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f'IIANTANAMO DAY. OAA U.&U. & NAVAL WL3AM. ClUANTANAM0 BAY. OAA Calley Case: Defense Up FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP/AFRTS)---Lt. William Calley's lawyers plan to develop this week the defense version of what happened at My Lai. DECEMBER7, 1970 Phone 9-5247 They have asked the government to produce eight witnesses on each of four days beginning Thursday so they can be inter- viewed before taking the wit- ness stand at Calley's court martial. The prosecution said it ex- pects to call its final wit- nesses no later than Thursday. Calley, on trial for his life, is accused of murdering 102 Vietnamese villagers. In the first three weeks of testimony, Calley has been pictured by the prosecution as ordering his men to round up men, women and children into two groups, then gunning them down at point-blank range with bursts of automatic fire and single shots of his M16 rifle. INVESTIGATOR Joe Dixon checks damage to a two-ton BASE POLICE "We took them down on the truck assigned to Mobile Construction Battalion 71 which slip- trail and made them squat down ditch on Sherman Avenue near the Ackerman Road in- ped into a so they couldn't run," said night. An investigation is continuing. tersection last Dennis Conti, a 21-year-old high school dropout from Pro- vidence, R.I., during day-long testimony before court reces- sed Friday. Agreement Calley fired on 'em, *Ford, IAW Seek "Lt. killed 'em one by one." yesterday morning, DETROIT (AP/AFRTS)--Negotia- sion began ie was the first of 31 wit- Motor Company and signs that usually precede tors for Ford nesses to say he saw Calley Auto Workers final contract agreement were and the United shoot anyone. into early in evidence early today. Union bargained In cross-examination, the hours today on a new Meanwhile, in other union morning defense attempted to show the contract. news, Teamsters Union members three-year slang-talking Conti--a truck pushing to reach a in Michigan and northern Ohio They are driver now--as a marijuana us- by tonight's mid- have walked off their jobs. settlement ing braggart who hated Calley strike deadline. Details can be found on Page 2 night and who spent that March 16, Sources on both sided have in today's Gazette. 1968 in My Lai looking for wo- they were striving indicated men and seeking to force one no later than for an agreement into an unnatural sex act by an hour 8 a.m. (EST), which is threatening to shoot her baby. Ford Council before the UAW's A Christmas Conti denied the accusa- is to meet. tions. In his testimony, Con- union council The 200-member ti estimated the number of to Cantata must make recommendations dead in the village after Cal- on whether the rank-and-file ley's platoon swept through at ratify any settlement, or to .Page 4 about 300. Calley is charged approve a strike. to with murder of 102 civilians. The marathon bargaining ses- Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Monday, December 7, 1970 Month-Long Vietnam Truce Possible WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)--Secretary of State News Gazetteer William P. Rogers says the United States is considering a month-long Vietnam truce over the holidays in hopes it will lead to a per- manent end of fighting. A State Department spokesman said Rogers The U.S. command says the wreckage of an Amer- heard Sen. Henry M. Jackson make a similar ican C-123 transport plane, missing since Nov- proposal Sunday on a television interview ember 27th, has been found in the mountains of show and pro ptly phoned the Washington Dem- central South Vietnam. The command says 'here ocrat to tell of his approval. were no survivors a-Ion. the six U.S. ililary Rogers told Jackson the administration has personnel and 73 Vietna ese aboard. been considerin- the plan for so:e time and intends to p rsue it, the spokes an said. Top Arab and Israeli leaders are due this. week to meet with U.S. officials, as part of step- ped-up maneuvering before the expected re- 1,300 Teamsters Walk Off Jobs sumption of the Middle East peace talks. Jor- DETROIT (AP/AFRTS)--Teamsters Union drivers dan's King Hussein is scheduled to start the in Michigan and Northern Ohio--about 1,300 0 discussions when he arrives tomorrow. He strong--have walked off their obs in a strike leaves Thursday, the day before Israeli Def- against trucking firms hauling gasoline and arrives. ense Minister Moshe Dayan heating fuel. There is mounting evidence that James Farmer, Another 5,000 truckers in 13 Midwestern the highest ranking Negro in the administra- states prepared last night to loin the strike, tion, will turn in his resignation personally but spokesman in the other states say they to President Nixon today. Farmer's pri-sary are undecided on whether to take part in the task, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, walkout, or wait for further talks. Education and Welfare, has been to recruit minority workers for key government iobs. Basque Trial Halted by Illness Japan's at- Today marks the 29th anniversary Of BURGOS, Spain (AP/AFRTS)--The trial of 16 is to be passed with tack on Pearl Harbor. It Basque Nationalists was suspended today be- little notice, with no official ceremonies cause one of the seven military judges wasn't planned. However, representatives of several feeling well. will place wreaths at veterans' associations There was no immediate indication when it the U.S.S. Arizona memorial. Official cere- would resume. monies are held at the site only on Memorial The Franco government has pressed ahead Day. with the case undeterred by a wave of civil The White House Christmas tree was, blown down unrest and the kidnaping of a West German yesterday afternoon, by wind gusts clocked at representative. A member of the court de- 54 miles per hour. There were no injuries. manded yesterday that the trial be closed to The 78-foot Spruce, cut in the Black Hills of the public because the defense lawyers "are South Dakota, was delivered to the White doing nothing but attacking the regime." House after surviving two train derailments West Germany's honorary consul in San Sebas- en route. tian, Eugen Beihl was kidnaped Dec. 1 by Temperatures Around U.S. Cities Basque terrorist's. Des Moines 30 San Francisco 54 Guantanamo Gazette New Orleans 40 Forecast: Cfltavvtase RA&. B. McCauley El Paso 67 Public affairs officer *LCdr. W. Boer, II today with a Editorial Advisor J30 Jia Teague Pensacola 37 Partly cloudy Editor JO1 Jack lfgh Staff J03 Alla Smith New York 25 high expected )f R3 degrees J03 TM BetZ and a low of 6 tonight. The JoN Steve Duren Norfolk 44 9 The CUANTANA)4O GAZETTE is published according to Detroit 31 winds will be northerly 3-7 the rules and regulations for ship and station news- papers as outlined in NAVEXS P-35 and under the OklahomL City 54 becoming south easterly R-14 di rectio of the Naval Base Public \ffairs nfficr. It is printed four doys a week at goversrent expense Philadelphia 26 with gusts to 21, between on govertme. t equprent. The opino or state .ents in news its that appear heroin are not to he con- Seattle 50 noon and sunset t. The high strued as official or as reflecting the views of ComNavtasr or the Departent of the Navy, Omaha 33 expected to' or row is a warm Chicago 22 83 degrees. Rumford, Maine 15 Fargo, N.D. 11 Monday, December 7, 1970 Guantanamo Gizette Page 3 Irish Government Takes Emergency Powers DUBLIN (AP/AFRTS)--The Irish government as- on the advice of police authorities, who said sumed emergency powers of internment without the conspirators planned the kidnaping of trial to counter "a secret armed conspiracy" prominent leaders and a series of armed bank which it said plotted a campaign of kidnaping robberies likely to involve murder. Lynch and lawlessness. Prime Minister Lynch acted said his government was invoking the right to bring into operation without further notice Part 2 of the 1940 Offenses Against the INVASION State Act. This gives power to intern any citizen without trial. U.N. mission finds Portugal guilty A statement signed by Lynch and Justice Minister Desmond of aiding attack on Guinea O'Malley said orders have gone out for the immediate prepara- UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP/AFRTS)--A U.N. Security Council on- tion of detention centers. the-spot mission reported Friday that Portuguese armed forces The statement gave no names carried out the invasion of Guinea Nov. 22-23 in conjunction of individuals or organiza- with outside Guinean rebels. The 15-nation council was sum- tions involved in the alleged moned into an afternoon meeting to consider the report. An plot. African diplomat said a resolution would be introduced demand- It was, however, widely as- ing condemnation of Portugal and reparations for loss of life sumed in Dublin that Lynch's and property. The five-nation move was directed against the special mission was dispatched underground Irish Republican to the West African state by Egypt Launches Army and a fanatic splinter the council and took testimony group known as Saor Eire in Conakry at 10 sessions Nov. Warning of War (Free Ireland). 26 through Nov. 28 from offi- Saor Eire gunmen were invol- cials of Guinea, diplomats, ved in a series of bank raids Guinean army officers and in- In Middle East earlier this year, until a vaders taken captive. CAIRO (AP/AFRTS)--Egypt is six-month bank strike thwarted President Sekou Toure had launching a global diplomatic them.