The weather Inside today Variable cloudineu, chance of occa* Area news 6 Kamilv " ...............5 iiooal ibowers. Hijh to raid 70i. ParUy Oassilied 1314 MCC calendar 13 cloudy and cooler tonight and Comics . 15 MACC news 16 Wednoday. Lowa tonight high 40s or Dear Abby 15 Obituaries ■ 12 low SOs, high Wednesday, mid to upper Editorial 4 Sports »-ll 60s. National weather forecast map on Syria sends in more troops to impose peace in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - men — and that they had linked up valley this morning." a Phafangist toward Zahle "alter disarming Thousands of Syrian troops with another force of 6,000 to 10,000 spokesman said. • (Palestinian) commandos and spea^eaded by 200 tanks invaded Syrian army and Palestinian Libera­ "They have warned both sides to U'bane.se nationalist fighters in their east central Lebanon today in Syrian tion Army troops sent in several evacuate their combat positions. The area " President Afez Assad's second opera­ weeks ago. Lebanese (rightist) forces had no The Syrian move today came in tion in 24 hours to impose peace on Another force of .2.000 men and 60 military choice They agreed to re.sponse to f.'hristian appeals to save Lebanon. tanks entered northeastern Lebanon evacuate their strategic positions so Kobeyat and Andkeet from being Palestinian and Christian Monday and smashed through a lef­ that Syrian forces could, take them overrun by a four-day leftist siege. spokesmen reported the troops began tist blockade to the villages of over," the spokesman said. Reports reaching Beirut late Mon­ disarming warring Moslem and Andkeet and Kobeyat, 31 miles Fighting in Beirut tapered off in day said the Syrians had arranged a Palestinian guerrillas whose battles northeast of Tripoli. Christians there the wake of the new Syrian interven­ cease-fire around the two towns and with Christian Phalangists have had appealed for help against the tion although rightists again shelled that the cease-fire had taken effect blocked all efforts to end the 14- four-day siege. Beirut airport during the night, with only "scattered violations " month-old civil war. Today's massive invasion force causing some runway damage. Lebanese sources believed the Today's invasion coincided with pushed foward the besieged Christian Casualties over the past 24 hours Russians were displeased about the the arrival in Beirut of Soviet city df J^hle 18 miles west of the were put at 114 dead and 262 Syrian iptervention in Lebanon, Premier Alexei Kosygin. Diplomatic Syrian border and 30 miles east of wounded. fearing like the Palestinians, that the sources said Kosygin was displeased ^ iru t. iThe new force seized rival A statement issued by the F’alesti- guerrillas would come under Syrian about the invasion but that the 3 a m. rightist and leftists positions in the nian news agency WAFA said the tutelage. move to increase Syrian influence in Bekaa Valley in the first Syrian con­ Syrians began pushing west across Western diplomatic sources said Lebanon was carried out before his frontation with the Palestinian the Bekaa valley shortly after 3 a m. they believed the timing of the Syrian plane arrived in Damascus. guerrillas. and fanned out into scattered intervention was partly related to Moslem and Christian sources said "Massive numbers of Syrian troops positions across the flat, fertile Kosygin's visit "It would be more the latest invasion was made by up to accompanied by 200 tanks and ar­ farmland. difficult for the Syrians to send in two full regiments — 2,000 to 4,000 mored vehicles entered the Bekka It said another force moved bn troops during or after the visit than . before it. " one diplomat said The new Syrian incursion — the Today’s primaries just a warmup third this year — did not alter the military balance decisively, but in­ creased the number of Syrian regular for next week’s big showdown troops within la?banon's borders to at least 8.000 Carter remained optimistic about Political ob.servers said it served By CLAY F. RICHARDS favored in Rhode Island: South to indicate to all parties in the con­ I niled Pre!m Inlerniilionul Dakota was a tossup; arid Montana, his charices as he campaigned Sun­ day and Monday in Rhode Island and flict that Syria has no intention of President Ford and Ronald Reagan which holds only a beauty contest acceding to leftist demands to were expected to break 'even in with no delegate election, was made a stop also in South Dakota on his way to California. withdraw its troops today's Montana, Rhode Island and expected to go for Reagan. There was no immediate leftist South Dakota primaries, while two As of today. Ford held an edge in He called Rhode Island a key state but said "there's no cause lor con­ response to the Syrian move, but the Western liberals fought to beat front­ delegates of 794 to 640 for Reagan, right-wing Phalangist party issued a cern. I running Democrat Jimmy Carter in with 1,130 needed to nominate. statement saying the door should be the three states. Carter has won 17 primaries and is “ I have a good chance to win Rhode Island, " Carter said "I would left open "to any foreign initiative For candidates in both parties, the far ahead with 885 of the 1,505 that desires to assist us in a practical .three primaries were just a warmup delegates needed to win the be disappointed and surprised if we should lose here..." way in the political and moral for next week's showdown in Ohio, Derrtocratic nomination. Udall was spheres ' New Jersey and California where second with 301. one-third of the delegates needed to win the Republican and Democratic nominations will be elected. Several thousand watch parade Since there are only 56 Democratic Parade color guard delegates at stake today. Carter still The American Legion Post color guard marches up Main St. past will be the big front-runner, but he the Mary Cheney Library during the Memorial Day Parade Mon­ could suffe'f' psychologically if Barry calls for vigilance liberals Frank Church and Morris day morning. (Herald photo by Barlow) Udall beat him in two or all three of the contests. Church is assured of winning Montana, and was pressing in Memorial Day address Carter in Rhode Island, while Udall people during the Fifties became stood a chance of winning his first Several thousand people watched ceremony, moved back to Center the M em orial Day Parade in Park where it passed a reviewing another cause for conflict when primary in South Dakota. attempts were made to exercise and Carter has lost five of the last nine Manchester Monday morning under stand and disbanded. Several hundred people remained enforce these rights in the Sixties... News summary elections — three to Church and two bright skies and in warm weather. in the sunlit park during ceremonies. "Thirdly, in the recent past we to California Gov. Edmund G. Brown The traditional parade began at State Sen. David Barry of have seen a challenge -to our Jr. Bennet Junior High School, moved up ComplM from United Proti fnlornatfonaf Manchester delivered the day's ad­ governmental institutions like none Reagan and Ford have virtually ig­ Main St. and E. Center St. to Munro since the Civil War. We have nored the three states. Ford was Park, paused there for a brief dress. to die now that the lines at gas- Barry noted recent traumas in observed corruption at the highest State America. He said we survived them levels of government. FAIRFIELD - First Select­ oline stations have dis­ appeared. The Senate will end and now must work to preserve the "Why do I mention these recent man John J. Sullivan has democracy for which so many national problems on Memorial Day? denied his city is violating a its Memorial Day recess Wednesday. Restaurant ordinance Manchester men died. He urged Because a lot of good people died federal contract regarding the citizens to be vigilant and to vote. believing in our form of government use of its beaches by the public. BANNOCK, Ohio - Rep. Excerpts from the senator's ad­ with all its faults. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio,'’his voice hearing tonight at 8 dress follow: "Over two hundred Manchester h Ar TFORD - S ta te breaking, talked to his con­ residents have given their lives over auditors have criticized. Head­ stituents about the old swim­ By SOL R, COHEN The Manchester Health Depart­ "Since 1965, when I last spoke here the years in defense of this govern­ master Ben E. Hoffmeyer of ming hole and his war buddies, on the occasion of another Memorial Herald Reporrr ment already has conducted three ment. the American School for the not sex scandals and con­ comment sessions on the proposed Day, our country has suffered a "And so today I ask you to have Deaf for accepting a post on gressional probes. His recep­ Public hearings on a variety of restaurant licensing ordinance and series of traumas perhaps as severe faith in America and Its institutions, the board of directors of a firm tion at a Memorial Day speech proposed actions plus public com­ has learned that the greatest objec­ as any in her history. to be vigilant and to be critical but doing business with the school. in his Belmont County ment on a variety of agenda items is tion to it is the requirement (within "A brutal war In Asia sharply not be cynical, to evaluate and judge hometown Monday was warm expected to consume the greater part two years of adoption) that each divided our people and disaffected a all aspects of your government and to NORWICH - Connecticut and his constituents appeared of the meeting the Manchester Board facility must supply separate large portion of our society..