Degaulle Gets Final Tribute
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•••*>• Two '.A .if .' SEE STOWt BELOW Rainy ank Mild Rainy and mild today, to- tAght and tomorrow, becom- ing fair and cool on Satur- FINAL day. I Red Buk, Freehold LOOK Branch (8e» DtUlli, PIJI jy I EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 98 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER \2, 1970 34 PAGES TEN CENTS i 11 i i DeGaulle Gets Final Tribute PARIS (AP) — In the Gothic grandeur of Notre Dame Political leaders frotn abroad included Indian Prime made among groups known to oppose the policies of many Cathedral, in tte simple village church of Colotnbey les Minister Indira Gandhi, President Makarios of Cyprus, Pres- of the visiting heads of state and government. Deux Eglises, and in 30,000 other towns and villages of ident Zalman Shazar and David Ben-Gurion of Israel, Egyp- ARMS ARE PRESENTED tian Premier Mahmoud Fawzi, Lebanese President Sulei- France, his people prayed today for Charles de Gaulle. Long black cars brought the foreign leaders to the big U.S. President Nixon, Soviet President Nikolai V. Pod- man Franjieh, President Giuseppe Saragat and Premier JEmilio Colombo of Italy, Premier Marcello Caetano of Por- wooden doors of Notre Dame. A detachment of the Garde gorny, other heads of state and leaders from" most of the Republicaine, in full ceremonial uniform with plumed hel- nations of the world joined French officials in Notre Dame tugal, Vice President Luis Carrero Blanco of Spain, and West German Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt, represent- mets, presented arms with sabers for each one, and an aux- for the Requiem Mass that was the nation's official fare- iliary bishop greeted them. well to De Gaulle. ing ailing Chancellor Willy Brandt. MAJOR GATHERING Communist China designated its ambassador in Paris Wearing a dark suit, President Nixon stepped grave It was the greatest gathering of world leaders since the as its representative, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Vice and bareheaded from his car and was ushered quickly in- Chairman Lin. Piao sent wreaths. to the cathedral. Inside he was seated 20th, in a protocol • funeral of I>wight D. Eisenhower 19 months ago. pattern based on time in office. Thousands of French men and women gathered for the To guard the great gathering of visitors, Paris Police afternoon burial service at Colombey, the little village in Chief Maurice Grimaud was given 15,000 extra men. Se- In the front rank was the 78-year-old Ethiopian emperor, eastern France which De Gaulle chose for his home in 1936. curity men were posted on the roofs of buildings around the who was crowned in 1930. He wore a marshal's uniform. The body lay in a simple wooden coffin in his home there, cathedral — where snipers shot at De Gaulle during the lib- The autumn skies were gray after a bright early morn- where the former French president died Monday night of a eration service in August 1944. Plainclothes police were ing sun. Leaves still on trees near the cathedral were yel- heart attack. - scattered throughout the vast crowd in Notre Dame. low. Pale light shone down through the huge circular rose window over the entrance to the cathedral. At the start of the funeral service in Colomfoey, church- Official sources said no preventive arrests had been es throughout the nation tolled the knell for the dead. Parisians' streamed into Notre Dame, filling every space not reserved for the official delegations. The cathedral was open to the public until an hour before the service started. SERVICE RELAYED , ^ Loudspeakers were set up in the neighboring streets and along the nearby banks of the Seine to relay the service. Radio and television carried it throughout France and West-' ern Europe, and it was beamed by satellite to the United States. The City Council called on the people of Paris to march silently up the Champs Elysees tonight, to Ihe tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, in tribute to the man who led them out of defeat in World War II and saved the nation from civil war in 1958. Britain's delegation to the memorial service included two men who had worked closely with De Gaulle in.the war, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan -and Lord Avon, as well as Prince Charles and Prime Minister Edward Heath. OTHERS ON SCENE Among other royal delegates were King Baudouin of NIXON ARRIVES — French Foreign Minister Maurice Belgium, the Shah of Iran, Grand Duke Jean of Luxem- Schumann, left, listens as President Richard Nixon bourg, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Harald of Nor- ipeaks after his arrival at Paris' Orly Field yesterday way, Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden and Emperor for the.-funeral-of Charles de Gaulle. (AP Wirephoto) Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. •Ill Ground Action Continues Low-Keyed SAIGON (AP) - Ground level of enemy activity that nonhostile causes than were U.S. troops wounded In action action in South Vietnam has has prevailed for the past six killed in combat. last week, the lowest number fallen to its lowest level in weeks and the accelerated The battlefield deaths were in almost five years. nine months, and for the first disengagement of American a slight increase over the 24 U.S. casualties since Jan. 1, time in five years American troops from battle. men killed the previous week, 1961, now total 43,959 killed in forces have gone two days in 31 Are Killed however, when the death action, 291,559 wounded in a row without having a man Headquarters said 31 Amer- count set a five-year low. action, and 8,798 dead from lqlled ill action, the U.S. Com. icans were killed in action Headquarters said this was' nonhostile causes, the weekly mand reported today. during the week, while 45 died the sixth consecutive week summary said. • • .•'.••• .'*,'''• •••:,: The U.S. Command's casu- from accidents or illness. It that U.S. battlefield deaths WAITING IN THE RAIN — A small crowd gathers yesterday in the rain in the Amphitheater at/Arlington Cem- were under 50. South Vietnamese head- alty summary for the last was the second time since quarters reported 216 govern- etery to watch Veterans Day c.ereTno;nie>s. This view was mad$ by using'a wide-angle "fUhfliye" lanj. , week also reflected the low 1965 that more GIs died from The command reported 104 ment troops killed last week, a drop of 93 from the previous week. It said. 460 South Viet- iiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiiniiiiiM namese Soldiers were wounded. The U.S. Command Cardiac Care Units Are listed 1,584 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops killed during the week. Hijackerv21, Is Four Wounded The only American casu. Rapped at Heart Parley alties reported yesterday were' four men wounded 1 In Italy on Other Counts By BRIAN SULLIVAN name the hospitals or G used to direct an electric aboard one of two helicopters equipment brand names. !t shock to the heart through a shot down in the Mekong Del- ATLANTIC CITY (AP) - was-presented for the annual paddle placed against the ta. One South Vietnamese sol- ROME (AP) — Air piracy so far Italian authorities have sons for a crime that does not a small town near Naples. The American Heart Associ. meeting of the Heart'Associ.. chest in an attempt to correct dier aboard their helicopter is not a crime in Italy, but an not received an extradition exist in Italian law. The old man died after seeing atioh was told, today that a ation. an irregularly beating heart, was killed and six were Italian court has given a 7^- request. Prosecution lawyers Tells of Charge him in Rome. study of electronic devices a critical condition requiring wounded. There were no cas- year sentence to the U.S. Ma- said Minichiello could not be Minichiello had testified Mimchiellb's 'mother, Glu- used in the cardiac care units "Both equipment inanufac. rine who hijacked a TWA jet- extradited until he finishes that he commandeered the seppina Maria, of Seattle, turers and hospitals ceem to fast action. ualties on the second helicop- of 12 leading hospitals in ihe ter. liner from California to Borne serving his Italian prison airliner because he was up Wash';, wept arid his relatives United States revealed "sig- be at fault," the report said, The.Wayne State in- a year ago. term, extradition could not be for court-martial on a bur- from Melito Irpino looked "although both were anxious" vestigators, a cardiologist American bombers kept up nificant deficiencies" in nil their intensive campaign Ralph Minichiello, 21, look- ordered for a capital crime glary charge and he didn't stunned as the youth was es- to correct the situation once it and an engineer, said they because Italy does not have think he'd get a fair trial. He corted from the courtroom It. Was discovered." against North Vietnamese ed impassive last night as he studied 41 direct-current defi. was found guilty of kidnaping, the death penalty, and Italy also said he Wanted to see his back to Queen of Heaven pris- "The problems varied from brillators. "In one brand," supply routes through Laos Of 51 electrocardiographs and Cambodia today. But only assault, and bringing into doesn't usually extradite per- aged father in Melito Irpino, on. 11 m e-wastirig nuisances lo studied, more than half exhib- the study said, "the main life-threatening hazards," Ihe small skirmishes and six ene- Italy an "arm of war," the ited unsafe leakage of olec- power switch was difficult to Ml rifle with which he com- study said.