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Christian and Moslem gunmen upheld a shaky Syrian-backed cease-fire despite occasional
exchanges of rocket and machingegun fire. In Beirut, a skirmish during the looting of a
supermarket killed six persons. Moslem and Palestinian forces controlled at least two
thirds of the country when the cease-fire went into effect. (UH)
Clash violates
cease-fire
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) —
Moslem leftists clashed with
right-wing Christian gunmen in
suburban Beirut today in the
most serious violation of
Lebanon’s two-day-old Syrian
and Palestinian enforced cease
fire.
Four Moslems died in an
assault on a right-wing Phalan
gist party militia position in
Ain Rummaneh, a Phalangist
spokesman said. Two Christian
Phalangists were wounded.
The spokesman said about 100
leftists stormed the position
from the neighboring Moslem
stronghold of Chiah but were
repulsed in a fierce battle.
“Political contacts are under
way to deal with the situation
and the fighting has died
down,” the Phalangist spokes
man said.
He indicated the attack may
have been incited by members
of the Palestinian “rejection
front” which has refused to
obey the leadership of the
Palestine Liberation Organisa
tion.
Palestinian spokesmen con
firmed an exchange of fire
between gunmen in Chiah and
Ain Rummaneh but said “it is
now being dealt with.”
Elsewhere the city enjoyed
They killed town
DAMOUR, Lebanon (UPI) —
The Moslem and Palestinian
gunmen carried off the spoils of
war in everything from baby
carriages and shopping carts to
limousines and pickup trucks.
They left behind a burning
town.
And dumped among the ruins
were the bodies of old men,
women and children, hacked or
shot to death in an orgy of
destruction.
Three days after its fall,
there is simply not much left of
the Christian town of Damour,
a seaside resort once jammed
with 25,000 residents.
A hand-scrawled sign on the
outskirts of town said it was
“liberated by the progressive
forces”.
More precisely, all of the
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its quietest day in months as
Palestinian regular troops pol
iced Beirut with orders to shoot
truce violators on sight.
The Palestinian security pa
trols — led by Syrian officers
— made it clear they would
tolerate none of the violations
that caused the collapse of
previous Lebanese-supervised
cease-fires.
Police said 10 persons were
killed and about 30 wounded
Friday in clashes with the
cease-fire patrols that virtually
have taken control of western
Beirut and all areas outside the
capital.
The truce — the 26th since
last April — so far has held up.
Leftist groups toured Moslem
areas of the crumbling capital
in trucks mounted wih loud
speakers, hailing the presence
of the Syrian officers and
declaring: “The war is over,
we have won our victory.”
The casualty toll after nearly
10 months of civil war between
Christian, Moslem and Pales
tinian forces stood at more than
10,000 dead and 21,000 wounded.
The cease-fire imposed
Thursday by Syria following
talks between Syrian Foreign
Minister Abdel Halim Khad
dam, Syrian chief-of-staff Maj.
town’s furniture, appliances,
and other valuable items have
been liberated, carted off by
hundreds of looters using what
means of transportation was
available.
Damour, 25 miles south of
Beirut, fell Wednesday after a
two-week siege. About 60 per
cent of the town had been
reduced to rubble by the time
this correspondent arrived Fri
day.
Part of the reason for
destroying Damour was simple
revenge for a similar Christian
blitz unleashed on the Moslem
slum district of Karantina in
Beirut earlier in the week.
Nearly 10,000 panicky resi
dents fled Damour during the
Moslem-Palestinian siege, leav
ing behind the helpless —
Gen. Hikmat Chehabi and
Lebanese President Suleiman
Franjieh was taking effect in
stages.
But it appeared the agree
ment amounted to an indirect
Syrian intervention throughout
about two-thirds of Lebanon.
Christian groups objected to
the presence of some 10,000
Syrian-controlled Palestine Lib
eration Army troops, saying it
represented the loss of Leba
non’s independence.
“Our Moslem brothers have
committed a great sin in
voluntarily destroying the army
and the state institutions,” said
the Christian Phalangist party.
Twenty more Syrian officers
landed at reopened Beirut
Airport Friday to help super
vise the truce being adminis
tered by a six-man Syrian-
Lebanese-Palestinian commit
tee.
One Palestinian security unit
set up roadblocks on the Sidon-
Beirut highway and opened fire
on convoys of trucks and cars
carrying goods looted from the
Christian town of Damour.
A Palestinian spokesman said
38 cars belonging to looters
were burned “as punishment
for looting which we will not
tolerate.”
mainly old men, women and
children.
About 50 of them were shot,
or hacked to death with axes.
Some were dismembered and
burned.
A heap of bloodied scalps lay
scattered in a gutter near the
burned bodies of two men. A
pair of gunmen pointed to them
with the butts of their rifles and
laughed.
For most, though, there was
little time to waste on the dead.
There was looting to be done.
Convoys of cars and trucks
rumbled down from Beirut and
up from Sidon, many carrying
families, to haul away the
spoils.
Even toilet paper was carted
off.
“We’re just helping the
Christians to get their goods out
before the fire,” one gunmen
joked.
Late in the day, fires began
spreading through Damour,
engulfing most of the streets in
black smoke.
THANKS
The Family at the late Mrs.
Sarah Woods would like to
give thanks to all their
friends for their floral
offerings, cards, and other
acts of kindness shown to
them during the loss of
their loved one. May God
Bless.
The Family
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Gunned down
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI) - George Howell, 61, died Friday
at an Albany hospital after being gunned down during the
holdup of a rural grocery store in Terrell County.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents and county
police were searching for four heavily-armed men who
allegedly shot Howell Thursday.
Officers said Howell, an employe of a Lee County
plantation, was paying for grocery purchases at the store
on Georgia 32 east of Dawson when shot in the head from
behind.
Officers said two men in ski masks then looted the cash
register and joined two companions waiting outside.
The four drove away in the store owner’s pickup truck,
officers said, and later abandoned the vehicle.
Arson charged
BUFORD, Ga. (UPI) - A 67-year-old East Point
woman has been charged with arson in a fire that
destroyed an elaborate mobile home in Gwinnett County,
police said.
The woman, identified as Ella Mae Ring, was charged
Friday with setting fire to the home, located five miles
northwest of here.
A taxi driver said he drove the woman to the home early
Friday and waited outside while she went inside. A few
minutes later, he said, the fire started.
Police theorized Mrs. Ring started the fire after a
quarrel with Reed Newell, the home’s owner.
Hilton to open
ATLANTA (UPI) — Gov. George Busbee will be the
keynote speaker Monday at the opening of the Atlanta
Hilton Hotel — the second opening of a major Atlanta
hotel this month.
The downtown Atlanta hotel has pre-booked 850 rooms
for Monday night with 1,250 bookings anticipated by mid
week.
The Peachtee Plaza Hotel — the tallest hotel in the
world — opened Jan. 12.
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March planned
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference will lead a march across the country to show
public support for less military spending and more social
justice.
The “Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social
Justice” begins in San Francisco Jan. 31 and ends in
Washington, D.C., approximately seven months later,
SCLC officials said Friday.
The SCLC said the walk, being co-sponsored by the War
Resiters League, would urge “a shifting of priorities away
from the criminal insanity of militarism to life-saving
peaceful endeavors.”
Girl dies in fire
HIRAM, Ga. (UPI) — Seventeen-year-old Deborah
Hicks was killed Friday in a fire that destroyed her
family’s home near here.
Paulding County authorities said five other members of
the McArthur Hicks family were injured in the blaze.
None were seriouly burned.
Students rally
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (UPI) — Hoping to keep their
school open, Lithia Springs High School students rally
today at the Douglas County Courthouse to urge citizens to
pay their taxes.
“We just want to let the taxpayers and public officials
know that we’re interested in keeping the schools open,”
said Guy Spencer, student council president at the Lithia
Springs school.
IRS corrects
ATLANTA (UPI) — The Internal Revenue Service is
having to correct income tax returns where individuals
have failed to claim new S3O personal exemptions.
About one of every 10 Georgians filing returns with the
IRS have failed to take advantage of the exemptions, the
IRS said Friday.
John Henderson, district IRS director for Georgia, said
the S3O credit for every personal exemption claimed is
new on the tax forms this year, and he urged all taxpayers
to remember it in preparing their forms.
He said IRS employes are correcting returns where tax
payers have failed to claim the exemptions.
— Griffin Daily News Saturday, January 24, 1976
YUGOSLAV PLANS
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
(UPI) — Belgrade officials plan
to attract more foreign tourists
next year by expanding enter
tainment programs on the
Danube and Sava Rivers that
flow through the Yugoslav
capital.
The officials envisage mid
night cruises with folk dances
on the rivers and national and
fish restaurants along the
rivers’ banks.
In the first nine months this
year about 750,000 tourists,
313,000 of them foreigners,
visited Belgrade, which was
about 12 per cent more than in
the same period in 1974.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of My rtice
Lou Bankston Goodson who
passed away 3 years ago
January 25.
Mother, we miss you dearly,
but we know our Father in
Heaven was ready for you
and know we'll have to wait a
while before we'll join again,
and when we do, there will be
joy forever more.
You are not forgotten here on
earth. The things you did for
your family might have been
small to some, but we'll
cherish and hold dear to our
hearts because you had so
much love for us, just by
helping and being there
when we needed you. You
never sent anybody away
with a problem, you could
always lighten the load.
Somehow, you don't have to
be wealthy to help people,
but know how to love and be
loved.
We will always have a place
in our heart for you and
cherish the memories we
have.
Mother we'll be together
again and we'll never part
again.
Husband: C. H. Goodson
Sons: H. G. Goodson, C.W.
Goodson, L. C. Goodson
Daughters: Mrs. Virginia
Gasses, Mrs. Brenda Smith
Brother: Ira Bankston
Sister: Tressia Wilson
Grandchildren