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f~IANTANAMO BAY. cWA U. &S NAVALKAVAL MAEEASE. rilANTANAAAO SAY. CUSA Knif ing Try 0rniittttitma Misses Pope SYDNEY, Australia (AP/AFRTS)---A roaring crowd of 5,000 persons greeted Pope Paul today as he arr ived at the Sydney Airport in Austra- NOVEMBER 30, 1970 Phone 9-5247 lia. The 73-year-old pontiff arrived "down- under," after a flight from Manila where an attempt was made on his life. Manila police were under sharp criticism for laxity at the airport whien a man tried to attack the pontiff Friday. Pope Paul, showing no signs of his ordeal or the fatigue of his long journey to Asia, went serenely about his pro- gram Friday. He celebrated Mass in Manila Cathedral, received foreign diplomats and met with Presi- dent Ferdinand E. Marcos, cre- dited with helping to ward off the assailant. A million persons jammed the streets to watdh the Pope's motorcade pass. ed Police charged the assailant fe with attempted murder and as- sault. He was identified as IX. Benjamin Mendosa y Amor, 38, a painter from La Paz, Bolivia Pope Paul told Marcos he forgave his assailant and he blessed the crucifix Mendoza had used to conceal a foot- long knife. Air Crash Cause Unk HU wH As for the attack, Manuel Collantes, acting foreign sec- ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP/AFRTS) tower involved r outine takeoff retary, said: "It meant noth- -- The cause of the jetliner clearance, indicating no emer- ing to the Holy Father. I crash Friday in Anchorage ap- gency situation. don't think it fazed him." parently is still unknown. A federal investigator says the pilot of the military charte $3.7 plane doesn't know what hap- Million Housing Contract Awarded pened. The crash killed 47 of A $3.7 million family housing project which will provide 150 the 229 persons on board the new officer and enlisted housing units here has been awarded plane as it was taking off, to Burns and Roe Construction Corp., of Paramus, N.J. bound for Vietnam. The new housing will be built south of Kittery Beach Road According to the federal of- and adjacent to Kittery Beach enlisted family housing. ficial, there is no evidence The project was awarded by the Atlantic Division of the Nav- to indicate the brakes were al Facilities Engineering Command under the "Turnkey" concept locked, or that a fire had in which the contractor designs and constructs three- and broken out aboard. And tape four-bedroom, 2 and 2 bath, dwelling units. recordings of the conversation Complete design is required by mid-February 1971. Construc- between the pilot and control tion deadline is August 1972. Total cost is $3,728,330 Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Monday, November 30, 1970 Rhodes Says 2 Committed Murder NORTHBORO, Massachusetts (AP/AFRTS)--A News Gazetteer member of the President's Commission on Cam- pus Unrest says that two Ohio national quards- men "committed second-degree murder" in the shootings of four Kent State University sti- dents last spring. Twenty-one-year-old A TWA cargo jet, which was taking off for , Europe Joseph Rhodes made the allegation in a speech from an airport in Tel Aviv, collided with an yesterday to about 50 persons at the First Israeli plane being towed on the same runway Congregational Unitarian Church here. before dawn today. Two ground crewmen were Rhodes said the two guardsmen went to the killed and two others were injured. Both campus, as he put it, "intending to kill stu- planes caught fire and burned, scattering dents." He added, "the FBI knows about these wreckage along the main runway. The airport two guys," but that the situation wasn't was still closed to traffic more than six brought before an investigating grand jury. hours after the mishap. A Navy spokesman says two of the three sailors Self Defense who perished in a fire aboard a U.S. submarine Plane Attacks in tender off the coast of Holy Loch, Scotland, SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)--A U.S. fighter-bomber had been under confinement in the brig area of made another "self-defense" attack on North S the vessel. The spokesman says their guard Vietnam early today. It struck at an anti- released them as flames approached the briq aircraft position five and one-half miles area, but the prisoners and the guard died north of the De-Militarized Zone before the from heat and smoke asphyxiation, before they gun post could fire on the plane. could reach safety. Informed sources in Saigon say the pilot of the F-105 Thunderchief learned from his The western allies have strongly rejected a Soviet electronic detection gear that he was being protest note against a West German political tracked on radar and that the gun post had meeting set to open today in West Berlin. An begun computing the point as which to fire. allied spokesman says the U.S., British and A U.S. communique says the attack was "pro- French messages were delivered to the Soviet tective reaction against an enemy radar-con- Embassy in East Berlin shortly before midnight. trolled anti-aircraft position" and that This high-level action is unprecendented in "protective reaction in the inherent right of recent years. self defense." A published report, in The Washington Star, says at least one of the six aides ousted from thier Weather Hampers Rescue Operation jobs along with Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel last week, is expected to be back at his SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)--Rescue operations were job today. The reports says Dr. Leslie Glas- hampered by heavy clouds and fog today in the gow, assistant secretary for Fish, Wildlife, search for a U.S. transport plane missing Parks and Marine Recources was the only aide since Friday. who did not submit a resignation Friday. Contact was lost with the craft shortly after it took off from a base in the central The latest Associated Press tabulation shows 618 highlands, and heavy clouds have prevented persons died in highway accidents during the aircraft from making a thoromh search since holiday weekend. then. (See earlier story on Page 3). Temperatures Around U.S. C ities Pensacola, clear 53 Des Moines 39 Guantanamo Gazette X RAB. Cauley Albuquerque 59 Forecast: C~omvase U Minneapolis, St. Paul 29 Partly cloudy except mostly Publ ic -ffairs fficer ,LCdr. W. Boer, IT Editoria I\dvisor JOC Jim Teagsue Bismark, snow 4" 21 cloudy during the afternoon. Editor JO1 Jack Leif* Staff J03 Allan Stith Boston, cloudy 48 Windv N 4-6 except NE 10-14 J03 Ton Betz JOSN Stave Duren New Orleans 79 with gusts to 19 knots be- The rUANTANAf0 CAZEM. is published according to San Francisco, 1.26" tween noon and sunset. The the roles and regulations for hip and station neo- papers as outlined in T4VEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the 1actl tate Public \ffoirs Oflicer. rain 53 high today will reach 82 It is printed four days aeek at govern ent ete.se Cutbank, Mont. on goeneent equipment . The opinions orstatements -13 degrees and the low tonight in n its the r herciae net to he 000- Dallas will dip to 71 degrees. srea_ official or as reflecting the views of 84 ComNavBase or the 'erent of the Navy. Seattle 44 San Anqeio 84 Monday, November 30, 1970 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 NORTH VIETNAM Pentagon Discloses Planes Hanoi Haiphong Hoa Binh Province Struck Near Prison Camp 19thPARAL LEL WASHING-ON (AP/AFRTS)--The Pentagon disclosed Friday that Of. U.S. warplanes struck North Vietnamese positions near the Son Tonkin Tay prison camp during last week's unsuccessful effort to free American war prisoners. Asst. Secretary of Defense Daniel Z. Dong Hoi Henkin, who acknowledged the strike under questioning at a news briefing, described it as a diversionary attack "to draw DMZ oaNang fire away from the central op- Four East Germans eration." * Hanoi has claimed that U.S. Leap From Liner warplanes struck the Hanoi- Haiphong area, 150 miles north Pleiku of the 19th parallel, during Just Off Key West SOUTH the weekend attacks and in- KEY WEST (AP/AFRTS)--An East VIETNAM flicted civilian casualties. German whose escape was re- The North Vietnamese said ported planned for more than the strike zone included the two months leaped from a e provinces of Ha Tay, Quang cruise ship into the Atlantic Ninh, Hoa Binh, Ha Tinh and Ocean Friday. Three other Quang Binh. men, not parties to the plot, - Saigon They also claimed that sev- followed him over the said. eral captured American airmen They were rescued quickly Can Tho were injured in the raids. when a powerboat chartered by South Henkin told newsmen that the first defector's brother . "protective actions were tak- raced out from Big Pine Key to en" to cover the small force pick them up out of the water. of Americans who landed in the "I've known about it for two prison camp 23 miles west of months," said Ken Agnew, a Hanoi, only to find it empty newsman for the American Sof prisoners. Broadcasting Co., who took Henkin said these protective pictures of the rescue from a actions occurred "in the im- plane circling overhead. Germanies Agree mediately adjacent area" of All four men asked political the camp, and indicated there asylum. They were taken in To Exchange Views was strafing and bombing by hand by officials of the U.S. BERLIN (AP/AFRTS)--East and fixed-wing aircraft. immigration service and inter- West Germany agreed Friday to "There were some antiaircraft rogated at Key West. FBI a- continue their political con- installations in the area gents also were called in for tacts which resumed in the which we knew about and there the questioning.