Page 10-Saturday, July 19 1980-The Michigan Daily Women injured protesting Bolivian takeover COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Sixty women protesting the Bolivian military coup tried to force their way into the United Nations women's con- ference here yesterday and skirmished with Danish police before they were locked out. Several of the women ap- peared to have been hurt in the clash. Bolivia's military overthrew interim President Lidia Gueiler and blocked the return to power of leftist former president Hernan Siles Zuazo who had been expected to succeed Gueiler after the country's recent elections. It was the South American nation's 189th coup in 155 years of independence. THE LATIN American women and their sympathizers burst into 'the Independent exhibition building where the conferen- Number 10 1 ce was heing held. Officers warned Republican ti them in Spanish toleave within five minutes and when the women did not move, the police roughly bundled them through the doors, draggingsome along the ground. B ol Some weeping women seemed to be hurt. One had her arm bandaged. The protesters were part of a group holding a parallel women's conference near the site where 1,500 delegates from e 141 nations are meeting to map a plan of action for the remaining five years of the U.N. Decade of Women. Their goal LA PAZ, Boliv is to improve the conditions of women new three-man throughout the world, troops and tank The U.S. delegation presented a draft southern tin-minin proposal for an .aggressive" program end labor resistar to help women refugees across the old coup, military, world, and the timing of the move The United Sta yesterday was seen as part of an effort bassador to Boliv to distract attention from the polemics Department calle that have disrupted the conference. disapproval" of th Commenting. on the incidents that takeover, which1 have plagued the conference, U.S. temporary halt a1 delegate Mary King told The to restore civiliai Associated Press that "mounting impoverished nati frustration is discernible among the SOME 5,000 unio women here that the conference is Indians, took up; being side-tracked." barricades on tl I 4 4 Anderson meets with Thatcher AP Photo presidential candidate John Anderson poses withBritish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at her Downing Street residence in London Thursday. Anderson said hearing the news of the Reagan-Bush icket has "inspired" him to carry on his independent campaign. ivian junta moves to resistance o co I ia (AP) - Bolivia's military junta sent :s to the country's ng region yesterday to rnce to their one-day- reports said. tes recalled its am- 'ia in what the State d a sign of "extreme he right-wing military brings to at least a U.S.-supported effort n democracy to this on. inized miners, mostly arms and put down lhe mountain roads new Bre ers Vogurt allnaturalfo H [ ---.--- ~ QRH3 leading to the tin mines, according to broadcasts by radio stations controlled by the miners' union. The mines are two to three miles high in the Andes in an area 100 to 200 miles south of here. "We are going to resist the coup until the ultimate consequences," said one broadcast. There were no immediate reports of fighting in the area.' Two air force planes flew over the outskirts of La Paz yesterday morning, apparently reconnoitering areas where workers had set up barricades to resist what they called the "fascist coup- makers." THE GENERALS declared yester- day to be a national holiday, hoping to neutralize a call by labor leaders for a general strike throughout Bolivia. The strike and the holiday combined to shut down all public transportation in La Paz, shutter markets and shops, and virtually empty the streets. The capital was generally quiet after a night of sporadic gunfire, apparently small clashes between soldiers and lef- tists or other civilians. The armed forces overthrew the in- terim civilian government of President Lidia Gueiler on Thursday in order to b ZO'OFFCOVER GREATLY REDUCED PRICES ON ALt BEVERAGES $u+ f . . prevent the expected election of a leftist president next month. IT WAS THE 189th change of gover- nment in coup-prone Bolivia in its 155 years of existence. Gueiler, 51, and 17 of her top aides were seized at the presidential palace Thursday, and a spokeswoman for the junta later read a letter in which the president resigned and declared, "God save Bolivia." Roman Catholig sources said Gueiler and her ministers remained captive at the palace yesterday, with the papal nuncio, the Vatican's diplomatic representative, present to guarantee her safety. NO NEWSPAPERS published yesterday, and most radio stations were not broadcasting. There was no official report on casualties in Thursday's coup, but an unofficial Red Cross report said at least two people were killed and five woun- ded when troops swept through the city's working-class outskirts, and it was unofficially reported that some deaths occurred when the insurgents seized the headquarters of the Bolivian Labor Confederation. The unconfirmed reports said miners' union leader Simon Reyes, a member of the Bolivian Communist Party's executive committee, and Socialist presidential candidate Mar- celo Quiroga Santa Cruz had been killed at thelabor headquarters. The members of the new ruling junta were identified as army commander Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, air force chief Gen. Waldo Bernal and Adm. Ramiro Terraza. One of them isexpected to be -des p~naed president. .