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Horror Stories Left In
Wake Os Lisbon Flood
By EDOUARD KHAVEBBIAN
LISBON (UPD—Mrs. Ciuto
dia Silva got out of bed to fetch
her husband a glass of water
and saw a tidal wave of flood
water smash through the front
door.
Railroad engineer Rlcardlnho
da Silva thought for a moment
it was a wild nightmare when
the wall of water slammed
against and over his train. He
knew It was real and felt
“horrible, paralyzed.”
A teen-age girl wept as she
watched the water creep up
over a screaming man clinging
to a telephone pole.
These residents of Lisbon and
suburbs survived when four
inches of rain triggered a
Sunday morning flood that,
according to government offi
cials, already has accounted for
more than 250 dead, with
“many, many more” feared
lost. It was Portugal’s greatest
water disaster of the genera
tiort.
Mrs. Silva’s village of Quin
tas, 160 persons in tiny houses
nestled in a bowl-shaped valley
near Lisbon, lost half its
population when the wall of
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water came. When the deluge
came through the door, “I
cried, I grabbed the chimney, I
wanted to run and save
myself.”
Disaster Overwhelming
Alfredo Rodrigues dos Santos
Jr., Portugal’s Interior minister,
came away from a tour of the
disaster and could only say
“disaster, disaster, disaster.”
Thousands of wrecked automo
biles, uncounted hundreds of
houses smashes. Government
officials used the word “astro
nomical” to describe dollar
damage.
It was more personal for
Maria da Concelcao, 18, who
spent a night of terror on an
upper floor. For she saw a
neighbor man shinny up a
telephone pole when the water
came.
“For over an hour, he stayed
there. At first he cried loudly.
“But his voice quite soon
became weaker. He was asking
for help. He was asking for
someone to throw him a rope.”
Marla huddled under roof
eaves watching and hearing the
anguish of the man clinging to
the pole.
“He did not stop screaming
and we all saw him throw up
his arms when the water
reached his neck. Then the pole
collapsed and he was dragged
away.
Train Saves Village
Engineer Da Silva had halted
his train at Alhandra, 10 miles
outside Lisbon, at 1:15 a.m. to
wait for a track switch. The
late switch saved the village.
“We had stopped only a few
moments when an enormous
noise, surprising and horrible
paralyzed us.”
“A giant wave seemed to boil
up over the train, smashing into
it so hard we were afraid the
train would turn over,” he said.
When the water receded, the
train crew found 20 cars
smashed against the train's
side. Government officials said
the train acted like a dike and
protected for 10 crucial minutes
the village from feeling the
force of the giant killer wave.
‘Hot Line’ In
Use During
Arab-Israeli War
WASHINGTON (U UPD—The
special teletype “hot line”
linking Moscow and Washington
was used 20 times during the
Arab-Israeli war in June,
according to a White House
aide.
Walt W. Rostow, President
Johnson’s national security ad
viser, said Sunday that Soviet
Premier Alexei Kosygin activat
ed the het line at 7:47 a.m. on
June 5, a few hours after war
broke out in the Middle East.
Rostow, in an interview with
Look Magazine, said the Soviet
leader’s message, translated at
the White House from Russia,
said:
"Chairman of the Council of
Ministers Kosygin would like to
know whether or not President
Johnson is at your terminal.”
Before word could be relayed
to Johnson, another message
rattled over the hot line from
Moscow: “Please give Pres
ident Johnson the following
message. . .“ The rest of the
message was not published.
At 8:15, Johnson was in the
Inner, windowless situation
room in the White House
basement, where he was joined
by Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert
S. McNamara, Rostow and
Llewellyn Thompson, former
U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
Their reply to Kosygin was
dispatched at 8:47 a.m.
At 11 a.m. Thursday, Johnson
sent a message informing
Kosygin that carrier-based U.S.
planes were scrambling In the
Mediterranean after the Israeli
attack on the USS Liberty, and
that the United States was not
at war.
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pation. Entry blanks may be picked up at the gas company office before the February 15 deadline.
Vance May Defuse
Crisis Over Cyprus
By WILLIAM BELL
United Press International
Presidential peacemaker Cy
rus Vance flew to Ankara today
reportedly bearing Greek con
cessions that could partially
defuse the threat of a Greek-
Turkish war over Cyprus.
Informed sources in Athens
said Vance, President Johnson’s
special troubleshooter in the
crisis, had obtained acceptance
from the Greek government of
the main Turkish demands for
averting war.
His mission today in Anlfcra
was to present the Greek
acceptance to Premier Suley
man Demlrel in exchange for a
Turkish promise to end its state
of invasion readiness, the
sources said.
A battle ready Turkish
Invasion force was poised to
move against the eastern
Mediterranean island of Cyprus
at a few hours notice. Troops
also stood at the ready In
Greece.
Both sides are armed with
American-made weapons sup
plied by virtue of their
membership in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO).
On Cyprus itself the Greek
and Turkish communities barri
caded themselves from one
another and prepared for war.
There were Isolated reports of
bomb throwing by terrorists on
the Island during the weekend.
The Island is located at the
far eastern ■ end of the
Mediterranean only 40 miles
from the coast of Turkey to the
north.
Vance, a former U.S. deputy
secretary of defense, has been
trying to hammer out a peace
plan during the past four days
He traveled first to
then to Athens and today back
to Ankara.
The critical point apparently
was Greek plans for withdraw-
UNANIMOUS CHOICE
NEW YORK (UPD West
Chester State (Pa.) today was
named 1967 winner of the 11th
annual Lambert Cup as the
outstanding Eastern middle
sized college football team.
The choice was unanimous as
West Chester State drew 80
votes from the eight-man
selection board. The Rams
finished the season with a 10-0
record and were invited to play
in the tangerine bowl.
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spared Scheherazade because
she entertained him with her in
teresting stories, told in the
“Arabian Nights.”
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Ing an estimated 12,000 troops
stationed In Cyprus where
Greek Cypriots have a 4-1
majority over Turkish Cypriots
among a population of 600,000.
The Turks have demanded the
Immediate withdrawal of all but
the 950 Greek troops permitted
to be there under agreements
signed during earlier crises.
Some sources in Athens said
Greece was asking for a
gradual reduction of troop
strength over a period of
several months.
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son presented the DSC at
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1966, but after lengthy study,
the Army decided Morris
merits the higher honor.
Georgians Win
Five National
4-H Awards
CHICAGO (UPD The 41-
member Georgia delegation to
the National 4-H Club Congress
has claimed five national award
winners so far.
Edith Middleton, 17, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Middle
ton of Hortense, was honored
today for a foods and nutrition
project judges proclaimed best
in the nation. She won a SSOO
scholarship.
Wayne Carter of Swainsboro
capped top honors and a $750
scholarship in the championship
automotive program. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Carter.
Don Jordan, 17, of Hawkins
ville, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howell C. Jordan, gained the
top honor Sunday for his trac
tor project.
Seventeen-year-old Susan Pel
ham, daughter of the J. W. Pel
hams of Rome, won the nation
al award Sunday for her dog
care and training project.
Both youngsters got SSOO
scholarships along with the
honors.
Sharron Mays, 18, a freshman
at Wesleyan College in Macon,
earlier was named Georgia’s
first award-winner for her pub
lic speaking project.
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US Drugs Battle
‘Bread Madness’
By ARIEL VOGEL
BOGOTA, Columbia UPD—
Doctors dosed hundreds of
victims with American mercy
drugs today to stem a tide of
death among men, women and
children who ate insecticide
poisoned bread and "died like
flies.”
According to police, the
“bread madness” at the town of
Chiquinquira affected 600 per
sons. At least 77 died, five
children were “very seriously
ill,” another 20 persons lay in
coma and near death, 125 others
were in hospitals and the rest
being treated.
New York City’s Poison
Control Center supplied 400
units of protopam, an antidote
used by the U.S. Army in nerve
gas cases. It and other drugs
were flown to Bogota Sunday
night. Dr. Joseph Cimino, head
of the New York center,
indicated it may be too late for
many victims.
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In New York, he said some of
the victims may never recover
completely because the insecti
cide parathion does its major
damage within 12 hours.
Colombian officials said the
victims, including 45 children,
dropped in convulsions and
“died like flies” in the streets
of the town of 10,000 75 miles
north-northeast of here, Satur
day after munching the bread.
Police said the bad flour of
Chiquinquira came apparently
from a truck that carried it
from Bogota along with a load
of the insecticide. A bottle of
the insecticide broke, spilled
into the flour. Police arrested
the truck driver and the town
baker but said neither appeared
criminally responsible.
Dr. Cimino said the insecit
cide had poisonous effects
similar to that of nerve gas
first developed in Nazi Germa
ny. It constricts the body’s
muscles, choking the victim.
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