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Hti itient cok> ints and earing aa ;cause Associated Press TEL AVIV — Officials said Is rael’s army becan to pull armored cars, trucks and heavy equipment to new lines in southern Lebanon on Sunday, and a top diplomat warned Syria not to take advantage of Is rael’s planned withdrawal. “The initital logistic stages of the redeployment have begun,” said an Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv, who in accordance with army regula tions spoke on condition he not be named. “Nonessential material is be ing transported southward.” The spokesman said the withdra wal of heavy gear was to be followed by a rollback on Feb. 18 of Israeli troops from a 200-square-mile chunk of territory along the Medi terranean coast. Residents of Lebanese villages around Sidon, near current Israeli front lines, told reporters several Is raeli army trailers returned empty Sunday after carrying armored vehi cles toward the village of Kaitouli, along the redeployment line. State-run Beirut radio quoted wit nesses in Sidon — the first major city expected to be evacuated — as say ing convoys of about 70 Israeli jeeps, trucks and armored cars moved through the city at dawn on their way southward. Israel’s Cabinet last week ap proved a three-phase withdrawal plan, without fixing a date for com pleting the pullback to the Israeli- Lebanese border. Israel’s current front line is the Awali River, 37 miles north of the border. In the first phase, Israeli sol diers will pull back 18 miles to the Litani River and give up territory in which 250,000 to 400,000 Lebanese live. Heavy ordnance, medical eouip- ment and prefabricated buildings were being shifted from bases near the Awali to installations along the new line Sunday. The Israel military spokesman said the army, which invaded Leb anon in June 1982, “will remain in the area fully equipped for operatio nal purposes” until the rollback date. Israel radio said liaison officers told residents of Sidon that Israel would reserve the right to return to the port city of 150,000 if anti-Israel guerrillas reorganize there. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Benya- min Netanyahu, warned Syria not to take advantage of a military vac- cuum by sending its own army or Palestinian guerrillas into newly evacuated areas. “I think the Syrians are well aware that certain movements on their part would not be acceptable to us,” Neta nyahu told reporters in Jerusalem. The planned Israeli pullout has prompted fears of an outbreak of sectarian violence between the rival Christian and Shiite Moslem militias in areas to be vacated. Sources in the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Sun day that Lebanon had agreed to sta tion U.N. observers in evacuated areas to prevent bloodshed. Photo by PETER ROCHA CCCC Cold!!!!! Cathy Castro, a freshman business major from McAllen, bun dles up and tries to keep warm on her walk to the library Sun day. With a wind chill factor a minus 15, it was a long cold walk. Budget cut F-14 purchases reduced Associated Press WASHINGTON ■ J ~‘ A reduction in the Pentagon’s fiscal 198b budget already approved by President Rea gan will force the Navy to cut ils pur chase of F-14 fighters by 25 percent, according to a high-ranking official. Instead of proceeding with a plan to acquire 24 of the front-line jets during the year starting next Oct. I, Navy Secretary John Lehman and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Wein berger have decided to submit a budget that cajls for the purchase of 18 of the aircraft, even though the change will ultimately prove more expensive, said the source. The cut, to be formally unveiled when the president’s budget is sub mitted to Congress on Feb. 4, will save about “one-third of a billion dollars in fiscalT986, but it will drive up the unit cost by $3 million per plane and in the long term end up costing more for the taxpayer,” said the source, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not identified. I he source, who has participated in the Pentagon’s budget deliber ations, declined to discuss what cut- backs were being made by the Army and Air Force to fulfill a commit ment by Weinberger to reduce the department’s overall 1986 spending plan by $8.7 billion. Indeed, the source made it clear he was discussing the planned cut back on purchases of the F-14 only because “it’s the best example of harm to the progress we’ve been making” in controlling weapons cost. UAW reaches agreement with International Harvester Associated Press in's ICS tCE CHICAGO — International Har vester Co. and the United Auto Workers union announced a tenta tive contract agreement Sunday night, ending a walkout by more than 11,000 workers that had begun less than 48 hours before. Workers were to return to the job immediately, said company and union spokesmen who cteclined to release details of the proposed three-year contract. The strike began at midnight Fri day, with the union saying it was seeking restoration of benefits it conceded to the ailing farm equip ment giant in 1982. “Normal scheduled operations are expected to resume immediately atall UAW-represented IH facilities, including manufacturing plants and parts-distribution centers,” Bill Greenhill, a company spokesman said in a statement. UAW spokesman Peter Laarman, like Greenhill, refused to discuss de tails of the tentative settlement but said, “We believe this will be well-ac cepted, well-received and imple mented” by the rank and file. The settlement “means that the strike by 13,000 UAW workers is re cessed and workers will return to work tonight and tomorrow until the contract is ratified later in the week,” said Laarman. Greenhill on Saturday had said 11,000 to 12,000 workers were on strike; the difference between the company and union figures could not immediately be reconciled. The UAW’s bargaining council would meet in Chicago on Wednes day to review the proposed agreement and then would pass it ice! The settlement menus that UAW workers will re turn to work until the con tract is ratified later in the week. along to the rank and file, said Laar man. He said most rank-and-fiTe members will meet Thursday to de cide whether to ratify the pact. Ratification meetings at the 23 UAW local unions included in the negotiations will be held later in the week, the Harvester statement said. It said no details of the tentative agreement wotdd be released until the ratification process was com pleted. The previous Harvester-UAW contract was to have expired Sept. 30, 1984, but was extended by mu tual agreement, the Harvester statement said. The union termi nated the extension at midnight Fri day. The weekend strike was the first work stoppage against International Harvester since a S'/a-month strike in the winter of 1979-80. The 1979-80 strike, coupled with a depressed farm equipment market, caused huge losses for the company and it took drastic steps to stay afloat, including consolidation of op erations, huge layoffs, and the bene fits concessions. “We stepped forward when they needed concessions, and now we’d like them back,” said Larry Terry, a spokesman for UAW Local 98 in In dianapolis. The company hasn’t posted an an nual profit since 1979 and does not expect an improvement in the de pressed farm-equipment business for at least the next five years, Inter national Harvester chairman Donald Lennox said last October. The strike involved plants at East Moline, Rock Island and Melrose Park in Illinois; Indianapolis; Springfield, Ohio; Memphis, Tenn.; and Louisville, Ky. It also affected distribution centers in Atlanta; Fort Wayne, Ind.; St. Paul, Minn.; Mem phis; and Dallas, and an Interna tional Harvester engineering center in Hinsdale, III. Harvester facilities not affected by the strike included a plant in Wauke sha, Wis., and parts distribution cen ters in California, Kansas City, Kan., and Baltimore. UAW members braved blowing snow, subzero temperatures and ter mination notices Sunday as they walked a picket line at Harvester’s farm equipment plant in Memphis, which is to close May 1. “It’s not a lot of fun,” said Murray Springer, a member of UAW Local 988’s executive board.“Times have been sort of hard for most of us.” Harvester has sold its farm equip ment business to Tenneco Inc., which plans to merge it with its J.I. Case Co. subsidiary. On Friday, Harvester began handing out termination notices to production workers and white-collar employees in Memphis. About 430 production workers and about 200 office employees were still on the job Friday. Twelve hours later, the UAW or dered a company-wide strike. Introductory Scuba Gear Sale! Jan 17 - Feb 4 20% off everything in the reef dive dept, at Tri State Sports Center. 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