India in Complete Control of Three Portuguese Enclaves
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-I LOW T~DE 12/20 0 7 AT 2u44 12/21 0 7 AT 0932 VOlo 3 No. 998 KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER ~96~ FIGHTING ~TOFPfO I~ CONGO INDIA IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF CI TV; TSHOlvlBE OFF TG ~(d:' TI NG THREE PORTUGUESE ENCLAVES vV ITH CfNTRAL, GOV 8 T PRF]1! [R BtlGAUM, ~NDIA, DEC. 19 {UPI )-INDIAN TROOPS OVERWHELMED 16,000 PORTUGUESE NDOlA, NORTHERN RHODESiA, DECo i9 lROOPS ENTRENCHED IN THE Go AN CAPITAL Of PANGIM IN A fiERCE BATTLE EARLY TO (UPI )-KATANGA PRESIDENT Mo'sE TSHOMBE DAY AND THE MllL!TARY COMMANDER Of GOA SURRENDERED, THE INDIAN ARMY ANNOUNCED. fLEW Off TO KITONA WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR THE ACT'O~ MEANT THAT INDIA WAS IN COMPLETE CONTROL Of PORTUGAL'S THREE EDMUND A. GULLION TODAY fOR A CONfER ENCLAVES !N LiTTLE MORE THAN 24 HOURS AfTER LAUNCHING ITS INVASIONS. ENCE WITH CONGO CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ThE CAPTURE Of PANGIM HAD BEEN EXPECTED AT ANYTIME SINCE LAST MIDNIGHT, BUT PREMIER CYRILLE AOOULA. 1HE 'ND~ANS SA!D THEY DELAYED THEIR OffENSIVE BECAUSE THEY fEARED THERE WOULD THE MEETING WAS BROUGHT ABOUT THROUGH BE HEA~Y CIVILIAN CASUALTIES If THEY ATTACKED IMMEDIATELY. A MASSIVE UNITED NATIONS ATTACK O~ INDIAN OfFICIALS SAID THERE WAS hVERY HEAVY fiGHTING" AfTER DAWN BUT THE TSHOMBE'S fORCES IN ELiSABETHV~lLE PORTUGUESE LAiD DOWN THEIR ARMS AfTER A fiNAL, 50-MINUTE MORTAR BARRAGE. AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S EfrO~TS TO (PORTUGUESE REFUGEES WHO ARRIVED IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN, fROM GOA TODAY TOLD RESOLVE THE CONGOYS TURMOil. A ~ARRO_!NG TALE Of AN AIR ESCAPE DURING AN INDIAN ARTILLERY ATTACK AND A NIGHT ~T COULD PROVIDE A DRAMAT!C BR£A~~ Fk~GH~ FROM PANGiM WITHOUT LIGHTS TO AVOID INTERCEPTION. THROUGH IN THE AGONIZING EffORTS 0- (FORTY-EuGHT REfUGEES SAID THEY CLEARED THE RUBBLE fROM THE RUNWAY WITH THEIR T~!S GIANT AfRICAN LAND TO ACH~fvE eA~E ~ANDS DURiNG THE NIGHT AfTER THE INDIANS BOMBED THE AIRPORT THREE TIMES PEACE AND UNITY. fESTERDAY ~ORNiNG. THE PLANES DEPARTED DURING THE NIGHT.) F!GHTING WAS STOPPED oN ELiS~~ET~ L~ GE~o J.N CHOUDHOURI, COMMANDER Of THE INDIAN INVASION fORCES, ANNOUNCED VILLE--AT LEAST TEMPORAR!LY. rE ~AD ACCEPTED PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR-GENERAL VASSALO E. SILVA'S SURRENDER THIS UP! CORRESPONDENT NEIL SMi~H REPORT MORNING, SilVA HAD VOWED YESTERDAY THAT THE PORTUGUESE GARRISON WOULD RESIST ED FROM THE KATANGA CAPITAL T~AT T~E fH€ !ND~AN ~NVADERS "TO THE END." HA~T TO THE fiGHTING CAME YESTERD~~ iNDIAN TROOPS REACHED PANGIM GATE, THREE MILES fROM THE MAIN PART Of THE CITY, AfTER THE CITY HAD TAKEN iTS WORST eEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT AND MET STiff RESISTANCE fROM THE PORTUGUESE DEfENDERS POUNDING YET fROM UNITED NAT~ONS MOR~ W40 DUG THEMSELVES IN TRENCHES. TARS AND PLANES. lHE PORTUGUESE SOLDIERS THEN WITHDREW TO PANGIM FORT, BUT HEAVY INDIAN MORTAR HE SAID THERE WAS WILD RELIEf lHRCJ~H r~Rl FORCED THEM TO SURRENDER. OUT THE CITY. LITTLE KNOTS Of PEOPLE !NDiAUS DRdVE TO END 451 YEARS OF PORTUGUESE RULE OVER GOA, DAMAO AND DIU GATHERED OUTSIDE THE HOTEL LEOPOLD BEGAN YES1[RDAY MORNING. AND CH~LDREN WHO HAD BEEN KEPT iNDOORS TYE OUTNUMBERED PORTUGUESE GARRISONS IN DAMAO AND DIU CAPITULATED WITHOUT A WERE ALLOWED TO VENTURE OUT rOR THE S,PUGGLE y BUT THE iNDIAN fORCES MET STifFER RESISTANCE IN GOA, WHERE THE PORTU- FIRST TIME IN TWO WEEKS. G~ESE RESqSTED BiTTERLY AND DESTROYED BRIDGES, RAILWAYS AND STORES. TSHOMBE AGREED TO THE T~lKS WITH THE ~NDIAN ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE ADOUlA WHEN !T BECAME OBV~OUS HIS EM~ SMASkED THE PANG~M GARRISONiS RESIST BATTLED fORCES COULD NOT LAST MUC~ PRESIDENT'S F~THER SUFFERS ANCE AfTER EIGHT HOURS Of HEAVY fiGHT APPARENT HEART ATTACK LONGER AGAINST THE U.N. ATTACK. ING. f ~RST REPORTS SAID THERE WERE HE LEfT ELISABETHVILlE LATE YESTER MANY CASUALTIES, BUT NO DETAILS WERE WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA (UPI) DAY IN THE COMPANY Of U.S. (ONSU~ AVAilABLE. THE PRESIDENT'S fATHER SUFfERED AN LEWIS HOffACKER, BRITISH CONSUL DENZIL IND~AN TROOPS YESTERDAY MOVED INTO APPARENT HEART ATTACK TODAY ON A GOLf DUNNETT AND FRENCH CONSUL JOSEPH LAM M4RCA30A, GOA'S MOST IMPORTANT PORT. COURSE NEAR HIS OCEANSIDE HOME IN BROSCHINI AND DROVE TO K!TWE WHE~E THE INDIANS EASilY CAPTURED THE CITY PALM BEACH, FLORIDAo THEY SPENT THE NIGHT. wHEN THE PORTUGUESE DEfENDERS fLED. JOSEPH KENNEDY WAS RUSHED TO ST. THIS MORNING THEY DROVE ON HERE TO INDijA'S DiSPUTE WITH PORTUGAL ERUPTED MARY'S HOSPITAL IN WEST PALM BEACH NDOLA WHERE GULLION, UNDER KENNEDyDS ON NoVo 17 WHEN THE INDIANS SAID THAT BY AMBULANCE. HIS CONDITION IS "SER DIRECTIONS, HAD ARRIVED YESTERDAY -ROM GUNFiRE fROM THE PORTUGUESE ISLAND OF IOUS." LEOPOLDVILLE ABOARD A U.S. AIR FORCE ANGEDIVE HIT AN INDIAN SHIP AND SANK PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS BEEN NOTifiED GLOBEMASTER. A fiShiNG BOAT. Of HIS fATHER'S COLLAPSE. HIS BROTHER, THE BIG PLANE TOOK Off THIS MORNING PREMIER JAWAHARLAL NEHRU REJECTED A THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, RECEIVED THE AT 7 40 (0540 GMT) fOR KITONA, ON THE NEGOTiATiON APPEAL BY U.N. SECRETARY CALL AND PROMPTLY RELAYED THE INfOR CONGO'S ATLANTIC COAST. K!TONA WAS GENERAL THANT AND LAUNCHED THE INVAS MATION TO THE WHITE HOUSE. SELECTED AS THE MEETING SITE TO GiVE ION WiTH STRONG LAND, SEA AND AIR HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR, MOTHER Jo TSHOMBE MAXIMUM ASSURANCE THAT HE wOUkD FORCES WHiCH QUICKLY WON CONTROL Of THE SEPHINE, TOLD NEWSMEN THE ELDER KEN BE SAfE. THERE ARE BELIEVED TO BE NO TiNY PORTUGUESE POSSESSIONS. NEDY--HE IS 73--WAS STRICKEN WITH AN CONGO TROOPS AT KITONA INDIAN TROOPS fORCED THEIR WAY INTO APPARENT ATTACK. DURING A PREVIOUS "UNiTY" CONfERENC;E GOA THROUGH DODAMARG, WHICH WAS THE MRS. ROSE KENNEDY, THE PRESIDENT'S Of CONGOLESE POLITICAL LEADERS 11.1 MAiN NORTHERN ENTRY POINT INTO THE MOTHER, IS AT HER HUSBAND'S BEDSIDE. COQUILHATVILLE, CENTRAL GOVERNME~T PORTUGUESE ENCLAVE UNTIL 1954. DODA THE PRESIDENT'S WifE IS NOT WITH HER TROOPS SEIZED TSHOMBE AND TOOK H!M TO MARG WAS C~OSED fOLLOWING THE RUPTURE BUT HAS REMAINED, AT LEAST fOR THE LEOPOLDVILLE. HE WAS HELD FOR A w~JkE OF DiPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN PORTU TIME BEING, WITH HER TWO CHILDREN AT BUT ULTIMATELY ALLOWED TO RETURN TO GAL AND INDiA THAT YEAR. BUT THE IN PALM BEACH. MR. KENNEDY, HAD SEEN ELISABETHVILLE AfTER AGREEING TO COOP DiAN ARMY, WITH HEAVY VEHICLES AND ARMED HIS SON Off AT THE AIRPORT ONLY A fEW ERATE WITH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENTo SUPERllOR!TY, fiNALLY PRIED IT OPEN HOURS BEfORE HIS ATTACK. THE PRESI WHEN HE ARRIVED BACK IN HIS ~OME AGA!N YESTERDAY--AT LEAST TO MILITARY DENT HAD REMAINED AT PALM BEACH OVER CAPITAL TSHOMBE REJECTED THE AGREEMENTS PERSONNELo CORRESPONDENTS WERE TURNED NIGHT TO REST UP AND TRY TO LICK A HE HAD MADE, SAYING HE HAD BEEN UNDER BACK AT THE fRONTIER. COLD WHICH HAD DEVELOPED DURING HIS PRESSURE. THE RUGGED TERRAIN NEAR GOA MADE TRIP TO LATIN AMERICA. SINCE THEN KATANGA STEADILY MOl ED TRAVEL D~ffiCULT. IT TOOK INDIA TWO fURTHER AWAY fROM THE LEOPOLDViLLE WEE~S TO MOVE ITS ESTIMATED 30,000 GOVERNMENT AND TSHOMBE BECAME fiRMER TROOPS iNTO BORDER AREAS BEfORE THE KWAJ WEATHER FORECAST IN HIS DETERMINATION TO WiTHDRAW KATAN~ ASSAULT BEGAN YESTiRDAY. NUMEROUS Gil. fROM THE CONGO. U.S. WEATHER BUREAU fORECAST fOR ~!L~TARY VEH!CLES WERE SEEN BROKEN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COU~CULi DOWN ALL ALONG THE ROADS LEADING TO KWAJALEIN TONIGHT AND TOMORROW-- CONVINCED THAT WHITE MERCENARiES AND Go~o CLOUDY WITH OCCASIONAL SHOWERS, ADVISERS IN TSHOMBt'S ARMY AND GOVERN~ THE INDIAN ARMY HAD SEALED THE 180-MILE MODERATE TO fRESH EASTERLY BREEZE, MENT WERE CAUSING MOST Of THE TROuBlE y BORDER Of GOA, TO PREVENT fLIGHTS INTO GUSTY IN SHOWERS, MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE ORDERED ITS TROOPS TO OUST THEM FRO~ INDiA, INDllAN TROOPS ENTERED THE 25- 86 DEGREES, MINIMUM TEMPERATURE 75 KATANGA. BY-70 MilE ENCLAVE fROM THE NORTH, DEGREES, RELATIVE HUMIDITY - MAXIMUM THE LATEST fiGHTING BROKE OUT Dtco 5 SOUTH AND EAST AND QUICKLY OVER RAN THE 95%, MINIMUM 72%, YESTERDAY'S PRECIP- WHEN KATANGESE fORCES, SEEKlNG TO fORCE 10wN3 AND "kLAGES. ITATION .88 INCHES. CUMULATIVE OUT THE U.N. TROOPS, SET u~ ROADBlOC~S 0 •• ,.0 MONTHLY PRECIPITATION THROUGH YESTER AND CUT COMMUNICATIONS BETWEE~ THE ~qTy DAY 4.98 INCHES. AND THE U.N. HELD AIRPORT. NfwS ilEMS FOR THE HOURGLASS??? QQOOOO CALL 21;4 OR 539 PACE 2 HOURGLASS WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER ~96i PUBLiSHED AT THE DIRECTION OF THE RUSSIA'S VETO KILLED U.No bECURITY COUNCIL CEA~E-FIRE COMMANDING OFFICER, PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL UNITED NATIONS, DEC. 19 (UPI )-RUSSIA'S 99TH VETO EARLY TODAY KILLED A SEC ISLANDS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH BUREAU URITY COUNCIL CALL FOR A CEASE-FIRE IN INDIA'S INVASION OF GOA AND TWO OTHER OF WEAPONS CONTRACT NOAS-59-4176-c PORTUGUESE ENCLAVES ON THE SUBCONTINENTAL COAST. wiTH THE TRANSPORT COMPANY OF TEXAS. THE CEASE-FIRE RESOLUTION, SPONSORED BY THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, FRANCE AND TURKEY, ALSO CALLED FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF INDIAN TROOPS AND URGED INDIA THE HOURGLASS IS PUBLISHED DAILY AND PORTUGAL TO NEGOTIATE A SETTLEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE U,N. CHARTER MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. DEADLINE U.S. AMBASSADOR ADLAI E STEVENSON CALLED THE ACTION "THE FIRST ACT !N A ~OR NOTICES IS 4 P.M. DAY BEFORE DRAMA THAT COULD END WITH THE DEATH Of THE UNITED NATIONS." PUBLICATiON. DEADLINE FOR NEWS ITEMS A DEBATE THAT BEGAN YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND CARRIED THROUGH A NIGHT SESSION IS 10 A.M. DAY OF PUBLICATION. THAT LASTED INTO THIS MORNING'S EARLY HOURS ALSO BROUGHT AN AfRO-AsIAN RESO LUTION TO HAVE THE COUNCIL THROW OUT THE PORTUGUESE COMPLAINT OF INDIAN AGGRES T~E HOURGLASS RESERVES THE RIGHT SION BY INDIA AND CALL ON PORTUGAL TO "TERMINATE ITS HOSTILE ACTIONS" AND TO EDIT ALL COpy RECEIVED FOR COOPERATE WITH INDIA IN "LIQUIDATING" COLONIALISM.