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REAGAN REMAINS PRESIDENT INCUMBENT WINS 49 STATES -- 525 ELECTORAL VOTES (AP)--A re-election land- A look at the numbers the same Los Angeles ball- Reagan also says Mondale team a "wonderful hour of slide for President Reagan, tells us just how massive room where he declared vic- told him in a concession victory." but no corresponding ava- Reagan's victory is. tory four years ago that phone call "we'll go forward He also called on all lanche on Capitol Hill. In the popular vote (with "good habits are hard to together." Americans to unite and seek That sums up the results 87 percent of the vote break." Mondale earlier had told a peace and prosperity. of yesterday's election in counted), Reagan had 59 per- The Republican also gave somber gathering of support- Although the Reagan-Bush which Walter Mondale only cent of the vote to 41 per- his administration a pat on ers in St. Paul, Minn., that victory was mammoth, the won one state, Minnesota. cent for Mondale. the back for taming infla- he is thankful to America party makeup in Congress has Minnesota is Mondale's In electoral votes, Reagan tion and interest rates, for hearing his case. not sharply changed. home state. swamped Mondale 525 to 13. creating new jobs, cutting He also says he is at The Republicans have main- The only other victory the As President Reagan soared government spending, and peace with the knowledge tained control of the Sen- Democrat has chalked up is to triumph on his final cam- strengthening military de- that he gave the campaign ate, and the Democrats still in the city he had hoped paign, he proclaimed it just fense. "everything I've got." are in charge in the House. would be his home for the "the beginning of every- He also declared before Geraldine Ferraro is tak- By early today, it appear- next four years, Washington, thing." the GOP crowd, there is ing heart that she and Mon- ed Republicans would gain D.C. Reagan told supporters in still "much to be done." dale "opened a door that less than 20 seats in the will never be shut again." house -- short of the 26 The first woman to run as needed to gain working con- a major party's vice presi- trol in that chamber. dential nominee declared in It looks like the Demo- TUE DAIHLY her concession speech, "The crats were able to gain two days of discrimination are Senate seats. numbered." Big bucks Ferraro said in New York that although the Mondale In the most expensive Sen- ticket lost, it "made a dif- ate race in the nation's GAZETTE ference." history -- and one of the While the mood was somber most divisive -- incumbent Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in St. Paul and New York, Republican Jesse Helms de- Vice President Bush had the feated Democrat Jim Hunt in crowds cheering and waving North Carolina. flags in Houston. In another close race -- the contest for the Senate VOLUME 39 - NUMBER 212 U.S. NAVY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1984 Bush called the landslide win forged by the Reagan seat from Illinois -- Demo- cratic congressman Paul Sim- on edged past incumbent Re- MIG-21's TO NICARAGUA publican Charles Percy in one of the last calls of the WASHINGTON (UPI)--The White But, they said, satellite night. House says a Soviet Freight- photographs show a dozen Percy's loss puts Helms -- er may be carrying MIG-21 suspicious crates on the an arch-conservative -- in jet fighters to Nicaragua, dock just before the ship line to become the next something the Reagan Admini- left the Black Sea port in chairman of the Senate For- stration says it will not September. eign Relations Committee. tolerate. The network said the White Along with the Hunt-Helms Earlier, CBS News quoted House is considering a sur- race, lots of campaign dol- U.S. intelligence officials prise attack to destroy the lars were spent in the West who cautioned there is no planes, if they are aboard. Virginia senatorial contest proof the MIGs are on board. between Democrat Jay Rocke- feller and Republican John Raese. Rockefeller won, and will replace Jennings Ran- dolph -- a retiring Democrat who spent half a century on WORLD NEWS Capitol Hill. In the nation's statehouse LONDON (AP)--Gold opened in London today at $345.90 an contests, the Republicans ounce. That is up 15 cents from yesterday's close. have increased their number of governors from 15 to 16 TOKYO (AP)--THe U.S. dollar continued its downward slide seats. against the Japanese yen in trading on the Tokyo Foreign The Gubernatorial races in Exchange Market today, closing at 241.35 yen. That is 13 states seem to have been down .5 yen from yesterday's close. influenced largely by local issues, rather than Presi- NEW YORK (UPI)--A New York-based newsletter, The Mideast dent Reagan's trouncing of Report, says Egyptian intelligence has evidence that Walter Mondale. Libya planted mines in the Red Sea because Egypt refused It now has been 15 years to annul the 1979 Camp David Peace Agreement with Israel. since the GOP has held a ma- The report says Egypt has cleared Iran in the mines af- jority of statehouses. fair. Road repairs Election day 1984 also had Americans in 44 states con- CHILE (AP)--A state of siege has been declared in Chile, AFThR A RANE LAPSEDD sidering a wide variety of and authorities there can now, among other things, tap part of Sherman Ave. Oct. POWER ballot issues. telephones, open mail, and hold prisoners in secret loca- 11, repairs were necessary. Among them, voters in tions indefinitely. The steps have been taken by Presi- Yesterday, Clayton Evans Michigan and a Maryland dent Augusto Pinochet to put down what he calls a (right) and Owen Blackwood DOWN county dealt blows to the Marxist-led insurrection. To enforce the emergency mea- (left) worked to remove the tax revolt spawned six years sure, army troopers have taken up positions along the cement structure. (Photo by ago in California. main boulevard in the capital city, Santiago. JOSA Jerome Sanda) Lt. G.C. Matthews Three states, meanwhile, Utilities Officer approved lotteries. Maine defeated a state .It is time once again Equal Rights Amendment. VFW dignitaries informed about GTMO for the Guantanamo Bay Finally, jubilation has Mr.: Billy Ray Cameron, be better informed about 24, 1984. Community to take part in filled Dixon, Ill., the boy- Commander-ini-Chief, Veterans GTMO. Cooper T. Holt, a World the annual "Power Down hood hometown of President of Foreign Wars and Mr. Billy Ray Cameron, of War II veteran, was Day." Reagan. This As Cooper Holt, Executive Sandord, North Carolina, was appointed Executive Director allows inspection he was celebrating his and maintenance of the re-election, Reagan phoned Director, VFW Washington elected Commander-in-Chief of the VFW Washington .C. are in GTMO at the of the VF- of the United Office in August, 1963, at Desalination Plant gener- Dixon from Los Angeles. ators and evaporators. Bundled up against the CNO's Office's invitation States at the 85th Annual the National Convention held Minimal for an orientation visit and National VFW Convention in in Seattle, Washington. electricity autumn chill, several thou- will be available and cheered to get aquainted with and to Chicago, Illinois, August sand Dixon residents blackouts may occur in as Reagan's brief message areas where demand is was amplified to the cele- history high. brants in the streets. Masters-at-arms have long For our "Power Down The master-at-arms rat- Besides being chiefs of Day" to be successful, ing is by no means a police at sea, the sea please plan to eliminate Correction modern innovation. corporals, as they were air conditioning, elec- tric cooking, laundry, Amplification Naval records show that called in the British _ these "sheriffs of the navy, had to be qualified .J electric hot water heat- invit- sea" were keeping order in close order fighting ing, and use no lights All base chiefs are ed to lunch at the CPO club as early as the reign of under arms and be able to (or keep them low). Charles I .of England. train seamen in hand-to- "Power Down Day" starts tomorrow with the Commander- 6 in-Chief of the VFW (Veter- At the time, they were hand combat. b ' a.m., Friday, November Wars), and charged with keeping In the days, of sail, 23, and lasts until ans of Foreign Vie. director of swords, pistols, carbines the MAAs were truly around 5 p.m. the executive {{ff the Washington, D.C. area and muskets in good work- "master at arms." \ .J ing order as well as en- The master-at-arms in VFW. Please call 4744 today for suring that the bando- the U.S. Navy can trace and to confirm at- liers were filled with the beginning of the rate details tendance. fresh powder before to the Union Navy of the G .:.r. m combat. Civil War. Influenza Immunization: The Helping somebody through the Naval Hospital Preventative Combined Federal Campaign Medicine Department will be means our very own youths administering influenza im- Six percent of every dollar munizations to all person- community bulletin board that you donate to CFC comes nel, civilian and military. back to help our youth pro- The immunization is manda- grams in Guantanamo 'Bay! tory for all active duty Give generously, the child Navy and Marine Corps per- At GTMO, hundreds of our na- The motorcycle class sched- Dr. Edgar Hayhill has you help .