THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1980
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United Press International
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands —
own Princess Beatrix, 42, became
etherland’s 14th monarch in 399
ars Wednesday on the official
idication of her mother, Queen
liana.
Juliana, who turned 71 Wednes-
iy, officially ended her 32-year
ign in an emotional ceremony in
iich both the new and old queens
jied the abdication documents in
s Moses Hall of the Royal palace,
ornate room decorated with bib-
sd scenes.
The two, surrounded by other
embers of the royal family and
embers of the Cabinet, clasped
ich other by both hands, and
liana said emotionally that at her
mghter’s birth, “We chose the
me Beatrix as one who brings hap-
ness.”
Juliana, who announced Jan. 31
e would resign on her 71st birth-
iy in favor of Beatrix and now re-
rts to being a princess, said she
iped the new queen would now
ing happiness to the nation.
Tam pleased with my successor, ”
liana said. “She will do her job
Beatrix stood by, regal in a black
and white dress with a lace collar
reminiscent of old master Dutch por
traits.
A 101-gun salute boomed and ev
ery church bell in the capital rang out
to celebrate Beatrix’s taking the
throne of the European nation that is
about twice size of New Jersey.
In the investiture ceremony,
Beatrix will walk 70 yards from the
palace to the main entrance of the
600-year-old Nieuwe Kerk (New
Church), whose entrance was lined
by an honor guard, to be sworn in as
monarch in the Netherlands’ royal
dynasty that traces back to 1581.
The short walk to and from the
church are the only times that she
will step out of the palace.
Beatrix, the mother of three sons
and a sculptress in her free time, will
not wear a crown at any time during
the ceremony, making it an investi
ture not a coronation. The relatively
modest crown will remain on a red
velvet cushion to one side.
Representatives from 10 other
royal families, including Britain’s
Prince Charles, were on hand for the
ceremony. The day will end with a
fireworks display and dancing in the
streets.
Almost 5,000 police, with perhaps
that many again in reserve, braced
for battles with youths who have
occupied more than 6,000 emotv
buildings in Amsterdam to protest
real estate speculation and shortage
of housing.
The squatters have vowed there
will be “no coronation” if they do not
get homes. But police have turned
much of central Amsterdam into a
“no go” area to counter the threats.
Beatrix will be the sixth modern
Dutch sovereign in the relatively
short history of the Dutch monarchy
of Orange-Nassau. Willem I was in
vested in the same church in 1814
and the two Willems who followed
him began their reigns under the
same high roof.
Juliana became queen in 1948 and
was invested in the Nieuwe Kerk as
Beatrix will be.
Beatrix and her husband Prince
Claus, 54, have three children, the
eldest of whom, Willem Alexander,
13, automatically becomes prince of
Orange and heir to the throne.
ran says spying OK
United Press International
■TEHRAN — In a surprisingly con-
iatory statement, Iran’s defense
nister said spying by embassies
u an “internationally accepted
actice” and called for the release of
perican hostages once U.S. “mis-
:ecls were exposed to the world.
related development, the
dies of the eight American service-
killed in the failed mission to
scue the hostages are expected to
taken shortly to a neutral country,
abably Switzerland, for return to
eir families.
n another twist to the hand-
igofthe bodies, an aide to Presi-
nt Abolhassan Bani-Sadr display-
two charred body parts to repor-
s at a news conference attended
by Archbishop Hilarion Capucci,
who is to take custody of the bodies.
Iran’s military remained in a
heightened state of alert and Tehran
Radio warned the armed forces to
anticipate “extensive action by the
U.S. Armed Forces.”
The warning came one day after
U.S. Navy fighter jets intercepted an
Iranian C-130 patrol plane 50 miles
from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz
and escorted it back to Iranian airs
pace. Iran charged the American jets
fired on its plane, but the Pentagon
denied the charges.
The Iranian militants have main
tained some of the hostages were
spies, but Defense Minister Mostafa
Ali Chamran said embassy spying
was an “internationally accepted
practice,” and added, “you cannot
arrest and try a person whose mis
sion is politically acceptable to the
world and is doing only what every
one is doing.”
He then said the hostages should
be released when the United States’
misdeeds are exposed.
At a news conference attended by
Capucci, Moussavi Garmaroudi —
Bani-Sadr’s press adviser — reached
into a box, and pulled out a charred
foot and another unidentified body
part.
Last Sunday the remains of the
eight American servicemen were
displayed during a news conference
at the U.S. embassy.
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