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Reagan boasts GOP record in discussion of civil rights
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, in a major political overture to blacks, said last night it was "just plain baloney" to suggest the Republican Party was soft on civil rights and challenged critics to find flaws in his own record.
"We've got a story to tell and a record worth standing on," Reagan said in prepared remarks to the National Black Republican Council. "We Republicans are the party of hope for all those who seek expanded opportunity."
In challenging critics to "look at the record," Reagan said his Justice Department has filed 62 civil rights criminal cases and conducted 52 trials — more, he said, than any other administration — and reviewed charges and filed nine anti-discrimination cases against public employers.
The Washington Council of Lawyers issued a report yesterday that charged the Justice Department under Reagan had shown a "disturbing pattern" of limiting and rejecting the rights of minorities and has failed to step in and implement "cohesive and consistent civil rights policies."
Pope talks with Arafat; Israel angry
VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II met privately with Palestinian guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat yesterday, prompting Israeli charges that the head of the Roman Catholic church had received the leader of "an organization of murderers."
Arafat, wearing a combat-style olive drab jacket and traditional Arab headdress, left his customary sidearm behind during the private 25-minute audience with the pontiff.
"Irael expresses its shock over the fact that Pope John Paul II granted an audience to Yasser Arafat, the man who heads an organization of murders which stands at the center of international terrorism," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in Tel Aviv.
Vatican officials said Arafat and the pope discussed the problem of Jerusalem, the plight of Christians in Lebanon and the recent Arab summit conference at Fez, Morocco.
Mourners pay last respects to Grace
MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Monte Carlo's elegant casinos closed their doors yesterday as mourners filed past the open coffin of Princess Grace, who died Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage.
The royal palace said the former Grace Kelly of Philadelphia will be buried Saturday in the historic Monegasque Cathedral, where she married Prince Rainier III 26 years ago and where their three children were bantized.
Nancy Reagan will attend the funeral on Saturday, White House officials indicated yesterday.
While a long line of mourners passed Grace's coffin in the palace, well-informed sources said 17-year-old Princess Stephanie, injured with her mother in a car crash Monday, was hurt more seriously than originally disclosed.
One source said Stephanie suffered injuries to her head and vertebrae and that doctors at the Princess Grace Hospital had put her in a neck brace to keep her head in the proper position.
Relatives search wreckage for MIAs
BANGKOK, Thailand — Four Americans looking for relatives missing in the Vietnam War said yesterday they located the wreckage of an Air Force C-130 and the remains of its crew, which convinced a Florida woman that her husband was dead.
Ann Hart, of Pensacola, Fla., part of the first group of private U.S. citizens to search for American MIAs, told UPI by telephone she was convinced her husband, Air Force Maj. Thomas T. Hart II, could not have survived the crash of the C-130 Helicopter shot down Dec. 21, 1972
"Emotionally, it was somewhat difficult. I had never even seen the site of a plane crash before." she said yesterday from her hotel in Philadelphia.
A man whose son is among the MIAs, George Brooks, said in a phone interview the Communist government officials of Laos were "splendid."
Senate kills anti-abortion measure
WASHINGTON — The Senate, dealing a dramatic defeat to President Reagan and the New Right by the narrowest of margins, yesterday killed an anti-abortion measure by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
Following the 47-46 vote to table his measure, Helms told reporters he would not carry his fight against abortion any further this year.
The vote to table came after the Republican-dominated Senate refused for the third time to stop a lengthy liberal filibuster against the measure, which was part of the New Right's agenda of social legislation.
Reagan lobbied hard for the measure during the past week and vowed Tuesday to fight "as long and hard" as he could curb abortions.
UAW extends talks through night
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and Chrysler Corp., missing an 11:01 p.m. CDT deadline, agreed last night to work through the night on a new contract — the second time in 24 hours that negotiations were extended.
The union had warned it would strike if there was no agreement by the deadline. But UAW spokesman David Mitchell did not mention whether a strike was called for the 60,000 UAW members at Chrysler plants in 17 states.
Mitchell announced at 11:06 p.m. that negotiations would continue. A similar announcement was made late Tuesday when the contract was due to expire.
Although UAW leaders did not comment, workers at Chrysler's plant in Twinsburg, Ohio, — a militant local — put up picket lines when the company fired them.
Bob Weissman, president of the Twinsburg local, said, "We are now officially on a full-scale strike nationally."
Correction
Due to an editing error, the headline over a story in yesterday's Kansas about the Lawrence City Commission was incorrect. The headline said the commission had raised its quorum from three to four. The commission adopted on first reading an ordinance raising the quorum from three to four, but the ordinance cannot take effect until its second reading.
Israel takes Moslem area of West Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli troops backed by tanks and gunboats invaded West Beirut yesterday, 12 hours after the assassination of President-elect Sheikh Merrit Gharibov in control of the military base in house-to-house battles with leftist gunmen.
Israel said it thrust into West Beirut to prevent civil war between Christians and Moslems following the murder of Gemavel.
the military command in Tel Aviv said two Israeli soldiers were killed and 42 others were wounded, five seriously, in the four-front assault that began before dawn and placed Israeli troops around two Palestinian refugee camps.
Tanks and armored personnel carriers roamed the streets. Gunboats offshore and artillery in the southern eastern parts of the city provided cover.
are limited and precautionary. We have urged they do nothing to increase
IN WASHINGTON, the State Department said, "we want an Israeli withdrawal from West Beirut, but we are not going to do a scenario on Iran would happen."
The White House said Israeli leaders "have told us that their military moves
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat, after meeting with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, said the Israeli moves were in violation of an Aug. 12 cease-fire by ordered by special U.S. envoy Phillip Hobbil.
It was the deepest Israeli penetration into the Moslem sector and occurred 102 days after Israel's June 6 invasion of Lebanon. Before June 14,500 Palestinian and Syrian fighters withdrew from West Beirut, Israeli troops had crossed into the west, but did not advance beyond a few hundred vards.
The Israeli thrust seemed to be aimed at securing control of Beirut's southern suburbs where many of the leftist militias operate.
IN ROME, Arafat denounced the beating thrust. "It destroys much of what he was."
Killed Tuesday in a bomb blast by unknown assassins, Gemayel was honored by Moslems and Christians alike who gathered to give him a
Gemayel's body, in a brown wooden coffin with gold手垫, lay in state in the Mar Abda Maronite church as some 7,000 people filed past the man who is described by foreign armies from Lebanon and residents and national unity after nearly eight years.
stateman's funeral in Bikifyeh, his family's homey location, located 15 miles
Many of his militiamen, weeping openly, embraced the coffin.
It took six hours for the world to learn that Gemaval had been assassinated.
The problem was that Gemayel's Phalange Party had no idea whether he was dead or alive as they searched through the wreckage of his party headquarters for six hours before finding his body.
SOME PHALANGIST officials said the original report that Gemayel was unhurt — including a quote, "thank God I survived," attributed to Gemayel — resulted from a case of mistaken identity.
To avoid panic, they let the false reports circulate, the officials said.
A report from Phalangist Voice of
Lebanon radio at 10:28 a.m. CDT said the three-story building in the Ashrafiyah neighborhood of East Beirut was partially collapsed by the force of an earthquake on June 34 year-old Christian leader was meeting with top party officials.
THE LEBANESE state-run television said Gemayel was inside the bombed building but not harmed. The television quoted the president-elect as saying: "Thank God I survived this one."
Reports received later quoted the state-run television as saying Gemayel was pulled from the rubble after being buried for an hour. The television report said he was treated for minor injuries at Hotel Dieu Hospital.
Voice of Lebanon radio dropped all mention of Gemayel from its newscasts late Tuesday night and said only that cleanup operations were under way.
At 4:40 p.m. CDT, Lebanese government sources told UPI that Gemayel had been buried in the rubble for about six hours and was dead.
Brezhnev reveals his Mideast peace plan
But Brezhnev described Reagan's recently announced Middle East peace
MOSCOW — Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, calling President Reagan's Middle East peace plan "vicious," yesterday presented his own blueprint for peace, urging the creation of a refugee camp on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Brezhnev used a visit by Marxist South Yemen Prime Minister Ali Nasser Muhammad to unveil the plan, which the Soviet leader described as "not at variance" with the proposals adopted in last week's Arab summit.
plan as an effort "to consign the bloody tragedy to oblivion."
"The proposals of the U.S.A. are basically vicious," he said.
Breznehov said his proposals could be implemented by an international conference and guaranteed by either the U.N. Security Council or its permanent members, which include both the United States and the U.S.S.R.
THE SOVIET PLAN did not contain any new positions, but renewed Moscow's bid for participation in a Middle East settlement.
THE KEY POINTS of the plan called for:
Israel to return the annexed Golan Heights to Syria and withdraw from Lebanon.
- the creation of a Palestinian state on the Israeli-oocupied West Bank and Gaza
- — The return of East Jerusalem to Arab control.
- The right of all Middle East countries to safe and independent existence and development "as it is impossible to ensure the security of
some people while flouting the security of others."
- United Nations guarantees of any settlement.
Brezhnev also referred to the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
Reagan's plan called for Palestinian self-rule on the West Bank and Gaza strip under Jordanian supervision but with limited flexibility and a role for the PLO in negotiations.
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