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The Boston Globe Saturday, November 17, 1973 Greek troops, tanks rout thousands of students in Athens -1 P'r- r- 1 I Pi PPrp-PPP. i pp vyvw mum I hi NAMES FACES IN THE NEWS Ray Fenton of Great Falls, lost $5 to war correspondent Ernie iPyle in a poker game a few days before Pyle was killed by a Japanese sniper's bullet in April 1945. Fenton, retired Marine officer, has made belated payment, donating $5 to a $110,000 fund drive by the Indiana American Legion to save, move and restore the 150-year-old Victorian home in Indiana where the reporter was born. Brig. General Samuel Koster, who was demoted for failing to in-: vestigate adequately the My Lai killings in South Vietnam, has asked the Army to restore him to major general when he retires Nov.

30. Koster declined to specify his reasons until the Army has acted, but said: "I think I have very legitimate grounds for making such a request." "If you are a simple, quiet black woman, you will not have any difficulty if you don't speak out against the inequities," the late Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. once told Rep. Shirley Chisholm.

Recalling this yesterday, Mrs. Chisholm, the New York Democratic congresswoman, confirmed a New York Times report that there was a Federal investigation of her campaign spending last year, but she said she had been told 10 months ago that "they're out to get you" because she was too outspoken. She 1 denied she feared indictment. From Wire Services ATHENS Three thousand Greek Army troops and policemen, backed by tanks, stormed the Athens Polytechnic Institute early today after six hours of rioting in downtown Athens by up to 15,000 students. The rioters called for the overthrow of the government.

One tank smashed through the high iron gates of the institute and the troops and police poured in, routing the students who had occupied the school for three days. Hundreds of students were beaten to the ground with clubs, staves and lengths of pipe, witnesses said. Hospital sources said two persons were killed and more than 100 injured earlier in the day during the downtown rioting which carried into every square in the capital. And on the campus today many more were wounded by the troops and police. As the students were being routed, tanks and armored vehicles encircled the campus.

Many of the students fought back with clubs and other weapons but were overpowered. Students crowding the rooftops of the school shouted at the Army: "We are your brothers. We are children of the Greek people." Radios used by the students called upon "One million Athenians from all walks of life" to join the demonstrations. They called for the "immediate fall of the tyrannical regime of the junta and the establishment of popular sovereignty." In the fighting downtown police had used tear gas and fired sub-machinegun bursts into the air. The students used buses and street cars and pulled down traffic poles to erect barricades against the attacking police.

They set some of the cars afire and raided construction sites to haul off wood and build bonfires. A government communique said the demonstration involved "a well prepared plan that had nothing to do with student demands." At the institute as the students were knocked down or fell, police and soldiers kicked some of them in the ribs and head. Many of the dem- onstrators were women. Some pleaded for mercy as the police struck out with batons. Dozens of students thrown intox police buses which drove onto the campus.

Some of them tried to flee, running in all directions as the troops fired shots into the air. Earlier in downtown Athens, tha students and others fought policemen with clubs and bottles. The police fired pellets from automatic weapons at the feet of demonstrators behind wooden barricades. Many persons were injured by bullets ricocheting from the pave- ment. Soon after the students had marched to the center of the city in the morning the fighting started and every square became a battleground.

The fighting continued into the night. Police charged down the darkened streets swinging batons at anyone in sight. Students showered the police with rocks, bottles and sticks. Some of the demonstrators tried to take over the Public Order Build- ing but were driven back by the hel-meted riot forces after repeated clashes. Earlier the anti-government move- ment spread 200 miles to the north where students occupied the Salonica branch of the Polytechnic Institute.

Before midnight the police had forced the students back to the I Athens Polytechnic. Then in the early morning the tanks began to roll and the troops to march. Dozens of tanks took over the center of Athens from which most of the demonstrators had I been cleared: With their headlights gleaming the tanks rumbled through the city and soldiers at the ready trailed be- hind them. Then the move on the institute got under way, the gate was smashed and the campus became a new battle- ground. Israeli woman soldier presents flowers to a wounded on arrival in Tel Aviv from Egypt.

Lt. Gen. David prisoner-of-war as he and comrades debark from plane Elazar, Israeli chief of staff, is at left. (UPI) Mrs. Meir calls midmontli talks inopportune Injured Arabs taken from Suez to Cairo J' PCS' US giving $lm to help save Egyptian temples from Nile the Israeli-encircled Suez area without any visible problems.

And in Cairo, UN and Egyptian government officials 'said the wounded civilians were bused to the UN-held checkpoint at kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez highway. There, they' changed to Egyptian buses and ambulances that transported them to Cairo three hours later and they were hospitalized, the officials said. The Israeli national radio earlier said 299 civilians were released. They were the first of an estimated 1500 civilian wounded trapped in Suez city since Israeli forces besieged it Oct. 23, one day after the UN-ordered cease-fire.

The civilians were wounded in the closing hours of the 18 -day war. Mrs. Meir, in her television interview said: "Each side will go to his own side with perhaps some area some strip r- on each side of the canal that would be taken up by UN forces." She said both sides now are discussing "some kind of arrangement on this." She said the buffer zones would be the only way to assure a separation of forces and to maintain the cease-fire. Israel holds 625 square miles of Egypt. Egypt holds a strip of the Sinai bank of the Suez Canal from Port Said in the north to Ismailia.

Its encircled 3d army is trapped on the east bank. United Press International UN truce forces yesterday evacuated some 300 wounded Egyptian civilians from the blockaded port city of Suez, further fulfilling the six-point Middle East cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United States. Egyptian and Israel POW exchanges continued without a Mtch. In Tel Aviv, Israeli Premier Golda Meir said Israel and Egypt are trying to agree on pulling back their forces to opposite sides of the Suez Canal and establishing UN buffer zones on both banks. In a nationally televised interview Mrs.

Meir said, without mentioning the United States, that she "definitely" envisions the possibility of a dispute between Israel and its "great, good and faithful friends" who might attempt to pressure it during negotiations with the Arabs. There have been reports that Wash ington may try to pressure Israel into giving up big segments of its occupied Arab territories. Mrs. Meir also ruled out a mid-December Middle East conference in Geneva because of national elections Dec. 31.

In Cairo, the semiofficial newspaper A. Ahrarn said Egypt has postponed Sunday's scheduled, meeting on the cease-fire accord between Egyptian Maj. Gen. Mohammed Gemassy and Israeli Maj. Gen.

Aharon Yariv. The newspaper said: "Important international contacts have taken place during the past 24 hours with the aim of making Israel withdraw to the positions of Oct. 22 "Therefore, Cairo saw fit to postpone the next joint meeting at kilometer 101 until the international contacts produce a concrete result." Al Ahram did not say who was involved in the "international contacts" but reported in a separate story that Foreign Minister Ismali Fahmi held a "lengthy" meeting yesterday with Herman Eilt's, the American ambassador-designate. It was the fourth meeting between the two officials this week. In Tel Aviv and Cairo POW exchanges continued for the second day.

Israeli leaders praised the return as step toward future peace and Defense Minister Moshe Dyan said he hoped Syria would begin a POW exchange. Syria accepted the ceasefire agreement, but has been unwilling to discuss a prisoner return. (Reuter reported Mrs. Meir as saying that the Syrians had made "some proposals" 10 days ago regarding the Israeli prisoners of war they hold, and that Israel had responded "within an hour or so." Nonmilitary suppliers moved into because of the new Aswan High Dam. A UNESCO spokesman said the total cost of the Philae project, which consists of moving the temples from the Nile Island of Philae, to nearby Algilkia hill, is estimated at $13.7 million, one-third of which is to be borne by Egypt.

The Egyptian delegate said there was a possibility of a "substantial" financial participation from the Soviet Union. The transfer of the temples was started in August 1972 and is expected to be completed at the end of 1976. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY INTERNATIONAL CHISHOLM outspoken CLARK to run Ramsey Clark, former "US Attorney General, hasn't made it official yet, but he told a Vassar College audience of plans to run for the US Senate seat held by Jacob Javits N.Y.). Clark, a Democrat, said a formal announcement of his move would come soon. Republican national chairman Gorge Bush, citing a recent Texas poll of voters, said it showed any GOP gubrnatorial candidate next year faced an uphill battle, and he announced that he will not enter the Texas race against incumbent Democratic Gov.

Dolph Briscoe next year. Three of the four imprisoned Watergate defendants from Miami Frank A. Sturgis, Virgilio R. Gonzalez and Eugenio R. Martinez will be eligible for parol before the end of December, according to their attorney, Daniel E.

Schultz, but Schultz said paperwork will hold up their release until January. The three, plus Bernard L. Barker, also convicted in the Watergate break-in, will be transferred to a Federal minimum security prison at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida to put them close to their families during their final months in prison. Sen. Henry M.

Jackson's office says the $10,000 donated by Gulf Oil Corp. to his unsuccessful campaign for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination will be returned to the Gulf lobbyist, Claude Wild, and not to the company. Jackson has denied soliciting the donation. Gulf has pleaded guilty and has been fined for making illegal contributions to Jackson's campaign and to the campaign of Rep. Wilbur D.

Mills They're firefighters, not firemen; not laundresses, the US Census Bureau ruled in making official 52 changes to eliminate sex-stereotyped job titles. Carmen R. Mayni, director of the Labor Dept. women's bureau, plained that "it is not realistic to expect that women will apply for job openings advertised for foremen, salesmen or credit men. Nor will men apply for job vacancies calling for laundresses, maids or airline stewardesses." Quote in the news "America remains for all people the hope and inspiration for peace and good will, and all of us in government have drawn a greater determination from this trip to work for these goals," Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger said after his world tour. Story, Page 1. Associated Press PARIS The United States announced here yesterday it will contribute the equivalent of $1,000,000 in Egyptian pounds for the preservation of historic temples in Egypt. The announcement came at a special meeting of the UNited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The meeting involved UNESCO's executive committee for the international campaign for the preservation of the monuments of Nubia, a series of historical sites threatened by a buildup of water from the Nile River and to his members when he said the firemen had voted to strike Nov.

6, according to the New York Daily News. The vote was 4119 to 3827 against the strike, a source told the News. At a press conference Oct. 30, Richard J. Vizzini, president of the Uniformed Firefighters said the vote was "overwhelmingly in favor of a total strike." The district attorney is investigating.

THE UNITED STATES is consid-. ering a hotline center in Europe so that President Nixon could consult quickly with leaders of NATO countries. The hotline would avoid communication gaps such as those which occurred when the United States declared a partial military alert Oct. 24 IN DETROIT, the United Auto Workers notified General Motors that its old contract is being terminated Monday at 10 a.m., opening the way for a series of selective "mini-strikes" unless there is a new contract. The union would not predict how many of GM's 110 plants might be shut down, but President Leonard Woodcock said "it will be more than just one or two." REGIONAL THE CAMBRIDGE Housing Authority was judged guilty of sex discrimination and ordered to pay $45,000 to Mrs.

Edna K. Skelley, 53, of Warwick road, Belmont. Mrs. Skelley is a long-time employee of the authority. She said she was denied the job of projects manager three times because of her sex.

Douglas Scherer of the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimina- tion said the housing board and its retired executive director, Daniel F. Burns, also harassed Mrs. Skelley after she filed a sex discrimination complaint. BOSTON'S PRU CINEMA was fined $10,000 and the theater man- ager $1000 for possession and exhibition of the sex film, "The Devil in Miss Jones," which was declared obscene by a Suffolk Superior Court jury. The manager, Charles John- i son, 31, of Beacon Hill, also received a suspended one year jail sentence and two years' probation.

There will be an appeal. THE PORT AUTHORITY voted 4 to 2 to give Chelsea's 20,000 resi- dents toll-free use of the Mystic -Tobin Bridge, but they may have to go to court to win the exemption. Chelsea claimed the bridge con- sumed taxable property, that it polluted the city, and that it should have become toll-free when the ini- v-ifz: CHILE'S military junta will invite foreign companies which previously operated there to return and "collaborate in the reconstruction of our country." Jose Zalava, manager of the Chilean development agency, specifically mentioned three U.S. firms, Ford Motor Dow Chemical and Phelps Dodge. Ford left in 1971 after losing $18 million in two years.

The plants of Dow and Phelps Dodge were seized by the previous government along with nearly 40 other U.S. properties. THE SOVIET UNION agreed to make secret crop information available to the United States to help avoid disruptions on the American market. The Soviets do not publish crop forecasts. Last year they kept secret the dimensions of a major-crop disaster until after they Dad bought large quantities of grain.

The purchases led to record world grain prices that contributed to an inflationary spiral iir the United States. IN AFRICA, Zaire will recruit pygmies into its armed forces. The newspaper Salongo said President Mobutu Sese Seko's decision demonstrates that men who were formerly considered second class citizens would now be able to serve as policemen, pilots, infantrymen, para-troop-commandos, and the like. Earlier this month, Gen. Mobutu banned foreigners from photographing pygmies in Zaire, saying "Foreigners should know that from today onwards there are no more pygmies in Zaire.

These people are and remain equal to all other Zairean itizens." US Air Force Sgt. Campynella Smith sits astride Arabian horse he uses to patrol 16-mile perimeter' of NATO air base at Incirlik, Turkey. Begun as an experiment, patrols have been so successful that officials are considering obtaining more horses to replace trucks normally used. (AP) vf i'" 4 fcw imMimi DALLAS POLICEMAN Darrell L. Cain was sentenced to five years in prison for the murder of a handcuffed, 12-year-old Mexican-American boy.

Cain, 30, the'father of two children, admitted that he had played a form of Russian roulette with the boy who sat in the back seat of a patrol car handcuffed to his 14-year-old brother. Cain could have been sentenced to from two years to life in prison. THE HEAD OF New York City's firefighters upjon lied to the public tial bonds were paid. Port Authority Director Edward King said the vote violated the Authority's bond agreements. LAWSUITS in connection with the July 31 Delta jetliner crash at Logan Airport will be tried in Boston.

One man aboard the DC9 survived and 88 persons were killed. Vermont families urged that New York be selected because of its access but a judge ruled the cases have no significant contacts with New York. Under Massachusetts law, maximum recovery for a "wrongful, death" is $200,000. NATIONAL IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS in Texas, extortionists held a banker in Dallas and a banker's wife in Fort Worth as hostages for ransom totaling $150,000. In both the ransom was paid and the victims escaped, but the FBI recovered one payoff of $100,000.

It was the third such kidnaping in Texas in the past two' days. Thursday a man held a Texar-kana baker's wife hostage for but later surrendered. fi.

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