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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1985)
world beat Weather mars inauguration WASHINGTON (AP) — Ronald Reagan, standing in the elegant warmth of a White House hallway, swore the presidential oath for a second term Sunday before 94 guests and a national television audience. Outside, icy winds foretold the cancellation of Monday’s traditional inaugural parade that had been expected to attract as many as 350,000 spectators. As temperatures dropped at nightfall, Reagan asked his in augural committee to call off the outdoor ceremony on the wind swept West Front of the Capitol and move the planned re enactment of his swearing-in in side the building. There was talk of holding the ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. Inaugural committee spokesman James Lake said the panel was awaiting House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s agree ment because the event is technically a joint effort bet ween the White House and the Congress. Organizers hastened to invite the thousands of parade par ticipants from across the coun try to gather in a suburban col iseum for a public thank-you from the president. “I would like to cry,” said Ron Walker, chairman of the in augural committee which organized the parade. He said he believed it would be the first inaugural parade to be canceled by weather. The Republic’s 50th In auguration was the sixth to fall on a Sunday. Tradition held that the pageantry would come Monday, and allowed the presi dent to relax and watch the Super Bowl with 140 million other Americans — including O'Neill, according to aides who could not find him. 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Forecasters were predic ting that Monday would be the coldest public inaugural in history and officials said they feared frostbite. Monday’s forecast called for temperatures in the teens and gusting winds that will make it feel like to 10 degrees to 20 degrees below zero. White House advance chief William Henckel said Reagan decided to ask for cancellation of the long-planned extravagan za after being told it would be dangerous for participants and spectators alike to be out for an extended time with projected wind-chill factors ranging from 30 to possibly 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Under such conditions, Hen ckel said, “exposed flesh freezes in 12 to 15 minutes,” which could present a severe frostbite danger. Israeli troops begin pullout TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Of ficials said Israel's army began to pull armored cars, trucks and heavy equipment to new lines in southern Lebanon on Sun day, and a top diplomat warned Syria not to take advantage of Israel's planned withdrawal. “The initial logistic stages of the redeployment have begun,*' said an Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv, who in accordance with army regulations spoke on condition he not be named. "Nonessential material is being transported southward." The spokesman said the withdrawal of heavy gear was to be followed by a rollback on Feb. 18 of Israeli troops from a 200-square-mile chunk of ter ritory along the Mediterranean coast. Residents of Lebanese villages around Sidon, near cur rent Israeli front lines, told reporters that several Israeli ar my trailers returned empty Sun day after carrying armored vehicles toward the village of Kaitouli, along the redeploy ment line. State-run Beirut radio quoted witnesses in Sidon — the first major city expected to be evacuated — as saying convoys of about 70 Israeli jeeps, trucks and armored cars moved through the city at dawn on their way southward. Israel’s Cabinet last week ap proved a three-phase withdrawal plan, without fixing a date for completing the pullback to the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Israel military spokesman said the army, which invaded Lebanon in June 1982, “will remain in the area fully equipped for operational purposes" until the rollback date. Israel radio said liaison of ficers told residents of Sidon that Israel would reserve the right to return to the port city of 150,000 if anti-Israel guerrillas reorganize there. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Benyamin Netanyahu, warned Syria not to take advantage of a military vaccuum by sending its own army or Palestinian guer rillas into newly evacuated areas. “I think the Syrians are well aware that certain movements on their part would not be ac ceptable to us,” Netanyahu told reporters in Jerusalem.
