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320 1982, Austin American-Statesman, all rights reserved 25 cents Am Israelis target Beirut; U.S. pushes cease-fire I jlrl Mil hsit i iimk Miff lwf frff? 4rzAk-Mn S5 3 Ar Thousands march through Bonn, West Germany, to protest NATO meeting Germans protest buildup weapons From Wire Reports Israel blasted PLO targets in Beirut from the sea and air today and dropped leaflets warning that Israeli forces were about to storm the Lebanese capital. President Reagan urgently asked Israel to stop fighting in Lebanon. Major new clashes flared between Israeli and Syrian forces. Israel said it shot down 20 more Syrian MiGs and two assault helicopters in dogfights over Lebanon, and both sides reported heavy armor and artillery battles in eastern Lebanon.

The Israeli leaflets dropped on Beirut told Syrian troops to leave the city "within a few hours" because "we do not intend to fight the Syrian army." There was no sign the Syrians were leaving. In Jerusalem, however, an Israeli Cabinet minister, Yitzhak Modal, said the Israeli army had achieved its objectives, though "no exact date has been set" for a cease-fire. The Syrian state radio, meanwhile, claimed Israeli jets today strafed convoys of travelers at a checkpoint on Lebanon's northern border with Syria, killing 57 travelers of various nationalities and wounding 75. There was no immediate Israeli comment. If true, it would be the northernmost Israeli attack in the-five-day-old invasion, which was launched Sunday with the stated goal of pushing Palestinian forces back from the Israeli border.

Israeli jets and warships struck at the heart of the PLO in Lebanon, pounding PLO chief Yasser Arafat's military headquarters in southern Beirut in a four-hour bombardment. Communiques from the PLO said several residential neigh-; borhhods in southern Beirut were hammered by unabating air assaults that also hit areas around the airport and its highway. The PLO said its forces turned back repeated Israeli attempts to land troops at Beirut airport. "We shall fight from house to house, from room to room!" the official PLO radio declared. "The enemy is bombing our camps, our women, our children.

But we shall fight, fight, fight!" screamed the newscaster of the Voice of Palestine radio. He also said Arafat had just received an "important -message" from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. He did not elabo rate, but Arafat asked Brezhnev Monday to curb the Israeli invasion. The U.S. State Department reported that Reagan, at a NATO summit in West Germany, had sent a message to Prime Minister Menachem Begin calling for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon.

"We want a cease-fire. We want an Israeli withdrawal," Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes said in Bonn. Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor in Jerusalem said Begin had replied to the Reagan message, but he did not disclose the contents of the response. Israel Radio said U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig would travel to the Middle East Friday and shuttle between Jerusalem and Damascus, seeking a cease-fire.

American officials in Bonn said there were no firm plans for such a trip. Reagan's special Mideast envoy, Philip Habib, has been shuttling between the Israeli and Syrian capitals. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, flew to Bonn, meanwhile, for hastily arranged talks with Reagan and other Western leaders about the Mideast crisis. The Saudi news agency said that Arab kingdom had pledged "all our material, military and diplomatic resources" to back Lebanon and the PLO. Syrian forces have become increasingly drawn into the Lebanese fighting as Israeli forces have neared Beirut and the Be-kaa Vally to the east, a stronghold of the Syrian forces that went into Lebanon in a peacekeeping role following the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war.

The 20 MiGs reported shot down today brought to 56 the total-number of Syrian planes the Israelis have reported downing. Golan residents wait, A20 Ambassador improves, A20 Inside Speculation stirred Land purchases along Manor Road east of Interstate 35 have spurred speculation that the University of Texas will be expanding in that area. CityState, Bl Repealed The House votes to repeal the tailor-made $75-per-day tax deduction Congress approved for itself last year. Page AS Less painful Once one of the most dreaded treatments, rabies shots today have been simplified and are much less painful for the patient. LifeStyle, CI Accusations fly One of challenger Gerry Coon-ey's managers accuses champ Larry Holmes of using his thumb to injure other boxers in previous fights.

Sports, Dl Amusements B12-13 Ann Landers C6 Classified CI 0-27 Comics D12-13 Crossword D12 Dear Abby C7 Deaths B8 Editorials A26 Ellie Rucker CI Financial D14 Horoscope C9 Cl-9 Nat Henderson C26 Newsmakers A2 People C3 Personalities C2 Sports Dl-11 TV Log B14 Staff Photo by Zach Rall Cleo Jacobs is scheduled to go to jail Friday. Woman faces jail over child support By STEVE SELLERS American-Statesman Staff A 26-year-old Austin woman has been sentenced to 30 days in the Travis County Jail for failing to pay $75 a month to her former husband for the care of their two small children. The woman, Cleo Jacobs, is scheduled to begin serving the sentence at 6 p.m. Friday. "It's my humiliation, but I don't have a job.

I don't have any job experience, and I really don't have any job skills. I just don't have the money," Jacobs said. "I really didn't think it would come down to this but it did." The 30-day sentence was handed down Monday by 201st District Court Judge Jerry Dellana. Officials in the Travis County Domestic Relations Division say the case is not the first here in which a woman has been ordered to jail for failing to pay child support. However, there apparently haven't been many like it in the past few years.

"It's becoming more and more common," said Jeanne Meurer, an attorney in the domestic relations division. "We don't keep those kinds of specific statistics, so I don't know exactly how many there have been. (But) a fair number of women are going to court on contempt." District court records show that Cleo Jacobs and her former husband were married in December 1973, and had two children a boy, now 7, and a girl, now 4. The husband filed for divorce in July 1979 while the wife was a resident of Austin State Hospital, the records show. Cleo Jacobs said Thursday that she has been hospitalized on two other occasions once in Kansas, the other in Corpus Christi for emotional problems.

Two of the hospital stays were for one-week periods, and the third was for six weeks, she said. The divorce was granted in April 1 980, and the husband an employee of the Austin Independent School District who works with disturbed children was granted custody of the children See Support, A19 BONN, West Germany (AP) More than 100,000 protesters streamed into Bonn today and painted the town red with bright "Reagan Go Home" stickers to demonstrate against plans to deploy new U.S. missiles in Europe and other nuclear arms policies. At the rallying point, witnesses said a young man set fire to himself and that he tried to slit his throat before he was taken away by helicopter with what police said were third-degree burns. Police provided no immediate estimate of the crowd, which headed to a large park across the Rhine River from the heavily guarded Chancellery, where President Reagan and 15 other NATO leaders were discussing nuclear arms policies at their summit meeting in the West German capital.

However, a police spokesman said one of the five columns of marchers that poured into Bonn numbered at least 60,000, and rally organizers said 70,000 others were assembled in the park. Huge crowds poured across a bridge named after the late President Kennedy and now festooned with "West Germany out of NATO" to the rallying point on the east bank of the Rhine. Many of the demonstrators wore bright red "Reagan Go Home" stickers that also were plastered on traffic lights, walls and baby pushchairs. Some shed their shirts in the heat and painted their flesh with "Reagan to Hiroshima" and other slogans. Reagan and the other NATO leaders could see none of the demonstration from the chancellery, amid some of the tightest security arrangements ever seen in Bonn.

At least 17,000 federal border guards and police brought from as far away as Munich were on duty. The sky buzzed with police helicopters. Security worries were increased by a dozen bomb and firebomb attacks on U.S. firms and military bases in West Germany and West Berlin in the past week. The Revolutionary Cells, the ultra-left terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the most severe of the attacks, promised "a hopefully loud, eventful and unforgettable reception" for the American president.

The West German peace movement staging the two rallies rejected such violence, and spokesman Klaus Mannhardt insisted their activities were not directed against Reagan personally. Soft touch? FCC approves application for new Austin TV station JL V- James Watt, scourge of environmentalists, is really just a softy who Inspects his flower garden daily and cooks his own breakfast. At least that's what his wife says. Friday Lawmen hit 'fortress' drug lab By KIRK LADENDORF American-Statesman Staff A group of investors including seven Austinites has been granted federal approval to build and operate an independent television station in Austin, using channel 42. The Federal Communications Commission today said it has granted a construction permit to Austin Television to build and run the station, which will operate at a maximum power of 5 million watts.

The station is expected to be ready to begin broadcasting within six-months. Call letters have not been announced. The station is to carry local news programming and hourly weather updates. The station will be the fourth commercial television station in Austin. Channel 42 was the last commercial channel made available in Austin by the FCC.

KHFI-TV, channel 36, formerly broadcast on the channel 42 slot until the mid-1970s, when it moved to its current channel. The station's ownership repre- sents four separate applicants for the broadcast license. Late last year the four groups agreed to combine into one applicant. McKinnon has television interests in Corpus Christi, Beaumont and San Diego. Head, chairman of RepublicBank Austin; real estate executive Mary Nell Garrison; lawyer Joe M.

Kil-gore; Dr. John Taylor King; lawyer Harry M. Whittington; and Dr. George Willeford. Also listed as principal owners are Frank W.

Head a Houston bank investor (no relation to Mrs. Head); former State Sen. Michael D. McKin-non of Corpus Christi; and Darrold Cannan Jr. of Wichita Falls.

Steven Beard former vice president of Blair Television in Dallas, will be general manager of the new station. Beard said no site has been selected for the station's studios and that several are under consideration. Programming for the station will include movies, sports, children's pi ograms, ethnic, cultural and a variety of entertainment programs available via satellite. Officers found the three-bedroom residence to be, as one member of the raiding team put it, a "fortress." "There was a six-foot chain link fence around the house, double locks on the gate, plexiglass on all the windows and burglar bars on all the windows and doors," the undercover officer said. Rather than use force to get inside the tightly secured house, he said, the officers decided to wait outside in unmarked cars until someone inside left After a surveillance of about an hour and a half, a man and woman emerged from the house and got into a black pickup, he said.

"We followed them and radioed for a marked unit to stop them," the officer said. "A patrolman pulled them over at Pleasant Valley Road and Riverside Drive. When the officer got out of his car, the man got out of his truck, but when he saw the plain units, he got back in and hauled off down Riverside." The short chase that ensued lasted until the truck reached the intersection of Tinnin Ford Road and Riverside, where a Travis County sheriffs deputy used his car to block the road. The couple was taken back to the Burleson Road residence, where their key was used to open the door. Inside, after a short search, officers found 8.5 ounces of methamphetamine wrapped in half-ounce, ounce and three-ounce packages.

Also confiscated was a variety of glass laboratory equipment and an assortment of chemicals. By MIKE COX American-Statesman Staff Local lawmen raided what one officer called "a fortress" in South Travis County Wednesday night, seizing $16,000 worth of homemade methamphetamine and an assortment of laboratory equipment and chemicals. A 30-year-old man and his wife, also 30, were arrested after a chase and were expected to be charged with possession of a controlled substance today. Acting on an informant's tip, members of the Greater Austin Area Organized Crime Control Unit obtained a narcotics search warrant from Associate Municipal Court Judge Harriet Murphy shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Austin residents among principal owners of Austin Television are: Joy Manning Scott, a hotel executive and president of the Austin group of investors; Mary J. Head, wife of Ben Cannan has a television interest in Amarillo..

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