Syrians Begin Own Beirut Exodus
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Monday Polish general warns Holmdel native shatters Specials Solidarity leaders, A3 own javelin mark: Sports The Daily Register Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL.105 NO. 55 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1982 25 CENTS Syrians begin own Beirut exodus By FAROUK NASSAU Brigade, including its commander, Col. Omar throughout the former PLO enclave. Unlike the Palestine Liberation Organization forces," said Arafat, who claims victory be- Hallal, was to travel to the Syrian border tomor- Lebanon's state television said yesterday evacuees, the Syrians looked subdued as they cause invading Israelis did not storm west BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - A Syrian army row. that Christian-led Lebanese army units planned left the city where they served under Arab Beirut. garrison, trapped by Israel In the Lebanese Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, the Israeli Cabinet to move into west Beirut this week for the first League mandate as peacekeepers between Leb- Various media reports and PLO sources said capital along with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday rejected a U.S. proposal for a de- time since the civil war. anon's rightist Christians and an alliance of he would leave today or tomorrow. Arafat has and Ms guerrillas, left we»t Beirut by road today militarized Palestinian state in the Israeli-oc- Qolleilat told The Associated Press he op- leftist Moslems and Palestinians since the until the week's end to leave under the cease- as Arafat and his remaining fighters prepared to cupied West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza poses the Christian-commanded army moving 1975-76 civil war. fire arranged by U.S. presidential envoy Philip evacuate their former stronghold. Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinians live. into west Beirut and vowed his men will fight if The Syrian and PLO evacuation is expected C. Habib. Plume-helmeted Italian sharpshooters, part The Israeli-state radio said Prime Minister either the Israelis or Christian militiamen loyal to be completed by Wednesday and Beirut news- An Athens newspaper said he would go to of the 2,100 man tri-national peacekeeping Menachem Begins government warned the en- to President-elect Bashir Gemayel tried to cross papers said Lebanese Prime Minister Shafik Greece. One source close to the PLO, however, the "Green Line ' dividing the city into Moslem force, escorted the 298-vehicle Syrian convoy out tire 1979 Camp David peace accords would col- Wazzan would then demand that Israeli forces, said he would leave by ship for Cyprus and then of the city's Galerie Semaan crossing past Is- west and Christian east. lapse if the United States or Egypt tried to who invaded Lebanon on June 6, also leave the by plane to Tunisia. The leftist Beirut daily, As- raeli lines without Incident. change the agreement to permit Palestinian Lebanese army officers yesterday said the capital. Safir, said Israel vetoed a plan for him to go It was unclear whether they would return to autonomy. Syrian evacuees took 10 Soviet-made T-54 tanks Although Arafat's travel plans remained overland to Syria. Syria or Join other Syrian troops deployed in With only about 1,000 to 2,000 guerrillas re- and several armored personnel carriers, artil- closely guarded, he said he would leave the city Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, one eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. maining in the Lebanese capital, leftist Leba- lery pieces and anti-aircraft guns. A life-sized that has been his power base for 12 years of Israel's sharpest critics in the Reagan admin- It was the first group of about 3,000 Syrian nese militiamen have set up their own check- poster of Syrian President Hafez Assad was "publicly, definitely." istration, planned this week to visit officials in troops scheduled to leave the Israeli-ejtcircled hung from the muzzle of an anti-aircraft gun points and plastered posters and pictures of "Don't forget that I am the chairman of the Egypt and Israel and see the 800 U.S. Marines west Beirut. Another battallion of the 85th mounted on the convoy's lead jeep. Moslem militia commander Ibr him QoIleUat PLO and the leader of the Palestinian armed See Syrian, page A3 Record lows chill beach attendance Early morning temperatures today were ex- pected to be unseasonably cool, but not nearly as chilling as the readings yesterday morning that shattered at least two records In New Jersey and sent would-be beachgoers scurrying for their sweaters in Monmouth County. New records were set in Newark and the Atlantic City area, where the readings in the 40s kicked on dormant furnaces, sent residents scurrying for blankets, and forced shivering early churchgoers to hunt for coats packed away for the summer. The cold air mass that barreled across the state from the Great Lakes tent the mercury plunging In Newark yesterday morning to 45 — one degree warmer than Burlington, Vt. — and made it the coldest August day ever at Newark International Airport. "We had 45 degrees here at 5:20," said Walter Blake, a NWS specialist at the airport. "The record for today's date was 90 in IMS." "According to the records here, this is the lowest minimum we've had for August. The previous record low was 47 degrees," set on Aug. 31, 1934. Blake said Festival faces The unseasonably cold weather thinned out beach crowds at Gateway National Recreation Meredith Dwver of Little Silver plys her face-palntlng trade on Kyle Hartung of Long Folk Festival, which drew a record 12,000 people to Sandy Hook. Meanwhile, Raymond Area at Sandy Hook and other area beaches. Branch, left, while Patrick Griffing of Keansburg displays the finished product, center. Keller II demonstrates the traditional "South Jersey style" of torch-method glass And it was even chillier at beaches In the Griffing was one of countless Impromptu clowns set loose on yesterday's International blowing, right. southern part of the state. The NWS office at the Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center at the airport in Pomona, 10 miles inland from Atlantic City, noted a low temperature of 41. That shattered Sandy Hook Folk Festival lures 12,000 the old record of 46, set in 1888 and matched in 1965. And, as the only food stand featuring beer And a low of S3 was recorded at the Atlantic ByJOASTRIDGLADING people came in droves to hear. for a life on the road, when he lost his sight in City Marina. They came by car and by boat, they bicycled 1960. and wine — both Greek, of course - their line of waiting customers was by far the longest. Bob Gager, an NWS weatherman in Pomona, Oh, you're gonna need somewhere to lay and they walked, they traveled the beaches, And yesterday, while sitting alone on the shrugged off the records as "really not that roads and bay to hear him and others — to watch stage overlooking the bay, his white-tipped cane With equally altruistic motives, the Thunder- unusual." When your time conies to die... native American dances and Scottish bagpipers on the floor behind him, his harmonica seemed bird dancers rallied a crowd of thousands to the Lord when I met the savior, — to taste Greek cuisine — to scrutinize while beat of an Indian drum and improvised pow wow "It's definitely not bizarre," said Gager, to recreate the rhythmic clicking of a train's Loag time ago, craftsmen breathed life into obsolete arts. dances, loosely based on traditional dances of adding that some kind of record is broken every wheels and the blow of its whistle in the night. Smith, along with scores of other performers warriors' reenactments of their combat prow- year. "I think that's why people put them there I made preparations Only 100 yards away, the shouts of and craftsmen, drew a record audience of 12,000 — to break them." CUM I knew 1 had to go. "Souvlaki" by Greek vendors turned a part of ess. And so sang authentic Mississippi blues to yesterday's Sandy Hook Folk Festival, ac- the National Park into the streets of the Athe- Based in New York, the group's members "I think it's quite a relief from the 90-degree singer Dan Smith, a 71-year-old blind, black cording to park officials' estimates. nian Plaka. The profits from the stand, one are descended from most major American temperatures we were having and the high Alabamian, breaking off to accompany himself Originally from Perdue Hill, Alabama, member explained in a heavy accent, will go tribes. All proceeds, explained "chief" Louis humidity," he said. "This is beautiful out here Smith spent most of his life working itinerant into a building fund for the Kimisis Tis Theo- Mofsie, go to the Thunderbird Indian Scholar- today." on a harmonica he played like a four part harmony. jobs on railroads, farms, docks and in turpentine iokiHI Church in Holmdel: "We have the land ship Fund for American Indian students. One climatologist, James Newman of forests. He resumed his music, long discarded but no church yet." • See Sandy, page A4 Purdue University, said the reason for the un- And as with the Pied Piper of Hamlin, the seasonably cool weather is a "cold air pool — larger than it should be — over the North Pole and extending down through Canada." He said a' Mexican volcano that erupted in April spewed enormous quantities of ash into the Commercial zone near park urged atmosphere and left a dust cloud north from the equator to about Oklahoma City. The cloud reflects sunlight, Newman said, cooling the land By ANDREW SHEEHAN 'Hopefully, the park and the bid within 45 day, with construction expected beneath It.