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i November 15, 1970 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Paqe Five MUlitt Over Aff iL(t?.r ytii ami Coiirp DAMASCUS, Syria-Syria's new military overlords who seized power in a bloodless coup Friday night, warned Saturday they would install a "national front" government unless the civilian faction of the long ruling Baathist Party sacks its leader, Salah Jadid, Arab political sources said. The military coup leaders conferred Saturday to determine the form of the new government following the coup in which most of the country's civilian leaders were arrested. Political sources said the coup led i Defense Minister Ll. Gen. Hafez al-Assau turned specifically on the issue ol Jadid, who is now in al-Mazza prison. Assad and his chief supporter, Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mustaf TIas had been ousted from their posts in a Baath Party congress by the civilian wing led by Jadid. Damascus Saturday was almost normal following the coup. But Assad's military police ringed the radio station, newspaper buildings and the cnetral post office and a 60, 000 Killed In Pakistan Disaster DACCA, East Pakistan -As many as 60,000 persons were feared lost Saturday in the wake of a cyclone and tidal waves which battered offshore islands and coastal areas of East Pakistan. The government launched a massive relief operation. Radio Pakistan placed the official death toll at 800 but said 50,000 may have died. All India Radio said .the toll had risen to 60,000 and was expected to surpass that figure when communications were restored with devastated areas. The East Pakistan government said it was the nation's worst disaster of the century, exceeding the death and destruction caused by the scores of other storms down through the years which have whipped across the Bay of Bengal and lashed unprotected lowlands in the area known as the Mouths of the Ganges. The cyclone battered the area for six hours Friday, some of the tidal waves were 30 feet high. . A pilot who flew over the scene estimated 1 million persons in a 1 0,000-square-mile area were homeless. He said there were no signs of life in some previously populated areas. Some islands had simply disappeared. Radio Pakistan said Noakhali, a district with a population of more than 3 million, was the hardest hit area where 500 bodies were counted. In the Barisal district, east of Noakhali, the radio said 287 persons were known to have been killed. Heavy tolls were reported on the offshore islands of Hatia and Sandwip. Hatia, 23 miles long and 4 to 8 miles wide, was reported under 20 feet of water in some places. A cyclone in 1876 killed over half of Hatia's population. More than 14,000 launches were put into the relief operation Saturday and several Pakistani warships joined the effort to get food, clothing and shelter to the stricken area. Helicopters dropped medical supplies. Radio Pakistani said it was believed that many of the victims were among 1 3 ,000 religious pilgrims who had assembled in the Dubla area for immersion in Ganges waters considered holy by Hindus. Dubla is partof the Sunderbans, a swampy area which stretches for 160 miles along the coast of the Bay of Bengal. There are about 2,000 islands in the area, and most remained cut off from communications. ::S ::::::::W::::S' ' ill mm :::: Burger Suggests New Jury Reforrf iPHILADELPHI A-Chief Justice Warren. E. Burger suggested curtailment of Oury trials in civil cases Saturday as one way to accomplish a sorely needed streamlining of the judiciary. Stressing he was not advocating any specific change but only making suggestions for bar and bench to consider, Burger said all automobile and personal injury cases might be removed from federal to state courts and tried without juries. "Perhaps the time has come to ask whether automobile personal injury cases have any more place in the federal courts than overtime parking or speeding on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia," he said. He spoke at a testimonial dinner honoring Pennsylvania Chief Justice John C. Bell, Jr., 78, -a harsh critic of some U.S. Supreme Court decisons. Among his "few modest examples" of how the judicial system might be modernized, Burger -uggested trying complex and lengthy cuws with a judge and two lay experts, as is done in England. Lay experts in chemistry, physics or engineering, for example, could assist the judge and hasten a "The mere fact that the prolonged trials so common in the United States are virtually unknown in England suggests we ought to at least look more closely at their experience," he said. Burger n o t e d - that while the constitution guarantees a jury trial in criminal cases, the supreme court recently ruled that although traditional, a jury of 12 members is not constitutionally required. He recalled that the federal budget for the courts includes $14 million for jury fees. "Ponder a moment on the saving in dollars, saving in time and the reduced confusion, if we could cut that by 40 percent, allowing the full 12-member jury for criminal cases, and devote the saving of time, money and lawyers , to better use, he said. v.'.;-.- illlf QicA Warren E. Burger A selection of last year's Christmas Cards at half-price, plus bags of high-priced cards reduced to SI. 00 per bag. 1971 Calendars, Advent Calendars and Imported Cards - all now on display at THE TIMATE BOOKSHOP Chapel Hill Open evenings til 10 9 Books on HUNTING And Out-Of-Doors Sports Featured this week is a small but lively library just brought in from a sportsman. The Old Book Corner 137 A E. Rosemary St. Opposite NCNB Drive-In Window Open 1,0 a.m. to 6 p.m. few machine guns were set up on nii'itary ministries. More army trucks Here een in the streets than normal, but otherwise lite went on as usual. The Syrian coup came amid the other Mideast deelopments: -Beirut press reports said that Iraq, ruled by a Baath party wing opposed to that which ruled Syria, would undergo changes at the top level in both the military and civilian vings. -In Cairo, President Anwar Sadat's government emerged from its "transition period" with a national mandate calling for a firm stance against Israel and a buildup on Egypt's military' strength. The policy declaration was made in the closing session of a Congress of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party. Assad and his supporters in the military wing of the ruling Baath party were reported delivering an ultimatum demanding 'Jadid's ouster to Dr. Noureddin Atassis, who is still Syria's nominal president, prime minister and party secretary-general, Atassi is under arrest in the French Hospital in Damascus, which he entered to have a cyst removed three days ago. Assad sprang his coup at 2 p.m. Friday when he sent squads of military policemen against party headquarters. FT IV Workers Voting Begin rm DETROIT-The 375,000 United Auto Workers who have been on strike against General Motors for 61 days began voting Saturday on a new contract which would put them on the same pay scale as junior executives. Voting began at scattered locals around the country. The UAW said it expected to have the results by Friday, and would present them to GM the next day. The workers - in at least one plant-Local 544 in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin voted Saturday to accept both the jiational and the local contracts, said John McCarrel, president of the local. leirms uou nic producuou orKcrs and skilled tradesmen must vote to accept the pact for it to be ratified. Meanwhile, the UAW has scheduled resumption of contract talks with Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. for Nov. 23-the day when the GM contract would go into effect if it is ratified. Earl Bramblett, GM's chief bargainer, said Friday the tentative pact would cost GM S2.4 billion in wages alone over its three-year life. He said GM's UAW workers, who now make aound SI 0.000 per year, would be making between SI 2,000 and SI 3,000 by the end of the contract's final year. That would put them in the same pay range as many junior executives. 71 jOv TfTS JL il U 11 il UJJ M S nn n ir i alien ii Robbery MONTI VIDI O. Inipav I he l-rug'.uyjn- government called in Interpol Saturday lo help m the search tor nme leftist guerillas who staged, v.hat r.u be the world's higgot robbery j! the Hank of the Republic. Authorities asked the lamed international police force to tr to lr.uk down .Mlcmpls to sci ihe Molcn jewels vv hie h mad' up the bulk of the haul taken from the bank's vju'.fs nuirsjjy mght. Official.; of the K:nk came in on their usual day off Saturday to wade Ihrouch thousands of receipts lo delermiinr ihe exact value of ;he haul taken b the Tupamaro terrorists. Bank executives csiimjlcd Friday that the loss totalled So million in jewels and S4S.OO0 in cash, bul bank President J Carlos Penna said he could nol give an exact figure until a thorough check of the vaults was completed. The Tupamaros. including four women, stole the jewelry and money from the bank's loan department which requires borrowers to leave jewels and other valuables in its vaults as collateral. Nothing but the most marketable jewels were taken from the vaults. The gun-toting gang hauled away the loot in 10 gunny sacks meant lo carry 100 pounds of sugar each. "They took only the bes! jewels and wouldn't bother with anything that was of lower quality," one official said, adding that police believed the robbers planned to market their loot outside Uruguay. G iw 30 year ctac So I r I mm eon aire eiragoimes O to fairft taouoQDW cltearar faygDDig 4 Mf. Not many people know that General Electric starte'd building a jet engine in 1941. America's first jot engine. ' That jet produced only 1200 pounds of thrust. Our newest jet, for the DC-10, produces around 50,000 pounds of thrust. In the early days of jet aviation, the important thing was thrust. But suddenly our skies are filled with jets. And, suddenlyjet pollution is a major problem. General Electric tackled it head on when building the DC-10 engines. And we accomplished two things. 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