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Show nf wr - ' i & w?vt. W Wi(ai P r r Wt J tvt4 f nlra TwtkiiMA IliAitwacrt Qr y" 1 07 KialSiiT a bloodless Army Action There once wat an Indian named Who ksd his CB better than a When asked. "What's your 20' "' He told them plenty. I'm by the fire In my I Coup Ousts Burundi Chief " ment and the country's single political party reportedly were ousted. The fate of the deposed leaders was not known. A communique broadcast by the armed forces said military chief of staff Thomas Ndabemaye was ousted with Micombero and the coup took place because Burundi was drifting, pulled apart in every' d'rection by multiple clans of egotistical, power-hungrpoliticians in search of material wealth. Bujumburas airport and the national borders were closed, telecommunications suspended and a curfew imposed, informed Belgian sources said. The broadcast from Bujumbura said the country was quiet In the decade since Micomberos bloodless coup, tens of thousands of persons have been killed in tribal slaughters and abortive rebellions in Burundi, a nation of 3.8 million that is one of the poorest and most densely populated in the world. Slightly smaller than Maryland, landlocked Burundi was a German colony before World War I and thc-- a Belgian trust territory until gainmg independence in 1902. For centuries the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi tribes have fought each other for pov er, ami Hue dominant Tulsis triemseives have been tom by rivalries between clans. n d Ufo style. 'Vk A radio broadcast Tuesday & ,f-from the Burundian capital of Bujumbura said the Monday coup was bloodless. An official f communique of the Burundi ST armed forces said ti.e new 1' l: VS3n leaders were Lt. Col. Jean Bagaza, deputy chief of staff, and a Maj. Nzimana, a helicop- I Vicryl &. ter pilot. President The communique said the Micombero Micombero, who took power in a coup 10 years ago, was very tired, apparently indicating the rebels considered him unfit to carry on his duties. A Belgian expert m African affairs said on Brussels radio Tuesday that Micombero had become a "notorious acoholic. The Burundi radio said the communique denounced the deteriorating economic situation of the country and the selfish clans that had been leading the government The communique blamed bom Burundians and foreigners for the problems, U'tBtJ, tes & U IT Sf NO 01)8 I C MODULATES 0 ftGX omaa,ns LIMERICK anti-nghti- Israel Hikes Prices of Ex-U.- S. Envoy Killed by Auto Former United States BEAUNE, France diplomat Robert McClintock was killed near here late Monday night when struck by a car while standing outside a roadside hotel, police said. He was touring the area at the time. McClintock, 67, had held a number of top diplomatic assignments including that oi U.S. ambassador to Venezuela before his retirement several years ago. In his long diplomatic career, McClintock served as charge daffaires in Finland during pari of Vforid War II. He was appointed ambassador to Cambodia in 1954 after working as deputy chief of mission in Saigon the previous year. He was sent to Lebanon at the beginning of 1958 and supervised both the American armed intervention in July of that year at the request of the Camille Chamoun and their subsequent withdrawal under President Fouad Chehab. then-Preside- nt Russ Skaters to Retire - MOSCOW Olympic gold medalists Alexan der Gorshkov and his wife Lyudmila Pakhomova, winners of six world LONDON leiusis - Britains reserves fell by $455 million during October to $4,703 billion, the lowest level since July 1971, the Treasury said Tuesday. In September, boosted by foreign borrowing, the reserves had risen by $129 million. But in October, despite sharp falls in the pound sterling, there were no more drawings on the $5.3 billion dollar credit set up last June, Ian Smith, , represents upon. Produce Document ihe experts will try to produce a document dealing with various questions passed on to them by Tuesdays meeting. This paper will be submitted for a further informal session of delegation heads called by Richard for Wednesday afternoon. Smith said Tuesday night that he planned to leave for Salisbury Wednesday as scheduled. But the British delegation assumed he would attend the meeting before departing. Smith, whose white minority government broke away from British control in 1965, has been publicly noncommittal gse ;.5V-- who Rhodesias 270,000 whites. British Envoy Chairman of the talks is Ivor Richard, Britains representative at the United Nations. British sources said the hitherto deadlocked conference had at last got down to a real discussion of constitutional and related issues. There was no agreement Tuesday on an independence date. British officials said the black and white leaders instructed their experts to meet Wednesday to discuss certain constitutional aspects that would have to be considered before a date could be agreed jam 15? ,0 i I about a date for independence. He has only accepted the principle that there snould be a transition to black majority rule and independence within two years. Smith told reporters after Tuesdays meeting that the independence date question was covered by British-America- n settlement proposals which Smith says he accepted from U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last September. It says within two years, he said We are talking about getting to gnps with the problem, Smith said, adding. Wc cant agree to the conference getting down to the five principles (of the Kissinger package). The prime minister said the length of his absence from Geneva would depend on how long it takes people here to come to their senses and get to grips with the problem. Tfiere is no specific time. As soon as they arc ready to get on and talk about what we have come here to talk about, then I will be back. a British spokesman said that at Tuesday's meeting tne niacK leaders and Smith initially addressed the chairman, Richard. But later they were talking to each other directly, he add. Richard told reporters the talks were very useful and businesslike and that hard bargaining had begun. The idea of restricting meetings to delegation heads and close aides was the right one, he said. Previously, the conference has held two plenary sessions. Last Friday there v as an exchange of polemics between Smith and the African leaders as they restated broadly known policy Nafionalist delegation heads voiced conflicting opinions about the amount of progress made Tuesday. Sithole told reporters: "We have made no progress. But Bishop Muzorewa said he thought the talks were progressing in the right io " fit Basic Foods Reuters News Agency Reuters News Agency Reuters News Agency adverse influence on production is the latest in a series of indications that Chinas new leaders Intend to return to a more pragmatic policy stressing economic growth. In addition, in an important editorial two days ago in the army paper, Chiehfang Chun Pao, they proclaimed a more conservative attitude toward leadership, saying that China should be governed by "the most authoritative, influential and experienced officials. That differs sharply with Mos policy of swifter promotion for younger party workers. L... J Assets Drop In Britain monetary new auegauuii auoui Lne FSSfJ&C ;.v TO ft 33803 833 OnuMDO September this year. me US' 7MK4COTT ZAJSi3U3'i-r'- ir n The paper called on Chinas workers to "make up ior tne ioss ui pixwucUon inflicted by the gang of four That is the name given to the leftists since they were arrested last month. Because of the criticism of those who favored increased production in the antirightist campaign and because of heightened political factionalism, Chinas industrial output is believed to have declined this year from its average growth rate of almost 10 percent a year over the past 15 years. Chinese statistics for the first six months of 1976 showed an increase of only 7 percent, and a broadcast Monday from Kwangtung province said its factories had achieved only a 4.4 percent rise through A front-pag- e story in Mondays edition of the party paper Jenmin Jih Pao, charged that the leftists had carried out criminal activities to energetically disrupt socialist production. In a reference to the campaign earlier this year, the paper added tnat they had put a big cap" of being nghtists on anyone who advocated increasing production. Wf ster China Pins Production Dip Blam Chinas economy. Reuters News Agency GENEVA Discussions opened Tuesday on the problem of setiing an independence date to place Rhodesia under black rule, an action conference leaders hope will end the deadlocked talks on the future of the breakaway British colony. African Nationalist sources at the Awilsh- - sponsored conference here said black leaders wanted independence by Sept. 1, 1977, a date they have mentioned previously. Four nationalists, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, made the proposal at an informal round-tabl- e meeting wiih Prime Mini- dusk-to-daw- n ofe-S- . Tse-tung- Pom-Po- Tom-To- Besides Micoirbero, other leaders of the govern- A military coup has KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) toppled President Michei Micombero of Buiundi, a centra) African nation small and violence-riddewhore plotting is a centuries-ol- By Fox Butterfield New York Times Write HONG KONG Chinas new authorities s widow, have accused Mao Chiang Ching, and three other senior leftists of disrupting industrial production and interfering with the management of n ireneva Groups lrapple On Rhodesia Timetable Reuters News Agency The JERUSALEM - Israeli government Tuesday raised the prices of almost all basic staple foods and services by about 20 percent. The price increases, part of a government effort to gradually abolish subsidies for essential foodstuffs and services, was severely criticized by the powerful general federation of labor. The Labor Party government and the trade union organization have come into direct conflict over the price increases, after Histaarut delegates walked out of the joint meeting Monday called to formulate a mutually acceptable prices policy. Price hikes Include milk and dairy products, margarine, eggs, frozen poultry, bread, ice dancing championships, are retiring from competitive skating next months, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported Monday. flour, cooking oil and other staples. Similar increases have been authorized for public transport fares. Scanning World Scenes Ethiopia Executes Leftists Reuters News Agency Ethiopia has executed 23 members of the Marxist-LeniniEthiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and "other dissidents, Addis Ababa Radio said Tuesday. They were found guilty of murdering farmers, teachers, students and others, the radio said in a broadcast monitored LONDON in London. The executions followed trial by court martial. The verdicts were approved by the head of state, Brigadier General Teferi Bante. The radio named one of the viiUms as Fakre Mend, a member of the Provisional Peoples Organizing Office. The government has accused the party of damaging Ethiopias socialist revolution by persuading to leave crops rotting in the fields and deliberately destroying farm machinery. On the urban front, it charged the EPRP with leading strikes, sabotaging factory production, campaigning for the reinstatement of former labor leaders and preventing workers from taking part in progovernment farmers Madrid Riotings7 Erupts N -- Talks. A Reuters News Agency MADRID Riot police and thousands of striking t i . ... f OUS vtuihei lidsutni iium ttuiij imnuui& uittti afternoon Monday, bringing chaos to downtown Madrid The first clashes between the police and busmen on the sixth day of a strike for higher pay spread from the main bus depot in Madrids northern suburbs to the mam shopping areas of the city. Elegant shops and bars on the capital's Gran Via Street emptied as police fired salvoes of tear gas and smoke bombs at jeering demonstrators. Plainclothes agents were seen detaining at least two people i SIu, Reuters New s Agency A senior IraPARIS nian diplomat was shot ard seriously wounded near his home here Monday by a man who fired a revolver and sped off on a motorcycle, police said. A spokesman named the diplomat as Homayoun Keykavoussi, a counsellor at the embassy, and said his cond- ition was extremely serious Held Reuters News Agency GENEVA United States and Soviet nuclear arms negotiators held a two hour session here Monday, conference sources said. The wmrres as usual duel fit the discussions in the U.S. mission, but said the next meeting would take place on Nov. 10 in the of Soviet mission. Peril to Buy Soviet Jets? LIMA, reported Peru (AP) Tuesday The Foreign Ministry has uwt-icfor the sale of Soviet jet that Moscow d excellent conditions" fighters to Peru. The miristry denied earlier reports, attributed to Foreign Minister Jose dc la Puente, that the purchase had been confirmed. The ministrys press office said de la Puente had been misinterpreted at a news conference when he was asked .about Pureus plans to replace some of its aging warplanes. It said the minister replied that the Soviet Union was the only country to offer to sell the jets to Peru and the conditions were 'VvraUr.pt M i ii : 1 lUISelPfer (N msmmi ir-- U ajill i.i.7 Sf'Wte T'V!)k5 -- rVv - ,,7 tt- . 5 4 1 |