U.S. NAVAL BASE, ffAANAMO BAY, CIA Terrorists *tdtit1nu0 Free Cross MONTREAL (AP/AFRTS) --- A Cuban delegation de- livered kidnaped British envoy James R. Cross to Canadian officials early today after a Can- of his kidnap- DECEMBER 4, 1970 Phone 9-5247 adian Air Force plane with two ers and five other French-Canadians landed in Havana, In Miami, Federal Aviation Adrdinistration offi- cials said a Canadian airplane carrying FLO members and their Pentagon Didn't OK Dumping families landed at Havana at 1:07 a.m. today. * 4ASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)---Navy ggggggaggggagggy Meanwhile, Cross was taken spokesmen at the Pentagon say to a hospital for a checkup, no prior approval was given but Justice Minister Jerome before Mayport Naval Station Choauette reported him in "ex- personnel dumped two barge cellent physical and mental loads of oil sludge at sea. condition" despite 60 days of The oil formed a 1,000- A% ' confinement in a small window- square-mile slick in The At- less room in a Montreal house. be flown lantic yesterday, and slowly Cross probably will drifted toward shore, threat- to Britain today or Saturday his wife. ening northern Florida beach- for a reunion with terror- es The French-Canadian for The dumping was in violation The ists who had held Cross of a recently passed Naval two months surrendered him to regulation requiring a "pre- a delegation from the Cuban paration and approval of an E ivironmrient, Consulate yesterday afternoon environmental impact state- after the Canadian government ment." To head off similar agreed to fly the kidnapers pollution problems in the fut- and some of their relations to re, Secretary of the Navy Cuba for asylum. John Chafee has banned the dumping in open waters of "sludges, industrial wastes, oily wastes, trash or rubbish collected in port." Patches of the massive slick Loophole Permits Pollution were spotted 13 miles from the northeast Florida coastline WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)---A 1924 law cited by the Navy as jus- yesterday. tification for dumping oil sludge in Atlantic waters was re- It is too early to tell, ob- pealed last spring, but Congressional experts say the law servers say, whether this in- which replaced it contains a loophole which permits such dump- dicated the slick was breaking ing even if resulting oil slicks drift back onto U.S. beaches. up and reducing the danger of An official Navy spokesman said Mayport Naval Station "has contaminating 50 miles of used this procedure for the past two years, as required by the clean sandy beaches or whether Oil Pollution Act of 1924." this was the vanguard of the The U.S. Water Quality Improvement Act, signed into law by total slick moving in. President Nixon last April 3, says in part: "The Oil Pollution A Navy plane also flew over Act, 1924, as amended, is hereby repealed." The new law sets the area and reported the much stricter requirements on dumping in ocean waters within weather was too hazy to deter- 50 miles of the U.S. coastline, but sets no limits on dumping mine the current extent or outside that boundary, even if the oil drifts back to shore. pattern of the slick. More Last Feb. 4, Nixon issued an executive order to control pollu- flights are planned, however. tion at federal facilities, including U.S. ships. Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Friday, December 4, 1970 Freighter Passes Drowning Men News Gazetteer DETROIT (AP/AFRTS)--The Coast Guard has 4V charged a Great Lakes freighter captain with negligence for allegedly failing to assist two drowning men. A Coast Guard hearing scheduled for next Tuesday will determine if the license of House-Senate conferees have agreed on, three- Captain Burris Wolters of Sandusky, Ohio year, $387 million Family Planning Bill. The should be revoked for negligence. The hear- bill will establish a federal office to coordi- ing will be in the Federal Building here. nate.ways of controlling population growth. A Coast Guard Investigating Officer, Lieu- The bill authorizes funds to be distributed to tenant Commander Robert Ricard, says he will public and private non-profit organizations testify that Wolters failed to halt the to advise persons on means of controlling birth steamer "Sylvania" Nov. 21 as the two men and issuing contraceptives. were struggling to stay afloat in the Detroit River 18 miles south of here. The Senate has dealt a stunning and perhaps, fatal The Coast Guard claims that although the setback to the supersonic transport by voting 572-foot coal carrier was only a few feet 52 to 42 to kill the $290 million federal from the men, her officers called on the subsidy. President Nixon had wanted the plane radio-telephone for Coast Guard help, and did as the flagship of the nation's global jet not stop. fleet. Backers of the SST project, however, say they will try to salvage at least part of the program in a House-Senate conference. Prisoner Camps Inspection Proposed Pope Paul addressed a stadium audiences of 40,000 PARIS (AP/AFRTS)--The United States formally Chinese in Hong Kong today. The Pope said, proposed yesterday opening all prisoner facil- "Christ is a teacher, a shepherd and a loving ities in North and South Vietnam to visits by redeemer for China, too." The message, with- the Red Cross or other impartial observers. out specific reference to the Communist-ruled The proposal was made by U.S. Ambassador mainland, appeared to be an appeal to Mao Tse- David K.E. Bruce at the 93rd session of the Tung's regime to end restrictions on the peace talks. There was no immediate comment Christian Church. Pope Paul arrived in Hong from the communist side. Kong from Indonesia for a three-hour visit on Bruce's proposal: "Let us now agree that the last day of his Asian tour. He makes each of us will permit and take the measures another brief stop tonight at Colombo, the necessary for the International Committee of capital of Ceylon, en route back to Rome. The Red Cross or some other impartial observ- er to visit regularly all prisoner camps in A Tel Aviv military spokesman flatly denies a Cairo North and South Vietnam. We would also agree claim that Israel had violated Egyptian air- that each of us will be guided by the recom- space. Egypt complained yesterday to t .e U.N. mendation of that committee on treatment of truce supervision organization about what prisoners." Cairo termed a grave violation of the four- An American spokesman said that under the month-old Middle East cease-fire. Bruce proposal "all prisoner facilities," Life expectancy is up in Britain. The Registrar including civil prisons, would be open to General says males at 65 can figure on 12 more inspection. years of life; and females of that age, 15 Bruce also challenged the Vietnamese Com- more years. munist delegates to prove their claims that Temperatures Around U.S. Cities prisoners were being treated humanely. Albuquerque 52 Boston 59 Guantanamo Gazette Dallas 78 Forecast: Denver 61 Partly cloy Cnom~vase RAdliI. B. McCaule~y becoming mostly Public Affairs Officer l.Cdr. W. Boer, IT Miami 76 cloudy after s Editorial Advisor JOC Jim Teag.ue unset. The winds Editr JC1 Jack Leigh New Orleans 73 tomorrow will Staff J03 All- Smith be N at 8 miles J03 Tom, Betz Rapid City 50 per JtBN 5tv Ducen hour. Thi s afternoon The TJANTANAiO) rAZETTE is publtihed according to Norfolk 75 they will be N the rules and regulations for ship .d s.tatio nes. E 10-16 with pap a Hotlined in NAVEXOS f-35 and under the St. Louis 66 gusts to 22. direction of the Naval Base Public affairs Officer. The high for I iis printed foor daysaweek at government exense San Diego 61 today will be on governet eqoipment. The Opinions orsttements 83 with a low in nes. ites that appear herein are not to he con- Seattle 44 predicted toni strued as official or a reflecting the views of ght of 70 ComNavBase or the Department of the Nooy. Memphis 73 Detroit 56res Friday, December 4, 1970 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 $2.7 Million BO Boasts Fine Furnishings By BOB WELLBORN Rear Admiral Brian McCauley cut the ribbon crossing the doors of a new Bachelor Offi- cers' Quarters here Tuesday. The BOQ, the most plush ever seen by most officers here, took two years to build and cost $2,703,000. Jack Neill, an employe of Nat G. Harrison, Overseas Con- tractor, said the Navy suppli- ed furnishings, paintings and some galley utensils to finish the BOQ. He said the contractor spent An estimated $365,000 on in- terior decorations. The interior of the four- story concrete block structure is fully carpeted from its lobby, draped in brown and furnished with black and white naughahyde sitting room chairs RADM. BRIAN MCCAULEY CUTS RIbBON TO OPEN NEW BOQ and dark walnut coffee tables, . from left are RAdm. James L. Abbot, Nat G. Harrison, contractor, McCauley and Capt. Robert Temme. to the bar, The Crossed Keys Inn, and an adjoining sitting room, to the black and red draped wardroom. In the wardroom, officers order meals from the well- Foiled Defection Studied equipped galley which serves WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)--President Nixon, letting it be known about 150 persons a meal. he was outraged by the episode, is studying official reports From the galley, there is an f the forcible removal of a Lithuanian sailor from a U.S. unobstructed view of the bay. oast Guard cutter. Officers' private rooms are conditioned and The Departments of State and Transportation handed in the re- separately air car- ports Wednesday evening.