. Page 2A . EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Monday, Jan. 14, 1963
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Military Coup
Togo Leader
r Assassinated
LOME, Togo UTtA struggle for leadership of this tiny West
. African country appeared to be developing Monday in the wake
of a sergeants' revolt and the assassination of President Sylvanus
Olympio.
,. Two men emerged as possible heads of a new government
-former Premier Nicolas Gmnitsky, 49, and Idrissou Antoine
Meatchi, 27, a former opposition leader in the Togo Assembly.
A military revoltuionary committee that engineered the Sun
day coup reportedly appealed to Grunitsky, a brother-in-law of
the slain president 10 return
U.N. to Press
For Surrender
Of Kolwezi
." ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga
UT The United Nations pre
pared Monday to send a special
emissary to Kolwezi to demand
. that President Moise Tshombe
"surrender his stronghold or face
U.N. attack.
' Diplomatic Informants said
they believed the Katanga pres
ident was rallying his followers
for a last-ditch stand to try to
hold what remained of his seces
sionist domain.
- The emissary was to warn
Tshombe that if he did not
peacefully surrended Kolwezi
center of Katanga's mining
industry the United Nations
would fly In a Gurka battalion to
take it by force.
To Be Warned
. Tshombe also was to get no
tice that if his followers carried
out threats to blow up the min
ing installations and electric
power dam in the area, he
might be sent to Leopoldvllle
for trial by the central Congo
government as a war criminal
and saboteur.
Last reports said a U.N.
ground force had advanced
from Jadotville to within 90
miles of Kolwezi.
- Sources at U.N. headquar
ters in New York reported that
Indian U.N. troops have taken
over Shinkolobwe, once Katan
ga's biggest military base, IS
miles southwest of Jadotville
unci about 00 miles southeast of
JColwczi.
; Tho baso, which once accom
modated z.uuu to 3,ouu men,
was reported almost deserted.
-Tho sources said "enormous
'quantities of arms and ammu
nition" were found. '
;.' -Ball Service Restored
-: Rail service was reported ro
"stored between Elisabcthvllle
nd Mokambo near tho border
jof Northern Rhodesia, and
trains began moving over it
Sunday with badly needed food
supplies from Rhodesia to the
Katanga capital.
Tho United Nations occupied
Mokambo Thursday after Tsh
ombe drove ahead of advancing
U.N. troops calling on his tat
tered forces not to resist. The
United Nations went on Satur
day to Sakania on the Rhodcsian
border.
; Tshombe slipped back into
Kolwezi Saturday night after a
one-day visit to Northern Rho
desia. Some sources believed ho
had returned to try to dissuade
diehard members of his Cabi
net from dynamiting tho city.
Others felt that Tshombo was
convinced a unified Congo
would doom any political future
he might have and was deter
mined to make a final stand.
A.W.Lafferty
Leaves Oregon
: PORTLAND ftlTI) A. W. Laf
ferty, former U. S. Representa
tive from Oregon and Portland
attorney, has returned to his na
tive Missouri.
: Tho 87-year-old Lntferty, fa
mous for filing tho first settler
suit in tho Oregon and Califor
nia Land Grant cases, has be
come a resident of Middleton,
Mo., in the congressional dis
trict where ho was born.
: lie practiced law In Middleton
from 1896 until he moved to
Oregon in 1905.
Lafferty represented Orceon
In the U. S. House of Represen
tatives from 1911-1915.
several years ago he won a
federal court suit which resulted
In distributing some $7 million
Of Impounded 0 and C funds to
18 counties.
from exile in neighboring Daho
mey to form a government.
Rumors spread that Meatchi
was already back in Lome from
exile in Ghana, which also bor
ders Togo. He had been accused
by the Olympio government of
aiding exiled political conspira
tors. Meatchi, a French -educated
Moslem and former civil serv
ant, had been arrested in 1960
for conspiracy. He went to
Ghana after his release in mid
1961. Only Casualty
Gunned down on the street
outside the U. S. Embassy early
Sunday, Olympio apparently was
tho only casualty of the fast-
paced revolt. Gunfire was heard
in the streets around 2 a.m.
Tho 60-year-old president's bul
let-riddled body was lound out
side the unlocked embassy gate
at dawn.
Tho body was taken into the
embassy. Later Olympio's fam
ily removed it.
Most of the other members of
his government were arrested.
They were reported unharmed
and held at a military camp out
side Lome.
Olympio visited the United
States on an aid-seeking mission
last March and President Ken
nedy praised him as "an excep
tional figure on the world
scene." The London-educated
Olympio was the only African
head of state with a command
of both English and French, and
he also knew some German. His
languago skills earned him an
influential position in African
councils.
1(4 Million People
Togo, a country of IV million
people, is about the size of West
Virginia. It was a French U.N.
protectorate when it gained in
dependence in 1960. Before
World War 1 it was a German
colony.
The main opposition to Olym
pio's government consisted of
the Progress party and tho al
lied Juvento movement, two
groups accused of plotting
against the regime with aid
from Ghana.
President Kwame Nkrumah of
Ghana has been the target of
several bomb plots and his gov
ernment had accused Togo of
harboring Ghanaian conspira
tors.
The Dahomey government,
concerned over the Olympio as
sassination, sent its foreign and
finance ministers to Accra to
appeal to Nkrumah not to in
terveno in Togo.
Hands Off Policy
Nkrumah reportedly promised
tho ministerial misson that he
would not interfere "in any wa;
in tho Toco interior conflict,
according to a statement issued
in Cotonou, Dahomey s capital.
In Washington, the White
House issued a statement that
tho United States government
was profoundly shocked by news
of tho assassination ... of one
of Africa's most distinguished
leaders."
Tho British government ex
pressed "great dismay" at the
assassination of Olympio. It
called him "singularly well
equipped to help bridge the gap
between the English and
French speaking countries of
West Africa.
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Map locates the west African country
of Togo where President Sylvanus
Olympio was shot to death Sunday in an
apparently successful coup d'etat. He
was killed in the street outside the U.S.
embassy building in Lome.
From Radio Chain Hearing
Sen. Dodd Denies
Maurine 'Barred'
WASHINGTON W Sen Mau
rine B. Neuberger, D-Ore., said
Sunday she was denied admit
tance to a Senate subcommittee
inquiry last Thursday into the
Pacifica Foundation's radio
chain.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-
Conn., denied she had been bar
red, and Sen. Neuberger agreed
that the word "barred" might
be too strong. An aide said the
issue was closed.
Utility Requests
Bond Issue Okay
SALEM 11 Portland Gen
eral Electric Co. has submitted
an application to the stato Pub
lic Utility Commissioners for
approval of a $15 million bond
refunding issue.
Tho commissioner said PGEs
application stipulates tho $15
million in first mortgage bonds,
drawing 4 per cent interest
would bo sold privately to insti
tutional purchasers. Tho pro
ceeds would bo used to redeem
an equal amount of bonds is
sued in 1957 at 5Vi per cent, the
company said.
Deep Freeze
Grips Nation;
Crops in Peril
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winter's icy blasts enveloped
the major part of the nation
Monday. No immediate break in
tho severe cold weather was in
dicated.
The effects of the frigid
weather and snow, which swept
into the Rockies last weekend
and snowballed across most of
the country by the weekend,
were widespread.
Deaths blamed on the wintry
weather exposure, fires and
traffic accidents on ice and
snow-covered highways passed
the 40 mark.
Property damage, including
heavy loss by a rash of fires,
mounted into the millions of
dollars.
Tho unseasonable cold in
Southern Texas, Southern Cali
fornia and Arizona threatened
damago to citrus and vegetable
crops. Farmers started their
smudgo pots.
Wide areas felt the sting of
the frigid weather which incon
venienced millions and brought
misery to thousands. Stiff winds
added to the discomfort
The Weather Bureau in Chi
cago said that only a few parts
of tho nation wcro not hit by
freezing or lower temperatures,
Included were areas of the Caro
lina southward through south
eastern Georgia and most of
Florida. Also abovo feezing,
but not much higher than 32
degrees, were areas near the
Pacific Coast from Oregon south
ward through western Califor
nia.
Tho below-zero zone extended
from the upper Great Lakes
through the northern plains into
tho northern Rockies. Tempera
turcs plunged to nearly 60 be
low in Montana over the week
end. '
A howling snowstorm off
Lake Erio battered sections of
western New York. Tho wind
blown snow pounded Erio Coun
ty and to a lesser degrees, Ni
agara and Orleans counties to
the north.
The storm dumped six inches
of snow on Buffalo and up to a
foot in rural areas.
Airlift of Refugees Comes to End
89 Flown From Cuba to Florida
MIAMI, Fla. to The aerial
exodus of refugees from Fidel
Castro's Cuba has halted, fol
lowing an airlift of 89 Cubans
and Cuban-Americans to Miami
Sunday. At present there are no
plans for resuming it.
Red Cross officials announced
there will be no more flights
carrying ransom supplies to
Cuba. Pan American World
Airways, which suspended its
twice-daily Miami - Havana
flights at the onset of the Cu
ban crisis last October, is not
anxious to resume the unprofit
able service.
The Pan Am DC6B that made
Sunday's refugee flight had tak
en 15,000 pounds of medicines
to Cuba as another installment
on the $53-million ransom guar
anteed Castro for release of the
1,113 Bay of Pigs invasion pris
oners. The American Red Cross said
Dodd said, "Nobody was bar
red from the hearing. I can tell
you that. There was no bar
ring."
Dodd is vice chairman of the
Senate internal security sub
committee that handled the in
vestigation. He said the first he
had heard of a newspaper story
on the incident Involving Sen.
Neuberger was when he was
questioned about it Sunday.
Dodd's subcommittee says it
has been trying to determine
whether Communists are at
tempting to infiltrate Pacifica's
three-station radio chain.
An aide in the Neuberger of
fice gave this version of what
took place:
"Sen. Neuberger went to the
subcommittee room to talk to
Dr. Peter Odegard, one of the
Pacifica Foundation's directors
and a personal friend."
After talking to Odegard out
side she asked if she could go
in and hear him testify. She was
told by a subcommittee staff
member that the subcommittee
was in executive session.
Her aide said, "She took it
(the remark) at face value and
left." ,
Normally a member of Con
gress is allowed to attend such
closed hearings. Although there
appears to be no hard, fast rule
a non-member of a committee
usually arranges attendance in
advance.
Pacifica operates Stations
KPFA in Berkeley, Calif.; KPFK
in Los Angeles and WBAI in
New York City. The foundation
says operations arc listener-supported
by membership fees
and broadcast all shades of opin
ion on public affairs, including
that of Communists on tho left
and John Birch Society mem
bers on the right.
Odegard, a former president
of Reed College in Portland,
told the subcommittee the foun
dation shares its dislike of com
munism. The subcommittee held
only a one-day hearing but has
said it will call more witnesses
at some future date.
French Chief
Turns Down
Polaris Plan
PARIS W President Charles
de Gaulle said Monday France
cannot join the British-American
agreement made at Nassau
establishing a multi-national Po
laris missile force.
De Gaulle, speaking to his
first news conference since last
May, responded to a question on
whether France might accept
President Kennedy's offer of
Polaris missiles:
"I do not believe that any
one thinks that we can sub
scribe to the accords of the Ba
hamas." De Gaulle said the U.S. offer
to France following the pre
Christmas Nassau agreement
had no current importance to
France and added:
"We will build and employ
ourselves our own atomic force.
Policy Reaffirmed
"I have several times indica
ted publicly French policy on
defense and the armament
which France feels necessary
for her own defense. I repeat
that France intends to have her
own national defense."
In Washington, the White
House declined immediate com
ment on De Gaulle's reiectinn
of the multi-national Polaris
missile force.
De Gaulle conceded that In
modern times no nation can
conduct a world war on its own
and went on:
"The need to have allies goes
without saying. But to have also
the free disposition of one's
self and to keep it is also a
necessity for a great people."
Lacks Submarines
He declared it would not be
useful for France to buy Po
laris missiles from the United
States since it does not have
submarines to launch the mis
siles or nuclear warheads to at
tach to the missiles.
He added, however, that if
France some day does have the
submarines and nuclear war
heads "perhaps we will have
our own missiles.
De Gaulle said he was not
refusing technical or strategic
cooperation, but that he felt
the French and British positions
were different now on nuclear
matters. Britain has accepted
the Polaris offer.
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civilians are being dogtagged
under the civil defense program.
Papuans Fleeing
HOLLANDIA, New Guinea Wl
Official sources report 600
Papuans have fled since Jan. 1
by outboard motor boats and
over dim jungle trails to Aus
tralian New Guinea in fear of
unemployment when Indonesia
takes over here. The U.N. is in
terim ruler.
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all future shipments of ransom
supplies will be made by ocean
freighter. The steamship Shir
ley Lykes presently is being
loaded at Baltimore with 6,500
tons of food, drugs and medical
supplies for delivery in Havana.
The Shirley Lykes will stop
at Port Everglades, Fla., to load
an additional 1,000 tons of sup
plies. She is expected to reach
Cuba no earlier than Jan. 18.
A tearful, yet joyous scene
unfolded at Miami International
Airport when the 89 refugees
arrived at 5:20 p.m. Sixty-eight
of the group were Cubans pos
sessing American citizenship.
The other 21 were Cuban na
tionals but either the husband
or wife had U.S. citizenship or
their children were born in this
country.
The U.S. Immigration Service
refused to release names of ar
rivals. The Cuban-Americans had
lived in the United States prev
iously and for one reason or
another mostly homesickness
had returned to their native
Cuba.
They said they were returning
to America because of problems
in Cuba, including food short
ages, inability to get work, and
disillusionment with the revo
lution. .
Jesus Azoy, a barber who left
Tampa, Fia., and returned to
Havana 18 months ago, said,
"We were told it was good there
under the revolution."
But Azoy said, "It was a mis
take to go back. It wasn't nice
after all."
Azoy was accompanied by his
wife and two sons, Alexander,
4, born in the United States and
Jesus Jr., 8 months.
Amparo Lopez Medina, 84,
was the oldest of the arrivals.'
She said in Spanish, "I am
happy to be here."
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