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Begin orders border
missiles be dismantled
JERUSALEM (UPI) - In a new
complication in the Lebanese missile
crisis, Prime Minister Menachem
Begin demanded yesterday that Syria
dismantle its Soviet-made anti-aircraft
missiles on both sides of the Lebanese-
Syrian border.
THere was no immediate comment
from either Syria or U.S. envoy Philip
Habib, who was waiting in Israel for the
go-ahead to shuttle back to Syria as
part of a two-week-long effort to resolve
the crisis.
"THERE IS nothing more for him to
do here," one Israeli source said of
Habib's open-ended mission to avert a
Syrian-Israeli confrontation over the
installation of the SAM missiles in cen-
tral Lebanon.
"The missiles should be removed
from Lebanon proper and the ad-
ditional missiles which were placed on
the Syrian-Levanese border should be
removed," Begin said in an interview
with NBC's Today show.
Syria began installing the missiles in
Lebanon's Bekaa Valley east of Beirut
last month after Israeli jetfighters
aiding Lebanese Christian militiamen
shot down two Syrian helicopters.
ISRAEL DEMANDED the missiles
be removed, warning it would destroy
them if they were not.
But Begin added a new twist by
demanding the removal of the missile
batteries recently installed inside Syria
near the Syrian border with eastern
Lebanon.
On May 11, Begin told parliament
Syria had moved one additional battery
each of SAM-2 and SAM-3 missiles to
the border region as well as four bat-
teries of SAM-6 missiles and an un-
disclosed number of Libyan-operated
SAM-9 missiles.
IT WAS TO these missiles, as well as
the several batteries of SAM-6 missiles
now in Lebanon, that Begin apparently
was referring.
"There should be a commitment to
remove the missiles because the status
quo ante was that never did Syria use
missiles against us," Begin said.
Begin also said Syria must withdraw
its troops from the Sannine mountains
east of Beirut and end its siege of
Christian militiamen controlling Zahle,
the provincial capital of the Bekaa 30
miles east of Beirut.
BEGIN'S AIDES SAID THAT IN
RETURN, the Christian Phalangist
militia forces in the area would also
likely pull back while Israel would
refrain from attacking Syrian positions
in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Syria's Assad said Wed-
nesday that Israel's demands are "out-
side any logic or tradition."
In Washington, a senior official in the
Reagan administration who asked not
to be identified said: "The president
believes we have had some con-
siderable progress." Asked to
elaborate, he said the fact there has
been no outbreak of hostilities was
"quite a bit of progress.''
HABIB HAS com pleted three rounds
of Israel-Syria-Lebanon shuttles and
last weekend took a side trip to Saudi
Arabia. He refused comment on his ef-
forts.
In Tunis, an Arab diplomat said the
foreign ministers were expected to
reassert solidarity with Syria.
Sources also said they expected Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait to announce they
will resume financial support of the
Syrian troops in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia
suspended its subsidies at an un-
specified time, Syria's foreign minister
has said.
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Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM
Parallel lines
A student strolls amongst the pillars of the Graduate Library. Study time is
over, and now it's time to enjoya carefree spring day.
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Miss N. Y. denied
pageant re-entry
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Fifty beauty silicone transplants while as many as 20
queens primped and prayed on their big others used padding.
final day yesterday, as New York's con-
tender for the Miss USA title - booted A statement prepared by the con-
out after padding her swimsuit - was testants said they were "incensed and
turned down by a judge in her effort to outraged by the self-serving charges of
rejoin the pageant. widespread padding and infractions by
Deborah Ann Fountain, who accused Miss USA contestants . . . and we
other contestants of padding both their categorically deny them."
bras and their breasts, had won a show-
cause order requiring pageant officials
to tell a Manhattan Supreme Court
judge why she shouldn't be reinstated7
in the beauty contest.
BUT JUSTICE Shirley Fingerhotod
declared later that she would not grant
an injunction, "because I have no first-
hand information in a signed affidavit
and we are involved with disputed fac-
ts."
Fountain's contention that the
-pageant forced her to wear a swimsuit
that didn't fit was disputed by the
lawyer for Miss Universe Inc.
Gerald Posner, Fountain's lawyer,
said after the hearing: "That's about
all we can do."
The 25-year-old Bronx brunette, who
said she padded the bodice of her
pageant-provided swimsuit when she
couldn't get anyone to alter it, said she
would fly back to Biloxi to be in the
audience, if not on stage, for the
nationally televised finals.
The contestants, representing the
states and the District of Columbia,
prepared for the pageant by par-
ticipating in preliminary swimsuit and
evening gown competition. Each was
interviewed by a panel of 11 judges.
The new Miss USA, who will receive
prize money and other awards,
represents the United States in the Miss
Universe Contest, to be held in New
York on July 20. The contest differs
from the Miss America Pageant in that
no talent competition is featured.
Before the contest began, other con- MEMBERS OF Theta Xi fraternit
testants blasted Miss Fountain for her yesterday afternoon as their mascot
charges thatat'leastfive of thebeauty .today and tomorrow.
queens had enlarged their breasts with
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y, the campus' co-ed Greek house, soak up the sun and 80-degree temperatures
t, Gaites, patrols the fraternity grounds. Weather forecasters predict more dog days
aw.