Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 188, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 April 1980 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, April 12,1980
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Military leads coup Liberian president killed
Bv The Associated Press Liberian President William Tolbert was killed today and his government toppled in a coup led by a national guard staff sergeant, Liberia’s government radio reported. It was the first coup in Liberia since this West African nation was founded by former American slaves 133 years ago. Tolbert and his government were one of the West’s closest allies in Africa. The report of the president’s death came in a broadcast monitored by a West German radio network. The first Liberian report of the coup was monitored in Abijan, capital of the neighboring
Puerto Rican blackout sabotage?
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) As tourists danced and sang by candlelight in high-rise San Juan hotels, Puerto Rican police probed a possible terrorist link in the blackout that plunged this island into darkness. The lights went out across the U S. Caribbean commonwealth at 7:30 p.m. EST Friday and hours later power had been restored only at the western end of the island. Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo declared a state of emergency and activated an island-wide
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Ivory Coast, by a Voice of America correspondent, who said the coup leader was identified on the radio as a Staff Sgt. Matthew Doe. During that broadcast, a man identifying himself as the sergeant said he was taking control of the government “to eliminate corruption.’’ Tolbert, 66, was the country’s 19th president and was the current president of the Organization of African Unity which held its 1979 meeting in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. He was elected president in 1971, succeeding William S. Tubman. Tolbert was re-elected to a four-year term in 1972, and
contingency plan, that included callups of off-duty police and firemen and an alert for the island’s National Guard forces. Hotels, hospitals and San Juan’s international airport ran some or all of their lights off their own emergency generators. Officials at the Caribe Hilton said they had emergency lighting in most public areas of the hotel, which was about 85 percent occupied when the power failed. The guests took it in stride, singing and dancing in the halls and drinking and playing games by candlelight, a hotel cashier said. “They’ve been real good sports about the whole thing,” he added. Other hotels on the resort island reported similar goodnatured responses from their guests.
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to an eight-year term in 1975. Tubman had served as chief executive from 1944. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Sawoski said reports had come in that fighting broke out early today in Monrovia and initial accounts indicated an attempted coup. He said there were conflicting reports about the well-being of the Liberian president. “As far as Tolbert himself, we just don’t know,” he said. “There have been conflicting reports ... some that he’s been killed, others that he is safe.” Information from the African nation is sketchy, Sawoski said, but fighting apparently broke
Police reported a handful of minor “smash and grab” looting incidents in San Juan, the capital, and their were unconfirmed reports of similar outbreaks in three other cities. Some shooting also was heard in the darkened streets of the capital, but no casualties were reported. About 200 families were evacuated from their homes in the Tokio district of southwestern San Juan because of a gas leak at an ice cream factory and a fire nearby. A spokesman for the stateowned Electric Energy Authority said early today that the cause of the blackout had not been established, but efforts were underway to re-start the island’s generators. Although, power was restored at the western end of the island, there was no official word when all of Puerto Rico’s 3 million resi-
out at the executive mansion at about 3 a.m. local time. “At about 6:30, there was a radio broadcast by someone identifying himself as Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, who said he was taking control of the government to eliminate corruption,” he said. “Firing is still heard and there are some reports that counter-coup efforts are being organized,” Sawoski added. The United States maintains an embassy at Monrovia and the spokesman added, “So far as we know, all Americans are safe. The American community there has been instructed by the embassy to remain in their homes.”
dents would have their power back. A statement issued by the governor, from his civil defense headquarters, said police have reason to suspect sabotage was involved in the blackout. Authorities said they based their conclusion on the kidnapping shortly before the blackout of the chief of operations of San Juan’s main generating plant. Police said Manuel Vasquez Santiago was grabbed as he left the plant by masked men who handcuffed him and bound him in chains. After driving him to the east coast town of Yabucoa, his abductors dumped him uninjured in a cane field. Still chained, he made his way to a road where he was picked up by a motorist and brought to police. Vasquez Santiago’s captors shaved his head and eyebrows and painted what appeared to be a purple-colored star on his forehead, police in Yabucoa said. Americans responding to census WASHINGTON (AP) - Even more Americans are returning their completed census forms than the government had hoped for. So many, in fact, that the Census Bureau says it is dropping contingency plans to ask Congress for $25 million to finish the once-every-10-year job. The bureau had hoped to get back 80 percent of the 86 million forms it sent out at the end of March. But officials now predict returns may hit 85 percent. “The public is responding much more favorably than many people thought they would,” Deputy Census Director Daniel B. Levine said Friday. While the actual rate of return at the end of Thursday was 83.9 percent, Census Director Vincent Barabba predicted the final figure could top 85 percent. All households except those in sparsely populated rural areas were asked to fill out and mail the forms back two weeks ago. Rural Americans were asked to keep the forms for collection by census workers. This response means the bureau will not be asking for a second $25 million supplemental appropriation it had contemplated requesting, Barabba said. The total cost of the census is expected to be slighty more than $1 billion, or about $4 for every American counted. Deputy Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges Jr. said the mail-back rate "directly determines the ... cost of the followup job. For every l percent mailed back, over the 80 percent target, some $2.5 million in follow-up costs can be saved.”
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This Scene From A British television film entitled "Death of a Princess" depicts the body of Saudi Arabian Princess Misha'al lying on the ground at right, while her lover is publicly executed in 1977. The film, shown on British television Wednesday night, has
Depicts execution of princess, lover Saudis protest British TV film
LONDON (AP) Saudi Princess Mishaal “knew the risks she was taking” in the love affair that ended in the execution for adultery of her and her commoner-lover in 1977, says a West German woman who claims she was the princess’ closest Western friend. “I think she thought she could get away with it. But she and her lover were arrested at the airport while trying to leave secretly to enjoy their lives together,” Rosemarie Buschow told reporters after a British TV documentary about the executions brought outraged protests from Saudi Arabia’s ruling royal family to the British government. Miss Buschow, who is 39 and now works in London as a receptionist, said she spent 18 months in Saudi Arabia in 1976-77 as governess to Prince Susu, a young grand-nephew of King Khaled. She said 19-year-old Princess “Misha” was the king’s niece, the daughter of an elder brother of the king, but she did not know the identity of her lover. “I knew about the princess’s romance ...” said the woman. “Princess Misha was married to her first cousin. He left her. I was told the affair had been going on for about eight mon-
Southern Indiana violence increasing Strike may claim life, sheriff warns
By NANCY SHULINS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The latest round of violence in the five-month-old strike at Evans Railcar has ended without major injury. But Washington Police Chief Tom Baumert says he’s worried nonetheless. “I’ve been saying all along that when somebody dies over this, everybody’s going to wake up,” he said Friday. “Well, every week we cornea little closer.” This week, the city came the closest yet, when 200 strikers attacked vehicles carrying nonunion workers from the plant, authorities said. Daviess County Sheriff Don Chestnut and two Washington policemen were injured in Thursday’s incident, the most serious so far in a strike that has been punctuated by violent episodes. On Friday, Evans manage-
Not so anxious to get into fields Farmers face grimmest year ever
HATFIELD, Ind. (AP) - Area farmers fear 1980 may be the grimmest year they’ve ever faced, as dropping farm prices are coupled with runaway inflation and soaring interest rates. And in an effort to survive the coming year, many say they will deliberately cut back the grain production on their farms. “We’ve been taught over and over again that the best way to get out of financial trouble is to work harder and produce more. But that just doesn’t work anymore,” says Hatfield farmer Keith Goldman. “Normally we’re sitting here this time of year all excited and wanting to get out in the fields to plant. Now we’re facing 20 percent interest rates and I think a lot of farmers are not so anxious.” During the past two years, Goldman says, “we’ve backed off on buying new equipment because of the interest rates and low market.” Now, he says, farmers are
ment closed the plant, which repairs railroad cars and manufactures hopper cars for hauling grain. Negotiations between management and members of Local 39, Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, trailed on for nine hours Friday and were suspended until April 17 after both sides agreed they were no closer to resolving the strike, which began Nov. 8. It was a “fruitless and worthless” session, said David McBeth, president of Local 39. The general president of the carmen’s union will join talks at the bargaining table when they resume next week, he said. “Management hasn’t budged from their position in January,” when negotiations broke down, Mcßeth said. The dispute centers on wages. The union is demanding a $3 across-the-board raise, and the
having to back off on fertilizer and less fertilizer means less grain production per acre. It isn’t just the small, young, or financially strapped farmers who are having trouble, says
Teen mental patient dies in tower plunge
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A teen-age girl on an outing with other patients from a mental health facility was killed Friday in a leap from Indiana’s tallest building, police said. They said Michele Marie Marr, 16, Indianapolis, smashed a heavy window and plunged from an upper floor of the 37-story Indiana National Bank building in downtown Indianapolis. The girl had been a patient in Methodist Hospital’s psychiatric section since early February,said Fred Price, hospital public relations director. She was with seven other patients and a supervisor when
caused a storm of official protest from Saudi Arabia, with some British newspapers reporting that Saudi Arabia is threatening to cut off diplomatic relations with Britain. The film will be shown on the Public Broadcasting System in the U.S. May 12. (AP Laserphoto).
ths. She found love and happiness with this other man.” The Guardian newspaper said the princess was the granddaughter of Prince Mohammed, the oldest surviving son of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Ibn Saud. The Daily Express said Prince Mohammed and King Khaled decided “because of the gossip about the affair,” and since adultery is punishable by death, the princess must die. The princess was shot and her lover was beheaded. The Saudi government said in 1978 they were executed for “adulterous acts.” The film “Death of a Princess” was shown Wednesday night on a British commercial network despite a reported offer from King Khaled of sll million to suppress it. The Saudi government protested to the British government, saying the film was “very offensive.” The British government expressed its “profound regret” to the Saudis but said it could not interfere with such a TV program. The film is to be broadcast on public television in the United States on May 12 and is to be shown in the Netherlands next Thursday.
company is offering a 14-cent raise to top-level workers, as well as cost-of-living increases to workers in lower categories. Violence began to escalate in Washington last month, when the company started busing non-union workers in and out of the plant to do the jobs of striking union members. The non-union workers were heading home Thursday when a bus and several other vehicles carrying the workers were blocked by a stopped train at a railroad crossing. Baumert said about 200 strikers converged on the vehicles, smashing windows with sticks, bricks and stones. A bucket of paint was thrown on one police car and another vehicle was overturned. Chestnut was treated at a Vincennes hospital after he was struck in the shoulder with a rock. One Washington police-
McLean County, Ky„ farmer John Woolsey. Woolsey, who farms 1,300 acres, has one of the county’s largest farms. Still, he says, he’s forced to borrow money for
she wandered away from the group about 1:30 pm., Price said. She jumped shortly after 2 p.m. and landed on a terrace on the fifth floor. “I glanced up and saw someone fall out backwards, hands and feet in the air,” said Gene Shoulders, a construction worker who witnessed the jump. “We thought it was an explosion at first. It jarred us on the third floor,” said Lou Melton, a bank employee. Witnesses at the scene said the girl apparently broke a plate glass window with a heavy, ceramic cigarette urn, then jumped.
man was cut by broken glass and a car door was slammed on the foot of another Chestnut said the 37 non-union workers escaped injury by remaining inside the bus during the attack. No arrests were made, but police said charges would be filed against the union with evidence gathered by a security force that photographed the incident. “We were obviously outnumbered when all hell broke loose,” Baumert said. “We just didn’t have enough manpower.” Baumert said local officials have asked state police for help. But he and Chestnut agreed that despite precautions, the potential for further flare-ups will remain as long as the strike continues. “Everybody’s worried,” Chestnut said. “The whole town is upset.”
operating capital. Woolsey says the money market is “worse than I’ve ever seen it. If the next six months continue the way the last six months have, there will be someone else farming next year.” “It won’t be because they want to (quit farming), it will be because they have to.” he says. “When you haven’t been operating on a 15 percent markup, you can’t pay 15 percent interest.” George Klauder, vice president of the Green River Production Credit Union in Henderson, Ky.. says those who receive credit will find the qualifications increasingly stringent. “We want to see three years of past records, income tax or otherwise, and see what his cash flow has been," he says. “We want to look at what his needs are going to be this year, see what his cash flow is going to be this year, and see if it looks like he can pay.”