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7 On Today's Editorial Page iSETS! fl fpS fl II fjFL IrTp1 FFv fl fP A II FINAL Th.ofD.t.t. 1 1 uj I Pages 5 and 6C VOL.98 NO. 316 MONDAY, IVOVEiMBER 15, 1976 15 mmmw.ivk.y Sit.HU a Month Force Halts ll 'V Fighting In Beirat i 7 this street," a resident of West Beirut said as he drove down Basta Street in the demolished commercial sector. They came to see, for the first time, what the war had made of the once-proud financial center block after block of buildings successively hit by explosions and fires and blasted to pieces by endless artillery barrages. Meanwhile, the Syrians took control of strategic points including the Central Bank, radio and television stations and public utilities.

One tank commander, threading his big Russian-made machine through the narrow streets, swore in Arabic as he sideswiped a parked car. "Phase Two of the Arab peace plan has been successfully completed," rightist and leftist radio stations announced. "AH military positions in the capital have disappeared." The next phase for President Elias Sarkis and his Arab League troops was to stop fighting on the country's outlying fronts in South Lebanon and around the northern port of Tripoli and to restore the authority of the central government after 19 months of anarchy. Si. a CI Mi Carter Will Choices For PLAINS, Nov.

15 (AP) President-elect Jimmy Carter said today he will interview all his selections for major government posts but said he has not yet made any personnel decisions. Referring to the "inevitable speculation" about whom he will bring into the new administration, Carter said no one will be authorized to speak for him about appointments, and said: "Quite often those who talk the most know the least." He outlined to a news conference a complex procedure of interviews and program evaluation exercises he will put leading contenders through. Carter said also that he expected no conflict with Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the key arbiter of the nation's money supply. He said, "My first inclination would be to work with him harmoniously." BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov.

15 (UPI) Syrian peacekeeping troops rolled into Beirut's downtown battle zone today, seized control of the entire city and halted Moslem-Christian battles that had raged almost nonstop through 19 months of civil war. Two columns of Syrian tanks and armored cars rumbled into the gutted seaport and commercial center from the south and east. They were welcomed with hugs and kisses from jubilant leftist and rightist militiamen who fired wildly into the air to signal the apparent end of the war. A third column of Syrians, Saudi Arabians and Sudanese moved up into Moslem West Beirut from the southwest after opening access roads to the city's airport. In a lightning sweep that began before dawn, the Syrians took over all of the city's remaining battlefronts and seized commanding positions in all areas.

One column rumbled west from the Christian sector to take the main public utilities building, rolled straight across the devastated port front and advanced one block south of the United States Embassy into the leftist stronghold of Ain Mreisse. Another, spearheaded by bulldozers, shoved its way straight up the mile-wide no man's land from the National Museum north to the sea. Rightist and leftist militiamen fired into the air with joy as the Syrians took the city hall, the National Parliament and the shell damaged Holiday Inn, all scenes of bitter house-to-house fighting in the last year and a half. "We were waiting for you all night so we could withdraw," a Christian militiaman at the Parliament told a Syrian commander as they hugged and kissed. "Welcome to the heroes of the October War," a ragged leftist militiaman shouted.

Civilians gathered on street corners and leaned out their windows, clapping and crying "Ahlan, Ahlan" "Welcome" in Arabic as the Syrian tanks rumbled past. Only a few instances of resistance were reported as the 6000 troops and 400 tanks took over. All of the clashes were in Moslem and Palestinian-controlled areas. The Syrians fired only a half dozen grenades and a few rounds of submachine gun fire in a six-hour sweep that began with the first light of dawn. By nightfall, the Syrians had established control over Beirut's battle zones, Palestinian refugee camps, radio stations, government buildings, the airport and key intersections.

By midafternoon, traffic in both East and West Beirut returned to normal as civilians choked the streets to enjoy a day without fear of sudden sniper or shelling attacks. They crowded into the central Bourj square, the historic center of the city, which for months had been in the middle of no man's land. "It's the first time in a year that there have been this many cars and people on OVER AND OUT. Jim Otis diving over the it didn't count because of a penalty. Terry goal line behind the blocking of Tom Banks Metcalf scored on the next play and the Big (54) and Bob Young (64) for the Big Red's Red went on to a 30-28 victory.

(Post-first touchdown of yesterday's game but Dispatch Photo by Robert C. Holt III) Big Red Hollywood Finish 7 Sure enough, Hart confirmed it after the game. On a hookup with CBS control in New York, Hart nearly made Phyllis George swoon when he reported, "I turned to Dan and said, 'This is just where we like to The former Miss America never heard a line like that. The rest was easy, of course. The Big Red defense hadn't sacked quarterback Pat Haden all game in an effort to make the Los Angeles quarterback overconfident.

Then, on third down, Haden accidentally backed into defensive end Bob Bell. The shock of seeing Bell back there apparently caused Haden to. collapse. Then the Rams punted. Metcalf, who had been lulling the Rams to sleep with See BIG RED, Page 6 Plains Church Lifts Ban; Carter Satisfied 4 FURTHER DETAILS of game on Page IB playing its usual role, too', allowing the Rams to stay ahead in order to prolong the suspense.

The Rams had the ball and the Big Red defense was letting them think they were going to run out the clock. At this point, the television camera panned the Cardinals on the sideline. Quarterback Jim Hart, who had waited until the second half to get over his pregame jitters, was whispering something to offensive tackle Dan Dierdorf, and every Big Red fan knew what he said. He told Dierdorf the Cardinals hart the Rams where they wanted them. The quota case was brought by Allan Bakke, 36 years old, a twice-rejected white applicant at the University of California-Davis medical school.

Although otherwise qualified, Bakke was turned down because 16 per cent of the school's freshman class seats are reserved for minorities. The California Supreme Court struck down the quota on grounds it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's right to "equal protection of the laws." The state asked the Supreme Court to stay the ruling, leaving the quotas in force. The Justices did so and gave the state 30 days to file a formal appeal for full review. The court could still reject a formal appeal, but granting a stay often signals a willingness to resolve the issues presented. In other action today, the courts: Rejected a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union against a Middletown, curfew for minors.

It was the first such case to reach the high court. The ACLU said 3,000 cities and towns have similar curfews. Refused to interfere with the 16-month trial period for Concorde supersonic airliners to provide service the United States and Europe. Agreed to decide if Michigan could See COURT, Page 9 By JEFF MEYERS Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Cardinals were involved in one of their average cliff-hangers yesterday. They were playing on Los Angeles turf, trailing the Rams by 15 points, and defensive end Jack Youngblood was biting off pieces of Terry Metcalf and Jim Otis.

Obviously, the Cardinals were in absolutely no trouble whatsoever. They managed to win, 30-28. With about four minutes to play, the Cardinals had put themselves in position for their usual sensational finish. The offense had come back with three second-half touchdowns and the Big Red were behind only 28-27. The defense was Interview Top Jobs Carter said at his second press conference since winning election 13 days ago that "I would guess I could work well with Mr.

Burns." Last week Burns warned of the dangers of stimulating the economy too much, pointing to possible renewed inflation. The Democratic platform on which Carter was elected and some of Carter's advisers have called for stimulation of the economy to deal with unemployment and sluggish economic growth. Carter generally declined to be any more specific than he had been during the campaign about how to tackle the nation's economic problems. He said he was not qualified "at this point" to propose solutions to unemployment problems. But he said tie would meet with business See APPOINTMENTS, Page 4 worship Jesus Chrust." At the same time it voted to establish a "watch care" committee, which would screen all membership applications and make recommendations to the congregation.

The congregation would then decide whether to accept the committee's recommendations. The committee would include the church's minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, and four members of the 12-man board of deacons. The board recently recommended that the minister be dismissed because of his support of a move to admit a black member to the church. By a vote of 100 to 96 yesterday, the congregation tabled a deacons' motion to oust the Rev.

Mr. Edwards. It then voted 107 to 84 not to dismiss the minister. Despite this, the Rev. Mr.

Edwards indicated that he might leave the church "after a few months." The source of yesterday's controversy inside the white frame church, which is in the heart of this bucolic community, is the Rev. Clennon King. He is a black minister from Albany, who bitterly split the congregation when he sought to join Carter's church two days before the Nov. 2 election. After yesterday's votes, the Rev.

Mr. King said he was happy that the congregation had reversed its racial policy. He promised to return next Sunday to seek membership. While the congregation spent about three hours debating and voting on the issues, hundreds of mostly white spectators stood outside, braving heavy rain and strong winds, waiting for a chance to see Mr. Carter and hear the church's verdict.

They began gathering at about 9 a.m. but by 2 p.m., many of them had See CARTER, Page 4 Insich 12 Pages ITALIANS DEMONSTRATE agalnsi proposed release of Nazi criminal. Page 2A TEST DATA falsified on drugs, retiring FDA head says. Page 2A ELECTIONS COMMISSION will investigate campaign loans to Teasdale. Page 9A IEFF-VANDER-LOU: Rebuilding of an inner-city neighborhood.

Page 1C INSURANCE REGULATION bills to be introduced by 3 legislators. Page 1C Religion, Job Conflict Taken Up By Court By ROBERT L. JOINER A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch PLAINS, Nov. 15 Presidentelect Jimmy Carter says he is completely satisfied that his church has voted to admit blacks, even though he supported a separate move that might mean that no blacks will ever be allowed to join the congregation. In a reversal of an 11-year-old racial policy that has been a source of embarrassment to Mr.

Charter, the Plains Baptist Church voted 120 to 60 yesterday to open its doors to all "who want to Arab troops were moving into take over positions from the Moslems. (UPI Telephoto) the same risk of serious complications as older individuals." There are about 1,300,000 school-age children in Missouri, including 400,000 in the St. Louis area, and thousands of additional children in the state in the three-to-five age group. Missouri's share of split-virus vaccine for healthy children will be decided on the basis of the state's population. The date of the first shipments is not known.

Most split-virus vaccine made so far has been combined with "A Victoria" flu vaccine to form the so-called bivalent vaccine, which is given to persons over 65 and all those with chronic diseases including children. The health service VACCINE, Page WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) The Supreme Court today agreed to take another look at federal law requiring employers to accommodate religious needs of employes, and signaled it may re-examine minority quotas for admission to colleges and professional schools. The Justices seem eager to rule on both issues. They have attempted to do so before, but tied 4 to 4 on the religion problem two weeks ago in another case, and were blocked on the quota problem two years ago when the plaintiff, a white law student, graduated before a decision was reached, thus ending that case.

The newest religion appeal was brought by Trans World Airlines after a lower federal court in Kansas City held the airline violated 1972 amendments to the Civil Rights Act by firing an employe for refusing to work Saturdays on religious grounds. The law requires employers make "reasonable accommodation" for the religious needs of employes. contended that granting the employe special privileges would violate an obligation under its union contract to enforce seniority scheduling rights for other employes. The court also could rule that the 1972 law violates the First Amendment's ban on establishment of religion. Warmer F0LL0W1MG THE SCRIPT Official forecast for St.

Louis and vicinity: Clearing tonight, with light southerly winds and low temperatures In the upper 20s. Sunny and a little warmer tomorrow, with the high In the mid to upper 40s. Clear to partly cloudy Wednesday through Friday with minor day to day temperature changes. Highs will be around 50 and lows In the upper 20s. POST-DISPATCH WEATHER BIRO MO FAT Off Olhtr Wtotttir Infor Hon en Pom RIGHT OF WAY: A Syrian tank, part of the Arab peace-keeping force in Lebanon, lurching over rubble in the commercial section of Beirut today.

the capital to Christians and U.S. Proposes Priority On Children's Vaccine 4- mittee recommended also. Drug companies have made two forms of swine flu vaccine, both containing viruses killed by heating. One is the whole virus and the other is "split," or broken apart chemically. The latter was found to produce fewer side effects in children, such as fever.

Because the flu season is already one third over, the logistics in giving two doses to children one month apart complicates an already difficult task for local health officials. "We would have preferred to have had sufficient vaccine to offer it to all children who are as susceptible to influenza as adults," Cooper said. "For-tunatelyhealthy children do not have February will be sent to states primarily for distribution through neighborhood health centers and other urban sites, and also through the offices of private physicians, the United States Public Health Service said. Dr. Cooper announced the policy after receiving recommendations from the health service's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

That panel said that split-virus vaccine would give "good protection against swine flu without serious side effects" if given in two doses four weeks apart. Individuals between 18 and 24 years old should receive a second dose of either whole virus or split virus vaccine to assijg maximum protection, the com By ROGER SIGNOR Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Healthy children 3 to 18 years old "whose living conditions may make them more susceptible to infection" should get priority for the limited supply of swine flu vaccine recommended for children, the Government said today. Under the available supply of the split-virus vaccine recommended as the safest and most effective for children-only 10 per cent of the more than 40,000,000 children who are 3 to 18 could be immunized, said Dr. Theodore Cooper, assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The linked supplies to be available by Business 4-6C Classified Advertising 6-1 IB Editorials 2C Everyday 1-8D Leisure 5D News Analysis 3C Obituaries 6B People 7A St.

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