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I Court of honor The stars came out in force in Champlain Valley Athletic Con- ference basketball this season, making this one of the most com- petitive campaigns in many years. For a look at who shined in 1978- 79, see the Press-Republican all-star teams on Page 22. 7 Vol.84- No. 182 Pr e$$- FU mi bl ica 11 Sunny own Newspaper of ^H Clinton. Essex. Franklin Counties The Hometown Pittsburgh, N.Y., 12901, Friday Morning, March 23,1979 Suggested Price: 20c 52 Pages Israel flexes as peace looms By United Press International Israel, fearful of attacks by Palestinian guerrillas to provoke hostilities to spoil the Middle East peace * treaty, Thursday ordered troops on alert along its eastern front with Jordan and Syria. As if confirming those fears, Iraq's strongman warned other Arab rulers that if they do not harden their opposition to the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord, they will be treated as traitors and overthrown. The treaty is scheduled to be signed in Washington Monday by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter. The Israeli military beef-up was ordered by Defense Minister Ezer Weizroan only hours after the Knesset overwhelmingly approved the draft peace treaty with Egypt, an action Egypt's president said was insured by his secret ally — \the Israeli mother.\ Weizman ordered the alert to prevent Syria, Iraq and Palestinian guerrillas from initiating hostilities on the Israeli frontier to detract from the peace pact Israel and Egypt plan to sign next week in Signing an occasion WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty will be signed by President Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin on the White House front lawn Monday in an outdoor ceremony televised live to the Middle East. Details of the ceremony were announced by the White House Thursday, along with plans for the visits Israeli Prime Minster Begin and Egyptian President Sadat will be making to Washington beginning Sunday. Taking full advantage of Washington's lovely spring weather, Carter decided the signing would be held at 2 p.m. EST Monday on the north lawn of the White House, which faces Pennsylvania Avenue and is usually open to public view. Invitations to the signing will be sent to 1,200 persons. Monday night, after an ecumenical prayer service for Christian, Jew and Moslem, a state dinner will be held under huge tents on the South Lawn of the White House — a more secluded area where presidents often greet visiting dignitaries. -Washington. \The army stands on alert always, and even more during the last few days with the events in the Middle East and with possible threats from Iraq, Syria and Jor- dan,\ Weizman said. He said Israel faces \more than 5.000 tanks and 1.200 planes\ on the eastern front. A military spokeswoman vaguely described the alert as \a fairly routine situation, with a bit of alert to be prepared\ for any possibility. The Knesset's 95-18 approval of the treaty climaxed two days and 28 hours of debate — the longest in its history. Two deputies abstained, four did not vote and one. was absent. The vote came as no surprise to Sadat, who is resting at his Nile Delta Barrages retreat. \I knew this,\ a visibly happy Sadat said. <f Do you know why? Because I have a great ally in Israel that I depended upon. You know who? The Israeli mother.\ Sadat said he never lost hope a treaty would be reached, ever since the November day in 1977 when he began the peace process in Jerusalem. \Since my visit to Jerusalem, I knew this would come,\ he said. \Everyone was pessimistic but I continued to be optimistic.\ Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan left for the United States Thursday to put the final touches on a memorandum of understanding detailing American guarantees for the implementation of the peace treaty. The ayes have it Begin, second from left in front row, leads the voting to endorse the peace signing. (UPI) Marines arrest Viet returnee End of 1 ordeal, beginning of another Garwood is greeted by newsmen's microphones on his arrival in Bangkok, Thailand. (UPI) BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) — Pfc. Robert Garwood, listed as a prisoner of war for 15Vi years despite reports that he crossed enemy lines to fight with the Viet- namese against U.S. soldiers, Thursday returned voluntarily to the -Marine- -Corp*r which has accused him of desertion. Vietnam's first comment on the Garwood ca$e» broadcast by Radio' Hanoi a short time after Garwood arrived in Thailand, tersely noted he had \changed sides to the Viet- *nam Liberation Army in 1965.\ In Washington, the Marines disclosed a series of formal charges filed against Garwood accused him of desertion in time of war, unlawful communication and intercourse, with the enemy and misbehavior as a prisoner of war. If those charges are borne out by an investigation, they could lead to a court-martial with the power to impose the death penalty on the 33- year-old native of Greens burg, Ind. Garwood, who approached a foreigner in Vietnam last month and said he wanted to return home, refused to talk Thursday about his activities since he disappeared in Danang, Soilth Vietnam, on Sept. 28, 1965. Looking nervous and rumpled in jeans and a checked shirt, with hair that brushed his collar, he brushed silently past a shouting crowd of 35 reporters and photographers Thursday when he arrived on the weekly flight from Ho Chi Minh Ci- ty, the former Saigon. The combat veteran had a decidedly unmilitary appearance for his return to the Marines, with a Thai orchid corsage pinned to his chest and a wide silver bracelet on his right arm. Although fit? hair in thinning on top, he wore big pork cju>p-style sideburns. Garwood's rank has remained private first class during the past 13Vi years, and the Pentagon has set 750 in h^ek pay for him. Va. to Placid; Olympics on LAKE PLACID. N.Y. (UPI) - A relay team of 58 runners will carry the Olympic torch through six nates and the District of Columbia on their way to opening ceremonies for the 1980 Winter Games in this Adirondack village, it x&JL.announced Thurs- day. The Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee said the nearly 1.000 mile trek will begin at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, where the flame will have been flown to from Greece. . The flame will then be shipped to nearby Yorktown. Va.. where the runners will begin their journey on Jan. 31. I960. J The ro«te mctades WiliAmsburg. Mount V, and barlingtoci. Va.. Washington. DC, Baltimore, Md.. Wilmington. Del . Philadelphia. Princeton. N.J. and New York City before the carriers begin their run through upstate New York. The path will follow t!»e Hudson River north until it reaches Albany, where two teams of torchbearers will travel different routes, scheduled to arrive at Lake Placid on Feb. 8.1M. Other cities in New York which are on the route inclode Yonkers. Tarrytovn. Peekskill. Rensselaer. Saratoga Springs. Falls aad Amsterdam. A U.S. Embassy official and a Marine who were at his side Thursday said the American's lawyer, his relatives and U.S. diplomats all had advised him not to talk. The Pentagon said the return- ed soldier had been \made aware of the allegations and advised of his legal rights.\ Radio Hanoi gave no details of Garwood *s activities beyond the comment that he \changed sides\ during the Vietnam War. There have been a series of allegations, however. - some -of the»-~by eyewitnesses, that the American carried weapons on Vietnamese patrols against U.S. forces, and took part in sometimes brutal interroga- tions of other Americanprisoners. Radio Hanoi's only other comment was: \Before leaving. Garwood expressed his gratitude for the good treatment given to him during his stay in Vietnam.\ Desertion, POW misbehavior WASHINGTON (UPI) — Formal charges including desertion and misbehavior as a war prisoner have been filed against Robert Gar- wood, the Marine who returned after 13V4 years in Vietnam, the Marine Corps disclosed Thursday. A spokesman for the corps. Lt. Art Brill, said a legal officer filed the charges Tuesday at Marine headquarters in Washington. The filing opens the way for an investigation which, under the Uniform Code of Military-Justice, could lead to a courtmartial for Garwood, 33, who reached Bangkok. Thailand Thursday en route home to Greensburg, Ind. Senior Marine official will examine the results of the investigation and decide whether a trial is warranted. — — Brill said the charges are desertion in time of war, unlawful com- munication and intercourse with the enemy, and misbehavior as a prisoner of war. Garwood was a private first class when he disappeared from Marine headquarters at Danang on Sept. 28, 1965. When other war prisoners were returned from Vietnam, he chose to stay behind. Father sees it as spanking GREENSBURG, Ind. (UPI) — The father of Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood said Thursday his son \should be spanked\ upon his return from 13Vi years in Vietnam but predicted desertion and col- laboration charges would be dropped. Jack Garwood commented after his 33-year-old son arrived in Bangkok from Ho Chi Minh City and the Marine Corps announced the filing of formal charges against him. \I think it's more or less a formality.\ the father said. \In the ser- vice, they charge you with it, investigate it, then pat you on the back and say you're a good boy. \I think this is what this is going to be. The kid's never done anything that wrong. He should be spanked.\ lhe elder Garwood, contacted at the printing plant where he works in Greensburg, said government officials indicated he pro- bably would be reunited with hir*on sometime next week, after tfce Marine private is flown from Okinawa to a base at Great Lakes. 111. His best friend a heroic horse NEW YORK (UPI) — Pride, the police horse injured by glass and debris from an exploding ice cream truck in the financial district last summer, was honored Thursday for \remaining calm and stying by his rider.\ despite \painful injuries.\ The 1*-year-old bay gelding and •even firefighters and two police of- ficers were awarded certificates and medals of honor from the American Societyffor the Preven- tioo of Cruelty to Animals in the AS PC A • Manhattan offices! It was the first time in the history of the 113-year-old organization that a police horse had received such an award. Pride \acted in the finest tradition \ throughout the lunchuroe explosion last June 10 near Nassau and Fulton streets thai injured more than ISO people, the certificate said The horse was standing 10 feet away from the truck at the time of tfe« blast Tbe force of the COGCUSJKMI had tossed Officer Eugene Kempton from tfce %*64>e axxJ sent hurtling m the air The horse s wert sprayed with shreds of glass and bunks of debris. \These painful injuries did not send Pride running wild in a panic- stricken street.\ the AS PC A said. \His steadfast behavior was that of a seasoned veteran.\ I vestigators later learned that the explosion of the Mister Softee truck was touched off when a spare gasoline can in the truck caught fire, sparking a secondary explosion of one of the truck's two 15-gallon gasoline tanks. The firemen and cops were feted by the AS PC A for \cohpetence and humane compassion' demonstrated in their rescue of animals in the line of duty. Good morning! Inside today . .. 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