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WEATHER WATER FAIR CHARLIE U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 'UESDAY Date APRIL 18. 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Ghana Coup Puerto Rican Try Fails ACCRA GHANA (AP)(By Arnold Zeitlin5 A GENERAL WHO led the Status In UN coupthat toppled Ghana's Pres- UNITED NATIONS (AP) THE UNITED STATES, calling the question ident Kwame Nkrumah 14 months one of the "utmost importance," urged the special U.N. Commit- ago was reported killed Monday tee of Colonialism yesterday to reject a proposal to place as rebel officers tried to Puerto Rico on the committee's agenda as a non-self-governing stage a countercoup. territory. Reliable sources said Lt. The proposal, Ambassador Gen. Emmanuel K. Kotoka was Eugenie Anderson told the 24- seized at his Flagstaff House British Cutback nation committee, "constitutes residence--once the home of interference in a matter of Nkrumah--and that he was shot In Military most direct concernto my coun- and his body dumped near Accra LONDON(AP) FOREIGN SECRETARY try. And all its citizens Airport. GEORGE Brown took off for Wash- includingthosein Puerto Rico." Official sources have not ington yesterday seekingallied But Pavel F. Shakhov of the confirmed Kotoka's death. backing for a new program of Soviet Union attacked what he Ghana's military rulers beat phased British troop withdraw- said was U.S. political and off the takeover attempt in als east of Suez. economic domination and mili- four hours and declared its The projected cutback, to be tary occupation of the common- leaders had no connection with spread over the next three or wealth in the Caribbean. He the exiled Nkrumah. four years, would be over and contended that Puerto Rico is The ruling National Libera- above the 40 percent reduction "dependent on the United States tion Council reported two of- of Britain's 60,'000-strong and is a colonial territory." ficers killed during the spo- force already authorized by The relationship nowexisting radic fighting which started spring, 1968. between the United States and before dawn. The officers were At a timeof heavy reinforce- the island, he said, "means not identified. ments in Vietnam, the United that the American monopolies Since the attempted coup, States, Australia and New Zea- which ownthe sugar plantations, all of the eight-member Nati- land--among Britain's other the transport and the trade in onal Liberation Council headed allies in the South East Asia Puerto Rico can continue to by Lt. Gen. Joseph A. Ankrah, Treaty Organization (SEATO)are remain the total mastersof the 51, have made public appear- hardly likely to hail the Bri- Puerto Rican economy." ances in Accra or have issued tish plan. The committeeadjourned with- statements except(Cont'd pg 2) The Foreign (Cont'd page 2) out taking any action on the Puerto Rican question. It scheduled its next meeting for Wednesday. Dodd's Report The committee is considering Due whether to Soon include Puerto Rico WASHINGTON (AP)(By Walter Mears) THE SENATE ETHICS Committee in the list of territories to has decided tentatively to recommend censure, or condemnation, which the U.N. declaration or perhaps both, in its report on the case of Sen. Thomas J. against all forms of colonial- Dodd, it was learned last night. ism applies. The information came form sources familiar with the commit- Mrs. Anderson argued that tee's closed and tightly secretive conferences on the tangled the committee did not have the affairs of the Connecticut Democrat. competence to take up the At this point, these sources said, the committee is sifting question since the General As- through the evidence in the Dodd affair, determining what will sembly, the committee's parent be made part of its recommendations which may be presented to body, had decided in 1953 that the Senate soon. the people of the territory In discussing the current state of committee deliberations, had exercised their right to one source said flatly that all alternatives other than cen- self-determination in choosing sure or condemnation have been abandoned. ina refferendum a commonwealth The six-member, bipartisan ethics committee--(Cont'd page 2) status associated(Cont'd pg 2) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE UNITED NATIONS (Cont'd from page 1) status WASHINGTON(Cont'd from page 1) formally, the associated with the United States. Senate Committee on Standards and Conduct--has She said the island was self-governing as a spent more than a year investigating Dodd's result of a free choice of the people "in financial affairs and his relationship with an democratic elections based on universal suf- agent for West German interests. frage." Dodd has maintained all along that he has She moved formally that Puerto Rico should done nothing wrong. not be included on the list of territories un- He insists that the proceeds of an intricate der the committee's jurisdiction. series of fund-rasing dinners were testimonial Shakhov declared that the Puerto Rican donations, intended for his personal use and question was within the committee's competence not subject to taxes. as a result of the General Assembly's action last fall in approving the annual report of the ACCRA (Cont'd from page 1) Kotoka. His committee. Flagstaff House headquarters was one of three He noted that the report said was needed and points attacked by rebels. because of time would put off further discus- One lieutenant colonel and two majors were sion until early in 1967. detained by loyal troops as being leaders of He said that by approving the committee's the coup attempt. Ankrah said they denied any report,including this aspect of it, the Gen- connection with the takeover. About 120 other eral Assembly had given the committee a green soldiers were detained. light to consider the Puerto Rican question. Ankrah told a news conference he did not be- He also denied that Puerto Rico had self- lieve the predawn attack was a resurgence of government, pointing out that the U.S. held Nkrumahism but "the work of an individual who the responsibility for the island's defense wanted to show his prowess." and foreign affairs."the most important fn- A coup in February 1966,toppled Nkrumah, now ction of governmental authority. in exile in Guinea. He also listed several other areas in which he said the U.S. retained the supreme voice, LONDON (Cont'd from page 1) Secretary is including radio and television, customs, mini- under orders to emphasizethat a major reduction mum wages, employment of military forces and in Britain's military role in Asia is virtually bases on the island and labor legislation. unavoidable forPrime Minister Wilson's govern- The 1948 referendum that favored commonwealth ment. status, he said, was a "comedy. .conducted in The nation, although recovering, still is in total economic and political domination of the dire economic difficulties. United States." He also referred to the "comedy of the pleb- MOSCOW (By Victor L. Griffeth)EX-PRIME MIN- iscite," to be conducted on the island in July, ISTER NIKITA Krushchev reached 73 years of age in which voters will choose among continuing yesterday but was not mentioned by the Soviet the commonwealth status,statehood, or indepen- press. dence. It is believed that he celebrated his birth- He said it would be conducted "under the ex- day at his country residence away from Moscow ecutive control of the colonial power" which, where he has resided since his expulsion from he said, had occupied the territory, had total the government in October, 1964. control over all media of information and The last time he appeared in public was propaganda and was not even promising to re- March 12 when he voted in the parliamentary cognize and abide by the results of the refe- elections and was allowed by a crowd of 1,000. rendum. He made no comment of politics or his succes- Replying to what she called "false allega- sors in the Kremlin. His advanced age was tions" in Shakhov's statement, Mrs. Anderson evidenced by his pure white hair and his slow said it was true--and that there was nothing pace. However, he told the reporters that he sinister about it--that the U.S. Gngress ex- was enjoying good health. ercises authority over Puerto Rico in certain matters. MONTREAL (UPI) CANADIAN TRADE AND Commerce She said it appeared Shakhov did not under- Minister Robert H. Winters said yesterday this stand the relationship between Congress and summer's Montreal World Exhibition will bring the states of the U.S. or the commonwealth. some 50 million visitors and $2 billion in "The future of the people of Puerto Rico is travel income this year. in their own hands," she said, rejecting The Minister' made the comment at a dinner, Shakhov's assertion that the U.S. government surrounded by 60 Canadian Trade Commissioners was not committed to abide by the free expres- from around the world, as he launched what is sion of the wishes of the Puerto Rican people. termed "Operation Export." She said the people in elections over the Aim of the operation is to raise this year's years had overwhelmingly endorsed continuation Canadian exports to $11 and 1/4 billion-- of the commonwealth status, and that a poli- a billion over last year's figure. tical importances of groups supporting inde- During his address, Winters underlined his pendence had declined steadily and represented belief that the main impact of the Exhibition only a small minority of the people. more popularly known as Exp6'67, will be felt Ghitmou Gm.th I hal I, .corkee~ MAtthe 5.im ad r5elim for shlp aed stdim, n.e vers after the elaborate pavilions have disappeared We NAV E P-35 ad s r e.rdi s In Na .

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