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2 SDSCSEL-EtSBEW! 'Educating Rita' new Pry or movie The enduring roadhouse $71 rtliliTllI 137 Vnr-Mo. 301 Chicago Trlbuns 8 Sector ji Tl Gram muk ra se an Soviets promote violence Reagan charges Productivity in tho U.S. Nonfarm business sector Percent change from previous quarter; seasonally adjusted Cubans dig in 6.6 annual rates R-Revised 23 1963 I 3.7 1st 2d 3d 4th 1982- p1J 1st rf 3d 4th Oxago Tritons Chsrt; Soures: S. Dspsftmsnl or utn, Buhmu a) Labor Sutwnc TV address By Raymond Coffey and Storer Rowley Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON President Reagan accused the Soviet Union Thursday night of promoting violence in both Lebanon and Grenada and defended U.S. military involvement in those countries as essential to U.S.

interests. He said the terrorists who killed at least 225 U.S. servicemen in Beirut with a truck bomb last Sunday "must be dealt justice," and "they willbe." He said a primary aim of the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada was to protect the lives of 1,000 Americans living there, because "the nightmare of our hostages in Iran must never be repeated." Further, he said, referring to Cuban weapons captured on Grenada, the island had become "a Soviet- Cuban colony readied as a major military bastion to export ter ror and democracy. We got there just in time." Reagan said forces have taken 600 Cubans prisoner and "discovered a complete base with By George de Lama Chicago Tribune BRIDGETOWN, Barbados AmCr- -ican Navy jet fighters backed by U.S.

artillery pounded positions of up to 1,000 Cuban troops still entrenched in the hills above the half-completed Point Salines airport in Grenada Thursday evening. American reporters watched the action after being taken to Grenada by the U.S. Defense Department. Navy A-7 fighter-bombers rocketed and strafed the Cuban positions, and U.S. soldiers fired mortar and artillery shells on the holdout forces as American troops tried to extend their perimeter around the airport.

A U.S. Army source described the target as "a battalion headquarters" of Cuban forces 3 to miles east of the airport, which had been under construction with Cuban help. MARINES SAID the U.S. artillery fire was intended to head off a possible counterattack on the airport, which U.S. forces captured Tuesday.

The reporters were shown five warehouses piled high with heavy and light Cuban weapons. From the airport, American-led forces controlled a perimeter extend-, ing 5 miles north, Army officers Complete coveraga "The Pannore uArA tho hpRt (Productivity up by 5 percent Business productivity, led by a 12.1 percent gain in manufacturing, rises at an annual rate of 5 percent in the third quarter. In Business. SpUotro acquitted in murders Anthony Spilotro, reputed overseer of Chicago mob in Las Vegas, is acquitted of charges he helped murder two" men in 1962. Page 2.

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The U.S. invasion of Grenada began as a plan to rescue the deposed prime minister. Page 4. Pentagon releases names of first servicemen killed, wounded and missing in Grenada. Page 5.

said. The strafing and shelling was being carried out against one of the last major centers of resistance to the three-day-old invasion, they said. Lt. Col. Frank Akers of the Army's 82d Airborne Division estimated that 500 to 600 Cuban soldiers were in the positions being shelled, with 400 or 500 more spread out in the hills north and west of the airport.

Both Cuba and the U.S. previously had said Cuban resistance had been overcome. The U.S. poured several hundred more paratroopers into Grenada Hawks' victory string snaps Pittsburgh beats the Black Hawks '4-2 and their home victory streak at 14. In Sports.

Marines tn "quiet fury" near end search for bodies while snipers renew attacks in Beirut. Page 16. weapons and communications equip-, ment which makes it clear a Cuban occupation of the island had been planned." REAGAN WENT on nationwide TV to explain his policies on Lebanon and Grenada during a week in which the United States has had more troops killed in action than on any single day of the Vietnam War. He devoted a large part of the speech to explaining why he feels the peacekeeping force of U.S. Marines must stay in Lebanon.

If the United States got out of Lebanon, he said, "what message would that send to those who foment instability and terrorism? What chance would there be for a negotiated settlement producing a unified, democratic Lebanon? What would be the future of Israel?" "If terrorism and intimidation sue in the Middle East, Reagan said, "it will be a devastating blow to the peace process and to Israel's search for genuine security." He also said the United States has "global responsibilities" and "we are not somewhere else in the world protecting someone else's interests. We are there protecting our own." IN REPLY TO questions raised in Congress and elsewhere about the conditions that allowed a lone terrorist to drive a truck into the lobby of the Marine headquarters in Beirut, Reagan said: "We are doing our best to make our forces less vulnerable to those who want to snipe at them or send in future suicide missions." He praised the marines in Lebanon Kubelik conducts CSO Music critic John von Rhein reviews Rafael Kubelik's opening performance as guest conductor of the CSO: Sec. 3, p. 17. Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Friday: Partly cloudy; high 75 degrees; southwest winds at 15 to 25 miles an hour.

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Of the more than 3,000 American troops in Grenada, 8 have been killed, 39 nave been wounded and 8 are missing. THE U.S. HAD REPORTED that it found 1,000 Cubans on Grenada when it invaded Tuesday, six days after Marxist Premier Maurice BisV op was slain in a coup. Thursday's developments indicated there were many more. A glimpse of the action came as Index Movies Sec.

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10 INC Sec. 1. p. 20 me first American newsmen aiiowea AP LSMtprwto into Grenada were flown in from Barbados in a media pool organized by the Defense Department. They Continued on page 4, col.

1 Detailed index on Page 20 Continued on page 6, col. An Army soldier mans a mounted machine gun while patrolling the Point Salines airport. Brzeczek to run as Republican Ex-police chief joins race for state's attorney Lewis found guilty of Tylenol extortion crats gain control of every court-tywide office. "I'm a great organizer," he said with a smile. pects in the Chicago area and pose the greatest threat to incumbent State Atty.

Richard Daley. HE SAID SOME of the decisive appeals came from Sen. Paul Laxalt Nev.l, national chairman of the Republican Party and a close associate of President Reagan's: Frank Fahrenkopf, who heads the Republican National Committee; and Gov. James Thompson. "People of national prominence and stature pointed out the importance of my candidacy to the overall national picture and the Importance of that candidacy to the people of Cook County." Brzeczek told reporters in the law offices of Levy Erens, 208 S.

LaSalle where he has been a partner since May. Exuding self-confidence, the man who in 1980 became Chicago's youngest police superintendent predicted that he would lead the local GOP back to respectability after a disastrous decade that has seen Demo By David Axelrod Political writer RICHARD BRZECZEK offered himself Thursday as the salvation of the Cook County Republican Party, and GOP leaders agreed, describing Brzeczek as their ambassador to pivotal Democratic voters in white, ethnic areas of Chicago. Brzeczek, 41, who resigned as Chicago police superintendent in April, announced that he was ending his brief retirement from public life to become the Republican candidate for Cook County state's attorney next year. He hinted that this could be a prelude to another candidacy in 1987. potentially matching Brzeczek ana the mayor ho refused to serve, Harold Washington.

Brzeczek's decision followed months of courting by local, state and national party leaders who believed that the former police superintendent could improve GOP pros letter to Johnson Johnson Co. in October, 1882. "I'M OBVIOUSLY very pleased with the verdict," Webb said. "It was a quick verdict." In finding Lewis guilty of attempted extortion, the jury rejected a gamble taken by his attorney, Michael Monico, who started the trial on Oct. 19 by admitting that Lewis wrote the letter to Johnson Johnson.

Lewis, who is serving a 10-year sentence for an unrelated mail fraud conviction, faces up to 20 years in prison. Judge McGarr, who presided over the trial, did not set a date for sentencing. Webb said he will ask for a stiff sentence. The trial began Oct. 19 with Monico stunning the courtroom by acknowledging that Lewis was the author of the letter.

But, he said, his client never intended to extort the money from Johnson Johnson. By Douglas Frantz JAMES LEWIS WAS convicted Thursday night of attempting to extort $1 million from the makers of Tylenol after seven people died in the Chicago area last year from taking capsules of the pain reliever laced with cyanide. The guilty verdict was returned by a U.S. District Court jury after hours of deliberation following a week of testimony and arguments by attorneys. Lewis, 37, fought back tears as he sat at the defense table after the, verdict was read by Chief U.S.

District Court Judge Frank J. McGarr. Lewis' wife, LeAnn, sat a few feet U.S. Atty. Dan K.

Webb, who led the three-member prosecution team, said the verdict 'vindicated" the government's theory that Lewis had Intended to commit a crime when he mailed the four-paragraph extortion J. Robert Barr, Cook County publican chairman and architect jbf the Brzeczek draft, said he believes that Brzeczek can make good on his ambitious vow to lead a Republican, resurgence here. "WE'RE LOOKING at hin) as a leader' said Barr, who will introduce Brzeczek this weekend to a Republican county conventi6n, where he is expected to be officially named the party's candidate in the March 20 GOP primary. "His candidacy gives us some pizazz and life and, most Important, it gives us the chance to do what we all know has to be done if we are to win in this city and this county, and that is to attract new Ban-said. The voters Barr believes on page 2, col.

James Lewis MONICO DEVOTED bis entire case to spinning out a theory in which Lewis was seeking revenge against his wife's former boss, Frederick M. McCahey, for giving her a paycheck that bounced and for threatening her. But Webb and his fellow prosecutors, assistant U.S. Attorneys Jeremy Margolis and Cynthia Giac-chetti, contended that Lewis had Continued on page col. 1.