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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, July 6, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Army takes Over in Pakistan new Delhi a the Pakistan promising fresh elections in octo the moslem nation under martial Law tuesday after taking control of the government and arresting prime minister Zulfikar Ali undo Pakistan in an address to the nation tuesday army chief of staff Muhammed Ziaulhaq said president fatal Lahl Choudhry would continue As head of in a broadcast monitored in Zia said he had Token Over As chief martial Law administrator in order to assure that tree and Ealr elections Are possible in the Bhutto regime has said the 52yearold general whom Bhutto in stalled last year As chief of he announced dissolution of the National Assembly and state assemblies and removal from office of All Cabinet ministers and state the general assured the nation of More than 75 million that the government would be handed to the Peoples elected representatives immediately after the elections he said the army did no relish slaying in Power or along Zia confirmed thai the army had been reluctant to step in during four months of political turmoil and conflict Between Bhutto and his political opposition and had acted Only As a last besides leaders of his ruling Peoples party and the opposition Pakistan National Alliance Pinai were placed in temporary protective starting before Dawn radio Pakistan re ported the pan had accused Bhutto of rigging the March 7 general it staged three months of Street then entered talks on new elections that broke Down on the eve of tuesdays demonstrating an evenhanded approach to the election Zia said the army watched the political wrangling in the country or a Long tie elections in March failed to satisfy the As it was suspected thai us poll was retention of the president and Colling r continued m Page col 4 auth obied Ono ficht for the Ahmed four Al 79 july 1977 bus Hijacker was broke if 21 655 a passengers lie off a bus at Kennedy Allpurt aft being held hostage by a end of ordeal gunman for nine two persons were fatally shot and two others wounded by the titled a Navy in a photo repair Crews race to nitrogen leak which shut Down Alaska pipeline Alaska Lupin repair Crews rushed to a pumping station Halfway up the Alyeska Oil pipeline tuesday to fix a nitrogen leak which shut Down the flow of Oil a Day Alyeska officials said no Oil has leaked and there was no danger of an Oil they said they expected Oil to resume its journey Down the 799mile pipeline the nitrogen leak was discovered at an underground pumping station Southeast of and a repair Craw was rushed to the scene to fix the leak at pump stauton beyond the Halfway Mark of inc 7w Milo nitrogen was forced into the pipeline to purge the line of air and oxygen and eliminate fire danger before Oil from Prudhoe Bay began its initial journey to Vohen the believed to be in a Inch hydrostatic head was toe Oil flow was stopped about is Miles to the North by shutting Down pump station repair work involved digging out the underground Section including pump station a Large to Tahoe was moved to the location Loaid in the reported to be through hard packed gravel the Oil flow passed the Halfway Mark during the weekend and was about two Days ahead of schedule when the shutdown was the first North slope Oil is expected to be flowing into huge storage tanks at about july 20 and the first Tanker Load was expected to sail out of Valdez toward West coast refineries in Early Sailor didst have fare Back to ship new York api an Ornell Lerud 28 year old Navy enlisted Man chunked with initiating a nine hour siege of terror that Iff two dead aboard a hijacked bus monday and nearly paralysed Kennedy Airport told police he look Over the bus be cause he was sources close to the investigation told the associated press that Luis Robinson told police he was headed Back to his Navy the combat support ship based in but Only had enough Money for bus fare to was arraigned tuesday on charges that he hijacked the shot two people to injured three then held authorities at Bay during the siege for about nine hours at the Holiday crowded lie surrendered shortly before Midnight after unsuccessfully demanding Ufi million and a plane to Fly him to the sources quoted barn in Panama and living in As saying he boarded the Vermont bound undecided whether to commandeer it or gel off in Hartford and Hitchhike to the new York Post quoted a source As saying Robinson told police he had been inspired by a he said it came to him in a he had u do the source he said he country was going into chaos and somebody had to do something to Stop police also said Robinson told i Vestiga Tore that he had experienced problems with people who picked on him aboard a spokesman at us Bath police depart men said Robinson was investigated after nations 201st was Charlies 135th Florida Tuple Charlie the oldest was a bit Grumpy on his 135th birthday monday but be perked up when the presents and the cake and the Koolard showed he wigged a cup of munched a slice of White and Blue birthday and announced i feel Good and i look the cake is Good and so am the former onetime Cowboy and alleged associate of outlaw Jesse James opened a few gifts As his looked Chester gave slim a a pair of pyjamas and a the nursing Home at which he has lived Tor 30 months gave him a new Cowboy hat friends sent a hand painted Wall plaque in the shape of an a pen and Ink por trait of Charlie and a Box of then he chatted with a family from Gat who had stopped off to see him Al the Bartow convalescent Center after a visit to Wall Disney world at nearby Lake Buena the cake was decorated with three can the numerals 135 and tiny plastic replicas of the Liberty it sat on a table festooned with Small american his son lit the candles and Charlie blew them Charlie says he was born in Liberia in 1m2 and sold at a slave auction in new or leans 12 years later to a Texas rancher who later set him he took the ranch ers name As is he Doest know the Day of Bis birth so he celebrates it on Independence the social Security administration attests thai he is indeed the nations oldest  
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