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OFFICER GIVES EXPLANATION FOR NOVEMBER 9 FALSE MISSILE ALARM COMPILED FROM UPI--As it turned out, the President, the secretary of mission of five or six minutes of exhaust plumes of attacking the peace of the world did not defense and the chief of staff. And test data that indicated a major missiles. really hang by a single thread. we've had lots of help ever since. raid was in progress. Once the Soviet missiles launch, U.S. strategic missiles forces, It made a lot of people aware of Budner added, "When we analyzed they pass over the North Pole bomber crews, and ballistic missile just what we do out here." what was happening in the next and are spotted next by the submarines remained at their usual, Three months after "The event minutes, we noted that the launch ballistic missile early warning high state of readiness -- but no of November 9." Budner provided sites and times simply did not system (B-MEWS) which is strung out more -- as technicians struggled to in an interview the fullest public coincide with the known locations across northern Canada. determine what was causing the explanation so far of what acutally of Soviet submarines or land-based These radars track the missiles, alarms. happened. missiles, also, we had I-R but and predict roughly where they The alarm buzzed in Moscow, Budner said, "We were preparing no radar confirmation." will hit. though. to conduct a test later that I-R, Budner explained, stands for Pentagon officials in Washington Soviet President Brezhnev sent evening. For reasons of economy infrared. say the false alarm was not credible a sharp note to President Carter we bought a system in which tests Infrared sensors are carried by for another reason, U.S. Soviet uging him to make sure such an are conducted with the operational three stationary U.S. satellites relations had not plunged to error never happens again. system on line." which stare constantly into the a clearly dangerous state. Brigadier General John Budner He continued, "A technician Soviet Union, the Atlantic and said, "We got words of concern from inadvertently caused a trans- Pacific Oceans looking for the hot Guantanamo Gazette Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Vol. 35 - No. 34 Tuesday, February 19, 1980 World News Digest IRAN (PUI)--A UN spokesman says Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is only awaiting written word from Iran before formally announcing the first tangible results of his efforts to resolve the American hostage crisis in Tehran. Iran accepted Waldheim's appointment of a five-member international panel to investigate its charges against the deposed Shah Monday. But.a spokesman says Waldheim wants that word on paper before pro- ceeding with a plan that could lead to release of the 50 hostages. The selection of five jurists from France, the Middle East, Venezuela and Sri Lanka has still not been announced officially. The make-up of the panel has already been approved by the United States. While a White House official said today that President Carter has reached specific understandings on the goals and operation of the commission, he indicated there is no timetable for release of the Americans held captive since Nov. 4. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance spent most of the day at UN headquarters in New York, talking with Waldheim and meeting the Venezuelan and Algerian members of the special commission. Home and school are twin paths to better readers, The month of Febru- In a weekend interview with Greek television, Iran's President Bani- ary at W. T, Sampson Elementary School is set aside to encourage recreat- Sadr said the hostages could not be freed until the commission had ional reading at home. We know that the more reading done, the better completed its investigation of alleged crimes by the deposed Shah. the reader becomes. Eleven classrooms of approximately 350 children and their teachers are AFGHANISTAN (UPI)--A new Soviet offensive against guerrilla strongholds involved in the Recreational Reading Countdown (RRC) project which was in Southeast Afghanistan was reported today by rebel spokesmen in organized by reading specialist Dorothy Rappel and librarian Jo Kook. Pakistan. Ms. Kool reports that many more children are checking out books in the A spokesman for one guerrilla group said Soviet troops backed by fiction area this month and keeping them longer, indicating they are be- tanks and helicopter gunships stormed into Paktia Province in an ing encouraged and guided at home to read, rather than merely look at offensive that began on Saturday. pictures, since fiction books have generally fewer pictures. He conceded the rebels probably could not hold out for long because Any boy or girl who completes his individual RRC entry form, verified they had no defense against Russian helicopters armed with heavy machine- by a parent as having completed the allotted time periods spent reading guns and phosphorous-tipped rockets. at home can win a personal Achievement Award at the end of February. However, sources in Pakistan said rebels captured a strategic air- Above, a few of the active RRC readers are pictured in he library be- field in a northeast province. fore the rockets which show the hours "zooming up" for each class. There was no way to confirm the latest accounts of fighting. But They are: back row (1-r) Ebian Schoor, Ed Bailey, Jamie Spence, Sally they appeared to support reports from intelligence sources in Washing- Davis and Charlene Trotman. ton and from western diplomats in Pakistan that Russian troops in Front row: (1-r) David Ford, Matthew Tune, Janelle Nelson, Karie Afghanistan are becoming increasingly involved directly in armed con- Riebel, Christi Gibowicz and Jackie Tillery. frontation with Moslem rebels. CANADA (AP)--The office of Canadian prime minister again belongs to Pierre Trudeau after Monday's parliamentary elections. Trudeau's YUGOSLAVIA (AP)--In Yugoslavia, doctors are fighting to keep 87-year- liberal party won a clear majority in the House of Commons over the old President Tito alive. Tito's health took a turn for the worse last conservatives led by the current Prime Minister, Joe Clark. And it week, and he's been in critical condition with heart and kidney ailments comes just nine months after Clark had turned Trudeau out of office. *ince then. It will be Trudeau's fourth term as prime minister. Clark's proposal of an 18 cent gasoline tax is a major issue in the campaign. WASHINGTON (AP)--The White House says Wednesday:still stands as the dead- COMPILED FROM AP--Japan's biggest auto builder, Toyota, announced Monday line for Soviet troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. If they do not, it would hold its 1980 exports to the United States to last year's level. News Secretary Jody Powell says neither President Carter nor Congress will This is an apparent reaction to American criticism of the increasing support the participation of American athletes in the summer olympics in Japanese share of the U.S. auto market. Moscow. NEW HAMPSHIRE (AP)--Boos and catcalls cut off Illinois Congressman John Anderson Monday night, as he called for the licensing of handguns. contender said it was a way to protect law- COMPILED FROM AP--Another country is taking a stand against the Soviet The Republican presidential see how reasonable people could oppose intervention in Afghanistan. Japan's former fdhreign minister left abiding citizens, and he didn't a forum sponsored by the gun owners of New Hamp- Tuesday on a 25-day tour of middle eastern and southwest Asia countries. it. He was addressing Foreign ministry. officials say he'll stop, off in Iran, Pakistan, India and shire. They are opposed to gun control. contenders, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, John Conally, Saudi Arabia, where he'll express Japan's opposition to the Soviet invasion All other GOP Baker and Phillip Crane, have come out against gun of Afghanistan. Robert Dole, Howard control. COMPILED FROM AP--North and South Korea are talking rapprochement for the WASHINGTON (AP)--Secretary of State Vance has announced a four-nation first time in several decades. But in prelimanary discussions in European tour for consultations with America's allies on the situations in Panmunjom Tuesday, the two sides failed to agree on a site for a proposed Afghanistan and Iran. He leaves Thursday for Bonn, Germany. meeting of the two Korean premiers. Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, February 19, 1980 THE PROTESTANT WOMEN OF THE CHAPEL will hold a bazaar workshop on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at Clip & Save the Caribbean Arts and Crafts community Building at Marina Point. 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