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DENTON TEXAS, FRIDAY, AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2,1979
32 Pages in 4 Sections
AP Laserphotos
The oil tanker Burma Agate burns.in.the foreground, with the freighter Memosa after the ships collided in Galveston Bay. The city is shown in background.
27 still missing after Gulf collision
Jobless:
Bolivia:
Four grand jurors give
67
%
and major political parties oppose
Natusch, denouncing him as a
military dictator
At least six' students and workers
were killed in clashes with soldiers
throughout the country Thursday-
after Natusch seized power from
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whose survival chances dimmed with
passing hours •
Fireboats kept up their watery
barrage to minimize chances of more
major fires erupting ... ■
The freighter Mimosa smoldered
quietly, abandoned by its crew after
the deadly collision
The tanker Burmah Agate also
burned, some of the 400.000 barrel's of
bits
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Mild
DENTON AND VICINITY — Mostly
fair through Saturday. Cold tem-
peratures tonight, dropping into the
upper 30s; high Saturday upper 60s.
Winds light and variable
WEATHER REPORT
Country, in state of siege
as Natusch seizes control
AP Laserphotos
Top left, a tank advances on students in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday as
the students protest the military coup against President Walter
Guevera. Comrades help a young man, top right, wounded in La Paz
after soldiers opened fire on the demonstrators. Central figures in the
struggle are Col. Alberto Natusch, lower left, who has declared himself
president; and Guevera, lower right, whose government was over-
thrown.
rebels and reverse the coup, one of
more than 200 in Brazil's 154-year
history as a republic
The country’s top labor leaders
called for a 48-hour general strike of
businesses and workers and declared
opposition to Natusch, even though
See BOLIVIA, Page 2A
Index *
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Notepad
Sports
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r TV Log
Weather Map
Spotlight on women
"Spotlight on Women," a special section saluting the women of
Denton and their investments in service, social and educational
activities, will be published Nov. 29.
The section will include photographs of club presidents and In-
formation about Denton women's clubs On- Nov: 6 at 10 a.m., the
Record-Chronicle will sponsor a coffee for all club presidents.
Pictures will be taken and the form on 8€ today may be turned in for
publication. YT •.-
their testimony — at last
—Page 5A
today.
The Labor Department said the
number of unemployed persons rose
by 200,000 from September, to 62
million. As a result, the jobless rate
. returned to the level reached in
August following a drop to 5.8 percent
in September.
Despite the rise, Labor Department
analysts said the figures did not
provide signs that a recession is
taking hold.
' “You would have to have a crystal
ball to say these are indications to say
were in or about to enter a
recession," said Labor economist
Norman Bowers "The figures don't
amid rumors that a counter-coup ‘ countrymen to resist the Natusch
would be attempted Students, unions
GALVESTON, Texas (AD) -
Commercial fireboats sprayed water
throughout the night on two burning
.ships that lay dead in the water after
colliding in the Gulf of Mexico
Thursday, killing at least four
crewmen and leaving 27 missing
Dawn allowed Coast Guard boats
and helicopters to resume their
search for the missing crewmen.
The Friday : :
FENTON RECORD- CHRONICLE-----
77TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE — NO. 79 DENTON TEXAS, FRIDAY, AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2,1979 „ 12 Pages in a Sections Io Celts
Low this morning
High Thursday
High last year
Low last year
LAKE LEVELS
Lewisville
Ono year ago
Grapevine *.
Ono year ago
. ment opportunities for those who had
lost their jobs ‘ ■—- 3
The nation's unemployment rate
has fluttered between 5.6 percent and
6 percent for the past 15 months
The Labor Department said the
increase in unemployment last month
resulted from workers losing their
jobs, as opposed to people who entered
the job market but were unable to find
work Two-thirds of the job losses
struck .women or blacks.
Total employment, as measured by
the government's survey of
households, declined by 220,000 during
October, to 97 3 million However, a
See JOBLESS. Page 2 A
LA PAZ. Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's President Walter Guevara’s 11-week-
new military strongman, Col. Alberto, old civilian government — Bolivia's
Natusch, declared a state of siege, first democratically elected one in a
dissolved congress and had himself decade Natusch declared himself
named president only hoars -after, president and named a Cabinet,
leading a bloody coup and assuring his But the Bolivian congress im-
countrymen political freedom. 'mediately rejected Natusch as
The state of siege, which suspends president and declared support for
all constitutional guarantees, was Guevara, who from a hiding place
announced late Thursday and came somehwere in La Paz asked his
oil it was carrying seeping into the Cmdr George Davis said late The two- ships collided about five Coast Guard officers in helicopters
Gulf The crippled tanker's deck was Thursday., ' miles offshore and burst into flames and boats rescued all 26 men aboard
awash, but it could not be determined f Alter looking at the tanker, I don't before dawn, sending crewmen - - the.freighter Mimosa But only four
if it was afloat or resting on the 40 foot- think anyone could have stayed mostly natives of Taiwan — diving men were rescued from -the tanker
bottom aboard and survived Even if they got into the ocean The tanker ruptured Burmah Agate, which had a crew of
Thirty men were rescued' after the off the tanker and into the water, with a nd spilled a port ion of its 400,000 35 A.: ,
predawn collision, with 25 of them the water temperature being about 65 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Both ships were of Liberian
suffering injuries, degrees and it being 17 hours now. I prompting the Coast Guard to sum- registry, a 1 though the Mimosa is
“The chances of there being other would say the odds are kind of low," mon its anti-pollution task force to the owned by an Athens, Greece, com-
survivors is slim:" Coast Guard Lt. Davis said area . See TANKER Page 2A
Unemployment rate rises
, to 6 percent in October
WASHINGTON WAP) - A spurt of say-that."
layoffs, mostly among women and Bowers said the rising unem-
blacks, pushed the nation's unem- ployment appeared to stem from the
ployment rate back up to 6 percent in fact that new jobs were not created" at
- October, the government reported . a fast enough rate to provide employ-
- Aid to Chrysler faces
opposition in Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Carter would begin hearings -Nov 19 and
administration’s plan for$1.5 billion . continue them “until the many issues
in loan guarantees to help Chrysler involved ... have been thoroughly
■— Corp. appears to be headed for swift explored and discussed." 4. 1
-action by a House panel, but faces Proxmire is an outspoken opponent
doubts and delays in the Senate of government aid to the nation's No3
A spokesman for the House Banking automaker, which has said it expetts
Committee said its subcommittee on to lose more than $1 billion this year,
economic stabilization hopes, to Sen Jake Garn of Utah, ranking
question Treasury Secretary G. Republican on the banking com-
William Miller within a few days and mittee, said, "A lot of questions must
act on the proposal next week be answered before I would even
r Approval by the full banking consider committing public ,funds for
committee is expected to follow loan guarantees "
quickly, sending the measure to the Garn said the plan is based on
floor, where,, both supporters and assumptions by Chrysler, which may
• opponents have predicted it will pass not be realized, including ample fuel
In the Senate, however, Sen supplies, inflation of around 8 percent.
William G Proxmire, D-Wis... and a 20 percent increase in the
banking committee chairman, said he company's share of the market
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