Israeli Armor Invades Lebanon
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Monday Polish festival attracts 'Nicholas Nickleby' Specials 1,000 despite rain, A4 cops top Tony award, A7 The Daily Register M on moil < li County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO. 292 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, JUNE 7,1982 * 25 CENTS Israeli armor invades Lebanon By The Associated Preif Five Israeli armored columns shielded by air Reagan dispatches Habib and naval bombardments advanced through southern Lebanon, capturing a key Palestinian as Mideast heats up, A3 stronghold in a massive invasion aimed at driv- ing guerrilla gunners out of range of northern Israel. pulled their guns back into the maze of tunnels U.N. and Palestinian sources said 20,000 Is- in the cliff. raeli troops and hundreds of tanks battled guer- Residents of Metulla said a heavy artillery rillas and their leftist Lebanese allies yesterday and air attack on the fortress last night stopped from the outskirts of Tyre, the port and Palesti- at midnight, and apparently the Infantry moved I SYRIA nian military center on the Mediterranean 12 up then, crossed the Litani River and overran miles north of the border, to points north of the the clifftop fortress. Litani River, the limit of Israel's 1978 invasion. As Syria claimed its forces in Lebanon were In one thrust across the Litani during the engaging the invaders and the fighting threat- / night, the Israeli military command said troops ened to escalate into full-scale war, the 15- Golan » captured the Crusader-era Beaufort Castle, a nation U.N. Security Council demanded unani- heavily-fortified cllfftop Palestinian base that Heights '. mously last night that Israel "withdraw all its for year* rained artillery fire and rockets on the ISRAEL military forces forthwith and unconditionally." Israel's northernmost town of Metulla, 3Vt miles The council ordered the combatants to ad- to the south, and much of the surrounding ISRAELI ATTACK — Under cover of raid- Galilee panhandle. vise U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar of their acceptance of the resolution ing lets and naval bombardments, Israeli The Israeli announcement at dawn today within 24 hours. Israel was expected to Ignore it. NMi tanks rolled Into southern Lebanon yester- capped six years of fruitless Israelis .efforts to In a letter to President Reagan, Israeli DOWNED CHOPPER — Palestinian guerrillas and supporters parade the rear rotor day in a three-pronged Invasion. Israel an- knock out the Beaufort Castle batteries with Prime Minister Menachem Begin said the in and part of what the guerrillas said was an Israeli helicopter that was shot down nounced the capture of Beaufort Castle, a repeated air strikes, foiled when the guerrillas See Israeli, page AS yesterday In fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in southern Lebanon. Crusader fortress used by the Palestinians. City priest Fen wick, Bell clash in debate; picketed Kean insists he's still neutral By SKIP WOLLENBERG important issue in the campaign — as it should would go down "in the short run" if the Federal by flock be." Reserve Board cut the discount rate it gives NEW BRUNSWICK (AP) - For a pair of Asked specifically about Bell's plan, Kean banks below the market rate, halt so-called By LAURA QUINN Republicans who support a Republican presi- replied, "I haven't analyzed it in any great "open market operations" and ended what he dent's economic policies, Rep. Mlllicent detail." describes as the Fed't "misguided attempt to LONG BRANCH - About 60 parishioners Fenwick and Jeffrey Bell have found a lot to But he said he had agreed to a request by the control the amount of money In the economy." of the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church disagree over. 38-year-old candidate to make his comments Fenwick said she wasn't disturbed by the picketed the church yesterday to protest the The two contenders for the GOP nomination about the interest rate issue just two days comments by Kean and said she thought the policies and actions of their pastor, Rev. for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey clashed before the primary. governor has remained "classicly neutral" In Frank Iaxetta. yesterday in a League of Women Voters forum "He (Bell) asked me if I would make my the campaign. According to several of the demonstrat- on the root causes of high interest rates and position known publicly and I agreed," Kean When asked whether she had sought any ors, Iaietta has improperly managed church what to do about them. said. "I told Jeff I didn't know bow much of a supporting comments from Kean, Fenwick said, funds, Instigated controversy among church Yesterday evening, Republican Gov. Thomas story It would be, but he seemed to think it was "Certainly not." groups and unreasonably dismissed several H. Kean credited Bell with making a call to important." At his debate with Fenwick, Bell said that be committed employees, including the princi- reduce high interest rates "the single most Essentially, Bell believes high Interest rates See Fenwick, page At pal of the Holy Trinity School. important issue" in the race. After making numerous unsuccessful ap- But Kean repeated that he would remain peal* to diocesan officials for evaluation of "studiously neutral" in the contest and that he Iatetta'i performance during the three years was not endorsing Bell or his economic pro- since be assumed his postlon, the demon- posals. 9 Democratic hopefuls strators hope that a public display of their The debate was their final joint appearance dissatisfaction will prove more effective, before tomorrow's primary election in which said Mary Barry, a former president of the New Jersey Republicans will select one of them Holy Trinity PTA. to run for the seat which had been held for 23 seeking recognition The pickets carried signs saying, "Tren- years by Democrat Harrison A. Williams Jr. ton Hear Our Prayers," "Enough is Williams resigned in March because of his By YVONNE CHIUK better equipped to fight for change in Washing- Enough," and "Save our Parish," Barry Abscam convictions. The man appointed to re- ton. said. place him, Republican Nicholas Brady, had no NEW BRUNSWICK (AP) - With the prima- "We all have strong feelings on Democratic She said the demonstrators hope to even- intention of running for election to the seat. issues. We all sound alike on the need for jobs," tually arrange an audience with Bishop John ry just one day away, Democrats vying for the Bell, a 38-year-old former political aide to U.S. Senate nomination are scrambling to dist- said Joseph LeFante, a former congressman Reiss. According to another demonstrator, Ronald Reagan, says the economy has floun- from Hudson County. "But leadership counts at the disgruntled parishioners will withhold inguish themselves from the field of anti-Re- dered for two years because of the Federal aganomics candidates. times like these." monetary contributions to the church until Reserve Board's monetary policies. He said he Frank Lautenberg, the millionaire chairman diocesan authorities address their problems. hoped to convince Reagan to support limiting Two former congressmen, a former mayor, two businessmen, a car salesman, a lawyer, a of Automatic Data Processing, said his business Gloria SUmato, former director of the the Fed in this area. experience makes him the best candidate. PICKETS PRIEST — A parishioner Mrs. Fenwick, 72, a four-term con- county freeholder and a former state banking church choirs, termed yesterday's action a pickets outside Holy Trinity Roman commissioner are seeking the nomination to run Barbara Boggs Sigmund said her eight yean "spontaneous uprising." She said when gresswoman from Bernardsvllle, says interest on the Mercer County Board of Freeholders and Catholic Church to protest the policies of rates have stayed high because of the size of the against the Republican candidate in the Novem- See Priest, pace At the Rev. Frank lazetta. ber election. her past presidency of the New Jersey Associa- federal deficit and dismisses suggestions that tion of Counties distinguish her from the pack. the Fed be politicized as a "very dangerous and Eight of the Democrats gathered yesterday even radical proposal." at a forum sponsored by the League of Women "The question before Democratic voters or Voters of New Jersey at Rutgers University. Tuesday is who is the most qualified to em Bell campaign aides yesterday — and Bell Howard Rosen, a Millburn lawyer, did not ap- phasize public service and government, not bust himself in a personal call to the Associated pear because he was hospitalized early yester- ness," she said. Activists issue warning Press — said Kean might have a comment to Richard McAleer, a car salesman, dis day for treatment of a kidney stone. His cam- make on the campaign. paign staff said he expected to be out of the agreed. Kean, who was in an evening meeting on the hospital by tomorrow's election. "There are too many millionaires and Ux of nuclear war horrors upcoming budget battle with cabinet officials at The candidates at the forum agreed that many celebrities running the government," Uu his Livingston home, returned an AP telephone Reagan administration policies were causing 41-year-old Ocean Grove resident said. Western Monmouth-Lakewood Concerned inquiry. rising unemployment and hurting the country's The question asked most frequently of the Citizens for Nuclear Disarmament at St. Robert "I'm glad it's been the focus of the cam- economy. candidates concerned their stand on the Equa By DAN BREEN Bellarmlne Roman Catholic Church, four veter- paign," Kean told the AP. "It's the single most But predictably, they disagreed on who was See Democratic, page A4 ans of the anti-arms race, pro-survival move- FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - A diverse crowd ment sought to recruit their listeners to join of ISO persons turned out in the drizzle yesterday their non-violent battle.