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Tide, Sun, Temp. Weather Forecast 85813 High tide- 5:34pm Partly cloudy. Low tide- -ll:55pm Scattered Swr'rae--7:37am showers. Winds Sw,et---- 6:52pm SE 12-14 knots. High------84 Bay conditions Low-------62 0tt The avyoshow-ed dait$ 2-3 feet. Vol. 32, No. 21 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, January 31, 1977 First black World News Digest Young becomes U.N. ambassador National Africa. Carter has said Young will in s-toe A TTAienr~),1 Tl,- 7-4 -* PI,4 - F, notnot-seer seek tot-interven intervene in the stalled WASHINGTON (AP)--TheW% -- Joint Chiefs WASHINGTON (UPI)--Secy. of State British-Rhodesia talks on majority of Staff have disputed a former Cyrus Vance meets today with Panama's rule for that country. military intelligence chief's con- foreign minister to discuss a new Supreme Court Justice Thurgood tention that the Soviet Union has accord on the Panama Canal. Vance Marshall, first black to serve on passed the U.S. in strategic power. will hold a news conference after the high bench, administered the This is according to a report re- the talks. Aides say Pres. Carter oath in a ceremony in the White leased yesterday by Sen. William plans to recommend a 25-year treaty, House East Room. Proxmire. The report is expected and believes a new agreement can be Among the onlookers were Coretta to be discussed today when Defense reached. Scott King, whose husband was slain Secy. Harold Brown appears before in 1968 with Young at his side, and the Senate Defense Appropriations ASPEN, Colo. (AP)--Clatidine Longet Ralph David Abernathy, who succeeded Subcommittee. The document takes is to be sentenced today in Aspen, King as director of the Southern issue with recent statements by Colo., where she was found guilty Christian Leadership Conference and MajGen. George Keegan. He retired earlier this month of criminally now is a candidate for Young's Jan. 1 as chief of Air Force intel- negligent homicide in the death of WASHINGTON (UPI)--Pres. Carter re- Atlanta congressional seat. ligence. her lover, skier Spider Sabich. Miss turned from his cold weather inspec- Longet faces up to two years in jail tion trip yesterday to preside over and a $5,000 fine. the swearing-in of Congressman jForecast shows no indication of let-up Andrew Young as United Nations am- ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)--Secy. of bassador. (UPI)--More snow, more ice, more Arctic winds. There is nothing in the Agriculture Bob Bergland will talk It is the first time a black will weather forecast to indicate the deep freeze may soon be over. to hard-pressed cotton and citrus have represented the United States Yesterday's temperatures again dropped below zero from the northern farmers today. Bergland, in Orlando, in the world body. Rockies across the upper half of the Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes, Fla., will also look at frost damage Young's eyes were brimming as the Ohio Valley, and the North Atlantic seaboard. to crops. He's to address the 18- Carter lauded him by saying, "Of all It was cold in the Southeast, too. Residents of Raleigh, N.C., went to state National Cotton Council the people I've ever known in public church in seven degree temperatures. Readings in the mid-20s were record- Conference and the Florida Agri- service, Andy Young is the best." ed in northern Florida. Spanish moss hanging from the trees in Mobile, Business Institute before beginning Young, one of Carter's earliest Ala., froze in 28 degree temperatures. his inspection tours. supporters for the presidency as an Dallas, Tex., got its first snowfall in two-and-a-half months. Many Atlanta congressman, will leave to- small communities in Indiana remain virtually isolated, while some BUFFALO (AP)--Authorities in morrow on a 10-day trip to Tanzania Illinois roads south of Chicago are clogged with 10-foot drifts. About Buffalo say 59 persons were charged in East Africa and Nigeria in West 500 National Guardsmen are on duty in Ohio, using 200 pieces of equipment in connection with looting in the in 42 counties .to dig out snowbound citizens. upstate New York city. Police say New York Gov. Hugh Carey was aboard a cargo plane that delivered more looters took advantage of the week- than 10 tons of heavy winter wear to National Guardsmen in the Buffalo end blizzard and that scores of LOCAL NEWS area, where the wind chill index was 40 below zero. businesses, homes and stalled vehi- Across the country, a half-million workers are off the job because of cles were rifled. plant shutdowns to save gas for homes. Reports from 15 states show unem- BRIEFS ployment related to the energy shortage may rise as high as two-million International today. NEW YORK (AP)--U.N. Secy.-Gen. The Provost Marshal's Office an- Kurt Waldheim leaves today for the nounced late Friday the speed zone Middle East on a mission aimed at change announced in Friday's Gazette Carter makes quick inspection reviving the 1973 Geneva peace con- has been rescinded. ference. In a broadcast interview The January 28 issue of the yesterday, Waldheim said both the Gazette carried a front page story WASHINGTON (UPI)--Saying "We're Arabs and the Israelis are interest- which said "The area from the Coffee all in this together," Pres. Carter ed in getting a lasting settlement. Shop to Central Magazine Road would yesterday made a quick inspection be a 15-mile-per hour speed zone trip to one of the areas hardest BANGKOK (UPI)--It's been 16 years from noon until 1 p.m." A spokesman hit by the severe weather, fuel since the Viet Cong was formed to for the Provost Marshal said the shortages and unemployment. lead an anti-American war in South change will not go into effect. His choice was Pittsburgh, and in Vietnam. But the political-military particular a Westinghouse plant organization will be phased out this which has been shut down since week during a five-day meeting in During the past few weeks, there Friday because fuel supplies were Saigon, giving North Vietnamese have been days in which either rain rapidly running out. leaders control of all political or cool weather has kept attendance Bundled up in "heavy underwear," groups in a reunited Vietnam. at the Special Services' pools and a sweater, a tweed suit and a gray beaches to almost zero. topcoat with the collar turned up, NAIROBI (AP)--A former British In situations such as these, the Carter said the White House thermo- RAF pilot and one of his four Special Services Division can util- stats were turned down so low his daughters are believed to be among ize the lifeguards to maintain other wife wept from the cold. the missing on a flight in Ugandan recreational facilities rather than After his return to Washington, Pres. Idi Amin's personal plane. pay them to guard pools and beaches Carter warned that the situation Latest reports say there's still no with no swimmers. This will be a will get worse instead of better. indication.if the plane actually much more efficient use of your rec- As he put it, "I want to emphasize crashed or not. A Radio Uganda reational funds. as strongly as I can that this broadcast said Amin is directing Therefore, in the future pools and temporary circumstance is going to search operations after flying into beaches will be closed with the ap- be permanent." thrown out of work because of the the area in another plane. proval of the commanding officer, As for what can be done now, plant shutdowns, and said he may Naval Station, on such occasions. Carter said he's thinking about need authority concerning employment TOKYO (UPI)--Peking Radio reports On days when the pools are to be asking Congress to add an amendment and jobs. that Chinese Communist Party Chair- closed, word will be passed over to his proposed emergency legisla- As for the deregulation of natural man Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou AFRTS during the mornings. tion allowing governors to allocate gas prices Carter said he favors a En-Lai spent their last days as sick If you are not certain of whether up to five per cent of the fuel four-year tial period with special old men, hounded by Mao's political- a pool is open or closed on border- supply where the needs are greatest. controls to insure the utilities ly ambitious wife. The broadcast line days, call Special Services at The President also noted that do not reap excessive profits. also claims that Madame Chiang hundreds of thousands are being 951160 for information. Denounce In the meantime, he urged Ching's disloyalty to her huband program Americans to keep their thermostats hastened his death. Madame Mao and down, wear heavy clothing and, if her allies are under arrest for al- they have fireplaces, turn' the heat legedly plotting the overthrow of Draft resisters and deserters meet down to 50 degrees. the Chinese government. TORONTO (AP)-Over 300 American Grossman also repeated complaints draft resisters and deserters met in that most draft evaders were middle- Iceberg forms n ear Baltimore Toronto this weekend and denounced class whites and that poorer, less Pres. Carter's pardon program. War educated youths could only resist BALTIMORE (UPI)--The Coast Guard west of Swan Point, about opposite resisters from the U.S., England, the war at the last moment by desert- reports an iceberg has formed in Baltimore. France, Sweden and Canada criticized ing. the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore.