Friday's flight Water Usage 727 NAS Norfolk, Va. 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 26 Guantanamo Bay 11:00 a.m. noon Usable storage: 14.80 MIL - 100% Kingston, Jamaica 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Guantanamo Bay 2:15 p.m. 3:20 p.m. Goal: 1.0 ML NAS Norfolk, Va. 6:15 p.m. Consumption: 1.15 ML See page 3 I Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 46 -- No. 129 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Wednesday, June 27, 1990 Armored-car robbery takes $10.8 million, raises I Big plans slated for the 4th of July I concern by police of an inside job Come one, come all. Low and McCalla Hangar. AP-Investigators are expected broke into the Sentry Armored Car high bed trailers (floats) are avail- Local participants who have I to give lie-detector tests to two Courier Company office in New able for the asking if residents already reserved their floats are armored-car guards whose truck was York City. want to be in the 4th of July Fleet Training Groups, the Yacht robbed yesterday. About $11 million disappeared, Community Street Parade begin- Club, Fil-Am Club, MWR Child The sheriff of Rochester, N.Y., but authorities say only a fraction of ning at 10 a.m. Development Center and Motor I West Germany - A state court in won'tsay whether therobbery might that amount may have been taken by The parade will begin at Transport Maintenance (Marine West Germany has convicted an in- have been an inside job. Authorities the robbers. Only about one million McCalla Hanger and will end at Barracks.) dustrialist of helping Libya build a do say the armored car was robbed has been recovered, and investiga- Phillips Park. More floats are still available poison gas plant. He's being sen- by at least two men after the guards tors say some of the missing money All organizations are welcome for the 4th of July parade. Reserve tenced to five years in prison for stopped for coffee. may have been previously em- to participate. And if youre not a your float today!! violating export laws. Libya has al- The theft of $10.8 million from bezzled from the company. ways contended the plant south of Tri- part of an orgainzation, Staff Sgt. For more information, contact poli was intended to manufacture an armored car in Rochester, N.Y., -September 12, 1983, a robber G. Martinez says, residents can Committee Chairman Gunnery medicines, but U.S. and West German puts it at or near the top of the list of made off with $7 million from the still decorate a float. Sgt. Rick Frantz or officials say it was built to manufacture large robberies from armored car Wells Fargo Office in Hartford, On July 2nd and 3rd, floats Guillermo Martinez at 2289 or I chemical weapons. services in the United States. Here is Conn., after drugging and tying up a will be available for decoration at 2943. a list of some of the top robberies: driver and office manager. Lithuania - Lithuania's prime min- -November 24, 1983, two ister is making a big request of the -October 20, 1974, robbery of armed men held up a Wells Fargo Baltic republic's parliament. She's $4.3 from a Purolator, Inc., armored car in Memphis, Tenn., The little tug that did asking that the lawmakers suspend building in downtown Chicago. stealing $5.2 million in cash, their declaration of independence from Moscow. The Prime Minister Kazim- -December 19, 1978, thieves $750,000 in negotiable securities ier Prunskiene says in return, Mikhail held up a Wells Fargo Armored and checks, and $500,000 in bonds. Gorbachev has promised to end the truck on Staten Island, N.Y., and got -July 19, 1984, members of the nine-week economic embargo against away with $2.25 million in bank Neo-Nazi group, the Order, stole the republic. funds. $3.6 million from a Brinks armored -March 19, 1982, robbers who car near Ukiah, Calif. South Africa - White South African impersonated FBI agents stole more -April 19, 1985, $7.9 million extremists didn't like what they heard than $2 million from a Purolator was stolen from a Wells Fargo in their meeting Tuesday with Presi- collection center Depot in New York dent F.W. De Klerk. They demanded armored-truck after four continued political sovereignty for near Pittsburgh. masked gunmen ambushed and dis- whites and guarantees that commu- -December 12, 1982, two men armed four guards. nists would not take power. London - Environmental offices Bush and Congress reach accord gathered today in London have a big goal in mind: saving the earth's on more taxes to reduce deficit ozone layer. The international three- day session opening today is aimed at AP - The dreaded "T" word- mendation will get things moving working out an international accord taxes-will undoubtedly dominate after nearly two months of fruitless to save the ozone layer. budget talks that resume today in debate. (continue to page 3) Washington. Where will the new taxes come Phoby JOSN USA M JELOE White House and congressional from? Large Harbor Tug Mann (YTB-753) (right) gets ready to be trans- negotiators meet to take another shot That's what congressional lead- ported to USNS Apache (172), fleet tug, by means of the tug boat at shrinking the federal deficit. ers and White House aides will try to Wanamassa (YTB-820). Marin, assigned to Gitmo's Port Services The meeting comes USA the day after figure out in coming weeks. Department, Is ready to get underway after nearly six years. PresidentBush said it will takenew Many democratic lawmakers say Members of Gitmo's Port Services Craft and Engineering Division taxes to make News the deficit more man- the rich should be the first target of with assistance from Gitmo's Shore Intermediate Maintenance ageable. any tax increase. Activity (SIMA) and NAVSEADET Portsmouth, Va., worked to- Many lawmakers are balking at California - A U.S. Army private is Some other ideas that have been gether to rig Marin for open ocean towing. They also prepared the facing life in prison, following his the idea. But California Democrat tossed around include raising gaso- Large HarborTug for stowage at Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance conviction on charges of murdering a Leon Panetta says Bush's recom- line, cigarette or alcohol taxes. Facility, Portsmouth, Va. civilian during the invasion of Panama. Pfe. Mark McMonagle was convicted yesterday at Fort Ord, Calif., and is to Guantanamo to participate in 'Belts and Bags' safety program be sentenced today. Investigators say installation program. The awards are the Federal and 62 Marines lost their lives in the woman victim was shot during a By JOSN CHRIS CORBIN "We just sent off a package re- Employee Safety Belt/Ar Bag Rec highway crashes.This is an intoler faked gunfight that was staged to con- AND NES questing information for the pro- ignition Program forindividuals and able loss of human life and must be ceal the loss of a military pistol. gram," said Richardson. "With the a 70 percent plus Honor Roll recog- reduce," said Secretary of the Navy To start the summer off right, the help of publicity and our patrolmen nation program for the military in- H. Lawrence Garrett California - California produce m. theme for this coming year concern- issuing citations, we can get more stallations. grower Ben Hillbrecht says the heat "Simple awareness of appropri- wave that's sizzling the southwest is ing safety is "Belts and Bags - a residents to start wearing their seat These programs recognize ate safety measures is not enough. bad news for his crop. He says it will winning combination."The goal of belts. Now, our response is not very people, who by using a safety belt or We must actively identify and ac- wipe out his strawberries, and as for this initiative is to focus on our big- good." air bag, avoided death or serious knowledge Navy military and civil the boysenberries, they'll "cook right gest cause of accidental deaths, This program is to remind the injury during a motor vehicle mis- ian personnel who use occupant pro- on the vine." It was 112 degrees motor vehicle accidents. Navy and Marine Corps family to use hap. section systems and personally en- yesterday in Los Angeles, while The Naval Safety Center located theirseatbelts, child safety seats and Installations achieving this courage non-compliant personnel to Phoenix, Arizona, suffocated with 122 at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, to learn more about automatic crash status will receive an engraved buckle up," Garrett says. degrees. Va., is offering a recognition pro- protection systems, air bags, that are plaque. Hopefully, all Navy and Hopefully this will minimize the gram to honor military installations available on newer cars. Marine Corps installations are U.S. - As many as 240,000 low-in- eli- loss of life and reduce the severity of come women and children could be that have reached and sustained a70 In conjunction with Buckle-Up gible for this award, the injury. Garrett says, "When our bumped from a federal supplemental percent or higher safety belt use rate. America 1990, which took place just This is part of a national effort to personnel and their families drive nutrition program, according to a sur- According to the Assistant Secu- before Memorial Day, the Secretary document and publicize the added defensively, refrain from drinking vey released yesterday. The survey rity Director in Guantanamo Bay of Defense fully endorsed two na- protection provided by air bags dur- and driving, and use their restraint comes from officials who work in the Senior Chief D.M.