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I Exercise Caribrex 1-76, which in- 1-76 included the guided missile Company units on the line during volved 13 American Navy ships and cruiser Dale, the destroyer escorts exercises Monday. one British naval vessel, ended Paul and Aylwin, the destroyer According to an FTG spokesman, yesterday. Vesole, the oiler Caloosahatchee, Caribrex 1-76 assigned operations EXERCISE CARIBREX 1-76 The Caribbean operation was part the nuclear submarine Lapon, the areas and scheduled instructors and of a major Second Fleet exercise attack transport Francis Marion, services to the ships. He said the under the command of Commander the attack cargo ship Charleston, ships ENDS; WAS PART conducted numerous training Second Fleet, VAdm. J.J. Shanahan the landing ship docks Spiegel evolutions on the way to Gitmo and Jr. Adm. Shanahan was embarked in Grove, the landing ships tanks some units will continue exercises the guided missile cruiser W.H. Newport and- Boulder, and the on the OF MAJOR EXERCISE way back to their home ports. Standley. The Caribbean phase of British frigate HMS Nubian. In addition to amphibious operations the exercise was planned and exe- The amphibious ships had various the -3,000-man force trained in ba- cuted by RAdm. Linder, who com- Atlantic Fleet Marine Force units BY SECOND FLEET sic seamanship, engineering, gun- mands Carrier Group Four and was embarked along with other Navy and nery, antisubmarine warfare and embarked in the destroyer Mullinix Marine support units. Men from the combined operations in all areas. during the operation. Sixth Marines second battalion Caribrex 1-76 began Monday in Other ships involved in Caribrex landing team relieved November Gitmo waters. 0Muurtzauuna 0 ht Vol. 30, No. 133 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Thursday, August 14, 1975 ATLANTA BANK OFFICIAL DESCRIBES VISIT TO DOWNTOWN HAVANA World s ATLANTA, Ga. (AP)--Frank Hulse, president of Southern Airways, hadn't been to Cuba since his News .4 honeymoon 30 years ago. When he returned Saturday with other airline officials, it was to Digest collect $2 million the company paid four hijackers in 1972. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)--Syria is re- PARIS (AP)--The first 45 French Before handing over the check, placing 100 Soviet oil experts with refugees permitted to leave Saigon the Cuban government provided a Western technicians because the since the takeover by Viet Cong deluxe tour of Havana. Russians fell short of Syrian ex- forces arrived in Paris yesterday The group dined on fruit cock- pectations, it was reported here. and said the new South Vietnamese tails and lobster tails followed authorities were extremely reluc- by dark Cuban cigars at the city's WASHINGTON (AP)--U.S. officials tant to give exit visas. They de- newest restaurant, Las Ruinas, a have approved sale of an Executive scribed life in Saigon as moving former country mansion in what is jet, a helicopter engine and a com- at slow motion, and long-range now called Lenin Park. mercial jet navigation system to planning hampered by the absence Uganda, State Department officials of a government. DINITZ & KISSINGER CONFERRING announced. "Everything seemed to be going SASKATOON, Canada (AP)--Police smoothly, so we all kept the con- TOKYO (AP)--A Cambodian delega- said yesterday the bodies of four low key," versation cordial, but KISSINGER MEETS WITH DINITZ tion led by Deputy Premiers Khieu Saskatoon children whose disappear- recalled John Rossi, an Atlanta Samphan and leng Sary will go to ance led to a nationwide manhunt bank official who went with the TO DISCUSS INTERIM SETTLEMENT China tomorrow for an official have been found in two rural loca- Southern Airways contingent as ad- friendly visit, Peking's official tions near this city in Saskatche- viser and interpreter. WASHINGTON (AP)--Secretary of Hsinhua News Agency has reported. wan province. "I looked around the restaurant, State Henry Kissinger yesterday sum- which was very elegant. The in- moned Israeli Ambassador Simcha TOKYO (AP)--Japan has agreed to terior of the building had been Dinitz to his office for their give North Vietnam a total of $45 rebuilt, adding balconies around second talk within 24 hours concern- million in aid and will open its NEW YORK (AP)--One year after in the the dining room," Rossi said. "I ing a new interim settlement embassy in Hanoi by the end of President Ford signed the law per- thought 'If we had a place like Middle East. September, the newspaper Asahi re- mitting private gold bullion owner- this in Atlanta, it would be a big ported today. ship, the shimmer of the precious hit.'" metal is attracting few Americans. Dinitz was already at the State Department working on a draft of a LUENEBURG, West Germany (AP)-- DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)--Showers Atter the lengthy lunch, the potential accord with other U.S. of- Wind-whipped "seas of flames" burn- of control in a 30-square- fell over much of the state yester- group was taken to the Foreign ficials when Kissinger asked for the ed out mile area of the tinder-dry North day, bringing some moisture to the Ministry in downtown Havana and personal meeting. And Dinits left German Plains yesterday. Ten- state's drought-threatened corn after a few snags handed a check the State Department to prepare for thousand fire fighters backed by crop. A crop statistician with the for $2 million, ending nearly it. Livestock Reporting three years of negotiations. French planes fought to save Iowa Crop and the rain came too late "The city didn't look bad," threatened villages. Service said Rossi said. "It is a lot cleaner He declined to say if the apparent- for some fields. than other Latin American cities ly quickened pace of U.S.-Israeli LISBON (AP)--Internal Security QITAj Japan (AP)--A 44-year-old of comparable size. But it hasn't talks meant an agreement was near. Chief Gen. Otelo Carvalho stepped amateur astronomer said been painted in many years. It The ambassador had been meeting abruptly into the middle of Portu- Japanese yesterday he had discovered a new looks gray. There were just a few with Under-Secretary of State Joseph gal's escalating military and po- star and it had been recognized new buildings scattered here and Sisco, a leading U.S. Middle East litical crisis yesterday with his course officially by the Smithsonian As- there. The people looked well- expert, in an attempt to get down in own plan for determining the revo- trophysical Observatory of the dressed. There were a few tourists, writing points already agreed to by of the 15-month-old leftist United States. mostly from Eastern Europe." Israel, the U.S., and Egypt. lution. LAUNCH OF VIKING SPACECRAFT TO MARS POSTPONED FOR AT LEAST 10 DAYS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)--The said they will switch the Viking launch of a Viking spacecraft to spacecraft now on top of the Titan- FORMER PRESIDENT NIXON INVITED Mars was put off for at least 10 Centaur rocket with a sister space- days after a problem developed yes- ship. That will give engineers more TO CHINA BY CHAIRMAN MAO terday with a battery. time to work on the battery before It was the second delay for the the second launch, scheduled 10 WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former Pres- $1 billion mission, the most ex- days after the first. ident Richard M. Nixon has told pensive and sophisticated unmanned A problem with a valve aboard the friends that Chairman Mao Tse-Tung the United States. Titan-Centaur rocket forced the has invited him to pay a visit to space venture by The launch had been rescheduled first postponement only two hours mainland China, columnist Jack for today after Monday's launch was before liftoff on Monday. Anderson said yesterday. delayed because of a sticky valve. Officials said they still did not Anderson wrote that Nixon has Technicians found that a faulty know what caused the $5,000 valve not accepted' the invitation be- switch aboard the craft had drain- to stick in the open position and cause he wants to finish writing ed power from a battery from the would not launch the spaceship un- his memoirs before traveling from normal 37 volts down to 9 volts. til they understood what caused the his San Clemente, Calif., home. The battery, one of two 26-cell breakdown. Nixon first met with Mao in Pek- nickel-cadmium batteries, is de- ing in February 1972 in a move that signed to provide backup power to Yesterday's delay will probably re-established relations between four solar panels on the orbiter, mean that the lander will not touch the mainland Chinese and the United INVITED TO CHINA- which will circle the red planet down on Mars on July 4, 1976; space States. Former President while the landing section explores officials had set that date as part At San Clemente, Nixon was not Nixon says he has for life on Mars' surface. of America's Bicentennial obser- available for comment. been invited to visit China. Kennedy Space Center technicians vance. Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, August 14, 1975 JUNIOR FLAG FOOTBALL COMMISSION YARD SALES [ SCHEDULES REGISTRATION SATURDAY There will be a four-family yard sale from 10 a.m. until noon Satur- FThe Guantanamo Bay Junior Flag day at Nob Hill 58. L Football Commission has announced CommunitynitythatCom m registration for the upcoming There is a yard sale scheduled season will be held in front of the Saturday at 43B West Bargo begin- Navy Exchange between 10 a.m. and ning at 10 a.m. Included in the sale are assorted sheer curtains, BulletinBoys who will be 9 prior to Sept.