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By United Press International
Troops move into Anguilla
THE VALLEY, Anguilla (UPI) British paratroops and marines invaded and occupied the rebel Caribbean island of Anguilla at dawn yesterday to the hoots and jeers of the populace.
Their first official act was to re-install a previously deposed resident commissioner, Anthony Lee.
The invasion force which landed at two points along this 15-mile-long coral island from two frigates standing offshore met no physical resistance.
The British invaders, accompanied by police officers, carried only sidearms. They set up command posts near the island's salt pond and the airport. Later they began flying in jeeps, trucks and other heavy equipment.
Verbal abuse
Only opposition to the landing by the island's 6,000 inhabitants came in the form of verbal abuse by Anguillans who shouted "Why didn't you go into Rhodesia?" and "You came after us because we are black." One old woman shouted abuse so loudly she was removed by Anguillaan police.
Anguilla broke away from the three-island federation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla in 1967 and
earlier this year declared its independence of Britain. Lee was ousted as commissioner and William Whitlock, a Foreign Office representative was chased off at gunpoint. Whitlock attributed the act to "gangster-type elements."
The British invasion force comprised Red Devil paratroops, Royal Marines and Scotland Yard men. The 210-man force had flown in to neighboring Antigua Island from England two days ago and embarked on frigates there.
A personal letter
The invasion was accompanied by a helicopter drop of leaflets saying the operation was designed to "end intimidation and make it possible for the Anguillans to speak without fear."
Lee landed after the troops secured the island with a mimeographed personal letter to all Anguillans which said he had been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen to restore law and order and establish good government in Anguilla.
"There will be British rule in Anguilla until such time as you yourselves freely approve a different settlement," the letter said. "I and the British
government realize this may take several years, but we will not abandon you nor leave Anguilla until you have achieved a secure and prosperous way of life and a permanent political solution in accordance with your wishes."
Anguillan dissent
"Tony Lee go home," one resident shouted when he read the leaflet. Another shouted, "We don't want you, Tony Lee."
In an interview with UPI, the
Israelis strafe Arab positions in Jordan Valley
TEL AVIV — Israeli fighter-bombers yesterday strafed and bombed Arab artillery positions in Jordan and ground forces battled with artillery, tanks and machine guns across the ceasefire line. The Suez Canal front was quiet but a Cairo newspaper said Israel was massing missiles for an attack against Egypt.
It was the third Israeli jet strike against Jordan since Sunday.
Houseboy goes on killing spree
idiot dogs." He compared the action to the Soviet Union's entry into Czechoslovakia last August.
MEXICO CITY (UPI) - A* cook-houseboy went on a savage killing spree in the Ethiopian Embassy Tuesday night, shooting to death the ambassador's wife and two women servants. Police found him hanged yesterday, a suicide. Three of the four children of Ambassador Gaitachew Bekele lay in "delicate" condition at the Red Cross Clinic with severe head wounds suffered in the rampage of Berhaun Heewan.
Their governess, Joe Clever.
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escaped in good condition with knife slashes on her neck, hand and forearm.
"I trusted him and he killed my wife . . . he killed my wife," Bekele wept leaving the embassy early yesterday.
"He did it. The case is solved," Mexico City Police Chief Renato Vega Amador told newsman.
The Bekele family had brought Heewan from Ethiopia to work in the embassy. He escaped police who raced to the embassy Tuesday night and hanged himself in a $1.20 a night flophouse airshaft, police said.
Both Israel and Jordan accused the other of touching off the fighting in the northern Jordan Valley just south of the Sea of Galilee.
An Israeli spokesman said Arab guerrilla mortars opened fire on Israeli border settlements in the Neve-or sector about 9:20 a.m. The Arab shelling continued for about one hour before Israeli planes swept across the ceasefire lines to silence the guns.
At about 12:30 p.m., he said about 50 shells from 120-mm mortars and howitzers v fired into Israeli territory from Jordan. He said the Israeis did not return the fire.
The Israelis reported no casualties in the clashes.
In Amman, a Jordanian military spokesman reported two clashes in addition to the air strike. He said the Jordanians suffered no casualties but one military vehicle was hit by the raiding Israeli jets.
island's acting president, Ronald Webster, charged the British had staged the invasion "because they think we are 6,000 black or
Debate on Anguilla opposed by British
The U.N. Committee on Decolonization arranged a special session yesterday afternoon to deal with the British occupation of the Caribbean island "as a matter of urgency." But none of its 23 members was prepared to speak and the meeting was adjourned until Thursday afternoon.
UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The British walked out of a United Nations debate on Anguilla yesterday although no one spoke except a New Jersey fuel oil dealer who claims to represent Anguilla.
Only Jeremiah Gumbs, the Anguillan petitioner, rose to condemn the occupation as "inconceivable in 1969" and to complain that British forces allegedly were using Anguillan schools for barracks.
Gumbs lives in Edison, N.J., and operates a fuel oil business in nearby Fords, N.J.
British opposition to the debate was based on an argument that the committee had no competence over Anguilla and other British Caribbean islands since they had been given associate statehood with Britain two years ago.
Before Gumbs began to talk, British delegate John Shaw and his aides stood up and strode from he conference room.
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