Israel denies troops evacuating Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) —
Lebanon state radio reported
Sunday that Israeli troops
began withdrawing from the
central mountains so the
Lebanese army could enter and
prevent further fighting between
Christian and Druse militiamen,
but the Israeli command denied
the report.
In Moslem west Beirut, the
army suspended its slum clear
ing operation near the interna
tional airport after several days
of violent clashes with Shiite
Moslem refugees in which four
people were killed
The radio said the withdrawal
of Israeli forces was expected to
be completed later Sunday and
the Lebanese army units would
move in soon afterwards How
ever. there was no confirmation
of the report
All that was known was Israeli
troops were moving in the Shouf
Mountain area; but they could
have been taking up new posi
tions. giving the appearance of
withdrawing.
His stories are called ‘unfacts,’
but truth, Reagan speaks false
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a
factory cafeteria on the out
skirts of Columbus, Ohio, Pres.
Ronald Reagan told a surprising
story about Linda Brown, the
little girl who lent her name to a
lawsuit and became a symbol of
American school desegrega
tion
The president's story made
the kind of compelling anecdote
that Reagan loves and helped
justify the administration’s
recent announcement that it
was prepared to join communi
ties seeking to overturn local,
court-ordered busing plans
But the story wasn't true
A month ago, in his remarks to
a group of editors of religious
journals, Reagan used a figure
on the survivability of premature
babies to bolster his argument
that abortion should be out
lawed
His figure wasn't correct
And in his last news confer
ence Reagan said unem
ployment went up in the closing
months of Jimmy Carter's
presidency when it actually
went down He claimed the
gross national product, used to
measure recession and
recovery, had grown for four
quarters when he meant two
For a time, published ac
counts of presidential mis
statements of high-level
searches for exculpatory
evidence Now. more and more,
officials simply snrug their
shoulders when Reagan com
mits another faux pas.
The president's inability to get
his facts straight, a longtime
subject of derisive comment
among the reporters who cover
him, has become a matter of
diminishing concern for the
White House staff
"I think it's basically gone
away because it's no big deal.'"
says communications chief
David Gergen "The things that
people are concerned about are
of a totally different nature "
"We try to get the press to
focus on the big picture," said a
Reagan aide who agreed to dis
cuss the problem when
promised anonymity "In most
cases the president Knows the
substance of the issue And I
think we've just come to the
conclusion that people (within
the White House) are not going
to devote endless amounts of
time chasing down figures ."
Asked if he meant to say it
doesn t matter if the president
gets his facts wrong in public,
the aide said, “Sure, but when
he's out there talking all the time
he's going to occasionally be off
on one, it's not a federal case
Reagan's stories generally
are intended to make a point,
and in Columbus, on Oct 4, he
was attempting to explain his
move against school busing
A worker at the AccuRay
plant asked the president if local
communities could be permitted
to decide whether to require
school busing for desegrega
tion
The president repeated his
oft-stated belief that ' busing
has failed in its purpose Then
he went on to tell a story about
Linda Brown, whose name gave
title to the 1954 Brown v Board
of Education case By deciding
in favor of Linda and her fellow
black school children, the Su
preme Court held school se
gregation inherently unequal
and unconstitutional
Mrs Brown took this all the
way to the Supreme Court
because of her own memories
of her childhood when she had
to go miles past a school near
her home simply because of se
gregation." Reagan said "And
then she had a daughter of her
own, and Mrs Brown is op
posed to busing in her own
community because, she said,
now her daughter is bused miles
past the school near their home,
and she said that wasn't what
she had in mind
As a girl, Linda Brown — now
Linda Brown Smith — was
bused miles past a white school
near her home to attend a black
school on the other side of
Topeka, Kan., before the Su
preme Court decision.
But her daughter wasn't
As the world turns, fickle Andy jilts Koo for another
LONDON (AP) — Prince An
drew is due back on duly Mon
day with the Royal Navy after a
Caribbean holiday with an
American actress that became
one of the hottest royal gossip
items in recent weeks
While the 22-year-old prince's
military leave is over, the head
lines aren't. The British tabloids
are now reporting another
woman was with the prince dur
ing his eight-day vacation on the
island of Mustique, a woman
said to be dearer to his heart
Under the headline “Koo
Loves Andy True” the weekly
Sunday People quoted friends
of the pair as saying actress Koo
Stark is "deeply in love" with the
prince
The rival Sunday Mirror said
Andrew, second-eldest son of
Queen Elizabeth II and a Royal
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designs on another of the
women who stayed with him at
the island home of his aunt.
Princess Margaret
Gossip columnist Chris Hut
chins said a Mustique friend
who attended a party with the
group reported that “the prince
seemed more preoccupied with
another female companion, and
islanders formed a strong opin
ion that Stark was no more than
a flamboyant decoy.”
The other woman wasn't
named
Whatever the truth, several
British papers said Sunday that
free-lance reporter Elizabeth
Salomon, who joined photo
grapher Jocelyn Grey, publisher
John Rickatson-Hatt and Stark,
25, on the island, was peddling
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her account of the holiday in
New York
The U S. weekly The Star and
British tabloids were among the
possible purchasers, and sums
of up $170,000 were being dis
cussed, according to the ac
counts.
The Mustique holiday is not
the first time Salomon, 27, has
been seen on Andrew’s arm. On
his first date after returning from
service in the Falklands, An
drew took her to see the London
production of ‘Pirates of Pen
zance "
Salomon is said to have met
the prince at the London apart
ment of Stark, daughter of
American movie producer Wil
bur Stark. In her teens, Stark
made two soft-porn films —
■‘Emily” and “Cruel Passion.”
In Tel Aviv, an Israeli military
command spokesman, who de
clined to be named, said its
forces were not withdrawing
from the area He sard there had
been no change in Israeli policy
about the presence of troops in
the area to prevent further
clashes
Last week. Prime Minister
Menachem Begin ordered the
Israeli army to protect the
Lebanese Druse villagers Israel
is torn between its loyalty to
both the Lebanese Christian
Phalangists and the Israeli
Druse, who are loyal to Israel
and unlike other Arabs serve in
the Israeli army. The Druse are a
sect of Islam
Meanwhile. Lebanese Pres
Amin Gemayel presided over a
meeting of Christian and Druse
representatives in an attempt to
work out an arrangement to al
low the army to take control of
the Druse villages where at least
five people died in four days of
fighting last week, the radio
said
Gemayel later flew to New
York to address the United Na
tions
In an
announcement
following the meeting. Prime
Minister Shafik Wazzan was
quoted by the radio as an
nouncing the committee had
endorsed a government deci
sion calling for withdrawing the
militiamen from Kfarmatta. Dak
roun. Abbey and Baaouerta
Israeli troops moved in Friday
to halt four days of fierce fight
ing between rightist Phalange
militiamen and the leftist Druse
gunmen of the Socialist Pro
gressive party
In Jerusalem Sunday, officials
said the Israeli Cabinet was op
timistic about the prospects of
an early agreement on
procedures for securing Israel's
northern border, a key element
of a wider accord on withdraw
ing foreign forces from Leban
on
When Gemayei arrived in New
York Sunday he asked the U N
Security Council and Reagan
for help in stabilizing and
rebuilding his war-torn country
Gemayei, 40, took office Sept
23 after the assassination of his
brother, President-elect Bashir
Gemayei.
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$50, based on the total pledges from alumni for gifts
to the Annual Fund
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