Parliament Nullified in Thailand Coup

IWBfTY-PoUR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1971 HanrlTMljr Eafnittfl SfwaUi ATwragt Dally Nat P tmm Ron For The Week Bnded The Weather Oetober N, mi Clear and cold afaln tonight; low near 80, Thureday fair and mild; high M to 60. Friday's 15,581 outlook — fair and mild. Manchvater—’A City of Village Charm VOL. LXXXXI, NO. 41 (FORTY PAGER—TWO SECTIONS) MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1971 (Olasslfled Advertising on Page $tt. PRICE FIFTEEN CENT! Nixon Signs $21.3 Billion Parliament Nullified Military Bill WASHINGTON (AP)— In Thailand Coup President Nixon signed to day a $21.8.billion military Uy P ETER O’fXIUOHMN change In status for the air wrest northern areas from procurement bill but said bases the United States oper Bangkok's control. he would ignore one of its BANGKOK, Thailand ates in Thailand. Besides allow "We are not the enemy of the provisions — the Mansfield (AP) — Premier Thanom ing the bases for Indochina op people in China but we ore amendment urging him to Kittikachorn assumed ab erations, the Thanom govern against these who export Com set a final date for the solute power today by abol ment has given support to munist doctrine to our king withdrawal of all U.S. ishing parliament, dissolv ground operations in South dom,” the premier has said. forces in Indochina. ing his cabinet and sus Vietnam. As foreign minister, Thanat Nixon saidil^ a statement pending the constitution. In Washington, State Depart Khoman sought more than two N ow that the amendment "Is without ment cfficials said they had years ago to arrange talks with Tanks surrounded the parlia binding force or effect; and It few details of the Thai develop China to consider coexistence ment building and paratroop ments and were awaiting fur for this and other Southeast does not reflect my judgment reinforcements were brought about the way the war should ther information. Asian countries. No response into Bangkok, but the city was Thanom decreed that all from Peking was over an be brought to a conclusion." calm. The President charged, too, courts will come under military nounced; ^ that "legtslaUve acUons such Thailand is strongly anti jurisdiction. Thailand abstained in the as this hinder rather than as communist. The 60-ycar-old The decree was broadcast U.N. vote expelling Taiwan and sist in the search for a nego- premier, who came up through shortly after a full police and seating Peking. Uated settlement." the military and has the rank military alert was ordered This country Is a kingdom, T h e procurement-author- of field marshal, told the nation throughout tWe country. That and King Bhumibol Adalyadej isaUon bill provides for contin that he is heading a revolution spread rumors of a coup d’etat. is considered above politics. He uation of construction on the ary council. He said Us person Cabinet ministers seemed took the throne in 1946. anU-balUsUc missile system, as nel will come from the armed unaware of what was coming. The council said it upheld the Hartford National’s well as other research and de forces and - the police, with Thanat Khoman, who has been monarchy. velopment pro-TTims. It also in some civilian elements. foreign minister, heard the an Premier Thanom Klttika^ Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua is shown center, he confers with aide; at right a comment nouncement on a portable radio chore announced more than a cludes an amendment removing at his desk at U.N. At left he listens to speech; Martial law was declared. the President’s authority to ban during a speech leaves him smiling. (AP Photo) The action amounted to a coup at dinner. year ago that he was tired of chrome Imports from lUiodesla. d'etat against parliament. The announcement said there political bustle and wanted to Press secretary Ronald L. Thanat Khoman, who lost his was no change in the structure quit public life to rest at his Ziegler said the lUiodeslan Job as foreign minister, said of the oiilltary and police com beach house. amendment, a con<fresslcnal some legislators' behavior had mands. The Revolutlcnary The announcement seemed ap move to force resumption of U.S, Calls Reds’ Barbs in U.N. hampered the government. He Council ordered all officials to propriate for the mild, elegant the Imports, does not go Into ef has been attacked frequently In centinue working, and asked Thai leader. He built a reputa fect unUl January 1972. And, the lower house. - that the people attend to busi tion as a conciliator, a smooth Ziegler said, Nixon will take no Since a two-thirds majority of ness and remain calm. diplomat whose tnimp is a tal acUon nor have any comment both houses was required to de While Thailand has been a ent for patching political ‘Empty Cannons of Rhetoric’ backer of U.S. policy in South cracks. while negotiations are under feat government legislation, the Now Chcd^Crodit way between Britain and Rho government ,ln theory could not east Asia, it has also started to Thanom’s bold stroke to i reappraise Its views toward H desia on the future of the white WASHINGTON (AP) — mainland cut of the world body,, long as Peking ccntinued to be Agency attack on Nixon came be defeated. But on occasion It day—dissolving parliament, sus Red China. The Thais assert settler rebel government In American officials say Red and deman:led U.S. withdrawal adamant, for hostility, there is was unable to keep party mem pending the constitution and as- Tuesday and called him "hy that China is behind an insur South Africa. China’s anU-U.S. barbs at the from Taiwan and Indochina. little we can do by ourselves to bers In line. The budget was United Nations were "dis- improve the relationship,” he pocritical” because he had an gency which has threatened to (8m Fag* FUteen) But officials in Washington nounced that 46,000 American held up last year until the legis (See Page Three) appoinUng" and "unhappily said statement alone will not added. "What we can do. we lators bowed under pressure of pradlctable," but they will not will.” troops were being withdrawn In affect plans for President Nix December and January from an army alert. affect President. Nbcon’s Peking on’s trip, which will be further Since then, Nixon's efforts led Thanat appeared unperturbed visit next year. South Vletruim. The broadcast coordinated next month when a to the visit by Dr. Henry Kis called for total withdrawal. by developments. Ambassador George Bush second White House advance singer to Peking In . July, and Some U.S. authorities expect "Somehow or other we have PoultryStudy termed Peking’s inaugural U.N. party is due to visit Peking. his trip In October to perfect not mastered the political speech Tuesday " a dis arrangements for the Nixon that a form of two-track diplo In his foreign-affairs report macy will develop with Peking forms of Europe and America," appointment for all those who to- the nation last February, trip. he said. "Changes will have to wish to see the United NaUcns saying one thing out loud and Spurs Outcry Nixon said mainland China Communist China's propa another In private. happen In an abrupt manner. makesyou rich promote the goals cf peace and "continues to convey to Its own ganda blasts at the United "This is not an event that In any event, the official view progress." people and to the world Us de States have moderated some of China’s U.N. attack on the will bring people into the However, Bush said, the criti termination to cast us in the what. Last spring they describ For Names United States was, In Bush's streets. It Is an event that wUl cisms of the United States were devil’s role. Our modest efforts ed Nixon’s hands as "red with words, that "there was nothing bring calm and order and dedi By DON KENDAIX. only "empty cannons of rhetor to prove otherwise have not re cation. blood" because of his Vletnaml- new in the Intemperate lan ic." duced Peking’s doctrinaire en zation policy which Peking guage.” " I take satisfaction in the de WASHENOTON (AP) — Sen. China had charged the United mity toward us. claimed prolongs, the war. velopment. The only regret I Abraham Rlbicoff, D-Conn., has States with trying to keep the "So long as this Is true, so The latest New China News (Sm Page Fifteen) have is that It could not have demanded from the Agriculture taken a more revolutionary Departntent names at 68 form,” poultry firms a team of govern It was in effect a return to ment Inveatlgators says are / the conditions that prevailed processing birds for consumers before parliament was reconsti under "unacceptable sanitary tuted in 1969. There were 10 w h en you conditions." , South Viets To Begin Air Strikes years of milttary rule before A sternly worded report I that. TTianom’s predecessor, Tuesday by the General Ac Sarit Thanarat, was also a field counting Office, which did not marshal. He died In 1963. identify the companies, said the The action was a surprise, dirty condlUons found in a sur Against Ho Chi Minh Supply Trail but it reflected the govern vey this year may be generally ment’s previously expressed widespread. SAIGON (AP) Ftor the first southeastern Lacs for many the South Vietnamese air force During October, the Vietnam dissatisfaction with demands The report was sought by time in the Vietnam war, the months to come. into the eighth largest in the ese flew 72 per cent of all tac made by the legislation.

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