Lebanon Factions Have Fruitful Talk
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Herald endorses four East Catholic football U A W admits for Board of Education beats Xavier Jn upset error In filers ... page 4 ... page 15 ... page 10 Manchester, Conn. Drizzle today Saturday, Nov. 5, 1983 and Sunday Single copy: 25<t iEanrIfFHtrr Hr ral& System Lebanon factions for fires unchanged have fruitful talk Bv Alex Girelli Herald City Editor GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) — killed at least 29 Israelis and 10 member of the Arab League." A snag developed Friday in a Leaders of Lebanon's warring Lebanese in the southern town of A terrorist driving a truck proposed agreement to have town Christian and Moslem factions- Ty re did not threaten the Geneva loaded with 1,100 pounds of explo- firefighters from the Buckland Friday ordered a 10-day adjourn talks. sive.s destroyed Israel's military Firehouse respond automatically ment of their first peace talks after "The fighting is not influencing headquarters in south Lebanon to structure fires north of Union making a "psychological break the reconciliation talks as such," Friday, killing 39 people and Street Bridge in the Eighth U tili through" toward ending years of said Christian Phalangist spokes wounding 30 others. Israel retal ties District until a new bridge can civil warfare. man Alfred Madi. "We have iated immediately with air strikes . be be built there. They agreed to reconvene in enough oh our agenda to worry against Palestinian positions be A district-town protocol com m it Geneva on Nov, 14 after Lebanese about as it is." , hind Syrian lines. tee decided Friday not to change president Amin Gemayel visits Officials of the nine major The Rightist Voice of Lebanon the present procedures.. Wbstern and Arab capitals to Lebanese political and religious Radio said at least 60 people were But it was unclear what practi discuss ways of ending the Israeli factions agreed they held "tough killed and 100 wounded in the cal effect failure to change the occupation of southern Lebanon. but still serious and businesslike retaliatory strikes. The explosions protocal will have on fire-fighting "It was a psychological break talks." But they warned the sent huge clouds of black smoke pouring out of the mountains. procedure. through," Nabih Berri, leader of fundamental issues of constitu The„ district duty officer will the Shiite Moslem Antal militia, tional reforms had yet to be faced. The early morning suicide at continue to decide, as he has in the told reporters, "W e established These issues center on a new tack. using a green Chevrolet ■ past, whether the town will be communications that did not exist system of sharing power in Le pickup, was a carbon copy of the called on for help. But, according before," banon. The 60 percent Moslem strike that destroyed a U.S. Marine to District Fire Chief John Chris Saeb Salam, the moderate Mos majority, backed by the Syrians, headquarters at Beirut airport 14 tensen, the duty officer will be lem leader who lends to back demands for an end to the days ago, killing at least 235 men. Gemayel, also hailed the weeklong Christian domination of govern The Islamic Holy War. an required, by district practice, to ask for that help if he has any first phase of the talks. "It was ment, arm y and legislature. underground fundamentalist reason at all to suspect that a fire extremely satisfactory and I think The rival factions effectively group which claimed responsibil it went very well, " he said. froze the Beirut government's May ity for the attack on the U.S. involves a structure. At a recent meeting District Gemayel’s aides said he would 17 accord with Israel by empower Marine peacekeepers, said it was visit Washington, London, Paris. ing Gemayel to conduct the new also responsible for the bombing in President Gordon Lassow pro posed the new system to Mayor Rome and "involved" Arab capi round of negotiations aimed at Tyre, 46 miles south of Beirut. Stephen T . Penny. tals during the 10-day recess. obtaining the withdrawal of about "We can send 2,000 fighters to die 30,000 Israeli troops from Lebanon. in south Lebanon," the group .said In their meetings Friday, Salem That agreement represented a in a communique sent to news C H R IS T E N S E N S A ID that at said the faction leaders discussed UPI photo the renewed violence back home m ajor break between Lebanon's organizations in Beirut. "The Friday's meeting of the committee Police Chief RobertJ.^annon ob and agreed "it was an additional Moslems and their Syrian advis world should wait for more sur jected to any procedure under incentive on all of us to do our best ers. who wanted the accord with prise actions from us." Home from Grenada which the decision over whether to to save Lebanon." Israel scrapped. Israeli occupation authorities Spokesmen for the Moslem and Compromise on the Israeli ac immediately imposed a three-day Cuban President Fidel Castro greets one of 59 persons call out Engine Five from the Christian leaders said the latest cord dispute followed agreement curfew on Tyre, a city of 60.000, town's Buckland Firehouse is left who returned to Cuba from Grenada on Friday. w ith the police dispatchers. Chris fighting between Palestinian fac on a national identity for Lebanon mostly Shiite Moslems, and sealed tions in the Lebanese coastal city as "a sovereign and independent off southern Lebanon from Israel American soldiers, meanwhile, are coming horne to a tensen said Lassow had also of Tripoli and the bombing that Arab state" and as a "constituent to the south and Beirut to the north. happier welcome. See story on page 10. objected to relinguishing the au thority of the district duty officer. Christensen said he and Lassow had a different interpretation of Embarrassment to U.S.S.R. the terms of the proposal Lassow had made to Penny. The fire proposal was the major development in a long-awaited Soviet salvage tug comes to aid of sub meeting of the leaders of the two municipalities. The idea of such a meeting was broached early this WASHINGTON (UPI) - A So The Navy said the sub's mission American eyes adding to the submarines prevent them Irom various depths and other '"intelli year as means of easing tensions V viet salvage tug sped Friday to the below the surface is to pinpoint the discomfort.* maintaining an even keel on the gence aspects " of the vessel that. _ between town and district which had grown stained. rescue of a Russian attack subma whereabouts of U.S. submarines Cameras aboard the P-3s kept surface. Navy officials declined to specify. When the Manchester Herald rine that broke down in the Atlantio armed with intercontinental-range clicking away and documenting "There are lots of things we can The continuous surveillance if learned of the snag late Friday. and wasstrandedonthesurfaceoff nuclear missiles. the details of the modern front-line learn. " one official said. "Clues the boat, a Navy official said, Lassow could not be contacted. the U.S. coast — in plain view of. sub as the 341-foot bodt bobbed in from how the sub is riding (on the The Alden. a Pam ir Class "affords us the opportunity of The arrangement for firefight American surveillance cameras. moderate 6-to-8-foot seas. Navy documenting the operational ac surface) give valuable insight into salvage lug. was en route to the ing while the bridge is inadequate The U.S. destroyer Peterson, officials predicted the rolling tivity of a front-line Soviet attack the Soviet attack sub fleet. " submarine from its base in Cuba for heavy equipment was first based in Pascagoula, Miss., moved waves would create monumental and was exi>ecled to reach the sub. There are 38 Victor 1. II and III mentioned by Christensen after into the vicinity of the stricken stomach problems for the 90-odd stricken vessel by nightfall, Neu "Never before have we been Class submarines. The Vidor I town and district emergency ser Victor III Class sub to monitor its sailors inside the tube-like hull. hart said. It was not known provided with such access to one of first went to sea in 1967 and the activity and reconnaissance air vice officials met to discuss how whether repairs would be made at "You can bet they're barfing their operating attack subs for craft kept a round-the-clock watch Victor III joined, the fleet in 1978. It extensively the town should make sea or if the sub would be towed to :heir borsht right now," Neuhart on the late model boat. Navy Lt. such a long lime and we want to can reach speeds of 30 knots below temporary'repairs to the bridge, Cuba. said. "It would be very uncomfor take every advantage of this the surface and carries six torpe closed after the Mianus disaster, Cmdr. Mark Neuhart said. « table because subs are not de- opportunity. " does and nuclear-tipped SSN-15 until a new one can be built. The-6,000-ton hunter-killer sub The Navy look full advantage of ;jigned for traveling on the anti-submarine rockets with a surfaced 470 miles off Charleston; the Soviets' certain embarrass Photographs df every angle of He said that when the district .surface." range of ,35 miles. duty officer arrives at the scene of S.C., and was spotted Wednesday ment over the unknown mechani the sub will provide clues about by a P-3 Orion reconnaissance cal difficulties that forced the sub Though the sub was not in danger Soviet hull design, the ability of the U.S.