NORTH KOREA FORCED CONFESSION. BUCHER SAYS CORONADO, Calif
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TIDES SA URDAY WATER CONDITION HIGH LOW lfst daly #aper was to win if CHINFO Avfit -4ward Charlie III 3:59 a.m. 9:58 a.m. U.S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA STORAGE ASHORE 2:59 p.m. 9:28 p.m. 14.2 Million Gallons Phone 9-5247 Date FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) NORTH KOREA FORCED CONFESSION. BUCHER SAYS CORONADO, Calif. (AP/AFNB)-- The skipper of the Pueblo-- FIRST TICKETS -- tears streaming, his voice an RAdm J. B. Hil- anguished cry--said yesterday dreth, Commander North Koreans forced a spying Naval Base, confession from him by pre- makes the first tending to shoot him as he purchase of Mar- knelt before tnem, so shaken di Gras Mustang he could say only: "I love Raffle tickets. you, Rose. I love you, Rose." Watching this Cdr Lloyd M. Bucher's blond morning are Capt wife, Rose, sobbed and dug her D. Bryan Jr.(L), fists into her eyes as sne 1969 Mardi Gras heard her risband testify be- Chairman, and fore the Navy board of inquiry Capt. W. R. Gab- conducting an investigation rels, Car Raffle into the seizure of the intel- Chairman. ligence ship a year ago yes- terday. The court had warned him he may have violated regulations oy surrendering his ship. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, Mardi Gras Mustang Raffle Opens several members of Congress expressed displeasure with the RAdm Hildreth Buys Tickets, Kicks Off Drive proceedings, saying Cdr Bucher is being forced to be toe GUANTANAMO BAY--How would you like to spend the rest of your Navy's scapegoat. tour here driving around the Base in a brand-new 1969 Ford The 41-year-old officer, de- Mustang? scribing interrogation by his You'll have that chance if you buy tickets for the 1969 Mar- captors, said a North Korean di Gras Raffle. The new Mustang is the grand prize, But shouted at him as he knelt: _____________________ there are also many other "Kill the son of a ----- '" prizes, including a color Cdr Bucher added, referring television set, a motor scoot- to a guard -with a gun pointed Italian Sets Self Afire er, a stereo tape-recorder and at his head: "The gun clicked, GENOA, Italy(AP/AFNB)--A 58- many more. but it didn't go off, and I year-old Italian covered him- RAdm J.B. Hildreth, Command- didn't hear a shell fall to self with gasoline and set er Naval Base, kicked off the the floor. I felt sure they himself- afire today in the 1969 Mardi Gras this morning were going to shoot me." first such case in.Italy since by purchasing the first book He said his captors showed the death of Czech student Jan of tickets. him a man they said was a Palach. "I don't suppose I'll be the North Korean who had bitten Police identified the Itali- one to win it,", the Base Coin- through his lip during horren- an as Enrico Autagnotti. They mander said, "but someonBs dous torture(Cont'd on Page said the incident occurred going to have a new car by the 2) at Rivarolo, a Genoa suburb, time this Mardi Gras is over. Nixon Recalls 155 He was rushed to a hospital He or she only has to buy WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB)--Presi- there and was reported in ex- those raffle tickets to do tremely serious condition. it.mr Although Autagnotti is :the RAdm Hildreth added; "And first Italian to protest b the more tickets a person settingIfire to himself, five buys, the better his chances Czechs and a Hungarian have of winning. So I urge every- done it in the past week, one to buy (Cont'd on Page 2) Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Friday, Jan. 24, 1969 BERLIN (AP/AFNB)--Three Soviet military at- taches trying to spy on the U.S. military maneuvers that open next week in West Germany (Guantanamo near the Czechoslovakian border, the U.S. Army Gazette confirmed yesterday. American military police stopped a car on ComNavBase RAdm J.B. Hildreth the Autobahn near the training area and dis- Public Affairs Officer covered the shield of the Soviet mission to Lt D.S. McCurrach West Germany on the car. Editor J02 Jerry Marshall The police didn't persuade the Soviet at- Associate Editor JOSN Larry Long taches to identify themselves, but a monument- Layout/Staff Reporter JOSN Phil Jordan al traffic jam developed when the Americans sent them back in the direction from which The GUANTANAMO GAZETTE is published according to the they came. rules and regulations for ship and station newspapers as outlined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of More than 15,000 American troops have flown the Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed into West Germany for exercise Reforger 1. four days a week at government expense on government equipment. The opinions or statements in news items NEW ORLEANS (AP/AFNB) -- Eighteen more pro- that appear herein are not to be construed as official spective jurors were quickly dismissed yester- or as reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Depart- day from the trial of Clay Shaw, accused of ment of the Navy. conspiring to assassinate President John F. Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours Kennedy. of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. MON through FRI only and will be published in Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. District Court Judge Edward J. Haggerty or- No ads or notices except command notices will be pub- dered a new panel of prospects for question- lished more than once a week nor will they be run in ing today. Friday's paper. The GAZETTE welcomes contributions of a newsworthy PARIS (UPI/AFNB)--Chief U.S. negotiator Hen- nature. All contributions should be forwarded to Box ry Cabot Lodge will blame the Vietnam War on 22, in care of the GUANTANAMO GAZETTE. The GAZETTE re- the Communists when expanded Vietnam talks serves the right to modify the content of any story to make it conform to typographical and format standards open Saturday. for publication. Diplomatic sources said Lodge will make it clear to the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong that the U.S. wants peace, but not at any MARDI GRAS RAFFLE OPENS (Cont'd from Page 1) price. ,as many tickets as he can properly'afford. South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Whether he wins or not, the money goes to a Ky left Saigon yesterday for Paris for his du- very good cause." ties as supervisor of the South Vietnamese All profits from the Mardi Gras go into the delegation to the talks. Guantanamo Bay Community Fund to be used in improvements on the Base. Some of the uses of PUEBLO INQUIRY (Cont'd from Pape 1) while the Community Fund include: youth activities strapped to.a wall and told him, That's what pt the Teen Club, Scouting, Junior League happens to spies, and you are spies, and you baseball, adult education programs, TV sets will get exactly the same." for Navy and Marine barracks lounges and com- "I passed out," Cdr Bucher said. munity events such as Jamaica Independence He was in his fourth day of testimony, des- Day. cribing the capture of his ship exactly a year The biggest upcoming project for this money ago and the imprisonment of his crew. He had is a substantial contribution towards the in- been usually calm, although sometimes terse, stallation of air- conditioning in the Base until he came to the interrogation phase of Chapel. his testimony Raffle tickets for the Mustang -- which ar- Cdr Bucher said the copy of the confession rives Feb. 4 -- are on sale as of today. Buy used in the court of inquiry had five addi- your tickets from your command representa- tions to the one he signed in North Korea. In- tives. cluded in the additions were the fact. that he One more thing: Don't forget to vote as many was a CIA agent and that, for spying, he would times as you want to for the Mardi Gras Queen receive "lots of dollars and much honor." candidate of your choice. There are seven He insisted neither of. these items was on pretty young ladies to choose from and every the confession when he signed it. penny you put into a collection box means one Vote for that Queen candidate. WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB)--Alaska Gov. Walter J. Watch Armed Forces Television, listen to Hickel won delayed confirmation from the Sen- Armed*Forces Radio and . read the GUANTANAMO ate yesterday after extensive senatorial crit+ GAZETTE through the coming weeks for more in- Icism of his appointment as Secretary of the Interior in the Nixon Administration. 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