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El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 5

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Section A Page Five -EL PASO HERALD-POST Thursday September 12 1974 King of Kings" Selassie Overthrown against an Arab move to seat the Palestine Liberation Organization in the United Nations United States will try to repel the Palestinian initiative komt Ihe mu jungle to avoid black gangs roaming the colony's roads Portugal rushed elite troops into the territory's capital Wednesday to put down the five-day-old crisis that began with a white colonist revolt and ended with black rioting HOUSTON The Soviets have stretched their commitment for next July's joint American-Russian space flight to include a full dress rehearsal in orbit the chief of cosmonaut training said yesterday At the beginning of negotiations for the international flight about two years ago the Soviets said they would prepare two separate launch rockets and Soyuz ships and have two No 1 crews and two backup crews to prevent serious delays Vladimir A Shatalov heading a Soviet delegation at the Johnson Space Center told a news conference yesterday the Russians now plan an inflight checkout of all the new hardware needed for the mission a few months before the Julv 15 launch decisiofi to suspend the war decree would bring any basic changes Pinochet said a nightly curfew would remain in effect and military tribunals would continue to try Allende supporters a considerable time to VIENNA Ministers of the world's major oil exporting nations met today to consider proposals from their economic advisers for a 14 per cent increase in the price of crude oil but Saudi Arabia indicated it would oppose any hike Jamshid Amouzegar of Iran said are going to discuss a recommendation of the Economic Commission for a 14 per cent increase" Asked if Saudi Arabia would oppose a price increase the first since the beginning of the year Sheik Ahmad Zaki Yamani said: always try to keep prices down" LOURENCO MARQUES Mozambique Portuguese commandos put down the last pockets of racial rioting today ending a pre-independence bloodbath that left an estimated 500 persons dead or wounded More than a thousand panicky white settlers fled across the border to South Africa Many abandoned cars and set out on foot through the striking crew members forced the captain to drop anchor three miles out to sea The seamen said they are not mutineers but strikers protesting the French government's decision to phase out the 66348 ton vessel the largest passenger ship in the world One union leader said the liner will stay anchored three miles outside of Le Havre its home port an agreement has been signed" SANTIAGO Chile's military junta has marked the first anniversary of the violent overthrow of the late President Salvador Allende with an elaborate offer to free thousands of political prisoners Gen Augusto Pinochet head of the four-man junta used yesterday's anniversary ceremonies to offer freedom to most political prisoners but only if Cuba and the Soviet Union release an equal number of dissidents The general who led the Sept 11 1973 coup that toppled AUende's Marxist regime also lifted a state of internal war decared a year ago but left intact a nearly identical state of siege Chilean lawyers said both the state of internal war and the state of siege suspended constitutional guarantees in the country They doubted the worked for public awareness and community understanding of problems of the Spanishspeaking Mrs Macias is employed by Project Bravo Bencomo is a former alderman and Leon assisted in formation of LULAC councils Telles has been involved in many programs LEADERS RECOGNIZED Four El Pasoans have been selected by LULAC Council 617 as Community Leaders for 1974 They are shown with Judge Edward Marquez who is to present awards from left: Leon Judge Marquez Mrs Jessie Macias County Commissioner Richard Telles and Hector Bencomo All have at the next session of the UN General Assembly because Kissinger views the terrorist organizations as an element that serves Soviet interests" said CALCUTTA India Mobs of starving West Bengalis combed the countryside searching for food today after one of the worst famines in history hit seven of the districts police said Relief workers said the famine situation in the districts approached the severity of the great 1943-44 Bengal famine when 4 million persons starved to death NICOSIA Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders have failed to reach an agreement on a general exchange of prisoners but said they would release all prisoners who are sick wounded or under 18 years old President Glafkos Clerides and his vice president Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said yesterday a date for the exchange will be set at next Friday's meeting OnC United Nations official called the agreement step toward peace on the war-torn island No agreement was reached on a general exchange of prisoners of war estimated by the International Red Cross to number about 3000 LE HAVRE France The Viking 3 ferry came to the rescue today of hundreds of passengers marooned on the luxury liner France when (Compiled by from 1'Pll LONDON Ethiopia's armed forces toppled Emperor Haile Selassie today from his 3000-year-old throne and proclaimed a military regime to rule the country temporarily The armed forces promised new elections and invited Selassie's son Crown Prince Woosan to take the throne as a figurehead constitutional monarch US Embassy-sources In London said Woosan 57 is ill in Switzerland Selassie the tiny 82-year-old "Lion of Judah' bowed to the inevitable this morning and accepted an Armed Forces Committee decree deposing him as Emperor of the nation he had rilled since 1916 the sources said The American sources said Addis Ababa the Ethiopian capital was quiet They said they had no word of the whereabouts Other sources said he had been taken from the palace his army nationalized a month ago and conveyed to a place prepared for him" The armed forces decree did not abolish Ethiopia's monarchy which is said to trace in an unbroken line from a union between the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba The decree said new elections would be held though it specified no time and a new constitution proclaimed the sources said KEY WEST Fla Fire broke out today aboard the luxury oceanliner Cunard Ambassador cruising 39 miles southwest of Key West and the 290 crewmembers fled over the side in lifeboats There were no passengers aboard A Coast Guard spokesman said crewmen abandoning ship into their lifeboats with the exception qf a firefighting The 486-foot liner was on its way from Port Everglades at Fort Lauderdale Fla to New Orleans where it was to pick up passengers for a new cruise when the blaze started in the engine room TEL AVIV Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told US Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger Israel would be ready to withdraw deeper into Sinai if Egypt wants to make another interim agreement a news report said today The report a dispatch froWashington in the Tel Aviv newspaper Ma'ariv said Kissinger told Rabin yesterday that 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