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WEATHER L WATER Fair 85/73 4Charlie U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Monday Date May 1, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Greek King Loyalty Day Parades Appears In Public ATHENS (AP)(By Allan Jacks) KING CONSTANTINE WENT to Counter Red May Day midnight Mass with thousands NEW YORK(AP) IT WAS HARD to estimate the size of nis subjects of the crowds, tois Orthodox but they were enthusiastic Saturday as thousands Easter Sunday of Americans and was greeted took part in Loyalty Day parades and ceremonies. with enthusiastic applause. The two largest parades stepping off It to demonstrate support was his first public ap- of American fighting men in Vietnam rearance since were in New York, where the Greek .Army police estimated seized rower nearly 7,000 Anril 21. marchers moving along Manhat- The Interior Minister of the Two College Deans ruling tan's Fifth Avenue and 4,500 Army junta, Brig. Styl- in Brooklyn, lianos Patacos,announced and 60,000 spec- Sat- Here For Week tators evenly split between urdayhis regime plans to create GITMO(By Ellis Baldwin) TWO "a new Greek state the two parades. under a re- DISTINGUISHED VISITORSfrom Old Nationwide vised the VFW had pre- constitution." But he Dominion College in Norfolk, dicted anaverage did not 1,000 marchers say howthe constitution Dr. Stanley R. Pliska, Dean of each in an estimated would be changed or whether 5,800 it Continuing Education, and Dr. local parades, for a total of would restore freedoms lost in George W. Whitehurst, Dean of nearly 5,800,000. The the April 21 coup. sponsors Student Affairs,will visit the had emphasized they would Members of the pre- armed forces Naval Base May Ist thru 4th to fer many small parades and crowds lined the route in from meet with students and faculty towns and villages to afew big the Royal Palace to the Athens of Old Dominion's extension Cathedral ones in large cities. as the 26-year-old center here. The- VFW began King, wearing an its annual Air Marshal's Students andfaculty members, Loyalty Day parade in uniform, drove to Mass. 1947, as The and anyone interested, are in- a counter to Communist May crowd applauded warmly Day as the vited to attend as informal parades and King went by. celebrations. question and answer session at "Support our fighting troops Al ighting near die cathedral, William T. Sampson School Tue- in Vietnam," he received was picked as the an enthusiastic day evening at 3 p.m. theme ovation of this year's parade from thousands in the Persons interested in meeting largely square. He walked in response to anti- briskly to with either DeanPliska or Dean war demonstrations a wooden platform in New York in front of Whitehurst and are unable to and the San Francisco that drew cathedral and nodded to attend Tuesday's meeting large crowds Premier Constantine(Cont'd may two weeks ago. 2) make an appointment(Cont'd 2 In Saigon, U.S. Air Force jets flew through intense anti- aircraft fire and challenging MIGs to bomb rail yards near FoMoCo Reports Loss Hanoi Sunday, and pilots re- ported shooting down one MIG- DETROIT (AP)(By Charles C. Cain) FORD MOTOR CO. reported Sunday, 17. as General Motors and Chrysler did earlier, that its U.S. profits nosedived Headquarters made no in the first quarter of 1967. mention of any The not-so-bright financial American plane statements of the automotive big losses during the raids, which three reflected a slump in auto sales in the opening three were months described as the heaviest of this year. for American the Air Force since last Motors, fourth largest of the auto companies, is Oct. 12. slated to release its financial statement at a board of direc- Hanoi's tors meeting official news agency today. AMC is the only auto firm which is on a claimed five fiscal year, American planes rather than a calendar year and it is expected to were shot down show a loss close to $30 by Communist million for the six month period. interceptors in Ford's decision to release air battles its financial report on a Sunday and a number of U.S. pilots came as a surprise. There was no official explanation from the company. were captured. In South Vietnam, ground Ford's first quarter earnings ran nearly (Cont'd on page 2) action continued (Cont'd pg 2) PAGE 2 MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE NEW YORK (Cont'd from page 1) light Sunday WASHINGTON (AP) COMMENTING ON THE loans made as it has for nearly three weeks of a relative to Latin America by the Inter-American Develop- lull. ment Bank, the Washington Post said: "For eight years the Inter-American Develop- DETROIT (Cont'd from page 1) 45 percent be- ment Bank has been funneling public and pri- low those of the opening three months of 1966. vate money into Latin America to help meet the The drop was not as sharp as Chrysler's 71 region's staggering capital need. It has au- percent profits sag, but it was greater than thorized more than $2 billion in loans, accu- GM's 34 percent loss. mulatedtechnical and organizational expertise, Ford Board Chairman Henry Ford II said the and established itself as essential for region- report reflected primarily the industry-wide al advance. decline in car sales in North America. "The Bank's multilateral character--the bar- gain ratesibr most Latin nations--particularly ATHENS (Cont'd from page 1)Kollias and other fits it for the mission of economic intergra- members of the Army-installed government. When tion adopted by the hemisphere's presidents the clock struck midnight, bells pealed across recently at Punta Del Este. the city and the service began. "The Bank's proven capability makes its In a statement to newsmen Saturday, Patacos shortage of resources particularly galling. had discussed aims of the military regime and The development opportunities of the poor are promised that martial law restrictions now in being squandered by the parsimony of the rich. force will "not last long." Much of Europe is in the indefensible position of profiting, through trade, by the Bank's op- GITMO (Cont'd from page 1) to meet with them erations but of refusing to help it grow. If by calling Bill Clements at Special Services, Europe does not do its share, the Bank will be 95373. justified in keeping its members from spending S bank funds there. PASADENA (AP) AMERICA'S SURVEYOR 3 took a Since the Bank will have virtually loaned hard swing at the moon, but dented the crust itself out of business by the.end of the year, very little, scientists reported Saturday. timely American support is vital to -its con- "We dropped the soil sampler on the crust tinued good work." six times," a spokesman at the jet propulsion laboratory said. "We dropped it from six in- CANNES, FRANCE (AP) AMERICAN MOVIE PRODUCER ches, 12 inches and 24 inches, and the maximum director Joseph Strick said yesterday he is penetration of the soil was about l- inches." withdrawing his controversial film adaptation He said scientists haven't studied all the of James Joyce's "Ulysses" from the Cannes data received yet, "but so far, the only thing Film Festival after a row with the organizers. it indicated is we didn't break the scooper." His declaration came shortly after scenes at Continued surveys with the 620-pound craft's a showing of the film to the festival jury camera were ordered, and "we shot 994 pictures when he stormed into the projection room de- in Sunday's program. That brings the total up manding that the showing be terminated. to 4,626 pictures. When hi.s demands produced no.action, Strick The spindle-looking three-legged craft,which threw several electrical switches, momentarily touched down on the moon April 19 after a 65 blacking out the projection of the film. Then hour flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla., is sit- he was ejected from the projection room by ting in the dry Ocean of Storms, just left of officials. the center of the moon. Back in the audience, Strick stood up and shouted in protest that the film was being CHI.CAGO (AP) AN IMMEDIATE HALT in all Unit- shown in an emasculated and unauthorized ver- ed States aid to Greece because of the new sion. military dictatorship is demanded by Walter S Reuther,the President of the United Auto Work- WASHINGTON (AP) 160 AMERICANS ARE BEING ers Union. Reuther said his union and its flown out of Yemen because of members the disorders are much upset by the recent military that followed the tiny Middle East country's coup in Greece where--he said--thousands of financial break with the United States. The opposition political leaders have been jailed State Department had ordered the and Yemen Embas- constitutional rights suppressed. sador to Washington to remain in the In a Capital. cable to King Constantine, the auto But it now has relented and he's free to tra- union president says he cannot accept what ne vel. calls the transparent attempt to justify this In the British protectorite of Aden, action a ter- by the charge that those arrested were rorist organization with headquarters in Yemen Communists. is agitating for a 24-hour general strike Reuther to- sent letters calling for an end to day to protest the latest violence. A mine both military and economic aid to Greece to blew up a school bus, killing seven Secretary persons of State Rusk and the Senate Foreign and injuring 15 others.