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Wat Son. Dm 4 Laadac mm Clean TdttoM Paid il Sprmfflem. exMpt sansay en mnm Masnm m- 1 I i Leftists Claim Control of Cochabamba i. T0)r 0 uUSF e. 't -r.

"7" Leftist forces claimed control ber 1967-and pledged to put ft down. Guevara. Fidel Castro's By HAROLD OLMOS LA PAZ, BoUvia (AP) Civil war broke out Tuesday in Bo right-hand man is the Cuban revolution, had embarked on a -campaign of revolutionizing Lat- of Cochabamba, second largest city In Bolivia, impoverished nation of 4.3 million where Latin America's master revolutionist Ernesto "Che" Guevara met his livia between military forces of in America. See BOLIVIA, Page 3 the left and right. Leftisrplanes dropped bombs on the presidential palae in the heart of La Pai.

death three years There were no reports of casu Ovando sought asylum in the Argentine Embassy. A group of air force officers loyal to Ovando countered Miranda's action by declaring Gen. Juan Jose Torres, a leftist, "president of the revolutionary committee." Torres set up headquarters -at the La Pas air force base and launched six planet in a 15-min-ute bombing attack on the presidential palace. A small military garrison, the palace's only occupants, replied with antiaircraft fire. Leftists followed up the bomb alties and no action was reported after nightfall.

To Return Nov. 16 80 Persons Hurt The Central Workers Union, Congress Seir largest labor organization Bolivia, and professional and Student organizations backing the leftists called a general strike for midnight Tuesday aimed at Oct. 14 Date paralyzing the nation. Fourth Death Reported From Tornado The intramilitary battle was touched off by the resignation of Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candia as Adjournment: president ben.

Rogelio Miranda, con WASHINGTON (AP) Con- I 1 1 1 ing with a machine-gun attack on armed forces general headquarters, Miranda's command post Miranda arrived at the presidential palace soon after the attack and Issued I statement castigating Ovando for "permitting He denounced recent guerrilla activity in the northeast which all hut ceased after Bolivian troops killed Guevara in Octo- servative army chief of staff SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -The who led the revolt against death toll climbed to four, the gressional leaders agreed Tuesday to recess on Oct 14 for the November elections and return for a post-election session on Ovando on Sunday, named a injured to 80 and the damage to an estimated $5 million Tues military triumvirate loyal to him. He resigned his army post Nov. 16. day, as Shawnee began cleaning and chose to remain in the back up after its first major tornado 11 awwilirtti fnm Wirtyhttw The path of destrattion from a tornado which homes were demolished.

Damage the city ripped through a mobile home park at Shawnee, i was estimated at about million and four Monday la clearly seen in this aerial j' persons died. view taken Tuesday. More than -15 mobile Senate' Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana told ground with no official title. amce 1927. The -j.

fourth victim of the newsmen after a conference in storm, Aler Taylor, 66, of the office of House Speaker By House Committee Shawnee, died Tuesday of in John McCormack of Massachu juries he received while stand setts that the agreement was Two Months Prior to Tragedy ing in front of the Bob Brackeen tentative but added "I think it willbefirm." Defense Trimmed Buick Agency when the storm hit Monday. i Republican Senate and House Two men Were killed inside leaders met with the Democrat Wichita the building and a woman was ic leaders In the Speaker's office Full $2 Billion killed In Shamrock Trailer Court on the city'a north side. after senators of both parties held caucuses to discuss pending legislation and how to The victims were identified as John Coats, Roy Lee Coats, and part in the filming of Tora handle it. Air Firm Toral Tora!" Had No License Mrs. Allen Roberts, 25.

WASHINGTON (AP) Knocking $2 billion out of the Pentagon's annual money bill, the House Appropriations Com It approved all $358 million Mansfield described the Oct. date for recessing as a com promise, saying he would have Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers, National Guardsmen, asked by the administration to mittee approved $66.7 billion police, firemen and Civil De preferred to stay in session until with its regional offices for ad Tuesday and said the country boost the combat readiness of South Vietnam forces. fense workers, continued their vice on the air qualifications has every right to expect "for i 1 By IAMES It. POLK WASHINGTON (AP) A government inspector warned 1Tl.l;a ITwiHAHOlflJ MAAjn work Tuesday. and safety records of the firms midable military forces" for All Shawnee schools were House action on the bill, with whom they do business, trimmed from President Nix closed, and much of the city was football team to Logan, Utah, for a scheduled game with Utah State' found what the FAA termed "16 maintenance defects." The FAA issued a rare and stern emergency suspension of the plane' air worthiness -'u that.

It approved all SL1 billion au on's request for $68.7 billion, is without electrical power or tele The FAA said, the firm that thorized for the Safeguard anti scheduled to start Thursday phones. two months ago that a small sir firm had no license to fly the airliner that crashed Friday in the Rockies, killing 30 persons. The Federal Aviation Admifl- missile system and an extra Police Chief Kantrell Gill morning and a vote is expected 5 See WICHITA, Page before the end of the west raised the damage estimate after a tour of the damaged areas. The. FAA confirmed the $415 million for Navy ships but trimmed $1.5 billion off development and purchase of other Oct 23 in hopes of avoiding a post-election session.

It will be the first time in 20 years that Congress has held a "lame duck" session one eon vened by the outgoing Congress after its successors have been elected. The last was during the Korean war. Mansfield said he hopes to list later the bill on which the Senate will try to act by Oct. 1 and those that will be brought up after Congress returns on Nov. 16, The elections are Nov, 3.

Mansfield said he plans to See CONGRESS, Page 3 criticizing Pentagon money management the second lstratlon said Tuesday it Criticism Sharp, He said losses would reach into details, a series of fresh controversies surfaced' in the probe of the crash of the leased plane in the mountains west of Denver. The victims included 13 football players, the head football coach- and the athletic director. the developments Tuesday: r- The FAA confirmed its head inspector at Wichita, told the university's athletic ticket manager Aug. 14 that Golden Eagle Aviation of Oklahoma City did not have the proper, certificate to operate a plane of the size of the Martin 404 that crashed. The athletic official Floyd Farmer1! was among those killed.

j-; military weapons systems. "at least 5 million and maybe year running, the committee same plane that crashed was in. voJved in an accident the previous week in Oklahoma City when a landing gear collapsed grounded a second plane used to arry part of the ill-fated Wichita State football leam after The committee crapped the more," Said 'the critical times ahead U.S. Questions on takeoff and the airliner Army generals' helicopter training program, under which Army Chief of Staff William C. West finding that plane had 16 veered off a runway.

A dam maintenance defects. require the Defense Department to tighten its operations. "What this country needs is more defense for the dollar," it See DEFENSE, Page 3 moreland has just won his i Secretary of Transportation Rescue workers said 15 mobile homes were destroyed at the Shamrock Trailer Park and fear was voiced that additional dead might be found amid the wreckage. Fourteen heavily damaged homes were counted between Cairo's Intent aged propeller had to be replaced and the second plane was used to carry the Wichita State John A. Volpe said the Justice wings, and urged theiNavy to collect another $196,000 for its Department may be called into, the investigation and added: 'Most Comprehensive Iyer Made' football team to West Texas State in two gronps.

The FAA issued a nationwide warning to all colleges and "The evidence we have to date suggests there may have been To Keep Peace Shawnee and Prague, some wrongdoing." -Ab inspection a sister plane that carried the rest of the universities to start checking Although Volpe declined to go WASHINGTON (AP) -A The Nixon i Slates Statement United States sharply ques The storm injured at least five persons in Prague and caused an estimated $130,000 in damage. The funnel demolished a trailer home, unroofed a home and destroyed several homes tioned Egyptian and Russian good faith ia Kiddle East peace- seeking Tuesday because of al near Lexington, southwest of On VeryrDiff icult War rational Conspiracy Threatens Lives of Seriate To'tl leged "serious and continuing" cease-fire violations. Shawnee. The challenge was raised at a statement made connection He said it has been diseussed WASHINGTON (AP) Presi Ky Ordered Home with cancellation of meetings of Big Four deputies in New York to work on guidelines for peace "I don't think therein ny nesses said they oeueve the with the governments of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos "and has the approval of those governments as well, of course, as the approval of the govern 1 VASfflNGTON (AP) With 'armed police standing by and At Once by Thieu LONDON (AP) Vice Prest dent Nguyen Cao Ky of South dent Nixon will give the nation Wednesday night what he called a comprehensive, statement, on (he Vietnam war. He said it will include a major new proposal in an effort to break the deadlock freedom at speech protected by question that the Weatherman negotiations.

the First Amendment to the in the he said, ara Ellsworth ambassador to Vietnam with whom he met in California, and Ambassador Bruce and Philip Habib, Bruce's deputy, whom he saw in Ireland "and received their assessment of the situation and their rccom- See NIXON, Page faction of SDS and the Black: The Big Four are the United Constitution cam no longer, be Panthers are engaged in a con. ment of the United "with a stack rf mortars, machine guns and grenades on the witness table, a Senate panel was told Tuesday a national Vietnam said Tuesday he has used to justify the preaching of States, Britain, France and Russia. Israel has accused Egypt of at the pari! peace talks. spiracytofl ay if Charles O'Brien, California's deputy at been ordered to return to Saigon the overthrow of the govern In a short unscheduled meet Among those in the adminis toraey general, told the Senate conspiracy threatens the lives of moving 1 Soviet-made missiles ment. or the giving of detailed instructions on to make tration who have been involved ing with newsmen Tuesday only 15 hours after returning from Internal Security subcommittee, immediately by President Nguyen Van Thieu.

-f "I have just received a message from the president asking closer to1 the Sues Canal 'since auiawomcers. O'Brien, holding op what he bombs or assassinate police i3 fs Europe, Nixon said he will make a radio-television address said was recently confiscated WEATHER me to go back," Ky said in an at 9 p.m. EDT Wednesday that 45-caliber submachine gun, said Francis B. Burch, -attorney general of Maryland and head of the National Association of will be "the most com police in his state are increas ingly worried over recent large scale thefts of arms and ex Attorneys General, testified that prehensive statement ever made on this subject shice the beginning of this very difficult instructions on how to ambush interviews "I have no i idea uvc Ky was asked if the recall was connected with President Nix-on's pending announcement on i a ra to the American people, i- "I have no Idea what Presi plosives from the arsenals of OZARKS-Mostly cloudy 'day through Thursday with a chance of showers or High today in the 80s, low tonight 66 to 65. Little cooler Thursday with Hie high In the 70s.

Precipitation probabilities 56 percent today and tnolirhL poiicesfofficersi; printed war." military He declined to give details of J'The quantity of these weap the cease-fire started Aug. 8, in violation of the military standstill agreement that was part of the troc accord. The United States; supporting the charge of violations, has taken the matter up with "both Egypt and Russia. "Srious-ahd continuing violations of the standstill agreement on the west side of the Sues Canal," Tuesday's statement said, "have raised doubts whether there "is a sincere desire for peace and have created an obstacle to resumption of negotiations under 'Ambassador 5 See MIDEAST, Page Black Panther newspaper were almost identical in detail to an actual attack in Baltimore in which one policeman was killed what he intends to say but told newsmen it will not be limited ons and guns in unknown private hands raises the continuing dent Nixon's announcement will to Vietnam and will cover all of be," Ky said. spectre of a situation In which and one wounded.

1 Southeast Asia. -a Nixon consulted in Ireland KANSAS Stockmanl watch nruiwot the police are literally out O'Brien said there has been a The White House said the WMneadar with axd rain. OcnMom! Saturday with Ambassador Da gunned," O'Brien Said. "Imag speech will run about 15 min 100 per cent rise in the number of police killings in California in ine what a mortar could do to a vid K.E. Bruce, chief U.S.

delegate to the Paris peace talks on utes. police station." Cottkir urth ud wvrt WMnMdar wilt orthwnt wtsdi 10 to 3S npti hiitin wiMa tt Mnthnat. Wedmaday night ard Than. day cloudy, efeaac of ratt or snow north-eat am oooaaional rain elmwftcra, Coidnr mt and west winisdv alient and In 1970, with 15 law officers mur- The President also said his a Eu- Vietnam, at the end of ropean tour. statement will not be limited to See PANEL, Page 3 O'Brien and other police wit- aoaihnat Tnnnsay.

Htih Wednesday 40a any of the particular subjects that had been speculated on in orthwMl to 70a aonthaMt. Low Wmoadiir lixnt appar aootnwnt and aertiMaal to Sua aoulKaat. Kiyha Touraday S0a aorta. the news media "but will cover all of the major issues that are wmi to fiiia aootftaaat. OKLAHOMA Fair went and central WdMdy nartly cloudy aast.

Tormin mintor Puhandta and extreme northwoat involved in the Southeast Asian Colleges Move to Stop Disruptions Students Geti tough Word area." Wadnaaday afWrnoon. Partly emndy Wednaaday MiKt, torBSti cooler norttiweat half. ConakkraMa ctondlncaa tntarmlltant Mi bmi mnli ranter Thoraday. Bmha '-') Wwtnamay near 7 to mid ma east. Low Among the topics speculated upon recently have been an in Wednnrtay nlftnt Ooner mm rannaimi" is ear 7 )Btli.

Htis Ttmmlay mi crease in the number of U.S. Janri)il to tnw 70 aoutneaM. ARKANSAS Constderabla dondfoaas troops that will be withdrawn and a possible cease-fire in Viet nam, today wi abowora and thnidoniorTO acdin In the aualhwent tonUU. Partly ciondy Ttwraday thn wast, mostly etotidy to tna aas wkn ehance of ahowcrs and Unmdrahowein in the aorta-aut Hlsha today and Thursday nppar 70s to mi Ha, krwa toniikt mostly to tht "I would like to Indicate that we do not consider this to be a propaganda gimmick," Nixon said. "We are not saying it simply for the record." As an indication of the U.S.

-TWMPERATDRt-S: Hifhcst yesterday Vll lowest ywrtertsy SO; knheat this data In years to ISO: toweat this data attitude, Nixon said he has in in wan a MS. mrn'mmnnN. Kaai fram n.M: h. s.oa ant vestontav. JH: structed the chief U.S.

negotia before President Nixon's Sept 16 admonition to "stand up and be counted" and similar recora- mendations from his Commis- sion on Campus Unrest On Sept 18 trustees of Southern Illinois University specified activities that will be punishable 1 by suspension or expulsion and listed among more serious of- ienses the occupation of a uni-. versity facility in defiance of administrative orders The aame day, regents of the a i a 1 1 of Washington passed unanimously a five-point conduct code with a con- troversial clause that forbids intentionally inciting others to engage immediately in any of T. See CAMPUS. Paget ly far the most subject to vio. lence, an Associated Press sampling indicates that relative- i ly turmoil-free schools have been laying down as strict rules as any.

i -The new rules come in the wake of last spring's campus turbulence which closed or dis-, rupted hundreds of colleges in related, to. CAmbodia and the deaths of four students at Kent State. Some schools are offering stu- dents encouragement to et in- volved in the System through participation, in political cam- LJignn. -ail Higher education authorities -were preparing to stiffen their5 stands against violence months By RICHARD BLTSTONE Associated Press Writer Thousands of college and unl- versity students returning Campuses this fall are finding the law laid down about demon- strating, occupying buildings, and other forms of protest New antivMence measures across the country range from -electronic sensors and secret i tactical plans to revised codes, judicial machinery and penalty procedures. More are in the works.

Some measures originate With state regents; some with- administrators and a few faculty. While recent studies have in-' dicated that the bigger in-, stitutions and those with highest enrollment standards bavw teen tor at Paris, Ambassador David Wlea rata thla data to yearn. Ml to lji'fl. Sl'N: ltoan grtr najiiinn T.ltl aatr-to. K.

E. Bruce, "to lay this proposal on the table" at the next Vlht I'll Lawta si dayllSbt. StmtBatea. Taaaaeraasra iwno yanarasyi meeting Thursday morning with 1 a.m. 1 am.

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thorough consideration of all the -ssssetated Frews WU robots President Richard Nixon told newsmen at the White House Tuesday that he would make a major address to the nation on Vietnam Wednesday evening at I o'clock EDT. -1 issues that are involved in our negotiating position." Midnwm FOOII ttots kratoM eV VJ. Waalkaf Boraaa..

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