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Show worm names of the ministers were not leased. By Robert D. Ohman Associated Press Writer SANTIAGO, CHILE The new mili tary junta buried Salvador Allende on Wednesday and then was reported to have formally taken over power in a ceremony at Bernardo OHiggms Military School. The official radio said a new cabinet was sworn in at the ceremony, but the fCliile Hands-Of- f re- There had been rumors the coup leaders were considenng Gabriel Valdes, a former foreign minister and now a top U.N. official, for the presidency of the country. But Valdes said Wednesday in Lima, Peru, on the first leg of a trip home from New York, that I will accept no offer for that kind of a job because Im happy with what Im now doing." Policy Aide Says U.S. Knew Of Coup in Advance By Dan Morgan Washington Post 'Yriter WASHINGTON The U. S. government Earned of the military coup in Chile the night before it happened, but s in Washington at the polihighest level decided on a hands-of- f cy after evaluating the information, an administration official revealed Wednesday. This description of the events leading to the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende was given by a State Department official in a closed briefing for senators, as the Nixon administration sought to dispel speculation of possible U. S. complicity in the ouster of the Marxist government. Jack Kubisch, assistant secretary ot state and U.S. coordinator for the Alliance for Progress, told members of the western hemisphere subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there had been no involvement by the - policy-maker- U.S. government, agencies or citizens, U.S. corporations, sources reported. Statement Suggested Sen. Gale W. McGhee, said committee men.be rs had told Kubisch that a statement to that effect should be issued at the highest level to quash any possible suspicions and rumors. said that Jacob Javits, Kubischs briefing had convinced fcim that the U.S. had not had any prior formal notification or involvement. However, he said it was deplorable that there should be an end to the constitutional Sen. and he expressed hope government, that the junta would restore democratic institutions as speedily as possible. According to the information that Kubisch gave the subcommittee, a Chilean officer had mentioned that a coup was brewing to an American officer in Chile. One source said that the tip came "not more than 14 to 16 hours before maybe as little as 10. Potential Embarrassment The information was then passed on to the highest level in Washington and hands a decision was made io keep off, the sources said, adding that this meant President Nixon was notified. Apparently, the information was not con- - veyed to the Chilean regime. The military takeover immediately posed a potential embarrassment because American disapproval of the Marxist-leregime is well known, and because charges of U.S. connivance against the regime were raised last spnng before a Senate subcommittee investigating the role of U.S. corporations there. d British Approve Building of Channel Tunnel - The British govLONDON (UPI) ernment gave the Wednesday for construction of a 32 mile tunnel under the English Channel that will link Britain and France by rail for the first ' time. The government believes it would be right to go ahead, said an official white paper. The project is feasible, it would be the best way to meet a growing need and acceptable arrangements have been made to carry it out. Britain cannot be economically and socially isolated from the continent. The white paper estimated the cost at $1.17 billion to be raised by an international group of companies. The British and French governments guarantee 90 percent of that amount, but they would have to pay the money only in case of failure or abandonment of the project. will The project now only needs approval British Parliament before construction can start. of the The white paper said digging could begin within 18 months and the first trains could through the tunnel by 1980. rJ The present jet flying time is about 55 minutes. But when the time taken getting to and from airport is taken into consideration the journey from city center to city center is about four hours. Scattered resistance to the new continued to be reported. Unofficial sources estimated that between 500 and 1,000 persons had been killed since the military revolt Tuesday ar. the junta warned that armed AUende supporters would be shot on tne spot if taken prisoner." Firm estimates of casualties were impossible to obtain since no movement was permitted in the city and no official figures were issued. Explosions were heard in some neighborhoods and snipers, barricaded in office buildings, traded fire with military patrols in the streets below. Leftists Surrender Six hundred leftists surrendered after a gunfight at the technical university near downtown Santiago, sources said. In another brief skirmish, soldiers moved in texand occupied the large tile factory in the capital. Officials said the new government expelled 150 Cuban extremists from the country Tuesday and they were escorted to the Argentine border. At the United Nations, Cuba said its diplomats were being expelled and expressed fear they would be killed on their way to the airport. Cubas charge daffaires at the United Nations, Teofilo Acosta, said he had telek-gi- state-owne- d Kurt Waldheim and asked him urgently to get in touch with the military junta and demand from them respect for the life of our diplomats. Businesses Closed phoned Secretary-Genera- l In Santiago, many people have been stranded in office buildings and hotels ever since the coup, unable to return home or go out for food. All businesses were closed Wednesday and the streets were empty of civilians. Newsmen of received reports gunfights between soldiers and armed workers occupying factories to protest the coup, which toppled the Western Hemispheres first freely elected Marxist government. Allende had called on workers at the start of the coup to occupy factories in defense of his government. It was his last message. The military junta said Wednesday that the Allende, who dedicated his life to politics, had killed himself as troops closed in on the presidential palace. Doubts Juntas Version Chiles ambassador to Britain, Alvaro Bunster, said in London that he doubted the juntas version. I dont think President Allende committed suicide, he said. If he is dead, he has been killed. Only a few weeks ago Allende said he would not commit suicide whatever happened. The Peronist newspaper El Mundo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, said it . had learned from one of Allendes bodyguards that Allende was killed. Police officials threatened to blow up buildings if necessary" to silence snipers. A communique denounced the pertinacious attitude of some subversive agents who pretend to resist the patriotic attitude adopted by the armed forces. The See Page A-- 2, Column Star-New- Merri-weath- Her jewels rivaled those of any queen's private collection. In 1962 she presented to the Smithsonian an historic necklace that Napoleon gave his wife, Empress Marie Louise, upon the birth of their son, the King of Rome. Her health had been failing rapidly in recent weeks, and with her passing, the curtain falls on an age of opulence American may never know again. Although her philanthropies were apt to be on a grand scale, she was probably best known both here and abroad for the lavish evidences of wealth around her. A regal, erect scale. Her First Marriage year after graduating from the Mount Vernon seminary in Washington, she mamed Edward B. Close of New York, the father of her two eldest daughters, Mrs. Augustine Rigg IV, and Mrs. Leon Barzin of Paris. beauty, she was one of the few women in the world, present day queens included, who lived like a queen. Yet she was devoid of snobbery. She cruised the seas in the largest private sailing yacht in the world, the Sea Cloud, originally christened the Hussar. With its crew of 72, it cost $1 million a year to operate prior to its final docking in the early 1950s. from Close in her marriage to Edward F, Hutton took place in 1920. one daughter, Mrs. Clifford tson III, better known by name, Dina Merrill. This also ended in a divorce. Thev had B. Roberher film marriage In 1935 Mrs. Post married Joseph E. Davies of Washington who became U.S. Ambassador to Russia shortly after. Even at her woodland retreat in Associated Press Wireohoto Marjorie M. Tost No Snobbery, Just Riches James M. Naughton Times Writer The Senate WaterWASHINGTON gate committee decided Wednesday on a schedule of hearings that will sharply curtail its public inquiry into 1972 presidential campaign sabotage and financing. The Senate Seiect Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities agreed, at a - closed meeting Wednesday morning, to delay resumption of its Watergate hearings until Sept. 24, to limit the sessions to three days a week, and to aim at a Nov. 1 target date for completion of the investigation. In announcing the schedule, Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, the Democratic chairman," and Sen. Howaio H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, the ranking Republican, rejected suggestions that the committee was responding to pressure from the White House and Republican party leaders to terminate the hearings and turn over the Watergate matter to the courts. To Speed Up Hearing Ervin told reporters that the seven senators believed they could expedite the hearings by focusing on key witnesses and salient points of testimony without going into such detail that we wont be able to see the forest for the bushes and the trees. Baker added that there had been no consideration given to the political overtones of the investigation. Set Up Schedule The schedule adopted Wednesday will mean that the panel, which spent 37 days and looking into the Watergate break-icoverup before recessing the first phase of the hearings on Aug. 7, will have 18 hearing days to complete the second phase, political dirty tricks, and the third, campaign contributions. Asked how the committee could expect to do a thorough job so quickly, Ervin said that you could carry this on forever, you know, until the last lingering echo of Gabriels horn trembled into ultimate silence, if you want to go into all the campaign contributions. He said that the senators saw their function in the latter two phases of the inquiry as one of trying to reveal the broad outlines of what its investigators uncovered. n Reports She was divorced 1919 and A Lavish Lifestyle the Adirondack Mountains, Camp Topridge, Mrs. Post's lifestyle was such that her footmen wore a different livery for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. Her third remaining home was oceanfront her estate at Palm Beach, Fla. Marjorie Post was bom March 15, at Springfield, 111., only child of Charles William and Ella Merriweath-e- r Post, both of whom were natives of that city. The family moved to Fort. VVonh, Tex., in 1887, and in 1891 to Battle Creek, Mich., where Post invented Grape-nut- s and Postum, other cereal foods. He became an internationally known manufacturer and advertising genius, originating argumentative advertising on a national A By New Yo possible." 1887, In 1958 she married Herbert A. May of Pittsburgh and this marriage, too, ended in divorce in 1964 when Mrs. Post had her maiden name legally restored. at the Front left is Sen. Howard Baker, right committee chairman. Sen. Sam Ervin, ;' Watergate Probers Will Curtail Scope, Reset Start of Hearings The committee, as a committee, is determined to finish this thing promptly Baker said. And I and thoroughly, think we are going to do just that. That happens to coincide with what I think the public wants, that is, to continue but to continue with as much dispatch as Cereal Heiress Lived Like a Queen, Died Surrounded by Post Fortune By Betty Beale s Washington WASHINGTON Marjorie Post, 86, famed hostess, philanthropist and heiress to the Post Toasties and later General Foods fortunes, died Wednesday at her Washington Estate, Hillwood. 1 Members of Senate Watergate committee meet with newsmen before executive session on Capitol Ilill. of Search The hearings had been scheduled tentatively to resume next week. There were reports from authoritative members of the committee staff tha. its investigators had been stymied in a crosscountry search for new revelations about campaign sabotage attempts. Ervin, responding to a question about the reports, said that he had not heard of them. But he and Baker said that the Todays Chuckle is nothing wrong with teenagers that trying to reason with them There wont aggravate. committee investigators had indicated they would welcome an additional week to gather information. Ervin attributed the delay in the resumption of hearings to the need for some more investigation. Baker, added that there was a lot of traveling involved in the inquiry and said that, furthermore, it covers a wide variety' of information far beyond the scope of a single event, as was the case in Phase 1 of the hearings. Three committee investigators trav eled Wednesday to New Hampshire to in--; terview some 20 potential witnesses about dirty tricks" alleged to have oc- curred in that states 1972 presidentialprimary. Other staff members were said to be checking records of the Key Bis-- 1 cayne (Fla.) Bank and Trust Co., which; is operated by President Nixons close friend. Charles G. Rebozo. The two senior members of the com- mittee were surrounded by newsmen and television technicians when they emergen, i . - See Page 12, Column j j J j ; j 1 Nixon Gratified House Narrowly Sustains Veto of Medical Aid Bill - WASHINGTON (AP) President e Nixon scored a tight victory in a showdown Wednesday in the House on a vetoed medical services bill. It left Nixon unbeaten y Congress this year in five veto fights. The vote was 273 favoring a veto override to put the bill into law over Nixons objections, 144 supporting the Presidents rejection of the bill, and one member voting present. This was five votes short of the required majority. five-vot- two-thir- WhJe the Senate had voted 77 to 16 last month to override, or 15 more than the action by. the necessary the House means the legislation is dead. , ; Expresses Pleasure President Nixon expressed his. pleas' ure at the House action. A White House statement said the President feels those who voted to sustain the veto deserve ns the thanks of all Americans for their and for joining in his efforts o C two-third- j , K at-tio- fighting inflation. i Six Democrats joined Republican in support of the President, while 227; Democrats and 46 Republicans voted to override the veto. 138 The bill would have authorized $18 million for new federal aid programs de-signed to develop emergency medical; service systems aimed at preventing needless deaths of heart attack and acci; dent victims. Nixon vetoed it Aug. J, say ing it was too costly and infringed on the role of state and local governments. ,. Egypt Leaders Will Resume Tie to Jordan CAIRO (AP) The leaders of Jordan, Egypt ami Syna ended a three-da- y summit Wednesday and Egypt announced it would resume diplomatic relations with Jordan. The official Middle East News Agency said Egypt decided to normalize relations to facilitate the realization of all objectives sought in the summit and to consolidate joint Arab actions." Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Jordan last year to protest King Husseins proposal for a JoiJanian-Pales-tinia- n federation on the West Bank of the Jordan River, now occupied by Israel. Syria, which broke with Husseins kingdom after he ousted the Palestinian guerrillas from his country in 1970, also was expected to resume relations with Jordan soon. The three nations apparently disagreed at the summit on how to unify Arab forces against Israel. A joint communique said Hussein, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President Hafez Assad of Syria agreed to continue their dialogue and contacts to reach the sugwhich were under gested solutions study." Hussein has been eager to end Jordans political and economic isolation in the Arab world. But he apparently balked at proposals by Sadat and Assad to permit Palestinian forces to return to his kingdom. Health Service Hospitals The legislation also would have required the Nixon administration to keep operating Public Health Service hospitals in Seattle, Boston, Baltimore,' San Francisco, New Orleans, Galveston, Tex., Staten Island, N. Y., and Norfolk va. -- ;; , The hospitals are being kept operv under a federal court injunction. , Nixon objected to continued operation, of inpatient facilities of the hospital which he said have outlived their usfc . fulness. Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page A-Page ; 2 Business Classified Obituaries 7 Page D-- Sports comics Mar Gazer Editorials Foreign Lifestyle National Television C-- 8--S 4 S C- -i 9 Theaters Valentine Wash. AND MORE . . . tion; Grand Central Section B-- l C-- I See, v Thursdays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity General-l- y fair but few clouds by night. Little chance of rain. 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