e POW release at hand SAIGON (AP)--Representatives of the four parties in miles north of Saigon. the Vietnam peace agreement met in three cities yester- In Washington, Defense Department spokesman Jerry W. day in quickening diplomatic steps toward clearing sea Freidheim said North Vietnam is expected to release its mines from North Vietnam, holding top level political first American prisoners by Sunday, the time frame spec- talks on the South and getting American war prisoners ified in the cease-fire agreement signed in Paris Jan. back home. 27. U.S. officials in Washington and Saigon declared the first group of American prisoners will be released this "Our hope is that we will have some by the middle of week but declined to give a specific timetable. this week," Friedheim said. North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, American and South Viet- Ambassador Michel Gauvin of Canada, chairman of the namese representatives of a prisoner committee of the International Commission of Control and Supervision said Joint Military Commission met in Saigon for three hours release of those held in South Vietnam will be closer to iron out repatriation details. It was the third to the and of the week. Then four hours later he told successive day they had met. newsmen the release will come "within, I presume, a week or so. There will be an exchange of prisoners," Gauvin In Haiphong, Rear Adm. Brian McCauley (see page 3) and added, after a four hour commission meeting. "I don't 15 members of his staff conferred with senior North Viet- know where." namese officials on clearing mines from North Vietnam's U.S. officials said one of the first groups of American seven ports and thousands of miles of inland waterways. prisoners held near the South Vietnam-Cambodian border McCauley is the commander of the Navy task force gathering will be released in the An Loc-Loc Ninh area, 60-70 (See PEACE page 2) U. & NAVAL &AS " ^ANTANAMO SAY, MIA Nixon: food prices key to Phase 3 WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon cited American food prices yesterday as the potential key to success of his Phase 3 economic program--a larg- ely voluntary effort to keep the lid on inflation after wage and price controls are disbanded. Holding a farewell meeting with members and officials of the Phase 2 Pay Board and Price Commission, Nix- on pledged continued government eff- orts to hold down increases in super- market prices. Tuesday, February 6, 1973 His comments were relayed to news- men by Donald Rumsfeld, outgoing dir- ector of the Cost of Living Council Nixon appoints who joined other economic officials in the Cabinet Room. session. Russfeld said the President told the group that wage and price con- Presidentpledges top-ranking block trols helped check inflation without inhibiting growth of the U.S. econ- WASHINGTON (AP)--Stanley S. Scott, omy but that it is important that continued government a former Tennessee newsman and assis- the mandatory controls be lifted so tant to White House Communications the economy can move back toward a Director Herb Klein, was appointed free market system. President Nixon's liaison with min- efforts to prevent ority groups yesterday, making him The food industry remains under the top-ranking black man in the ad- mandatory controls, as the health and ministration. housing segments of the economy. In supermarket prices The White House said Scott had been addition, the administration has tak- promoted to the rank of Special Ass- en steps to bolster food supplies by istant to the President, replacing loosening imports and easing crop from spiraling upward. Bob Brown, who returned to private planting restrictions. life. Brown previously was the rank- ing black at the White House. Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, February, 6, 1973 PEACE- from page one 0 in the Tonkin Gulf to begin clearing the mines as speci- fied in the agreement. GAZETTEER In Paris, South Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegates met face to face for the first time for preliminary low-lev- .a digest of late news el procedural talks to set the stage for high-level neg- otiations on the future political shape of South Viet- nam. Nguyen Phuong Theip, acting deputy leader of the South Vietnamese peace talks delegation, and Dinh Bai Thi of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary government, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (AP)--A small armed conferred for two hours at the International Conference band has landed on a beach in Azua province about 110 miles Center on Avenue Kleber, where the peace talks dragged east of this capital. Informed sources saia yesterday on for four years. an alert was immediately declared and counterinsurgency During the long peace talks stalemate, the South Viet- troops were sent to the area after the landing Sunday namese and Viet cong refused to speak directly to each night. There was no government communique about the other. ihe South vietnamese did not officially recog- landing, but the informants said the joint military nize the existence of the Provisional Revolutionary staff had been in consultations since Sunday night. government and the Viet Cong insisted President Nguyen Sources close to the military said a small boat was Van Thieu would have to be replaced before peace could found on the beach and from this it was deduced the band be achieved. was few in number. Thi and Theip said they reached agreement on some points but unresolved issues would be discussed in an- WASHINGTON (AP)--Chips and sections from three large other meeting scheduled for tomorrow. Thiep said con- rocks brought back by the Apollo 17 moon walkers are on sultations eventually will be held in South Vietnam at their way to scientists in the United States and other a high level. countries for studies. The space agency asked the 10 The peace agreement says that immediately after the "investigators" who received the first moon samples to cease-fire, which went into effect Jan. 28, the two conduct their complex research projects quickly so re- South Vietnamese parties shall hold consultations to sults can be reported to Houston, Texas, March 5-8 at set up a national council of national reconciliation the 4th annual lunar science conference. Two of the rocks and concord of three equal segments--the South Vietna- are dark gray basalts typical of the material underlying mese, the Viet Cong and neutralists. The council would the Taurus-Littrow valley where Apollo 17 landed in organize free and democratic general elections. December. The third is a lighter colored recrystallized breccia that may have been part of the mountain side In South Vietnam,U.S. planes and helicopters carried at one time. teams of 20 to 40 men each from the International Comm- ission of Control and Supervision and the North Viet- namese members of the Joint Military Commission into WASHINGTON (AP)--With full military honors, the army seven regional sites to begin peacekeeping duties. U.S. yesterday buried America's last warrior to be killed in and South Vietnamese representatives of the Joint Mili- Vietnam before the cease-fire ended the United State:'s tary Commission already were in position and the Viet longest war. Col. William B. Nolde, 43, died 11 hours Congmembers were expected to join soon. before the truce went into effect, the victim of an en- The sites include Hue and Da Nang in the northern emy artillery burst. He was the 45,941st American ser- quarter of South Vietnam, Pleiku in the central high- viceman to be killed in action in IndoChina. "He now lands, Phan Thiet on the central coast, Bien Hoa near represents all of us who served in Vietnam," said army Saigon and My Tho and Can Tho in the Mekong Delta. chaplain Roy V. Peters at the final mass for Nolde in The North Vietnamese team arrived at Hue almost five une red brick chapel at Fort Myer, Va. President Nixon years to the day after their troops seized the former expressed his personal condolences to the family. And imperial capital and massacred an estimated 5,700 pro- invited its members to the White House after the Saigon Vietnamese during the 1968 Tet offensive. burial. Water status Guantanamo Gazette Figures for Monday, Feb. 5 Local Forecast Mostly clear,partly cloudy O.U.0 PIO n0d. Le.ec.ea.z.bto WATER PRODUCED: 1,418,000 in the PM. Visibility-- unrestricted. Winds NE 6 WATER CONSUMED: 1,623,000 knots becoming SE 10 to 12 knots with gusts to 20. 00.,.b..C._~.C High today 86, Low tonight .~IOtC .P*. tC. WATER LOSS: 205,000 U eCOSbAt ofPsaCve so n i**cCtOC 69. Bay Conditions 1 to 2 feet increasing to 3 to 4 feet me a sment Po0t.PC. fl wOihPwsttet WATER IN STORAGE: 20,029,000 PnPP ttmPP t eCO. ek toC et. in the afternoon. High tide 2309, low tide 1648 Tuesday, February 6, 1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 Marine Barracks EM picked for network TV Sergeant Antonia B. Silva, assigned to mine field maintenance at Marine Barracks, will appear on "Truth or Consequences" tomorrow for a surprise reunion with his wife Jacqueline. Silva was picked to appear on the weekday television show from several armed forces personnel whose families live in the Los Angeles area. Silva's wife and three children--five-year-old twins Thomas and Mark, and a three-year-old daughter Lisa--live in Falbrook, Calif. He has served 12 years in the Marine Corps, having come to Guantanamo Bay on Aug. 19, 1972,from the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Before that, he had served in South Vietnam.