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Mideast 'scenario' Stalled peace talks could lead to U.S. withdrawal of Marines, Speakes hints

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration cites an eventual collapse of already stalled peace talks among warring Lebanese factions as “one scenario” that could lead to withdrawal of 1,800 U.S. Marines from the Mideast country. While White House spokesman Larry Speakes emphasized that he did not expect the talks to fail, his reference to the possibility provided further definition of the conditions under which President Reagan might bring the troops home. Speakes’ comments came Monday in response to reports that administration officials have said failure to achieve success in reconciliation talks initiated in Geneva was what the president had in mind last Wednesday when he said that “a collapse” could lead to the departure of the troops. “Yes, that is the position of, unh, is our viewpoint on it,” said Speakes. “Yes, that would be one scenario.” Later, he made a point of saying: “We do not expect this failure to take place. We think it is still going in the other direction.” On Wednesday, Reagan said he would withdraw the troops under two conditions: If the Lebanese government can extend its authority throughout the country and all foreign forces meaning Palestinian, Syrian and Israeli withdraw, or if “there was a complete collapse and there was no possibility of restoring order.” The White House and State Department used sharp

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Reagan to conduct news conference at 8 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan will hold his 21st formal White House news conference tonight, spokesman Larry Speakes announced. The three major commercial television networks will carry it live. Speakes said Monday the session with reporters will be held at 8 p.m. EST in an auditorium in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House. Extensive Christmas decorations in the East Room, customarily used for news conferences, made that location infeasible.

language Monday to say Israeli attacks on Tripoli were impeding efforts to withdraw Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization forces from the Lebanese coastal city. The Arafat troops are under attack from other PLO factions in the city north of Beirut and are awaiting transport by sea. “The United States hopes and expects that impediments, such as recent Israeli actions, to expeditious evacuation of Arafat and his forces will be removed,” Speakes said. When asked what impediments he had in mind, Speakes said “firing at the PLO over the last several weeks, and the general atmosphere that has held up (the evacuation) and the bloodshed in Tripoli.” “We made it plain to the Israelis in most explicit terms that we would like the PLO to withdraw,” Speakes said. However, he declined to characterize his remarks as criticizing Israel. While Speakes discussed Lebanon, the president’s special Middle East envoy,

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Donald Rumsfeld, visited Iraq for the first U.S.-Iraq talks in that country since 1977. Iraq broke diplomatic relations with the United States in 1967 to protest American support for Israel in the ArabIsraeli war, and State Department spokesman John Hughes said the United States is ready to resume diplomatic relations when the government in Baghdad is ready. He said the Rumsfeld visit does not signal a change in the U.S. position of neutrality in Iraq’s three-year war with Iran. “There isn’t any question that we have favored resolution of the Iran-Iraq war, but he is not there in that regard and if you are asking if there is a tilt in favor of Iraq, the answer is no,” he told a reporter. CBS News quoted informed sources Monday night as saying the United States has been secretly giving Iraq information about Iranian troop dispositions and that the Iraqis have been giving the United States intelligence about military equipment.

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Arafat's loyalists board Greek ships

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) PLO chairman Yasser Arafat’s besieged loyalists today began boarding five Greek passenger ships which, escorted by French warships, steamed into this northern Lebanese port city to carry them to remote Arabs refuges. The French ships stood guard outside the harbor as the evacuation operation began in a subdued atmosphere shortly before midday. A few rifle shots were fired in the air as truckloads of the guerrilla loyalists, estimated to total 4,000, began streaming into the harbor for the evacuation from their last stronghold in Lebanon. But it was a far cry from the tumultous send-off that Arafat received from his leftist Lebanese allies 489 days ago, when he evacuated Beirut with about 8,000 guerrillas under U.S.-guaranteed safe passage from the Lebanese capital of Beirut, then besieged by Israeli troops. The lonia Glory, with the blue United Nations flag fluttering from her mast, was the first of the five Greek ships to enter the harbor, steaming inat9:3oa.m. (2:30 a.m EST). It was followed

'Protection inevitably inadequate' Report blames command in bombing

WASHINGTON (AP) - Much of the blame for the deaths of 241 U.S. servicemen in a terrorist truck-bombing in Lebanon falls on military commanders who failed to anticipate the likelihood of such an attack, a House Armed Services subcommittee concludes. But a report issued Monday also faults virtually the entire military chain of command and specifically calls to account the “higher policy-making authority that adopted and continued a policy that placed military units in a deployment where protection was inevitably inadequate.” And on the broader issue of whether the Marines should remain in Lebanon, the report recommended “in the strongest terms” that the Reagan administration review its position to determine whether the

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by the Odysseus Elytis, Naxos, Sandorini and Vergina, which was once named the Dan when it was owned by the Israeli Zim ship line. There was no trace of the Israeli gunboats that harassed the city with six shelling attacks in the past 10 days. The United States on Monday told Israel that it “hopes and expects” the Israeli attacks would stop so the evacuation could get under way. Lebanon’s state radio in Beirut said the Israeli vessels were watching the operation from a distance, but had made no attempt to interfere. Earlier in the morning, unidentified jets had streaked over the city as the convoy approached the harbor early today after a half-day trip from Cyprus. The planes drew heavy barrages of anti-aircraft fire from positions north of the harbor. The explosions rattled across the city, sending residents diving for cover. A Christian-controlled radio station in Beirut said Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas fired at the jets because they thought they were Israelis, but stopped when

presence of the troops, along with others from Great Britain, Italy and France “is justified.” The Marines died when a truck driven by a terrorist on a suicide mission drove through a concertina fence early on the morning of Oct. 23, raced by guards armed with unloaded rifles and crashed into the front of the building before exploding with enough force to collapse the building. Many of the troops were killed as they slept late on that Sunday morning. A five-page summary report found that Col. Timothy Geraghty, commander of the Marines on the peacekeeping mission in Beirut, “made serious errors in judgment in failing to provide better protection for his troops.” And U.S. Navy commanders with direct command authority

Greyhound strikers still barking

PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) Greyhound strikers grumbled about concessions even after they overwhelmingly voted to end a seven-week strike, as the company vowed to resume full service by Wednesday and Trailways said it will match the larger bus line’s new discounts. “I’m just glad it’s over,” said Harry Rosenblum, president of the Council of Greyhound Local Unions, a division of the Amalgamated Transit Union. He announced late Monday that the contract was approved 7,404 to 2,596 in nationwide balloting. “I am not happy with it,” Rosenblum said. “It was a game of hardball and they played harder ball than we

Arafat’s command headquarters said the planes were French, sent on routine reconnaissance in advance of the evacuation. But the French Defense Ministry denied in a communique issued in Paris that any French planes had flown over Tripoli today. The loyalists’ departure comes a day before the deadline set by Syrian-backed PLO rebels besieging the city. They have accused Arafat of betraying the Palestinian cause by adopting what they feel is too soft an attitude toward Israel. The dissidents, who had launched a month-long bloody offensive to oust Arafat from northern Lebanon, had threatened to storm the city. The French aircraft carrier Clemenceau and destroyer Armand escorted the five Greek ships from Lamaca, Cyprus, and the port was under heavy Lebanese police patrol when the ships arrived. A half-dozen Lebanese army trucks piled high with suitcases were seen at the harbor as Arafat’s second-in-command, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, inspected the evacuation preparations.

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over the 1,900-man peacekeeping force share responsibility “for the inadequate security posture” of the Marine force, it said.

did.” Some returning Greyhound workers said that only financial hardship made them ratify the three-year pact, which included a 7.8 percent cut in wages. The nation’s largest bus line had said it needed the concessions to remain competitive with other carriers and cut-rate airlines. “We’re shocked, disappointed, dismayed,” said Rick Ash, a spokesman for local 1205 of the ATU in Boston. “We were out on the street for seven weeks for absolutely nothing. We’ve been sold out.” Newly hired employees who had been providing limited service during the walkout will

Soviets turn over more items

NEVELSK, USSR (AP) - Soviet authorities turned over to Japanese and American officials today 83 items but no bodies from the South Korean jetliner shot down by a Soviet fighter plane on Sept. 1. The transfer, the second of its kind, took place at this Soviet port on the southwest end of Sakhalin island, near the site where the Korean Air Lines jumbo jet is believed to have

Screams, shots heard seven hours before police discover body

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) One resident who heard screams and shots in the dead of night says she didn’t call police because she was afraid to turn on a light. Other neighbors awakened by the cries also failed to phone authorities. Seven hours later, when residents went to investigate, they came across a woman’s battered body, buried in a freshly dug grave, littered with broken teeth and blood. Tampa police spokesman John Barker said he didn’t think a phone call by anyone who heard the commotion between 2:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Sunday would have sa\ rs the victim, identified as 41-year-old Barbara Duclos. “I think in this case whoever heard what they heard, had they called us right then, I don’t think it would have saved (her),” said Barker. But an earlier call might have led police to her killer, he said Monday, as investigators continued to search for clues. Police were summoned to the working-class north Tampa neighborhood, made up mostly of single-family homes, around 10 a.m. Sunday after a resident went to investigate and found the shallow grave in a vacant sandy lot. Ms. Duclos, an unemployed Tampa resident, had been hit in the face, bloodying her cheekbone and right eye, officials said. An ice pick, broken teeth, a partial set of dentures, a bloodied board and a blood-covered white fur jacket were found scattered around the shallow grave. A car parked nearby, the driver’s door ajar, may have belonged to the victim, Capt. Howard Martinez said. Police said no further details were available, and a spokesman for the Hillsborough County medical examiner refused to release the findings of an autopsy. Helen Antolochick was one of those awakened by the cries. “I heard a girl scream ‘Help’ twice,” she said. “I heard two shots. I heard a car. They were running that car very loud.” She said she thought about calling police then, but was afraid to call attention to herself by turning on a light, possibly alerting the assailant that she had heard the noise. Albert Smith said he heard nothing himself, but around 9:30 a.m. Sunday a neighbor told him about the screams and his daughter said she had heard gunshots. He and his daughter went looking for signs of trouble and found the foot-deep grave. “There were teeth on the ground and a set of dentures and fresh dirt that looked like a grave,” Smith said. “There was a white jacket with blood all over it and a blue dress, an ice pick, car keys and a l-by-6 board with blood on it,” he said. “We can tell there was a struggle,” said Homicide Maj. A.B. Hatcher. “The ground’s all disturbed.”

Telephone calls to Geraghty’s home in Jacksonville, N.C., went unanswered Monday night and a military spokesman said there would be no comment from the Pentagon until officials there read the report. The senior Republican on the subcommittee, Rep. Larry Hopkins of Kentucky, said the Marines were sent to Lebanon as a “presence” to be highly visible to the various factions in Lebanon. When the situation became dangerous, Hopkins said Marine commanders failed to change the role of the troops. “The Marines are not a public relations organization,” Hopkins said. “They are not the chamber of commerce. I don’t think they are trained for this type of mission.” At a news conference, Hopkins said people in the Mideast “have been fighting

continue to work but will be the first laid off once the busy season ends in January, company officials said. C.S. Robinson of Los Angeles, whose Southern California local includes 1,200 drivers, said the reason for the strong margin of approval in the latest vote was that “time was against us. “Greyhound would have been very happy to continue with the skeleton crew in January, February and March, when there never is much business anyway,” Robinson said in Phoenix. The tentative pact was approved Dec. 3 in Washington by the 31-member governing council of the ATU’s Greyhound

plunged into the Sea of Japan after the attack in Soviet air space. All 269 people aboard the Boeing 747 were killed. The Soviets handed over five boxes containing 73 pieces of debris purportedly from the airliner, including seven pieces of clothing, two hooks and one piece of plastic Venetian blind. On Sept. 26, a similar

since the days of Abraham. Asking our Marines” to stop the fighting “is like trying to change the course of Niagara Falls with a bucket.” “Serious intelligence inadequacies had a direct effect on the capability of the unit to defend itself,” the report also said. It said senior military officials considered threats like speedboats carrying bombs or kamikaze-type planes which might attack the fleet off the Lebanese shore, yet ignored an intelligence recommendation that all trucks be examined outside U.S. military installations to see whether they carried explosives. Some top Marine officials have said they did take precautions against a possible car-bomb attack, but did not anticipate a truck.

locals. Calling for wage cuts of 7.8 percent, a 4 percent employee contribution to the pension plan and other concesssions, it was described as an improvement over a company offer the membership rejected late last month by a 96.4 percent “no” vote. Ballots were mailed Dec. 7-8. About 7,500 union members are bus drivers. Greyhound said they earned $35,744 annually in wages and benefits under the old contract. The bus company said the pact will save it $l6O million over three years. Full service will mean 2,000 daily runs in all 48 contiguous states, said John W. Teets.

delegation of Japanese and American officials visited Nevelsk. At that time they received five wooden crates containing mainly twisted pieces of metal from the jetliner and clothing believed to have belonged to some of the passengers. The Americans and Japanese acted on behalf of South Korea, which does not have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.