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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) ? U.S. Marin
their combat forces out of Beirut yesterdf
offshore, and Israeli warplanes bomb
suspected guerrilla positions in the Syriar
tral mountains.
"Today the support people have gone ar
on the combat gear/' saiH Marine spokesn
n I ' tiT i !_ aI /v a. _i r i
nruuKs. louay is me nrsi aay 01 me reio
tual 22nd MAU (Marine Amphibious Uni
Brooks said he did not know how man
1,300 Marines based at Beirut airport wo
day. He said the evacuation would take "
week, maybe two."
Brooks said all support gear and 99 pen
sonnel had been evacuated since president
ed his decision Feb. 7 to withdraw the m
from the airport.
Thp marinp hacp hue hppn ciirrrtiinrlpH b
Druse and Shiite Moslem militias since the
control of mostly Moslem west Beirut frc
army 15 days ago.
, The Israeli military commandsaid its?wa
I' "terrorist targets" ? the usual referene
guerrillas ? in Mansouriyeh, Ain Jdeid
Bhamdoun, a Druse-held town about nine
of the Lebanese captial on the Beirut-Darn
There were no immediate reports of dam
in the raid, the second this week and the fil
Israeli planes returned safely to base, the <
Dennis the Menace ti
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) ? Den
the comic-page pest with the turned-up nos
cowlick, is 33 years old, the end product c
cil" creator Hank Ketcham picked up mor<
tury ago.
Now the soft-spoken artist talks fleetinj
jects, which he would like to pursue if not
ink he must pump regularly into the veins c
tyke.
"Sure, I get tired," said Ketcham, 63
drawing "The Menace" since his real son
"I'd like to chuck it all. I'd like to ro o
| develop a new character, work on a mol
| animation."
But the feeling is transient. ,41 haven'
guess, to stop it," he said.
At age 6, Ketcham watched one of hi:
draw thumbnail sketches, and he discove
an artistic dimension.
"I thought he had a magic pencil, the
sketches were coming off onto the paper,
"And so I took paper and pencil over to a
was cngrusscu ine resi 01 me aay copyini
from the funny pages.
With practice, Ketcham tantalized his s
guess I got a lot of attention," he said. "M
into second gear very quickly . . .so I k<
tures whenever I could."
Hart predicts 2-mar
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ? Buoy
place finish in Iowa, Colorado Sen. Gary ]
to his Democratic presidential bid is imme
as the only alternative to front-runner W
"i tninK you'll see the gap narrowed ver
Hart told reporters who crowded around
Chester campaign headquarters Monday r
"I think this will be a two-person race,
Hart said his No. 2 showing in Iowa's ]
will focus more attention on him, enrich I
fers and persuade undecided voters in NeN
other early contest states that his candi(
deserves their support.
"I expect more people will have heard
row than have in the past year," he said.
Despite the burst of optimism, Hart's
has done little to organize key southern st?
caucuses March 13, and he lags far behind
raising.
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rawal MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP
The Sandiiiista government will
es began pulline elections for president and vice ]
7. - - J * XT A Vf!
ly to Navy ships ufm *?. i^icaraguan junia
ed and strafed dinator Daniel Ortega annoi
i-controlled cen- yesterday.
Both officials will serve six
id we're working terms, Ortega announced as thou?
nan Maj. Dennis Nicaraguans crowded the Pla:
cation of the ac- Revolution. The elections ha<
t) personnel." ^een expected before 1985.
y of the roughly The ceremony began with the
uld leave yester- 'n8 a torch to commemorati
approximately a guerrilla struggle of Augusto Sam
killed 50 years ago while on his w
:ent support per- a reconciliation meeting with go
Reagan disclos- ment officials.
arine contingent The Sandinista National Liber
Front, in power in Nicaragua sine
>y Syrian-backed 'y 1979, took its name from Sane
: militias wrested Commander Carlos Nunez, f
>m the Lebanese dent of the Council of Stat
Nicaragua, an appointed provisi
rplanes attacked legislature, said Sandinistas are i
e to Palestinian ^
e and south of
miles southeast
tascus Highway.
age or casualties ^
fth this year. All
command said. mm,
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nis the Menace,
e and untamable
>f a "magic peni
than half a cen;ly
of other prout
and write, or J*r
lion picture with ^
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s father's friends J ;
red that life held /.- /
'aid' Spring cleaning
g^amey Google I A USC main,enance employee spray
chool chums. "I R 11 j*\l! fil'Zlf'f'Q
y ego was kicked 1 11110 y U H CI I Id
;p, drawing pic- COLUMBIA (Ap) _ S(
Carolina banks would be allowed t
nore state lines and merge with b
ITQPO throughout the Southeast undei
I ClL>G terstate banking legislation t
drafted by a Gov. Dick Riley
?d by a second- force.
Hart says the key Riley's Regional Interstate Bar
diate recognition Committee has met with officia
alter Mondale. North Carolina, Florida and Get
y very quickly " 10 araIt modei legislation for
him at his Man- Southeastern region said R<
licht Roy all Jr., Citizens and Southern
and I'll win it " tional Bank president and comn
precinct caucuses chairman.
lis campaign cof- mm +
CTtrs Network pr
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ?
my name tomor- ' ,
simmering controversv over hrr??
aids concede he vote projections exploded here
ites that will hold the st?te Democrat* chairman ar
Mondale in fund complaining that television netv
interfered with Iowa s kic
caucuses by reporting as they t
that Walter Mondale was the wir
David Nagle echoed the pr<
olrntt nftrr tU* :
U.V.W, auui.uiHiin. "vvwv/i.va l-M WJ
id to Fi'Oear President Ronald Reagan's vi
over former President Jimmy Car
. a . 1980 long before West Coast poll
ug< at 8 p.m. in closed
"I think they've interfered," I
tn Ford and Starr- said after CBS projected Mondal
. Adrmtsfcmte 50 winner in Iowa at 8:12 p.m. Mc
9:30 p.m. l! ? 12 minutes after the caucuses
scneauied to begin. "I think thei
>. PJlifflp Bredtoy, line and I think they crossed it.
Development, and "wft haven't even started
trill present a pro- game."
30 p.m. m Culcott CU'S forecast in Io"? f??
CBS by six minutes, and both
before Democrats participating i
caucuses were supposed to
t "T*
iWH? ?
as schedule fal
') ? mitted to "fair, free and honest"
hold elections.
presi- The pledge followed a warning by
coor- Sandinista opponents in Nicaragua
inced they would boycott the elections unless
the government lifts a state of
-year emergency in effect for nearly two
sands years and meets other demands.
za of In Costa Rica, an anti-Sandinista
i not rebel group also said it will support the
elections only if certain conditions are
pass- met.
s the The elections would be the first since
dino, the Sandinista National Liberation
ay to Front toppled the pro-American
vern- government of the late, rightist President
Anastasio Somoza in Julv 1979.
ation The Reagan administration accuses
e Ju- the Sandinistas of trying to export leflino.
tist revolution throughout Central
>resi- America and is funding antie
in Sandinistas rebels.
ional Political opponents inside
:om- Nicaragua demanded the junta halt
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s a tree at Sumter and Devine streets for bees last wee
interstate bank
>uth The legislation will go to the S.C.
o ig- General Assembly this session, Royall
anks said.
in- Royall said his group's report to
>eing Riley would be similar to interstate
task banking clans of other states in the
region.
iking The Georgia legislature currently is
Is in considering a bill that would allow
srgia banks in that state to merge with finanthe
cial institutions in other Southeastern
abert states.
, Na
littee The South Carolina committee's
report will state that "regional bankedictions
anger It
The registering their presidential
dcast preferences, at 8:30 p.m.
with ABC's projection, based on reports
igrily from several "key precincts," came at
vorks 8:46 p.m.
koff Nagle sounded a bit like former
>egan California Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, who
iner. protested alter network projections
)tests gave Reagan the election in 1980: "We
ected are discouraging voting by the fact that
ctory people turn on their car radios and
ter in learn that the ballgame is over."
s had Said Nagle of the networks, "I think
they did a disservice to all the candidates:
to the one they projected as
Magle the winner, they told his supporters,
le the "You don't need to go. Your guy isn't
muay going lO OO It."
were Although preferences were not supre's
a posed to be registered in Iowa until
8:30, reports began trickling in about a
the quarter-hour ahead of time. News
Election Service, which collects returns
owed for the three networks, the Associated
came press and United Press International,
n the filed its first report at 8:15 p.m.
begin CBS said its projection followed in
I elections
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and cut links between the official party
and government security forces as conditions
for participating in the
election.
In Costa Rica, Alfonso Robelo, a
leader of the Revolutionary
Democratic Alliance, said he would
y not rule out moves by his group to
disrupt the voting if its conditions were
not met.
T-l J 1 _ * 1 ? - - n
i ne ueiuanus mciuue allowing rebel
leaders, as well as other opposition
forces, to participate; permitting Latin
American observers to be present for
the elections; ensuring that the Sandinistas
will honor election results even
if they lose, and removing Cuban and
Eastern block military advisers.
ARDE is one of two major rebel
groups. The other is the Honduranbased
Nicaraguan Democratic Forced,
which receives aid from the CIA.
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merger bill
ing would enhance the position of
financial institutions" and provide
more capital for new and existing industries
in South Carolina, Royall
said.
He said the additional capital is particularly
attractive to South Carolina,
which would be the poorest state in the
arrangement.
"The state needs all the economic
resources we ran nncciKlu apnuire "
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Royall said. "For South Carolina to be
left out would be a real setback."
ma leader
terviews with Democrats in some
precincts as they entered the caucuses.
NBC said in a statement its projection
was based in part on a telephone poll
Of Iowans who csiirl thpv u/rtnlH nar
ticipate in the caucuses. It was conducted
just before the meetings began.
Ari Maravel, a CBS news
spokesman, said, "Our reporting is
responsible and accurate, and we do
not believe it has had an impact on the
Iowa caucus process."
NBC News said in a statement,
though its survey was conducted
before the meetings had started, its
projection "was made after the caucus
had he in in anH Vi a A *"
o ?I IIUU ^IRIIkU I Lfjui llllft
their results."
In the wake of the 1980 presidential
election, a special congressional panel
asked the TV networks to voluntarily
refrain from projecting winners before
the polls close. In 1981 and 1983,
legislation was debated in hearings in
which network officials voluntarily
refrain from projecting winners before
the polls close.
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