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'USA! USA!'
PILSEN, Czechoslovakia Riot police used water hoses and clubs last night to disperse some 5,000 demonstrators protesting the government's lack-luster observance of the 24th anniversary of Pilsen's World War II liberation by the U.S. Army.
Czechs protest small observance of WWII liberation
"U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" chanted students.
The demonstrations began quietly with citizens of all ages carrying tiny, paper American flags.
A nighttime demonstration swelled into a general protest. Police tried to disperse jeering crowds, but they kept surging back.
Police then gave the hooting, whistling mob of mostly young people a dousing with water hoses. There was some scuffling
with police, and clubs were swung.
Students dispersed but continued to mill about singing protest songs and cheering a car with a West German license plate.
Several persons were taken away in a police car, including a young worker who unfurled a large American flag.
The force of riot police, about 100 men wearing steel helmets, advanced into the crowd with two water cannon trucks.
For two hours a crowd of several thousand people had placed tiny American paper flags and spring flowers on a grassy square where a partly finished monument to U.S. soldiers was torn down by the Stalinist Communist regime in the 1950s.
The police ripped out the American flags but left
Czechoslovak banners, flowers and pictures of Tomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, the founders of pre-Com munist Czechoslovakia.
Authorities were seeking to play down the American role in the liberation in the official anniversary ceremonies.
For the second consecutive year, city officials placed wreaths at flagposts of all four allies, including the the Soviet Union, at a marble monument built in 1967. But only the Czechoslovak national anthem was played.
The worker displaying the American flag stood defiantly at the head of 700 persons watching the wreath-placing ceremony.
After the ceremony, the worker, a tractor driver, was arrested, hustled into a police
van and the flag was tossed in after him.
A crowd of several thousand then formed at the destroyed monument to the American liberators. Each time a citizen placed one of the tiny American flags on the flowers growing at the grassy place, the crowd, held back by police, applauded.
Residents reminisced about the day the American tanks
rolled into their city in 1945 to cheers and applause.
"Tell the American people we did this," one student said, pointing to the heap of flags and flowers.
One Pilsener, Mrs. Olga Cimkova, said, "the newspapers said the Russians liberated all of our country, but for 20 years we knew it was not true. We always remembered the Americans."
Iraelis warn Arabs
Mrs. Meir's warning was sounded in a speech before the Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem while Jordan's King Hussein conferred with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo on the deteriorating situation in the Mideast.
MIDEAST — Arab and Israeli forces yesterday fought another series of gun duels across the Suez Canal and Jordan River cease-fire lines. At the same time, Israeli Premier Golda Meir warned Egypt and Jordan to put an end to "aggressive" actions and Arab guerrilla raids.
Mrs. Meir warned Hussein to halt the Arab guerrilla raids across the border or face reprisals. She also told Nasser Israel would continue to fortify
the 1967 cease-fire line on the Suez Canal as the "best guarantees" against Arab aggression.
U.S. ambassador says Czech fight not over
The Israeli premier spoke to the Knesset shortly after an official report disclosed that 13 Israelis, including 10 soldiers and three civilians, were killed and another 25 wounded in border battles with Arab guerrillas last week. It was the highest one-week casualty toll suffered by the Israelis this year.
WASHINGTON - The new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia said yesterday recent developments there, including ouster of Premier Alexander Dubcek, "do not harbor well" for the country's liberalization program.
that characterization were an accurate one.
"I'm not sure what it means," Toon replied. "If it means a person with a neandertal attitude toward U.S. relations with Moscow, who believes we are on a collision course leading to inevitable military confrontation, then I am not a hard-liner."
But he added, "It is my own view that we should wait and see what happens after the situation is clarified, rather then simply assume the struggle is all over."
Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright said Toon had been characterized in some newspapers as a "hard-liner" on East-West relations, and asked if
Career foreign service officer Malcolm Toon, Northboro Mass., testified in Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on his confirmation.
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He said he feels "a certain sanity exists among the policy-makers of the Kremlin and that we can solve our problems in the long run without war."
Toon said he believes the United States is following a correct policy in seeking areas of agreement while remaining firm and strong, and he added:
"If a hard-liner is a term
Indian president buried
NEW DELHI President Zakir Husain was buried yesterday in a special tomb at the university he founded, and more than one million persons turned out to pay final respects to the educator who became India's first Moslem chief of state.
Police used clubs to beat back crowds surrounding the presidential palace, forcibly opening a path through which Husain's body was borne from the palace and placed upon a horse-drawn caisson for the seven-mile procession to Mamia Milia University.
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Husain, 72, died of a heart attack early Saturday after almost two years as president of this predominantly Hindu nation. A 13-day period of mourning began Saturday.
George Romney, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, headed the U.S. delegation to the funeral. He was accompanied by his wife, Lenore, the ambassador-designate to India, Kenneth B. Keating, and others.
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A 31-gun salute sounded as the procession got under way, passing along a three-mile route guarded by 4,000 army troops. Visiting dignitaries, including Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, rode behind the caisson in the slow procession.
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