Winchester Star (Newspaper) - June 7, 1982, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 85th Year No. 285 22 SECTIONS VIRGINIA 22601, JUNE 7, 1982 667-3200 15 CENTS Israelis Push Invasion 25 Miles from Beirut Israel's invading army besieged major Palestinian guerrilla strongholds in southern Lebanon today and said it thrust within 25 miles of Beirut after a pre-dawn assault captured the fortress that was an artillery base for the Palestine Liberation Israeli flag now flies from Israel radio quoted an unidentified commander as referring to Beaufort The radio said the force fought hand-to-hand to capture the U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig en route to told reporters that his information corroborated the Israeli But the Palestinian WAFA news agency denied the Israelis had taken and a U.N. spokesman said he could not confirm the IN U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib arrived overnight on a peace mission amid fears the fighting would escalate despite Israeli claims the massive assault had the limited aim of driving the Palestinians northward out of artillery range of A major risk of the Israeli invasion was that it might lead to full-scale fighting with the 30,000 Syrian troops in Israel invaded southern Lebanon in 1978, capturing 500 square miles of southern Lebanon in an attempt to clear the area of PLO The Israelis withdrew after 91 but guerrillas soon moved back into the region despite the presence of U.N. peacekeeping IN at least two rockets hit the U.S. A spokeswoman for the State Department in Carolyn said the embassy was damaged but there were no She said there was who was responsible for the Lt. Gen. Raphael the top Israeli military was quoted on Israel radio as saying his troops had thrust north to take a zone on the Lebanese coast north of about 25 miles south of Israeli military analyst Haim a former brigadier said the thrust was an effort to create pocket that would block all PLO forces in southern PLO communiques and U.N. spokesmen said Israeli tanks ringed Palestinian enclaves at the port city of Tyre on the The PLO said Israeli forces had pushed into the inland market town of and combat is raging in the The Syrian command in Beirut said Syrian long-range artillery pounded Israel's forward positions for the second Store Roof Collapses in Downtown Winchester and SUr Stiff Under the glare of the Winchester Fire Department's it looked as though a terrible catastrophe had occurred Sunday night on the Loudoun Street Limp human forms lay motionless on the mall's pavement among shards of broken glass but fortunately they were only mannequins that had been thrown through the windows of Jay's Boys and Girls 25 N. Loudoun by the force of the collapse of the store's The building's roof collapsed at about 7:40 a few minutes after nine rifleman had fired three volleys over the mall's Confederate soldier monument in honor of Confederate Memorial which had gathered on the roof during recent rains and added weight to the was listed by fire department officials as the preliminary cause of the wooden The crowd watching the Confederate Memorial Day ceremony had dispersed when the roof collapsed and the mall was virtually Roger Holliday of Winchester said be was standing at the corner of the Farmers and Merchants Bank across the mall from the store when the roof sounded like an explosion at be that you could tee the roof coming and then the window blew Fire Chief Lynn Miller said the windows blew out because of a known as Pancaking occurs when a Winchester firefighters inspect the damage to Jay s Boys and Girls Shop caused by the roof which hurled mannequins into the street A Stop at the an Agreement at Versailles President and Pope Call for Peace VATICAN CITY - President declaring himself on a for met today with Pope John Paul II at the midpoint of a European tour shadowed by warfare in the Middle East and the Falkland The pope urged the United States to forward at this crucial moment in history to consolidate her rightful place at the service of world For 50 minutes the pope and Reagan met alone in the 16th century papal talking across a simple wooden each man sitting on a high-backed velvet in a nationally televised ex- change of statements with the Reagan noted he was visiting Europe tor the first time as president and would like to think of it as a pilgrimage for a journey aimed at strengthening the forces for peace in the free West by offering new opportunities for realistic Reagan said he came away from the meeting renewed sense of hope and seek the same goals of freedom and humanity that the church Reagan He spoke of conflict in Latin America and the Middle and called Poland a that had been a of Reagan called for an end to martial law In freedom for political prisoners and renewed talks between the government and The speaking in said peace depends on farsighted world leaders working for human rights and an end to the arms He cited of acute in the the war and the grave crisis provoked by the new events in Reagan also met with American seminarians at the and was greeted with thunderous Allies to Limit Trade with Soviet Bloc France two days of diplomacy at formal conferences and intimate President Reagan came away from an economic summit of America's six major trading partners with a agreement by allies to limit their trade credits to the Soviet In the president consented to their request for global discussions on helping poor and developing Neither side made any specific THE SUMMIT West Canada and the United agreed to cooperate on easing world currency fluctuations and to fight worldwide inflation and accomplished what we set out to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan maintained intention is to cut it It is not an open door any more The word is The trade credit issue allowed the Reagan administration to remove the focus from high budget deficits and interest rates in the United which have driven up interest rates in Almost unnoticed in the final issued jointly by the seven nations at the conclusion of the summit was a paragraph describing in- terest rates as and another calling for control of budgetary as a matter of WITH unemployment placing the economies of Europe and the United where joblessness in May reached a postwar record of 9 5 the joint statement also called for increasing growth and employment As for trade credits to the Soviet European leaders had objected initially to what one French official called America's with the issue Inside Virginia Democrats nominate Richard J. Davis Republicans select Paul S. Trible Jr. to run for the U.S. Stories on Page 3. Area 22 Crossword Living 6-7 National Obituaries People In TV Virginia Warren U.S. Envoy Flies to Mideast France - With fresh instructions from President special envoy Philip Habib is traveling to the Middle East in an effort to prevent the the latest border fighting from escalating into all-out who negotiated the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon 11 months stopped to confer with Reagan and other American advisers in Versailles on Sunday en route to where he was arriving Reagan took time out from a economic summit of the world's major industrial nations to meet briefly with Habib twice and then dispatched him immediately to the war Administration officials say there is little else the president can do until Habib reports the results of his conversations with Israeli troops and tanks invaded Lebanon with air and ground forces Sunday in an effort to rout Palestine tion Organization Syria reported its forces were in with the but Israel denied its troops had clashed with Syrian forces stationed in The vowed a unto to defend its Middle East power Although deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said the United States out all in seeking to halt the U.S. officials appeared reluctant to criticize its Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig traveling with the acknowledged the United States was concerned about the escalating cycle of violence Asked whether it was legitimate for Israel to use planes and tanks in the Haig are questions of extreme questions on which assessments will be made in the hours Fog British Set for Attack By The Press With a heavy fog finally lifting and fresh troops British forces are ready to launch an assault on the Falkland Islands capital of Stanley according to British correspondents at the battle The British spent Sunday consolidating their grip around the town and probing Argentine according to the On for the first time in several the correspondents the chill fog lifted enough to give them a look at the defended by an estimated 7,000 Argentine The British augmented by fresh troops arriving from the beachhead at Port San 50 miles from number about 8,000. The weather in the Falklands has been with high freezing temperatures and driving rain making operations Correspondent Alastair McQueen of London's Daily Standard reported that supply helicopters had to grope their way across the island with crewmen hanging out the doors to keep sight of the tail lights of the helicopter in front of With the weather improving British planes on Sunday dropped more leaflets on Argentine positions urging the troops to The Argentines responded with poorly aimed artillery according to the British Argentina said its air force and gunners at Stanley strafed and shelled the but the British Defense Ministry was not giving out any information about operations in the Independent Television News correspondent Michael Nicholson reported that the British forces were already carrying out daring if bring an end to the war that much He gave no details due to military An Argentine communique reported a clash with British marines west of and said the British forces were Nicholson reported that the British Gurkha the mercenaries from Himalayan were moving back and forth across East looking for Argentine troops who were overlooked as the main body of the British force moved CONCERN 667 0145 volunteer listeners anonymous
