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SHighe------ 7:4m91*j* Bay conditions 4 w---------91 The Ny'v ht-bzed daty2-4 ft. vol. 32, No'. 128 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Tuesday, July 5, 1977 Hijacker surrenders to police Amin admits attempt against his life (UPI)--The gunman who seized a bus, In the words of an airport spokes- killed the driver and a passenger man: "He threw the gun out the Ugandan and diplomatic sources and injured at least four others in window, released the hostages and told UPI that troops loyal to Amin an eight-hout battle of nerves with then came out the door" of the bus. had started a purge during which police at New York's Kennedy Air- The seven hostages still aboard the perhaps 500 Army officers and men port has released his hostages and bus when he gave up are reported and civilian members of the Baganda surrendered. The hijacker seized unharmed. tribe had been murdered. the bus Sunday as it left the New One police officer speculated: "I Two of Amin's ministers who have York area for Vermont, screaming he think he must have run out of ammo, recently fled to Britian estimate had been "mistreated by this coun- that's why he threw out the gun and as many as 100,000 persons may have try." surrendered and let the hostages been slaughtered during his five and go." a half years in power. Minutes before, 30 cars carrying The plotters ambushed Amin's car King and Salk honored FBI agents and New York police had on the outskirts of Entebbe with followed the bus commandeered by bazooka and machinegun fire, accord- the Spanish-speaking youth as it ing to reports at the time. Amin (UPI)--President Carter yesterday moved away from a waiting DC-8 and was apparently riding in a second awarded the country's highest civil- drove around the runway at Kennedy car but fought his way out of the ian honor to Martin Luther King Jr. Airport. They boxed him in at an ambush. for his battle against prejudice airline hanger. and to Dr. Jonas E. Salk for stem- Negotiations began and the young ming the menace of polio. gunman demanded a plane and six- (UPI)--President Idi Amin of Uganda In an Independence Day statement million dollars. Port authorities confirmed yesterday there was an Begin hopes for better from Camp David, Carter said he prepared the plane and the bus park- assassination attempt against him was awarding the Presidential Medal ed beside it for a time, but the last month and said he captured of Freedom to King, assassinated in hijacker never boarded it. several of the plotters. relationship with U.S. 1968, and Salk for their efforts to "I captured some of the people improve the American way of life. who tried to assassinate me, " Amin The medal, which may be awarded told delegates to the 14th summit (UPI)--Prime Minister Menahem Begin only by a president, is the govern- MacKenzie under suspicion meeting of the Organization of expressed hope Monday he can deepen ments highest civilian award, com- African Unity in a 20 minute address. the friendship between Israel and parable to the military Medal of He said it was part of a conspiracy v the United States and said he will Honor. (UPI)--The Brazilian government against several African revolutionary y seek clarification from President Noting that King was both a black is waiting for a full police report leaders including the presidents of Carter about reports the United and a southerner, Carter said he and word from Port Au Prince before Angola and Guinea. But, as usual States might want to establish a "helped us overcome our acting on the accusation of an ignorance with Amin, it was difficult to dis- naval base at Haifa. of one another". alleged assassin that a Haitian tinguish between fact and fiction. "I go to the United States with The award adds an ironic twist diplomat in Brasilia ordered Reports at the time said the plot, real hope in my heart," Begin told to the legacy of the civil Sunday's murder of his ambassador. rights the 13th attempt on Amin's life reporters about his scheduled July leaders since King's Haitian ambassador Delorne Mehu, death in Mem- since he seized power, was engineered 19-20 White House meeting with Car- phis, has been revealed 48, was shot in the back at point it that he by Army and Air Force officers. ter. He made the remark after an was the target blank range during a weekend visit of harassment by the hour long meeting with U.S. Senator to the North Eastern FBI, which unsuccessfully tried. to city of Salva- Jacob K. Javits. disrupt dor, the home of Candomble, Brazil's his movement. "I am confident that both men will Salk, version of the voodoo practiced in still active in trying to address themselves to the issues solve the country's Haiti. health problems, with sincerity and purpose, with an was hailed Within a half hour police had by Carter for his work in excellent chance of success," Javits arrested two suspects who, accord- developing the Salk vaccine. told reporters. The Senator recent- ing to police chief Luis De Carval- ly criticized Carter's Middle East hov said they had been hired for the policy. assassination by Haitian embassy --- secretary Louis Robert MacKenzie, 26. MacKenzie denied the accusa- tions in open conservation with Take stock in America. Buy U.S. Savings Bonds. Blacks and KKK fight reporters and told UPI the reports from Salvador were "crazy." Salvador police have not charged MacKenzie (UPI)--To the chant of "Ku Klux with any crime. Klan, scum of the land", a group Federal police in Brasilia of blacks stormed the podium of a surrounded. MacKenzie's home but World Neeiws Digest Klan rally on the steps of Ohio's since he enjoys diplomatic immunity capitol at Columbus yesterday, tear- they were under orders not to ing the robes from participating restrict his movements but remain Klansmen. with him "for his protection." Highway Patrolmen and city police, in complete riot gear, quickly sep- (UPI)--French President Valery (UPI)--A Singapore Airlines arated the two factions, made numer- jetliner Zunwalt and Hsien-Nien Giscard D'Estaing's office denied with 118 passengers on board landed ous arrests and served as a physical Monday an American press report with its nose wheels retracted barrier between the two groups. Mon- that Giscard found Soviet President day, kicking up smoke and sparks on Police estimate as many as 500 meet Leonid Brezhnev in poor mental and the runway and causing slight inju- persons were in the area at the physical condition during Brezhnev's ries to several passengers. time of the disturbances. Several (UPI)--Chinese Vice Premier Li visit here June 20-22. "The plane made an emergency land- persons, one a TV camerman, were Hsien-Nien met with Flno Zumwalt, The spokesman however did not go ing and had several bumps before it injured in the disorder. former U.S. Chief of Naval Opera- into detail on French impressions actually landed," airport officials The Klan had organized the affair tions, in Peking Monday and told of the Soviet leader's state of said. Witnesses said when the nose as an anti-busing rally while sev- him Sino-American relations can im- health. of the aircraft touched the runway eral Columbus area groups formed prove if the United States abandons Giscard spokesman Jean-Philippe while still in motion, smoke and the coalition against the Klan and Taiwan, the New China News Agency Lecat said, "We categorically deny some sparks emitted from under the planned their counter rally. reported. information attributed to French plane. Meanwhile, officials in Sumter The agency said Li reiterated that sources, whoever they might be, re- "Some of the passengers were County, Georgia say the man accused "Th Shanghai Communique is the bruised but there were no serious of raming his car into a speakers foundation on which the lative to the conditions in which current injuries," a government spokesman platform full of Ku Klux Klansmen talks with the Soviet Chief of Sino-American relations rest." said. Saturday has received offers of help "Such relations can continue to State took place." from around the country. The man, improve, provided both sides, China (UPI)--Egypt's President Anwar Buddy Cochran, is being held on 19 and the United States, seriously im- (UPI)--The crowning of the 1977 "Hot Sadat today accepted an counts of aggravated assault in plement the principles laid down in Dog Queen" yesterday highlighted offer by Isratli Prime Minister Menahem connection with the incident in the Shanghai Communique," the agency the 110th anniversary of the birth Begin to reconvene the Geneva Middle President Carter's hometown of reported Li saying. of the hot dog at New York's Coney East Peace Conference in October. Plains, Georgia. Officials say the The Shanghai Communique was sign- Island. Named as the 3'.th "Miss The Geneva conference met briefly offers include legal and financial ed by the two countries during for- Hot Dog" was 25-year-old Cathyerina at the end of 1973, under the joint aid for Cochran, who's being held mer President Richard Nixon's visit Conti. She was chosen 'by "Nathan's leadership in lieu of 190-thousand dollars bond.