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Fimeultiiies , Th Ll JET FLYING on SCHEDULE , ' Harvardn 0 T'lirji W 4 Ill .fc, LISTEN JJ ZRifr ft III:vjvr f I Frankfurt: Pan v . Am makes : r ... .. ii ' ' ARIANA V M M M.illJ rrn fimEULTIiIES , th lL JET FLYING ON SCHEDULE , ' harvardN 0 T'lirJi"- - Kabul: - university j Kabul Hotel, T.l 24711 . I i i o n a n s I VOL VIII, No. 146 kabul, Wednesday; September 17, 1969 (sonbula 26, 1348 s.h.) PRICE AF, 4 1 ' tmtmxKnmx-ittimt'n- t 24TH GENERAL Farhadi to attend Saigon not ready to fill Arrangements to ASSEMBLY prc-summ- it vacuum left by U.S. troops pre lo ng elections OPENED in SAIGON, Sept. 17, (Reuters-Amer- ican ould have held off (with the cut- meeting Rabat troops said last n'ght that back decision) until Hanoi had sho- in Faizabad taken the South Vietnamese army has wn a new halt", KABUL, Sept. -- 17, (Bakhtar). not concessions he yet ready to fill the vacuum left by concluded. Woman Dr. Ghafour Ravan Farhadi, the KABUL, Sept. 17, (Bakhtar).-T- he becomes president for President Nixon's latest cut-bac- There little surprise the director general of the political af was at Central Supervisory Election "If they can hold their own, 'I'm decision among troops questioned at fa'rs department of the Ministry of Commission has instructed its office going to be very, very surprised" said random in Saigon. Many appeared 2nd time, 103 items on agenda Foreign Affairs left here yesterday !n Faizabad, Badakhshan, to supply a U.S. officer who has worked for blase and one, who asked that his UNITED NATIONS. SeDt. 17. After the traditional minute's sil morning for Rabat where he will wooden ballot boxes needed for the ten months in the Mekong Delta le- name be withheld sounded disap- (Reuter). The 24th UN General ence for prayer meditation Mo- participate in the preliminary mee- -' prolongation election in the city, and gion whose defence is now entirely pointed. of Assembly opened here yesterday to hr warned the assembly that pover- tings of the summit of Islamic heads because of the death of a candidate, in the hands of government forces. "I'm a career officer. I'm here be- a stern warning that the member co- ty, misery and hopelessness cons- of state and governments. The sum- Abdul Qayoum. "They're turnd the delta into a cause there's a job be doner that is untries have failed to fulfil the ho- tituted a greater threat to world mit is scheduled to begin on Septem- It is difficult to despatch the spe- testing ground for the South Vie- make sure these communists are pes making and produced a "grad- peace than ideological nationaist ber 22. to cial ballot boxes' and tnameseit's a do or die situation from Kabul. 'It ' stopped once and for all", he said. ual decline" in the world body's sta- struggles. will take time and it is not feasible and they're just not going to do "I hate to see (the withdrawal) ture. " She reproached this the industrial it", said the officer, Lt. Atkin- to postpone the voting just because newly-electe- Paul when we're so close. We're" so god- The d president, tions for not "accepting responsibi- Supreme . court of the ballot box', ' the commission son. damned close to the enemy now it's erian Assistant Secretary of State lities, and acquitting themselves of said. -. "Anything we say about them is really hurting", he said. r !V) !,,,.- Ang-- Brooks, issued the reporach in the;r obligations to modify the The wooden to be judge back frem just going to be too detrimental", Saigon hoxes.have an analysis of UN shortcomings developing , The military command in between and Shu-mke- r. signed by the candidates and stam- claimed his colleague, Lt. Ron had no information on which units that surprised many delegates by its industrialised countries". ped on each side by the local elec- Both men are attached to the cut-bac- k. frankness. U.S. visits would be involved in Though she was the only offical Thai, military assistance command. tion commission members. In particular, she struck at ; what candidate, Miss Brook's election was This was decided in an meeting KABUL,5 Sept. 17, (Bakhtar). The views were marked contrast she termed "the mythology of ach- not unanimous in the secret ballot. of the commission held yesterday Ghulam Ali Karimi, a member of to a statement from President Ngu- ievement", wh'ch she identified as She received 113 votes of the 118 and presided over by the Presid- yen Van Thieu's office last night the director of the pursuit of for valid ballots cast. There were s;x the Supreme Court and U.S. Congress gives resolutions their cut-bac- k the Afghan Judiciary and a member ent of the Trade Tribunal who went which described the 35,000 sake alone without concern for the abstentions and one invalid ballot, of the Supreme Court, Dr. participate in the wo- as a "measure of progress in the Abdul poss;bilty of their implementation. Haiti was un- to Bangkok to ' while impoverished strengthening the army of the three astronauts Walid Hoqoqi. , . rld judges meeting as Afghanistan's bf "We have lacked and do lack in able to exercise its voting rights be- The commission also decided returned home yesterday. Republic of Vietnam". to this respect a sense of reality", Miss cause of arrears in its dues. delegate send, by special in seven Captain Robert Miller, who has t carrier, ballot pa- Brooks as- Earlier he took part the standing ovation said. UN's second woman The proposed agenda for the who has spent over two years ad- pers to meet the new votes. president week course of the high judicial offi- also accused member gov- sembly sessipn, which will last at vising on local administration in Polling was temporarily suspen- cials in the United States. He said ernments of talking out of both sid- least until Dec. 16, includes 103 crucial delta area was also pessi- WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, (AP). ded in the first constituent Faiz-- ' in the course in the United States, the of es of their mouths, "pursuing one items, only five fewer than the re- The U.S. congress roared a stan- abad, pending the Texas, judges mistic. receipt bflfull data policy for national use and seeming- established 1965. The which was held in cord total in part. "I don't think the Vietnamese can ding ovation Tuesday to the three on the prolonging of the date of vo- ly from 29 countries took another for use in the United Middle East, the arms race, just spacemen who gave America its ting.1. tv ... ',. ; Karimi visited judicial insti- take up the lack. They've not Nations". and the China problem top the list. later foothold on the moon, while Presi- States and met ready for it. They don't, have the Miss Brooks emphasised that it new item among a host of tutes in the United One, me- technical know-ho- you can't ac- dent Richard Nixon moved toward was more important the in the U.S. chief justice and other for United hardy annuals is "the situation quire that overnight", he added. the next space goal a man on Mars. the mbers of the supreme court of that Nations to look after the living than Northern Ireland", introduced by ' they sh-- Nel Armstrong, leader of the U.S. congressmen country. "It's too early anyhow, the dead. 'X nrUnueA on pave 4) Apollo-1-1 space team, told the Se- She then paid homage to her pre- - nate and House, assembled in joint J . r? k t sure ucussur, cEiiiuo renaies or Gua- meeting, that : of solving temala who died during his term of Vietnam - "It was here, in these halls, that office, and to assassinated Kenyan our journey really began". Okinawa problems minister Tom Mboya, whom she de- withdrawn That was an acknowledgement of scribed as a son of Africa. Nixon orders another 35flOOmen congress' enactment of the Space Fu-ent- - course, relvina chiefly for the time Guatemalan Foreign Minister es WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, (Reu- half would be combat troops,- along Act of 1958. WASHINTON, Sept. 17, (AP). being on the ability of the South Mohr, standing in for the late yesterday or- with a small number of navy men. The lawmakers, who gave the sp- Members of U.S. Congress appear- ter). President Nixon army to replace Ameri- assembly president, embraced Miss another Almost all the 25,000 men with- Vietnamese acemen two minutes of sustained ed generally confident Tuesday that dered the withdrawal of than on other criteria in Brooks she cans rather an , as took her place on the American troops from Viet- drawn by the end of last month applause as they walked into the agreement satisfactory to both 35,000 the withdrawal pace. , tribune alongside UN Secretary Ge- the were combat troops. setting house chamber, roared their appro- Japan and the United States can nam by December 15 and left Ame- neral U Thant, a place that she will Highly placed sources said Presi- The other two criteria for val again. be worked out for the reversion of door open for another pullback this the occupy for the coming three mon- indication rican force cuts are progress at Okinawa to Japan Pri- year if the communists respond to dent Nixon had given the "The first step on the moon was by the time with- Paris peace talks and the level of the me ths''.
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