European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Civil guards storm parliament in Spanish coup de Tat attempt authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 310 february 1981 is Dolly Ond Ondoy if 21855 a from press dispatches Madrid righting army discontent with Spain crisis Ridden de captured the parliament Mon Day and declared an army takeover from Eastern Valencia King Juan head of state since the death of dictator Francisco Franco five years ago and commander in chief of the armed issued a statement through his spokesman to his government to firmly reject the attempted military coup with the entire Cabinet imprisoned in the the Monarch ordered secretaries of state to take Over the govern ment to assure the civilian government of the country in close collaboration with the chiefs of two hours after paramilitary civil guards stormed the parliament building As the 350 deputies were voting for a new prime army Jaime Milans Del Bosch ordered a state of emergency in Eastern the Francois general issued a statement in Valencia putting himself in charge of Spain Armea forces and urging the military to repel without intimidation or warning and with maximum Energy All aggression by he paid lip service to Juan Carlos by saying he was awaiting orders from he but unilaterally banned political Par strikes and o More than four in tanks from Spain invest armoured division surrounded the govern ment television employees said that troops stormed the building and cancelled the evening similar action was reported in no injuries reported nobody was reported injured in the storming of parliament but Deputy prime minister Manuel Gutierrez Mellado was thrown to the floor when he protested the actions of the sub machine gun toting witnesses a radio reporter inside the parliament at the time of the storming said that a civil guard told we have come to communicate to you the composition of a military he was Cut the reporter said a lieutenant colonel of the civil guard is right now walking up to the he is pointing a police and More police Are coming they have sub machine guns and we can transmit no More because they Are pointing at in the unidentified voices said nothings Hap were not pointing at the radios audience also heard a voice cry on the on the on the ill kill you the same voice apparently to a news photographer dont focus on me or ill kill bursts of automatic fire were also heard continued on Back Page putting the Money up front Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson Cen and in fives and 10s Ter sits in Bis full of Security men Reward Money for clues to 18 deaths and Way to break deadlock two disappearances of Black children in the Atlanta a photo quake is memory agony lives on months after the devastating tremors that Shook areas of people Are still living in makeshift enduring extreme discomfort and hoping their lives will someday come Back to see stories by Mike Spear and photos by Gus Schuettler on pages Brezhnev urges Summit Moscow up soviet president Leonid Brezhnev monday proposed a face to face meeting with president Tell ing the worlds leading communists such a Summit was the Only Way to break the dead lock in superpower in his keynote address to the 26th con Gress of the soviet unions communist Par the 74yearold Brezhnev also issued the Kremlin toughest warning yet to Poland to end the seven months of strikes and labor turmoil that have sent shudders through the East Brezhnev speech to soviet delegates and hundreds of other visiting communists took five hours to it repeatedly called for world peace without making concessions to Western demands for a Les aggressive soviet and blamed the United states for the setbacks in de Tente suffered in recent nor did he seem to break new ground in reviewing the soviet positions on Afghani nato nuclear missile deployment in Western Europe or the Kremlin Chilly re lations with the worlds most populous the wants Normal relations with the Brezhnev there is simply no other sensible Way from the Point of View of the interests of both our his Call for a Summit meeting with Rea Gan was it is universally recognized that in Many ways the International situation depends on the policy of the and the As we see the state of relations Between them at present and the acuteness of the International problems requiring a solution necessitate a and an Active Dia continue eco on Back Page
