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Sunday's flight Water Usage I C-141 Thursday, March 22 Rosey Roads 9:00 a.m. Usable storage: 12.65 MIL - 90% Guantanamo Bay 11:00 a.m. 12:55 p.m. NAS Norfolk, Va. 3:30 p.m. Goal: 825 Consumption: 855 K See page 3 Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 45 -- No. 195 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Friday, March 23, 1990 Soviet troops on the move in Lithuania IRS doing better on tax advice 1F." MINAP - The Senate has unani- relations. AP - A new government workers are giving correct mously called on Moscow to stop But Presidentush says it would report has a mixed bag of answers 78 percent of the leaning on Lihuania-which has do no good to criticize the Soviets. news for taxpayers who need time, compared to 66 percent last declared itself independent of the Yesterday, he urged them to refrain help from Uncle Sam. The year. On the other hand, the Soviet Union. from using force against Lithuania. general accounting office says GAO says only one in three calls The resolution urged President But he also said he's happy the this year, you have a better to the IRS is getting through. thananing Bush toonhLichuania-whichhhas consider Lithuania's Kremlin has promised to solve the chance than last year to get the For its part, the IRS says it Yugoslavia - Signs of mass request for diplomatic recognition, matter peacefully. correct answer to tax questions. can't afford to hire enough poisoning are reported in Kosovo. A A resolution urging Bush to Meanwhile, the Kremlin's tight- The GAO says the IRS people to answer the phones. province of Yugoslavia hit with grant such recognition was defeated ending the screws on Lithuania. In ethnic violence.I orequest.forddiplomaticcrecognition. Officials say more on Wednesday. addition to parading troops in the hildr0ehncAve bnosializedIts resolution comes after So- capital. Soviet PresidentGorbachev Valdez skipper onelton.haeeend hoRa aioed found innocent vit tanks moved through the capi- is telling Lithuania to stop signing up AP - The former skipper of the convicted him on a misdemeanor reports that soeme ethnicAlbanians tsl that rejected Kremlin control. a volunteering military force. For "Exxon Valdez" says he now wants charge of negligent discharge of oil. have been assaulting Serbs and The statement warns that if the its part, Lithuania's urging the world to get on with his life. Joseph Hazel- He'll be sentenced on that charge Montenegrins-accusing them of Kremlin uses force against Lithu- to protest the Soviet action, claiming wood commented after a jury in today. poisoning the classrooms of ania, it will damage U.S.-Soviet the use of force is imminent. Anchorage, Alaska, acquittedhim of Albanians. p A.. J.L. .1 M.AA One juror says the panel acquit- being drunk andreckless thenightof ted Hazelwood because the state Great Britain - A setback at the Bloodsned spreads across the nations worst oil spill. "just didn't have the evidence." polls for British Prime Minister Yesterday, the panel found Ha- Meanwhile, Hazelwood's attorney Margaret Thatcher. Her candidate has South Africa, 20 people killed zelwood innocent of the three most says he'll ask Exxon to rehire his been trounced by an opposition AP - Secretary of State James moving away from the system of serious charges against him. But it client. socialist in a special election in Bakerhasmetboth with blackSouth segregation. Central England. It's the conserva- African leaders and the head of the Across South Africa, this has Idaho governor to make final decision on abortionn tive party's worst rout in a country's white-minority govern- been another day of bloodshed. special parliamentary election in 50 ment. An official traveling with Pollcemand news reports count 20 AP - It's now up to Idaho's Maryland voters could be choo)os- years. It's expected that the Baker says the secretary of state peoplekilled in black factional fight- govemor to decide if his state will ing between pro-choice and atiti- conservatives might try to dump arly Thatcher as leader this fall. Klrk'smove aginstpraied ingand D anti-govemnment protests. In have the toughest anti-abortion law abortion proposals. The Senate ea: apartheid as "courageous." Earlier, another development, South Afri- in the land. The State Senate has Friday approved an agreement to Romania - Thousands of Anti- anti-apartheid leaders had criticized can authorities have arrested or fired given final approval to bill banning place both proposals before vot es Hungarian protesters have rallied in the~kerDelerkmeeing sayng orethan 100 police and prison most abortions. Cecil Andrus hasn't this fall. The agreement must stillbe Romania's Transylvania region for a it would give the world the impres- officers who demanded equality said if he'll sign the bill-but has considered by the state's House of fourth straight day. Ethnic clashes in sion that progress has been made in with white employees. said he opposes abortion. Delegates. Transylvania have left seven dead and 300 wounded. Guantanamo Bay aircrewmen know survival belongs to the fittest Colombia - Police in Colombia are Given a choice, most people School (ACC) and Rescue Swim- degree it is today. Students learnto survive in harsh linking the Medellin Cocaine Cartel would probably pass on spending mers School (RSS) in Florida," said "During World War II, many conditions. Not only will they need to Thursday's assassination of a five days and nights alone in the Chief Warrant Officer Gerald Smith, downed aircrews didn't know how to to find protection, food and water, presidential candidate. The killings arctic wilderness. Equally unappeal- organizational maintenance depart- survive in hostile territory," he said. but also they will take steps to avoid comes seven months after the ing would be three days and two ment officer in charge, Naval Air "The genesis of today's training was capture by an enemy. presidential contender of Colombia's nights stranded in the Mojave Desert Station, Guantanamo Bay. begun by Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, who "With the necessary skills and ruling party was killed by drug or the jungles of Peru. Without "Crewmen are taught life saving believed that this type of training the right equipment, people can sur- traffickers. comprehensive survival training, techniques, basic aircraft fundamen- would decrease the losses suffered vive in any situation," said Krestian. odds on their safe return are not tals, CPR and flight gear in four to by aircrews during conflicts." (continue to page 3) Possibly more important than good. five weeks," said Smith. The Combat Survival Course learning the techniques of survival is The 3636th Combat Crew Train- Although the wing trains about begins with four days of academic the importance of learning to want to ing Wing, U.S. Air Force Survival 9,000 students yearly in five differ- and laboratory training. This is fol- suTrvve. USA School, at Fairchild Air Force Base, ent courses, the mandatory combat lowed by one day in the school's "One can have all the knowledge Wash., teaches those essential basic survival training course for aircrew Exhibits Training Laboratory and in the world," said Krestian, "but News survival skills. In addition to aircrew is considered its bread-and-butter additional training with rescue pyro- without the will to survive, none of it personnel from that service, selected one. technics. Students spend the next six will help. We tell our students they Army, Marine and Navy personnel Air Force SMSgt. Steve Kres- days in the nearby Colville Alaska - Ten crew members are National missing from a fishing trawler that undergo training. tian, a master instructor at the Forest practicing what they have Please see SURVIVAL, page 3 sunk in the frigid Bering Sea off "Naval personnel on a volunteer Fairchild school, said survival train- been taught. Afterward, students Alaska. The Coast Guard says 22 program can learn these basic skills ing has always been a part of military receive resistance and parachute others from the vessel have been by attending Air Crew Candidate instruction, but not always to the training. rescued and are "In relatively good shape." Special edu cation in Gitmo schools NAVYRESALEIIcfly Washington - Advocates for the Susan Atwood recently visited est in teaching; some discovered workers and voluntary parent coun- handicapped are hailing new the Department of Defense depend- leadership abilities they didn't know seling are also included. public transportation rules unveiled It D1ONLINE ents schools in Nuremberg while ac- they had. Members who have dependent 1 by the Bush Administration. The companying her husband, Deputy Transportation Department has Collaborative learning is just children with special needs should (PMNSHORhE,480) Secretary of Defense Donald one of many DoDDS programs. The contact local Exceptional unced plans to require Family I erally aided bus systems to buy Atwood, on an official visit. She school system is also sponsoring a Member Program representatives at came away from one school im- Winter Special Olympics, "Days in least 30 days prior to an overseas only vehicles accessible to the Lone Ranger: disabled. They'd also have to pressed by a program in which stu- the Sun," in Berchtesgaden, West assignment. A representative can Well, Tonto, there's a new Officer provide door-to-door transit for dents teach other students. Germany, this year. About 100 provide information on the overseas in Charge in town and I'm leaving those who can't get to bus stops. The program is known as "col- DoDDS and 100 non-DoDDS chil- screening process for their branch of you in very capable hands. laborative learning," said Luedell dren with low to moderate learning the service. U.S. Tonto: - Check your mailbox for the Crawford, DoDDS special education disabilities will take part, said Paul.