European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 24,1977 yanks will join Italy exercise by Dan Synove Nurnberg Bureau chief Ansbach. Germany is two combat infantry battalions of the 1st army div s 1st brigade will move to Northern Italy tuesday to take part in the four Day autumn forge exercise display determination a division spokesman said Friday. Soldiers of the 1st in. 6th inf. At Lyle Sejm Germany and men of the 1st in 51st inf at Crail sheim Germany will move by rail and air to Aviano air base in northeastern Italy. The two battalions will also take some 200 combat vehicles with them to use during the exercise the Divi Sion spokesman said. The exercise Marks the first time since world War ii that units of the division have returned to Italy to the spokesman said. The 1st army div entered the fight ing in Italy during the invasion of Amio in january. 1944. When the War ended 1st army div units had fought their Way North of Milan the spokesman added. Training programs before the Start of the exercise display determination the men of both battalions will participate in a number of training programs with soldiers of the italian Anete div the spokesman said. The spokesman said that during the exercise the two 1st brigade units will be under the operational control of the Ariete div but plans also Call for the two Battal ions to accept italian mechanized infantry companies under their operational control. Display determination is designed to demonstrate and show that we can rein Force nato s Southern flank with . Combat units stationed in West Germany. The exercise will also strengthen interoperability of tactics communications and logistics the division spokesman added. Carbon Edge umpires praised by Gen. Ott Stuttgart Germany exercise Carbon Edge must go Down in the history books As one of the most successful free play Maneu vers Ever run by the . Army said it. Gen. David e. Ott Vii corps commander Friday in a personal letter to the 1st armoured div umpires who controlled the exercise with a new Umpire system. I am aware of the Long hours the night time requirements the frustrations the communications difficulties and All the other hardships Oil said. You Over came All these obstacles and remained objective and Ott added you have set a High water Mark in the control and umpiring of forces in a major Field exercise named p House demo s Kin As judge Carter took o Neill advice Washington up speaker Thomas o Neill acknowledged Friday that he urged president Carter to name the brother of a House Democrat to a Utah judgeship and said that the fact Carter complied did not mean it was a political was not politics o Neill told re porters concerning Carter s nomination of Monroe Mckay to the . 10th circuit court of appeals. He is the brother of Mckay Utah s Only Democrat in the asked me a couple of times if i would mention his brother to the presi Dent and i did said o in t a Day that goes by without some member coming to me regarding some problem. They want me to talk to the president asked if he thought the nomination was compatible with Carter s Campaign pledge to make such appointments on Merit and not politics o Neill said certainly. The Man was competent and set up commissions in the states to screen and recommend potential appointees As judges and prosecutors and on american soil an elderly women one of 31 . Citi Zens and two dozen of their cuban rela Tives weeps after Landing thursday at Homestead fab Fla. The group flew to the . After president Fidel Castro last month told sen. Frank Church that cuban families of . Citizens were Al Lowed to leave Cuba. Before Only . Citizens had been allowed to go. The group Many of them aged was the largest to leave. Cuba since 1973, the year of the last Freedom flights. A Miami area fears water sabotage North Miami Beach Fla. A police say someone deliberately dumped pesticides into the water Supply Here forc ing residents of a 70,000-population area to get drinking and cooking water supplies from other Utility Crews flushed the Mains serv ing a six Square mile area of this Miami suburb police detectives investigated a Man they said was suspected of sabotaging the water Supply. Detective Orlando Baldomero said he was "99 per cent sure the water system was sabotaged. Other possible causes of the contamination include an illegal pipe connection or an accidental Back pump age by a pest control company s truck taking on water for its Spray tank said Ray Vanloon an official of North Miami Beach Utility co. Health officials said the contamination could not cause death or serious illness. Hundreds of residents rushed to stores for bottled water. Firemen opened hydrants in neighbouring areas so people could fill their jugs. The first complaint came from three members of one family who reported their water tasted and smelled like it had insecticide in it. They were treated for nausea fever and headaches but were not believed to be seriously ill. There were no other reports of illness. The City permits Spray trucks to fill their tanks at two Small fire hydrants one of which is located near the Home of the family that contamination. Officials temporarily closed the nearest pest control Plant. Water samples taken from the area and tested at Florida International University indicated excessive quantities of three contaminants said Vanloon. These included 1.3 parts per million of Methoxychlor .017 of Endrin and .013 of lindane materials that could be found in insecticides Vanloon said. He said the chemicals exceeded maximum permissible Levels Mckay was one of five recommended bythe Utah commission. I doubt if any commission should remaking these appointments. Their duty is to determine the capability of a candidate. The president does the o Neill added the question still is capability. Can the Man handle the Job o Neill said. In this instance it was one of two i think instances where i have talked to the president on this kind of matter said o Neil who could not recall the other gain claimed by rightists in Lebanon Beirut up israeli supported Christian rightist forces Friday attacked the palestinian leftist stronghold of Khiam with armoured vehicles and artillery palestinian and rightist sources said. The right Wing Phala Gist radio said the town had been purified and that the palestinians and their leftist allies had pulled out of the town. However the palestinian news Agency Wafa issued a statement saying isolationist rightist forces supported by four israeli half tracks and intensive artillery shelling from inside Israel and isolationist positions at rightist held Kleia have been attempting to enter the town of the Phala Gist radio said lebanese flags had been hoisted Over the town and 18 persons including three lebanese leftists had been killed. Wafa said fighters of the joint guerrilla leftist forces Are stubbornly con fronting the israeli isolationist attack preventing enemy personnel and vehicles from achieving any Advance and inflicting heavy casualties among the earlier an official at the Palestine liberation organization s foreign information office said the guerrillas had launched overnight attacks on israeli and rightist positions inside Lebanon. 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