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IT 1 1 r.QoGOS r.lalone a Sixer CAA pact nullif iedl 76ers end controversy by swinging trade for NBA's most valuable player A judge rules that college football's television contract violates antitrust laws II- Morning News Wathr Variable cloudiness and continued warm today; high in the low 80s. Partly cloudy tonight; low near 60. Detail, B2. ill A Gannett Newspaper, 1982, The News-Journal Co. Thursday, Sept.

16, 1982 Wilmington, 103rd year, No. 140 25 cents Israeli army muscles its way into west Beirui Palestinian guerrillas following the assassination of President-elect Bashir Gemayel. The gunboats fired missiles at the ocean-side neighborhood of Rouche and the Carlton Hotel area. Israeli troops moved about 2.5 miles into west Beirut in what the Tel Aviv command said was an action aimed at preventing a dangerous new linkup between the leftists and about 2,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas reported still in the city. Hospital sources said seven Lebanese ited" action.

In Washington, the State Department said U.S. officials have urged Israel to "do nothing to increase tensions." Spokesman John Hughes pointedly refused to criticize Israel's action. The Moslem half of Beirut was shaken by the naval bombardment as Gemayel funeral was conducted in a solemn Maron-ite Christian rite at the packed church in his hometown of Bikfaya, 12 miles east of Lebanon's capital. The death of Gemayel, who was to become president next week, threatened to 9 11 mm I )eflo Chrysler ularat struck I Jlt Deadline passes; no pact The Soviet Union's Mideast policy is consistent with the Arabs' peace plan. A2 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat has a private audience with the pope A8 Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon Israeli tanks and troops pushed into west Beirut Wednesday and Israeli gunboats opened fire in a new offensive against Lebanese leftists and UAW members block car trying Monaco pays By MORT ROSENBLUM Associated Press MONTE CARLO, Monaco The stunned people of Monaco, suddenly bereft of their storybook princess, filed in mournful lines past the former Grace Kelly's open coffin Wednesday, in the hilltop palace where the fabled Hollywood beauty first joined them 26 years ago.

"She seemed almost as if she were alive," 22-year-old shop employee Pascale Feles said tearfully after viewing the body, which was dressed in white silk. "She was a marvelous woman." "I am thunderstruck. I don't know what 1 -Am TO 1 1 C-' fy 4 tit to enter Chrysler plant in Newark during wildcat walkout Wednesday. homage to its princess were killed and 53 wounded in the day of fighting. It was the first time the Israelis had entered west Beirut in force since they invaded Lebanon 14 weeks ago to rout the PLO.

Moslem leaders met in an emergency session at elder statesman Saeb Salam's mansion in west Beirut and fired off urgent appeals to President Reagan and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to "interfere and curb the Israeli invasion," Lebanon's state television reported. Israel called its surge into Beirut a "lim Staff pfioto by Ronald Cortes (In Philadelphia, where the princess was born and reared, Mayor William Green ordered flags flown at half-staff and Gov. Dick Thornburgh extended that order for the entire state of Pennsylvania. (The princess had planned to come home again next month for her annual post-summer family visit, especially to spend time with her ailing 83-year-old mother, Margaret. Mrs.

Kelly is in a New Jersey seashore nursing home recovering from recent strokes and has not been told of her daughter's death. (Former Councilman Jack Kelly, who See PRINCESS A 7 Some neighbors took a dim view Arts D9 Business C14 Calendar D11 Classified B8 Comics D13 Dear Abby D12 Editorials A14 Obituaries People Record B7 D3 B19 Sports C1 Television D2 plunge Lebanon into a new round of warfare. The presence of Israeli troops and Syrian forces in eastern Lebanon also carried the threat of a new confrontation between those countries. Weeping bodyguards in the brown uniforms of Gemayel's Phalange Party threw themselves across his flag-draped coffin before it was taken to the main square, where speeches were made and the eulogy was delivered by President Elias Sarkis. See LEBANON A7 Asked how long the strike would last.

Games said, "I have no idea." Richter said members of his union carried picket signs today, unlike members of Games' union who staged a wildcat strike Wednesday. The wildcat strike Wednesday shut down the K-car assembly plant and the nearby parts plant. Some union members had vowed to stay out of work regardless of the outcome of national talks. Games said he received word too late of a 24-hour extension that moved up the deadline to midnight Wednesday. His union had planned a walkout when local negotiations failed to produce a new contract covering work rules in the plant.

UAW bargainers called local union officials nationwide Wednesday night to learn how workers felt about striking and to determine what kind of pay boosts workers wanted. Chrysler autoworkers had voted overwhelmingly to strike if no agreement was reached and no extension was granted. Fraser said Tuesday that the main issues remained health care and paycheck boosts. The company had demanded workers help pay for part of their health care benefits. The union rejected that idea, but said it would work to curb abuses.

Chrysler's average hourly wage for autoworkers is $9.07. The workers gave up a cost-of-living adjustment and a 3 percent annual wage boost in 1981 to help keep the automaker from bankruptcy. See CHRYSLER A4 Staff photo by Pat Crowe window in Richardson Park. paddling around exciting way to see the and streams By FRANCINE SCHWADEL Staff reporter Chrysler workers in Delaware went on strike at midnight after bargainers for the United Auto Workers union and the automaker failed to reach agreement on a new national contract. Delaware UAW officials said picket lines went up at the Newark plant after midnight and would continue until a settlement is reached.

Talks in Highland Park, continued past the midnight deadline, union officials said. "We will continue to bargain through the night," spokesman David Mitchell said, refusing to say whether a strike was in effect. But local union leaders in Delaware said their members and others around the country went on strike as soon as the 24-hour extension granted late Tuesday night expired. A national strike would affect the 43,200 working U.S. autoworkers.

The last national Chrysler strike in 1973 lasted nine days. "We're officially on strike," Joe Games, president of Local 1183 at the Newark assembly plant, said just after the midnight deadline. His local represents 4,000 hourly workers at the K-car assembly plant. Thomas J. Richter, vice president of Local 1212 representing 200 salaried workers at the plant, also said his members were on strike.

But he said, an agreement ending the strike could come at any time since bargainers were still talking past midnight. of this curious cat poking through a Friday: Just Canoeing offers an pristine local rivers 1 i 350-pound pet pops screen to peer at Matthes Ave. people Folks feel lion went a bit too far this time I'm doing today," said a middle-aged secretary, weeping silently at her desk downtown. "We loved her so." Monaco has a population of 30,000. Princess Grace, the American-born actress who won an Oscar in a brief but triumphant film career, died late Tuesday of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 52, a day and a half after plunging down a ravine in her automobile.

Her funeral will take place Saturday at 1 a.m. (5 a.m. EDT) at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Monaco, the palace announced. Royalty, film stars and other luminaries from throughout the world are expected to attend. window, Bunji peered into the morning fog.

It didn't take long for a neighbor to get edgy about a lioness almost on the loose at the home of Norman H. Taylor and county police, neighbors and the SPCA soon were hovering about the yellow house on the corner lot in Richardson Park. When Bunji made no further moves toward freedom, the police and SPCA agents departed, leaving neighbors to talk to Taylor about the lion. Bonnie Blevins, who lives across the street, was one of the neighbors who stopped by to peer at Bunji after her fit of See LION A4 1 1 i By LINDA K. HARRIS Staff reporter The folks on Matthes Avenue in Richardson Park are used to being awakened by the roar of a lion.

And it's not because they've discovered a funky new alarm clock that makes animal noises. Bunji, the 13-year-old lion who resides at 122 Matthes roars about 7 or 7:30 every morning, neighbors say. But Wednesday, she greeted the world with more than a primordial gust of vocal thrust. Bunji decided she needed a better look at the world and pushed out the screen and bars of a window in her room. Propping her 350-pound frame on her hind legs and extending her paws through the open Abortion oos suffer setback Senate blocks effort to declare Supreme Court erred on abortions i.

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