Ga Z etteGuantanamo Bay, Cuba Vol. 43 -- No. 87 -- U.S. Navy's only shore-based daily newspaper -- Wednesday, May 6, 1987 N W E News of the bay I' Division classes The Naval Station "I" Division classes will not be conducted May 12 and 13. "I" Division will resume May 19 and 20. Centrex and Autovon outage The Naval Base will experience a scheduled outage of all Centrex and Autovon capabilities on Sunday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Only commercial calls will access Guantamo Bay during the outage. For more information, call RM1 Brooks at 4582. Change in R and R and EML travel procedures The Base Transportation Office at McCalla Hangar will no longer be manned. All requests for R and R and EML travel should be submitted directly to the Base 760 YNC Park, at Building Transportation(guard mail stop Officer, 46). Phone inquiries may continue to I be made to 4901, which will be answered by the NAVSTA Operations Office. Sign-ups for Space "A" and EML travel will be conducted at the ATO Office at McCalla Hangar. Beaches closed I Cable Beach and Cuzco Beach will be closed through Navy Relief raffle ticket sales -- Hatfield, chairman or tne ticKet sales Friday, May 15, for military training activities. Capt. John Condon, COMNAVBASE (left), and committee. The Navy Relief fund drive Capt. Albert Johnson, Commander, Fleet. kicked off on Monday, and continues through Gaona) Vehicle Registration Office Training Group, buy several of the first June 6. (Photo by JOSN J.M. The Vehicle Registration office hours are Monday, Navy Relief raffle tickets from YNC Pam Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Check-outs are welcome anytime but are best served Tuesdays and Thursdays. Secord testifies on Iran-Contra scandal LDO/CYO In-Service Procurement Awards mentioned by Attorney General he was working The next LDO/CWO in-service procurement board will (UPI) -- Public hearings he thought into the Iran-Contra scandal Edwin Meese when the scandal with Reagan administration meet in January 1988 to select active duty and reserve limited duty and chief warrant officers for commission- resumed this morning on Capi- broke last fall. Secord says approval. tol Hill with more some of the money was used In testimony he gives ing in fiscal year 1989, Applications should be for- testimony warded to reach COMNAVMILPERSCOM (NMPC-211) by July 1. from retired Air Force Maj. for other related secret pro- today, Secord is expected to Qualiified applicants may apply for both LDO and CWO. Gen. Richard Secord. jects. detail the administration's For more information, contact the Command Career Secord is considered one of The retired general told arms sales to Iran in 1985 Counselor of the Personnel Support Detachment Educa- the key figures in the arms how he got orders from Lt. and 1986, a subject he had tional Services Office. affair and spent three hours Col. Oliver North when he set just begun to delve into when fielding questions from up military airlifts to the the first session was gaveled See a leak? members of the the House and Contra rebels, and later to a close. happen to spot what appears to be a water main Senate select committees helped ship United States If you At the break or leaking pipes, or even much more water in a under the glare of television arms to Iran. White House, Presi- dent Reagan again denied any place where it shouldn't be, call the Public Works De- lights. Most of the testimony partment. If you don't see people from PWD working was on his efforts to aid the Secord also touched on prior knowledge of illegal around it, assume no one knows about it. Nicaraguan Contra rebels. another crucial area in the private fund-raising to arm the The number to call is 4424. This number is manned 24 Secord gave the first scandal, the rule of former Contras. He brushed aside Casey. suggestions he has reason to hours a day. public accounting of the $30 CIA Director William million generated by the Secord says he discussed his worry about the hearings, Energy conservation tip covert United States arms private Contra aid network telling reporters, "I'm Keep the lint screen in the dryer clean. Remove lint sales to Iran. He says only with Casey three times, and hopeful that I'm finally going to hear some after each load. Lint impedes the flow of air in the $3.5 million eventually went that Casey supported his of the dryer and requires the machine to use more energy. to the Contras, not the $10 efforts. things that I'm still waiting million to $30 million first Secord also made it clear to learn." Daily safety tip Bad wires cause fires. Israeli planes kill 10 in attack on Sidon Around the globe (UPI) -- A squadron of NAVNEWS '87 Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian targets east of the Lebanese port of Sidon at Sailors spend more time at home dawn this morning killing 10 Summit meetings with Japan not enough (WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Sailors are able to spend more and wounding 28. Both the United States and Japan agree that they did not time at home as the PERSTEMPO (Personnel Tempo of Police say the raid was the agree to enough during last week's summit meetings in Operations) program takes effect. Israelis' second air strike Washington. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, back in The program began in Oct. 1985 with the goal of in less than a week and the Tokyo, calls the result of trade talks with President reducing lengthy family separations. At that time, one 14th of the year. The Ronald Reagan "regretable.". United States trade third of ships and aircraft squadrons were spending squadron of 10 United representative Clayton Yeutter say's he is also more than 50 percent of their time away from home port. States-built F-16 jets bombed disappointed, and is praising Reagan's sanctions on some )By June 1987, 79 percent of all ships and 81 percent what the Israelis called made-in-Japan goods. of all aircraft squadrons will be in home port at least terrorist targets in two half the time. refugee camps outside the whites to go to the polls In addition, all the Navy's ships and aircraft city in southern Lebanon. South African go to the polls today, electing squadrons met PERSTEMPO's turn-around 2-1 ratio goal. Officials in Sidon say the South African whites for the nation's ruling minority. The eve of the That means after each six-month deployment, a ship or 20-minute attack destroyed parliment was marked by a work strike involving a squadron won't deploy again for 12 months. three buildings belonging to elections half-million blacks. Labor unions and anti-apartheid Yasser Arafat's Al Fatha wing groups plan to continue the boycott while the votes are of the Palestine Liberation Inside cast. Organization. Three Page 2 - Career Counselor School Honor Roll guerrillas were reportedly Page 2 - High killed and 20 wounded, but amnesty Cats Illegal aliens seeking Page 3 - Care Of Stray the PLO says 15 houses were from domestic workers to a network Standards Of Conduct Thousands of aliens, Page 3 - ruined and the victims were picked up amnesty applications Tuesday. It was Red Wings Stump Oilers, 3-1 TV newsman, Page 4 - "all women, children, and the first day of a year-long federal program offering elderly people." United States citizenship for some illegal immagrants. The U. A raid last week on the flow of applicants, more than 1,500, showed up in the same two refugee camps killed Chicago area, but only a few showed up in Arlington, Va. 19 and wounded 37. v r- Career Counselor's Corner By NCCSeLouissStagger tI Khe NAS Career Counselor f I IO r More news from Washington Guantanamo Bay Nursery School COMO weekend special Ahoy shipmates! It has been of the program you wish to The Guantanmo Bay Nursery School is The Officers' Club Seaside Dining Room a busy week for all of us I'm use and want the remainder of currently holding registration for the weekend special is London Broil. Please sure. I know it has been for your contribution returned, 1987/1988 school year. Eligible children call 2132 for reservations. the folks in Washington. the address has been changed. must be three years old by Dec. 31, 1987. Several new NAVOPS have come As a reminder, some folks To register your child, stop by the out and the latest edition of get itchy and want their Nursery School office, Monday - Friday from "All Hands" is also on the CPO general assembly/luncheon money back even before they 7 a.m. to noon. For more information call streets. So to keep you up to The CPO Club will host a Chief Petty use their educational the school at 2159. date on the newest informa- Officers' General Assembly and Luncheon benefits. Keep your fund tion, here is the rundown. Friday, May 15. Lunch will begin at 11:30 going until it maximizes your COtO Club pinochle a.m. and the meeting will be held The April edition of "All educational benefits. Over 80 Authorized patrons are invited to take immediately afterwards. The meeting will Hands" has a section on the percent who stay in the part in a pinochle tournament tonight in include election of Advisory Group officers selection boards for candi- program realize they will the COMO Club Wardroom. Sign-ups begin at and Initiation Committee members.