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Bolivian Army to Settle With Miners
LA PAZ, Bolivia — (UPI) — The government grouped its forces today for a possible attack on rebellious tin miners in Catavi, who had ignored official orders for the immediate release of four American and 21 other hostages.
A 48-hour ultimatum to the Communist-infiltrated miner's union expired at 9 o'clock last night. Interior (police) Minister Jose A. Arce said he and Defense Minister Luis Rodriguez Bidegain are taking charge of operations.
Arce would not say what action the government plans. Rodriguez had said earlier, however, that "necessary action to recover the territory held by the representatives of anarchy" would be taken if the ultimatum were ignored.
THE MINERS also were preparing for action. Radio broadcasts last night urged them to "be, ready with dynamite" — the miners' favorite weapon—to meet any effort by troops to take Cativa.
At the tin-mine center of Huanuni, between Catavi and the government's forward headquarters in Oruro, Communist union leaders broke
into a mine supply shed and stole 16 boxes of dynamite, with caps and fuse.
Father Andrew Kennedy of St Louis, Roman Catholic Vicar General of Bolivia, went to Oruro yesterday to try to arrange the release of the hostages. He conferred with mine-union leaders without apparent result.
THE UNIVERSITY students' federation also tried to mediate the dispute. President Victor Paz Estensoro told a student delegation at an hour-long meeting yesterday that there could be no negotiations until the miners freed the hostages and returned to work.
The miners have insisted they will not release the hostages until three Communist union officials are freed.
Foreign diplomats stationed here presented a protest to Foreign Minister Jose Fellman Velarde last night, saying the seizure of the hostages—two of whom are U.S. diplomatic officials—"conflicts with international standards of conduct."
THERE WAS A prospect of violence not only in Catavi but in La Paz, where Unionists support re-
Staff Busy At Watkins Except During Exams
Fewer KU students report to Watkins Memorial Hospital during examination periods than during any other time in a semester.
Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the student health service, said, "In defense of students, I would like to make it known that business definitely falls off at final exam time."
DESPITE THE DROP in numbers during examinations, the student hospital's medical staff still managed to see a total of 10,970 individual patients during the 1962-63 school year.
Even students who are hospitalized during the final weeks of a semester often ask to be allowed to take their final tests in the hospital, Dr. Canuteson said.
According to the hospital's yearly clinic report for last year, this figure breaks down into 8.331 students and 2.649 non-students. Non-students include KU faculty and staff personnel and their families.
Including those students and nonstudents who returned for further treatment or consultation, there was a total number of 54,682 calls at the hospital. Estimating a minimum of 30 minutes per visit, exclusive of coming and going, Dr. Canuteson
said Watkins' staff spent 27,341 working hours (about 3 years and three months) seeing patients.
OF THE STUDENT NUMBER 29,025 of the visits to the hospital were made by men. Only 17,809 women went for treatment or consultation.
Nine hundred and fifty-four students and non-students spent a total of 4,125 days as bed patients in the hospital. Of this number, 857 were students who spent a total of 3,518 days as bed patients.
The average stay for student bed patients was 4.10 days. Men spent 4.26 days in the hospital, while KU women spent only 3.93 days.
NUMEROUS SORE ARMS, or other parts of the anatomy, may be accounted for with the fact that 14,335 immunizations were administered by the student health service last year.
Respiratory ailments led the list of most diagnosed medical disorders last year. Three thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven KU students were told they had a respiratory ailment. Other diagnoses that were high on the list were 1,654 digestive system, 1,304 skin, subcutaneous, etc., 1,176 body as a whole, and 957 muscel-skeletal ailments.
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bellious Vice-President Juan Lechin had scheduled an anti-government mass meeting today.
Guerrillas Raid Vietnam Post
Labor Minister Anibal Aguilar Penariraeta, whose home was bombed and fired on yesterday by terrorists believed to be supporters of Lechin, announced that anyone who leaves work to attend the mass meeting will lose a day's pay.
A LABOR ministry communique said the organizers of the anti-government demonstration were trying to "agitate the workers and disturb the peace."
SAIGON — (UPI) — Communist guerrillas have overrun a Vietnamese government outpost 75 miles south of Saigon with the aid of two uncoat government militia men who were on duty at the post, a U.S. military spokesman said today.
Government losses in the Viet Cong attack on an Binh outpost were reported as 11 killed, including five civilians, and four wounded. Communist casualties were not reported.
WITH THE AID of the two self-defense corps turncoats, the spokesman said, the guerrillas exploded a nine near the outpost yesterday morning and then attacked the post near the Can Tho headquarters of the Vietnamese army's IV corps.
The two turncoat soldiers then defected with the guerrillas who took along with 21 weapons, two telephones and a radio set they captured from the ruins of the post.
The Communist guerrillas often attempt to get inside help on such attacks. They have been known to spend as long as six months preparing for a single attack.
AN AMERICAN military spokesman, meanwhile, said the body of another of the four U.S. Air Force men killed in the crash of an RB26 reconnaissance bomber Friday has been recovered.
The bodies of another American crewman and a Vietnamese observer aboard the plane had been recovered previously.
The spokesman said a search was continuing for the bodies of the two other Americans on the plane—an Air Force officer and an enlisted crewman.
Paz and Lechin, close collaborators in the revolution that brought the present regime to power in 1922, disagreed on methods of administering Eolivian affairs once the victory was won.
The government was reported enlisting the support of pro-Paz union leaders in an effort to keep workers on the job, insuring the failure of the demonstration.
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