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WEATHER VATER Fair Charlie U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Monday Date May, 15, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) 316 Marines Jets Over NVN Replace 118 "GITMO" (By Ed Sullivan) Lt. Col. William S. Fagan is the Down Seven MIGs Commander of 3rd Battalion, SAIGON (AP) United States Flyers say they flew through 6th Marines and has taken over rough wall-to-wall MIGs--ten of them---near Hanoi Sunday and from the 1/8 Marines, the 3/6 shot down three. That makes ten MIGs in Twenty-four hours. Marines will be here for ap- North Vietnam claims seven United States planes--two of them proximately 4 months. ilotless craft---were knocked down in the Hanoi area Sunday. The Viet Cong sneaked into a Marines missile site next to [i- Pope Hailed For nang Airbase and damaged twelve missiles and thirty-six launch- Fatima Visit ers. They also over - ran a VATICAN CITY (UP]) Pope South Vietpamese Battalion Paul VI, barely showin g the Headquarters just five miles train of his historic l6i)ur South-west of Saigon around >eace pilgrimage to Fa tima, three o'clock Sunday morning. ortugal, blessed a crowd of Three Americans and twenty- 5,000 in St. Peter's Square seven Vietnamese soldiers were esterday. killed and thirty-four Vietnam- "Back from Fatima,we brinhg ese were wounded. The Vietcong 'ou the blessings of the got away by the time help ar- madonna," the 69-yea r-old rived, leaving six dead. onttff told the crowd in a United States Marines--backed rief message from thew indow by tanks- -fought through a f his apartment overly king series of enemy mortar bar- he square. rages and bunker systems near "These blessings,it seems the demilitarized zone. As of o us, consist chiefly ofthe late Sunday there had been no ood ideals that must guide more than one hundred Marine ach of us and all soci etyin casualties in the two day bat- he good roads of justi ceand tle. The Marines reported the __E ,V 17 '1.1\ p eace." had killed twenty-four of the Lt. Col. Fagan's Marine The peace pilgrimage was eiemy. The Marine engagement Corps history stated . lowly hailed bythe Italian press was one of a half-dozen cont- (Continued on page 2) ' w ith banner headlines. inuing battles in South Viet- The ponti:ff's d rama- name's northern provinces. 1__ Relief tic appeal for peace It is in three areas that Navy in the world an d in Communist infiltration had pro- Na,, Navy Relief the church was em phas- voided a prolonged test of ized by all the news.- strength for the United States Relief lief Navy papers. forces. In other military de- The Milan news paper velopments, it was announced Navy X y Relief 11 Giorno publis hed a Sunday that the United States page one editorial One-huadr&d-ftrst Airborne had Relief N Navy inking the pont iff's been transferred from Central peace appeal with South Vietnam as part of an Navy RelicW Relief U.N. Secretary Ge neral Army build up in the North. U Thant's :r ecent This means that the marines in Relief Navy E avy statement that he the area would be able to con- Iiet feared we were at the centrate about forty-thousand Navy Relief -i (Continued on page2) (Continued on page 2) GITMO GAZETTE PAGE 2 MONDAY, MAY 15, 1967 GUATEMALAN po- "GITMO" (Con't fm pg 1) when he was commis- GUATEMALA CITY (UPI) THE MAN Bormann, Hitler's sioned at the close of World War 11 and im- lice think may be Martin that he mediately assigned to inactive duty. He was right-hand man, maintained yesterday ships in awarded a Master's Degree in Business Admin- spent World War 11 Aboard merchant been in stration from Stanford University and sub- the Caribbean. He said he has never sequently was employed as a sales manager in Europe. northern California. Falero Martin, who was arrested last Thurs- long-missing Called to active duty for the Korean emer- day on suspicion of being the as a gency as a First Lieutenant, Colonel Fagan Nazi was criminal, added that he worked served with Co. C, 1st Battlion, 5th Marines carpenter in New York after the war. north- in Korea. His entire time as a Captain was Police said Falero was living in the was ar- spent at Headquarters USMC. Later assignments ern Guatemalan town of Maiscos when he any iden- as a Major included Asst. S-3 of Marine Air rested because he could not produce Craft Group 32, S-3 of 2nd Bn., 9th Marines, tity documents. Officer in Charge of Third Marine Division COMMUNIST schools on Okinawa and Aide de Camp to the HONG KONG (By Victor L. Griffeth) against Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force CHINA TODAY submitted formal protests by the British Pacific. alleged "atrocities" committed the recent riots by Newly promoted, Lt. Col. Fagan took charge in Hong Kong to put down British accept un- of the Recruiting Station, Los Angeles and workers and asked that the demands presented at Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, conditionally the four rigid the New China Colonel Fagan was assigned as Asst. G-3, 2nd by the workers of. the colony, morning. Marine Division until his present assignment New Agency reported early this by the Chinese in November 1966. The protest was presented Lo Kuei-po, Lt. Col. Fagan is married to the former Shir- Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, business representative in ley Moretti of Mill Valley, California and has to Great Britain's two daughters Shirley and Anne. The Fagan fam- Peking, D.C. Hopson. ily reside in government quarters at Camp Le- DE Gaulle jeune, North Carolina. PARIS (UPI) PRESIDENT CHARLES mapped strategy yesterday to combat a Parlia- a potentially crip- VATICAN CITY (Con't fm page 1) always more mentary censure motion and authoritative. And the atmosphere in which pling one-day general strike. that deGaulle, 76, they are received, at least in Italy,seemssig- Informed sources reported concerted opposition nificant to us." appeared unshaken by the effort to topple the month-old cabinet headed SAIGON (Con't fm page 1) troops are be- by Premier Georges Pompidou. lieved to be stationed. Also, late Sunday re- FORMER VICE PRESI- ports from the Army's "Operation Malheur" SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (UPI) yesterday the southeast of the coastal city of Quang Ngai DENT Richard M. Nixon predicted be as close as told of 58 North Vietnamese dead. 1968 presidential election will thw one he lost to the late President John F. HONG KONG (UPI) LEFTIST CHINESE THREW sones, Kennedy in 1960. at a news conference bottles and other missiles yesterday at police Nixon made the remark S Sao Paulo, Latin America's stationed around an artificial flower plant after he flew to a hurriedly planned visit. where Communist union unrest touched off three largest city, on days of rioting. (UPI) WITH BOOMING GUNS, About 300 police rushed into the area and JERUSALEM, ISRAEL dancing and songfests Israel the crowd was quickly dispersed. Authorities fireworks, street year as an indepen- reported on scattered incidents elsewhere yes- yesterday marked its 19th lit beacons at sundown to terdayinthp riot-torn Kowloon district across dent nation and from Hong Kong Island. usher in the 20th. *sraelis lit 19 About 1,000 persons were involved in the in- Nineteen representatives on top of Jerusalem's Mount Herzl and cident outside the artificial flower factory. beacons a salute which echoed from the Authorities said 110 persons were arrested 19 guns boomed as the sun went down. between 8 a.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday, Judean hills a festive air about Israel's bringing to 319 the number of persons jailed There was lowering warclouds along the since the riots began. A total of 130 of them birthday despite frontier with Syria. already have been sentenced to jail terms. northern 4 GITMO GAZETTE MONDAY, MAY 15, 1967 PAGE 3 CHINA (AP) PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI is quoted as CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (AP) TWO BLACK FUNNELS saying that Red China is ready---tomorrow, if dipped into Memphis, Tennessee, Sunday after- need be--to send volunteers into North Vietnam noon--one tearing off the roofs of upwards of if Hanoi asks for help. A U.N. correspondent fifteen houses in the.northeast section of for several African publications alsn quotes town. A tornado which is in effect for much Chou as saying China will move in if North of the deep South--especially northwestern Vietnamis invaded or forced into wvhAt the Reds Louisiana, northern Mississippi, most of Ten- calla sell-out peace. Reporter Simon Malley's nessee, far northern Georgia and far western interview with Chou and four other Red Chinese North Carolina, central and eastern Arkansas leaders in Peking is copywrited in this coun- are under watch too and southern Missouri try by the Chicago Daily News. and southern Illinois. Malley says the Red Chinese Premier lumped Thunderstorms drenched communities from Russia with the United States as his country's fi-rth central Texas. enemies, in speaking of a sell-out peace. WASHINGTON (AP) REPRESENTATIVE KEN HECHLER NEW YORK (AP) GEORGE WALLACE FORMER Governor reports he's getting fan mail from all over the of Alabama said in a broadcast interview country as backing his campaign to erase the on ABC yesterday that if he were president he rates on third class mail--sometines referred would try to put in prison those who give aid, to as junk mail.