Rhodesians
ask for ‘critics’
reinstatement
SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) —
A powerful faction in Rhodesia's
biracial administration Sunday
demanded the reinstatement of
black cabinet minister Byron
Hove, but wavered on whether to
quit the interim government in a
dispute over his firing.
“The party is reviewing the
whole question of its continued
participation in the transitional
government,” the United African
National Council said in a state
ment.
The statement came after a
four-hour meeting between party
leaders and their head — Bishop
Abel Muzorewa, an influential
moderate and one of three blacks
on Rhodesia’s ruling executive
council.
Hove, dismissed as co-minister
of justice Friday for criticizing the
racial makeup of Rhodesia’s
police and judiciary, told reporters
in London that the two-month-old
government would be in danger
without Muzorewa. He is thought
to have the widest support of any
council member among Rho
desia’s blacks.
Afganistan names leftist leader
NEW DELHI, India (AP)
Afganistan's new military gov
ernment gave the first hint of its
political leaning Sunday by an
nouncing the selection of Nur
Mohammed Taraki, a reported left
ist, as prime minister in the wake
of last week’s bloody coup.
New reports said at least 500
persons were killed in the upris
ing.
Kabul Radio in the Afgan capital
announced Taraki’s appointment
in a broadcast monitored here and
in London. In another broadcast
monitored in Islamabad, Pakistan,
the radio said the Soviet Union on
Sunday became the first nation to
recognize the new government.
In Moscow, the Soviet govern
ment gave no immediate confir
mation of that report. Kabul Radio
called Taraki a “nationalist and
revolutionary personality” but
gave no party affiliation.
The British Broadcasting Corp.
in London identified Taraki as the
leader of the People’s Faction
Party, a purported pro
Communist group that operated
underground under the previous
Afgan government. He reportedly
was one of several persons ar
rested in left-wing demonstrations
that preceded the coup, which
began Thursday.
Nixon felt doomed
when tapes revealed
NEW YORK (AP) — It comes as
no surprise, but Richard Nixon
thinks his presidency was
doomed from the day the public
learned his tape recorders eaves
dropped on every conversation in
his office.
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IMF wants slower U.S. growth
MEXICO CITY — Finance ministers at International Mone
tary Fund (IMF) meetings here agreed Sunday that world
economic growth should include a faster growth rate for Japan
and West Germany and a slightly slower one for the United
States.
He told a news conference at the close of the meetings that
unemployment and possible new trade barriers could mean new
worldwide recession.
There was general agreement at the meeting that the
economic growth of the United States last year was adequate
while that of Japan and West Germany was too slow.
This contributed to the large trade deficit in the United States
and surpluses in Japan and West Germany.
Collapsed scaffold examined
PARKERBURG, W.Va. — Several factors may have contri
buted to the scaffold collapse that sent 51 men to their deaths at a
power plant cooling tower last week, the leader of a team of
federal investigators said Sunday.
David Rhone, regional director of the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, said his team of six inves
tigators is examining the quality of the concrete, the mechanism
used to hoist concrete to the top of the tower, the design of the
tower and the method by which the scaffolding was moved up
after each day's work.
‘Moro letters’ surface
ROME — A flurry of new letters attributed Sunday to former
Premier Aldo Moro pressed for acceptance of his kidnappers’
demand that the government free 13 jailed terrorists in exchange
for his liberty.
The Italian government and ruling Christian Democratic
Party have steadfastly refused that ultimatum from the Red
Brigades ultra-leftist guerrillas who seized Moro, the 61-year-old
party president, on March 16.
“I now believe,” he writes, "that
from the time of the disclosure of
the existence of the tapes and my
decision not to destroy them, my
presidency had little chance of
surviving to the end of its term.”
The quotation, from Nixon's
forthcoming memoirs, was in the
Washington Star Sunday. The
Star is one of the newspapers buy
ing a seven-part series of excerpts
being syndicated by a subsidiary
of the New York Times.
The book, “RN: The Memoirs of
Richard Nixon” will list at $19.95
when it goes on sale in May and
special autographed editions are
being offered at $50 and $250.
Once the existence of the tapes
became public knowledge, Nixon
fought desperately to keep their
contents secret — a battle he fi
nally lost in the Supreme Court.
The rebels, who referred to
themselves Sunday as the Demo
cratic Republic Revolutionary
Council, killed President
Mohammed Daoud, 69, and his
brother-adviser Naeem, 68, Fri
day after the brothers were said to
have resisted “madly.”
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haul snatched
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
head of the Drug Enforcement
Administration says the seizure of
574 tons of marijuana in Columbia
represents the largest drug raid in
history.
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