SH H H ! the WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)---A Federal Official Warns That Ameri- ENVIRONMENT Can -Ities Already- Are Dangerously Noisy
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U. & NAVAL As. fATANAo SAY, cuaA VIetnam $ontatmnn Fighting TS atYtt THURSDAY M 19' Phone 9-5247 Steps Up SAIGON (AP)---Allied forces clashed with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops at four points around the A Shau Val- ley and on two sides of the U Minh Forest in the Mekong Del- ta. It was the second successive day of stepped up fighting in South Vietnam. A U.S. armored column pro- tecting bulldozers ran into 100 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. U.S. fighter- bombers, helicopter gunships and artillery pounded the en- emy. The U.S. Command said six Americans were wounded, one armored personnel carrier was destroyed and two bulldozers damaged. Enemy losses were not known. The South Vietnamese suffer- ed 17 killed and 12 wounded in a battle east of the U Minh Forest, southwest of Saigon. Saigon reported 40 of the enemy killed helped by air ar- tillery strikes. SH H H ! THE WASHINGTON (AP/AFRTS)---A federal official warns that Ameri- ENVIRONMENT can -ities already- are dangerously noisy. He said some observ- ers fear that if noise levels continue to rise city people "who dwell in the noisiest sections will be deaf in the year 2000." The statement comes from the acting dire-tor of the month- old Office of Noise Abatement and Control Alvin Meyer Jr. Our Noisy Meyer says his office will give -itizens a chance to sound off about noise this summer in hearings across the country. He Cities addressed a meeting of municipal anti-noise officials in Wash- ington yesterday. Meyer told them "the over-all loudness of environmental noise has been doubling every ten years in pace with social and industrial growth." He warned "already, heavy city traffic measures 90 decibles, five above damage level." Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, May 20, 1971 My Lai General Demoted GAZETTEER WASHINGTON (AP)--Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor yesterday demoted Maj. Gen. Samuel Koster and stripped a digest of late news him of a high decoration for failing to investigate adequately the My Lai massacre. Koster, a former West Point superintendent was reduced to brigadier general and his distinguished ser- vice medal withdrawn for his performance as commander of the Ameriosm Division at the time of the My Lai in- cident in March 1968. The Nixon admiliStratim, frustrated for months in At the same time, Resor rejected a recommendation its efforts to have Congress consider permanent trans- from army leaders that Brig. Gen. George Young, who was portation strike legislation, has won assurances that assistant division commander, be reduced in rank to its measure finally will receive some scrutiny. colonel. Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., the administration's Resor's actions capped months of study following dis- top Senate transportation strategist, said yesterday missal of coverup charges against both officers. the agreement was reached during behind-the-scenes ne- Army officials said 11 other officers whose records gotiations this week to settle the rail strike. were "flagged" after coverup charges were dropped against them remain under study, along with the The nation's trails hauled freight to factories and com- records of other Army officers and enlisted men who jobs yesterday muters to their after striking signalmen were charged in the massacre incident itself and either ended a two-day nationwide railroad shutdown under orders acquitted or the charges dismissed. from Congress and the White House. President Nixon's chief rail labor troubleshooter, Assistant Secretary of Labor W. J. Usery, immediately Anti-War Vote in House resumed efforts to settle the wage dispute and prevent WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Anti-war Denocrats in the iHouse anotherwaLkout when the special strike-stopping law hoped to put their paryon record as favoring withdraw- passed Dy Congress expires Oct. 1. al of all American forces from Vietnam by the end of Re started this morning to get things back on the this year. A vote on the issue depended on whether track," said a spokesman for Usery, who met with strike- there was a quorum at a morning party caucus--128 of leader C. J. Chamberlain. Usery planned meetings with the 255 House Democrats. rail industry negotiators later. "I'm fairly optimistic," said Rep. Bella S. Abzug, Congress granted a partial pay raise in ordering the D-N.Y., who joined 15 other House liberals in a tele- strikers back to work under the special law Nixon signed phone campaign to attract a quorum. Tuesday night but the rest of a proposed 42-month pack- The last clausus was dismissed when fewer than the age remains to be negotiated. required number showed up. On March 21, House Demo- crats voted 138 to 62 for ending American involvement The U.S. goVfelrnet double WaltSto from $75 million in Vietnam not later than the end of 1972, a position to $150 million next year the limit on U.S. arms ship- which paralleled that of Senate Democrats. nents to Latin America, the State Department said yes- Niether the House nor the Senate causes action has terday. any binding effect, but Democrats make up a majority The policy shift follows a failure of earlier U.S. ef- in both houses and the dnti-war activists see party forts to restrain Latin American arms spending by hold- endorsement of a pullout by the end of 1971 as a major ing down U.S. weapons and supplies to the hemisphere. step toward winning a lesal restriction later. Many South American countries have been purchasing new warplanes and other modern weaponry from European sup- Nixon Agrees with Caucus liers. State Department officials told newsmen that WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon says his administra- denying what they termed reasonable requests by Latin tion shares civil rights goals with black members of American nations for U.S. arms has not lowered Latin Am- Congress. And Nixon declared he is "determined to press erican defense outlays, listed at about 2 per cent of forward vigorously" to realize such goals. Nixon's re- the gross national product of the hemisphere states. markswere in a response to a 12-member black caucus. Stateside Temperatures Guantanamo Gazette Washington 58 New York 58 Boston 48 CoNaavBae.BAdm. B. McCauley Atlanta 62 Public Affairs Officer. LCdr. W. 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Today's high strued as official or as reflecting the views of Las Vegas 50 will be 85 degrees with a low tonight ComNavase or the department of the Navy. San Diego 58 of 75 degrees. 0] Los Angeles 44 Thursday, May 20, 1971 Guantanamo Gazette Page Base Police Traffic Court Here is a list of the per- sons who received two or more points at Base Police Traffic Court May 7-17. William E. Thornton, Sampson High School, speeding--four points Sammuel K. Man, Burns and Roe, following two closely -- two points W. Staple Todd, dependent, speeding--two points Thomas McDonald, Naval Air Station Operations, speed- ing--two points Michael A. Gibson, AAWC, failure to see intended move could be made safely--two points, Ross C. Greenley, AAWC, improperly secured vehicle--two points WHAT AN AR-RANGE-MENT---Sometimes a fella gets so wrapperl up Freeman Spann Jr., ticket on in what he'd doing it's almost impossible to get him to stop complaint--two points; Tedoro for anything. But Lt. (1g) John N. Miri, left, Naval Air Sta- L. Espinosa, GC-8l-B, failure tion Food Service officer, did manage to get SK1 Andrew G. to yield to an emergency ve- Forton interrupt his favorite hobby long enough to take the hicle--four points, Paul J. re-enlistment oath. Forton, a 16-year veteran, has served a- Graham, AAWC, speeding--two board many ships and at shore stations including a year in points, Paul M. Densieski, Vietnam. Forton and his wife Mary and their four children Fleet Training Group, speeding live in Villamar Housing. --two points, Bobby Parnell, Marine Barracks, speeding--two points. T.C. Kelley, Public Works Center, unsafe passing-- two points, ENTERTAINMENT LEAVING COMO CLUB SUNDAY--"Rio Lobo" John Wayne Jennifer O'Neill TOWN? TUESDAY--"C.C. and Company" Joe Namath, Ann Margret. (Also Country Cousins from statesilp) '' THURSDAY--"Catch 22" Alan Ar- kin, Martin Balsam /" (Also George and Judy from stateside) Call CPO CLUB SATURDAY--"C.C. and Company" Household Goods! 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