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fl'tespEi teEs afl 'US Qua rjoggHG arnd pfieteigGS-page 10c Saturday metro final sunny High 22, low 12 Rain or snow Sunday Details on Page 2A Volume 153, Number 241 ON GUARD FOR 152 YEARS Saturday, December 31, 1983 1963, Dairoil Free Prest. Inc. THREAT TO U.S. SHIPS Iran Trains Pilots For Suicide Flights Praying on a cold day Free Press Wire Services WASHINGTON Iran is training pilots for kamikaze suicide missions against U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf area and preparing for truck-bomb attacks against military installations in Germany, CBS News reported Friday.

Pentagon officials have been warning reporters not to go overboard with dramatic forecasts of what Shiite Muslim followers of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini might try. But U.S. planners interviewed by a reporter are clearly worried. They say the Iranians could use small planes, helicopters or fast boats to try to hit U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf or the Mediterranean off Lebanon.

There would be little chance, Pentagon officials say, that the Iranians would be able to sink the ships, but they, might inflict some damage and loss of life if they get by U.S. radar. THE NEW Navy cruiser Ticonderoga, with its Aegis anti-missile system, is in the Mediterranean to protect the fleet including the battleship New Jersey now in Haifa, Israel from missile or air attack. CBS reported Friday that "intelligence reports say Iran's Revolutionary Guards are training for kamikaze missions. The Iranians have reportedly doubled their supply of F4 planes.

The kamikaze mission is said to be aimed at U.S. ships off the coast of Iran." CBS also said there were intelligence reports of Iranians stealing U.S. Army trucks in West Germany for possible suicide attacks on American installations like those against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and-Marine headquarters at Beirut airport. IN ANOTHER development, the 9th U.S.

Circuit See IRAN, Page 11A I Pi'f fijtffltafc. Rii I I Iff WJfc i'l An Military, Congress challenge Reagan on policy in Lebanon news analysis iJW professional military. PENTAGON OFFICIALS said Friday that Reagan has modified his position that no one be punished for the Beirut bomb disaster, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has directed reviews that could lead to reprimands for some officers. The president was said to have been surprised by the interpretation of his announcement last Tuesday that no military official be punished and to have conveyed to Weinberger that he meant only to rule out court-martial proceedings. See LEBANON, Page11A By JAMES McCARTNEY Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Last Oct.

1 8, five days before the bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut, the top U.S. military officer responsible for Lebanon secretly recommended that the marines' role be "reassessed" and their withdrawal considered. Army Gen. Bernard Rogers' personal formula for Lebanon: "Declare victory and get out." Last Wednesday, Rogers' unheeded pleas emerged as the theme of an official Pentagon report on the tragedy. These military judgments pose Free Press Photos by DAVID C.

TURNLEY a new and powerful challenge to President Reagan and his policies in Lebanon. They follow a damning report from a House Armed Services subcommittee two weeks ago that warned "in the strongest terms" that Congress will re-examine and might try to rewrite the administration's policy in Lebanon. As a result, Reagan's policies are being challenged not only by members of Congress many of whom are demanding that the marines be withdrawn but by the They present a curious site, these two women bundled against the cold as they stand near the Detroit River on Belle Isle Friday, at top. Their purpose was not to view the onslaught of winter; rather, War-rena Emerson, at left above, and Ella Mae Baines had come to the river to pray like they do every Friday. This day's particularly frigid temperatures didn't discourage them; if anything, the cold enhanced their mission.

"Anybody can come here when it's warm," said Ella Mae Baines, "but if you want your prayers to be heard, you have to come on a day like today, when it's cold." Hi Probate Judge Willis Ward dies if i 'A great American in every way 4:1 wk Mt V''fhs li'' -i "I thought he was an excellent lawyer and a great judge," said George E. Lee, who practiced law with Judge Ward in the early 1960s at the Detroit law firm of Taylor, Patrick, Bailer Lee. "I think one of his outstanding qualities was that he never let the judgeship go to his head, and he always remembered he had been a practicing lawyer. He always gave lawyers his utmost Lee. "WILLIS BROKE his interests down to U-M and the law itself," said Harry Duplessis, a friend who met Mr.

Ward at the Penn relays in See WARD, Page 11A MR. WARD never forgot his ties to U-M and his football career there. "He was a great Michigan fan, and he enjoyed the game so much," said Judge Myron Wahls of the Michigan Court of Appeals. "We used to call him the Wolverine, because it was so characteristic of his support of the team." Mr. Ward also was a track star and outran 1936 Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens to win a 60-yard dash in 1934.

His time was 6.2 seconds. Judge Ward was in the Army from 1941 until 1946 and was a first lieutenant stationed at Ft. Lee, Va. He attended the Detroit College of Law and began practicing law in 1946. He was an assistant Wayne County prosecutor in 1946 and 1947.

Stepson Alfred Thomas said, "He was a man of integrity, sensitivity and compassion. He could be blunt, but it was never meant in a malicious manner." Judge Ward was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1935. He played on the football team with former President Ford in 1932, 1933 and 1934. U-M won the national championship in 1932 and 1933. "I have lost one of my dearest friends with the passing of Willis Ward," Ford said.

"He was a truly great American in every way. He contributed so much to a better society in America." By ZACHARE BALL Free Press Special Writer Willis F. Ward, a Wayne County probate judge for 10 years and the first black football player for the University of Michigan in this century, died Friday in Harper Hospital. He was 71 and had been ill for some time. "He was a wonderful man," said Andrew Purdue, a longtime friend of Judge Ward and a probate lawyer who often practiced in the judge's court.

"If he knew you had a problem and needed help, he would go all the way with you." Free Press File Pnolos Judge Willis Ward, above, and runner Ward, right, at Detroit's Northwestern High. Judge Ward, a Wayne County probate judge for 10 years and the first black football player for the University of Michigan in this century, died Friday. He was 7 1 'Trip-wire9 vets Ex-GIs hide out in Washington wilderness Drinks In a two-hour period (Wine: 6 ounces; 86 proof liquor 114 ounces; beer: 12 ounces) New Year's tipplers can get a lift from sheriff Drinks Weight 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 4 4 9 8 7 8 9 10 45 8 8 9 10 I 4 sip. Wi 4 5 8 7-8 9 10 4 6 7 8 9 10 4 8 6 7 8 9 10 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 FRIDAY 978 and 4235 CARD GAME 4 and A inside today ANN LANDERS 7B BRIDGE 8C BUSINESS NEWS 8-1 OA CLASSIFIED GOLD ADS 4-6B COMICS 8-9C CROSSWORD PUZZLE 9C DEATH NOTICES 4B EDITORIALS 8A ENTERTAINMENT 6-7C FEATURE PAGE 7B HOROSCOPE 7B MOVIE GUIDE 8C NAMES FACES 10C OBITUARIES 7A SPORTS 1-5C STOCK MARKETS 8-1 OA TELEVISION 38 Be careful BAC to .05 Do not drive BAC .10 and up Driving Impaired BAC .05 to .09 tomatoes thrown in my said Bruce Webster, a Port Angeles psychologist who works with veterans. About 85 trip-wire veterans have reentered society since the state Veterans Affairs Department began an outreach program, said department director Randy Fisher.

He said he did not know how many more there might be. With a $100,000 grant from the state, Fisher and Mike McWatters, a private consultant and veteran who says he hid for two years in New York's Adirondack Mountains, began the counseling service in August. Last summer McWatters did a survey to determine how many of the state's 100,000 Vietnam-era veterans needed counseling but lacked programs. He found about 1,000, and a number of them were veterans whose existence resembled that of 19th-century mountain men. MARVIN, 33, an ex-marine who did not See VETERANS, Page 11A FORKS, Wash.

(AP) Hiding out in Washington's wilderness, "trip-wire" veterans are almost never seen. But a few are there, shunning society and living by the skills they learned in the Vietnam jungle, the state veterans' affairs director says. "Trip wire" was the phrase U.S. servicemen used for the traps the Viet Cong laid along trails to kill and maim soldiers on patrol. It also was applied to certain soldiers who developed a knack for finding those traps and dismantling them.

Now state officials are using the phrase to describe a very small percentage of veterans who, unable to cope with the stress of their war memories and the disapproval they faced upon returning home, disappeared into the woods to live the only way they felt comfortable. "OUT THERE in the woods are wonderful, loving people who just want to be left alone, who are saying, 'I don't want a world where I am going to be spit on and have 'Blood alcohol concentration Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Wayne County Sheriff's De-! partment may give you your first break' of 1984. The department announced Thursday that 17 deputies will be available I between 6 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday to haul you home if you have lost your senses to the wiles of John Barleycorn.

In other words, they will give you a lift home and not to the pokey if you're idrunk that is, if you call 721-2222 for the service. Celebrants in Oakland County will have things a bit tougher. MADD Mothers Against Drunk Drivers asks that anyone seetog a drunk on the highway call 1-800-MI-REDDI. If re- Chart contains estimates. Alcohol's effects vary with individuals' physiological and psychological characteristics.

Unfortunately, Wayne County's offer does not extend to Oakland County or Macomb County celebrators, unless they happen to be celebrating in Wayne CouVy. John Flynn porting by CB radio, use Channel 9. i The Oakland County Sheriff's Department then will investigate. The suspected drunken driver will be stoppurl, observed, tested and arrested if warranted, according to MADD. To elace a classilitd ad.

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