Iraq Executes 18 Plotters, Israeli Invaders Take Key Radar Stations
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0tuwt~zuAun A.Az.t- TIDES WATER CONDITION HIGH LOW Charlie V 9:59 a.m. 2:28 a.m. U.S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Storage Ashore 9:15 p.m. 4:28 p.m. 14-8 Million Gals. Phone 9-5247 Date FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1970 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. a) Nixon Gives State of Union Message WASHIN3TON (AP/AFRTS)-- President Nixon, in Israeli Invaders his first State of the Union message, yester- Take day pledged a massive attack on pollution, crime and inflation. Nixon declared that prospects for peace in Key Radar Stations . Vietnam are far greater now than when he took office a year ago. He said his new policies TEL AVIV (AP/AFRTS)-- Israeli paratroopersrl in world affairs have contributed to the pro- descended on an Egyptian-held coral island in spect for a "generation of uninterrupted the Red Sea yesterday, sank two Soviet-built peace. torpedo boats and killed 19 defenders in a The President said he will offer a balanced mission to knock out radar stations. budget for thessake of combating iiflation. The Israelis claim that the Egyptian radar But he said the budget will include increased system is now in total disarray and Israeli spending for an all-out war against crime. planes can roam at will over.the Suez Canal. Nixon said he will recommend a $10 billion A military spokesman said the raiders in- water pollution program to get needed waste vaded the island of Shadwan by helicopter with treatment plants built within five years. air and naval support and captured the radar stations. The Israelis aid they, also Iraq Executes 18 Plotters, Spies captured 41 Egyti&ns and, flew. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP/AFRTS)-- Eighteen military men and them, from the island;, some 12 civilians went before firing squads or to the g allows yes- square miles of coral 30 miles terday in Iraq. Eleven were accused of plottir g against southwest of strategic Sharm the leftist government and seven others were cc nvicted as El SShdik on Tiran Staft-at the. spies of the United States. One of the latter v as identi- mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. fied as a Jew. This brought to40 the number cf persons Israeli spokesmen reported three executed since the govern- lire Coetrol to Ser A io Isrelisoldiers were' killed and ment of President Ahmed Has- 'vicesIralsix were wounded in the operation san el Bakr announced Wed-FoWepnI eIeOPMent which began at 9 a.m. and btoughtt nesday the crushing of an WASHINGTON (AP/AF RTS)-- The the island under Israli control attempt to restore power to Defense Department yesterday by 3 p.m. followers of Iraq's old mon- announced it is tr ansferring There was no official word imme archy. more authority for the devel- diately whether the Israeli raid- I the ers had withdrawn from the island, The director of the offi- opMnt of weapons ack to mout of _ the Gulf-o Aaa cial Iraq news agency, Army, Navy and Air Force. located at the southern entrance reached from Damascus by The announcement said that to the Gulf of Suez 20 miles east telephone, said 50 other supervision of the military of the African coast. persons are due to go be- services in the pas t has been fore a special court set up carried to such an exbnt that The Hon. John H. I to try accused plotters. "in some cases the services Secretary of th Navy, will The seven convicted spies have not felt the had full address the Base _toda' at had no tie with the plot to responsibility and authority 3:45p.m. at the Naval Sta- overthrot Bakr, a Baghdad for the conduct of the ap- tio Lyceum. TiopraStita e Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Friday, January 23, 1970 SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)-- American battle deaths dropped WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)-- The Navy says it is slightly to 84 last week and the South Vietnamese toll retiring eight transport ships that played was the lowest in eight months reflecting a sharp drop- a role in the early stages of the Vietnam war. The off in Communist attacks. The United States command Rose, Patch, Darby, Buckner, Gordon and Walker will said yesterday 84 Americans were killed in the week move next summer from moorings in New York to ending Jan 17 and 706 U.S. servicemen were wounded. the James River Fleet in Virginia. A total of 98 were killed and 720 were wounded the The Weigel and the Pope will go from San previous week. Francisco to the maritime administration reserve South Vietnamese spokesmen said their losses last fleet in Suisan Bay, Calif. week were 197 killed, and 839 wounded. Allied officials said 1,797 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were killed WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)-- Senator Abraham Ribicoff, last week, the lowest Communist toll since the week D-Connl, has asked Army Secretary Stan&ey Resor ending Oct 11, 1969, when 1,706 were reported killed. whether the Army was expanding its domestic intel- ligence operations beyond legal and moral justification. SAIGON (AP/AFRTS)-- United States officials have in- In a letter to Resor, Ribicoff said he was greath dicated that the Communists may be holding American disturbed" over the implications in a sotry in the war prisoners as hostages to extract political conces- January issue of the Washington Monthly detailing sions from Washington at the Vietnam peace talks. the scope of the Army intelligence activities. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said The article, by Christopher H. Pyle, a doctoral the United States government deplores such strategy candidate at Columbia University who recently com- add feels that the war prisoner issue should be kept pleted two years as a Captaiin in Army intelligence, separate from political and military aspects of the deals with surveillence by the Army of lawful pol- conflict. In addition, they said the prisoners were itical activities within the U.S. Ribicoff said being subjected to solitary confinement, beatings, "if its allegations are substantially correct, ser- torture and other mistreatment to try to get them to ious questions have been raised as to the legal, "confess" to war crimes. moral, and practical justification for these The officials made the comments following a news programs." conference by Frank Sieverts, Special Assistant for Prisoner of War Affairs to Undersecretary of State PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP/AFRTS)-- Pennsylvania officials Elliot Richardson. say three Cleviland men will be charged with murder in the slaying of mine union official Joseph Yab- NORFOLK (AP/AFRTS)-- The Navy is doing its best to lonski, his wife and daughter. get persons a the -eastern shore of Virginia who work One of the suspects, Claude Vealey, was held under in the Norfbik area to and from their jobs. The Navy $275,000 bond at a hearing for the three men who has set up an emergency helicopter service to shuttle were arrested by the FBI.- Federal officials said passengers across the massive hole in a bridge section high bond will be asked for the other suspects-- of the Chesapeak Bay Bridge-Tunnel which was created Aubran Martin--and Paul Gilly. Wednesday when a Navy cargo ship--dragging anchor-- crashed stern first through the structure. ASPEN, Colorado (AP/AFRTS)-- All eight persons The amphibious cargo ship "Yancy" knocked five sec- hboaid a twin-engine Rocky Mountain Airways plane tions of the two-lane roadbed into the icy waters of died Thursday when the plane crashed while trying Chesapeake Bay. Because 6f the accident the mord than to land at Aspen, Colorado. 17-mile bridge and tunnel link between Virginias main- The plane had left Denver and was trying for the land and the eastern shore is expected to be closed for second time to make a landing at the Aspen airport. from two to four weeks. NEWARK, N.J. (AP/AFRTS)-- A federal grand jury has indicted a former New Jersey state legislator and two other persons on charges of misusing union funds. Some of the funds were said to have been donated to Democratic political campaigns. Former assemblyman Joseph Biancardi and two others were accused of donating union funds to politicians and racketeers, of making overdrafts on their salaries, and using union money for personal expenses. Pages Missing or Unavailable Friday, January 23, 1970 Guantanamo Gazette Page 7 NBA Basketball Results Los Angeles 122, San Francisco 108 Milwaukee 115, San Diego 106 From the world of Cincinnati 111, Boston 104 Baltimore 119, Detroit 115 Phoenix 129, Seattle 120 Sports MONTREAL (UPI/AFRTS)--The Montreal Expos have announced that they have signed four more players in 1970 baseball contracts. 'These in- clude pitchers Howie Reed and Carrol Simberra, infielder Kevin Collins and catcher John MISSOULA, MONTANA (UPI/AFRTS)--The Uni- Vocabella. versity of Montana has suspended guard Harold Ross from the basketball team. He was sus- ST. LOUIS (UPI/AFRTS)--The St. Louis Card- pended after failing to show up for a con- inals and the Houston Oilers arter- ference game. backs yesterday in a foot- Coach Bob Kolp said the five foot, ten- ball trade. The four player inch guard has been averaging over 12 points trade sent Charlie Johnson per game as a regular. Ross had previously to Houston and Pete Beathard been been benched by Kolp for missing a went to the Cards. Also in squad meeting. Last season Ross, a senior, the trade, quarterback and scored 479 points which was the third high- wide receiver Bob Atkins est single season in the history of the wen to Houston and another university. passer Miller Pharr went to the Oilers.