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5 Sog Angela mmt Poor Flee Oct. 19, 1970-Part I 5 Cholera infl U.S. '60 Pact to Train Ethiopian Army Told Force Built Up in Exchange for Expanding Radio Base, Senate Unit Says BY MURREY MARDER Exclusive to Tht Tlmtt from Hi Washington Port Istanbul; Calm Urpd 7 opia. Because of the clear limitations on this constitutionally there was no i mplication here of any commitment to Ethiopia with American forces." Fulbright said: It seems to me (it) goes much further than saying a good word in the United Nigeria Bars Entry of U.S. Aid Investigators Exclusive to Tho Timet from tho Washington Post WASHINGTON The General Accounting Office 1 reported.

Sunday that the government had refused to grant entry vias to GAO -staff members, into that country's use of $121 million, in U.S.' aid. ISTANBUL, Turkey Prime Minister Suley-m a Demirel appealed Sunday for calm in the face of a cholera epidemic in Istanbul and surrounding areas. Doctors and hospitals are making superhuman efforts to combat the disease, Demirel said. Health Minister Vedat Ali Ozkan declared the disease was being brought under control and that there was no need for a of the infected slum areas. Press reports, however, said residents of the areas worst affected were fleeing to the countryside, some perhaps carrying the disease with them.

"We don't want to die here, we want to die in our home village," one paper quoted a leaving the Sagmalcilar slums as saying. Perhaps half a million persons, most of' them: landless peasant mi-jf; grants, eke out a living in the shanty towns around Istanbul, many of are without sewage terns or adequate water supply." The official death' toll Sunday night stood, at 27 unchanged in; 24 But other reports from hospitals in the area said up to 80 were dead. 'V Large queues formed at clinics dispensing cholera," inoculations. The nor of Istanbul said that within two days the entire population of the about 2.8 million people, would have been inoculat ed. Despite government? claims that the epidemic, had been contained in the Sagmacilar and neighboring Esenler slums, news' agencies continued report ing cases from the provin ces Sunday.

'-'2 46 1 ft) i i This represents nearly half of the total U.S. military, assistance to all African' nations in that period. Ethiopia is receiving $12 million this year in mflita-, ry aid, two-thirds of the American arms aid share for Africa. Subcommittee Chairman Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) said: "Although State and Defense Department officials maintained during our hearings that the American people were aware of our commitments and presence in Ethiopia, it would appear the facts contained in today's transcript come as much of a surprise to most citizens as they were to me." Sloppy.Way' William Ful-bright who has reiterated that he was "hornswoggled" by former Presjflerijt 0 on Viernarh' said the little-noticed U.S. involvement in Ethiopia too is "a reflection upon Congress and the sloppy way we have done business with the State Department and the President." The principal witnesses in the Ethiopia inquiry were David D.

Newsom, assistant secretary of state -for African affairs, and George W. Bader, regional director for Africa in the office of assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. trea. In the south, Ethic-pia is holding down insurgents in the Ogaden region, which Somalia claims. It is basic American policy, U.S.

officials told, the subcommittee, "to do our best. to not interfere in the internal. affairs of Ethiopia," and they mini-m i the insurgency threat. But to the enemies of 78-year-old Emperor HaMle Selassie, who holds $us kingdom together by tight personal rule, the U.S. distinction on noninvolye-ment may Tse a fine one.

The main U.S. priziin Ethiopia is the Kagrfew station, acquired as aglor: bal communications facility in 1953, where there are 3,200 Americans, including dependentsv Primary Relay Station i Kagnew is a lay station for the U.S.&r-; my's strategic communications ste a major American naval communications center, an earth terminal for U.S. satellite systems and a diploriatil 0 ications relay point. It is in Asmara, capital of Eritrea. Essentially to retain Kagnew, and the emperor's cooperation in world affairs, the testimony showed, the United States has provided Ethiopia with $147 million in military assistance since 1953.

WASHINGTON Senate investigators made public Sunday a confidential U.S. agreement in 1960 "to equip and train a Ethiopian army in exchange for expanding a major American communications base. i The consequences of that and other U.S. accords with Ethiopia were explored by the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on U.S. commitments abroad.

The inquiry produced another heavily censored transcript in this series of investigations. In making the 1960 agreement, the United States, in effect, outbid the Soviet' Union to continue as Ethiopia's major arms supplier. Fights Insurgents The decision to build up the Ethiopian army to 000, largely justified to meet a "Somali threat," came when newly independent Somalia had only 2,000 men under arms. Somalia also sought U.S. arms but was kept dangling.

Then in 1963 the Soviet Union became its military supplier. With American weapons and ammunition, Ethiopia is fighting insurgents of the Arab-supported Eri-trean Liberation Front in Ethiopian annexed i- WILSHIRE AT BEDFORD BEVERLY HILLS cancel your flight plans! that stylish hairsnipper LEONARD OF LONDON'JS HERE! in our beverly hills salon October 20 through 30 ply Ethiopia with military equipment, training, financial and other aid and "the first stage in the establishment of the Haile Selassie I University," the summary stated: "The United States government a 1 0 vr a f-firmed its continuing interest in the security of Ethiopia and its opposi-t i 0 to any activities threatening the territorial integrity of Ethiopia." However, Newsom said," "we have no security commit men to Ethiopia." When asked to, explain what the existing commit-' ment meant, Newsom said the United States had "al- ways understood" "it mean a readiness to our good offices in United Nations, in "to use the event of an attack on Ethi- INTO Funds for Ethiopia are channeled through the appropriations committees. There have been prior references to the 1960 U.S. agreement with Ethiopia made before the" Seriate Foreign Relations Committee, but the "commitment" to equip a army was not submitted. v.

Newsom described commitment as an authorized "oral statement" by the U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia. Newsom' noted that Haile Selassie's rule is "highly personal and he generally opposes disclosure of such accords. A summary of; this key document expressed "great interest" by the United States in expanding Kagnew. In addition to committing the U.S.

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