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.Ma n o FTp 1 icnon Vietaa TOT iiiiSlF M zona a t 1 - jluhlfr J?fflfj sfnWvxm I Junta Stages Coup .Bolivia PiresMemill: Eesfi gnus LA PAZ, Bolivia -President Alfredo Ovando resigned Tuesday after a bloodless coup and was replaced by a three-man military junta. Air Force units opposed to the junta conducted a strafing run on the Miraflores barracks in La Paz to prevent its members from being sworn into office. The attack force, three World War Il-type Mustang fighters, made only one sweep over the barracks. Infantryman deployed in the area opened fire on the aircraft. No casualties were reported on either side. Fullscale civil war appeared possible at any minute. The rebel fighters after their strafing run over the army barracks roared past the government palace but without firing. They drew machinegun fire from the palace guard. Two top-ranking army men holed up the military airbase announced formation of an "insurrectionary" force to block Congress To Meet After Elections WASHINGTON Democratic and Republican leaders agreed Tuesday to ccess Congress for election campaigning Oct. 14 and to reconvene Nov. 16 for the first "lame duck" session in two decades. The Republicans said they went along reluctantly. They had preferred, they said, to keep the lawmakers here and on the job as late as Oct. 23 and then to adjourn the 91st Congress for good. The . decision was . . reached. , at an afternoon meeting in the office of Democratic Speaker John W. McCormack. Despite earlier differences, in the end it was unanimous. The last time Congress met for legislative business after an election was in 1950, when the Korean War had begun. In 1954 the Senate remained separately after the election to consider censure charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis. the junta from taking office. Leaders of the rebel movement were Col. Samuel Gallardo, Ovando's labor minister, and ousted former Gen. Juan Jose Torrez, fired by Ovando at military insistence a few months ago as a political leftist. The military forces backing formation of the junta minimized importance of the "insurrectionary" movement but it appeared to be gaining ground rapidly in La Paz. The 30,000-member Bolivian Workers Central (COB) announced opposition to the junta and ordered its members to blockade streets and prevent the movement of troops within the city. Nervousness was apparent among the civilian populace of the city last Tuesday for the first time since the Sunday start of the crisis that led to Ovando's downfall. Gen. Rogelio Miranda, the army chief of staff who led the revolt that ousted Miranda, was reported at Miraflores, site of the joint chiefs of staff, where the junta Miranda proclaimed was to be sworn into office. Army troops supporting the new junta were ordered off the streets of La Paz and back into their barracks apparently to avoid open confrontation. Public order in . the capital was left in the hands of the national police, armed only with nightsticks and tear gas grenades. WASHIN'GTON-President Nixon, in high spirits after his grueling European tour, announced Tuesday he will address the nation at 9 p.m. EDT tonight and make a major proposal for ending the Vietnam War. His radio and television broadcast from the White House, timed less than a month before the Nov. 3 congressional elections, follows a personal report from the U.S. negotiating team in Paris on the latest Communist plan for a settlement. Nixon said the new U.S. initiative had the approval of the governments of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and would be submitted to the Paris talks on Thursday. There was widespread speculation, which Nixon made no attempt Tuesday to discourage, that the United States might propose a cease-fire throughout Southeast Asia and a withdrawal of all foreign troops from Vietnam. He refused all comment. The President, who returned to Washington Monday night from his 1 2,000-mile trip to five nations, including Communist Yugoslavia, bounced unexpectedly into the White House press room late in the morning. "It will be the most comprehensive statement ever made on this long and difficult war and will cover all the major issues involved in the Southeast Asia area," he said, speaking without notes. "We do not consider this to be a propaganda gimmick," he added. "We are not just saying it for the record." Before the speech tonight, Secretary of State William Rogers will brief interested governments, including close U.S. allies in Southeast Asia and presumably the Soviet Union, on the new diplomatic approach, Nixon said. The President himself wiH.ifocus his speech with the cabinet at 5 p.ni, todjy. followed an hour later by a briefing for Republican and Democratic congressional leaders. Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser, win see newsmen twice. The President stressed that the new U.S. peace initiative was being developed long before the National Liberation Front offered Sept. 17 to halt attacks on American troops if they leave South Vietnam by next June 30. U.S. Ambassador David K.E. Bruce, who flew from Pans to Ireland to report to Nixon on Sunday, termed the Communist proposals "old wine in new bottle at the time but said they would he studied carefully. Nixon said his announcement today was "prepared only after it was thoroughly considered" and covered all issues involved in the Pans talks. He refused to comment further, saying only that he expected speculation would continue, and returned to his office without taking any questions from newsmen. Crash Study Finds Possible Violations WASHINGTON-Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe said Tuesday that preliminary evidence "suggests there may have been some wrongdoing" in the Rocky Mountains crash last week of a chartered plane carrying Wichita State University football players. Among other factors under investigation is whether Golden Eagle Aviation Co. of Oklahoma City, which supplied the crew for the ill-fated flight, had violated the Federal Aviation Administration's limit on the weight it could carry. Once source close to the inquiry, still under way, said the Martin 404's two engines "apparently were old, not properly maintained and just failed to deliver the power the pilot needed." Officially, the FAA said the plane "may not have been flown for a substantial time" before its last flight. The plane was owned by Jack Richards Aircraft Co. of Oklahoma City and probably was leased by Golden Eagle. A second chartered Martin 404 which carried other Wichita State players safely to their destination at Logan, Utah, was seized by the FAA for investigation of "a number of alleged mechanical violations" and the possibility that its pilot's medical certificate "may not be up to date." Agents Seize Explosives DANVILLE, III. -Undercover Treasury agents who posed as radicals said Thursday they seized 700 pounds of stolen explosives peddled by a gang of downstate Illinois youths. Michael McMahon, 20, Danville, was arrested at the scene. Three other Danville youths are also being sought. MAKE ONE MOVE TDUlW THIS BLANKET, BEA6LEANP I'LL HIT . ON THE NOSE TWENTY T1ME5 A-7 NINETEEN, I .COULD STANP y - ilai oli ina NOW PLAYING 2:10-4:25-6:40-9:00 At 22, he gained a throne and saved a kingdom. 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