Charleston Gazette (Newspaper) - September 29, 1970, Charleston, West Virginia ston Gazette The State Newspaper Charleston West Virginia Tuesday Morning September 28 EDITION Arab Leader Heart Attack Victim Nasser Dies in Midst of Storm Gamal CAIRO wi President Gamal Abdel Nasser for a generation a shining hero in the violent world of the Arabs died Monday of a massive heart attack Cairo radio announced His death was a political earthquake in 1 the Middle East It came as Nasser and Related stories are on Page 6 8 i other Arab rulers were struggling to deal with the backlash of Jordan's civil war The Egyptian president was 52 He was a postal clerk's son who went into the army led the campaign that overturned Egypt's corrupt monarchy and then be- came the leading spokesman of the Arab world For a generation he was that violent world's shining hero despite his setbacks at the hands of Israel CAIRO RADIO announced that Anwar Sadat Nasser's vice president was coming provisional president Sadat's succession an automatic move was announced by jib Hussein speaker of the Arab Socialist Union after a joint meeting of the party and the Cabinet Hussein said the provisional cy in accord with the constitution will last 60 days During this period the party will meet to elect a new president by a two-thirds majority Sadat had announced the death and then radio stations started readings of Anwar Sadat President Show Me 10 Men I Can Trust Proud Wily Nasser's Power New York Times Service Cairo crowds cried out in anguish on the June night in 1967 when Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that after 15 years in power he had decided to resign as president of the United Arab Republic No sooner had he spoken over Cairo radio than wept women wailed nml gangs of youths streamed the streets shouting picas for him to stay in office Coming on the heels of the catastrophic defeat by Israel the enes cries of support for Nasser were proof of the almost hypnotic power of leadership that he had built up in the proud aftermath of his ouster of King Farouk But the events of that turbulent night also underscored Nasser's defects as a leader Errors in his ably in his pampered armed helped pave the way for Israel's swift victory which in turn prompted the announcement of his nation And as the dark hours passed political organizers skillfully set about arranging even larger mass of support These were crowned a few hours later with the announcement that he would stay in office after all Proud imprudent wily Nasser's sonal style was in many ways that of the typical on a scale larger than life It made him the most respected leader within the Arab world He was compared sometimes to Saladin the sultan of Egypt who was famous for his victories over the ers Although military glory escaped him Nasser nourished the average pride by breaking the power of the landowning aristocracy taking over the Suez Canal building the Aswan high dam and providing the opportunity for education and social advancement to almost every Egyptian child He became thereby a hero to radicals in many parts of the Arab world Posters picturing his face with its blazing eyes and smile its strongly molded nose and Shoshone Barstow Pasadena Bernadino Santa r Riverside Cleveland TL LOS ANGELES Forest -T Ocean Son County SAN DIEGO STATUTE MILES RAGING FIRES have turned many areas of Southern fornia into disaster areas ties underlined on this map ready have been declared er areas by Gov Ronald Reagan Cities suffering from the major brush and grass inferno also are underscored AP Wirephoto Allergy to Kidney Test Dye Kills City Traffic Secretary A city employe died Monday of an allergic reaction to dye which was injected for kidney tests at Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital Dr Joseph Seltzer said Mae Topsy Toney 19 of 12 Pauley Heights f 1st Schools in North Face U.S Aid Loss WASHINGTON A federal ing examiner ruled Monday for the first time that a Northern school district is violating federal civil rights laws and should lose a major portion of its federal aid Horace H Robbins a hearing er for ths Department of Health tion and Welfare ruled that the dale Mich school district illegally regates its elementary school pupils and should lose in federal aid The case was initiated April 15 1969 and is a landmark because it was the to involve federal against a Northern or Western school district Rd suffered a fatal allergic reaction to the dye Seltzer said this type of reaction is extremely He said her death was a very distressing experience MISS TOXEY was a secretary for Traffic Engineer Larry Riggs She was employed Jan Her father Pat Toncy has been a city policeman for 18 years Riggs said Miss Toncy told him she was going to the hospital for tests and might not return lo work Monday after- noon because she didn't know how long it would take to have the tests She entered the hospital al p.m and death occurred before p.m a hospital spokesman said Miss Toncy would have been 20 on Nov 20 She was a graduate of Stonewall Jackson High School Survivors in addition to her father include her mother and three sisters Pat Lynn Toncy at home Mrs Douglas Bennett of Charleston and Mrs Charles Bourn of Williamsburg Va The body is at Cunningham Funeral Home where friends may call after 7 p.m today Jaw hung even in hovels in remote corners of the Arabian Peninsula OVER THE YEARS Nasser's ence cost him some though not all of that admiration and brought him from abroad His prestige was battered when he sent a costly force to shore up the ary regime in Yemen but failed to break the will of royalist insurgents seeking to bring it down Similarly Nasser's headlong efforts to industrialize Egypt even to start an aircraft industry in a society in which men were still sometimes harnessed to the polw were in large part unsuccessful for lack of skilled workers realistic planning and foreign exchange Please Turn to Page 6 Col 3 Five Killed in Copter Crash Brush Fires Flames Lusting for San Diego LOS ANGELES Five fire ers died when their copter crashed over the scene of one of California's massive brush fires a U.S Forest Service spokesman said The helicopter used to ferry firemen to fire sites crashed in San Gabriel Canyon in an already blackened the Angels National Forest about 30 miles cast of Los Angeles They were the first fire fighters to die in the blares which have devastated the state's southern half since Friday Three civilians died over the weekend The state's brush fire crackled unchecked Monday night near San Diego but elsewhere winds subsided and firemen began to gain the upper hand Fanned by hot winds it destroyed at least 170 homes in cutting a black swath through tains cast of San Diego There was no control in sight The winds suddenly raced down off the hill snapping branches from rounding said Glenn of suburban Ml Helix near El Cajon Suddenly there was fire everywhere Temperatures were in the range in most areas of Southern nia with fierce gusts of hot winds near mountain areas BUT DESPITE the unfavorable er officials in Los Angeles were tic about checking the massive blaze that since Friday has charred 107.000 acres and destroyed 161 homes in hills west of the city Winds died down in the hard-hit Malibu area where new damage had been feared The biggest effort Friday was on the San Diego fire There is no prospect Gelling Post The Press Madeline Stover a senior at Marshall University will be named by Gov Moore today as the new student member of the West Virginia Board of Regents Miss Stover of will succeed John Hoblitzell a West Virginia sity graduate from in the one-year term She will serve in a nonvoting advisory capacity advising the regents on the view of the student communities of the colleges and universities She is currently vice president of the Marshall student body a student member of Marshall's financial aid advisory board coordinator of Marshall's 1970 Winter Weekend and is employed as an sions clerk at St Marys Hospital in ington Miss Stover is majoring in elementary education and plans to seek a masters degree in guidance counseling for work whatsoever for control of this fire The situation is very unpredictable said a U S Forest Service spokesman Flames licked to the edges of several small communities inland from San go California's third largest city with a population of Residents in brushy areas were evacuated as were those in many smaller mountain communities About fire fighters from nia and six other states manned lines the Koran the sacred scripture of lam Nasser was struck by a massive and severe heart attack after returning to his Arab Peace Team Moves Into Jordan Shaky Truce Said Setback lo Mideast The Associated Press An Arab peace force moved into dan on Monday lo supervise a truce that appeared shaky at best Palestinian guerrilla broadcasts sailed the agreement worked out hastily in Cairo on Sunday to end the civil war that swept the desert kingdom for 11 days This indicated that some factions of the guerrilla organization were in disagreement with Yasir Arafat the moderate guerrilla chieftain who signed the agreement along with King Hussein Iraq appeared dissatisfied with the pact and Israel called it another setback for the Middle East peace talks now stalled in New York ONE GUERRILLA broadcast claimed the Jordanian army ignored a cease-fire and shelled guerrillas in the town of about 20 miles south of Irbid in northern Jordan The Arab peace force of 100 officers from Egypt Sudan Saudi Arabia sia and Kuwait arrived in Amman in two and immediately set up truce observation posts in the capital Shooting tupped there at dawn and inhabitants poured into the streets in desperate for food and water The peace team is commanded by Gen Ahmed of the Egyptian army Shortly after his arrival lie broadcast appeals to both sides to adhere to the and lo cooperate with Ihc truce observers Please Turn to Page 2 Col 2 Swiss to Release Prisoners BERN Switzerland Switzerland announced Monday night it would release three imprisoned Palestinian dos as soon as the last six airline hijack hostages arc evacuated from Jordan Diplomatic sources in Beirut Lebanon said Sunday the six had been freed and turned over to tho Egyptian Embassy in Amman Jordan which has been acting as a go-between for the International Red Cross The Swiss government said it agreed with Britain and West Germany on release of all seven dos held by the nations home and after finishing the last of the Arab summit Sadat said in somber sorrowful tones SADAT LACKS lo speak with a commanding voice lo Ihc bulk of 100 million Arabs and he lacks reputation Nasser enjoyed in the called nonaligned Third World Some diplomats believe Sadat may be less inclined to moderation but they said it was extremely difficult to assess the impact of Nasser's death immediately Once Nasser was a leading exponent of driving Israelis into the sea In recent weeks he seemed more moderate porting the idea that negotiations on the over-all crisis might be possible This stand had threatened to tarnish his im- age among the most militant of the Arabs Arabs Now complexity is added to an already complicated picture Please Turn to Page 2 Col 3 City's Short-Change Census Charge Denied by Official By Michael L White Staff Writer A U S Bureau of Census official denied Monday thai Charleston was in the 1970 population count Discounting the charge made earlier in the day by a Kanawha County official Lee C Schilling acting director of Re- gion II U S Bureau of Census in Charlotte N C explained that census bureau maps extended the boundaries of Charleston Magisterial District to include those parts of Loudon District located in the Charleston city limits AS A RESULT Schilling said the take grossly inflated the size of Charleston District taking population away from Loudon District The mistake will not affect the of Charleston bul will lower the population of ton District while increasing that of Loudon District Schilling said He added that corrected figures will be available within next two days Monday's accusation resulted from a study of the census figures by County Attorney John A Amick Amick discovered thai census figures for Charleston District were reported at the identical figure for Charleston in a preliminary census report released several weeks ago HE THEM THEORIZED thai the sus had failed lo lake into consideration six wards of Loudon District included in the city's boundaries Wards 13 14 15 1C 17 18 account for approximately people Briefly STATE FORECAST Some cloudiness with a chance of ers in the north Highs in upper 50s and 60s More weather details on Page 2 State 10 Railroads Given Sen Smith's Trial Rescheduled 17 Fire No Fitting Pesticide Advocate Raps Critics 23 Postal Official Airs Reform County Disagreement Dogs Watershed 5 Businessmen to Air Jobless Jury May Rule on Business Rolls Despite Strike 17 Farm Income Exchange New York Times Service MOSCOW The Soviet Union and West Germany Monday signed an agreement on cooperation as part of a growing improvement in relations between tho two countries envisaged in last month's treaty The agreement between the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the German Scientific Research Society calls for tho exchange of scientists and direct contacts between institutes and laboratories of tho two countries Offer The Washington Post UNITED NATIONS Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban offered Monday to talk peace with Arab delegates at the General Assembly even without a rollback of Egyptians missiles which he again demanded He separated the question of sions through United Nations Middle East representative Gunnar Jarring for which ho said the rollback is from talks with Arab envoys which he did not qualify Inside Today UNITED The annual one appeal starts today See editorial on Page 4 and a story about the campaign on Page 17 Amusements Bridge Comic Page Crossword Editorials 23 23 22 22 4 Markets 12 Obituary 10 Sports Television 16 The Gazetteer 17 The Women Want Ads Your Horoscope 25 Civilized Laotians Kill But Have Eye for Peace By Dennis The London Observer Nothing could have been more than thai indolent country of the Laotians should have become the loose hinge on which the fate of Southeast Asia to swing Bewildered and uncomprehending the Laos were not cut out for the task of defending the free world against the international Communist conspiracy as most of them had never heard of cither Prince Souvanna ma once told me lhat he did not believe there were more than one hundred truly Marxist cadres in the whole of the Lao guerrilla movement Prince the Lao Lust of a leader solemnly swore thai his ists were fundamentally loyal to the Laotian monarchy and the principles of neutralism THE NEUTRALITY of Laos became official under the Geneva agreement of 1962 and was endorsed by all the powers in play Promises in writing are only on paper however For tho bemused Lao who was faintly surprised in the first place to find that Russians were white the struggle of the powers was scarcely comprehensible but the war had ing It meant that more and more young men who should have been behind ploughs were not behind guns It meant thai Laos which should have been self- supporting in grain was importing tons of rice by 1968 that out a population of fewer than three million there were nearly refugees at least of whom had to be fed and given shelter The Americans paid for nearly everything but to the Lao it seemed thai Americans were paying him just to suffer without paying By there were more than troops in the country and Laos had virtually lost her two northern inces Torn to Page 5 Col I
