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POPULATION The Need for a National Policy WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)---The Commission on . .Population Growth and the American Future recommended yesterday that the nation devel- op an explicit policy on population control, The recommendation for adopting of a nation- al population-control position is contained in the commission's interim report to President D Nixon summing up its first year of work. BASE aNAVAL "Despite the pervasive impact of population growth on every facet of American life, the United States has hever developed a deliberate policy on the subject," the commission report says. u t "There isa need today for the nation to consider population growth explicitly and to formulate policy for the future," the report says. The commission headed by John D. Rockefeller III notes that at times a low birth rate is a problem and at other times population explo- sions cause concern. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1971 Phone 9-5247 "The tension between population and the e- I conomy, population and the environment, popu- lation and government service, is with us at all times in LAOS EXIT CONTINUES different forms and degrees," the commission says. "Whether we wish to alter it or to live with it, we cannot afford to ignore it." PostAbandoned The commission, which has (Related stories, Pages 2, 7) another year to run, plans to SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)--Two South Vietnamese battalions and a re- offer specific recommendations gimental command post were pulled back to South Vietnam from on just what the policy should Landing Zone Brown today. Meanwhile, North Vietnamese gunners be in its final report. continue to pound troops still in Laos with mortars and artil- But the panel says the na- lery. tion probably will grow to 300 U.S. helicopters lifted about 700 South Vietnamese soldiers million population regardless out of Landing Zone Brown about 14 miles west of the border. A of any policy that may be es- Saigon spokesman says two battalions have been left behind tablished, with the real ques- near the abandoned base. Sources say those battalions will go tion whether it would level soon though. Pentagon sources say the scope of the South Viet- off there. namese drive into Laos was limited because President Thieu was "Whether we add that fourth unwilling to risk annihilation of his troops. They say the hundred million may be deter- plan called for. Saigon's forces to go no further than Sepone mined by what Americans -do if the North Vietnamese opposed the drive in force. about family size and popula- tion in the next couple of decades," the report says. Cuba Passes an Anti-Loafing Low While staggering figures MIAMI (AP/AFRTS)---Cuba passed yesterday a new law imposing could be projected for the fu- strict penalties on working-age people without jobs or chroni- ture, the report says, they cally absent from work.or school, Havana Radio reported. can fluctuate broadly through The "anti-loafing law" has been under discussion for six only small changes in family months and is believed aimed primarily at dissident youths who size. Prime Minister Fidel Castro says "have failed to find a place If families in the United in our revolution." It becomes effective April 1. The new law States average only two chil- decrees that all males 17-60 and females 17-55;must work. (Please see GROWTH, Page 2) Pag e 2 Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, March 17, 1971 Peace Talks Still Boycotted GAZETTEER PARIS (AP/AFRTS)--The chief negotiato. of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong at the Vietna peace talks .a digest of late news boycotted today's weekly session for the third week in succession in protest against what they called Presi- dent Nixon's escalation of war and plans for "new ag- gression." At the same time, North Vietnam put a new stress on the long-standing communist offer not to attack Amer- U.S. Command in Saigon says 45 Ame rais were kil- ican forces once their total and unconventional with- led in action last week in Indochina, that's one more drawal has been publicly announced and a deadline has death tian the week before. South Vietnamese casualties been set. also increased, with 773 troops kille' last week, com- North Vietnamese acting delegate Nguyen Minh told pared with 650 the week before. The U.S. Command also newsmen at the start of the 107th weekly session of reports 156 Americans wounded last week, a big drop from the deadlocked talks "if President Nixon really wants the 434 wounded the week before. peace he must give a serious reply to the (Viet Cong) proposal to permit an American withdrawal in security Testimony inthe trial Of Black Panthers Bobby Seale and and honor." Ericka Huggins begins today in New Haven, Conn. Seale, Conference sources said Minh's remark was seen as a who is the chairman of the Panther Party, and Mrs. response to the American assertion that the Laotian Huggins, a party member, face capital charges of kidnap- invasion was necessary to sefeguard the withdrawal of ing resulting in death and aiding and abetting murder. American fordes. Viet Cong peace proposals fully back- It took nearly four months to assemble the jury of five ed by Hanoi but rejected by the United States and Negros and seven Whites. South Vietnam have contained several.different provis- ions purportedly guaranteeting withdrawing American One of the jurors in the trial of Lieutenant William forces against attack, provided the withdrawal took Calley was taken to a hospital with stomach pains last place without conditions and by a fixed date. night, but was released early this morning. He is one of six army officers who will be engeged in the second GROWTH- From Pa day of deliberations today over Calley's alleged in- dren and immigration continues at the current level, volvement with the deaths of 102 Vietnamese civilians population would still reach 266 million by the end of at My Lai. this century, the report says. If the average family has three children, it would reach 321 million. The proposed constitutinoal,amendment to lower the vot- "One hundred years from now, the two-child family ing age in all sections to 18 reaches the House floor would result in a population of 340 million persons," today. Several states are reported ready to start the commission finds. "The three-child average would ratification process once the House passes the amend- produce nearly a billion." ment, which may occur today. It takes 38 states to While the commission says the nation has the re- ratify the proposal before it becomes the 24th amend- sources to meet the demands of a population growing ment to the Constitution. Congress has been acting with at the current rate. The quality of life in an over- speed on the proposal to make it effective for the 1972 growing population must be considered. elections. There are 11 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 21. Crisis Developing in Finland The Israeli press accuses U.S. Secretary of State HELSINKI (AP/AFRTS)--In a fast-developing government William Rogers of trying to dictate a Mideast peace crisis, Finnish Prime Minister Ahti Karjalainen's settlement. One paper says Rogers struck at the core of broadly-based center-left coalition resigned last Arab wishes by suggesting total withdrawal from Arab night after fruitless efforts to seek a compromise territory and international guarantees. The Independ- with the Communist People's Democratic Union over ent Haaretz said, "Rogers is demanding the impossible price policies. of Israel: that it disregard its bitter experiences" of Karjalainen's cabinet will stay in power as a care- a guaranteed peace settlement. (See other story Page 7) taker government at least another week while consulta- tions are conducted between President Urho Kekkonen Stateside Temperatures and party leaders. New York 31 Washington 30 Atlanta 33 Guantanamo Gazette '1iami 58 Houston 61 Local oreca ComNavoaae.RAdm. B. McCauley Denver 25 st Public Affairs Officer.L~dr. W. Boer II. L Editorial Advisor.JOC Jim Teague St. Louis 43 Mostly cloudy with rainshowers and Editor.J03 Allan Smith Kansas City 53 chance of isolated thundershowers, Editorial Assistant.J03 Bob Wellborn Seattle 33 becoming partly ci Staff Photographer.JO3 Tom Betz oudy this evening Staff Artist.JOSN Steve Duren San Francisco 48 as cold front move s across the area. Beetine Editor.:.YNl Bill Walker Bisnark 28 Winds N 5-10 becoming 10-15 with The CUANTANA3ID GAZETTE is published according to Phoenix 52 gusts to 25 knots. High today 83 the rules and regulations for ship and station news- Detrcit 25 degrees, low tonig ht 70. The low papers as outlined in NAVEXOS P-3S and under the direction of the Naval Base Public %ffairs Officer. Pensacola 54 last night was 71 degrees. It is printed four days a week at government expense 77 L calias on government equipment. The opinions or stateLent. in news Items that appear herein are not to he con- strued as official or as reflecting the views of CoeNavlase or 01 the Department of the Navy. Thursday March 18, 1971 Guahtanamo Gaz~tte Page 3 They Love Like Cats and Dog By BOB WELLBORN . Ens, and Mrs. John Miri have what amounts to one of the oddest juxtapositions ever recorded in Guantanamo history. They have a dog named Timmy who is the proud foster mother of a litter of four kittens. The kittens haven't begun to whimper instead of meow, nor do they yap instead of yowling when they are left alone. But they do try to gnaw on an oversized soup bone like their mother does.