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Monday, Sept. 14, 1S54 2 Evening Journal, Wilmington, Del Saigon Coup Collapse Pleases Relieved U.S. Officials JL irirn ad'O i. nunivr. TVAI nit'Q i.

una- tion here last week, U.S. policy, makers decided that the most urgent need in South Viet Nam now is for greater political stability. The coup yesterday dealt at least a temporary setback to this goal. What is long-range effects would be was a question that only future events could answer. Theoretically, Khanh might have emerged from the latest struggle for power in a' stronger position.

But it appeared possible from the Washington viewpoint that the open rebellion by generals who had been within the ruling group might seriously weaken Khanh's position despite the announcement by the rebel leaders that unity had been restored. "THE UNITED States government fully supports this duly constituted government, ine United States deplores any ci-fort to interfere with this government's program of convening the Supreme National Coun cil I to reorganize the structure of the government on lines commanding broad participation by all important elements of tne population." The statement was intended obviously to remove any doubt which might have persisted in Saigon and elsewhere about the S. commitment to Khanh, and authorities here described him as they had during Taylor's visit last week as still being the one man in South Viet Nam who has a possibility of creating a reasonably broad base of sup-part for rule in the country. that authorities here did not accept the claim of the rebels to having thrown Khanh out of the premiership. Officials said privately that U.S.

support was still behind the premier. LAST NIGHT, in a second statement issued by the State Department, the United States took a firm public position in support of Khanh and his administration. This statement also reported that U.S. officials in Saigon had been in touch with "military and civilian leaders" there throughout Sunday. It added: "The triumvirate of Gen.

Khanh, Gen. Duong Van (Bis) Minh and Gen. Tran Van Khiem continues to operate, with Gen. Khanh as Prime Minister and Gen. Minh exercising the functions of Chief of State.

retary Robert S. McNamara and other authorities for Monday through last Thursday. JOHNSON, Rusk, McNamara and other officials held an unannounced emergency meeting at the White House yesterday on the newest Saigon crisis. This was followed by a statement expressing the hope that "consultations among the (South Vietnamese) leadership will shortly permit the governmnet to restore the situation in the city to normal." At that time the troops who had been led into Saigon some hours earlier by Brig. Gen.

Lam Van Phat, Khanh's deposed interior minister, appeared to have control of Saigon. The reference to "the government" in the Johnson administration's statement made clear U.S. support for the premier evidently played a key role in keeping him in office. U.S. officials in Saigon are understood to have made the American position clear to South Viet Nam's contending leaders well before its public announcement in Washington.

The attempted coup came so suddenly that it caught American policy makers, including Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor, by surprise. Startled officials hastened to their departments yesterday morning to find out what was happening. Nothing like this had been foreshadowed during the four-day review of the Vietnamese situation which Taylor held with President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Sec would reinforce his position as premier. Officials said Khanh faces two urgent tasks in the immediate future.

One is to launch a military political economic offensive against Red Viet Cong forces in the Saigon area. The other is to set up within the next two months a provisional government charged with responsibility for giving South Viet Nam a new constitutional order. Rusk signalled the belief that the crisis is eased by leaving Washington on a speechmaking trip to Detroit, a long-scheduled date that the sudden events in Saigon had shifted to tentative status. He spoke briefly with newsmen at the airport. POWERFUL AND insistent WASHINGTON The United States welcomed today the quick collapse of the military uprising in South Viet Nam.

Officials said Premier Nguyen Khanh should now be able to get on rapidly with plans to press the war against Communist guerrillas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk summed up official reaction here, saying "I am pleased that the trouble is over and that the government can now get on with its main tasks." NO ONE here could say for certain whether Khanh's shaky hold on the battled little Southeast Asian country had been strengthened or weakened by the Sunday coup, but Rusk obviously hoped that Khanh's success in his latest struggle for power Saigon Coup Fails, Kliaiih Keeps Seat Whites Boycott lst-Degree Case Fought By 2 in Jail Double Jeopardy, Motion Charges The two men convicted in chools N.Y.C June as accomplices in the slaying of Trooper Robert A. Paris have asked that charges of first- (Continued From Pago One) er weaken his shaky hold in the embattled country. The coup came while Gen. Maxwell D.

Taylor, the U.S. ambassador, was out of the country. Throughout the coup attempt, Saigon residents reacted with sullen indifference. HAD THE coup succeeded, it would have been the third in less than a year. President Ngo Dinh Diem was overthrown last Nov.

1, and Khanh took power Jan. 30 from Gen. Duong Van (Big) Minh, leader of the anti-Diem uprising. Khanh was nearly driven from office in August and early September by three dropping brilliant flares over all approaches to the airport all night long, swept in menacing-' ly over some of the troops, pulling out of dives at treetop level without firing. The maneuver was repeated again and again until the troops turned around.

ALL NIGHT, U.S. officers and diplomats held sessions with the Vietnamese officers in an effort to head off shooting. Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and his top political aide, William Sullivan, drove through the airport barricade and met with Ky for an hour. Khanh arrived at Ky's headquarters from the mountain resort of Dalat, 140 miles north of Saieon.

After they conferred To Fi ght Is wmmM- NEW YORK UP) A white boy-. About 30 per cent absenteeism: schools are not segregated. But cott substantially cut attendance was reported at a Manhattan because pupils in lower grades degree murder against them in that case be dismissed. The motion was filed on behalf of Wilbert A. Weekley and Edward J.

Mayerhofer, both of New York, by C. W. Berl Jr. court appointed attorney for Weekley. Arthur J.

Sullivan was appointed to represent Mayerhofer. Berl asked the dismissal on the ground that trial for murder would place the men in normally are assigned to schools school, P. S. 6, regarded as one today at public schools involved in their neighborhoods, 165 ele of the finest in the New York system. This institution is situ in a program of using buses to balance enrollments.

The protest also caused opening day absenteeism at many weeks of violent Buddhist and ated in the heart of the so-called mentary and junior high schools have enrollments of 85 per cent or more Negro and Puerto Ri- student led demonstrations "Silk Stocking" district of the against the government. can. Upper East Side. Protesting this unplanned seg double jeopardy that is, being other schools not affected by the busing program. Police reported 1,975 persons, But many other parents sent their children to school some tried twice for the same offense.

regation, civil rights forces twice boycotted schools last winter. The board of education AP Wirephoto HELPS STOP COUP South Vietnamese Air Force commander, Briji. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, left, speaks against rebel forces that had occupied Saigon at the Saigon airport yesterday. Ky's refusal to surrender the airport triggered the collapse of the eoup against Premier Nguyen Khanh.

mostly white parents, picketed under protest, others with a will The new attempt to seize power was led by army generals blacklisted by the Buddhists, to whom Khanh had made concessions in an effort to unify the nation. The coup collapsed pri BOTH HAVE appealed con 150 schools. victions on the accomplice Total attendance figures for ingness to give the program a try. The boycott, to last two days, subsequently announced its busing plan. The boycott Is a reac charges, as has Thomas H.

Wm with the Americans, Maj. Duong Van Minh, the titular chief of state, arrived. Minh enjoys more general prestige than any other military officer in South Viet Nam, and the fact that he had joined Ky seemed decisive. "AFTER meeting together," the Vietnamese officers understand each other," Gen. Ky told the news conference at which he appeared with Gen.

Due. Due, Ky, and the other officers of both sides affirmed their sett, who was convicted of first- marily because most of the units tion to it. i degree murder in the Oct. 17, involved were unwilling to fight was called jointly by the Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Council and the Joint Coun the million-public school system, the nation's largest, were not available in the first hours after opening bells rang. THE BOARD OF Education' reported that a check of the eight FOR THIS year the board chose four predominantly white cil for Better Education.

It was and because 33-year-old Gen. Ky staunchly rfeused to surrender the Saigon airport to the rebels. schools and paired them with four predominantly Negro or opposed by school administrators and many civic Weekley Suicide Try Revealed by Towers (contmutd From Pag. on.) prison report which Towers Puerto Rican schools and shift The rebels moved into ed assignments of children with institutions chosen for the busing program showed absenteeism ranging from 18 per cent at a predominantly Negro school to in each pair to racially balance THE BUSING program in 1963 slaying. All three were indicted for first-degree murder, and Mayerhofer and Weekley were also accused as accomplices.

Although they were prosecuted on the accomplice charges, the murder indictment still stands, raising the possibility that both could be tried for murder if their convictions on the lesser charge are overturned. BERL BASED his request to enrollments. Saigon early yesterday morning, led by Brig. Gen. Lam Van Phat, a Roman Catholic who was fired as interior minister by Khanh under Buddhist pressure last week.

Later. Brie. volved only eight schools in Brooklyn and Queens but white parents with picket signs ap- 65 per cent at a predominantly State Hospital, by order of the! made available to the press to- white. The boycott sponsors claimed they do not oppose integration itself but do object to the end of the neighborhood school concept Superior Court. He had been -ay ioiiows: Deared outside some schools support for the Khanh government and said Khanh was still premier.

They also said they agreed with plans formulated before the coup attempt to begin organization of a new civilian government, with a return of all military officers in the government to army life at the end of two months. sent to jail on a charge of third One almost all-white school in Brooklyn had elsewhere. degree burglary. and the busing of young chil Bv law. New York's 850 According to prison records, dren away from their home Jackson was drunk at the time Weekley had been confined to a cell on the third floor of the west wing of the New Castle Correctional Institution.

On the afternoon of Aug. 26, his cellmate called a guard and reported that Weekley was President Judge William Duffy empty classrooms. World News he committed suicide. The areas. With many religious and civic Gen.

Duong Van Due, commander of the Vietnamese army's IV corps, appeared to take charge of the rebellion. FOUR JEEPS with machine guns drove to a police post at the edge of the city. The soldiers quickly disarmed the startled Jr. for the dismissal on a Delaware Supreme Court decision Due and Ky said they were in groups backing its plan, the other men, Weekley and Danks, are said to have had emotional problems involving their board insists it will not be sway agreement on these basic points: July 31 which held that a man who is tried on one charge may bleeding from the left wrist. ed by the size of the boycott.

Stanley T. Zakrzewski, the The authority of the gov- 1 not be tried on a more serious A spokesman for the council Weekley, whose home is In euard. found Weeklev on his Turks Say U.N. policemen. predicted that more than Long Beach, N.Y., was one of iCot.

his left arm daneline and ernment must be consolidated to avoid a Viet Cong seizure of control. Supported by five battalions. charge arising from the same incident if evidence used in the first case would be required for 000 pupils would remain home three men recently convicted ja pool of blood on the cell floor. the rebels established a tridge- lit liic a i i amnjLiiif ml iiini in i a. i 1 Viet Cong elements and prosecution of the second trial 0 vvniie nrsi aia was aamin- eaa into me capital.

A com- it preparations were made pany of Rangers took positions He contends that this condition their "lackeys" must be purged Aid Too Little the national administra- vdS luimu Kumy 0I take the soner th Dela- along the Phu Lan bridge as an-ifrom Qn QPPAmn ma in cannnrl nn try art v. ut61tt ware Hospitah Qtner staUon of(ere(j no tion exists in this case, because th: two were tried on charges of be ing accomplices to first-degre' today and tomorrow. The system has an enrolment of Normal daily absenteeism is 100,000. Although about 13,000 pupils are affected by the over-all transfers, bitter opposition has been aroused by the reassignment of 2,314 children at the eight schools. resistance.

Army unity must be re- Family problems have also Jhe 'ash 00 th wa Bi.m,i s--i i- 4w with seven stitches and By noon, three hours after the; built and government distinc- murder, although convicted on revolt began, the rebels con case. Edward J. Mayerhofer, the lesser charge. Therefore, the basic element trolled most of the city. High point of the uprising NICOSIA, Cyprus LP) Turkish Cypriot leaders today termed a U.N.

airlift of supplies to Kokkina inadequate and demanded again that the Greek Cypriot government end its economic blockade of their areas. U.N. helicopters delivered two tons of emergency rations to the northwest Cypriot village, to which also convicted of being an accomplice, lost his two sons Aug. hospital authorities said they felt the prisoner could be returned to the jail. He was placed under restraint in the maximum securi tions as to religion and party must be ended.

Chief experience most of the rebel officers had in common was that they had been thrown in first-degree murder, that of ABOUT 1,000 pupils to fjready been introduced the two in the 21 when they were suffocated came when the rebels seized the Joint General Staff headquarters. Military activity slackened against in the pairings will be taken to earlier trial and may not be out of their government post3 ty section of the prison's in an abandoned refrigerator. THE GIST OF the official oy midafternoon without a shot, or commands bv Khanh or ex brought up again. being fired. pected to be soon.

I Weekley is now sufficiently recovered to be in his cell. school by bus. School officials say only 383 of these live beyond normal walking distance from the paired schools and will need free bus service. The remaining youngsters involved, the officials claim, will receive trans KHANH WAS not in Saigon. the Turkish government had said its navy would convoy supplies under armed escort tomorrow.

Turkish Premier Ismet Inonu met last night in Ankara with top officials, but there was no immediate indication whether Turkev intended to carry out its plan. GEN. THAT is a Catholic. The HERE ARE the details on the I capital rcosi 7th division commander, attempted suicide of Danks: ey "igni 10 corner with Col. Iluynh Van Ton.

is a mem- He was sentenced to fail of. lhe Viet party. Khanh Cape May-Lewes Ferry Runs Resume (Continuod From P. On.) negotjationS) phmips meeting in Lewes Wednesday said he wasn't sure and was not i W1 lu nt-duuuar- naa cnarpert asf vlppV that tho on July 26, 1963. portation because of hazardous traffic or other conditions.

In no instance, they say, will a Greek Cypriot President Makarios warned Turkey that a navy convoy would be regarded as an aggressive act. Later he said Turkev could send supplies to regular ports-con ters in the coastal town of Cap1 party was plotting a coup On Feb. 11, this year, he; St. Jacques, 40 miles southeast: against him. trolled by the Greek Cypriots so long as no effort was made child have to travel more than 1.4 miles to school.

to break the blockade. tuberculosis and was trans-l The rebels claimed thev had Jl ih ferred from his cell to the New th allegiance a I faSitot'SSJS6 beg'nmngfby. Poor Castle Correctional Institute's generak to The protesting parents dis with Miller and Chandler. pute these figures. TB ward.

sunnorted Kh.nh VacK 0 aae(iuate prepared to discuss It last night. The president of the union's Local 14, Morris Weinstein, could not be reached for labor's fiahVrnf 7 Pparaiion ana speed led to its fighters of his air force and pods rnllanso The Delaware River and Bay Authority, operator of the ferry, has a regular meeting to On Aug. 16, in the after i f4 noon, he was found hanging ui auciau rucKeis wn rn hp During the coup attempt all reaction of the resumption of morrow, and William J. Miller, Reds Admit U.S. Negro Leader Jr.

its operations director has' "I 1th! u.ni0" bar in the prison toilet by pris- down the roads approachinTthel SS I 'FJ juiui j. ciauKen nrrfpriipc ionnrf tu'aimnrt'. oV wun me said the walkout would be dis cain no narl hart tia Mtitopt nntK outside world were possible in Kv ho KorJ t(ljj tUn BERLIN (1 PI) Communist; nrd'MilW "is clients since the court hear UU'eCllOll. Guards were immediately luit broadcasting that he was PnVCFVCiTo uric il.i uoiul-i KudIUs dumniLU u.e int Frirlav anrt rnnlH malro nn 'iith Ihnm He linUt ikio inai wniie irt; v. noDea ine aisDuie wouia De Rev, nidi mi ijumci IVlllg lUl 1 comment on the situation.

8 elements that led to th 'knock East Berlin last nicht. although at ine meeting. down and first aid administered out the station coup attempt still exist, ranking he lacked a passport. The session for the next day' "aiauli oegan Tne orderlics were com. THEN KY began receiving 'officers will try to work more Wednesday was initiated bv58 aIter union members trom mended hv nrisnn nffir-iai nlPrWs nf King had forgotten his pass port, required for the regular captains, Phillips Baltimore threw up what the their prompt action in saving top officers.

The commanders 'time to avoid mom military but police at the border recog-jsaid. without any contact witherry officers called an man's life. jof the Marines and the Navy crisis nized him and passed him the union principally involved in mational" picket line. I nnw no1a1, joined him at his I Several i San Marino Reds Lose SAN MARINO WV-Communist-Socialist strength dwindled still further today in the world's oldest and tiniest republic as the Christian "Democrats and the Democratic Socialists won another solid election victory. The election was for the 60-member Grand Council, the parliament for the mountain-top country of 15,000 people in northeast Italy.

The Christian Democrats and the Democratic Socialists won 39 seats, as compared to 36 during the last election in 1959. The Communist-Socialist alliance got 20, losing four. One seat went to the movement for Constitutional Liberty, a new party. It was the first time that women voted, and there had been fears they might lean to the left. Korea Flood Toll Groivs SEOUL, Korea CP South Korea's cabinet held an emergency session today as the death toll from flash floods and landslides in the Seoul area climbed to 190, with another 231 missing.

The floods were caused by the capital area's heaviest rainfall in 22 years. Between 5 and 8 inches poured on the Seoul area during two hours Sunday morning. Police said 9,152 houses were wrecked or flooded, leaving 36,665 persons homeless. Rice paddies, highways, bridges and railroads were heavily damaged. through the wall without it.

the dispute. The same day, the authority state Hospital lop Army officers flew in fromlaPse of the coup attempt, about 800 students demonstrated in the streets. Spokesmen said unless the government keeps Khanh's several northern points to declare opposition to the rebels. Airplanes from the national commercial airline. Air He told overflow crowds at Phillips said the captains met obtaired a temporary injunction i two East Berlin churches that 'at his home Friday night after gainst the walkout and later the Christian love will overcome! learning of a New Jersey Su- union was cited or contempt off jiXon to Stllllin walls.

He said also that the perior Court decision that for not obeying the court 1 American Negro will avoid vio-i upholding an injunction forcing ordpf- kg. for Barry promise to put the country on Nam, were commandeered and; the road to democracy bv the icmcu acveiai mousana loyal oi uctober, there will be troops to the airport. a fresh wave of student demon- iciii-c in ma ugiii iui eudiuy.iine sinners uacK 10 worn Dyi auuiuruy nas iiiea sun NEW YORK tf On or about ISept. 25 under warning of heavy; against the union for lost re-1 forrner vice president Ei-Iit Flee to WeM penalties. venues at the rate of $5,500 a Ricnard Nixon wilf start a neauzwg mat tne situation mirations five-week campaign tour in be- JSt l.he Sal.ry Flies to Moscow CAIRO (LTD UnifPfl ink NORTHHEIM, Germany HTP Ile sai1 tlie captains decides Eight East German laborers fled to ask for the meeting, and he; to West Germany during the'arranSed il Saturday with Mil-! Nation's CoKl Spot half of Barry Goldwater, Repub- bauS of Rang rS was" lican Dresidentia nnminpp Ul "augers was Ik.

1 "No guide-; urpolranrt in I'arinitc confirmo a flllu ndnQicr. NEiV YORK (I PH Th Inupsl U'pVp com uu si. wc oruer to assault Me Pudiic Premier Aly Sabrv will airrvirf i ik. "1J1 icr--. i cuuer Aiy jaDrV Will 60-mile stretch of the Iron Cur-! were set for the talks, temperature reported this morn-: invitations for Mr.

Nixon andffl 8e" re' i 7' Mosc7 borrow bearing ja message from U.A.R. Presi- nl rresi tain frontier, border police said philIiPs said- ting io me u.s. earner Bureau, were still trying to work out a THE Rfrft. ir.B today. The refuges ranged in age; ASKED HOW THE hiring of excluding Alaska, was 23 at'schedule." a spokesman re-rolhne toward th aVrnrrt id el Nasser to from 19 to 22.

'replacement captains might, Phillipsburg. Pa. 'ported over the weekend. Kv nianp0 i'lmia a. Knrushchev, been it was announced today.

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