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Washington Daily News (Newspaper) - November 14, 1970, Washington, North CarolinaWeather ram re re Tate to a night and cant mini sunday. A Cool lamp Ratsim Las tonight Artir 50. It Gas sunday near 00 Small Craft on coast. Washington daily news if you not gtd your 948-8148 Hatwan a and ? a clock and. Pm will. To Dali to Jitou. Established 1909 ten pages Washington North Carolina saturday afternoon november u. If to daily except sunday quiet coup syrian minister ousts marxist by Elias Antar a Atolia Tad orca writer Damascus Syria a defense minister Gen. Hafez al Asaad seized control of Syria s government today after a quiet Midnight coup eat that Over threw the marxist civilian government. Moat citizens of Damascus-25 mites from the front Tinea of the israeli army were unaware that a coup had taken place and that their eminent leaders a Awia Jib. The syrian capital was Calm with no signs of trouble pm the surface and no unusual military activity. Shoppers thronged to the bazaars As usual and government ministries were open for business Arab diplomatic sources said Assad and his men arrested president Noureddin a Tussi former Premier Youssef Zaymen and Gen. Salah Jadid the Leader of the syrian baath party in raids on their Homes late Friday the moslem Sabbath Jad id s Only title is assistant Secretary general of the party but be was the behind the scenes strongman of the regime. None of the arrested men was harmed the sources said but Damascus radio which in the pest Baa broadcast syrian revolutions with fanfares of Arab music made no mention of a coup today. The state controlled station opened its programs with chanted verses from the Koran and routine news of the Arab world baathist sources said agents of Assad a intelligence Force rounded up the key marxist figures and set up guards at prime military and government buildings they said there was no indication of tension in Damascus. With Damascus radio silent few syrians apparently were aware of the events. The a la my spokesman a member of the International baath committee drove to Beirut to announce the coup. He said Assad a men captured the state radio and television stations and the two daily new spa pert. But he said no tanks or armoured cars were moved into Damascus As usually occurs in a syrian coup. Boh Towl by support of air Laird puts n. Vietnam on notice by Mike Shanahan Asteria led press writer Washington Apt Secretary of defense Melvin r Laird has put the North vietnamese on notice that further attacks on unarmed american piss gets could bring renewed air strike against anti aircraft installations in North Vietnam Laird noted an Humble Oil explosion comes on heels of suit police foil to Rescue plot Davis . Jury a clears t troopers by al Lanier associated per writ or Columbus a Federal juries now have cleared nine South Carolina Highway patrolmen of civil As Well As criminal liability in the Shotgun deaths of three negro students an All White jury of seven women and five men found for the troopers Friday in damage suits totalling 1300,000. Parents of the youths slain at Orangeburg s. C., feb. 8, 1968 brought the suits after a Federal grand jury refused to indict the patrolmen and they were cleared by a Federal jury in a trial brought by Justice department action the verdict brought an end to the mass of court actions after the three were slain and 27 others wounded by a Buckshot barrage during a confrontation at the Edge of the South Carolina state College Campus. The civil action was brought by the parents of the late Delano Middleton of Orangeburg Henry Smith of Martian and Samuel Hammond of it. Lauderdale Fla. Each sought $100, 000 in separate suits which 1 were consolidated for the Mai. The damage suit and the criminal Case brought by the Justice department were1 filed under an 1070 statute which makes it a Federal offence for stole officers to deprive anyone of civil rights Quot while acting under the order of gop strategy Minneapolis Minn. Apr police have foiled a plot which they said was aimed at kidnapping two midwestern officials hijacking an Airliner to take them to Cuba and holding them for Ransom of six prisoners including Angela Davis and Bobby Seale Ronald l. Reed 20, was arrested Friday and charged by Federal authorities with conspiracy to steal an aircraft police did notes found on Reed a in he rested pointed to a plot to Kidnap gov. Harold Levander and Hijack the Airliner. They said reports see plot Page 10 City officials a. To attend meet mayor a. Thomas Stewart All other members of the City Council and City manager Edward a. Wyatt will attend a meeting in Greenville tuesday night to participate in a discussion concerning development of regional planning. On May 7, governor Robert w. Scott issued an executive order creating 17 Multi county regional planning districts throughout North Carolina. The Dismut in which Beaufort county is included designated Region a also includes Pitt Martin Bertie and Hertford counties. In the state Hopes to assist local governments Quot such As the City of Washington and Beaufort county As part of a geographic Region at the meeting to be held at the Greenville county club tuesday night Washington officials will hear More concerning the Plains for putting regional planning programs into action. Force intelligence officers and chief of staff Gen Mustafa Las Assad moved after the party Congress dismissed him from Power on thursday the spokesman mid. Pirty Wal i rep Tad Turt Assad a 40-year-old air marshal clashed repeatedly with Jadid during the emergency baathist Congress called to Tossi to reconsider the resignation he submitted oct. 8 they mid Jadid charged that the defense minister had removed several army officers Loyal to the marxist command after Tossi sent syrian tanks into Jordan during that country s evil War in september and the jordanian army and air Force routed them. Environs pushers i hit Nixon by Stan Benjamin associated press writer Washington apr saddened conservationists who thought they had been Given a Sharp new sword with which to defend the environment my the administration has blunted it to a butter knife they Learned Friday the government feels no obligation to make Public information on How Federal projects would affect the a a pm Acciai have already been made on whether to go ahead. Robert Waldrup of the Sierra club called the decision a Quot major setback in Public participation in environment planning a and Sydney Howe president of the conservation foundation termed it Quot a a it leaves us just about where we Are now a said Joseph w. Penfold conservation director of the Izaak Walton league. And Russell e. Train chairman of the presidents Council on environmental Quality who revealed the policy in an inter. See environment Page 101 $100,000 More first District congressman Walter b. Jones announced today final approval of $100,090 which will be added to the operational budget of the Matta Musket wildlife Refuge in Hyde county. This additional allocation will permit the completion of a maintenance project already in Progress on Rose Bay canal Between Hodges Fork and Highway u. 8. 264, a distance of three Miles. This canal serves As a drainage Way for not Only Mattam skeet Lake but thousands of Arees of farm land in the surrounding rf4 reconnaissance Jet with two Crew Mem Ben aboard 42 Miles South of Vonh in North Vietnam Friday and declared a we remain ready to take appropriate action in the rf4 a the 16th knocked Down by North vietnamese gun ners since the . Halted the bombings Over North Vietnam nov. I 1968 the last Jet Loal was shot Down last May. Laird mid firing on the reconnaissance planet a recent rocket attack on Saigon and troop movements across the demilitarized zone were All in violation of the understanding which led to the . Bombing halt. The North vietnamese have always refused to acknowledge any such understanding the defense secretory expressed deep concern Over the toes of the rf4�?Ts crewmen who Are presumed to be dead. The Pilot of an escort Jet mid he spotted no parachutes when their plane went Down though Laird was answering questions posed by the National Council of Community world affairs organizations he appeared to have planned the warning beforehand. He mid the bombing halt ordered during the final Days of the Johnson administration was Quot predicated on the fact that the North vietnamese would negotiate in Good Faith at the Paris peace talks. Quot to Date the North vietnamese have chosen not to negotiate in any substantive Way a he mid. Pentagon sources say the a vietnamese have been beefing up their conventional anti aircraft weaponry near important Supply lines and into lations just North of the Doz. Officials say it All part of preparations now under Way to above Large numbers of truck see Laird Page j0> Woolard rites slated sunday funeral services for Henry s. Woolard age 45, Beaufort county Forest Ranger with the n c. Forestry service will be held at the Chapel of the Paul funeral Home sunday afternoon at 2 of clock conducted by Jack w Mays pastor of the old Ford Church of Christ. Burial will follow in Oakdale cemetery. The following forestry service personnel will serve As pallbearers l. W. Davis Lin Wood Mcroy e. Ferbee id Little y Collier r. C Winkworth and Don Varner. Other forestry staff Mem Bers will serve As honorary pallbearers. Or. Woolard died in the Beaufort county Hospital Here Friday morning surviving Are his wife his father two son one brother and four Sisters. New farm Bill could be in trouble in Senate blast rocks platform 14 injured by Don Kendall associated press writer Washington apr a major new farm Bill providing $3.8 Bellton in government benefits to far Mera for major commodities including Cotton when t and teed grains May be in for. Trouble next week the Bill which sets up farm programs for three Yean beginning in 1971 was supposed to Breeze through the Senate swiftly on monday the Day Congress goes Back to work. That was the assertion by administration and Senate leaders last month before the fall election recess. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield mont., mid then the farm Bill would gel top by Hng but now. Senate staff people my no one is sure. One mid the Bill might be Token up Only to be put aside again the farm Bill already approved by the House is strongly supported by the adm Nistra that opponent in tug the no tonal a Farmers l Nion which claims it would Roet Faymen More than 81.2 billion Over the three year period the Bill would freeze farm program Coats at about current Levels of 83 it tuition annually and critics say Farmers faced with continued rising costs would have to Bills in 1971-78 with 1970 Price and wami Ikea. Agriculture department off i cots still predict Swift approval by the Senate next week. Rut they Are jittery Over nil claims that with Nixon farm policies contributed to some Republican election losses on nov 3 Hijack victims Back in Miami Miami. Fla Jap the managing editor of the Raleigh news and observer Woodrow Price was among the m passengers who boarded Eastern air lines flight 257 Friday morning and soon found themselves in route to Cuba in a hijacking. Price and his a wife Mary Dudley were in route to Honolulu to attend the associated press managing editors convention. Minutes after they had landed safely at Miami after their trip to Havana Price was on the Telephone giving the news and observer a first person act count of the episode. Those who boarded the plane at Raleigh Durham also included Carl Goerch former publisher of the state Maga Zine or. John Blackburn Provost of Duke University and mrs. Veronica Paget wife of or. Edwin Paget of the North Carolina state University faculty Price related that the Hija Icker was a Young negro who boarded the plane at Raleigh Durham and was the Only one of the 74 who occupied the first class compartment. According to Price the flight began uneventfully. But shortly after leaving Kaleigh Durham. He notice the stewardess had nervously spilled a portion of soft drink on a passenger he did not think much of it until a while later they spotted the al untie Ocean. �?�1 guess Vou recognize that body of Vater a mid life Cap Tain Over the intercom. Quot that a thi Atlantic Ocean a a a Quot we realized then that we have been Hijack etl a a said Price Quot and the reaction of the passengers was that we a it can to happen to me but it has a Price skid the passengers in his compartment Coull not see the Hijacker and tried to guess who he was. All their guesses proved to be wrong the plane landed at Jacksonville. Flato refuel and then took off for Havana. Price mid that in route the Hijacker made the stewardesses wipe All cups that bad been used by passengers. He had forgotten which one was his and wanted his fingerprints removed. See Hijack. Page 101 create threat provide Savior if by Carl p. Leubsdorf a political writer Washington a a political Media manager says the administrations us and order drive in the midterm elections pursued a formula he deems vital for Success a a create a threat and make your candidate be the Quot brilliantly executed Quot mid Gayle Essary of the campaigning by president Nixon Ana vice president Spiro t. Agnew. Essary of Austin tex., disputed in a Telephone interview Friday the claim of democratic image maker Charles Guggenheim that the gop suffered a voter backlash stirred by Nixon. A a you can to Appeal to people on a rational level a Essary asserted. Quot Nixon and. Agnew a were creating a threat to the Security of the individual which be could fed and. Aee and experience. Then they presented their candidates As being the my jars a mid Essary. Essary who handled two pro administration candidates in losing senatorial campaigns is associated with the Institute for motivational sciences which he mid believes that elections Are decided on the basis of emotional Appeal rather than ideology the Institute uses a sociological approach based in Large part on studies of behaviour patterns of rodents and primates mid Essary. Its campaigns ignore the 13 per cent of the population classified As Quot alphas Quot and Quot betas a those who have achieved leadership positions and those seeking them and aim instead at the 80 per cent classified As a the Gammas Are what has been called the great silent majority a Essary said Quot and or. Agnew is the Bead Essary professed a violent exception to the View of Guggenheim who said last week he Felt the administrations campaigning stirred a backlash particularly Nixon s speech at Phoenix ariz., which was televised nationwide As the republicans election eve Appeal. A people thought it was a to hum election a Essary mid. A a had the president tried to create a calming influence it have turned out the record on balance he added this helped the republicans although it May have Hurt in places such As Texas. J Esary worked in the campaigns for sen. Thomas j. Dodd of Connecticut an Independent and Republican John Danforth of Missouri. Although both lost they polled larger votes than anticipated in contests won by Republican Lowell p. Weicker or. And democratic sen Stuart Symington. Essary mid Nixon slow keyed televised speech from Anaheim calif., the Friday night before the election was sex Tremley effective. Although he did no to see the election eve telecast which was marred by a fuzzy picture and scratchy soundtrack Essary said a a the fact that it did no to work out has nothing to with the correctness of the warning some residents of the area Are complaining about persons coming into Yards and picking up pecans. It was mid today that some youngsters have been picking up pecans and Selling them. Such unauthorized conduct is against the Law and some residents today my they will Call the police if anyone is seen picking up these paeans. In fact All person s Are warned not to go into someone Rise s Yard to pick up pecans unless authorized to so. They also Are concerned Over the latest move by sen George s Mcgovern is d., who Asp Nihi need thursday he would up pose the farm Bill and week a one year Extension of or Quot present program another opponent is sen al Len j Ellender. A la. Chairman of the Senate agriculture committee Ellender wanted a More expensive plan Guareno teeing Farmers a higher floor Price for their crops he was overruled by a majority of a committee still another possible Stum Bli Rig Block it the adm Nistra Don s refusal to announce 1971 plans for the agricultural conservation program a popular Federal Aid plan allocating up to 8190 million a year to Farmers farm. Page to it Cyclone May kill 20,000 \ Dacca East Pakistan j apr a Rescue commission official said today the death toll could. Climb to More than 20,000 persons from a Cyclone and tidal wave along East Pakistan s Bay of Bengal coast. An official of the Central gov a renew he vis Vid by of official of the ban Sal District. 70 Miles South of Dacca that an area on Bhola Island was a washed the official said the area had residents. Another commission announcement said 13. My natives were stranded on another Island but were in no immediate Dan Ger. Directors of the Rescue operation were inspecting the 258-mile coastline from Khulna to Cox s Bazar by air and reported extensive damage the number of confirmed dead was 486, with at least 2,000 missing officials mid Quot Thoun traceable Are surely mid one a a a a a ships were bringing Relief supplies to the offshore islands on one Hatla. A local Magis trate said thousands were killed when the tidal wave left 20 feet of water. The Rescue commission mid the deaths include 300 on hat a Cycil be Page 10� nkwfircf.an�, la it a p it a explosion rocked an Oil plat firm off the Louisiana coast Friday night gushing a hot area and burning 14 men. Three of them critically. A Humble Oil a refining co spokesman said no fire nor Well Blowout was reported a there was no spill of Oil or Gas and there was no pol the Humble official said three of the men had Burns Over 90 per cent or More of their bodies a 14 were taken by he copter from the platform local 27 mites off grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico to a Hospital at race and the official said the explosion resulted when a glycol re boiler ruptured the re boiler is used in the process of dehydrating natural Gas eighteen other workmen on the Piat Forup were not Hurt. They remained there this morning. Though work on the platform was ordered shut Down the official said the critically burned workmen were identified by the official As Don Chaber 19, cutoff. La John Lefebvre 21, Galliano and Glenn Mcswain 29, Foxworth miss the Humble spokesman mid there was no connection Between the explosion and government charge filed Friday against Humble contending that the company did not have subsurface safety platforms the devices Are designed to Stop the flow o pm in the t i a of he Iem on the platform such As fire or Blowout. A l helicopters flew the injured to st. Ann s Hospital in race and about a Miles mail West of new Orleans then brought eight to a suburban new Orleans Hospital of production on the platform was stopped immediately and Little if any Oil spilled into the Gulf the Humble spokesman a mid. A this was not a Well blow out a he said. Quot i understand that some piece of equipment on the exploded. The Well was shut Down immediate. A. If there was any spillage it was minimal right after the explosion Gerald Gallinghouse filed suit in . District court at new Orleans Friday charging that Humble failed to install or maintains called storm chokes on 33 Wells in the Gulf it alleged that 150 offences punishable by a maximum Fine see Oil Page 10 Law initiates Ford procedures by Stephen h. Wildstrom associated press writer Detroit apr with the machinery for ratifying its tentative settlement with general motors corp. In motion the United Auto workers has taken Steps toward getting a new contract at the nation s no. 2 automaker. The Law which won a Tenta strike immunity while the Law went after pm As its contract target when pacts at the big three expired sept 14 the first vote on the tentative settlement by a pm local was reported Friday. The 2,000 workers at a stamping Plant in West Mifflin pa., overwhelming a approved the. Pact the Law has ordered All pm $2 Billon Deal a end of negotiations Between general motors and the United Auto workers finds company negotiator Earl r. Bramlett left emerging with a smile Over the Deal that will Cost pm an estimated $2 billion and Union negotiator Leonard Woodcock Righton the receiving end of the $2 billion emerging with a dour look. Should t it be the other Way around. . Tiv settlement at pm that could Jan to hold ratification Volt boost the average workers wage there above 85 an hour served notice Friday it will strike Ford motor co. Dec. 7 unless it has a new contract in hand by them. But settlement at Ford is expected to come without a strike such As the one which has paralysed pm for eight weeks Board chairman Henry Ford ii mid be expects the Law and Ford will agree on a contract similar to the pm pact Quot with Only a few technical traditionally the contracts at Ford pm and Chrysler corp. Have had Only minor differences. The Law mid Friday it will resume negotiations with Ford and Chrysler nov. 23�? the Day after the pm contract goes into effect if it is ratified by the a awl a 394,000 general motors members. The Union made no strike threat Ftp Chrysler. Ford and Chrysler were give be. O.�?, and report to Detroit by next Friday. Earl Bramblett pm vice president for labor relations said he expects the new contract if approved to raise the average erf Auto workers try Between ?�000 and Sis Ono v year by Gifta he amp Aid he based his estimate on the Assumption that overtime during the next three years will follow past trends he mid he was also assuming that Infra ban will continue at about 4 per cent annually in the second and third years of the contract under the contract wages me base one cent an hour for each Rise of 0.4 in the governments consumer Price Index Bramblett declined to predict what effect the contract min by have on new car prices he mid that was out of his area of expertise

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