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Bloodless coup said aimed
at keeping Thai independent
BANGKOK (UPI (-Prime Mi
nister Thanom Kittikachorn
said today Wednesday’s blood
less coup was designed “to
keep Thailand independent.” He
warned government officials
that any action against the
national interest could lead to
their execution.
Thanom and his new Revolu
tionary party suspended the
Thai constitution, dissolved the
cabinet and parliament and
imposed martial law throughout
this Southeast Asian nation.
U. Alexis Johnson, U.S.
undersecretary of state for
political affairs and the No. 3
man in ths State Department,
Weapons publication
says Russia leading
LONDON (UPI) -The Soviet
Union has taken the initiative in
development of missiles and
other sophisticated weapons
and now is surpassing the West
in the field, “Jane’s Weapons
Systems” said today.
The third annual edition of
the authoritative catlogue of
world weaponry said there are
signs of a need, greater than
ever, for the West to invest in
defense developments to
achieve or maintain parity with
the Communists.
“The modern Soviet Navy
and the nature of its armament
and equipment and the exis
tence of an operational antibal
listic missile system around
Moscow are evidence of the
Soviet ability to take the
initiative in weapon system
development and deployment,”
the editors said in a foreword.
'"The editors, R.T. Pretty and
D.H.R. Archer, said pressure
for cuts in U.S. defense
spending and that of other
Western nations was partially
responsible for the lead by the
Eastern Bloc in certain areas.
The Soviet early warning
radar aircraft, code-named
* “MOSS,” is several years
ahead of its American counter
part “and according to unoffi
cial but reliable sources is in
fact carrying out operational
missions,” Jane’s said.
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and U.S. Ambassador Leonard
Unger met with Thanom and
other party leaders at the
organization’s headquarters to
day.
Thanom, who keeps his post
as prime minister and com
mander in chief under the new
regime, called in 600 govern
ment leaders for a meeting
today. He told them the coup
was “<o keep Thailand indepen
dent and to maintain and
respect the monarchy.”
He told the officials that
anyone acting against the
national interest faces “abso
lute punishment,” which he
said could mean execution.
Advanced Level Reached?
“This immediately either
implies a significant difference
between the techniques em
ployed by the respective U.S.
and USSR systems or, if the
techniques are similar, that a
mere advanced level of applied
technology has been reached in
the Soviet Union.”
The editors also cited a
Soviet swing-wing supersonic
bomber, reportedly code-named
“Backfire” by the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO). They said Moscow
had two Backfire prototypes
flying while the U.S. equivalent,
the BIA bomber, was in the
mock-up stage.
Two photographs of the
Soviet plane are among the
dozens of new pictures included
in the 590-page manual.
“These developments are
seen by commentators in such
respected journals as Aviation
Week and Space Technology as
a clear Soviet challenge to
American military technology
... and a potential source of
disturbance to the relative
balance that exists between the
major nuclear powers,” Jane’s
said.
A chart of military reconnais
sance satellites launched in the
past 10 years gives the total to
June as United States 264,
Soviet Union 393.
He also mentioned the three
million Chinese in Thailand.
“We don’t know which ideology
these people favor,” he said.
“If they favor communism, the
internal situation may get more
complicated because of the
Communist insurgency in our
country.”
A broadcast made early this
morning said the coup was
carried out because “the
current world situation and the
increasing threat to the nation
al security required prompt
action which is not possible
through due process of law
under the present constitution.”
In one of a series of
Opposition senators
stall on Rehnquist
By ROY McGHEE
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Op
position senators maneuvered
for more time today to
investigate William H. Rehn
quist, but it was uncertain
whether they could forestall
Senate Judiciary Committee
approval of the controversial
Supreme Court nominee.
Liberal senators on the
committee were not satisfied
with answers Rehnquist sup
plied about his civil rights and
civil liberties philosophies. They
also wanted to find out more
about Rehnquist’s role as a
Republican election official in
Phoenix, Ariz. and his alleged
associations with conservative
political action groups.
There appeared to be no
opposition to President Nixon’s
other Supreme Court nominee,
Lewis F. Powell Jr., 64,
Richmond, Va.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., said
he was ready to recommend
immediate confirmation of
Powell. But he said there were
several unanswered questions
about Rehnquist and that he
would try to block committee
approval until they were
answered.
Sen. John V. Tunney, D-
Calif., said he did not want to
approve Rehnquist “until the
record is complete.”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., has called publicly for
more committee investigation
of Rehnquist, 47, an assistant
U.S. attorney general.
Senate Republican Leader
Hugh Scott, however, said he
would fight any attempt to
separate the nominations.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,
said there were plenty of votes
in the committee to approve
both nominations.
“The only way they can
prevent these nominees from
being reported to the Senate
floor for confirmation is filibus
tering,” Thurmond said.
The committee met today in
closed session to discuss the
nominees amid newly published
charges that despite official
denials, Rehnquist was a
appointments, Thanom named
Gen. Prapass Charusathiara,
former deputy prime minister,
as deputy head of the
Revolutionary party and as
director of military administra
tion.
Although the new party had
banned political gatherings of
more than five people a student
group met at Chulalongkorn
University in Bangkok but
police made no effort to break
it up. Posters attached to trees
on the campus, the nation’s
largest, asked “what is the
motive behind this revolution?”
Other posters were critical of
the new party.
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William H. Rehnquist
member of an organization
called Arizonans for America, a
chapter of the National Conser
vative Political Action Organi
zation for America.
Bayh and Kennedy also
wanted to discuss affidavits
presented by two Phoenix
Negroes that Rehnquist ha
rassed black voters when he
was an election official in 1964.
The affidavits charged that
Rehnquist challenged the voters
to read parts of the constitution
before voting.
Rehnquist personally has
denied these charges.
Firm gives
its side
on dump
SAVANNAH, Ga. (UPI)-Ex
ecutives of American Cyanamid
Co. were to tell their side today
of a controversial plan to dump
sulfuric acid in the Atlantic
Ocean to an invited group of
public officials and newsmen.
The company also planned to
file with the U. S. Army Corps
of Engineers its request for a
permit to build a pier at which
barges can load the untreated
acid to haul it some 87 miles
out to sea.
American Cyanamid is under
federal and state orders to
cease dumping its wastes in the
Savannah River by July, 1972,
and the ocean disposal was part
of a two-part anti-pollution pro
gram drawn up by the com
pany.
But officials in North Carolina
have already announced their
opposition, contending the acid
would be carried northward by
the Gulf Stream.
Dr. Tom Linton, director of
the North Carolina Department
of Commercial Fisheries and
Sport Fishing, planned to be on
hand for today’s meeting.
American Cyanamid proposed
dumping 59,000 tons a month
into the ocean with the rest of
its waste to be processed at a
treatment plant here.
One expert, Dr. David Men
zel, an oceanographer at near
by Skidaway Institute, has said
he felt the dumping would have
little effect on the ocean envir
onment.
Menzel claims the Gulf
Stream can neutralize 1,000 tons
of concentrated sulfuric acid a
second and in his mind, the
dumping plan would have a
“very innocuous” effect on the
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