SVN End Not Near

WEATHER *OND GEN 5720/2 VATER Cool Charlie 85/69 flu 0 oaztfte U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Tuesday Date January 31, 1967 WGBY Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Maoists Claim Gen. Taylor Says Control Of Port TOKYO (AP) FORCES LOYAL TO SVN Mao Tse-Tung have claimed con- End Not Near crol of the big port of Tsing- WASHINGTON (AP) GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR says the end of the tao apparently after beating Vietnam war is not in sight but there is a feeling in the air down a bloody counter-offen- that things are moving. sive by Mao's enemies. Taylor talked to newsmen after reporting to President John- Japanese correspondents re- son on his recent trip to Saigon. porL that propaganda outlets A former ambassador~ to South for the Communist Party Chair- Mr M rtyrab ays: Vietnam and former chairman ot man say Maoists, with help Ir.Harty Gnk Say: the Joint Chiefs o Staff, from the Army, struck severe Taylor said te sees changes blows at the persons in author- for the better in Vietnam, but ity and protected the power anticipated a need for tore taken over by the rebels. American troops there. Communist broadcasts indicat- U.S. forces in VietAnR now ed, however, that the pro-Mao exceed 400,000. forces ran into violent resis- SIn action in Vietnam, 68 tance in the alleged takeover Viet Cong guerrillas were re- of the port on China's east ported killed in actions by coast. They claim the city is f*~iV~U.S. Marines and South Korean the fourth major Chinese city infantrumln on the central and claimed by the Maoists in Red northern coast of South Viet- China's power struggle. nam. A refugee leader from Red Leathernecks of the 79th Reg- China's Sinkiang Province says iment claimed 35 enemy killed 5,00 guerrilla raids have been When they stormed concrete en- made by a refugee army based trenchments orlooking coastal theNorth.flatsin and trained in the Soviet Un- n ion. The candy-apple red196.7A On the central coast, South The refugee, in an interview Mustangwill be on display at Vietnamese infantrymen claimed with the Associated Press in the Naval Air Station all 33 Viet Cong killed. Istanbul, Turkey, also accused tomorrow. Be sure and UdayThe Marines are said to have the Communists of genocide in get your raffle ticket for suffered moderate casualties. the northwestern province. on l v=$1. Meanwhile B52 bombers rain- ed death and destruction on a suspected Communist troop con- centration in Vietnam's cen- Red Cross Ber .ral highlands near the Laos GENEVA (AP) THE INTERNATION RED CROSS COMMITTEE called on wLborder. the United Arab Republic to hi ~lt air raids and poison gas at- The area hit was near Do Xa, tacks against the civilian pop ulatioti in Yemen and neighboring long a hiding place for the areas. enemy. The neutral all-Swiss comitt e said that because of the suf- Air raids over North Vietnam ring caused by the attacks, was launching "a pressing ap- wereTt hampered by heavy fog an peal for respect of universe Lly recognized rules of morality cloudsbut Navy pilots report- and law" to all authorities c cerned in the civil war in Ye- ed destroying two cargo ships men. (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 3) 2 PAGE TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE Miss Mardi Gras Queen Candidates . Andrea Bergquist The candidate for is the Medical De- queen from the partment choice for. First National City this year's queen Bank is Cheryl of the Gitmo Mardi Biegler. Gras. Born in Columbus, Andie was bbrn in Ohio in April 1949, Coronado, Califor- Cheryl is presently nia in May 1947 and a junior-senior at graduated from Wil- W.T.Sampson, which liam T.Sampson High means she may grad- School last year. uate in June or During the day, July. she works at the At school, Cheryl Naval Supply Depot is a cheerleader as the Main Clerk and librarian and in the Accounts acts as the "Bucca- 0 section and her neer" staff typist. evenings are spent as a hostess at the COMO She also works parttime in the ladies depart- Club. ment of the Navy Exchange. While in high school, Andie was a cheerlead- Cheryl lists her hobbies as riding,swimming, er and active member of the GAA. She enjoys Dowling and collecting records. swimming, reading and cooking. After graduation, she hopes to become an Looking forward to her return to the States, airline stewardess and would like to attend Andie hasn't yet decided on college plans. the TWA school in Texas. NEWS SPECIAL: BRITAIN IN THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET BRUSSELS (AP) (By Nel Slis) EXACTLY FOUR YEARS after her first unsaccessful bid for membership in the European Common Market, Britain returned to the European capital with renewed hopes.Bri- tain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson will try again to join the now solidified six-nation Mar- ket. Diplomats of France's partner countries here said President Charles de Gaulle is willing to negotiate. Some of them believe it is just a maneuver by de Gaulle on the eve of general elec- tions. Both France's industries and farmers would like to see the Market growing bigger. Others are more optimistic and believe negotiations may start before the end of this year. But all forecast "long, hard and realistic bargaining" if negotiations are to start. Few of them believe Britain could enter the Market much before 1970. Experts who went through the abortive negotiations with Britain in the early sixties said not only France but the other five partners will fight just as ferociously for national interests. Anyone familiar with decision-making by the six partners knows what a long, laborious and of- ten painful process reconciliation of the six interests can be. Last December, the Foreign Ministers of the six, at a council meeting here,,agreed to pool information on Wilson's round trip of European Common Market capitals. After stops in Rome and Paris, the six countries' diplomats here said "de Gaulle is willing to negotiate." Over the past weeks Wilson has repeatedly said Britain would accept the treaty of Rome. Each time he claimed clemency for British agriculture and asked protection for Commonwealth inter- eats. The six know Britain has been eating cheaply by subsidizing farmers and importing cheaply frm Commonwealth countries. Common Market experts have calculated that Britain, as a large importer, might have to con- tribute as much as 40 percent to the six's joint farm fund. The fund subsidizes exports. Everyone here agrees de Gaulle will not be prepared to make Britain's entry a walkover. Some diplomats here say there are few attractive alternatives for Britain aside from joining the Common Market. These diplomats say Britain no longer has Washington's ear and that elsewhere influence i waning too. Britain is one of mdhy European countries wanting to join the six. But entrance is getting (Continued on Page 3) GITMO GAZETTE TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1967 PAGE 3 4W WASHINGTON--TAYLOR- (Continued from Page 1) BRUSSELS (Continued from Page 2) more dif- 20 miles south-southwest of Haiphong. Other ficult as time goes by and the six economies Navy fliers went after targets in the Than Hoa get further integrated. area. France recently has been spurring the others The United States headquarters reported that to get a move on with fiscal harmonization and two American minesweepers and one Vietnamese liberalization of the capital market. France minesweeper were attacked by heavy automatic also inspired Italy's Foreign Minister Amin- weapons and rifle fire 23 miles southeast of tore Fanfani to call a political summit in Saigon. The minesweepers returned the fire, April in Rome, in an obvious move to cement and air strikes were called in to give them the basis for the political union. support. No allied casualties were reported. In the last resort, it is politics that will * * e.* determine whether Britain is admitted to the GENEVA-GAS ATTACKS-(Continued from Page 1) Common Market. The committee made its appeal after receiving The six are divided themselves on the Mar- first-hand reports on the situation in Yemen ket's political future. from its delegate there, Andre Rochat. The De Gaulle wants a loose confederation of in- appeal was a departure from the committee's dependent nations. Italy, Holland, Belgium traditional policy of not intervening publicly and Luxembourg want a federated Europe with in any conflict. democratic control. It is not entirely clear to what extent the new German coalition will WASHINGTON (AP)(By Raymond J. Crowley) Pres- support the other five. ident and Mrs. Johnson and other national leaders paid silent, graveside tribute today MADRID (AP) AUTHORITIES TODAY CLOSED Spain's to the Apollo astronauts killed ina spacecraft largest institution of learning, Madrid Uni- inferno. versity, after students and security police Air Force Colonel Virgil I. (Gus) Grissomand battled there with clubs and stones on three Navy Lieutenant Commander Roger B. Chaffee are different days. to be buried in separate ceremonies in Arling- The University Board of Governors ordered ton National Cemetary. all schools of the University, with a total Johnson is to attend both rites. enrollment approaching 25,000,closed for three Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. White days. II, goes to his last resting place, also with They ordered indefinite closure for the full military honors- at the U.S. Military schools of political, economic, and commercial Academy at West Point. sciences which the closing order said were Mrs.

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