t much artillery fire. feet, according to Lingard. help. He says he asked ambulance attendants for a Preliminary reports said as many It was Grady, of Tanner Street, who saw the body battery-powered suction unit to help clear the victim's as 200 people were killed or wounded first. It was floating, face down, just a few feet toward airway, and they told him they weren’t sure what he was in the air raid, which, together with the shore from where Grady was swimming. talking about. sporadic artillery and machine gun Grady seized the victim, a man in his 60s, under the “ So I ran on up the ambulance myself and I found battles on the city outskirts, chest and brought him into shore. ’Then he called for one,” he says. “I brought it down, and after about two shattered the undeclared lenth Lingard, of 28 Woodbridge St., a volunteer firefighter sucks it ran out of juice.” cease-fire. with the Eighth Utilities District and an.emergency THE AMBULANCE attendants apparently hadn’t medical technician. recharged the unit’s battery. BY THE TIME Lingard arrived, a large crowd had “By this time, the guy was starting to turn blue," already gathered around the body. Four or five people Lingard recalls. The attendants hoisted the victim into inside Today who said they knew how to perform cardio-pulmonary the ambulance and sped him away to the hospital. -resuscitation were “pounding on his chest,” Lingard Lingard never even found out his name. He doesn’t 20 pages, 2 sections says. know whether or not he recovered — he says he’s hoping to find out when he visits Mlsquamicut again tomorrow. Advice ............. ....... 13 ‘"They all wanted to keep doing CPR. I almost had to ........ 20 beat them off toe guy,” says Lingard. Business........... He’s disappointed that a technical failure that never Classified......... .18-19 Aided by a doctor who was visiting toe beach, Lingard should have happened prevented the draw went to work. He determined that toe victim had a Comics............. .............8 ning victim from getting toe help he needed. "If that Editorial ......... .........4 pulse, but a faint one. He was not breathing, and his suction unit had worked, I know we could have gotten diaphragm was blocked by partially digested food, Entertainment .... 6-7 respiration back,” he says. Lottery........... ........ 2 Lingard says. .......... 10 Herald photo by Pinto He is the son of Eighth District Fire' Marshal Gran Obituaries .... Ungard began mouto-to-mouto resuscitation. He tried ville H. Lingard and Town Director Joan V. Lingard. He .........14 -ill' • • to clear an airway passage to toe victim’s lungs by Religious news > DAN UNGARO works at his father’s woodworking shop at 77 Woodland Sports 1 ........... .. 15-17 sucking out the vomit that clogged toe man’s lungs and ...... 6-7 . technical failure hindered his rescue attefhpt diaphragm. St. Television .... economist top Reagan adviser .V, •»; WASHINGTON (UPI) - Presi Feldstein is philosophically “in welcome, saying, “I admire him member council. *1116 remaining ministration’s efforts to cut govern dent Reagan Friday named Martin > tune" with Reagan, Speakes said. and have respect for his work.” member is William Niskanen. ment spending, including such Feldstein, a 42-year-old Harvard ,Weldenbaum, who is resigning to But Rep. Henry Reuss from In addition to teaching at Har programs as Social Security, health economist, to toe key post of ebair- ’’ return to toe faculty of Watolngton Wisconsin, toe Democratic chair vard, Feldstein is president of toe care and unemployment compensa man of his Council of Economic ; University in St. Louis, supported man of Congress’ Joint Economic non-partisan and highly respected tion, he reportedly has one major visers.