—The Daily Collegian Monday, November 1, 1976
Rhodesian rebels
attack tourist site
VICTORIA FALLS,
Rhodesia (UPI) Rhodesian
security 'forces yesterday
reported a guerrilla attack on
a tourist motel in this town on
the Zambian border in one of
the most daring insurgent
operations of the Rhodesian
war.
A government communique bombarded with rocket and
said one white Rhodesian mortar fire tonight," an army
immigration official was spokesman said.
killed and two other persons Reporters at the Forbes
were wounded. border post, three miles from
' The guerrillas threw Umtali, said the Mozambique
grenades, opened fire with a soldiers had set up nine new
mortar and fired about 300 mortar positions 300 yards
rounds of automatic weapons from the post yesterday and
fire in the Saturday night army officers reported a
attack on the Peters Motel. "steady flow" of troops into
A communique in Salisbury the area. The guerrilla war has been
reported' a Rhodesian army The communique also waged mostly along
"hot pursuit" operation reported three whites died in Rhodesia's eastern border,
against guerrilla bases inside southwestern Rhodesia, but but several shops, farms and
Mozambique on Rhodesia's there were no details. travelers have come under
western border. Troops killed The motel attack was one of attack in the west and south
-12 guerrillas 'and two blacks the boldest of the war and the west since June. Security
who broke a curfew, the first time guerrillas had forces have banned night
report said, and the guerrillas struck so close to the center of driving around Victoria Falls
killed a black Rhodesian a town. The motel is about a and nearby Wankie game
official. , mile from the center of reserve.
Ulstergunmen slay 4 more
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) A
round of sectarian killings that began with
the hospital murder of Maire Drumm, one of
Northern Ireland's most prominent Catholic
figures, has claimed at least four more lives.
Police sources said yesterday they
believed they may have identified the gun
used to kill Drumm, a 56-year-old grand
mother, as she chatted with fellow patients in
her room in the Mater hospital. -
The sources said preliminary forensic
reports indicated the fatal bullets were fired
from a weapon that police previously
determined was used by gunmen of an ex
tremist Protestant Parliamentary
organization, the Ulster Volunteer Force.
Three more Catholics were shot dead in
separate incidents even before Drumm's
funeral, scheduled for today.
Services for Drumm, a fonder vice
President of Sinn Fein, the legal political
front of the outlawed Irish Republican Army,
was expected to draw the largest emotional
outpouring in years. Her assassination
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Residents of the Mozam
bique border town of Umtali
were warned to be ready to
leave their homes in case of
an attack by Mozambican
troops in retaliation for the
Rhodesian "hot pursuit"
attack inside Mozambique.
"Umtali could well be
Friday overshadowed the other killings.
One young Catholic was stopped on the
street at 3:30 a.m. Saturday as he walked
home with his girlfriend. She was ordered at
gunpoint to lie face down on the sidewalk
while the other two gunmen abducted the
youth and beat him severely before shooting
him dead with a single bullet in the head.
Two more gunmen hijacked a newspaper
delivery truck Saturday night and, while the
10-year-old son of the victims watched, they
shot two men dead at point-blank range.
The boy, son of John Maguire, 56, was hit in
the leg in the burst of gunfire. The victims,
both Catholics, had just made their final
delivery of the Belfast Telegraph newspaper
when their truck was taken away.
The Ulster Freedom Fighteis was blamed
for the killing of the Catholic youth. But
sources connected to Protestant
paramilitary groups denied they were in
volved in any of the weekend slayings.
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Victoria Falls
Military sources said the
attackers probably came
from Zambia and crossed the
Zambezi River at a shallow
point upstream from Victoria
Falls, one of the world's most
spectacular cataracts and
among Africa's major tourist
attractions. The Zambezi
River, which forms the
border between Zambia and
Rhodesia, hurtles 355 feet into
a gorge, propelling upward a
perpetual spray that forms
rain forests for miles.
Motel manager Freddie
Pacella said the attack began
at 9:45 p.m. and lasted eight
minutes.
"The guests hit the floor
and the bullets went all over,"
Pacella said.
Most of the motel's win
dows were either punctured
or • shattered and the walls
pock-marked.
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Rhodesian leader to
GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) Prime Minister
lan Smith probably will leave the stalled - Rhodesia
peace conference Wednesday the day the con
ference was expected to resume full sessions
Rhodesian sources said yesterday.
American diplomat William E. Schaufele b Jr.
reportedly held a secret round of talks with
delegates in an attempt to accelerate the pace of the
conference, but no details of his activities were
available. •
The Rhodesian sources said Smith decided to
leave Geneva because of the lack of progress at the
British-sponsored conference, which has brought
the white regime and four black nationalist groups
together to choose an interim, multiracial govern
ment.
He will leave two cabinet ministers behind to head
New Thai
NONG KHAI, Thailand
(AP) The new martial law
regime is cracking down on
the large Vietnamese com
munity in Thailand. It claims
the actions are designed to
control areas of potential
Communist subversion.
"It looks like we Viet
namese will have no more
freedom in this country," said
one of the nearly 100 Viet
namese arrested in Nong
Khai. "The government is
getting tougher and tougher
onus."
Police here say they have •
seized about 3,000 documents
they describe as Communist
in nature, pictures of the late
Ho Chi Minh of North Viet
nam and private
correspondence between
Rightists boycott Lebanon peace talks
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)
Christian rightists
boycotted talks yesterday
aimed• at implementing the
peace plan for Lebanon in a
dispute over who will control
the Arab peace-keeping force.
Sporadic shooting, sniping
and kidnaping undermined
the 11-day-old cease fire.
The rightist Amsheet Radio
said
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Vietnamese in Thailand and
Vietnam.
Nong Khai, a town of about
50,000 people, is stirring with
border patrol police, special
forces units and troops of the
Thai army's 3rd division.
Searches of Vietnamese
homes are every day oc
currences.
With more than 4,000 to
5,000 old-time Vietnamese
residents and 16,000 refugees
from Communist governed
Laos across the Mekong
River from here,, the area is
considered by Thai
authorities a potential hotbed
of Communist subversion.
There is another reason for
increased police and army
surveillance in Nong Khai, a
Mekong River crossing point
Lane. soon will meet both
Moslem leftists and Christian
rightists in ah American
sponsored drive to bring the
warring factions together.
Such contacts would mark
the first time an American
diplomat has ventured across
Beirut's confrontation lines
since the murder of U.S.
Ambassador Francis E.
Meloy last July.
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a scaled-down white delegation, the sources said
Foreign Minister Pieter van der Byl and Mprk
Partridge, minister'of lands and natural resources.
Other delegation leaders also said yesterday they
were impatient at the standstill in the talks.
Schaufele's role at
deliberately low key.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger sent his
chief African trouble-shooter to the conference as
an observer following an impasse over American
peace proposals for a transition to black majority
rule in Rhodesia within two years.
Schaufele, the assistant secretary of state for
African affairs, said he would meet with all con
ference participants, but he kept his plans secret.
He ducked out a side entrance of his hotel yesterday
to avoid reporters.
law tough on
into Laos. The provincial
governor says that more than
300 leftist Thai students,
politicians and Vietnamese
subversives have fled to Laos
since the military took power
in Thailand in a coup Oct. 6.
Some Thais and Viet
namese confided that a few of
their friends had crossed the
half-mile-wide Mekong since
the military seized power and
began a sweep of what it
considers potential sub
versives.
"I was sitting in my house.
Suddenly three policemen
came in and began searching
through every room," said
the Vietnamese prisoner,
Tran Van Linh, in an in
terview in jail. "They took
portraits of Ho Chi Minh from
A meeting of leftists,
rightists and Palestinians
failed to materialize mainly
because of the Christians'
objections that only President
Elias Sarkis could preside
over such a gathering.
Egyptian Maj. Gen.
Mohammed Hassan
Ghoneim, military leader of
the peacekeeping force of
2,300 already in the country,
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conference was
had tries to gather all the
warring factions for the talks.
Lane is known to be ready
to re-establish contacts with
all sides in the fighting, but he
was reliably understood not to
have re c eived any in
structions from Washington
on when to begin.
In the scheduled meeting,
Ghondim planned to present a
timetable for reo . enin 1 hi :. h-
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Ivor Richard, the British U.N. ambassador who is
the conference chairman, held another round of f:
private, informal consultations with leaders of the
five delegations.
After a one-hour meeting with Richard, Ndab
aningi
Sithole of the Zimbabwe African National :4
Union said, "NO material progress has been made -:
so far. Things are going too slowly for my liking." v
British officials said the date of the next full
session most likely would be Wednesday. The two
sessions of the talks Thursday and Friday have
lasted less than two hours.
SMith had said Saturday he planned to return
home for several days unless the conference moves
off a standstill.
"I've got the feeling for the next week or so we ',',
may be sitting here twiddling our thumbs," he said.
the wall and private
correspondence with friends
of mine in Hanoi. Of course I
have friends in Vietnam, but
I'm not a subversive."
Linh, a merchant who has
lived in Thailand for 19 years,
said he is ready to return to
Vietnam if Hanoi and
Bangkok reached an agree
ment.,
Thailand's Vietnamese
minority, living chiefly in the
north east . and numbering
some 60,000, has , been a
source of tension, between
Vietnam and Thailand since
the early 50's, when
thousands, fled their
homeland in the wake of the
French-Indochina war.
Numerous efforts at
repatriation have proved
Viets
fruitless. With the growth of
Thailand's Communist in
surgency, the economically
influential, Vietnamese,
community has been
regarded by many as a
breeding ground for
guerrillas and a channel for
Hanoi's support of the
rebellion.
One of the first an- , ;
nouncements of the new,/
government was to accuse.
"Vietnamese Communists":
of agitating student
demonstrations in Bangkok
which led to bloody street
fighting Oct. 6.
" Official Vietnamese media , 0
responded with propaganda
blasts at Bangkok, accusing
the new regime of per
secuting the Vietnamese.
ways, creation of buffer zones ,
and deployment of peace- .:,
keeping troops. -,
To date, the various groups
have largely ignored calls to 4
begin withdrawing their
troops, reopen the main high
ways,
remove roadblocks and
barricades and return control
of public utilities to the ,
central government.
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