The San Juan Star (Aug. 11, 1960)

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10¢ ar St an the San Ju Lumumba Faces Mob In New Congo Riots DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY

BSecond-class postage paid at Sam Juan, Puerte Bice

11, 1960

August

Thursday,

Puerto Rico,

San Juan,

Tel. 3-8400

No, 239

I

Vol.

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Dag To Fly To Katanga | _

(AP)--Anti-

The Congo

LEOPOLDVILLE,

government rioting broke out in the heart

rocks

and

last night

city

African

of this

were thrown at Premier Patrice Lumumba’s|! car, an aide reported. that

said

aide

The

2a toire

Lumum-

premier

7

is safe and sound,”

police Congolese at Meanwhile

several

leaders

Abako

Party.

ere auineetl he will

Hammarskjold

|,

:

glistening

threw

a cordon

of

yonels

around

the

||fly into Elisabethville, capital of |"Newsmen

i

opposition|

the

of

report Abako | to one According fired on police. . members | Congolese policemen and trooPubdl:que| Force the of pers

Dag

General

riots were | ¢ arrest of|§

Party

mob by United

the

Secreta

Nations

the were

Several . shots

said.

aide .

“The

face.

Lumumba’s

hit

——

;| Congo’s secessionist Katanga Province, at the head of two Swedish

screaming

ba-

of

the |

were threatened soldiers as they

by | at-!

heart

to penetrate 4) companies of U. N. troops tomor- tempted Anicet Kashamura row

i

ace)

native

tion of ‘this city. The off by the touched

He deba was not injured. nied reports that Lone of the stones

nn

teeming

the

in

the

area.|

announced

ministry |

shlthough Lumumba's tide in'|inat the government has, th {from

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.

:

RR oR

around

ing

F

i

ENDS

Oppenheimer

J. Robert

and

his dog ‘Monday’ pause at an airline counter at San Juan York.

V. I., to New

tion at St. Thomas,

Studies,

Advanced

Institute for

has recently been confirmed as the United Nations InterAgency’s

Energy

Atomic

natiénal

M. Kirton of setting up a spy here.

apparatus

the

leave

to

His

assistant,

MacDonald,

lar

charges

was

but

him

It ordered

Soviet

was

T.

Irving

warned

not

on

simi

told

to

leave the country. The two men returned yesterday

(See ATTACHE,

Page

By

20)

A.

day

long

a

campaign the

of

sweep

week-

across

island’s

the

central

mountains. According

communi-

to a press

que that arrived yesterday at La Fortaleza from the mountains, the

governor

(See

has

MUNOZ,

labeled

Page

as

20)

Successfully For First Time Titan Fired ERAL, Fia. (AP)—The Air Force for the CAPE CANAV prototype of the first time successfully launched an operational ay. The powerful intercontinental range Titan missile yesterd away. rocket smacked a target zone 5,000 miles Titan model Two previous attempts to fire this advanced missile, potenfailed. The Air Force reported the Martin-Made all test tially America’s most deadly: military rocket, achieved flight objectives. i

and

Chancellor

range

MALDONADO

to

fill a

gap between

the university

es

a

is

Jaime

efforts of the university

“operation

of

range,”

close

range plan to coordinate the

Gov. Mujioz completed the mountain

at

Benitez held the first of a series of conferences yesterday at the university to discuss the first step of a long

MALDONADO

W.

second

length

Union.

Capt.

ras

In Mountains

MOSCOW (AP)—The Sovjet Union yesterday accused U. S. air attache Col. Edwin

we

partment of Education. Secretary Candido Olive-

|By Thousands

U.S. Attache With Spying

A. W.

program

a long-range

started

they

|Muioz Heard

Reds Charge

LUMUMBA

... Violence

of Puerto Rico The secretary of education and the Chancellor of the University system when educational island’s the of reform the in took a major step yesterday and the De-

Physics

10th annual High Energy photo by Gunter Hett.)

to the forthcoming (STAR Conference.

By

representative

official

PATRICE |

Vic-

la

|

Tolmprove Education System

g from a vacaInternational airport yesterday returninOppenhe imer, Director of the Princeton’s

country.”

leaders of |

Benitez, Oliveras Join Forces

(ROD

fis

a

7s

Se.

VACATION—Physicist

de

Place

the

in the

order

The arrest of some

riot-|

the populace

went to calm

|to restore

Lumumba

reported

was

information

situation firmly in hand. There | will be numerous other arrests. | We will not hesitate to use arms |

/\ Belgian radio broadcast in Brus: | sels reported that he had been slightly injured. It

his

the Department tion.

and

Educa-

of

“This is the first time,’’- Benitez said before the meeting, ‘‘that De-

partment of Education and University

officials

have

met

to

achieve

coordination of efforts.” First In Series “This is the first of a series of meetings,’ Benitez said, ‘aimed

a greater

at

carrying

into

effect

a construc-

tive and effective cooperation in which both institutions are interested

in behalf

of education

levels in Puerto Rico.” Oliveras said the-purpose meetings

will

be

“to

at

all

new

Candido Olimakes a point ez Benit Jaime ellor Chanc as s veras listen and the of|as they announced yesterday t hat the university

avenues of joint effort in our process of broadening and improv-

ing the educational Puerto Rico.” (See EDUCATION,

system

Page

N

of the

seek

FOR

CLOSE R COOPERATION—Secretary

Commonwealth

20)

prove

Puerto

will inaugurate

Rico’s

schools.

a joint

program

to im-


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