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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 9, 1974
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I hereby resign the Office of President of the
United States.
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
The resignation letter: Visa for a sorry
Seven Days
In August
And suddenly it was over. ¶ Sitting for the last time behind his desk in the Oval Office, a taut smile flickering at his lips, Richard Milhous Nixon, 61, looked wanly into the television cameras and brought the long ordeal of Watergate to its end. ¶ He resigned his ruined Presidency in disgrace—the first man ever driven from the office in the 198 years of the American Republic—and passed the mantle to his hand-chosen successor, Gerald Ford. ¶ The transfer of power
August 19, 1974
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another bad President, King, Premier, etc., removed by UFO's and myself! Owens
Va. Pilot April 22, 1975
# Thieu Resigns
By EDWIN Q. WHITE
SAIGON (AP)—President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned Monday to pave the way for a political settlement of the Vietnam War. But it could be too late to keep the Communists from seizing the last quarter of South Vietnam by force.
Scientist... if a world leader is war-oriented, or obstructing peace... as I've said before... the UFO's and I... will get them removed.
The Virginian-Pilot
ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865
Page A8
Tuesday, April 22, 1975
## After So Much Lying
South Vietnamese President Thieu's resignation was no more pleasant than the rest of the story. But like Saigon's doom, it was inevitable. Indeed, the Ford administration last week indicat-ed, while continuing to insist from the other side of its mouth that South Viet-nam could save itself if only Congress would supply it funds, that Mr. Thieu's departure would be welcome. For the onrushing Communists long since had vowed never again to try to negotiate a cease-fire or settlement with Mr. Thieu.
Perhaps he got out too late. He seemed to recognize the possibility when he said "I resign to see, after there is no more Mr. Thieu, whether negotiations will be satisfactory." Or did he speak only in bitterness?
Certainly he was bitter toward the United States. He accused Secretary of State Kissinger of delivering "our peo-ple to such a disastrous fate"—an un-fair denunciation, but understandable, considering the flamboyance of the role Mr. Kissinger had played for President Nixon and then for himself and Presi-dent Ford in Indochina. Poor Mr. Kis-
singer. He caught it also from the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Gov-ernment in Paris.
The Viet Cong was mistrustful of the Thieu resignation. "The Nguyen Van Thieu clique must be overthrown and replaced by an administration wishing peace, independence, democracy, and national concord," it said. As flagrantly as it and its North Vietnamese ally had violated the 1973 Paris peace accords, it was justified at least in its suspicion that Mr. Thieu never intended to meet the peace terms either, especially the article calling for a National Council of Reconciliation and Accord. Whether the Communists will regard Vice Presi-dent Tran Van Huong, who succeeded to the South Vietnamese presidency, as being above the "Thieu clique" is doubtful, despite Mr. Huong's reputa-tion for honesty and competence.
Nevertheless, the wind-down in South Vietnam need not be as wretched and tragic as the years-long events lead-ing to it. The Viet Cong's hint that it would not interfere with the evacuation of Americans from Saigon was wel-come. And the French government's of-
fer of its good offices to the belligerents in an urgent call for negotiations was, beyond a practical step toward diplo-macy, an invitation for all the 1973 Par-is signatories to inject international responsibility into the Vietnam War's wreckage.
Mr. Thieu's parting blast at the Unit-ed States should be kept in perspective. It should be no influence in Washing-ton's decisions on how to meet its hu-manitarian obligations to the South Vietnamese people. Generosity will not atone for old mistakes, but it should prove beneficial to American unity while easing the American sorrow—the American humiliation—of a lost cause.
Barbara Tuchman, herself a historian of great accomplishment, may have forecast history's judgment of Ameri-ca's Indochina adventure when she said the other day that President Johnson lied us into South Vietnam, President Nixon lied us into Cambodia, and Presi-dent Ford and Secretary Kissinger were lying us out of the area. Once the American government has finished this last withdrawal, it should rededicate it-self to simple truth.
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EVENING STANDARD, THURSDAY APRIL 10 1975
A king's guards are disarmed
NEW DELHI, Thursday
TROOPS of the Indian army disarmed the King of Sikkim's palace guards last night after a battle which may mark the end of the ruler's authority.
Fighting continued for 80 minutes around the palace home of Chogyal (King) Palden Thondup Namgyal, whom Sikkim political leaders have asked the Indian Government to remove as the constitutional Head of State. The Indian army eventually succeeded in disbanding the 400-strong Sikkim Guards, who lost one man with four others in-jured. An Indian soldier also was wounded.
The disbanding of the palace guards came on the eve of a scheduled emergency session of the Sikkim Assembly, which was to consider a resolution demand-ing the abolition of the mon-archy. The assembly is controlled by the Chogyal's political foes who came to power in the wake of the 1973 uprising against him.
Led by Chief Minister Kazi Lhendup Dorji, the anti-royalists had Sikkim converted last year from an Indian protectorate to an associate Indian state with representation in the Federal Parliament in New Delhi.
Reports from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, indicated Dorji might next press for full Indian statehood.
THE KING of Sikkim-fight-ing around his palace.
THE TIMES MONDAY APRIL 7 1975
PEKING likely to seek cracks in the Nationalist facade after General Chiang's death
From David Bonavia
Peking, April 6
The news of the death of General Chiang Kaishek created no obvious excitement in Peking today, though his name has been reviled daily for the past quarter of a century.
Though branded as the chief villain of modern Chinese poli-tics, the late general had retained a certain immunity from the kind of personal slurs which have been cast on dis-graced former leaders of the Communist Party such as the late Lin Piao, the army chief, and Liu Shao-chi, the former head of state. Perhaps mindful of the various periods during which they worked in alliance with the Kuomintang, the nationalist party which he led, the Communists seem to have felt that even he would not have been beyond forgiveness if he had consented to seek a peaceful solution of the Taiwan problem.
Now that he is gone, they will look for cracks in the facade of the Kuomintang which they might exploit to solve this most bitter of all national issues.
On the face of it the prospects for an early reconciliation with Taipei are not bright. Mr Chiang Ching-kuo, the general's son, who is expected to become the effective ruler of the island, has not in the past shown any inclination to negotiate with Peking. It has even been hinted by officials in Peking that he might be tempted to flirt with the Soviet Union. But he lacks the personal and historical aura which surrounded his father.
The general's death, however, while not in itself an assurance of an early solution to the Taiwan problem, at least re-moves the most formidable personal obstacle.
Peking has never slammed the door on negotiations with the Kuomintang. A small splinter group of the Kuomintang con-tinued to be represented in the parliamentary set-up in Peking, if only for form's sake. In re-cent years Peking propaganda has emphasized reconciliation, not confrontation. Amnesty was granted last month to nearly 300 alleged Kuomintang war criminals and secret agents im-prisoned on the mainland.
People from Taiwan have been exhorted to visit the main-land without fear of detention and efforts have been made to cultivate people in other coun-tries who have Taiwan con-nexions. Fishing boats from the island which have foundered and been rescued by mainland vessels have been repaired and the crews sent home with friendly messages.
Appeals have been issued to Kuomintang soldiers and offi-cials to work for reunion with the People's Republic without fear of reprisals for their past conduct.
None of this seems to have made a great impression in Tai-wan, where American aid and Japanese investment have in-duced a high level of economic prosperity.
Patrick Brogan writes from Washington: China experts have long discounted the effects of General Chiang's death. It is thought that although it might remove some psychological stumbling block from the path of reconciliation between Taiwan and the mainland, the other obstacles are much more difficult to overcome.
There is a certain residual feeling of guilt in Washington that events should have led the United States Government in 1972, when President Nixon went to Peking, to write off its long alliance with General Chiang.
Paris: In China's first mention of the general's death, the New China news agency in a broad-cast monitored here said he was a "puppet president" whose "hands were stained with the blood of the revolutionary Chinese people".
Hanoi: Mr Pham Van Dong, the Prime Minister of North Viet-nam, today summed up his re-action to the death of President Chiang saying: "He should have died sooner".
Richard Harris, page 14
Obituary, page 16
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Yet another Prev., Chief of State, etc. out! ♀
A8 Virginian-Pilot Wednesday, April 23, 1975
Military Ousts
The Sis + I are doing fine! ♀ ૪
Chief of Honduras
Tax Bribe On Bananas In Probe
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The Honduran military ousted Gen. Oswaldo Lopez Arellano as chief of state Tuesday shortly after he was reported to have refused to let a commission investigating a banana-tax bribe examine his foreign bank accounts.
Two weeks ago United Brands Co. acknowledged paying $1.25 million to high officials of this Central American country to gain lower banana export taxes. The company did not name any officials, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the money went to Lopez Arellano.
He called the report "slanders" and set up the investigating body.
An announcement on national radio said the military took the step against Lopez Arellano "to safeguard the integrity and honor of the country."
First reports indicated that the coup d'etat was bloodless. The streets of Tegucigalpa were peaceful, with no unusual troop movements.
The radio announcement said Col. Juan Alberto Melgar, 45, had replaced Lopez Arellano, 53, as head of state. Younger officers had already nudged Lopez Arellano out of his post as head of the armed forces, ostensibly to allow him more time for affairs of state. Melgar took over the military job March 31.
University rector Arturo Reina, chairman of the banana investigating commission, released a statement Tuesday morning saying that all officials under investigation had given the commission power to look at their foreign bank accounts except for Lopez Arellano.
The national leader, he said, "is obstructing the work" of the commission. Then Reina left on a flight for the United States to continue the investigation, and Lopez Arellano was ousted a short time later.
United Brands, which sells Chiquita brand bananas in the United States, acknowledged the $1.25 million payment after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against the company accusing it of transferring money to Honduran officials through a Swiss bank account.
A banana tax of $1 on each 40-pound box was set in April 1974 by the Honduran government, but it was not collected, and the tax was reduced to between 25 and 30 cents a box.
It was the 23rd coup d'etat in Honduras' 151 years of independence. Lopez Arellano had held power by virtue of two coups. He first took power in 1963 by ousting President Ramon Villeda. He was later elected to a constitutional term and served as president from 1965 to 1969. He seized power again in 1972 by overthrowing elected President Ramon E. Cruz.
Honduras, with 2.8 million people, has a weak economy based on the export of bananas, sugar, and coffee. Hurricane Fifi last September devastated the northern agricultural area.
LOPEZ ARELLANO ... foreign accounts
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Scientists... in my former
written predictions... I
predicted the fall of South
Vietnam... also cannibalism
in 1975! - Owens
Monday April 7 1975
No 59,363
Price eight pence
LONDON TIMES
Phnom Penh considers prospect of
unconditional surrender
Discussions on the possibility of Phnom Penh's unconditional surrender to the attacking communist forces were said by reliable sources to be going on yesterday among the Cambodian leaders in the capital. However, Mr Long Boret, the Prime Minister, on his way home from Bali, said the capital "will not fall." Meanwhile, there were reports of widespread cannibalism among starving Government troops. In Washington, General Frederick Weyand, the Army Chief of Staff, back from Saigon, reported that there was virtually no hope of saving South Vietnam.
Cannibalism practised
by Cambodian troops
From Bruce Palling
Phnom Penh, April 6.
Unpaid Government soldiers killed and ate their paymaster only a mile away from the besieged Cambodian capital, it was reported here today.
In their reaction to the incident, military observers seemed more concerned with the maintenance of discipline among the troops than with revulsion over the acts of cannibalism.
An inspection of the troops at a Buddhist temple where they have been temporarily stationed south-east of Phnom Penh has revealed that thousands of starving people have taken part in acts of cannibalism recently.
A captain interviewed today said that everyone in his battalion of 500 men had eaten the corpses of Khmer Rouge killed in the fighting because they were starving.
"We ate grass, lizards and banana leaves and finally Khmer Rouge—everyone ate them, men, women and children," the captain said.
The paymaster was killed in a shooting incident, according to observers on the scene, when he refused to hand the soldiers their monthly pay of 14,000 riels (about £3) until they went to the northern front—about seven miles away. A superior officer was also shot and killed.
During the weekend, about 80 employees of the American Vinnell Corporation, which maintains and trains the Cambodian Army, withdrew entirely at the orders of the State Department in Washington.
The soldiers had been airlifted from the besieged provincial capital of Kompong Seila late last week after the Government decided to abandon the town, about 70 miles south-west of Phnom Penh in order to bring more troops into the capital. The troops, then numbering 1,500, and 5,000 inhabitants, lived under siege from last May until January when pressure eased on the positions with the Khmer Rouge concentrating their efforts on their offensive against Phnom Penh.
The American Embassy also withdrew up to 30 of its 200 employees during the past four days in case the military situation deteriorates rapidly or Congress refuses to grant supplemental military aid to Cambodia when it reconvenes on Monday.
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Another, yet King, Premier, President removed.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975
||President of Chad Is Killed
During a Military Take-Over
Ndjamena, Chad, April 13 (Agence France-Presse) — Soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Chad early today and killed the President.
The acting army chief of staff, Gen. Noel Odingar, announced the military take-over in this north central African nation in a statement broadcast by the national radio shortly after the attack on the palace. Immediately after the attack, it was reported that several military officers arrested April 12 on charges of plotting against the President, Ngarta Tombalbaye, who had ruled Chad since her independence from France in 1960, had been released from prison by General Odingar.
A communique broadcast by the military said that President Tombalbaye "died as a result of wounds received during the attack on the Presidential Palace by the Chad armed forces despite efforts made to save him."
General Odingar, who has apparently taken over the Government, was also reported to have been wounded in the fighting at the palace, but he was able to announce the army coup in the national radio broadcast.
Following the announcement, shouts of "Long live the armed forces!" and "Long live the revolution!" could be heard in the streets of the capital.
The military said in its communique that social discrimi-
apparently led by Bantu military officers.
The military communique charged that the fundamental principal of the Tombalbaye regime had been "to divide in order to rule" and that under it the political and economic sination of the country had "never ceased to deteriorate."
The communique also charged that the military had been humiliated and ridiculed by the former President, an apparent reference to recent statements by Mr. Tombalbaye in which he accused the army of acting as a "state within a state" and said that he was going to make radical changes in the army command.
The first stirrings of the army move came at the beginning of the month with the news of two mysterious fires at the arsenals of the Chad Security Company and an incident at the national gendarmerie headquarters where three Frenchmen were shot and seriously wounded. The shootings were by two prisoners who managed to disarm their guard, an official announcement said.
However, Mr. Tombalbaye ordered the arrest of both the commander and the deputy commander of the gendarmerie and lashed out at the army. They were among those released following the coup.
The coup began last night with the movement into the city of army units from a camp at Boukoro, 35 miles outside the capital, military sources said. The units were under the command of a young officer whose name was given only as Djimtoloin.
On arrival in the capital the young officer went to the security forces camp where an initial attack took place. The
troops then moved on to the presidential residence, where they opened fire on the President's special guard. It was in this first outbreak of fighting around the residence that Mr. Tombalbaye was mortally wounded, sources said.
The rest of the Chad Army units garrisoned here then joined in the coup action under the orders of General Odingar.
Unconfirmed reports said that there were heavy casualties during the fighting at the Presidential Palace, which lasted several hours and included a light artillery attack by the coup forces. At the end of the morning, sporadic rifle shots could still be heard in Ndjamena, although the city appeared to be calm otherwise.
When the shooting began some of the 3,000 French expatriates estimated to be in the capital sought refuge with marines stationed at the French base area north of here.
The French residents later returned to their homes and the French Ambassador, Raphael Touze, said that all necessary precautions had been taken to insure their safety.
The Chad armed forces, which was only 500 strong in 1964, have been strengthened to 4,000 men, including three companies of paratroops to oppose political rebellions in the mainly Moslem north and east of the country.
The army officers who led the coup said in their communique that they intended to maintain all of Chad's present international agreements and undertakings.
Mr. Tombalbaye, who survived several coup attempts in the last 13 years, was a former schoolteacher who entered politics in 1946 when he helped found the Chad Progressive party, which later became the country's first single ruling party.
Also, "corrupt
Thieu, President of Viet Nam... and
Lon Nol... corrupt President of Cambodia... are busily
trying to get $700,000,000 in gold to Switzerland... but
the S.i.a. and I... got them out! - Owen
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Yet another Premier, King, etc. removed.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975
Sadat's Premier Steps Down In Cairo Public-Welfare Drive
By HENRY TANNER
Special to The New York Times
CAIRO, April 13—President Anwar el-Sadat today accepted the resignation of Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazi.
Informed government sources said that Mr. Sadat's choice as new premier was Mandouk Salem, a former police officer who has been Interior Minister for four years but no announce- ment to this effect was made pending a televised address by Mr. Sadat tomorrow night. Mr. Salem has had the rank of Dep- uty Premier for the last two years.
A new Cabinet will be named later this week, with several new ministers.
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who has played a key role in Mr. Sadat's policy of close cooperation with the United States, is expected to retain his job and to be pro- moted to Deputy Premier. Mr. Sadat is understood to be anxious to underline the con- tinuity of his foreign policy.
Mr. Fahmy is scheduled to fly to Moscow on Saturday for talks with the Soviet leaders.
According to informed Gov- ernment sources there were two principal reasons for the change of premiers.
First, Mr. Salem is expected to exert tighter control over the Cabinet and the country than did Mr. Hegazi, who is an ac- countant by training and who confined himself almost exclu- sively to economic affairs.
Secondly, the new premier is expected to try, at Mr. Sadat's request, to increase social bene- fits and wages for those who have suffered most from infla- tion and shortages of food and other consumer goods.
Mr. Hegazi, whose prime ob- jective was economic develop- ment, has fought wage de- mands. During the last few months he has been locked in a dispute over this issue with Mr. Salem, and Sayed Marei, the president of the National Assembly. He has been criti- cized during an Assembly de- bate and in the newspapers.
Last week it became clear that he was losing his fight when President Sadat ordered that a new law giving wage increases to civil servants be amended to include the work- ers in the public sector, which accounts for most of the coun- try's economy.
The feeling that only the wealthy are benefiting from the Government's policy of eco- nomic liberalization has led to sporadic social unrest—most recently in the form of violent clashes between workers and policemen at a state-owned tex- tile factory employing 48,000 workers at Mehalla, in the delta.
Mr. Salem, Mr. Marei and Mr. Fahmy are believed to be the officials most frequently consulted by President Sadat. Mr. Hegazi, who is not a politi- cian by temperament, was not thought to belong to the inner circle.
Persons familiar with Mr. Sadat's thinking had reported for some time that the Presi- dent would like to make Mr. Salem premier but said that he hesitated because he felt that the appointment of a former police officer was politically undesirable.
In an interview with The New York Times yesterday Mr. Sadat was asked whether the recent increase of tension be- tween Israel and the Arabs could cause him to go back on his policy of political and economic liberalization at home. His answer was emphatic: "No, that policy is irreversible."
Scientists...
You think 20 some odd Presidents, Kings, Premiers, etc, being gotten rid of in a years time... might be a weird coincidence? Forget it! The UFO's (Sia) and I... have been busy... causing it! Owens
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# Portugal's President
Miami-Pilot, Tuesday, October 1, 1974 A7
# Forced Out
## Leadership Retained By Military
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Young leftist military leaders forced Gen. Antonio de Spinola to quit as Portugal's president Monday and a left-leaning three-man committee began running the country.
The final blow to Spinola's hold on the presidency that he assumed after a coup overthrew Premier Marcello Caetano last April was the failure by his rightist supporters to carry off a weekend rally to express their support. Spinola canceled the rally after Communists and other leftists strongly denounced it and threatened open violence to prevent it.
GEN. SPINOLA . . . called too slow
The Junta of National Salvation, which originally comprised seven generals and admirals, announced that three generals, Jaime Silveiro Marques of the army and Diogo Neto and Carlos Galvao de Melo of the air force, were ousted with Spinola.
The announcement said the
The military rebels promised democratic elections and land reform after 58 years of feudal rule.
Ethiopians reacted happily, decorating six tanks that rumbled into Addis Ababa with flowers and green banners bearing the military slogan, "Ethiopia First."
Troops smiled at photographers and shook hands with girls. Small groups of students ran through Addis Ababa, shouting, "Down with the Emperor."
Residents in Asmara, Ethiopia's second largest city, rejoiced in the streets at news of the overthrow.
LT. GEN. ANDOM . . . new leader
The committee also said a military court will be established to try people without appeal. About 200 high-ranking officials have been rounded up in the last few months and are now awaiting trial on charges of corruption, graft, and malpractice in office.
The committee said it acted because the emperor refused to hand back billions of dollars he had invested overseas, because of crimes against the Ethiopian people over the last half a century, and because Selassie is too old and weak, both physically and mentally.
Unofficial estimates put Selassie's wealth abroad at $10 billion, making him one of the world's richest men. But Selassie reportedly contends that much of his wealth has been distributed among his children and cannot be recovered.
The committee also accused former governments of manipu-
when he broadcast against the regime.
Selassie returned to crushed the uprising by his perial bodyguard, and saw his son prostrate himself in a plea for forgiveness. The emperor declared the crown prince innocent.
Selassie, barely 5 feet 2, consistently used stern methods to suppress his enemies. Yasu, the emperor from whom he seized power, was kept in chains for 19 years until he died.
In the early part of this year Selassie's power began to fade, however, as the armed forces served notice that it was time to move the ancient Christian empire into the 20th century.
A prolonged series of mutinies, arrests of key figures, and takeovers of government offices reduced the frail but strong-willed emperor to a figurehead.
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ed Forces Take Over Va. Pilot 9/13/74 Good!!
Ethiopia's Emperor Deposed
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopia's armed forces de- posed Emperor Haile Selassie Thursday, climaxing a six-month gradual takeover. They placed the emperor under arrest and ac- cused him of embezzling millions while the nation's peasants starved.
Lt. Gen. Aman Michael An- dom, 51, a popular war hero named defense minister and armed forces chief of staff dur- ing the prolonged takeover, emerged as the new leader.
"I'm not going," the 82-year- old emperor was quoted as say-
ing to soldiers who came to his palace. But the frail emperor, once adored by 26 million sub- jects as the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and Elect of God, was put into the back seat of a blue Volkswagen police car and taken away, witnesses said.
A military broadcast said Gen. Aman was chosen chief of the anonymous 13-man military com- mittee in power, and thus the temporary head of government.
Michael Imru, who in July be- came Ethiopia's third prime
minister in seven months, moved to information minister.
The military broadcast said the emperor's grandson, Rear Adm. Eskinder Desta, former navy commander, was arrested along with about 170 other for- mer officials charged with cor- ruption and misuse of office.
Selassie, the world's oldest and longest reigning monarch, was taken with the royal family to Koka Palace, 52 miles east of Ad- (See Ruler, Page A4)
Sept. 18, 1974
Scientists
I'm eliminating the world's bad leaders one after the other. (See file documentation.)
Nixon, Chou En-lai, Selassie... and so on, ad nauseum. You'd better believe it...
the UFO's (CSI) and I have clout!
Owens
FPK/Mant
Ruler of Ethiopia in Custody
Continued
dis Ababa, informed sources said.
The military rebels promised democratic elections and land re- form after 38 years of feudal rule.
Ethiopians reacted happily, decorating six tanks that rum- bled into Addis Ababa with flow- ers and green banners bearing the military slogan, "Ethiopia First."
Troops smiled at photogra- phers and shook hands with girls. Small groups of students ran through Addis Ababa, shout- ing, "Down with the Emperor."
Residents in Asmara, Ethio- pia's second largest city, re- joiced in the streets at news of the overthrow.
LT. GEN. ANDOM ... ... new leader
The committee also said a mil- itary court will be established to try people without appeal. About 200 high-ranking officials have been rounded up in the last few months and are now awaiting trial on charges of corruption, graft, and malpractice in office.
The committee said it acted because the emperor refused to hand back billions of dollars he had invested overseas, because of crimes against the Ethiopian people over the last half a centu- ry, and because Selassie is too old and weak, both physically and mentally.
Unofficial estimates put Selas- sie's wealth abroad at $10 billion, making him one of the world's richest men. But Selassie report- edly contends that much of his wealth has been distributed among his children and cannot be recovered.
The committee also accused former governments of manipu-
when he broadcast against the regime.
Selassie returned to crushed the uprising by his perial bodyguard, and saw his son prostrate himself in a plea for forgiveness. The emperor declared the crown prince inno- cent.
Selassie, barely 5 feet 2, consis- tently press his enemies. Yasu, the emperor from whom he seized power, was kept in chains for 19 years until he died.
In the early part of this year Selassie's power began to fade, however, as the armed forces served notice that it was time to move the ancient Christian em- pire into the 20th century.
A prolonged series of mutinies, arrests of key figures, and take- overs of government offices re- duced the frail but strong-willed emperor to a figurehead.
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Va. Pilot Sept 1, 1974
Basic Policies Remain Va. Pilot Sept. 1, '74
Sadat to Step Down From Premiership
[Image of man] [Image of man]
PRIME MINISTER KIRK ... Vietnam-policy foe | DEPUTY HUGH WATT ... takes over
N.Z. Leader Dies;
Ally of Workmen
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Prime Minister Norman E. Kirk, an opponent of U.S. policy in Vietnam and an advocate of new forms of Asian and Pacific regional cooperation, died Saturday. He was 51.
A government announcement said he died peacefully in a hospital where he was being treated for gastric influenza. He had been in poor health for months with pleurisy.
Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt took over the government until the Labor Party caucus meets to elect a new leader. Labor has a 55-32 seat majority in Parliament.
In Washington, White House press secretary Jerald F. terHorst said President Ford "obviously is deeply sorry" and has sent a private message of condolence to the Kirk family.
The 6-foot, 250-pound "Big Norm" Kirk, a former welder and rail engineer, was elected in November 1972 in a personal triumph that returned the Labor Party to power, ending 12 years of rule by the National Party.
Kirk reversed some long-standing government policies. He pulled the remaining New Zealand troops out of South Vietnam shortly after his election, recognized Communist China, and backed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' proposal for an end to foreign intervention in Southeast Asia.
The son of a poor cabinetmaker, Kirk began his career as a ferry engineer in Auckland harbor.
At the age of 12, he dropped out of school to work as a gardener and railway cleanup boy and painted roofs for $1 a week.
At 30, he was elected mayor of the small town of Kaiapoi.
He entered Parliament in 1957 and in 1964 became Labor Party president. The next year he became the opposition leader in Parliament.
He actively sought closer ties between New Zealand and the Third World and Communist nations.
Kirk visited Washington and the United Nations in 1973.
He is survived by his widow, Ruth, and five children.
CAIRO (UPI) - Anwar Sadat will step down as Egyptian premier but continue as president in a government reshuffle that does not signify changes in Egypt's basic foreign and domestic policies, government sources said Saturday.
The sources said Sadat directed First Deputy Premier Abdel Aziz Higazi to form a new Cabinet, which is expected to take over in the second half of September.
The change, the sources said, is aimed primarily at relieving Sadat of some of the heavy executive burdens involved in his double role as premier and president.
Sadat assumed the premiership March 28, 1973, in what turned out to be a personal takeover of all preparations for the October war against Israel.
The fact that Sadat now feels that he can afford to assign di- rect control of the Cabinet to another man does not sigual any departure from Egypt's basic policies, the sources said.
They said Egypt will continue military preparations for a possible new war against Israel if peace efforts collapse while at the same time promoting reconstruction and economic development at home.
The sources said the great majority of ministers serving in the present Cabinet will be retained in Higazi's government.
Higazi, 51, is one of the nation's leading economists. He served as treasury minister for several years before becoming first deputy premier.
He and other members of the Cabinet came under fire in the press and parliament in recent weeks because of shortages of soap, matches, chicken, tea, and salt.
9/2/74
Scientist-Observers
The SI's and I are
busily removing Premiers
and Presidents on a world-
wide scale (see recent Sci-Letter)
and replacing them with good,
peace-seeking leaders.
(And non-Communist, of
course, when possible.)
-Owens
(PK/Man)
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SAT 15, 1974
① Chou En-lai
arly Out of Power
hinese Succession Struggle
By H. D. S. Greenway
HONG KONG Sept. 14 -
Chou En-lai will continue to
withdraw from the Chinese political
scene and that he will never
again return to the position
of power and influence he
had but a few months ago is
now accepted by China-
watchers as a foregone conclusion.
This is what Chinese offi-
cials are now telling foreign-
ers, according to travelers
who have been in the Chi-
nese capital recently. Pe-
king is alive with rumors
and uneasiness, they say,
and the most frequently told
story is that Chou suffered
another heart attack within
the past few weeks.
What Chou's withdrawal
will mean in terms of Chi-
nese politics is a great un-
known. For 25 years, Chou
has dominated the political
scene with one foot in the
government and the other in
the Communist Party.
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outcome for months or even
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Sunday, Sept. 15, 1974
A 11
Thieu's Foes Mobilizing
Against War, Corruption
VIETNAM, From A1
surrounded churches and pa-
godas, breaking up meetings
and harassing dissidents.
Thus A clandestine radio station
in Hue has been publicizing
"Indictment No. 1," but no one
knows who is running the sta-
tion.
The Catholic anti-corruption
movement began gathering
steam last June, when 301
priests called a press confer-
ence and released a statement
denouncing Thieu. Police kept
newsmen out of that press
conference and confiscated the
statements.
"The Buddhists overthrew
Diem in 1963," said one priest.
"Now it's time for the Catho-
lics to do something about
Thieu." Many of these priests
have been considered political
conservatives, and all are anti-
Communist.
If the Catholics have fo-
cused on corruption, the Bud-
dhists have focused on Thieu's
failure to achieve peace.
Quiescent since the cease-
fire, the militant An Quang
arm of the Buddhist church
here two weeks ago endorsed
a newly formed organization
called the Forces for National
Reconciliation.
All the personalities in-
volved have been around for a
long time, but observers call
the endorsement a significant
indication that the Buddhists,
the country, may once again
play a militant antigovern-
ment role.
Sen. Vu Nan Mau, leader of
the Buddhist slate in the Sen-
ate, said in an interview that
past month an atmosphere of
fear has developed among
many of them.
"There's a broad segment of
the population that doesn't
side with the Thieu govern-
ment," said Mau. "Until now
Thieu has continued to apply
policies that have thwarted
the coming of peace."
In the 20 months since the
cease-fire, Thieu has success-
fully held down the opposition
with police tactics and
charging all those who are not
with him with being pro-Com-
munist.
But now, with even the U.S.
Congress balking at such a
hard line, Mau's new organiza-
tion plans to tread the tricky
middle road between Thieu
and the Communists in an ef-
fort, Mau says, to implement
the Paris agreement and bring
about "national reconciliation
on the basis of self-determina-
tion by the people."
Another opposition rallying
point has been provided by
the recent furor here over
press censorship.
Not only have newspapers
been censored and their
runs confiscated, but recently
journalists have been arrested
for writing stories about gov-
ernment corruption, and their
Several journalists have
been interrogated and threat-
ened with torture, and in the
past month an atmosphere of
fear has developed among
many of them.
A large group of opposition
deputies in the National As-
sembly has called for abolition
of press censorship, and the
government says that it is con-
sidering the question.
The Catholic opposition
daily newspaper, Peace, sus-
pended publication for several
weeks recently and the pub-
lisher threatened to burn him-
self alive to protest censor-
ship. The paper has been the
main organ of the Catholic
anti-corruption movement.
In a meeting two days ago;
300 journalists, writers and
politicians declared their oppo-
sition to press censorship.
"To have press freedom
we've got to overthrow the re-
gime and not just the press
code," a politician said at the
meeting. Police did not break
up the meeting.
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Portugal: A Shove Leftward
He was Portugal's man on horseback - a general idolized by his troops and loved by his countrymen. And when several hundred junior army officers toppled Europe's oldest Fascist regime last April, they quickly asked Gen. António de Spinola to serve as interim President during the difficult transition period from dictatorship to democracy. But the young army captains, many of them leftists, soon found themselves at odds with the conservative Spinola. The monocled, 64-year-old general appeared to feel he had some sort of Gaullist mandate to rule Portugal as he saw fit - and that meant slowing his nation's rapid swing to the left.
Last week, the junior officers decided their idol had to go. They stripped Spinola of virtually all power - and forced the aristocratic general to resign.
The showdown had been brewing since mid-July. At that time, the young leaders of the Armed Forces Movement vetoed Spinola's call for early Presidential elections - which he hoped to win before Portugal's long-suppressed Communist and Socialist parties had time to fully organize. Then the captains forced the haughty general to name their leader, left-leaning Col. Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, as his new Prime Minister. In the weeks that followed, Spinola stumped the country trying to drum up support among Portugal's "silent majority." Two weeks ago, rightists began organizing a big rally in support of Spinola. Fearful that this show of strength might foreshadow a rightist coup, the young officers led by Gonçalves demanded that Spinola ban the rally.
Saturday, October 12, 1974
Virginian-Pilot
Accidental Shot Misses Kissinger
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A submacharge gun accidentally discharged aboard Henry A. Kissinger's jet plane at Cairo airport Friday and injured his principal bodyguard only 20 feet from the secretary of state.
A compartment on the plane and the shutters were drawn. The Secret Service agent, Walter Bothe, 33, of Alexandria, Va., suffered a deep scalp wound and a second wound on the right forearm.
"You are damn lucky," Kissinger told Bothe after it was determined that he had not been injured seriously and that the shot came from inside the Boeing 707 when a case carrying the Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun had tumbled from a rack onto the floor.
Bothe told a reporter that two other weapons cases were similarly jostled free toward the front of the blue-and-white jet as it taxied off the flight line. Marvin Wolfe, a State Department physician, treated the injured agent.
The bullet pierced the ceiling of the jet after passing through a cloth bag of Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. The incident delayed Kissinger's takeoff for Syria half an hour.
Shortly after Kissinger arrived in Damascus, he began talks with President Hafez Assad, who has said there will be no peace in the
=== **Page: 13 of 15**
another world leader removed by me and Si & Gwen
AN: The Six and I have removed yet another leader. Remer.
Tanaka Bows Out
Kakuei Tanaka is a rare Japanese pol-itician—an Oriental Horatio Alger who overcame both his humble beginnings and lack of education to scramble his way to the top. But recently the Prime Minister seemed to have lost that lean and hungry look. Thus one morning last week, Tanaka rose early, put in a call to his aging mother, paused briefly to feed his prize carp and then drove off to his official residence for a short, stiff-necked meeting with four elders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. There, he announced his intention to become the first Prime Minister in postwar Japa-nese history to resign from office under a cloud of scandal. In bowing out, he touched off a complex struggle for the succession.
Backstage maneuvering to oust Tanaka and pick a successor actually started several weeks ago when it became clear he couldn't survive an avalanche of charges against him. He faced an official investigation of his questionable meth-ods of raising political funds, his irregu-lar land dealings on which he built a personal fortune, and even the fact that he kept one—or more—mistresses in a tastelessly public way. The threat that such affairs might be exposed in embar-rassing detail caused an excruciating family quarrel with his daughter Makiko that apparently tilted him in favor of resignation. "Politicians," remarked a Ta-naka associate, "are able to weather trouble outside their homes, but if they also have trouble in their own homes, then it will usually wreck them." In the end, Tanaka acknowledged his "personal shame" and said he regretted bringing "a torrent of rain" on the future of his country.
With Tanaka gone, the most pressing order of business for the Liberal Demo-crats will be to paper up the cracks in party unity and pick a successor. That will not be easy. Tanaka's bull-dozer tactics had left behind a residue of bitterness unparalleled in postwar politics. Among four major contenders for his job (page 57), the most likely candidates were former Finance Minis-ter Takeo Fukuda, who helped bring Tanaka down by quitting the Cabinet last summer, and the current Finance Minister, Masayoshi Ohira, whom Tana-ka and his powerful faction are support-ing. In years past, liberal dollops of po-litical money and behind-the-scenes horse-trading would have lined up the necessary votes to make one of them a certain winner. But the Tanaka scandal has made money politics taboo in Ja-pan. As a result, there seemed a strong chance last week that each man might cancel out the other and open the way for one of two aging party war-horses, Etsu-saboro Shiina or Shigesaburo Maeō, as interim leader.
The trouble is that most Liberal Demo-crats feel a vital need for strong lead-ership to cleanse the party's soiled reputa-tion and guide the country out of its current economic morass. Party Secre-tary-General Susumu Nikaido has been drinking many ritual cups of tea at the homes of party elders while he makes soundings for a consensus. The major contenders themselves, NEWSWEEK's To-kyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher re-ported, are lying low. "Everyone is stay-ing at home or in his office close to the phone," cabled Krisher. "Wives of poli-ticians are calling other wives to try to get them to use their influence on their husbands. And no one is leaving Tokyo for fear that people might think that they are not important enough to be consulted on the succession."
Fire Storm: However the struggle is resolved, no one expects a radical shift in policy. A Fukuda government might move a notch to the right in economic and other domestic affairs and could con-ceivably cool down Japan's new friend-ship with Peking. Ohira, on the other hand, would probably continue most of
54
Newsweek, December 9, 1974
Declaration in January Va. Pilot Dec. 11, 1974
Critical Water Area
NORFOLK—A portion, if not all, of Southeastern Virginia will be declared a critical groundwa-ter area by the State Water Con-trol Board in January, said Arthur Collins, director of plan-ning for the Southeastern Virgin-ia Planning District Commission. Collins Tuesday said he reached his conclusion through informal discussions with SWCB staff members.
The board has been consider-ing such a move since it held public hearings on the issue in Norfolk in September.
Mrs. Wayne Jackson, a water Control Board member, said that, based on the testimony she heard at the hearing, the desig-nation will be made when the SWCB meets Jan. 23-24.
If declared, a critical ground-water area would mean that all wells drawing more than 50,000 gallons per day be registered with the state for monitoring, that there be no increased usage without a permit, and that no new wells using more than 50,000 gallons a day can be dug without SWCB approval.
Collins
See my shortage of water prediction in Warren Smith's "Prediction For 1974". Also keep in mind recent discovery of drinking water cancer. Gwen
=== **Page: 14 of 15**
NY Times 12/3/74
Count Blessings
On Missing Plane Crash
When the Baltimore Colts
left Buffalo yesterday af-
ternoon on a Northwest Air-
lines chartered flight, "there
was, no kidding, no joking,
you could hear a pin drop,"
according to a team spokes-
man. "When the wheels hit
the runway at Baltimore-
Washington Airport, there
was a roar of relief in the ca-
bin," he added.
The Colts, after losing on
Sunday to the Bills in Buffalo,
had been scheduled to go
home on a Northwest char-
tered flight coming from
John F. Kennedy Airport late
Sunday afternoon. At 8 P.M.,
after the players had eaten
dinner, the plane had not ar-
rived and General Manager
Joe Thomas decided the team
would stay overnight in Buf-
falo.
At 9:30 Colt officials
learned that the plane had
crashed near Bear Mountain,
N.Y. They immediately told
all members of the team so
they could call their families
and assure them of their
safety.
"When Cotton Speyer
called his folks in Port Ar-
thur, Texas, his father
couldn't believe it was him,"
said Ernie Accorsi, the team's
publicity director. "They had
heard on television that the
Colts' plane had gone down
and that there were no survi-
vors. Mrs. Speyer was pretty
shook up."
Most of the players were
depressed when they learned
the identity of the three
crewmen who had perished
in the crash. They had flown
the Colts to Miami for a
game three weeks ago.
The team left the Buffalo
airport yesterday at 12:30
P.M. with sleet and snow
falling heavily.
"It was a bad scene for a
takeoff," said Accorsi.
"There's not one guy on this
team with a hangup about
flying, but the atmosphere
was pretty tense. There was
silence for the whole hour in
the air. We're all glad it was
our last road game of the
season."
The Colts finish the Na-
tional Football League sea-
son at home against the Dol-
phins and the New England
ots.
Nat'l Football League
LAST NIGHT'S GAME
at Miami:
PK'd Colts
Peruvian Premier
Escapes Assassins;
2 High Aides Hurt
NY Times 12/3/74
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 2 (AP)-
Peru's Premier and two other
men prominent in the military
Government escaped assassina-
tion last night, the Interior
Ministry announced today.
The announcement said that
unidentified assailants had
fired from a vehicle that drew
alongside the car carrying the
three officials.
Premier Edgardo Mercado
Jarrin, who is also War Minis-
ter and Commander in Chief of
the army, escaped injury, the
statement said.
But Gen. Javier Tantalean
Vanini, the Minister of Fish-
eries in President Juan Velasco
Alvarado's leftist Government,
and Gen. Guillermo Arbulu,
General Tantalean's brother-
in-law, were wounded.
They were taken to the mil-
itary hospital in Lima, where
they were reported in satisfac-
tory condition.
General Mercado's brother-
in-law, Guillermo Neuman, who
was driving the car, was un-
injured.
PK'd (Bad) world premiers presidents etc.
NY Times 12/3/74
Bad Weather Is Linked
To Small-Plane Crashes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
(Reuters)-A Federal safety
panel said today that bad
weather was increasingly to
blame for fatal crashes of
small planes.
The National Safety Trans-
portation Board said that
this trend developed since
1967 even though plane ac-
cidents from other causes
were on the downswing.
The finding was shown, the
board said, in a special study
of general aviation-nonair-
line-accidents from 1964
through 1972.
During the eight years,
4,714 persons died in 2,026
general aviation accidents in-
volving bad weather-36.6
per cent of all fatal mishaps
among nonairline planes.
Such crashes have oc-
curred "with disturbing regu-
larity despite improvements
in aircraft, instrumentation,
training, training facilities,
the air traffic control system,
weather facilities, weather
services and navigational
aids," the board said.
Airplane PK, issued by me in 1967, govt. notified for special demonstration of UFO powers Owen
=== **Page: 15 of 15**
Six. I got yet another Premier.
42 Virginian-Pilot
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Denmark
Leader
Resigns
COPENHAGEN (AP)—Denmark's Prime Minister Poul Hartling, a Liberal, resigned Tuesday night after the parliament supported an opposition motion calling for efforts to form a majority government.
The surprise development came in the first session of the Folketing—the Danish parliament—elected Jan. 9 in national elections called by Hartling.
The motion, offered by the Social Democrats and urging Hartling to resign, was carried by one vote, 86 to 85, with five abstentions and three members absent.
Immediately after the vote Hartling announced that he was resigning and would do so formally Wednesday morning in an audience with Queen Margrethe II.
Hartling's party gained 20 seats in the elections, bringing its total in the 10-party Folketing to 42. But the Social Democrats, largest faction in the parliament, also gained, up seven to 53 of the Folketing's 179 seats.
Some elements of the opposition stated after the elections that they will call for a no-confidence vote unless a government with a broader political base is established.
Hartling, who had headed a minority government for 13 months, dissolved the Folketing and called elections in an attempt to rally support for a crash program freezing wages and profits to curb a 18 per cent inflation rate and soaring unemployment.
Information Minister V. Pilot
Jan. 30, 1975
Israeli Leader Yariv
Quits in Frustration
JERUSALEM (UPI) — Reserve Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv, chief Israeli negotiator of the 1973 cease-fire, resigned Wednesday as information minister in frustration over the way the government operates.
He said the government's method of functioning appears inappropriate and fails "to meet the needs of the current situation," particularly the possibility of another Middle East war.
Yariv, 55, also said the government had failed to set up a national security council to handle emergencies, as recommended by a commission that investigated Israel's unpreparedness for the Yom Kippur War.
Yariv's resignation marks the first outward sign of dissension in the government. To my mind, there is no call for a minister of information."
But in the letter he listed as his first reason "the government's mode of operation, which to me appears to be inappropriate and failing to meet the needs of the current situation."
"There were no differences over policy matters that prompted my resignation," Yariv told newsmen. "My resignation had nothing to do with Mr. Rabin personally."
Yariv said he thought he should resign before Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returns to the Middle East to resume efforts at reaching a second disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt.
1/30/75
Scientists
Here are two more
Premiers, leaders, Presidents, etc.
(57 countries)
that the Si's have found
unacceptable... and have
removed.
How many does this make
now. 20? 30?
6
XPK / Man
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August 9, 1974
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I hereby resign the Office of President of the
United States.
Sincerely,
Richard Nixon
The Honorable Henry A. Kissinger
The Secretary of State
Washington, D. C. 20520
The resignation letter: Visa for a sorry
Seven Days
In August
And suddenly it was over. ¶ Sitting for the last time behind his desk in the Oval Office, a taut smile flickering at his lips, Richard Milhous Nixon, 61, looked wanly into the television cameras and brought the long ordeal of Watergate to its end. ¶ He resigned his ruined Presidency in disgrace—the first man ever driven from the office in the 198 years of the American Republic—and passed the mantle to his hand-chosen successor, Gerald Ford. ¶ The transfer of power
August 19, 1974
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=== **Page: 2 of 15**
another bad President, King, Premier, etc., removed by UFO's and myself! Owens
Va. Pilot April 22, 1975
# Thieu Resigns
By EDWIN Q. WHITE
SAIGON (AP)—President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned Monday to pave the way for a political settlement of the Vietnam War. But it could be too late to keep the Communists from seizing the last quarter of South Vietnam by force.
Scientist... if a world leader is war-oriented, or obstructing peace... as I've said before... the UFO's and I... will get them removed.
The Virginian-Pilot
ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 21, 1865
Page A8
Tuesday, April 22, 1975
## After So Much Lying
South Vietnamese President Thieu's resignation was no more pleasant than the rest of the story. But like Saigon's doom, it was inevitable. Indeed, the Ford administration last week indicat-ed, while continuing to insist from the other side of its mouth that South Viet-nam could save itself if only Congress would supply it funds, that Mr. Thieu's departure would be welcome. For the onrushing Communists long since had vowed never again to try to negotiate a cease-fire or settlement with Mr. Thieu.
Perhaps he got out too late. He seemed to recognize the possibility when he said "I resign to see, after there is no more Mr. Thieu, whether negotiations will be satisfactory." Or did he speak only in bitterness?
Certainly he was bitter toward the United States. He accused Secretary of State Kissinger of delivering "our peo-ple to such a disastrous fate"—an un-fair denunciation, but understandable, considering the flamboyance of the role Mr. Kissinger had played for President Nixon and then for himself and Presi-dent Ford in Indochina. Poor Mr. Kis-
singer. He caught it also from the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Gov-ernment in Paris.
The Viet Cong was mistrustful of the Thieu resignation. "The Nguyen Van Thieu clique must be overthrown and replaced by an administration wishing peace, independence, democracy, and national concord," it said. As flagrantly as it and its North Vietnamese ally had violated the 1973 Paris peace accords, it was justified at least in its suspicion that Mr. Thieu never intended to meet the peace terms either, especially the article calling for a National Council of Reconciliation and Accord. Whether the Communists will regard Vice Presi-dent Tran Van Huong, who succeeded to the South Vietnamese presidency, as being above the "Thieu clique" is doubtful, despite Mr. Huong's reputa-tion for honesty and competence.
Nevertheless, the wind-down in South Vietnam need not be as wretched and tragic as the years-long events lead-ing to it. The Viet Cong's hint that it would not interfere with the evacuation of Americans from Saigon was wel-come. And the French government's of-
fer of its good offices to the belligerents in an urgent call for negotiations was, beyond a practical step toward diplo-macy, an invitation for all the 1973 Par-is signatories to inject international responsibility into the Vietnam War's wreckage.
Mr. Thieu's parting blast at the Unit-ed States should be kept in perspective. It should be no influence in Washing-ton's decisions on how to meet its hu-manitarian obligations to the South Vietnamese people. Generosity will not atone for old mistakes, but it should prove beneficial to American unity while easing the American sorrow—the American humiliation—of a lost cause.
Barbara Tuchman, herself a historian of great accomplishment, may have forecast history's judgment of Ameri-ca's Indochina adventure when she said the other day that President Johnson lied us into South Vietnam, President Nixon lied us into Cambodia, and Presi-dent Ford and Secretary Kissinger were lying us out of the area. Once the American government has finished this last withdrawal, it should rededicate it-self to simple truth.
=== **Page: 3 of 15**
EVENING STANDARD, THURSDAY APRIL 10 1975
A king's guards are disarmed
NEW DELHI, Thursday
TROOPS of the Indian army disarmed the King of Sikkim's palace guards last night after a battle which may mark the end of the ruler's authority.
Fighting continued for 80 minutes around the palace home of Chogyal (King) Palden Thondup Namgyal, whom Sikkim political leaders have asked the Indian Government to remove as the constitutional Head of State. The Indian army eventually succeeded in disbanding the 400-strong Sikkim Guards, who lost one man with four others in-jured. An Indian soldier also was wounded.
The disbanding of the palace guards came on the eve of a scheduled emergency session of the Sikkim Assembly, which was to consider a resolution demand-ing the abolition of the mon-archy. The assembly is controlled by the Chogyal's political foes who came to power in the wake of the 1973 uprising against him.
Led by Chief Minister Kazi Lhendup Dorji, the anti-royalists had Sikkim converted last year from an Indian protectorate to an associate Indian state with representation in the Federal Parliament in New Delhi.
Reports from Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, indicated Dorji might next press for full Indian statehood.
THE KING of Sikkim-fight-ing around his palace.
THE TIMES MONDAY APRIL 7 1975
PEKING likely to seek cracks in the Nationalist facade after General Chiang's death
From David Bonavia
Peking, April 6
The news of the death of General Chiang Kaishek created no obvious excitement in Peking today, though his name has been reviled daily for the past quarter of a century.
Though branded as the chief villain of modern Chinese poli-tics, the late general had retained a certain immunity from the kind of personal slurs which have been cast on dis-graced former leaders of the Communist Party such as the late Lin Piao, the army chief, and Liu Shao-chi, the former head of state. Perhaps mindful of the various periods during which they worked in alliance with the Kuomintang, the nationalist party which he led, the Communists seem to have felt that even he would not have been beyond forgiveness if he had consented to seek a peaceful solution of the Taiwan problem.
Now that he is gone, they will look for cracks in the facade of the Kuomintang which they might exploit to solve this most bitter of all national issues.
On the face of it the prospects for an early reconciliation with Taipei are not bright. Mr Chiang Ching-kuo, the general's son, who is expected to become the effective ruler of the island, has not in the past shown any inclination to negotiate with Peking. It has even been hinted by officials in Peking that he might be tempted to flirt with the Soviet Union. But he lacks the personal and historical aura which surrounded his father.
The general's death, however, while not in itself an assurance of an early solution to the Taiwan problem, at least re-moves the most formidable personal obstacle.
Peking has never slammed the door on negotiations with the Kuomintang. A small splinter group of the Kuomintang con-tinued to be represented in the parliamentary set-up in Peking, if only for form's sake. In re-cent years Peking propaganda has emphasized reconciliation, not confrontation. Amnesty was granted last month to nearly 300 alleged Kuomintang war criminals and secret agents im-prisoned on the mainland.
People from Taiwan have been exhorted to visit the main-land without fear of detention and efforts have been made to cultivate people in other coun-tries who have Taiwan con-nexions. Fishing boats from the island which have foundered and been rescued by mainland vessels have been repaired and the crews sent home with friendly messages.
Appeals have been issued to Kuomintang soldiers and offi-cials to work for reunion with the People's Republic without fear of reprisals for their past conduct.
None of this seems to have made a great impression in Tai-wan, where American aid and Japanese investment have in-duced a high level of economic prosperity.
Patrick Brogan writes from Washington: China experts have long discounted the effects of General Chiang's death. It is thought that although it might remove some psychological stumbling block from the path of reconciliation between Taiwan and the mainland, the other obstacles are much more difficult to overcome.
There is a certain residual feeling of guilt in Washington that events should have led the United States Government in 1972, when President Nixon went to Peking, to write off its long alliance with General Chiang.
Paris: In China's first mention of the general's death, the New China news agency in a broad-cast monitored here said he was a "puppet president" whose "hands were stained with the blood of the revolutionary Chinese people".
Hanoi: Mr Pham Van Dong, the Prime Minister of North Viet-nam, today summed up his re-action to the death of President Chiang saying: "He should have died sooner".
Richard Harris, page 14
Obituary, page 16
=== **Page: 4 of 15**
Yet another Prev., Chief of State, etc. out! ♀
A8 Virginian-Pilot Wednesday, April 23, 1975
Military Ousts
The Sis + I are doing fine! ♀ ૪
Chief of Honduras
Tax Bribe On Bananas In Probe
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The Honduran military ousted Gen. Oswaldo Lopez Arellano as chief of state Tuesday shortly after he was reported to have refused to let a commission investigating a banana-tax bribe examine his foreign bank accounts.
Two weeks ago United Brands Co. acknowledged paying $1.25 million to high officials of this Central American country to gain lower banana export taxes. The company did not name any officials, but the Wall Street Journal reported that the money went to Lopez Arellano.
He called the report "slanders" and set up the investigating body.
An announcement on national radio said the military took the step against Lopez Arellano "to safeguard the integrity and honor of the country."
First reports indicated that the coup d'etat was bloodless. The streets of Tegucigalpa were peaceful, with no unusual troop movements.
The radio announcement said Col. Juan Alberto Melgar, 45, had replaced Lopez Arellano, 53, as head of state. Younger officers had already nudged Lopez Arellano out of his post as head of the armed forces, ostensibly to allow him more time for affairs of state. Melgar took over the military job March 31.
University rector Arturo Reina, chairman of the banana investigating commission, released a statement Tuesday morning saying that all officials under investigation had given the commission power to look at their foreign bank accounts except for Lopez Arellano.
The national leader, he said, "is obstructing the work" of the commission. Then Reina left on a flight for the United States to continue the investigation, and Lopez Arellano was ousted a short time later.
United Brands, which sells Chiquita brand bananas in the United States, acknowledged the $1.25 million payment after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against the company accusing it of transferring money to Honduran officials through a Swiss bank account.
A banana tax of $1 on each 40-pound box was set in April 1974 by the Honduran government, but it was not collected, and the tax was reduced to between 25 and 30 cents a box.
It was the 23rd coup d'etat in Honduras' 151 years of independence. Lopez Arellano had held power by virtue of two coups. He first took power in 1963 by ousting President Ramon Villeda. He was later elected to a constitutional term and served as president from 1965 to 1969. He seized power again in 1972 by overthrowing elected President Ramon E. Cruz.
Honduras, with 2.8 million people, has a weak economy based on the export of bananas, sugar, and coffee. Hurricane Fifi last September devastated the northern agricultural area.
LOPEZ ARELLANO ... foreign accounts
=== **Page: 5 of 15**
Scientists... in my former
written predictions... I
predicted the fall of South
Vietnam... also cannibalism
in 1975! - Owens
Monday April 7 1975
No 59,363
Price eight pence
LONDON TIMES
Phnom Penh considers prospect of
unconditional surrender
Discussions on the possibility of Phnom Penh's unconditional surrender to the attacking communist forces were said by reliable sources to be going on yesterday among the Cambodian leaders in the capital. However, Mr Long Boret, the Prime Minister, on his way home from Bali, said the capital "will not fall." Meanwhile, there were reports of widespread cannibalism among starving Government troops. In Washington, General Frederick Weyand, the Army Chief of Staff, back from Saigon, reported that there was virtually no hope of saving South Vietnam.
Cannibalism practised
by Cambodian troops
From Bruce Palling
Phnom Penh, April 6.
Unpaid Government soldiers killed and ate their paymaster only a mile away from the besieged Cambodian capital, it was reported here today.
In their reaction to the incident, military observers seemed more concerned with the maintenance of discipline among the troops than with revulsion over the acts of cannibalism.
An inspection of the troops at a Buddhist temple where they have been temporarily stationed south-east of Phnom Penh has revealed that thousands of starving people have taken part in acts of cannibalism recently.
A captain interviewed today said that everyone in his battalion of 500 men had eaten the corpses of Khmer Rouge killed in the fighting because they were starving.
"We ate grass, lizards and banana leaves and finally Khmer Rouge—everyone ate them, men, women and children," the captain said.
The paymaster was killed in a shooting incident, according to observers on the scene, when he refused to hand the soldiers their monthly pay of 14,000 riels (about £3) until they went to the northern front—about seven miles away. A superior officer was also shot and killed.
During the weekend, about 80 employees of the American Vinnell Corporation, which maintains and trains the Cambodian Army, withdrew entirely at the orders of the State Department in Washington.
The soldiers had been airlifted from the besieged provincial capital of Kompong Seila late last week after the Government decided to abandon the town, about 70 miles south-west of Phnom Penh in order to bring more troops into the capital. The troops, then numbering 1,500, and 5,000 inhabitants, lived under siege from last May until January when pressure eased on the positions with the Khmer Rouge concentrating their efforts on their offensive against Phnom Penh.
The American Embassy also withdrew up to 30 of its 200 employees during the past four days in case the military situation deteriorates rapidly or Congress refuses to grant supplemental military aid to Cambodia when it reconvenes on Monday.
=== **Page: 6 of 15**
Another, yet King, Premier, President removed.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975
||President of Chad Is Killed
During a Military Take-Over
Ndjamena, Chad, April 13 (Agence France-Presse) — Soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Chad early today and killed the President.
The acting army chief of staff, Gen. Noel Odingar, announced the military take-over in this north central African nation in a statement broadcast by the national radio shortly after the attack on the palace. Immediately after the attack, it was reported that several military officers arrested April 12 on charges of plotting against the President, Ngarta Tombalbaye, who had ruled Chad since her independence from France in 1960, had been released from prison by General Odingar.
A communique broadcast by the military said that President Tombalbaye "died as a result of wounds received during the attack on the Presidential Palace by the Chad armed forces despite efforts made to save him."
General Odingar, who has apparently taken over the Government, was also reported to have been wounded in the fighting at the palace, but he was able to announce the army coup in the national radio broadcast.
Following the announcement, shouts of "Long live the armed forces!" and "Long live the revolution!" could be heard in the streets of the capital.
The military said in its communique that social discrimi-
apparently led by Bantu military officers.
The military communique charged that the fundamental principal of the Tombalbaye regime had been "to divide in order to rule" and that under it the political and economic sination of the country had "never ceased to deteriorate."
The communique also charged that the military had been humiliated and ridiculed by the former President, an apparent reference to recent statements by Mr. Tombalbaye in which he accused the army of acting as a "state within a state" and said that he was going to make radical changes in the army command.
The first stirrings of the army move came at the beginning of the month with the news of two mysterious fires at the arsenals of the Chad Security Company and an incident at the national gendarmerie headquarters where three Frenchmen were shot and seriously wounded. The shootings were by two prisoners who managed to disarm their guard, an official announcement said.
However, Mr. Tombalbaye ordered the arrest of both the commander and the deputy commander of the gendarmerie and lashed out at the army. They were among those released following the coup.
The coup began last night with the movement into the city of army units from a camp at Boukoro, 35 miles outside the capital, military sources said. The units were under the command of a young officer whose name was given only as Djimtoloin.
On arrival in the capital the young officer went to the security forces camp where an initial attack took place. The
troops then moved on to the presidential residence, where they opened fire on the President's special guard. It was in this first outbreak of fighting around the residence that Mr. Tombalbaye was mortally wounded, sources said.
The rest of the Chad Army units garrisoned here then joined in the coup action under the orders of General Odingar.
Unconfirmed reports said that there were heavy casualties during the fighting at the Presidential Palace, which lasted several hours and included a light artillery attack by the coup forces. At the end of the morning, sporadic rifle shots could still be heard in Ndjamena, although the city appeared to be calm otherwise.
When the shooting began some of the 3,000 French expatriates estimated to be in the capital sought refuge with marines stationed at the French base area north of here.
The French residents later returned to their homes and the French Ambassador, Raphael Touze, said that all necessary precautions had been taken to insure their safety.
The Chad armed forces, which was only 500 strong in 1964, have been strengthened to 4,000 men, including three companies of paratroops to oppose political rebellions in the mainly Moslem north and east of the country.
The army officers who led the coup said in their communique that they intended to maintain all of Chad's present international agreements and undertakings.
Mr. Tombalbaye, who survived several coup attempts in the last 13 years, was a former schoolteacher who entered politics in 1946 when he helped found the Chad Progressive party, which later became the country's first single ruling party.
Also, "corrupt
Thieu, President of Viet Nam... and
Lon Nol... corrupt President of Cambodia... are busily
trying to get $700,000,000 in gold to Switzerland... but
the S.i.a. and I... got them out! - Owen
=== **Page: 7 of 15**
Yet another Premier, King, etc. removed.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1975
Sadat's Premier Steps Down In Cairo Public-Welfare Drive
By HENRY TANNER
Special to The New York Times
CAIRO, April 13—President Anwar el-Sadat today accepted the resignation of Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazi.
Informed government sources said that Mr. Sadat's choice as new premier was Mandouk Salem, a former police officer who has been Interior Minister for four years but no announce- ment to this effect was made pending a televised address by Mr. Sadat tomorrow night. Mr. Salem has had the rank of Dep- uty Premier for the last two years.
A new Cabinet will be named later this week, with several new ministers.
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who has played a key role in Mr. Sadat's policy of close cooperation with the United States, is expected to retain his job and to be pro- moted to Deputy Premier. Mr. Sadat is understood to be anxious to underline the con- tinuity of his foreign policy.
Mr. Fahmy is scheduled to fly to Moscow on Saturday for talks with the Soviet leaders.
According to informed Gov- ernment sources there were two principal reasons for the change of premiers.
First, Mr. Salem is expected to exert tighter control over the Cabinet and the country than did Mr. Hegazi, who is an ac- countant by training and who confined himself almost exclu- sively to economic affairs.
Secondly, the new premier is expected to try, at Mr. Sadat's request, to increase social bene- fits and wages for those who have suffered most from infla- tion and shortages of food and other consumer goods.
Mr. Hegazi, whose prime ob- jective was economic develop- ment, has fought wage de- mands. During the last few months he has been locked in a dispute over this issue with Mr. Salem, and Sayed Marei, the president of the National Assembly. He has been criti- cized during an Assembly de- bate and in the newspapers.
Last week it became clear that he was losing his fight when President Sadat ordered that a new law giving wage increases to civil servants be amended to include the work- ers in the public sector, which accounts for most of the coun- try's economy.
The feeling that only the wealthy are benefiting from the Government's policy of eco- nomic liberalization has led to sporadic social unrest—most recently in the form of violent clashes between workers and policemen at a state-owned tex- tile factory employing 48,000 workers at Mehalla, in the delta.
Mr. Salem, Mr. Marei and Mr. Fahmy are believed to be the officials most frequently consulted by President Sadat. Mr. Hegazi, who is not a politi- cian by temperament, was not thought to belong to the inner circle.
Persons familiar with Mr. Sadat's thinking had reported for some time that the Presi- dent would like to make Mr. Salem premier but said that he hesitated because he felt that the appointment of a former police officer was politically undesirable.
In an interview with The New York Times yesterday Mr. Sadat was asked whether the recent increase of tension be- tween Israel and the Arabs could cause him to go back on his policy of political and economic liberalization at home. His answer was emphatic: "No, that policy is irreversible."
Scientists...
You think 20 some odd Presidents, Kings, Premiers, etc, being gotten rid of in a years time... might be a weird coincidence? Forget it! The UFO's (Sia) and I... have been busy... causing it! Owens
=== **Page: 8 of 15**
# Portugal's President
Miami-Pilot, Tuesday, October 1, 1974 A7
# Forced Out
## Leadership Retained By Military
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Young leftist military leaders forced Gen. Antonio de Spinola to quit as Portugal's president Monday and a left-leaning three-man committee began running the country.
The final blow to Spinola's hold on the presidency that he assumed after a coup overthrew Premier Marcello Caetano last April was the failure by his rightist supporters to carry off a weekend rally to express their support. Spinola canceled the rally after Communists and other leftists strongly denounced it and threatened open violence to prevent it.
GEN. SPINOLA . . . called too slow
The Junta of National Salvation, which originally comprised seven generals and admirals, announced that three generals, Jaime Silveiro Marques of the army and Diogo Neto and Carlos Galvao de Melo of the air force, were ousted with Spinola.
The announcement said the
The military rebels promised democratic elections and land reform after 58 years of feudal rule.
Ethiopians reacted happily, decorating six tanks that rumbled into Addis Ababa with flowers and green banners bearing the military slogan, "Ethiopia First."
Troops smiled at photographers and shook hands with girls. Small groups of students ran through Addis Ababa, shouting, "Down with the Emperor."
Residents in Asmara, Ethiopia's second largest city, rejoiced in the streets at news of the overthrow.
LT. GEN. ANDOM . . . new leader
The committee also said a military court will be established to try people without appeal. About 200 high-ranking officials have been rounded up in the last few months and are now awaiting trial on charges of corruption, graft, and malpractice in office.
The committee said it acted because the emperor refused to hand back billions of dollars he had invested overseas, because of crimes against the Ethiopian people over the last half a century, and because Selassie is too old and weak, both physically and mentally.
Unofficial estimates put Selassie's wealth abroad at $10 billion, making him one of the world's richest men. But Selassie reportedly contends that much of his wealth has been distributed among his children and cannot be recovered.
The committee also accused former governments of manipu-
when he broadcast against the regime.
Selassie returned to crushed the uprising by his perial bodyguard, and saw his son prostrate himself in a plea for forgiveness. The emperor declared the crown prince innocent.
Selassie, barely 5 feet 2, consistently used stern methods to suppress his enemies. Yasu, the emperor from whom he seized power, was kept in chains for 19 years until he died.
In the early part of this year Selassie's power began to fade, however, as the armed forces served notice that it was time to move the ancient Christian empire into the 20th century.
A prolonged series of mutinies, arrests of key figures, and takeovers of government offices reduced the frail but strong-willed emperor to a figurehead.
=== **Page: 9 of 15**
ed Forces Take Over Va. Pilot 9/13/74 Good!!
Ethiopia's Emperor Deposed
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopia's armed forces de- posed Emperor Haile Selassie Thursday, climaxing a six-month gradual takeover. They placed the emperor under arrest and ac- cused him of embezzling millions while the nation's peasants starved.
Lt. Gen. Aman Michael An- dom, 51, a popular war hero named defense minister and armed forces chief of staff dur- ing the prolonged takeover, emerged as the new leader.
"I'm not going," the 82-year- old emperor was quoted as say-
ing to soldiers who came to his palace. But the frail emperor, once adored by 26 million sub- jects as the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and Elect of God, was put into the back seat of a blue Volkswagen police car and taken away, witnesses said.
A military broadcast said Gen. Aman was chosen chief of the anonymous 13-man military com- mittee in power, and thus the temporary head of government.
Michael Imru, who in July be- came Ethiopia's third prime
minister in seven months, moved to information minister.
The military broadcast said the emperor's grandson, Rear Adm. Eskinder Desta, former navy commander, was arrested along with about 170 other for- mer officials charged with cor- ruption and misuse of office.
Selassie, the world's oldest and longest reigning monarch, was taken with the royal family to Koka Palace, 52 miles east of Ad- (See Ruler, Page A4)
Sept. 18, 1974
Scientists
I'm eliminating the world's bad leaders one after the other. (See file documentation.)
Nixon, Chou En-lai, Selassie... and so on, ad nauseum. You'd better believe it...
the UFO's (CSI) and I have clout!
Owens
FPK/Mant
Ruler of Ethiopia in Custody
Continued
dis Ababa, informed sources said.
The military rebels promised democratic elections and land re- form after 38 years of feudal rule.
Ethiopians reacted happily, decorating six tanks that rum- bled into Addis Ababa with flow- ers and green banners bearing the military slogan, "Ethiopia First."
Troops smiled at photogra- phers and shook hands with girls. Small groups of students ran through Addis Ababa, shout- ing, "Down with the Emperor."
Residents in Asmara, Ethio- pia's second largest city, re- joiced in the streets at news of the overthrow.
LT. GEN. ANDOM ... ... new leader
The committee also said a mil- itary court will be established to try people without appeal. About 200 high-ranking officials have been rounded up in the last few months and are now awaiting trial on charges of corruption, graft, and malpractice in office.
The committee said it acted because the emperor refused to hand back billions of dollars he had invested overseas, because of crimes against the Ethiopian people over the last half a centu- ry, and because Selassie is too old and weak, both physically and mentally.
Unofficial estimates put Selas- sie's wealth abroad at $10 billion, making him one of the world's richest men. But Selassie report- edly contends that much of his wealth has been distributed among his children and cannot be recovered.
The committee also accused former governments of manipu-
when he broadcast against the regime.
Selassie returned to crushed the uprising by his perial bodyguard, and saw his son prostrate himself in a plea for forgiveness. The emperor declared the crown prince inno- cent.
Selassie, barely 5 feet 2, consis- tently press his enemies. Yasu, the emperor from whom he seized power, was kept in chains for 19 years until he died.
In the early part of this year Selassie's power began to fade, however, as the armed forces served notice that it was time to move the ancient Christian em- pire into the 20th century.
A prolonged series of mutinies, arrests of key figures, and take- overs of government offices re- duced the frail but strong-willed emperor to a figurehead.
=== **Page: 10 of 15**
Va. Pilot Sept 1, 1974
Basic Policies Remain Va. Pilot Sept. 1, '74
Sadat to Step Down From Premiership
[Image of man] [Image of man]
PRIME MINISTER KIRK ... Vietnam-policy foe | DEPUTY HUGH WATT ... takes over
N.Z. Leader Dies;
Ally of Workmen
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Prime Minister Norman E. Kirk, an opponent of U.S. policy in Vietnam and an advocate of new forms of Asian and Pacific regional cooperation, died Saturday. He was 51.
A government announcement said he died peacefully in a hospital where he was being treated for gastric influenza. He had been in poor health for months with pleurisy.
Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt took over the government until the Labor Party caucus meets to elect a new leader. Labor has a 55-32 seat majority in Parliament.
In Washington, White House press secretary Jerald F. terHorst said President Ford "obviously is deeply sorry" and has sent a private message of condolence to the Kirk family.
The 6-foot, 250-pound "Big Norm" Kirk, a former welder and rail engineer, was elected in November 1972 in a personal triumph that returned the Labor Party to power, ending 12 years of rule by the National Party.
Kirk reversed some long-standing government policies. He pulled the remaining New Zealand troops out of South Vietnam shortly after his election, recognized Communist China, and backed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' proposal for an end to foreign intervention in Southeast Asia.
The son of a poor cabinetmaker, Kirk began his career as a ferry engineer in Auckland harbor.
At the age of 12, he dropped out of school to work as a gardener and railway cleanup boy and painted roofs for $1 a week.
At 30, he was elected mayor of the small town of Kaiapoi.
He entered Parliament in 1957 and in 1964 became Labor Party president. The next year he became the opposition leader in Parliament.
He actively sought closer ties between New Zealand and the Third World and Communist nations.
Kirk visited Washington and the United Nations in 1973.
He is survived by his widow, Ruth, and five children.
CAIRO (UPI) - Anwar Sadat will step down as Egyptian premier but continue as president in a government reshuffle that does not signify changes in Egypt's basic foreign and domestic policies, government sources said Saturday.
The sources said Sadat directed First Deputy Premier Abdel Aziz Higazi to form a new Cabinet, which is expected to take over in the second half of September.
The change, the sources said, is aimed primarily at relieving Sadat of some of the heavy executive burdens involved in his double role as premier and president.
Sadat assumed the premiership March 28, 1973, in what turned out to be a personal takeover of all preparations for the October war against Israel.
The fact that Sadat now feels that he can afford to assign di- rect control of the Cabinet to another man does not sigual any departure from Egypt's basic policies, the sources said.
They said Egypt will continue military preparations for a possible new war against Israel if peace efforts collapse while at the same time promoting reconstruction and economic development at home.
The sources said the great majority of ministers serving in the present Cabinet will be retained in Higazi's government.
Higazi, 51, is one of the nation's leading economists. He served as treasury minister for several years before becoming first deputy premier.
He and other members of the Cabinet came under fire in the press and parliament in recent weeks because of shortages of soap, matches, chicken, tea, and salt.
9/2/74
Scientist-Observers
The SI's and I are
busily removing Premiers
and Presidents on a world-
wide scale (see recent Sci-Letter)
and replacing them with good,
peace-seeking leaders.
(And non-Communist, of
course, when possible.)
-Owens
(PK/Man)
=== **Page: 11 of 15**
SAT 15, 1974
① Chou En-lai
arly Out of Power
hinese Succession Struggle
By H. D. S. Greenway
HONG KONG Sept. 14 -
Chou En-lai will continue to
withdraw from the Chinese political
scene and that he will never
again return to the position
of power and influence he
had but a few months ago is
now accepted by China-
watchers as a foregone conclusion.
This is what Chinese offi-
cials are now telling foreign-
ers, according to travelers
who have been in the Chi-
nese capital recently. Pe-
king is alive with rumors
and uneasiness, they say,
and the most frequently told
story is that Chou suffered
another heart attack within
the past few weeks.
What Chou's withdrawal
will mean in terms of Chi-
nese politics is a great un-
known. For 25 years, Chou
has dominated the political
scene with one foot in the
government and the other in
the Communist Party.
ings we may not know the
outcome for months or even
years.
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Sunday, Sept. 15, 1974
A 11
Thieu's Foes Mobilizing
Against War, Corruption
VIETNAM, From A1
surrounded churches and pa-
godas, breaking up meetings
and harassing dissidents.
Thus A clandestine radio station
in Hue has been publicizing
"Indictment No. 1," but no one
knows who is running the sta-
tion.
The Catholic anti-corruption
movement began gathering
steam last June, when 301
priests called a press confer-
ence and released a statement
denouncing Thieu. Police kept
newsmen out of that press
conference and confiscated the
statements.
"The Buddhists overthrew
Diem in 1963," said one priest.
"Now it's time for the Catho-
lics to do something about
Thieu." Many of these priests
have been considered political
conservatives, and all are anti-
Communist.
If the Catholics have fo-
cused on corruption, the Bud-
dhists have focused on Thieu's
failure to achieve peace.
Quiescent since the cease-
fire, the militant An Quang
arm of the Buddhist church
here two weeks ago endorsed
a newly formed organization
called the Forces for National
Reconciliation.
All the personalities in-
volved have been around for a
long time, but observers call
the endorsement a significant
indication that the Buddhists,
the country, may once again
play a militant antigovern-
ment role.
Sen. Vu Nan Mau, leader of
the Buddhist slate in the Sen-
ate, said in an interview that
past month an atmosphere of
fear has developed among
many of them.
"There's a broad segment of
the population that doesn't
side with the Thieu govern-
ment," said Mau. "Until now
Thieu has continued to apply
policies that have thwarted
the coming of peace."
In the 20 months since the
cease-fire, Thieu has success-
fully held down the opposition
with police tactics and
charging all those who are not
with him with being pro-Com-
munist.
But now, with even the U.S.
Congress balking at such a
hard line, Mau's new organiza-
tion plans to tread the tricky
middle road between Thieu
and the Communists in an ef-
fort, Mau says, to implement
the Paris agreement and bring
about "national reconciliation
on the basis of self-determina-
tion by the people."
Another opposition rallying
point has been provided by
the recent furor here over
press censorship.
Not only have newspapers
been censored and their
runs confiscated, but recently
journalists have been arrested
for writing stories about gov-
ernment corruption, and their
Several journalists have
been interrogated and threat-
ened with torture, and in the
past month an atmosphere of
fear has developed among
many of them.
A large group of opposition
deputies in the National As-
sembly has called for abolition
of press censorship, and the
government says that it is con-
sidering the question.
The Catholic opposition
daily newspaper, Peace, sus-
pended publication for several
weeks recently and the pub-
lisher threatened to burn him-
self alive to protest censor-
ship. The paper has been the
main organ of the Catholic
anti-corruption movement.
In a meeting two days ago;
300 journalists, writers and
politicians declared their oppo-
sition to press censorship.
"To have press freedom
we've got to overthrow the re-
gime and not just the press
code," a politician said at the
meeting. Police did not break
up the meeting.
① and ②...
more of my
handwriting
(and Si'z).
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=== **Page: 12 of 15**
Portugal: A Shove Leftward
He was Portugal's man on horseback - a general idolized by his troops and loved by his countrymen. And when several hundred junior army officers toppled Europe's oldest Fascist regime last April, they quickly asked Gen. António de Spinola to serve as interim President during the difficult transition period from dictatorship to democracy. But the young army captains, many of them leftists, soon found themselves at odds with the conservative Spinola. The monocled, 64-year-old general appeared to feel he had some sort of Gaullist mandate to rule Portugal as he saw fit - and that meant slowing his nation's rapid swing to the left.
Last week, the junior officers decided their idol had to go. They stripped Spinola of virtually all power - and forced the aristocratic general to resign.
The showdown had been brewing since mid-July. At that time, the young leaders of the Armed Forces Movement vetoed Spinola's call for early Presidential elections - which he hoped to win before Portugal's long-suppressed Communist and Socialist parties had time to fully organize. Then the captains forced the haughty general to name their leader, left-leaning Col. Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, as his new Prime Minister. In the weeks that followed, Spinola stumped the country trying to drum up support among Portugal's "silent majority." Two weeks ago, rightists began organizing a big rally in support of Spinola. Fearful that this show of strength might foreshadow a rightist coup, the young officers led by Gonçalves demanded that Spinola ban the rally.
Saturday, October 12, 1974
Virginian-Pilot
Accidental Shot Misses Kissinger
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A submacharge gun accidentally discharged aboard Henry A. Kissinger's jet plane at Cairo airport Friday and injured his principal bodyguard only 20 feet from the secretary of state.
A compartment on the plane and the shutters were drawn. The Secret Service agent, Walter Bothe, 33, of Alexandria, Va., suffered a deep scalp wound and a second wound on the right forearm.
"You are damn lucky," Kissinger told Bothe after it was determined that he had not been injured seriously and that the shot came from inside the Boeing 707 when a case carrying the Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun had tumbled from a rack onto the floor.
Bothe told a reporter that two other weapons cases were similarly jostled free toward the front of the blue-and-white jet as it taxied off the flight line. Marvin Wolfe, a State Department physician, treated the injured agent.
The bullet pierced the ceiling of the jet after passing through a cloth bag of Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco. The incident delayed Kissinger's takeoff for Syria half an hour.
Shortly after Kissinger arrived in Damascus, he began talks with President Hafez Assad, who has said there will be no peace in the
=== **Page: 13 of 15**
another world leader removed by me and Si & Gwen
AN: The Six and I have removed yet another leader. Remer.
Tanaka Bows Out
Kakuei Tanaka is a rare Japanese pol-itician—an Oriental Horatio Alger who overcame both his humble beginnings and lack of education to scramble his way to the top. But recently the Prime Minister seemed to have lost that lean and hungry look. Thus one morning last week, Tanaka rose early, put in a call to his aging mother, paused briefly to feed his prize carp and then drove off to his official residence for a short, stiff-necked meeting with four elders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. There, he announced his intention to become the first Prime Minister in postwar Japa-nese history to resign from office under a cloud of scandal. In bowing out, he touched off a complex struggle for the succession.
Backstage maneuvering to oust Tanaka and pick a successor actually started several weeks ago when it became clear he couldn't survive an avalanche of charges against him. He faced an official investigation of his questionable meth-ods of raising political funds, his irregu-lar land dealings on which he built a personal fortune, and even the fact that he kept one—or more—mistresses in a tastelessly public way. The threat that such affairs might be exposed in embar-rassing detail caused an excruciating family quarrel with his daughter Makiko that apparently tilted him in favor of resignation. "Politicians," remarked a Ta-naka associate, "are able to weather trouble outside their homes, but if they also have trouble in their own homes, then it will usually wreck them." In the end, Tanaka acknowledged his "personal shame" and said he regretted bringing "a torrent of rain" on the future of his country.
With Tanaka gone, the most pressing order of business for the Liberal Demo-crats will be to paper up the cracks in party unity and pick a successor. That will not be easy. Tanaka's bull-dozer tactics had left behind a residue of bitterness unparalleled in postwar politics. Among four major contenders for his job (page 57), the most likely candidates were former Finance Minis-ter Takeo Fukuda, who helped bring Tanaka down by quitting the Cabinet last summer, and the current Finance Minister, Masayoshi Ohira, whom Tana-ka and his powerful faction are support-ing. In years past, liberal dollops of po-litical money and behind-the-scenes horse-trading would have lined up the necessary votes to make one of them a certain winner. But the Tanaka scandal has made money politics taboo in Ja-pan. As a result, there seemed a strong chance last week that each man might cancel out the other and open the way for one of two aging party war-horses, Etsu-saboro Shiina or Shigesaburo Maeō, as interim leader.
The trouble is that most Liberal Demo-crats feel a vital need for strong lead-ership to cleanse the party's soiled reputa-tion and guide the country out of its current economic morass. Party Secre-tary-General Susumu Nikaido has been drinking many ritual cups of tea at the homes of party elders while he makes soundings for a consensus. The major contenders themselves, NEWSWEEK's To-kyo bureau chief Bernard Krisher re-ported, are lying low. "Everyone is stay-ing at home or in his office close to the phone," cabled Krisher. "Wives of poli-ticians are calling other wives to try to get them to use their influence on their husbands. And no one is leaving Tokyo for fear that people might think that they are not important enough to be consulted on the succession."
Fire Storm: However the struggle is resolved, no one expects a radical shift in policy. A Fukuda government might move a notch to the right in economic and other domestic affairs and could con-ceivably cool down Japan's new friend-ship with Peking. Ohira, on the other hand, would probably continue most of
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Newsweek, December 9, 1974
Declaration in January Va. Pilot Dec. 11, 1974
Critical Water Area
NORFOLK—A portion, if not all, of Southeastern Virginia will be declared a critical groundwa-ter area by the State Water Con-trol Board in January, said Arthur Collins, director of plan-ning for the Southeastern Virgin-ia Planning District Commission. Collins Tuesday said he reached his conclusion through informal discussions with SWCB staff members.
The board has been consider-ing such a move since it held public hearings on the issue in Norfolk in September.
Mrs. Wayne Jackson, a water Control Board member, said that, based on the testimony she heard at the hearing, the desig-nation will be made when the SWCB meets Jan. 23-24.
If declared, a critical ground-water area would mean that all wells drawing more than 50,000 gallons per day be registered with the state for monitoring, that there be no increased usage without a permit, and that no new wells using more than 50,000 gallons a day can be dug without SWCB approval.
Collins
See my shortage of water prediction in Warren Smith's "Prediction For 1974". Also keep in mind recent discovery of drinking water cancer. Gwen
=== **Page: 14 of 15**
NY Times 12/3/74
Count Blessings
On Missing Plane Crash
When the Baltimore Colts
left Buffalo yesterday af-
ternoon on a Northwest Air-
lines chartered flight, "there
was, no kidding, no joking,
you could hear a pin drop,"
according to a team spokes-
man. "When the wheels hit
the runway at Baltimore-
Washington Airport, there
was a roar of relief in the ca-
bin," he added.
The Colts, after losing on
Sunday to the Bills in Buffalo,
had been scheduled to go
home on a Northwest char-
tered flight coming from
John F. Kennedy Airport late
Sunday afternoon. At 8 P.M.,
after the players had eaten
dinner, the plane had not ar-
rived and General Manager
Joe Thomas decided the team
would stay overnight in Buf-
falo.
At 9:30 Colt officials
learned that the plane had
crashed near Bear Mountain,
N.Y. They immediately told
all members of the team so
they could call their families
and assure them of their
safety.
"When Cotton Speyer
called his folks in Port Ar-
thur, Texas, his father
couldn't believe it was him,"
said Ernie Accorsi, the team's
publicity director. "They had
heard on television that the
Colts' plane had gone down
and that there were no survi-
vors. Mrs. Speyer was pretty
shook up."
Most of the players were
depressed when they learned
the identity of the three
crewmen who had perished
in the crash. They had flown
the Colts to Miami for a
game three weeks ago.
The team left the Buffalo
airport yesterday at 12:30
P.M. with sleet and snow
falling heavily.
"It was a bad scene for a
takeoff," said Accorsi.
"There's not one guy on this
team with a hangup about
flying, but the atmosphere
was pretty tense. There was
silence for the whole hour in
the air. We're all glad it was
our last road game of the
season."
The Colts finish the Na-
tional Football League sea-
son at home against the Dol-
phins and the New England
ots.
Nat'l Football League
LAST NIGHT'S GAME
at Miami:
PK'd Colts
Peruvian Premier
Escapes Assassins;
2 High Aides Hurt
NY Times 12/3/74
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 2 (AP)-
Peru's Premier and two other
men prominent in the military
Government escaped assassina-
tion last night, the Interior
Ministry announced today.
The announcement said that
unidentified assailants had
fired from a vehicle that drew
alongside the car carrying the
three officials.
Premier Edgardo Mercado
Jarrin, who is also War Minis-
ter and Commander in Chief of
the army, escaped injury, the
statement said.
But Gen. Javier Tantalean
Vanini, the Minister of Fish-
eries in President Juan Velasco
Alvarado's leftist Government,
and Gen. Guillermo Arbulu,
General Tantalean's brother-
in-law, were wounded.
They were taken to the mil-
itary hospital in Lima, where
they were reported in satisfac-
tory condition.
General Mercado's brother-
in-law, Guillermo Neuman, who
was driving the car, was un-
injured.
PK'd (Bad) world premiers presidents etc.
NY Times 12/3/74
Bad Weather Is Linked
To Small-Plane Crashes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
(Reuters)-A Federal safety
panel said today that bad
weather was increasingly to
blame for fatal crashes of
small planes.
The National Safety Trans-
portation Board said that
this trend developed since
1967 even though plane ac-
cidents from other causes
were on the downswing.
The finding was shown, the
board said, in a special study
of general aviation-nonair-
line-accidents from 1964
through 1972.
During the eight years,
4,714 persons died in 2,026
general aviation accidents in-
volving bad weather-36.6
per cent of all fatal mishaps
among nonairline planes.
Such crashes have oc-
curred "with disturbing regu-
larity despite improvements
in aircraft, instrumentation,
training, training facilities,
the air traffic control system,
weather facilities, weather
services and navigational
aids," the board said.
Airplane PK, issued by me in 1967, govt. notified for special demonstration of UFO powers Owen
=== **Page: 15 of 15**
Six. I got yet another Premier.
42 Virginian-Pilot
Wednesday, January 29, 1975
Denmark
Leader
Resigns
COPENHAGEN (AP)—Denmark's Prime Minister Poul Hartling, a Liberal, resigned Tuesday night after the parliament supported an opposition motion calling for efforts to form a majority government.
The surprise development came in the first session of the Folketing—the Danish parliament—elected Jan. 9 in national elections called by Hartling.
The motion, offered by the Social Democrats and urging Hartling to resign, was carried by one vote, 86 to 85, with five abstentions and three members absent.
Immediately after the vote Hartling announced that he was resigning and would do so formally Wednesday morning in an audience with Queen Margrethe II.
Hartling's party gained 20 seats in the elections, bringing its total in the 10-party Folketing to 42. But the Social Democrats, largest faction in the parliament, also gained, up seven to 53 of the Folketing's 179 seats.
Some elements of the opposition stated after the elections that they will call for a no-confidence vote unless a government with a broader political base is established.
Hartling, who had headed a minority government for 13 months, dissolved the Folketing and called elections in an attempt to rally support for a crash program freezing wages and profits to curb a 18 per cent inflation rate and soaring unemployment.
Information Minister V. Pilot
Jan. 30, 1975
Israeli Leader Yariv
Quits in Frustration
JERUSALEM (UPI) — Reserve Maj. Gen. Aharon Yariv, chief Israeli negotiator of the 1973 cease-fire, resigned Wednesday as information minister in frustration over the way the government operates.
He said the government's method of functioning appears inappropriate and fails "to meet the needs of the current situation," particularly the possibility of another Middle East war.
Yariv, 55, also said the government had failed to set up a national security council to handle emergencies, as recommended by a commission that investigated Israel's unpreparedness for the Yom Kippur War.
Yariv's resignation marks the first outward sign of dissension in the government. To my mind, there is no call for a minister of information."
But in the letter he listed as his first reason "the government's mode of operation, which to me appears to be inappropriate and failing to meet the needs of the current situation."
"There were no differences over policy matters that prompted my resignation," Yariv told newsmen. "My resignation had nothing to do with Mr. Rabin personally."
Yariv said he thought he should resign before Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returns to the Middle East to resume efforts at reaching a second disengagement accord between Israel and Egypt.
1/30/75
Scientists
Here are two more
Premiers, leaders, Presidents, etc.
(57 countries)
that the Si's have found
unacceptable... and have
removed.
How many does this make
now. 20? 30?
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