Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 101, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1984 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 4,1984

Family welcomes Lt. Goodman home

WASHINGTON (AP) - Navy Lt. Robert 0. Goodman Jr. returned home to America today after a month in Syrian captivity and headed for a White House welcome along with the man whose personal appeals secured the airman’s release. ‘‘God Bless America,” Goodman said shortly after he and Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson stepped out of a U.S. military transport provided by President Reagan. As the men left the blue-and-white plane at 6:35 a.m. EST, they raised their clasped hands amid cheers from more than a hundred well-wishers and the rousing sounds ot a military band Goodman, dressed in his Navy uniform, received hugs from his wife and family, who had traveled to nearby Andrews Air Force Base. “I would just like to say I appreciate all the support I received .. 60,000 pieces of mail and to me that’s awesome, and to me that shows what kind of country this is,” Goodman said in his brief remarks on the tarmac. “I thought daily about the POW experience that I had been

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LT. ROBERT GOODMAN JR. Home sweet home trained to withstand. And the type of POW experience the guys had to experience in Vietnam. I would like to take from that experience and say one quote which one man said when he came back from Vietnam and that was “God Bless America.” Jackson, in his remarks, praised Syrian President Hafez Assad for “helping to break the cycle of pain.” He singled out State Department officials and Sen. Charles Percy, R-111., for assisting in the efforts to negotiate Goodman’s release Percy is chairman of the Senate

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Foreign Relations Committee. The military plane had flown from Damascus, Syria to Rhein Main Air Base in West Germany. Goodman, 27, of Virginia Beach, Va., appeared happy and fit as he emerged from the Air Force C-141 transport plane that flew him and the Jackson entourage to West Germany. The bombadier-navigator was freed by the Syrians Tuesday, a month after his Navy attack jet was shot down over Syrian-controlled central Lebanon. The plane’s pilot, Mark Lange, was killed in the Dec. 4 raid, which was in retaliation for Syrian antiaircraft attacks on U.S. reconnaissance flights. Dressed in a crisp blue Navy uniform, Goodman smiled and waved to reporters from the tarmac as he strided about 100 feet to the sparkling blue and white VCI37, which was dispatched from Andrews Air Force Base to carry him and Jackson on the final leg of their return flight. Speaking to reporters while en route to Frankfurt, Goodman said his captors had shouted and waved guns at him during his imprisonment in Syria. “They weren’t trying to hurt me, just trying to scare me,” he said. Reagan, who a week ago refused to accept telephone calls from Jackson and warned that Jackson’s mission could harm Goodman’s chances for release, set aside time to meet with Jackson and Goodman in the Oval Office after their arrival in the United States. “You don’t quarrel with success,” Reagan said Tuesday. In a call placed by the White House to Jackson, he said, “All Americans thank you. There have been a lot of prayers here in Washington. I have been praying for you. I couldn’t be happier.” Reagan said he sent a note to Syrian President Hafez Assad thanking him for the release

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Scores killed in Israeli air raids

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Israeli jets blasted pro-Iranian guerrilla strongholds in east Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley today, and a prominent Moslem militia leader said at least 73 people were killed in a devastating air strike The state radio said several non-military buildings were hit and about 300 people wounded. It said Syrian forces surrounded the targets around the ancient city of Baalbek while civil defense squads searched the rubble of destroyed buildings for victims. Nabih Berri, whose Amal militia is a powerful force among Lebanon’s 1 million Shiite Moslems, said the death toll was likely to climb past 73 as search operations continued in the Syrian-controlled valley. He appealed for blood donations

Budget will trim Pentagon requests

Reagan still undecided on new taxes

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, finishing work on another red ink budget he will send to Capitol Hill this month, is still undecided on whether to embrace new taxes to trim deficits, according to Republican legislators who have talked with the president and his budget director. While the decision on taxes is pending, the legislators say it is clear tie Pentagon’s original request for a 22 percent hike in military spending will be trimmed. The istue of taxes is the last major issue to be resolved before the president sends his

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to help those wounded in a “monstrous massacre” and vowed to escalate guerrilla warfare against Israel in occupied southern lebanon. The Israeli military command in Tel Aviv said, as it had after previous raids, that the targets served as guerrilla training camps and launching sites for anti-Israeli attacks. The command said the planes’ pilots reported direct hits on the targets, about 31 miles east of Beirut, but its communique did not mention casualties. Israeli military sources said their forces had no independent means of verifying casualty figures in such raids. Berri spoke at his Beirut command post shortly after Lebanon’s state radio reported 50 people were killed and 300 wounded in the air raid.

new budget to Congress, probably on Jan. 30. Administration officials and congressional sources say decisions made to date on the budget plan for the 1985 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 would mean spending roughly in the range of $920 billion to $930 billion. The deficit is projected at about $lB5 billion. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that government spending in the current fiscal year will be about $859 billion with a deficit of about SIBO billion. House Republican Leader Robert H. Michel of Illinois

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changing room in a bombed out sports stadium. Kanj, his wife and five children move

A communique issued by the Syrian command in Damascus said the attack, Israel’s second air strike in two days, left 17 civilians killed and 106 wounded in the Syrian-controlled valley. There was no immediate explanation for the differing casualty tolls put out by the Syrians and the Lebanese. Police sources in Beirut said the Syrians might have referred only to civlians in their figures while the state radio included both civilians and militiamen. The Syrian communique charged that the raiding jets dropped delayed action time bombs to inflict heavy casualties in the target areas east and south of Baalebek, about 7.5 miles from the Syrian border. The state radio said a vocational training school, a

joined other GOP House members in meeting Tuesday with budget director David A. Stockman on Capitol Hill. Michel said he expects no surprises or quick deficit cures. “They’re (the administration) just going to pretty much face the facts. I don’t think it’ll (the budget) be all phonied up and ballooned up,” Michel said. At the White House, meanwhile, Reagan met with Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn.; Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Sen. Pete V.

to a tree in Beirut's public gardens whenever fighting intensifies near the stadium. (New York Times photo)

Lebanese police station, a restaurant and a gas stations were “obliterated” in the town of Taibe, about five miles south of Baalbek. The privately owned Voice of Lebanon radio station said Syrian helicopters flew dozens of casualties to Syria for treatment because hospitals and clinics in Baalbek were “full to the brim.” Beirut radio stations said as many as 16 Israeli jets struck at positions identified as belonging to Shiite Moslem extremists and Iranian Revolutionary Guards. On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes bombed and strafed positions of Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon’s central mountains near Bhamdoun, about 15 miles east of Beirut.

Domenici, R-N.M., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. The president’s senior economic advisers are worried by the persistent big deficits, but they are split on what measures to use to combat them. One camp favors quick action, such as immediate tax increases, to shrink deficits. However, others argue that while taxes must eventually go up, they want to delay action on taxes in hopes of forcing Congress to enact more spending cuts. Dole, who has been pressing for a three-year $l5O billion

Jets with 500 aboard report near-collision

MIAMI (AP) Air traffic controllers in Miami mistakenly put two Pan American World Airways jets carrying almost 500 people on intersecting flight paths, almost causing a collision over the Atlantic Ocean, a Miami control supervisor said. The incident Sunday was confirmed by Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Dennis Feldman, who identified the aircraft as a Boeing 747 enroute from London to Miami, and a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 charter from New York to St. Martin, Virgin Islands. The near-miss occurred around 4:30 p.m. EST while the jets flew at 37,000 feet under the

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Beirut radio reports said today’s attack by four formations of Israeli jets began at 8:10 a.m. local time and lasted six minutes. They said the positions,-in-cluding Hawsh el-Ghanam and Talia, were strongholds of such Shiite extremist groups as-the Islamic Amal Movement and Hezbollah, or Party of God. Both are allied with Iranian Revolutionary Guards preaching Ayatollah Ruhoilah Khomeini’s brand of Islamic revolution to the Bekaa’s predominantly Shiite population. It was the ninth Israeli strike in Lebanon since the Nov. 4 truck bombing attack that killed 29 Israeli soldiers and 32 Arab detainees in an Israeli my post at the southern Lebanese port of Tyre.

package of tax increases and spending cuts, said after the meeting with Reagan “no decisions have been made ... I think the president has the reluctance we all have that no taxes (should be raised) without substantial spending reduction.” Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger set off a flurry of protests from legislators when he made known late last year that he was seeking nearly $322 billion in defense spending for the 1985 fiscal year a22 percent increase over current spending.

control of the FAA’s regional air traffic center in Miami, he said. One of the pilots filed a “near mid-air collision report” with the FAA after the two planes crossed paths 185 miles east of Miami, said Roger Myers, an FAA regional spokesman in Atlanta. Myers could not verify exactly how close the planes came, but said the report indicated they were “within 600 feet vertically.” Pan Am Flight 99, the Boeing aircraft, had 151 passengers and a crew of 15 on board. Flight 8113 carried 317 passengers and 13 crewmembers, Feldman said.