Jacksonville Journal Courier (Newspaper) - July 9, 1978, Jacksonville, Illinois case of Israeli Lebanon Syria sought Soviet support Saturday in the event Israel intervenes Sniper fire kept tense but the unofficial truce between Syrian troops and Christian ' president Elias who has threatened to resign if the fighting was continuing his efforts the latest Lebanese which took on the proportions of a Middle East conflict when Israel threatened to intervene to save its Christian allies from being newspapers said Syria sent a official to Moscow to seek Soviet support in the face of the Israeli Middle East a usually well-informed Beirut quoted European as saying that the Kremlin has assured Damascus that will not stand idly by if Israel tried to strike at occasional Beirut remained calm for the thira straight correspondent Ned managed to cross the lines into the Christian sector of east the damage fropi a week of heavy Syrian shelling was he also reported that the casualty by Christian spokesmen appeared to be grossly militias had put their casualties at 170 dead and more than 500 But doctors at the Hotel Dieu hospital where most of the casualties have been taken said they counted only 20 dead during the past a woman killed by a Syrian sniper The hospital like most of the buildings around was heavily damaged by Wounded were being treated in the the other side of a officer from the 30,000-man Arab force in Lebanon said four of his men have been wounded by mortars since He said Christian snipers were still firing into Moslem that his troops had orders not to return the received a stream and diplomatic visitors at nis presidential palace outside said Sarkis told all of them that he was still intent on resigning if the fighting breaks out Ambassador Richard Parker and other diplomats involved in the mediation efforts have urged him not fearing that the political power vacuum that would ensue could lead to an escalation of the conflict and invite Israeli m the newspaper warned militia leaders not to count on Israel's Beirut's Christians both civilians and the rightist militias that have been battling Syria's troops this week don't quite know what to expect after 48 hours of relative streets were virtually Most buildings bore the charred signature of the city's heaviest bombardment since the civil Rocket holes afforded a grotesque peek into the charred remains of 26NO. 27 JULY 9, 1978 PAGES AND SU PIM .KM Y F. deplores crackdown on - Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky will go on trial as to his with the verdict virtually He can expect at least a 10-year prison term and shot by a firing the 41-year-old radio repairman whose dissident career began in 1960 when he edited a poetry will go on at tne same time in 110 miles southwest of He has spent seven years in jail now faces a possible 10-year the Soviet Union that a harsh sentence could further damage But the Soviet government 30, a balding puter has been held incommunicado in Moscow's prison since March 1977, when he was forced into a green Volga sedan by eight KGB Carter has personally Shcharansky worked for the and the West has Western pleas for mercy so labeling Shcharansky a traitor and promising he will face the full force of the traitor to his motherland will be punished with all the strictness of the Soviet law in keeping with its letter and wrote Tass correspondent Viktor on Oct 28,1977. penalty under the high treason statute is At Shcharansky could face 10 years in At he could be a penalty for dissent unprecedented since the days of charges against Shcharansky have not been other than Soviet press claims that he worked for Western - The United States Saturday deplored a stepped-up Soviet campaign against dissidents and warned of inevitable for East-West but vowed to continue arms limitation talks because they are in the national of State Cyrus in an weekend appearance before said he would represent the United States at Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Geneva next Wednesday despite his criticism of Soviet a statement officials said was approved by President assailed the Soviet decision to prosecute Anatoly Shcharansky on treason charges and Alexander Ginzburg on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and reflect the deepest feelings and values of the American people when I deplore these Vance 30, a computer technician accused of spying for the could face the firing squad if also announced cancellation of a forthcoming scientific trip to Moscow led by White House science adviser Frank and another official said other actions may be are reviewing a number of aspects of the But no decisions have been the official Kremlin announced the trials would open two davs before Vance and Soviet Foreign Andrei Gromyko meet in Geneva to work out two remaining technical points on a new SALT Officials said other Soviet actions against dissidents were men and women of uncommon courage are being put on trial under a number of Vance War II resistance hero new Italian committed to increased for equal - Navy W. Graham Claytor Jr. signaled full speed ahead Saturday on and forceful efforts to assure in the Navy Marine Corps in the wake of the Supreme Court's Bakke Bakke decision reaffirmed the need fpr continued Department of Navy efforts to devise new and effective ways assure every member of Navy establishment a reasonable opportunity to make a productive Claytor is my and I accept no less from the officers arid leaders of the Navy and Marine Corps and from our civilian supervisors and tor's strongly worded came in a speech prepared for aNew Orleans banquet or the National Naval Officers black A text of the speech was released speech followed publication of new figures showing that the while still trails the Air Force and Marine Corps in percentages of blacks among enlisted men and women and said the Navy has had a goal of 12 percent black sailors to make it representative of plus at least 6 cent black officers to equal of black college discussing the Bakke Claytor said with some civil rights leaders we must be very careful that persons opposed to affirmative action are not now encouraged to use the Bakke decision as an excuse for lessening the federal government's support of an adherence to affirmative action court's June 28 decision ordered the University of California medical school to admit Allan a had challenged the university's policy of reserving a certain number of spaces for minority saying tne policy amounted to racial discrimination against more qualified Bakke decision is interpreted as banning specific numerical quotas on a racial basis but allowing affirmative action programs designed to enhance opportunities for blacks and other minority Secretary Clifford the first black to hold that joined with Gen. Bernard W. Army chief of on Thursday to say that the Bakke decision support for our current march planned on of supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment will march on the Sunday in what is billed as the biggest women's rights in march is to dramatize that the for ratification is funning out ERA is probably dead unless passes legislation giving another seven years to in the 38 states required more states are the suffragettes who marched along Pennsylvania Avenue in the early decades of the will be dressed in white uniforms and carry banners that are replicas of those carried by seeking the vote for said buses are bringing marchers from as far away as while California demonstrators will arrive by chartered an attempt to show there is a wide base of support for demonstration organizers have signed up more than 32S groups to including labor religious education groups and ethnic Organizers expected 15,000 to 30,000 march is organized by the National Organization for whose members will remain in town Monday to walk the halls of Congress lobbying for the extension measure was to have out of the House Judiciary Committee by But the measure is bottled up by efforts of forces who want an amendment to the that would permit states to rescind their ratification of date 35 of the required 38 states have ratified but three have tried to rescind their The vote to rescind has not been recognized in previous constitutional but the validity of such action has never been tested in the measure is expected to come up for a House vote later this - World War II resistance hero Sandro 81, won election as the first Socialist president of Italy Saturday to replace disgraced Christian Democrat Giovanni who had abandoned hope for his candidacy four days won his seven-year term as the nation's seventh president on the 16th ballot in He got 832 of the 995 by senators Regional delegates the largest margin since tne republic was formed in 1946. political parties had been unprepared for the presidential which began June 29. The May 9 assassination of former today's Journal on Bridge Saturday 85 at 4 Friday 67 for Jacksonville and sunny in the increasing cloudiness with a chance of thunderstorms in the Wa rm. High Moro by Red Brigades urban guerrillas removed the candidate who was generally considered to be Leone's most likely terrorist group stepped up its campaign of violence tins week as parliament droned on with ineffective Three attacks wounded industrial executives in Turin and will be sworn in Sunday to replace 69, who who served as president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1968 to 1976, is Italy's first Socialist One of Italy's best known World War II resistance he was one of the officials who ordered the 1945 execution of Fascist dictator Benito spent eight years in Fascist prisons between 1925 and 1942 and another in exile in where he worked as a taxi driver and He was captured by the Nazi SS in Rome in 1943 and condemned to but managed to escape and coordinate resistance activities in northern victory margin surpassed even that of Italy's first Sandro 81-year-old Socialist and former resistance fighter hero once sentenced to death by the stands behind wall to light his pipe on way to parliament Saturday where he was elected Italy's seventh destroys 1,000 art works in mid or upper 80s. Sunday night mostly cloudy with a chance of Low in the lower or mid 60s. it fails to the current seven year period for ratification expires March 22,1979. Supporters say almost no chance to win approval in three states by that sunny and High in the low 80s. Probability of precipitation 30 percent Sunday 50 percent Sunday Skies Today July 9 planet Mars appears above the moon this evening and well above Mars is second brightest star of the constellation The light of Mars takes 16 minutes to reach the Earth the light of Denebola takes 43 Brazil -A simmering fire exploded in a ball of flame inside Museum of Modern Art and destroyed more than 1,000 works of art in 30 including works by Picasso and Van sources said the blaze ruined the entire collection of oil engravings and other small art objects before firemen could bring it under sources said the considered modest by international nevertheless included works by Van Gogh and A special retrospective exhibition of some 70 paintings by late Uruguayan artist Torres Garcia nearly nis entire life's work was almost completely museum officials said they had not yet determined the cause of the but said it apparently broke out in a theater on the second floor of the modernistic concrete and glass building near Guanabara Bay in the residential Flamengo section of group of musicians known as Aguia had finished a concert in the auditorium around midnight and the building was unoccupied when a small fire began to simmer on the second said the blaze could been kindled by an electrical circuit burning through insulation on by a cigarette dropped on an holstered preliminary statement from museum said that art specialists had not determined what if the collection was clear last obstacle t o mar After a year of legal threats ind the tiny band itself America Nazi Party his cleared to holding a march in racially tense Marquette police ref used Saturday to discuss now many officers will be in the neighborhood Sunday to keep order in toe face of the long-awaited illy and promised by blacks and 6ut spokesmen have said ey are considering canceling all ys and 400 to 500 officers are to police the area with about note on reserve at nearby Midway pleas from Mayor Michael to ignore the from were expected to arrive in Chicago Jewish Defense a Operation PUSH and other groups have said they will planned a Sunday several blocks from the expected site of the Nazi rally support of the survivors of the holocaust and to give voice to our disgust that a mission of murder and hatred so thoroughly repudiated 30 years ago should be revived in our time ana in our said Rabbi Robert J. president of the Jewish Council on Urban and Poles in the ethnic pocket of Marquette Park have saw race-related violence as recently as last area was the scene of unrest when a group of blacks demonstrated for open In a separate incident passing cars driven by blacks were overturned and then dumped into trie park's after a marathon legal the Nazis have won the battle to rally in the The U.S. Supreme Court Friday refused the city s request to stay die rally until a full hearing of the Chicago District's appeal against the march could be park district has tried to require tne Nazis to buy liability insurance for their but the Nazis say that means suppression of their First because no deal with le area say they don't with the will help ance the demonstration will help keep the area they're prepared to go along with the radical band whose Headquarters lie within the Marquette Park a retired athletic director who daily plays chess where the Nazis will said he chased of his South Side home by be glad if they can block the blacks from But I don't like the They picked a lousy Many people around here fought against Nazis in the of Chicago's police and firefighters live in the usually quiet Marquette Park where single family brick homes and buildings lie close together
