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PRlCEt FIFTEEN CENTS ■ mmn- ■' Id’ Lebanon peace troops plan to move south BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Presi Mediterranean at distances ranging -He reportedly said the Arab forces collection of heavy weapons from the dent Elias Sarkis today met with from about 4 to 18 miles from the would open the main road from the warring groups in Lebanon would aides to discuss the possible advance Israeli bordeu. coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre in begin with the arms that had of Arab peacekeeping forces farther Sources close to the Arab com land through the strategic rightist- belonged to the Lebanese Army south — a move Israel has warned mand said a mixed force of Syrians held towns of Marjayoun and Kleia before its disintegration during the against. and troops from United Arab and up to Masnaa on the Syrian civil war. “The only thing I know is that there Emirates and Saudi Arabia were border. Although the Christian rightists are signs the forces will enter the likely to move this week to the Aithough the report was carried in were reported to have begun south," said a spokesman for the southern port of Tyre and the iniand several Beirut newspapers, the Arab assembling some of their heavy Arab force’s generai command. crossroads town of Nabatiyeh, both forces spokesman refused to confirm weapons for collection by the “The details of when, where and how less than 18 miles from the border. it, saying “the Beirut newspapers peacekeeping troops, the many are being kept secret.” Travelers from the south quoted are specialized in making a big thing Palestinians a||id their Lebanese lef He said “The issue is being dealt Capt. Khalil Jalbout, a Lebanese out of nothing." tist allies appeared to be more reluc with at the highest levels, from commander at the southern rightist- If Arab forces moved into tant. President Sarkis on down." controlled garrison of Khiam, as Marjayoun it would bring them south Leftist sources said the Israel has warned that a move by saying that the move may be more of the Litani River, about nine miies peacekeeping force had run up Arab forces below the so-called “Red extensive. Jalbout said he had con from the Israeli border. against "a brick wall” of resistance ■ Line” may be considered a provoca ferred with Sarkis and his military Sources also indicated that the to the plan. tion. commander of the multinational The line has never been ciearly Arab army. Col. Ahmed A1 Hajj. defined but is understood to run along “Arab forces will enter the south the Litani River in southern within four days," Jalbout told one Soviet air crash kills 70 Lebanese journalist. Lebanon, which meanders to the MOSCOW (UPI) - A Soviet TU104 time, the sources said. airliner crashed shortly after takeoff No further details of the crash from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo air were available. The Soviets at first port Sunday, killing about 70 persons, told Western airline companies that Israeli aide opposes airline sources said today. fire engines racing from the airport were on a practice run. Syrians near border The sources said the plane crashed It was the first Soviet air crash and burned in the suburbs a few since September, when sources miles from the airport. It was not reported an Aeroflot plane went TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) - not accept any movement of Syrian known if there were any survivors. down near the resort of Sochi after a Foreign Minister Yigal Allon says it or Palestinian forces beyond the The plane, a twin-engine turbojet collision in flight. is the responsibility of the Lebanese “red line,” an undefined boundary beionging to the Soviet Aeroflot air The Soviets never publicize their government to maintain order in the believed to be the Litani River, line, was enroute to Leningrad at the own air accidents. sensitive region between Israel and which runs into the sea 18 miles north the Syrian forces occupying the rest of the border. of Lebanon. “We wouldn’t stand for it, ” one “Policing activities must be source said. Accord reported carried out by Lebanese security Defense Minister Shimon Peres Santa donates his eyeglasses forces that can and should be said there was “no real change” in .6,90 organized quickly,” Allon told a the lineup of Syrian and Palestinian in Rooney case forces in southern Lebanon. Santa Claus takes time out from greeting children in front of cabinet meeting Sunday. “They should act under Lebanese “The southern Lebanese region is By GREG PEARSON The Connecticut Council of Police McDonald’s to come in and donate a pair of eyeglasses to the an command and under the instructions defended by its population and any Unions then filed a grievance with llernld Reporter nual week-long eyeglasses collection project sponsored by the of the'president of Lebanon and its Syrian incursion south of the present the state Board of Mediation and Ar Manchester Lions Club. Holding the collection bag is Linda government.” deployment will only increase ten A settlement has been reached, bitration on behalf of Rooney. Government sources said the sion and create fresh hazards,” he though not yet finalized, that would It was in this step of the Hulme, customer service representative for McDonald’s, while reinstate Brian Rooney to the rank of David Thompson, president of the Manchester Lions Club, Israeli position was similar in some said. proceedings that the apparent settle respects to the proposal by Lebanese "An attempt by the Palestine sergeant in the Manchester Police ment was reached. ) 9 9 watches. Terrell Rice Jr. appears as Santa. McDonald’s will President Elias Sarkis that his army Liberation Organization to transform Department, according to sources Sources also said that Rooney will give a free hamburger to anyone donating a pair of glasses take control of the region south of the this calm region into a terrorist strip close to the case, now apply for a disability retire during the drive which continues all this week. (Herald photo by Litani River. will encounter firm Israeli op Rooney would be reinstated to ment. II razor Dunn) But the sources said Israel would position.” sergeant and would receive full back This would resolve a problem that Foamy pay. three different sources have Cream. might have occurred for the local said. Police Department. Rooney, a 14-year veteran of the Reilly ordeal over, murder still mystery town force, was demoted from The present budget allows for 11 llette sergeant to patrolman on Jan. 6. At sergeants. Sgt. John G. Mott was HARTFORD (UPI) - Peter Reilly Why was the evidence that ultimate the murder took place, trying to erased the memory ot the horrible the time of the demotion. Police promoted on Jan. 11 to fill the vacan spent three long years trying to con ly cleared Reilly withheld for so piece together some evidence that murder from their minds. The hot Chief Robert Lannan confirmed the cy created by Rooney’s demotion. ticket vince the world he was innocent of long? might lead to the killer of Barbara dog stand where Mrs. Gibbons and action was a disciplinary one, but This move, along with the recent I his mother’s murder. And then it In an attempt to find some answers Gibbons. her son lived is now abandoned. And would give no further details on the promotion of Gary Minor to eeper happened. to these questions. Gov. Ella Grasso The Hartford Courant reported the man who put together the matter. sergeant, gave the department a full Last Wednesday, a Litchfield has called for a full-scale investiga today it was told by a source that original case against Reilly is dead. A grievance hearing was held con slate of sergeants. Superior Court judge dismissed tion into the matter. state police found some rat-gnawed "It is almost impossible now to cerning the demotion, and Town murder charges against the 21-year- Last Friday, she ordered the state clothing that may be stained with reconstruct what happened over two Manager Robert B. Weiss upheld If Rooney returns to the force as a old Canaan youth. police to reopen their investigation of blood in the air vent of an abandoned years ago, or to determine what the Lannan's decision. He also said, sergeant, there would be one too In the judge’s estimation, Reilly the Gibbons murder and instructed church near the Gibbons’ home. The motivations might have been, " however, that Rooney should have many. This problem, however, will had not stabbed his mother to death. chief State's Attorney Joseph newspaper said police searched the Gormley said last Friday. first chance at any sergeant's vacan- apparently be resolved by the retire Although the state case against Gormley to determine why evidence church Friday after an anonymous Bianchi prosecuted Reilly at his cv that occurred. ment agreement. Reilly died when Judge Simon Cohen was supressed in the case. tip. trial and represented the state during , dismissed the charges against him, Reilly’s lawyer, T.F.