Tomorrow's flight Water Usage 727 NAS Norfolk, Va. 8:00 a.m. WednedayJan.17 Guantanamo Bay 11:00 a.m. noon Usable storage: 910 MIL Kingston, Jamaica 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Goal- 825K - Guantanamo Bay 2:15 p.m. 3:20 p.m. NAS Norfolk, Va. 6:15 p.m. Consumption: 730 K See page 3 Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 45 -- No. 158 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Thursday, January 18, 1990 East, west making progress Shuttle astronauts recover in European arms reduction from bumpy night's sleep UPI - An unprecedented gather- the world does seem so be moving UPI - The Columbia's as- ovemight incident in which W mg of generals from the east and west in a more positive direction." %W has made the top military official tn the Powell has been having infor- tronauts are testing their faulty navigation data was landing systems and packing up beamed to the shuttle's China - China says 573 people United States think that U.S. military mal talks with delegates from this morning. computers. jailed after the crackdown on the spending could be cut. NATO, the Warsaw Pact, neutral democracy movement last year Gen. Cohn Powell, chainnanof the and non-aligned European coun- Cmdr. Daniel Brandenstein As a result, six small rocket have pleaded guilty, have shown Joint Chiefs of Staff, says it appears tries. and Co-pilot James Wetherbee jetswere fired while the astro- fired up one of the shuttle's nauts were sleeping, pushing repentance and have been released. thespning United Vculd States be5 cut.15can trim its military The gathering of generals is Sources in Beijing say it's a largely spending without compromising its aimed at making progress on hydraulic power units and test- Columbia into a gentle tumble as cosmetic gesture aimed at improving security. European arms reductions. The fired a series of rocket flight computers responded to relations with other nations. T. UidSa h h U.s mltary. .srs e thrusters. They are trying to the incorrect data. Brandenstein In Vienna last night, Powell toi a eegates are scussng eacn news conference it appears that the government's military policies, make sure the shuttle will be quickly took over, stopping the France - American and European ready to return tomorrow. rocket firings about 15 minutes animal rights activists are calling time has come when it's possible to training and budgets and how they Their crewmates plan to after the incident began for a boycott of L'Oreal to pressure begin to reduce defense expenditures relate to the actual forces in the and the French cosmetics giant into without reducing security. Powell field. The meeting is not a formal spend the day wrapping up a put the ship back in the halting tests on lab animals. In a said, "there is a general feeling that we negotiation, and specific accords series of medical and scientific proper orientation. NASA says statement, L'Oreal said it has been can cut back on our spending because are not expected. experiments and stowing loose the astronauts were never in any unable to find acceptable substi- gear for re-entry. danger. tutes for certain animal tests. But it With landing preparations President Bush plans to tele- agreed to "diminish, and if possible going smoothly in orbit, phone the shuttle crew with his ,manage to halt these tests for its More slain in Soviet civil war engineers at Mission Control in congratulations on a successful commercial products." UPI - The Kremlin has given Azerbaijanis. Houston are investigating an flight this morning. Mexico - Mexico's attomey "shoot to defend" orders to Soviet Authorities evacuating Arme- general is refuting local news troops sent to put down the ethnic nians from the Azerbaijani capital reports asserting that Camarena was violence in the southern republics of of Baku say more than 7,000 refu- Japanese official talks taboos not slain in Mexico five years ago. Armenia and Azerbaijan. gees have been ferried across the But hesaid he'd reopen the case if Fierce battles between Moslem Caspian Sea since Saturday, the evidence warranted. In recent Azerbaijanis and Christian Armenians when Azerbaijanis began attacks days, several Mexican newspapers Mayor survives fatal attempt continued for a fifth day yesterday with against Armenians. have published reports saying UPI - Japanese doctors say the war. no signs of letting up. Officials say the The Soviet news agency Camarena had links with drug mayor of Nagasaki probably will Because Motoshima defied the death toll rose to 76 in what the TASS issued ajointmessage from traffickers and may still be alive. survive an assassination attempt. taboo, he was ostracized by his military describes as civil war in the the Soviet communist party, par- Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was conservative political party. Last El Salvador - Salvadoran officials republics. liament and government, pledging shot in the chest and left shoulder year, his house was shot at, and he say the head of the country's military In an ominous escalation of the to do everything possible to outside the Nagasaki City Hall to- received several death threats. academy is denying allegations that conflict, Azerbaijanis and Armenians prevent further violence. The day. He is being treated in the he ordered the slayings of six are forming self-defense brigades Soviet parliament's Presidium Nagasaki municipal hospital. Jesuit priests. President Cristiani armed with sophisticated weapons declared a state of emergency has identified the Army colonel as Japan's news service says Mo- Nervous driver captured or stolen from the Soviet Monday in designated areas of the highest-ranking of nine officers toshima "is conscious and is in no military. Desperate Armenians raided Azerbaijan and Armenia and dis- suspected in the Nov. 16 killings. danger of losing his life." accidently crushes armories in Yerevan in a hunt for patched 11,000 soldiers to the A lone assailant, possibly 30 to weapons to join the fight against the troubled regions. two-year-old girl (continued.page 3) 40 years old, fled in a white car after shooting the mayor. UPI - A two-year-old Long In Tokyo, a Central Govern- Beach girl was crushed to death U.S. has first execution of 1990 ment spokeswoman condemned the yesterday when she was pinned be- USA UPI - The first U.S. execution of Roberts, whom he beat to death shooting and said it would have "an tween acar and building. Police say the year took place this morning in with an iron bar on a St. Louis immense impact on society." She the driver of the car told them he News Missouri. street in 1980. Smith says he called for a prompt investigation. accidentally hit the accelerator Convicted murderer Gerald killed her because she gave him a Motoshima had been under a instead of thebrake as he pulled into disease. Smith was also 24-hour-a-day police guard since Missouri - Authorities in Platte Smith was executed by lethal venereal a store parking lot. The vehicle City, Mo., have charged an Army injection at the Potosi Correctional convicted of murdering fellow declaring in December of 1988 that lurched forward, crushing little major with first-degree assault for Center. Smith had faced execution death row inmate Robert Baker in Emperor Hirohito was responsible Crystal Ibarra and her mother be- throwing his wife from an 80-foot- calmly and asked his lawyer not to file 1985, for which he received a sec- for failing to prevent Japan's entry tween the car and building. The high hotel balcony. The man claims last-minute appeals. ond death sentence. into the war and for prolonging its woman was treated at a hospital for he accidentally dropped his wife Smith was sentenced to death for The execution was Missouri's end. Hirohito died last January. leg and ankle injuries and released. while sweeping her up ina fatally beating his former girlfriend second since 1965 and the 121st in Hirohito's war guilt had been a Long Beach police say no charges romantic gesture. But a witness and killing a fellow inmate during a the United States since the Su- taboo topic in Japan, where it was have been filed against the driver says the woman was pushed. nearly nine-year stay on death row. preme Court lifted its ban on generally believed that the emperor pending completion of an investiga- capital punishment in 1976. played only a superficial role in the tion. Alaska - Military officials at El- Officials say Smith killed Karen mendorf Air Force Base in Alaska say the search will resume at dawn today for the missing pilot of an F- CNO has message for all naval personnel in Gitmo 15 Jet Fighter. The plane's wreckage was discovered yesterday, Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. goals at the expense of gapping a account, but instead we offset that protect our force structure at one day after it crashed on a Carlisle Trost, has re-affirmed his commitment," Adm. Trost said. amount by taking further cuts out of roughly the current levels," said the mountain 30 miles west of commitment to Gitmo active duty per- When asked about the fiscal other accounts, such as procurment, CNO. Anchorage. sonnel and other Navy people, saying year 1990 budget recently passed operations and sustainability." In discussing the changing po- we remain his top priority as the fiscal by Congress, Adm. Trost said he Concerning the fiscal year 1991 litical atmosphere in the world, the Oregon - A construction crew in Portland, Ore., yesterday year 1991 budget is prepared. felt the Navy "did fairly well, al- budget, Adm. Trost said his priori- CNO contended that the perform- uncovered the body of a three-year- Adm.