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mm a Israelis fake port in Lebanon, clash with Svrian tanks Tom Chauncey sells KOOL-TV to Gulf United By Bud Wilkinson Republic Staff Gulf United Corp. completed its acquisition of KOOL-TV, a Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate, by purchasing the Tom Chauncey-Homer Lane interests Tuesday. The sale had been rumored for months. Gulf United began its bid to acquire KOOL-TV in April 1981, when it purchased half of former actor Gene Autry's share in the outlet, with an option to acquire Autry's remaining interest this year. Autry, Chauncey and Lane founded KOOL Radio in 1947.

KOOL-TV went on the air in 1953. The sale is subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission. One report pegged the sale price at $50 million, but Chauncey labeled that report "much too low." He said the total dollars paid by Gulf United, including the amount for Autry's shares, is in the vicinity of $120 million. Executives from Gulf United could not be reached for comment Chauncey also said Gulf United made several other non-monetary commitments. "They will keep all of our people, and they promised to be fair to them," he said.

"They will clear (air) CBS (programming) 100 percent. We've done it for all those years," he added. "They met our terms." Only Chauncey, his son, station attorney Tom Chauncey II and Lane will leave Channel 10 when the sale is approved. Official word of the sale came in the form of a one-page press release issued Tuesday by Chauncey, who is chairman, president and chief executive officer of KOOL Radio-Television and E. Grant Fitts, Gulf United's chairman and president.

Under the agreement, Chauncey will retain KOOL Radio. Less than a month after Gulf United made its initial purchase, Gulf United and Autry filed suit in U.S. District Court, charging that Chauncey, Chauncey II and Lane "systematically and unlawfully" attempted to missappropriate "millions of dollars in assets and earnings of KOOL for their personal hobbies and gratification." The KOOL-TV executives responded by filing a counterclaim denying the allegations and accusing -KOOL-TV, All highway which controls the highway linking Beirut and Damascus, the Syrian capital appeared to be the northernmost line of advance for the invasion force. At the United the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution that condemned non-compliance by Israel with two calls for a cease-fire in the Lebanese conflict. The vote was 14-1.

U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick said the resolution was "not sufficiently balanced. My government is currently engaged in every possible effort to bring the violence to an end. We shall continue those efforts." Elsewhere on the embattled Lebanese coastal road, the Israelis pounded guerrilla positions with air and sea bombardments, some as close as 10 miles to Beirut. The sudden airlifting of Israeli forces to the area east of Beirut helped further close a noose around guerrillas to the south.

Other Israeli forces already were in the far south and southeast, and had a stranglehold on the coastal highway in the west, cutting the southern guerrillas' supply lines from Beirut. Bi't the Israelis' lightning drive, punching more than 40 miles north in three days, also brought them closer to an all-out confrontation with an estimated 30,000 Syrian troops who are stationed in Lebanon to police the Arab League truce that ended the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war. "We don't want war with Syria," Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared before the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem. "I appeal to (Syrian) President (Hafez) Assad to instruct Jerusalem claims 6 MiGs downed; all-out war feared Associated Press Israel's invasion army drove Palestinian guerrillas from another Lebanese stronghold Tuesday and clashed with Syrian forces near the Damascus-Beirut highway in Lebanon's central mountains, reports from the two sides said. The battle between the Syrians and an Israeli armored force airlifted into the highlands east of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, marked an ominous escalation of the Middle East's latest war, launched by Israel last weekend for the stated purpose of driving the guerrillas from southern Lebanon.

Syrian reinforcements were seen streaming into Lebanon late Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the Israelis reported that their warplanes shot down six Syrian MiGs in three battles over Lebanon and Israel the most intense air warfare between Syria and Israel in three years. Israeli radio Tuesday reported the latest Israeli conquest: the large port of Sidon, a Palestinian military headquarters 25 miles south of Beirut. The radio said 15,000 inhabitants abandoned the city before the Israelis began their final push against its Palestinian defenders. "Many terrorists were killed," said Israel's chief military spokesman, Brig.

Gen. Yaaqov Even. An earlier Lebanese radio report said Sidon, the country's third-largest city, was ablaze. Israeli radio's military reporter said late Tuesday that the Damour-Zahle AP Series sorcery Magic Johnson, a guard for the Los Angeles title in three years Tuesday night, beating the Lakers, signals victory at the Forum in Ingle- Philadelphia 76ers, 114-104. Johnson was vot- Israelis, A10 wood, Calif.

The Lakers won their second NBA ed the series' most valuable player. Story, F1. Reagan lauds British troops in talk to Parliament; seeks Soviet-TV time The Great Impostor' dies at 60 fe liillllllllliS WmmmimWIt Republic Wire Services LONDON President Reagan, addressing Parliament, paid tribute Tuesday to British troops in the Falkland Islands war and challenged Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to a "competition of ideas and values" through an exchange of television broadcasts. In the first speech by a U.S. president to both houses of Parliament, Reagan discussed the common ground between Britain and the United States and the importance of allied unity against the Soviet Union.

"Those young men (in the Falklands) aren't fighting for mere real estate," Reagan declared to cries of "Hear! Hear!" from members of Parliament "They fight for a cause, for the belief that armed aggression must not be allowed to succeed, and that people must participate in the decisions of government under the rule of law. "If there had been firmer support of that principle some 45 years ago, perhaps our generation wouldn't have suffered the bloodletting of World War II." He also used the occasion to repeat his call for a ceasefire in Lebanon and the withdrawal of Israeli forces. "The fighting in Lebanon on the part of all the parties must stop, and Israel should bring its forces home," the president said. Reagan said NATO should demonstrate strong resolve against the Soviets and launch a "crusade for freedom" that "will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." "The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets," he said, "but a test of wills and ideas a trial of spiritual resolve." Reagan, A8 Luckless duffer has triple bogey linked to 'fore1 United Press International PITTSBURGH Mike Me-gela was in good condition Tuesday at a local hospital, recovering from three calamities that began on the 17th hole of the Seven Springs Golf Course and ended inside an ambulance that crashed twice with other vehicles. Megela, 61, of suburban White Oak, was walking to his golf cart Monday at the course, in Elizabeth, when he was beaned by another golfer's shot.

"He was just walking off the 17th green when a ball hit him right in the cheekbone and down he went," assistant pro Domenic Rossi said. As an ambulance was taking Megela, bleeding from the mouth and nose, to McKeesport Hospital, a car driven by Linda Singer, 32, hit the vehicle broadside, causing it to overturn, a McKeesport fire official said. After that accident, another car, driven by Cyril Israel, 68, of White Oak, crashed into the ambulance. Two other ambulances, a fire engine and a rescue unit were called to the scene. In all, four ambulance attendants joined Megela, Singer and Israel in going to McKeesport Hospital for treatment.

All except Megela were released Monday. Megela was kept because of injuries he suffered from the golf ball. Today CHUCKLE A hypochondriac doesn't feel good unless he's sick. PRAYER Lord, thank you for giving us hope for each new day. Amen.

WEATHER Warmer. High 101, low 70. Tuesday's high 98, low 70. Humidity: high 24, low 6. B6.

Satchel Paige-Baseball showman and pitcher dies in Kansas City, after a heart attack. He sat in a wheelchair at his final public appearance. Benson, A6; story, F1. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. If he had stayed in the church, he would have been my candidate for cardinal, or even pope.

He was one of the world's great men. 9 9 'Role call' included doctor and warden Los Angeles Times ANAHEIM, Calif. Ferdinand Waldo Demara whose feats of benign fraud were chronicled in the book and film The Great Impostor, has died, his once-magnetic personality soured by regrets at not having put his talents to more legitimate uses. Demara, 60, who had been in poor health for two years, died Monday after suffering a heart attack in an Anaheim home, his doctor said. Demara ran away from his Lawrence, home as a teenager and entered a Trappist monastery.

He quit, however, before being ordained and used his extraordinary blend of intelligence and audacity to launch a career of brazen deception. He performed his most noteworthy exploits in the 1950s, posing successfully as a combat surgeon, a deputy prison warden and a college professor, among other things. When exposed often because of past acquaintances or chance, and never, friends said, because of professional deficiencies Demara would slip out of sight and develop a new identity and expertise. Though often charged with crimes, Demara never was convicted of any serious offense. Four years ago, he returned to the Roman Catholic faith and confided to friends that he had forgone his one true calling by leaving the monastery to see the world.

"If he had stayed in the church," said San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli, who knew Demara as a good friend and a client, "he would have been my candidate for cardinal, or even pope. He was one of the world's great men." Belli and others said, however, that Demara's greatness was flawed by a lack of patience and an abundance of pride. He refused to pursue legitimately what his intellect allowed him to gain easily. "He was a man bitten by an imp," Belli said. Tony Curtis starred in the 1960 Astrology Bridge Close-ups Comics Crossword DearAbby Economy Editorials Fitzpatrick Food Dl Hutton F8 Jumble C7 Leisure C9 Movies Dl Obituaries Dl Scrabble CI Sports A6 TV log A2 Want ads FD1 Weather C7 Dl F7 F9 D2 Dl Fl F10 Dl B6 EXTRA A section in today's Republic with news and features from your neighborhood British seize settlements near Stanley Republic Wire Services British and Argentine forces fought their first major battle in eight days Tuesday, and Britain said its land forces captured the key Falkland settlements of Fitzroy and Bluff Cove, southwest of the capital of Stanley.

The British Defense Ministry said that the frigate Plymouth and two supply vessels were damaged by attacking Argentine jets but that its forces downed two, and possibly three, enemy planes. The ministry reported five casualties aboard the Plymouth, which carries 235 men. In a conflicting report, Argentina's military command said its forces sank a frigate, damaged three landing craft and inflicted heavy casualties in a British landing attempt at Port Fitzroy, 15 miles southwest of Stanley. A communique from the Argentine joint chiefs of staff said the frigate, which it did not identify, "received a direct hit from our forces, and exploded and sank rapidly." "It can be assumed there were numerous casualties," it said. It reported fires and explosions aboard two of the struck landing craft, which "were abandoned by their and that a third landing vessel was ablaze and out of action.

Meanwhile, in the South Atlantic 480 miles northeast of the Falklands, British, A9 Babbitt vows no front-line DPS officers will be laid off in face of pared budget film version of Demara's life, a portrayal The Great Impostor told friends he did not like. The film, he complained, depicted a carefree genius happily skipping from profession to profession. In reality, he said, his existence was haunted by fear that his frauds would be "He was the most miserable man I've ever known," said his longtime friend and physician, Dr. John J. Zane of Anaheim.

"He said he was Impostor, A15 control to prepare 10 percent cuts in their operating budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1 because of a projected $45 million revenue shortfall. A week after the governor's order, DPS Director Ralph Milstead said he might have to consider layoffs and. cutbacks in criminal investigations to comply with the directive. The reduction in spending would total $3.7 million of the $37 million the agency was authorized by the-Legislature from the state's general fund for the 1982-83 Vacal year. By Joel Nilsson Republic Staff TEMPE Front-line officers of the Highway Patrol will not be laid off as a means of cutting 10 percent from next year's budget for the Department of Public Safety, Gov.

Bruce Babbitt pledged Tuesday. In a speech to a statewide convention of the Fraternal Order of Police, Babbitt talked about the "budget crisis" facing the state but said that "in no circumstances, will I support the layoff of front-line law-enforcement officials. We are not going to reduce the number of highway" patrolmen on the road in this state, period." Babbitt, A14 Babbitt on May 26 ordered state agency heads under his I. i V1.