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"7 Fire pact accepted Prince is christened Page 1D in palace EU3ortgage rate down Pago7D Page GD FINAL EDITION Four Sections ffiLD a urn iiwo Binghamton, N.Y. 25 cents Aug. 4, 19821 Tl ad eirait Israeli i World TWO BRITISH EXPLORERS were plucked from the Greenland Sea after traveling 640 miles from the North Pole on an ice floe and in canoes. Page 7A. KENYA'S RANSACKED CAPITAL edged toward normalcy as people heeded the government's call to return to work after an attempted coup.

Page 7A. A HIJACKER RELEASED 134 people aboard an Indian airliner and surrendered after Pakistan denied him landing permission. Page 7A. PLO's turf v. fi is target Nation ln" THE WHITE HOUSE announced the departure of the Voice of America's director-the same day the government released a report criticizing the agency's frequent turnover.

Page 3A. A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL amendment requiring a balanced budget was passed narrowly by the Senate and sent to an uncertain fate in the House. Page 4A. HOUSTON LAWYER William A. Chanslor Jr.

was convicted of plotting to murder his wife with an undetectable poison. Page 6A. State By The Associated Press Israeli tanks and armored troops steamrolled into west Beirut today, other units battled toward the PLO stronghold from the north and south, and artil- lery and gunboats hammered Yasser Arafat's guerrilla enclave from all sides in furious barrages that continued after 18 hours. Israeli jets flew two bombing runs, one in the Bir Hassan area north of the airport, the other near the stadium, where the guerrillas have a major base. The first air raid lasted about seven minutes and the second about three minutes.

Casualties were not known in the air attacks, but at least 50 people were killed in the Israeli shelling and the toll was expected to rise sharply, initial police reports cited by Lebanon's state radio said. The broadcast said most of the victims were civilians. Israel said its forces suffered 20 soldiers woundedK two seriously, before the attack, and that as a result of the assault its armor captured a strip 60 yards deep and 600 yards long on a north-south axis along the Greeir Line dividing guerrilla-held west Beirut from Christian-controlled east Beirut. Arafat called on every able Palestinian to take up arms and defend west Beirut, and President Elias Sarkis appealed to President Reagan to stop the See ISRAEL, Back Page 14- ONE MONTH AFTER the state legislature recessed for the summer, Gov. Hugh L.

Carey completed action on the last of 1,221 bills lawmakers sent to him. Page 5B. AN FBI AGENT who infiltrated the Joseph Bonan-no crime family testified at a racketeering trial that he was told to assassinate a mob rebel. Page 6B. THE STATE HAS REWARDED a maintenance supervisor for his idea of using magnet catches to shut doors at the Utica Psychiatric Center.

Page 6B. Jf'r Israeli troops move into a guerrilla area of Beirut. Local Keagan fights N-freeze WASHINGTON (AP) President OPINION AMONG BINGHAMTON merchants is split over whether a $12 million Marriott Hotel is good for the city. Page IB. THE CITY OF Binghamton has decided to accept a two-year contract with its firefighters that will cost the city $896,000 in increased salaries and fringe benefits.

Page IB. Reagan is trying to rally members of Con Broomfield, key supporters of a rival, administration-backed resolution calling for a mutual reduction of arms to a position of equality before any freeze would be imposed. "The president wanted to demonstrate his continuing interest and the importance of this vote," said deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes, See FREEZE, Back Page To help make his case, Reagan also invited Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and Gen.

John Vessey, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vice President George Bush and top presidential advisers Edwin Meese III and James Baker also attended the meeting in the White House Cabinet Room. Others included Reps. William Carney, Samuel Stratton, and William gress to help fight a nuclear freeze proposal he says would perptuate "dangerous inequalities in the nuclear balance." The president summoned a group of Republican and Democratic members of Con-' gress to the White House today, anticipating a close vote on the non-binding proposal to seek a freeze of nuclear weapons at current levels. Business THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION is ready to reverse itself and support an additional 13 weeks of jobless benefits, at a cost of $1 billion to the budget.

Page7B. COLUMBIA GAS OF New York has named a new district manager, as G. Ninde Lawson leaves for Toledo, Ohio. Page 7B. TIGHT MONEY IS restricting what could be an inflationary boom, say some economists.

Analysis, Page7B. Rural life reclaiming Americans WASHINGTON (AP) After a century and a half of flocking to the cities, Americans seem to be switching directions and are turning to the countryside, researchers say. "During the '70s for the first time in more than 160 years the population growth rate in the United States was higher in rural and small-town communities than in metropolitan areas," reported Calvin Beale of the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service. For a nation as highly urbanized and industrialized as the United States, Census Bureau demographers say a sustained population shift towards rural areas would be a momentous demographic event. "I sit here making my living doing this and I must say the extent of it surprised me," Beale said in an interview.

"It's a definite change from the recent past in this country. From the time of the Civil War, every decade, the rural population grew less rapidly than the urban population did and decades eventually came when there was really no net rural growth at all," he said. Census Bureau demographers Diana DeAre and Larry Long report that preliminary results from the 1980 census indicate the urban popula- See RURAL, Back Page -m xtumm im.jimmiiiii i uimi inmm m. iw.au. i urn iin.iui i npjpp ui.t.iii.j jludu i tit y.

)1" "1 Sports THE YANKS managerial merry-go-round continues with Gene Michael fired and Clyde King hired. Page ID. BINGHAMTON IS READYING for the first visit of the women's major fast-pitch national Softball tournament, Aug. 13-19. Hopes are it will be a success at the gate, for it's costing 5 times more money to put on than any of the seven previous national tournaments held here.

Press Profile, ID. PRO GOLFER Calvin Peete has made a remarkable imprint on tour golf. Page ID. 'cy7 Weather MM A 60 PERCENT chance of thunderstorms tonight, low 60 Details, Page 2A. Tomorrow Anti-arms race demonstration in Hartford yesterday before President Reagan's speech to the Knights of Columbus.

Grain deal sows vote seeds THE PROPOSED flat-rate personal income tax is examined by columnist David B. Wilson of the Bos- ton Globe. Huge grain sales to the Soviets would help ease some of the pressure on farmers. And that's just what Reagan paved the way for with his decision last week to negotiate a one-year extension of the grain sale agreement with the Soviets. To make certain farmers get the connection between grain sales and the elections, Reagan flew to Iowa to talk to farm groups.

See GltAlN, Back Page WASHINGTON (AP) When Ronald Reagan says fanners are very much on his mind, it could explain something about why he thinks it's all right for Americans to sell grain to the Soviets and all wrong for the Europeans to sell them pipeline parts. American grain farmers will be voting in this fall's elections. French and Italian turbine mechanics won't, no matter what happens in Poland. Farmers are critical to the Republican Party this year and the party is stumbling Study probes lifestyles and cancer risks By ALAN P. HENRY Chicago Sun-Times Fiald Nwt Swvic CHICAGO The American Cancer Society launched a six-year study yesterday to determine how diet, living conditions and work environment affect the chances of getting cancer.

The effort, known as Cancer Prevention Study II, will be conducted by 80,000 "volunteer researchers" and will examine more than 1 million Americans. The undertaking is "the largest human cancer study in history," said Stanley Green, the Cancer Society's Illinois chairman, who pledged to track 70,000 Illinois subjects. Green said the study will pay particular attention to consumer products that have ignited health con- i troversies over the past decade, including artifical sweeteners, hair dyes, various types of coffee, birth control pills and low-tar and -nicotine cigarettes. The relationship between cancer and carcinogens in the workplace, long-term exposure to low-level radiation, air and water pollution, family stress and hereditary medical problems also will be analyzed. Green said the study, which is expected to cost about $13 million in computer expenses, will "ex-; pand" the results of Cancer Prevention Study I.

That analysis, conducted from 1959 to 1972, ted to allegations that cigarette smoking was a leading cause of cancer and heart disease. No full-scale findings are expected on the new study for at least six years, but Green said prelimi-; nary reports that may reveal certain trends should be ready in about two years. See CANCER, Back Page Analysis in the Midwest, even as it seems to be doing pretty well in the rest of the country. If farmers blame Republican candidates for the high interest rates and poor commodity prices that are squeezing profits, the party could be in deep trouble in the American heartland. Experts say teens lack needed skills A Gannett Newspaper Vol.79 No.

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identical. They include skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, communications talents and decision-making with incomplete information. Fewer high-school graduates possess those skills today than a decade ago, Forbes said, citing data compiled by his national testing program. "From 38 to 85 percent of 17-year-olds do not have these high-order skills," he said, and the percentage depends on the skill. See SKILLS, Back Page heckuva job retraining personnel." The warning came from Roy Forbes, director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, at a week-long conference of state school superintendents and business leaders to explore how each can-better serve the other's needs.

Educational researchers and corporate executives have produced lists of skills that will be needed for high school graduates to find work in a society dominated by computers and electronics. The lists are almost By PAT ORDOVENSKY Gannett News Service DEER CREEK LAKE, Ohio Up to 85 percent of the nation's high-school graduates will not have the skills for entry-level jobs in the high-technology, information-based society of the '80s, a conference of state school officials was told here yesterday. The principal reason is that the skills aren't being taught, the educators were told, and teaching them will require "one.