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In Middle East war Neither side cla decisive victory yet FROM GAZETTE WIRE SERVICES in Damascus, who said he saw children's bodies in the rubble. He said the Israeli WASHINGTON--Senior U.S. officials yes- aircraft inflicted tremendous damage. terday said the Middle East war between Brelis said a hospital also was hit and Israel and Arab states has not yet taken that there were civilian casualties in other a decisive turn and there is no evidence parts of the Syrian capital as a result of that the Soviet Union is attempting to hits on apartment houses and private homes. restrain the fighting. Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes bombed U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger the outskirts of Cairo and Damascus in has warned the Soviet Union that it risks their biggest air offensive of the four- an end to detente if it fails to act re- day-old war. But Israel conceded it sponsibly in the Middle East. He also said had lost it's fortified position the U.S. will resist any attempt to exploit and retreated three miles from the Suez a policy of detente to weaken our allian- Canal. ces. Kissinger spoke in Washington at the end At the United Nations, Russian Am- of a long day devoted to Middle East di- bassador Yakov Malik walked out of the plomacy. U.N. Security Council as Israel's rep- resentative tried to offer condolen- The Russian U.N. ambassador said, "The ces for air raids on Damascus which Israeli authorities are enraged because Malik said killed 30 Soviet civilians. they suffered defeat on the military front." CBS Radio said Israeli planes scored "Their bloody act is similar to the acts a direct hit on the Russian embassy in of Hitler, when entire cities and villages Damascus. The network quoted a Soviet were removed from the earth," Malik said. diplomat as saying 30 Russians, in- cluding women and children, were killed. "The peaceful forces of the entire world condemn theaggressive policy of Israel and The CBS report came from Dean Brelis (See MIDDLE EAST, Page 2) Alleged Howard Hughes gift to Nixon eyed WASHINGTON (UPI)--The Senate Watergate Sen. Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn., confirmed Committee may subpoena billionaire Howard to reporters that he exclaimed, "If you Hughes and presidential companion Charles can verify those facts, we have a whole G. "Bebe" Rebozo for questioning about new can of worms" after hearing Lenzner reports of a $100,000 cash gift from present his preliminary findings to the Hughes to President Nix- committee privately last week. on, members said yester- Baker did not dispute the accuracy of day. a report by columnist: Jack Anderson, who Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, wrote that Lenzner told the senators R-Conn., told reporters $100,000 in $100 bills were given to Rebozo by he would like to see both Richard Danner, a Hughes aide, in 1969 and testify in public "now 1970. that the matter has been raised in the committee." Other congressional committees have tried but failed to deliver a subpoena upon the Rebozo, who the White reclusive Hughes, who is believed to be in House has said helped London now. HOWARD HUGHES President that Nixon approved the >0 Nixon finance the Anderson wrote an air line, Air West, to Hughes I.to get supoensed? purchase of his San Clemn- sale of dropped anti- Z tee, Calif., home, was and the Justice Department questioned in Florida this trust action to block expansion of his about the week by Terry Lenzner, a committee investi- Las Vegas hotel-casino holdings gator. A staff member said he was coopera- same time the $100,000 gifts were made. tive and his bank records were subpoenaed. Page 2-LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Wednesday, October 10, 1973 MIDDLE EAST-- (Continued from Page 1) GAZETTEER a .adigestoflatenews its international barbarity. There is an acute need to combine our forces to put an end to the situation in the Middle East on a just basis and to put an end to Israeli agression." Meanwhile, a helicopter carrier with about 2,000 American Marines aboard is now sailing in the East- ern Mediterranean Sea, the Pentagon said. NORFOLK, Va. (AP)--Rear Adm. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr., held prisoner during the Vietnam War for 7 1/2 years, The amphibious assault ship Guadalcanal joins a has asked that he be selected the next commandant of task force led by the aircraft carrier Independence the Armed Forces Staff College here. Denton's wife, in Mediterranean waters roughly 500 miles off the Jane, said yesterday that her husband listed the coast of Israel. commandant billet as first preference for his first But the Guadalcanal, which could be used to evacu- duty assignment following 7 1/2 years of imprisonment ate Americans if the new fighting endangered them, and eight months of recuperation at nis Virginia is operating independently of the Independence. Beach home. "He thinks it would be the best job for him for professional reasons as well as the best for Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim declined to his family," she said. "We're not pushing it," Mrs. give the Guadalcanal's precise location or to specu- Denton added. "He gave some second choices and what- late on the possibility of evacuation of thousands ever orders he receives, we'll accept wholeheartedly." of Americans. Here is the Middle East situation at a glance: WASHINGTON (UPI)--The Board of Geographic Names yes- -Tel Aviv: Israel said its troops fell back from terday restored the name Cape Canaveral to the Florida the Bar-Lev Line, the country's main bastion of de- landmark that was changed to Cape Kennedy after the fense in the Sinai Peninsula, and abandoned the east- President's assassination in 1963. Assistant Interior ern bank of the Suez Canal to Egyptian forces. Secretary Stephen Wakefield signed the document that It countered the setback on the Suez front with after 10 years restored the name historians believe air strikes deep into Egypt and Syria, raiding the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon gave the cape on Egyptian airbases near Cairo, Syrian military command Florida's east coast 400 years ago. Wakefield's action, headquarters in Damascus, and a radio station in concurred in by representavies of the entire board, Lebanon. makes no change in the name John F. Kennedy Space Cen- --Cairo: Egypt said its forces had advanced as far ter, which was also renamed after the assassination. as nine miles east of the Suez Canal, having smashed the Israeli armored brigade and routed two others in separate battles that cost Israel 102 tanks. MIAMI (AP)--Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has blamed Israel for starting the latest round of Mideast fight- -Damascus: Israeli warplanes bombed a fashionable ing and denounced what he called the Jewish state's of Israel's residential district of the Syrian capital, destroy- "policy of aggression." "The concentration ing the Soviet Cultural Center and reportedly killing armed forces on the armistice lines with Syria and and wounding a number of civilians. The reported Egypt and their mobilization of reserves have shown casualties included women, children and diplomats. the intentions of Israel, who has provoked the grave --Kuwait: Kuwait invited all other Arab oil-pro- military situation of today," said a government com- ducing nations to participate in an emergency meeting munique broadcast Monday over Radio Havana and moni- for reevaluation of their petroleum policies in light tored in Miami. The communique accused Israel of of the war. The Persian Gulf shiekhdom was a leader "maintaining its aggressive position against the Arab in organizing the Arab oil embargo against the U.S. states by its illegitimate occupation of Arab terri- and Britain during the 1967 war. tories and its brutal refusal of Palestinian rights." .5. VQ W Gusmtanmo MX-Pe Water status Local Forecas Gazette R-r A. MIph . .N1e Cpt. -ichael F. kin . .1 SAf sm.of Water figures for yesterday: Partly cloudy with scattered showers in area. Visibility L. D--,L. .- 1 om., WATER PRODUCED: 1,857 10 miles. Winds light and variable becoming SE 10-12 m A . As. WATER CONSUMED: 2,144 knots with afternoon gusts j0N -. v . .a . to 19 knots, returning to I-S d. O . , WATER LOSSES 287 light and variable after sun- set. Max. temp 90. Min. .N. 1 . S. .As l ." ."'a .p "- i temp 74. Bay conditions 1-3 WATER IN STORAGE: 15,485 . .,. feet. High tide 0814. Low t1. .t .2.ie. tide 0144. Wednesday, October 10, 1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 Fires at Gitmo , A cost the Navy $3,604 last year ONOI~ Gitmo fires cost the Navy $3,604 during the last year, according to figures just released by the base fire department. This dollar loss came from 13 fires, which occurred between Oct. 1, 1972, and this Sept. 30. The most expensive fire was $900 to an automobile and blamed on Improper maintenance. In addition, the fire department responded to 269 alarms which in- volved no dollar loss to the Navy. This category included false alarms, fires involving privately owned vehicles, dumpsters, trash, fuel wash downs, smoke investigations, grass and brush fires, and elec- trical problems. Of these 269 alarms, 144 actually involved Navy Day activities Here is a breakdown of those fires which cost the Navy money: overheated cooking oil caused a Band concert to be Saturday building fire, $374; improper maintenance caused auto fire, $900; The Naval Base Band will present a special Navy birthday concert from overheated cooking oil caused 1-3 p.m. this Saturday at Deer Park.