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*tiutanrn 0inztt U. 9 NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Date TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1970 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) W RADM McCAULEY RADM HILDRETH Radm McCauley Relieves Radm Hildreth Today GUANTANAMO BAY-- In tradi- Admiral Hildreth reminded to be expected of this vital tional Navy ceremonies this his audience-- which included installation. I might add morning on the Marine Barracks the U.S. Ambassadors to Haiti that they perform this mission parade ground, Rear Admiral J. and Jamaica, as well as other under trying circumstances, B. Hildreth, Commander of the dignitaries-- of Guantanamo's and at the expense of many com Guantanamo Naval Base since isolation, and then added: forts and conveniences of most July 1968, turned over his "In order to continue sup- American communities. May I command to Rear Admiral Brian porting the fleet, Guantanamo add here the fervent hope that McCauley. has had to become, by and the isolation of this base large,a self-sufficient 'make Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, June 23, 1.970 Amendment Affirms Power Of Commander In Chief WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)--The Senate has approved a proposal Pan American 707 which reaffirms the power of the President- to send U.S. forces bak1 into Cambodia for short term missions. Hijacked to Cairo Most Senators feel this would not have allowed the Pres- ident's dispatch of American troops into Cambodia this past PARIS (AP/AFRTS)---A Pan Amer- spring. ican Airlines jet with 114 Senator Robert Byrd said his amendment does not provide a passengers aboard was hijacked new loop hole for the President to open new battle fronts, yesterday and ordered to fly but the amendment, as Byrd says, does recognize that the to Cairo. c6mmander in chief may have to take lightning action against A Pan Am spokesman here the Communist'sto save American lives. says the flight was taken over Democratic leader Mike Mansfield says the amendment would about an hour after it took permit hot pursuit of Communist forces attacking from Cam- off from Beirut bound for Rome bodia. Paris and New York. Still pending before the Senate is the main Cooper-Church Airport officials in Rome amendment that would prohibit large scale incursions into say the hijacked plane has ar- Cambodia after July first. rived in Cairo. The debate on Cooper-Church has beendragging for more than They describe it as a "nor- six weeks. A final vote is expected sometime next week. mal landing." The pilot of the Boeing 707 jet radioed Velasco Ibarra Assumes Dictatorial Powers in Ecuador near Cyprus that he was div- erting to Cairo. .QUITO, Ecuador (AP/AFRTS)--The minent Supreme Court ruling; President of Ecuador has taken declaring Presidential tax Communists Ease-Up dictatorial powers after a decrees unconstitutional. On Cambodian Capitol week of street-fighting be- Observers discount this in tween students and police. the light of last week's dis- PHNOM PENH (AP/AFRTS) ---- While President Velasco Ibarra is orders. heavy action was reported in said to have the support of The fighting involved Vietnam this weekend, enemy Ecuador's military high com- students from Quito's Central pressure in Cambodia eased up. mand in a move believed to be University. Paratroopers are The U.S. command says por- aimed at putting down student occupying the campus and'some tions of two American battal- unrest. ions began moving across the The official reason given shooting was reported during border into Vietnam, with more for the take-over was an im- the night. expected to move today. The movement marks the beginning of the major Amer- SALT Talk Consultations in ican pull-out scheduled to be VIENNA (AP/AFRTS) --- The chief Force plan completed a week from Tuesday. negotiator at the strategic The br Farther west in Cambodia, arms limitation or SALT talks said his, their Communist forces relaxed in Vienna, Gerard Smith, flew would be Tuesday, June 23, 1970 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 BIOGRAPHY OF REAR ADMIRAL MCCAULEY Radm. Brian McCauley was born in 1922 in Back to the Pacific as Commander Destroyer Annapolis, Maryland. The son of a naval of- Squadron One was his next assignment in ficer, he attended many different schools.He August 1966. In this capacity, he participa- entered the Naval Ac~demy in June, 1939 and ted in actions in the Western Pacific where was graduated in the first of the World War Two he commanded the group of destroyers provid- three year classes in June 1942. ing gunfire support to our forces in Vietnam. Upon graduation, he joined the USS FLUSSER From November, 1967, he was assigned as (DD-368). As the First Lieutenant and later Fleet Operations Officer and later as Assis- gunnery officer, he participated in the Solo- tant Chief of Staff for Operations for the mon Island and the New Guinea campaigns be- Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. fore commissioning the new destroyer USS Radm. McCauley is married to the former DUNCAN (DD-871) in 1944. In the DUNCAN, he Mary Rebecca Caldwell of Huntington, West served as gunnery officer and executive of- Virginia. The McCauley's have three child- ficer again in the Pacific. In May 1946, he ren, George Brian, 21, Elizabeth, 17, and commenced three years of post graduate stud- Mary Foree, 7. ies at the Naval Academy and Harvard Univer- sity where he received the degree of Master of physics. In September 1949, he reported to the new- S ly formed Destroyer Flotilla Four as Flag (haplai sBIBlrlig Secretary. This was followed by assignment to the pre-planning group for the SHAPE staff in Paris in February, 1951. After serving in 1 49ii ~Chaplain B.I., Bill ings. the SHAPE staff for two years under General Eisenhower, he reported to the USS ROOSEVELT as gunnery officer. This was followed in August, 1954 by a three year tour in the Research Division of Sure there are times when most of us get the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington D.C. angry. -this is just the nature of man. There In September, 1957, he reported to the USS is a time for anger and a time to "keep our EPPERSON (DD-719) in Pearl Harbor as command- cool." One time when it is best to keep one's ing officer. During this period, he made cool is when he is being given constructive two deployments to the Western Pacific and criticism. participated in the first Indonesian crisis. Usually no one likes to be told what he is Sea duty was followed in September, 1959, doing is not quite right. Most everyone has a by a three year tour in Washington. This time tendency to get angry when he is criticized. in the office of the Chief of Naval Opera- Most people would do well to listen with care tions first as the Cruiser-Destroyer Readiness when someone tries to tell them how they Officer and then in June, 1961, he was select- might do something better. Good suggestions ed as Aide to the incoming Chief of Naval Op- change a person when heeded. erations, Admiral George W. Anderson. One of the century's greatest symphony or- In August 1962, he reported to the first chestra conductors was the late Toscanini. all guided missile destroyer division in the Biographer Alice Ander in, "This was Toscanini, Atlantic, Destroyer Division 182, as Command- pictured him as a combination of saint and er. While there he deployed to the Caribbean demon. When David Sarnoff, chairman for of the the Cuban crisis, varticioatina in the National Broadcastinq Comoany. enaaed Page 4 Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, June 23, 1970 Change of Command- EDITORIAL (Cont. from Page 3) hope that our pathos will cross again soon. Our best wishes go to each and every one of The Declaration vou." There are so many reports of problems these days-and the means of communicating them to us are becoming increasingly Admiral Hildreth then read his orders, efficient-that we have very little time to think about the prob- whih direct him to proceed to the Commander, lems in cur nation's past. A look back, though, will show that the hours of our forefathers Cruiper-Destroyer Flotilla Four for duty as were, more often than not, marked with obstacles that could make some modern problems insignificant in comparison. During the hot his relief. summer of 1776, when the members of the Continental Congress 00llowing official honors, the outgoing were debating the matter of whether to declare their independence from King George's England, it was a dark and dangerous time admiral's flag was hauled down, and Rear for the colonists. Gen. Howe's army was expected at any time in New York. In Casada, Continental troops had been driven into Admiral M'caulev's flag raised. Then Admiral swamps, where many died of smallpox. Several of the colonies had M--auley made a few brief remarks, 'uring failed to send their quotas of ammunition, and more and more Tories were joining the British regulars. which he spoke of two previous times he had Nevertheless, Richard Henry Lee introduced into Congress a been here resolution declaring: That these United Colonies are, and of right in Guantanamo under different ought to be, free and independent states . circumstances. Five men, led by Thomas Jefferson, were selected to "embody Once was on a newly commissioned destroyer in 1944, and the other was during the missile crisiss in 1962 as a destroyer division commander. Following the bhnedi~tion, the colors were retired, and the traditional ceremony was over. Guantanaro has a new commander. 'LOST the spirit and purpose of the resolution in a Declaration of Inde- pendence." The document, the signing of which we commemorate each July 4, has remained the foundation stone of our way of life for 194 years.