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Longshoremen reach tentative agreement NEW YORK (AP) -- A tentative agree- hour. The basic work week would re- master and also an additional agree- ing form of shipping automation. ment to settle the 44-day strike of main 40 hours. ment on local issues. The proposed agreement with the dock workers against containerships In New York, longshoremen have a Both master and local agreements International Longshoremen's Associa- at East and Gulf ports was announced contract with a guaranteed-annual must be submitted, together and in tion covered only northeastern ports Sunday in New York. wage provision of a full year's work writing, to the rank and file, port from Maine to Virginia. It contains a more than 30 percent So the new pact could mean that as by port. By precedent, however, that con- wage-benefit boost for 50,000 long- of Oct. 1, 1979, every docker would tract has established the pattern shoreme" over the next three years. receive at least $21,632 whether he One of the major local issues was for South Atlantic and Gulf ports works or not. maintaining incomes and job security as well. Base pay is now $8 an hour. The for dock workers in the face if bur- In addition to the general wags tentative agreement would raise the The master contract is one part of geoning automation. This was why increase, the master agreement calls base pay by $2.40 an hour in 80 cent a two-tiered settlement. Each the strike was directed at container- for increases in employer contribu- yearly steps to a total of $10.40 an port's work force must approve the ships, the widest and fastest grow- tions to pensions. Explosions rip 0izt Jeuaekill . two te a esU The. N aU'ony hoxe-bamed daZRy Vol. 32 No. 218 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, November 14, 1977 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Separate bomb ex- plosions ripped buildings in Jeru- salem Sunday leaving two Arab teen- agers dead and several other persons wounded. orders Soviets out, The Marxist Popular Front for the Somalia Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility for one of the blasts. The P.D.F. had previously ordered breaks relations with Cuba its agents inside Israel to step up bombings in retaliation for Israeli NAIROBI, KENYA (UPI) -- Somalia re- relations between Somalia and Rus- The president of Somalia has said air strikes in Southern Lebanon. nounced its friendship treaty with sia. that up to 15,000 Cuban troops are Officials say the twin blasts Moscow Sunday, ordered all Soviet The decision to kick the Russians fighting alongside the Ethiopians marked the worst incidents of ter- advisers out of the country -- in- out came after months of deterior- in the desert war in southeast Ethi- rorism to hit Jerusalem in 18 months. cluding those running a base for ating relations between the two for- opia. Ethiopia and Cuba both deny Authorities say 46 Arabs have been Soviet nuclear submarines in the In- mer close allies sparked by the the charge. arrested for questioning in the bomb- dian Ocean -- and announced a full Soviet decision to re-equip the arm- All Cuban embassy personnel were ings. One device exploded in a diplomatic break with Cuba. ed forces of neighboring Ethiopia. ordered to leave the country within house in Jerusalem's Christian Quar- Somalia says the breaking of dip- 48 hours, and the staffs at the ter. The second detonated about The special announcement over the lomatic ties with Cuba is due to Somali embassy in Moscow and the three hours later in a Jewish sub- official radio fell only one step what it calls the "hostile posture" Soviet Embassy in Mogadishu will be urb, Talpiot. short of a full break in diplomatic of the Havana government. cut. Begin seeks info on Egyptian proposal Cease-fire takes (COMPILED FROM AP/UPI REPORTS) -- over reconvening Mideast peace Meanwhile, a source in Tunisia Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin talks. said the PLO says it is ready to go apparently undermined a Finance Min- The Egyptian leader says his idea to Geneva peace talks with Israel on hold in Lebanon istry statement Sunday by seeking has the backing of Palestine Libera- two conditions. specifics of a new Egyptian peace tion Organization leader Yasir Ara- The PLO spokesman said his organ- BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP/UPI) -- Hopes talks proposal. fat. ization wants United Nations Secre- were rising that a cease-fire in tary-General Kurt Waldheim southern Lebanon was taking hold Earlier the Finance Ministry re- to send an official invitation once again Sunday. jected any plan that would have an to the Pal- estinian people. After a week of heavy Israeli air American-Palestinian professor rep- Marine Corps strikes and cross-border artillery resent Palestinians at Geneva. But The spokesman also told newsmen that the PLO demands that the Soviet- exchanges, the air was calm Sunday Begin said he wants to know who for the second straight day. President Sadat has in mind for the U.S. declaration on the Mideast be considered a formal document. Both left and right-wing Lebanese job. silent drill leaders are warning that the situa- Saturday, President Carter en- The declaration called for the tion still is highly explosive and dorsed the proposal. may lead to an Israeli invasion of Sadat suggested the American-Pal- recognition of the Palestinian tomorrow 8 p.m. people's legitimate rights and was the South. estinian representative as a means leader of rejected by Israel. The principal religious of breaking the current deadlock Southern Lebanon says Israel has its eye on the area. "There is a distinct possibility Israel will occupy part of our coun- try." He said Israel is interested W. Germans plan to investigate death in the water of a river in the area and it's "valuable land and archeo- BONN, W. GER. (AP) -- West German with her shortly before her death. membership in an outlawed organiza- logical treasures." said he's asked that the Pal- officials say they plan a full in- One of the woman's lawyers says he tion. He stop military action that vestigation into the death of a con- will reserve judgment until a com- Miss Schubert's death came nearly estinians victed terrorist found hanged in her plete investigation of her death has one month after three other members might provoke Israel. Additionally, Lebanon's Democra- Munich prison cell Saturday. been made. of the Red Army Faction terrorist Socialist Party said the vacuum Authorities said Sunday an autopsy Miss Schubert, said to be a member group were found dead or dying in tic on the body of Ingrid Schubert of the terrorist Red Army Faction, their prison cells in what the gov- created by the flight of 265,000 their homes leaves no doubt her death was a sui- was arrested in 1970 and had been ernment called suicides. Southern Lebanese from an Israeli takeover cide. But they plan to interview serving a 13-year prison term for But leftist extremists say the could lead to guards and others who had contact attempted murder, bank robbery and three were murdered by authorities. of the area. Protesters chant against Shah's visit & neutron bomb by one WASHINGTON (UPI) --About two dozen prelude to a planned two-day protest visit is "vital for the two govern- at least on the surface, another. Among protesters chanted before President slated to begin when the Shah meets ments' peace of mind." controversy after of contention are Iran's Carter yesterday morning when he with Pres. Carter tomorrow. Recent relations between Iran and the points quadrupling oil prices in emerged from church services in One western diplomat says the the United States have been marred, role in it's military purchases and Washington. Some were objecting 1974, rights record. But the to the visit of the Shah of Iran it's human diplomat says it is more fundamental tomorrow and Wednesday, and others Doctors & lawyers appeal for marijuana issues which interest the Shah. were opposed to the neutron bomb. (UPI) -- The offical spokesman The statement issued yesterday The Shah has indicated that he be- Carter, Carter, smiling, chatted with for the nation's doctors and lawyers said "We agree with President lieves the U.S.- Iranian alliance Pastor Charles Trenthan of the have combined for a rare appeal on who showed a reasonable attitude should have evolved futher than it the possession of First Baptist Church as the demon- a sensitive issue--marijuana. in asking that has because of the importance of amounts for personal strators called for an end to the The American Bar Association and insignificant Iran's petrodollars, strategic lo- use should not subject the user to agreements with development of the neutron bomb and The American Medical Association cation and binding charges." cancellation of the Shah's visit. yesterday asked state legislatures criminal Washington. The Shah does not want Carter did not acknowledge the pro- and congress to repeal criminal Iran thought of as just another de- he will testors nor comment on their pre- penalities for the use of pot. So far, nine states have curtailed veloping country, and says others sence. Both had spoken out in the past in grass penalties, but several not, in his words, "accept anything The Iranian demonstrators were a favor of reducing such penalties. have killed such bills. less than a first class position." Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Monday, November 14, 1977 Today's Meetings Tomorrow's Meetings ALATEEN meets at 7 p.m. For more information call 90269 AT. GITMO BAY BRIDGE CLUB meets at 7 p.m.