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THE HERALD Tuesday, November 16, 1976 Section I --3 Arab army takes Beirut peacefully BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) A powerful Syrian-dominated Arab army overran Beirut peacefully Monday. Troops separated rival Christian and Moslem militias, swept away barriers dividing cost and west and made the capital one city again. Flowers festooned tanks and artillery and Beirut's women and children clapped and waved as the armored columns entered the city. Even some leftist militiamen, who had been the Syrian troops' bitter foes, welcomed tho soldiers with kisses, shouts of approval and shoU tired In the air. The "Operation Beirut" force of about 6,000 men plowed straight through some of he bloodiest battlo sites of Lebanon's 19-month civil war, Including tho southern suburbs, the port, the commercial district, the hotel district and the museum on tht "green lino" that separated the capital's Christian and Moslem districts.

RIVAL GUNMEN pounded away at each other until the Arab force moved In at dawn, but they faded from sight before the firepower of the Arab peace-keeping troops. Only two incidents a sniper and a land mine disrupted the methodical, well coordinated sweep Into Beirut. A sniper In a neighborhood of high- rise apartments controlled by Christian rightist troops fired on advancing Syrian troops, who returned fire and killed him. A LAND MINE that exploded in the city's commercial district wounded four civilians and three Syrian soldiers, one seriously, an official for the Arab forces said. The columns of troops, mainly Syrians, were.leavened by a sprinkling of Saudi Arabian, Sudanese and Libyan solicitors who had been stationed in the Beirut area since June.

The final push into tho heart of the city, completed between dawn and noon, capped a drive by Syrian forces from tho central mountains east of Beirut through leftist and rightist territory to tho city gates last Wednesday. AFTER POSTIONS around the capital have been consolidated, the security plan of President Ellas Snrkls called for the Arab army to push north of Tripoli and south to Sidon. No Arab peace-keeping troops were expected to move beyond the Lltanl river In the south, since Israel has repeatedly declared it would not tolerate a large Arab force near its northern border. An officer told residents of southeastern Tayyouneh, "We ore here for peace only. We are not with one group against another, cast or west.

We ore for Lebanon." AT THE "GREEN lino" that has split the city in two for months, Moslem and Christians walked together in the rubble of collapsed buildings and spent shell casings on a stretch of road whose once stately street lights have become so bullet-riddled they sag like wilted flowers. A journalist overheard a conversation between a reunited Palestinian and a right-wing National Liberal -friends in the past turned into mortal enemies by the war. "Ellc, do you remember the Grad missiles that kept fallng on the internal security building near tire Hotel Dicu Hospital" bragged the Palestinian. "1 was tho one who fired them." "Oh really" replied the Christian rightist. "Well, I've been shelling the Barblr hospital so often that now I can fire mortars without aiming and still hit It." Vietnam's bid to join rejected on vote by V.

S. UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The United States Monday vetoed tho application of Vietnam to become the 146th member of the United Nations. As expected, Ambassador William Scronton cast the 18th U.S. veto In UN history, carrying out Washington's do- terainatlon to keep Vietnam out of the world organization until Hanoi gives an accounting of 800 American servicemen missing In action in tho Vietnam war. The veto went against appeals from 32 member nations and a petition from 20,000 Americans to give Vietnam membership.

Tho Security Council vote was 14-1 in favor of recommending Vietnam for admission by the General Assembly, but the negative U.S. vote killed tho resolution sponsored by 10 council members, including the Soviet Union, China and France. A SYRIAN T-54 tank of the Arab peacekeeping force rumbles into Beirut's shattered commercial district Monday as the Syrian- dominated fores swept into the capital. Women and children clapped and waved as the columns entered the city. Parents held responsible County passes vandalism rule by LYNN ASINOF Vandals in unincorporated Cook County and their parents can be fined up to $1,000 while the vandals can be placed under court supervision for up to one year.

The Cook County Board Monday unanimously approved a vandalism ordinance designed to make parents responsible for any destruction of property by their children. The ordinance, proposed by suburban Comr. Mary McDonald, will allow the courts to penalize vandals without putting them through the juvenile justice system and leaving them without a permanent police record. "WE HOPE that this will cut down vandalism," Mrs. McDonald, a Republican said.

She said the ordinance was prompted by "excessive damage in the forest preserve" caused by van- dais. Persons arrested and put under court supervision for vandalism also may be required to: Work, pursue a course of study or seek vocational training. Undergo medical or psychiatric treatment or treatment for drug addiction or alcholism. Make restitution for the damage done, not to exceed $1,000. Panel begins assassinations inquiry WASHINGTON (UPI) The House committee on assassinations, meeting formally for tho first time, announced Monday that a task force of 170 persons will conduct what it hoped will be the final, definitive investigation of the murders of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Rep. Thomas M. Downing, committee chairman until he retires at the end of this year, told reporters after a two-hour closed session, "We're going down every street until we get a blind alley Congress mandated us to do a thorough job." Walter Fauntroy, Democratic delegate from the District of Columbia and newly named chairman of a subcommittee to investigate the King slaying, said: "We wont to find out what the evidence is and follow it where it leads, no matter where." A SUBCOMMITTEE concentrating on the Kennedy killing 13 years ago this month will be headed by-Rep. Richardson Preyer, Downing said the full committee had asked the FBI and CIA for all and memoranda per- taining to the assassinations. An aide told UPI that a two-foot-high stack already had come In from the CIA.

Downing and Sprague said they had not yet seen a reported 1964 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1064 which stated that Lee Harvey Oswald told Cuban officials he was going to kill President Kennedy more than a month before he actually did so. Oswald was known to have visited the Cuban Embassy In Mexico City before Kennedy was shot. THE HOOVER MEMO, according to press reports, was found after a new search of bureau files at the committee's request. Rep.

Christopher J. Dodd, another member of tho committee, said the panel should "make it one of its first orders of business to obtain and evaluate" that document. Downing, who is expected to be replaced as chairman by Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, when the new Congress convenes in January, said an investigative crew of 170 "sounds like a lot of people." But he said Mt actually is a "bare bones staff" for the immense job, compared to that used by the Warren Commission which investigated the Kennedy killing.

THE WARREN Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy. Evidence since Indicates the FBI and CIA knew far more about Oswald's Cuban connections and had other background which the Warren panel and subsequent, congressional investigative bodies never saw. Tho committee spent the afternoon watching films of the actual Kennedy shooting. One film strip has been interpreted by some as showing one or more people, possibly with rifles, standing on a grassy knoll overlooking the Kennedy motorcade at the time of the shooting. But Downing, after viewing the film again Monday said, "I didn't see any people on the hill." The committee was scheduled Tuesday morning to view slides and pictures taken immediately after King was killed.

If a minor, to reside with his parents or in a foster home, attend school, attend a non-residential youth program or contribute to his own support at home or in a foster home. A CONVICTED VANDAL can clear his record by completing court supervision without a repeat offense. Any repeat, however, will mean that his police record will show the vandalism charge. Mrs. McDonald said the ordinance gives the courts great flexibility in administering penalties.

"It's up to the judge," she said, noting penalties can be tailored to the offender. Many parents have abdicated responsibility for their children's behavior, Mrs. McDonald said. Parents now will be required to attend every hearing at which their child may be charged, she said. The ordinance holds parents responsible for failing to prevent vandalism.

A parent, however, can defend himself by proving that he "exercised his duty to restrain the minor from committing the act" but was unsuccessful. THE PARENTS will be liable for any fine or condition or restitution imposed by the court upon a minor for acts of vandalism. Mrs. McDonald said the ordinance was modeled after vandalism ordinances in several suburbs. Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mount Prospect, DCS Plaines and Schaumburg have such ordinances.

County Board Pres. George W. Dunne said the ordinance will apply to all areas of unincorporated Cook County and county forest preserves, but will not apply to forest preserve areas lying within village or city limits. Jackie's part of island, Onassis ship not for sale A representative for the family of the late Aristotle Onnssls denied reports that his daugther, FRENCH CHARACTER actor Jean Gabin (shown In 1941 photo with Marlint Dlatrlch) dlad aarly Monday at tht American Hospital In Nauilly, a suburb. was 72.

Gabin's real name was Jaan Alaxts Moncorga. racaivad his first film In 1930 and than hat appaarad in more than 100 movlas. Gabln, at right, is shown in 1975 photo. Christina Onassis has purchased Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' share of Skorpios Island and the 325-foot yacht, "Christina." The spokesman said, "The yacht cannot be sold to and the'island belongs to the'state, and cannot be bought or sold." Actress Ellen Corby, 63, who plays the grandmother on the television series "The Waltons," was reported improved as she sat up and ate breakfast Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was reported in than fair condition." Miss World contest officials finally found the missing Miss Venezuela Sunday and now she'd like them to find her travelers checks.

The checks apparently went astray during her flight from Caracas to London. With the finding of Miss Venezuela, Maria Genoveva Rivera, the contest organizers promptly lost another two. Miss Swaziland and Miss Mauritius withdrew in protest against both a black and a white South African rant. A broken ankle has forced Katherine Hepburn to cancel "at least two" performances of a stage play the first time she has missed performance in an illustrious acting career. "It was a damned fool thing to do," Miss Hepburn, 67, said, explaining she was running down a small incline at her Hollywood Hills home, hit a rock and twisted her ankle.

She is People starring In "A Matter of Gravity," in Los Angeles. A pub in Milton Keynes, England is being renamed "The Jovial Priest" In honor of a turn-of- the-century vicar who stunned his congregation by announcing that most of them were living in sin. The Rev. Newman Guest in 1909 discovered his church, St. James, was not licensed for weddings.

Parliament passed a special act to make the marriages valid. LUXEMBOURG'S Princess Marie-Astrid attends banquet for Queen Elizabeth II. Rumors claim Prince Charles is romantically inclined toward her..