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.
It was 9 degrees outside when
Reagan took his oath in the red
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carpeted grand staircase of the
executive mansion’s State
Floor. 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.