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WEATHER VWATER Fa ir High Tide Charl ie Low Tide 1 :41 a.m. 'Aft, W&A 1:41 p. m. 8:16 a.m. 7:16 p.m. U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY. CUBA Phone 9-5247 Tuesday Date June 27, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Kosygin In Cuba Jordanian King HAVANA (AP/AFNB) (By Fenton Wheeler) SOVIET PREMIER ALEXEI Kosygin flew to Cuba Monday Speaks In UN for talks with Prime Minister Fidel Castro on problems of UNITED NATIONS (UPI/AFNB)(By Bruce W. Munn) KING HUSSEIN OF the western hemisphere's only Jordan said Monday that if the United Nations permits Israel Communist nation. to keep any or all of the territory it seized from its Arab Castro was at the airport, neighbors, U.N. cease-fire orders will never again be obeyed but there was no crowd or fan- in any part of the world. fare as Kosygin arrived from a The mustachioed 32-year-old nine-day visit to the United monarch said 150,000 of the States, where he championed 800,000 populationof Jordanian the Arab cause at the United territory occupied by Israel Nations and met twice with had fled deeper into his coun- President Johnson in summit try and "all this must be sessions at Glassboro, New swiftly returned with the sup- Jersey. port of this august body as- The visit to Cuba is the sembled here today." first for a Soviet premier and Hussein accused U.N.members it was a surprise for most of supporting a "double stan- Cubans. There had been no dard" in dealing IN. with Arab and announcement of his coming and Israeli problems and told the no special preparations ap- if Assembly: peared to have been made to * "Jordan will still survive. get people out on welcoming ground down by sorrow for the ceremonies. moment. We will arise again After posing fbr photographs, and with us will rise the Arab Castro and Kosygin got into a nations. it is apparent we sedan and drove off. have not yet learned how to use S Among officials welcoming the weapons of modern warfare Kosygin at the airport were Capt.Chou Tsu Hsing,commanding but we shall if we have to." Cuban President Osvaldo Dor- the Republic of China ship An- Hussein received easily the ticos, Foreign Minister Raul Yang, met yesterday morning longest and loudest ovation Roa and members of the Central with Commodore Joseph West, given any speaker in the two- Committee of the Cuban Com- Commander FleetTraining Group. week emergency debate of the munist Party. (Cont'd page) (NAS Photo Lab) General Assemblysession. After he returned to the Jordanian desk, the little king rose and bowed in acknowledgement as Garrison's Investigator the ovation continued. Quits Assembly President Abdul NEW ORLEANS (AP/AFNB) DIST. ATTY. JIM Garrison's chief in- Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan vestigator quit Garrison's controversial Kennedy assassination said there were 100,000 or probe yesterday after being barred from his boss's office. more newly displaced persons William H. Gurvich told newsmen he thinks Garrison should in Jordan in urgent need of drop a murder conspiracy charge against Clay L. Shaw,the -only food, blankets,tents and other person arrested to date in the nine-month-old investigation facilities. The resources of into President John F. Kennedy's assassination. the U.N. Relief and Works Garrison said in a statement that Gurvich had never been his Agency (UNRWA) created to care chief investigator and "has no connection whatsoever with the for such refugees, always have staff for at least six weeks. I do not see how he can 'resign' been slender and its funds now when he has ceased to be a part of the investigation for so are not sufficient to meet the ong." emergency. He accused Gurvich with meeting with representatives of the "For this purpose," Pazhwak NBC while still working on the case. NBC last week produced a said, "noneof us has resources documentary on the probe that was critical (Cont'd on page 2) so slender that (Cont'd page) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE Gurvich has figured prominently in Garrison's investigation from the start. It was he who announced on March I the arrest of Shaw on a charge of conspiring b murder President Kennedy. Shaw, retired New Orleans businessman, now is free under $10,000 bonding awaiting trial. ComNavBase RADM E.R. Crawford Garrison has said repeatedly that Kennedy died Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E. Lamey as a result of a New Orleans-based conspiracy Editorial Advisor JOC William A. Liedtke and that he has the proof. News Editor CT2 Vic Griffeth The Warren Commission reported it found no Feature Editor SN Ed Sullivan evidence of a conspiracy. Sports Editor J03 Sig Couch The GI'I4O GAZETTE is published according to the rules HAVANA (Cont'd from page 1) Communist bloc and regulations for ship and station newspapers as out- diplomats were also on hand. lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the Cuban officials declined to say how long Kosy- Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four gin would remain. days a week at government expense on government equip- ment. The opinions or statements in news itmes that MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA (AP/AFRTS) GOV. L1 appear herein are not to be construed as official or as WALLACE announced last reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. night she will enter a Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of Texas hospital next week 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. HON thru FRI only and willbe publish- for further tests and ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. possible surgery after a No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- physical examination lished more than once a week nor will they be run in showed a recurrence of I Friday's paper. cancer. Mrs. Wallace underwent UNITED NATIONS (Cont'd from page 1) we could a thorough physical exam- not supply what is needed." ination last week at Hussein told the Assembly: Montgomery's St.Margarets "Jordan obeyed immediately and in good faith Hospital. Her announce- the Security Council's cease-fire order. It did ment yesterday said the so,confident that the United Nations would never malignacy was discovered allow aggression to pay. during that examination. "should the United Nations not live up to its The Governor,who under- GOVERNOR WALLA promise CE and should it permit the aggressor to went surgery for cancer in January 1966 before keep even one square foot of its spoils, it will her successful bid for the state's top never in any part off ice of the world be allowed to say will enter the M.D.Anderson Hospital in Ho uston. the word 'cease-fire' again and be obeyed. "God grant CANTON, that out of these discussions the MISSISSIPPI (UPI/AFRTS) NEGRO JAMES path to a just conclusion will become clear." MEREDITH spent the day roamin the Missi Hussein tookthe stage as Soviet Premier Alexei countryside---and so far Kosygin left for a visit to Fidel Castro in Cuba the biggest problem has after an extraordinary news conference here Sun- been his feet. day night. Meredith started out Foreign Minister Nest Naseof maverick Albania, in a new pair of shoes speaking almost as-the Soviet turbo-prop plane yesterday. But he soon left for Havana, accused Kosygin and President switched back to the Johnson of collusion in their Glassboro summit high leather boots he conference to betray the Arab countries and plot wore Saturday when he 9 world domination between them. began the march from the "Down with the Johnson-Kosygin plot!" shouted point where he was shot the spokesman of the Communist country usually from ambush last year. regarded as Communist China's voicein the United He readily signed au- Nations. tographs yesterday for a half a dozen sneering NEW ORLEANS (Cont'd from page 1) 6f Garrison's white youths who ap- tactics. proached him as he hob- JAMES H. MEREDITH On his arrivalatthe district attorneys office, bled along with blistered feet. Gurvich told newsmen he intended to urge Garrison One boy said he wanted the autograph "for to re-evaluate the investigation. Over the week- kicks"---but another explained---"I just want end, Gurvich had said in New York he had grave to tear it up." misgivings about the inquiry. On seeking to pass the guard rail leading di- CAIRO (AP/AFRTS) CAIRO INTERNATIONAL rectly AIRPORT to Garrison's office,Gurvich was .blockdd was closed to commercial flights for nine hours by Louis W. Ivon,an investigator in the district yesterday. attorney's office. (Cont'd on column two) Authorities gave no explanation forthe action. 9 GITMO GAZETTE TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1967 PAGE 3 ST.THOMAS, V.I. (UPI/AFRTS) THE SELF-PRO- CLAIMED "Republic" of Anguilla yesterday awaited Letters for Freedom replies from five western hemisphere nations to appeals for official recognition of its new "It's up to every American to fight for the status. freedom we hold so dear. If we don't, the smells The island a few weeks agofirst "seceded" from of free air could become dark and damp as in a the British three-island federation of St.Kitts- prison cell." Nevis-Anguilla on grounds of neglect, then peti- This was written in a letter by Army Private tioned for "association" with Britain, Canada First Class Hiram D. Strickland last year which and the United States, later proclaimed "inde- won the George Washington Award from the Free- pendence" and, over the weekend, styled itself a doms Foundation.