Beirut Christians Battle Encirclement

I % r MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1975 - VOL. XCV, No. 28 Manchester—A City of Village Charm f o u r t e e n p a g e s — p l u s w e e k e n d PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS News I Beirut Christians summary I battle encirclement Compiled from United Press International BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Chris fare to over 1,000 dead and 2,500 Holiday. Inn. where they traded tian gunmen held onto a shrinking wounded. machine‘ gun and rocket fire with defense perimeter in Beirut’s exen- Christian militiamen of the right- Phalangists holed up inside. State sive hotel district today, in a last wing Phalangist party made a last MIDDLETOWN - “ New ditch battle against becoming totally stand defense against Moslem lef The Phalangists were fightings York’s heart is bigger than its surrounded by Moslem militia. tists advancing from two sides on desperately to retain the hotel, the head,’’ according to Sen. Premier Rashid Karami called a their embattled positions inside the streets in back of it, and the port road William J. Proximire, D-Wis., new cease-fire Friday night — the St. George'Hotel and the Holiday Inn that is the, only access route left to who may have a say in the 11th in seven "weeks — but like the in the resort area. them to their headquarters down town. city’s financial future. “Pen others it immediately collapsed. Fierce rocket, mortar, and sions for garbage collectors • Christian and Moslem militias machine gun clashes also raged The area just south of the Holiday that are the size of a con fought into the early morning hours through the city's devastated eastern Inn, one of the wealthiest Christian ■ • x .. gressman’s are nice,” he said with rockets, mortars, and machine outskirts. areas of Beirut, was patrolled today Friday. “Nothing wrong with it ■.tv guns. Leftists pushed the Christians out by Moslem gunmen who assured the except it can’t afford the added At least 30 persons were killed and of the streets north of the main up few remaining residents they had expense:’’ \ about '70 wounded Friday, raising the town shopping center and advanced nothing to fear because the area had r toll in seven weeks qf city-wide war east ward w'thin 100 yards of the been ''liberated," • ~ WETHERSFIELD - The state Motor Vehicle Depart ment today apologized to 4,200 X, Ford taping testimony car owners who were mis takenly issued notices of over \ due car taxes. Commissioner Stanley J. Pac said persons on Fromme incident who recieved the notices can determine whether they really WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford agreed to comply with a judge s Library of Congress researchers owe taxes by looking for a ! Ford will be before the television order that he give sworn testimony said no incumbent president has mark on a slot in their registra cameras today but only a few on videotape in the criminal case of every had to testify in a criminal lawyers, court officers and possibly a Lynette Alice “Squeaky" Fromme, proceeding. tion renewal form marked r ‘DLTAX.’’ V jury will see the program. who is charged with attempting to Ford agreed to submit to In an unprecedented arrangement. assassinate him in Sacramento, "’•'''‘tioning under oath before the Calif. Sept. 5. cameras by Miss Fromme's at Region torney, John Virga, in a third floor X conference room of the Executive SALEM, Mass. — Star X Office Building. Moonstar and his bride Salne Food stamp enrollment U.S. District Judge Thomas decided Halloween would be McBride of Sacramento. Calif.T"who the best day for their wedding drops during September order the session, flew to Washington since they are both witches. to preside over it. Scheduled to at About 1,700 witches and The ^Hunchback’ of Waddell WASHING’rON (UPI) - Enroll seasonal factors, and some increase tend for the prosecution were U.S. onlookers watched the wedding Attorney Dwayne Keyes and Assis of the Watertown, N.Y. couple ment in the government’s food stamp is expected in stamp applications prograrri fell to 18.5 million persons during the winter months. tant Attorney General Richard as part of Salem’s annual The Waddell School Halloween party Friday evening featured Thornburgh, chief of the criminal witches ball. in September, the lowest figure since among other things a costume contest. Bob McMahon with his the beginning of this year, according The stamp program is expected to division of the Justice Department. “Hunchback” get-up won the sixth grade division.. From to the Agriculture Department. cost the government about $5.8 The sworn deposition was AUGUSTA, Maine - billion for the 1975-76 fiscal year requested by Miss F rom m e’s National Republican Chairper appearances, he and the other contestants would have no trouble Officials said part of the decline in extracting treats later in the evening. (Herald photo by Dunn) recent months is due to normal which runs through June 1976, of lawyers. The tape will be shown to son Mary Louise Smith says ficials said. This is about $1 billion the jury in her trial beginning membership enrollment in the below some early forecasts, but $800 Tuesday in Sacramento if the defense Republican party nationwide is million above the - previous fiscal so requests. too low and increases will have year. Ford already has submitted a to come from the local party written statement for use in the trial. level. Halloween pranksters keep Stamp program enrollment reached record levels of 19.4 million, In it he said he recalled little of what happened when she allegedly pointed CRANSTON, R.I. - A partly due to the recession, in March and April of this year. Since then, a loaded .45-caliber pistol at him as general lockup continues in the firemen, policemen busy he walked towaru the capital in enrollment has declined gradually to maximum security building of 19.3 million in May, 19.2 million in Sacramento. the Rhode Island Adult Correc Halloween pranksters were out in came I'rom Spring St., Myrtle St., June and 18.8 million in July and McBride ruled Oct. 21 that Ford tional Institutions until the home where the candy was given great numbers Friday night keeping Parker St., Arcelia Dr., and Tolland out. August. would have to submit to videotaped changes are made to ease the, police and fire fighters busy. Tpke. defense questioning in addition to his potential for violence. Four youths stdpped a 10-year-old Arrests for Halloween-related in Flggs also struck the Mary Cheney boy on Windemere St. Friday at 7:45 The preliminary September figure written statement. cidents included: and Whiton Memorial Libraries. p.m. One struck him on the head and was the lowest since the 18.0 million • Francisco Mollet, 19, of 76 Oak A car drove over the lawn of a stole his sack of cand^, police said. enrollme'nt level of last January. National St,, trespassing on public lands with Carriage Dr. residence. A window was broken on Sycamore Lane. A car WASHINGTON - The House | a motor vehicle on the Eighth was badly scratched where it was Ways and' Means Committee Utilities District property off Hilliard St. parked at Willie’s Steak House on has voted to increase tax-;i;: Center St. Federal grand jury to probe breaks for millions of working • Ronald G. Gankofski, 20, of 362 Police suspect more vandalism oc parents. In a bill completed Gardner St., breach of peace Friday curred which ■ has not yet been Friday, parents who must pay at 10:46 p.m. at Buckland Center. reported or which may not be expenses for child care or care i:;: The charge relates to the lighting of a Bridgeport jai alai fronton reported. of an incapacitated relative in tire fire. Police stopped many groups of order to work can subtract 20 Jj; • Larry M. Lokatys, 17, of 55 Fair- HARTFORD (UPI) - A federal Also testifying Friday was Quentin Sports Enterprises, Inc. The state youths to get their identities and dis per cent of these payments field St,, breach of peace Friday at grand jury will begin Nov. 12 to look Hinton, of New Britain, business gaming commission has said he has perse them. from tax bills. 9:12 p.m. along the railroad tracks at possible violations of federal laws agent for the Hamden, Conn., based been spotted talking to known west of Stock PI. A crowd of about 35 ran from police an(l regulations in connection with, International Union of Operating organized crime figures. • Donald Giguerre, 17, of 32 by the Georgia Pacific warehouse off DES MOINES, Iowa - I the Bridgeport jai alai scandal. Enginj^ers, whose president is Elwood The grand jury is expected to take Trebbe Dr., breach of peace Friday N. Main St. Many of the young people Farm ers have begun piling § The grand jury joins a large crowd “Sonny” Metz. a break Nov. 6 when the gaming com at 9:48 p.m. by the Georgia Pacific were females, police said. In past grain on the ground because of investigating the ^ 4 rhilljon facility. Expected to be called Monday is mission begins a two-day h.earing at warehouse off N. Main St. years, almost all roaming in the area the heavy harvest and a shor- A one-man state grand jury, the state Lidizio Renzulli, executive director the Newington Town Hall to deter • William Pelletier, 17, and Craig on Halloween had been male. tage of rail cars. Elevators are J gaming commission and state and of the firm which operates mine whether the jai alai's gambling M.

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