The San Juan Star (Sept. 19, 1960)

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“DAILY

Vol. I ~

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SUNDAY a4

Tel 3-8400

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Asian-African Nations s Back Dag jEastern Section At UN; Lumumba Out Of Hiding Of Island Given UNITED ALON’ (AP)—Key Asian-African nations lined up

a defeat to Soviet policy in ad- ipabopeat

ear

bare

of

any g

vance of Premier Nikita Khrush- ficial markings and moved back last night behind a resolution for chev’s arrival for the regular as- into his official residence. the emergency session of the sembly opening on Tuesday. . The road in front of the resiGeneral Assembly calling for supMeanwhile in Leopoldville, Pa- dence -was quickly blocked and port of Dag Hammarskjold in his trice Lumumba whose Moscow: United Nations Ghanian troops policies on’ the Congo. suported dictatorship collapsed deployed through his garden and The resolution would amount around him yesterday pl: him- set up a command post beside the to,a-vote of confidence for the self under the protection of the Bafage. A huge U.N. flag hung U.N. .secretary-general in his bit- United Nations he had villified in front of his residence. | ter fight with the Soviet Union. for weeks. | Lumumba disappeared shortly The United States and. other ‘The defiant ex-premier gf the after Col. Joseph Mobutu, the ‘Western powers were certain to Congo Republic came out of hid Congo’s. emerging army strongpress for overwhelming approval} i ‘at about noon, , Seized power jast Wednesof the resolution probably somee doubled his willowy six- day "and announced| “neutralizatime today, and thus administer pee frame into a | small ; (See UN, Page 21) ¥

Warning Status By ROBERT

D. LANE

The eastern two-thirds of Puerto Rico last night braced for the possibility of floods that could be as serious or even

more disasterous than the Sept. 6 devastation. Late last night, Ralph Higgs, chief of +the San Juan Weather Bareau, said: “I cannot stress too strong

-

ly that this is a serious situation. The potential is as great

or greater

floods,

than

the Sept.

Extreme

6

precaution

must be followed. Persons who. have evacuated must remain away from the dan-

ger areas during the night.” The

Weather

screen

showed

Bureau’s very.

radar

heavy

rain

activity in the south and eastern areas Higgs

of the island last night, said, There was no indi

cation

of

a letup.

Police, Civil Defense, Red Cross and other agencies most concera-

ed prepared (See

for the worst, just

FLOODS,

Page

21)

Cheers, Boos STRANDED AT THE AIRPORT—This is the grim, ilidtresell family \efAureBo Cirilo as they San Juan International Airport Saturday night determined to leave the island, (Photo by Ron Sobin.)

6 Children

Family By

Camp

At Sport

W.

of eight who came to Puerto Rico a month ago full of hope in a land of opportunity, showed ap at In tional Airport at Isla Verde Saturday pier noon, deter ined to “leave Puerto Rico or die.” family—Aurelio

Cirilo,

wife

and

six

young

chi dren

—was due to leave the island last night with the he of the ‘Travelers Aid Society. But for almost a day and a half the family lived! on a bench at the airport, sleeping on the floor, living out a strange climax .to what they described as a nightmarish stay in an island slum area. Heightening the human drama was ‘the coniliti of Cirilo’s U. S. born wife, Winnes, 37, sick and pre » but

determined not to be taken to leave Puerto

Rico

once and

a hospital

for all,

terday,

Aurelio, 27, a native of- Rio Grande, describing himself | @s an ordained minister of the Church of God, resisted all | attempts—by a social .worker, by police, by.an in-transit

i

, by a man who

identified himself as a New York

| fPinies reporter reporter—ta take*his family from the airport. : |

His recurring comment:

“We came here to leave Puerto

The

family

yesterday

afternoon

was

gathered

in an

laternationgl Hotel. room at the airport. They told this istory ag they waited for the Trans-Caribbean Airways plane ; 'that would take them away from their nightmare:

'

Left $ Years Ago

i | Aurelio left the island eight years ago for Pennsylvannia |: to work as a farm laborer. There he met his wife Winn

i (07, divencell-mathie of fcr. chidrya. “Ehar mare yao FAMILY, Page 21)

wad

SCALI

(AP)—Cubaa Castro,

smiling

happily, arrived yes-

first of a procession of

controversial foreign leaders due to attend a historic meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. hanti Some 3,000 singing, supporters hailed the bearded Cuban revolutionary chief as he

arrived: at heavily guarded Idie-

wild ‘Airport aboard a Cubaa airliner.

In

5 Rico or die.”

a

Fidel

and waving

nd ‘Nightmare’

MALDONADO

A penniless family

‘The

if

JOHN

YORK

Premier

ot

'

Flees A.

| i

By

NEW

sas ncamed

Couple,

appeared at

Greet Castro In New York

downtown

New

York,

meanwhile, some 200 screaming anti-Communist demonstrators clashed with police to protest the imminent arrival of Nikita Khrushchev, the star of the antiAmerican

cast.

After about an hour, the crowd was dispersed. There were n@ (See CASTRO, Page 21)


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