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107th Year Final Vol. 142 No. 299 Tucson, Wednesday, October 26, 1983 25 U.S. captures 200 Cubans Greonadla stroke By Kernan Turner Th Associated Prew BRIDGETOWN, Barbados Nearly 2,000 U.S. Marines and Army paratroopers invaded Marxist-ruled Grenada in airborne assaults yesterday, clashing with Grenadian troops and armed Cubans through the day.

The U.S. forces, ordered to protect some 1,000 Americans on the tiny eastern Caribbean island and "restore democracy," were followed in by 300 soldiers and national police from six Caribbean nations. The Defense Department said two U.S. soldiers were killed and 23 were wounded, while more than 200 Cubans were captured. Cuban and Grenadian casualties were not given.

President Reagan said the operation began before dawn and that 1,900 Marines and Army Ranger paratroopers quickly seized the two airports on the mountainous, 21-mile-long island of 110,000 residents. He told a midmorning news conference the operation was "completely successful." But an administration official said last night the Cuban constructors and collaborators fell to the enemy." In a later report, Prensa Latina said U.S. paratroopers captured some Cuban defenders at the airport but others were being led by Cuban army Col. Pedro Tortolo Comas. It said he arrived in Grenada Monday on a "work visit," and was told in a message from "the commander-in-chief" that "The Cuban people are proud of you.

Do not surrender under any condition." It did not name Castro, but he is the commander-in-chief of the Cuban armed forces. Medical students who make up the majority of the Americans on Grenada were reported unharmed, although pinned down by the fighting. U.S. helicopter gunships circled the American-operated St. George's Medical College, drawing fire from Grenadian snipers, Mark Barettella of Ridgefield, N.J., reported by ham radio.

"Every time a gunship goes over, there's fire all around us," he said in a broadcast See U.S. CIVILIANS, Page 3A Arizona's congressmen react with support or skepticism but no outright condemnation. Page 8B. eral U.S. helicopters were lost, including some that were shot down, but they gave no details.

Jamaica was one of the six island nations contributing troops to the invasion force, and Prime Minister Edward Seaga told the Jamaican Parliament in Kingston that he received a report at noon saying three civilians were killed and the allied forces had seized a large quantity of Soviet-Ynade arms at the new airport being built by more than 600 Cuban workers at Point Salines. Cuba's official news agency, Prensa La-tina, issued a report in Havana indicating the resistance was crumbling. The dispatch, monitored in Mexico City, said, "We inform the nation that at 2 p.m. (EDT), after seven hours of combat, with the ammunition of the defenders exhausted, some positions and high ground defended by i Caribbean i GRENADA Marines, Rangers land 4P VENEZUELA The invasion sends a signal and brings Grenada's leftward drift to a quick halt. Analysis, Page 16A.

that "There was more resistance than we thought there would be." The official, who asked not to be identified, said units of the 82nd Airborne Division probably would be sent to control one of the two airports and free the Rangers to attack -pockets of resistance. The airborne division is based at Fort Bragg, N.C. Cuban President Fidel Castro ordered an army colonel commanding Cuban workers in Grenada not to surrender despite casualties, and by sundown those left were reported still offering resistance. A communique, the Cuban government's eighth of the day, said: "The people are informed that at nightfall the heroic resis-tence of our constructors and collaborators continued in the face of the attacks of Yankee armed forces." Defense Department sources said sev- Marines to kill anyone nearing camp in Beirut 1 A l- ''V-'U: It. XS) 1 iS ff A- i If' The Associated Press U.S.

Marines in Beirut, Lebanon, were ordered into sandbagged bunkers yesterday and told to "shoot to kill" anyone approaching their camp after three trucks that officials feared might be filled with explosives drove nearby. The Pentagon said the death toll from Sunday's terrorist bombing of the Marine command post rose to 216. The bodies of 197 already were undergoing processing and identification in Frankfurt, West Germany, before being flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. No date has been set. Meanwhile, in Washington, the White House announced that Vice President George Bush was en route early today to Beirut, where he will meet with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel and visit with the Marine peacekeeping force.

Bush, whose First injured Marines return to America for treatment at a burn center. Page 4A. Partial list of U.S. servicemen killed, wounded or missing in Beirut. Page 5A.

Tucson honors Marines, Pages IB, 1G. by a man driving a truck packed with a ton of explosives. It was the bloodiest attack against the U.S. military since Vietnam. The Marine commander, Col.

Timothy Geraghty, told reporters more bodies were still in the rubble. About 70 Americans were injured, many of whom are being treated in military hospitals in West Germany, Italy and Cyprus. French spokesman Lt. Col. Phil-lipe De Longeaux said 38 French See DEATH TOLL, Page 4A trip was not announced before his departure, is to return to the United The Associated Press States tonight.

Marine Commandant Paul X. Kelley awards Cpl. Joseph Schneider the Purple Heart in Wiesbaden Air Force Hospital The suicide strike was carried out Reagan firings make way for own civil rights panel Brother of Marine hurt in blast may be in Grenada Hughes layoff of 250 due Friday, sources say WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan fired half the Civil Rights Commission to make room for his own team of conservatives yesterday in a move that effectively puts the gadfly agency out of business at least temporarily. Outraged civil rights groups said the three ousted members, appointed by two previous presidents, were guilty only of criticizing the administration's record. A bipartisan effort was launched in the Senate to reconstitute the commission as an independent arm of Congress, and House Democrats unanimously approved a statement "strongly" disapproving of Reagan's action, which it said was taken "without cause." By Bob Svejcara and John S.

Long The Arizona Dally Star Hughes Aircraft Co. plans to lay off about 250 hourly employees Friday at its Tucson missile plant because of parts shortages, sources said yesterday. The layoffs, which have been discussed by Hughes executives for more than a month, could total more than 500 workers by spring. That many layoffs could pose a major obstacle for the company in fulfilling plans it presented to the Air Force in December to add about 2,400 full-time employees to Reagan's surprise move came after five months of wrangling between the administration and congressional liberals over the makeup of the independent commission. In one stroke last May, Reagan proposed three nominees to replace members held over from the Carter and Ford administrations.

The holdovers are Mary Berry, Blandina Ramirez and Murray Saltzman. In a statement yesterday, the White House said those three jobs now are terminated. In firing the holdovers, Reagan called on the Senate to confirm his appointees: Morris Abram, John Bunzel and Robert Destro. They all See REAGAN FIRES, Page 2A the plant by 1986. The layoffs are to remain in effect for an indefinite time.

Company officials in California refused to comment on the layoffs, but a local labor relations representative for the company said an announcement is scheduled by the company in the next few days. James Whitten, business manager of Local 933 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said the union was told yesterday of the impact the layoffs would have on union workers. Local 933 repre-See IMPENDING, Page 2A SLICKVILLE, Pa. (AP) Orlando and Janice Valore waited yesterday for word on their two Marine Corps sons one who was wounded in the weekend bombing in Beirut and another who may be fighting in Grenada. The' Valores said they received a telephone call yesterday morning from their son in Beirut, Pfc.

Ter-rance Valore, 22, who told them he was hospitalized with serious injuries in Sunday morning's bombing at the Marine compound at the Beirut airport. Terrance told hisparents that he suffered second-degree burns over much of his body, a serious leg injury and a loss of hearing in the blast that brought down the Marines' headquarters building, killing more than 200 servicemen. "He told me, 'It's not over yet, said Orlando Valore, 52, a truck driver at a nearby steel mill. "My wounded Marine if it wasn't for unemployment, he wouldn't be there," Mrs. Valore said.

"He enlisted because he was unemployed and the boys have no where to go except the service." Before the early morning call, the Valores said, they had not received official word their son had been wounded. They said they needed such notification to send a cable to See PA. FAMILY, Page 4A Weather Sports Lifestyle Funeral help. Funeral directors hope to unravel a legal bind that prevents low-income people from setting aside funeral funds. Page2B.

Food and health. Dietary changes for better health were discussed as food editors met last week in Chicago. Star food writer Sandal English shares recipes "geared to a lighter, healthier and simpler style of eating." Page IE. Coping with teenhood. Friends and a sense of self-esteem can be of the greatest help to young people facing peer pressure to experiment.

Page 10E. Come rain or come shine. Today will be windy and cloudy, with scattered showers and thunderstorms. There's a 20 percent chance of rain, increasing to 30 percent tonight. A high around 80 and an overnight low near 61 are predicted.

Yesterday's high and low were 74 and 57. Yesterday's national temperature extremes were 14 at Alamosa, and 95 at San Diego. Details on Page 2A. Index Hoyt, Lasorda honored. Chicago's LaMarr Hoyt wins the American League Cy Young Award, and Tom Lasorda of Los Angeles is named the National League manager of the year.

Pages IF and 3F. Comment Bum's rush. Local officials won't say they're behind the growing number of transients here, but they're responsible nonetheless, col-umnist Steve Emerine says. Page 15A. Chicago strike ends.

After a 15-day strike, Chicago teachers return to their classrooms with lower raises than they had demanded. Page 8A. Wart in the cornfields, in Seymour, they call a deadly toxic waste dump "our beautiful wart," but it's ugly and scary. Page 15A. No time for thanks.

The father of liver recipient Jamie Fiske returns to San Francisco to thank the American Academy of Pediatrics, but doesn't get the chance. Page 2G. DeLorean tapes, cbs defends its decision to broadcast tapes purportedly showing John Z. De-Lorean's drug arrest. Page 2A.

News Making mistakes. NBC correspondent Edwin Newman tells the Arizona Town Hall that when the press makes mistakes, not because of bias. Page 3B. No mangers, just beds, a Tucson woman seeks to give dogs a few beds to lie on she wants to build a pet resort. Page IB.

Dec. 23 deadline, south Tucson is given until Dec. 23 to submit its plan for financial reorganization and is warned that the proposal had better be equitable to all the city's creditors. Page IB. Flood bonds.

County voters will decide Feb. 7 on bonds to finance flood repairs, and the county considers suing firms it says altered drainage systems, contributing to the damage. Page IB. Roundup Money Interior look. William Clark, the designated chief of the Interior Department, tells environmentalists that he has a free hand to make a full review of predecessor James G.

Watt's policies. Page 7A. School lunches. The House votes 306-114 to restore more than $100 million in 1984 spending on child nutrition programs. Page (A.

Money 14D Movies 7C Obituaries SG Public records 7B Solomon, M.D. 2E Sports WF Tucson, Arizona. 2B Tucson today 7C TV-radk I-7C Actualidades 15A Bridge gC Classified 5G-JH Comics 2C Comment 14-15A Dear Abby 2E Entertainment 1-8C Horoscope 2E Lifestyle 1-1IE Museum, movie, Mom's. The Arizona State Museum is offering a special exhibit on traditional religious art as well as permanent exhibits on the history of Southwestern Indians. An interview with movie star Michael Caine and a review of Mother Hubbard's help round out Roundup.

Entertainment TWO Specialties. Peter Leonard, in Tucson to conduct the Arizona Opera Company's production of "Madama Butterfly," divides his time between symphony and opera conducting. Page 1C Copper heads down. Copper futures prices plunge to the lowest levels in more than a year on the Commodity Exchange in New York. Page ID..