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*Lie detector supports witness against Agnew NEW YORK (AP)--Time magazine said yesterday that a key witness against Vice President Spiro Agnew in an investigation of an alleged kickback scandal has taken a lie detector test. The test showed that the witness, Jerome Wolff, "told the truth about delivering funds extorted from contrac- tors to Agnew," the magazine reported. Time said that in exchange for a promise of limited immunity, Wolff has agreed to testify that "Agnew has extorted bribes from state and fed- eral contractors." Time said an article in this week's issue would report that Wolff, pres- ident of Greiner Environmental Sys- tems, Inc., has turned over to pro- secutors a diary listing some of the payoffs he allegedly delivered to Agnew while the vice president was governor of Maryland. The diary covers a period from 1967 to 1968 when Agnew was governor and Wolff was head of the State Roads Com- mission--a job he was appointed to by JEROME WOLFF Agnew, Time said. S named as one .lists payoffs Wolff's firm has been of eight contractors who supplied il- legal funds, according to the magazine. Time said the lie detector test came after the Jus- tice Department's chief criminal prosecutor, Henry E. Peterson, visited Baltimore, where the investigation is being conducted. However, the polygraph findings probably will not be admissable in any court proceedings, but the magazine (See AGNEW, Page 2) U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Memphis expects busing MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)--Up to 40,000 pupils begin desegregation busing to- day in the Southern city where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death five years ago. "Memphis has undergone a considerable amount of change and, barring minor confusion, today will be just another school day," said Maxine Smith, a black member of the school board and executive secretary of the Memphis NAACP, which has fought in the courts for 13 years for busing in the nation's 10th largest school system. but John F. Molnar, head of the tactical police, agrees with Mrs. Smith, he'll have his motorcycles and helicopters out and a platoon of 70 men standing by. He calls it "playing it low." "There will be some little minor things, but we don't expect real trouble on opening day," he said. "I'm optimistic because I think we've done the work," said Hunter Lane Monday, August 27, 1973 going Jr., school board president, in discussing the program that has been (See BUSING, Page 2) Page 2-LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Monday, August 27, 1973 BUSING- (Continued from Page 1) /eT* GAZETTEER on for weeks to inform residents what to expect. .a digest of late news Some people would like to foment problems, Lane said, citing unsigned inflamatory flyers. Organized antibusing groups, however, do not plan demonstrations. Mrs. Kay Taylor, treasurer of Citizens Against Busing, said her group would not picket the schools, but she said CAB urges parents to keep their WASHINGTON (AP)-Litton Industries Inc. has told the children away. She does not anticipate flareups the Navy it needs another $77 million to cover cost in- first day. creases on its $2.2 billion contract to build 30 ships Limited busing of about 9,000 pupils began in Jan- at Pascagoula, Miss., Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., said uary, and while there was no initial trouble, after- yesterday. "Obviously Litton Industries is continuing shocks resulted at some schools. At Trezevant High to botch up the management of its so-called shipyard of School, five youths involved in racial fighting had to the future in Pascagoula," he said. "It is becoming be hospitalized and about a dozen others received mi- increasingly obvious that despite promises piled upon nor injuries. The school was closed for several weeks. promises by Litton and the Navy, the Pascagoula ship- yard continues to be a disaster." He said the new cost The $1.6 million busing program will be carried out overruns push the total contract increases to $476 mil- under a May 13 order by U.S. District Court Judge lion. It is probable that Litton will be forced to re- Robert M. McRae. Because of "white flight," some ex- quest another 13u million beyond that figure, Aspin perts feel that only about 30,000 of the original added. 40,000 scheduled for busing will ride. The NAACP supports a plan to bus about 57,000 pupils and is appealing McRae's order. NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Charges were dropped this weekend against a former New Orleans policeman because a wit- Enrollment figures show that in the city of 37 per ness could not confirm an earlier identification that cent black population, 67 per cent of pupils signed up the suspect had threatened to kill President Nixon. for school are black. Initial registration figures Edwin Gaudet had originally been charged with making show enrollment down by 20,000 to 30,000 pupils. The the spoken threat against the President five days be- school system expected attendance to be 130,000, but fore Nixon appeared in New Orleans last week. U.S. only 101,000 registered during the week. Attorney Gerald Gallinghouse says he's notified author-19 Private schools that have proliferated under the ities in New Mexico of the decision. Gaudet surrender- busing orders anticipate filling their classrooms. ed in New Mexico, where he had exchanged shots with law There are 213 private schools in the Memphis area, about enforcement officials who were pursuing him. double the number at this time last year. MOSCOW (AP)-The Soviet Union charged yesterday that China is building itself into a nuclear superpower to "sway the destinies" of other Asian countries. A major AGNEW- article in the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda (Continued from Page .1) also said the Chinese are raising a ballyhoo "about non- existent Soviet plans for a preventive nuclear strike." noted that "government witnesses are frequently asked The 54 7 00-word Pravda article was the latest in a recent- to take lie detector tests as a means of convincing pro- ly accentuated anti-Chinese campaign in Soviet official secutors that there is a strong case against a pro- organs, escalating the feud between the two countries. spective defendant." The Pravda criticism coincided with an article broadcast U.S. Attorney George Beall, heading the probe, has by the official Chinese News Agency Heinhua attacking asked other witnesses to take similar tests, Time said. the Soviet Union for a "social-imperialist policy of aggression." ~Guatanamo Water status Local Forecast O Gazette Continued partly cloudy with scattered ~.bt* .bittti3 ti Figures for Friday, Saturday showers in the area. Visibility unre- emar c-ft office and Sunday: stricted. Light & variable winds s. .blic At-. Offi. becoming SE 8-12 knots with gusts to J Br .- I Du.e .. WATER PRODUCED: 2,743,000 21 knots during the afternoon, Jo2 s. t.a .e .s*********. *****t ******.*.****** . .iot returning to light & variable after WATER CONSUMED: 3,821,000 sunset. High today 88 degrees. Low tonight 75 degrees. Bay dI-at tI at . .aa .iit t.t.t. .ata .t. conditions 1-3 feet. High tide Itor.ip 4nittmewas.panno-thotd itnR4tVEMP-t5*nd mderit. WATER LOSS: 1,078,000 ,10. of . t B. a . - a.tattoff. i.t. It p. att. 2130. Low tide 1441. a uth .tthat pea nb ac a. t ea w mIl a.tIt-ia - a 0eiaai 1 1 tul. b . ~t. h WATER IN STORAGE: 15,177,000 '-7. Monday, August 27,.1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS-Page 3 The Monongahela, a wooden hull steamer, was among the more interesting ships to train here By JOSN Sandy Warren Of the countless ships which have come to Gitmo for training, perhaps one of the most colorful, provoking considerable curiosity, is the USS Monongahela. Not much information is available on the ship. What little there is, however, can be found in "The His- tory of Guantanamo Bay," by Rear Adm. Marion Emerson Murphy, Cdr. B.D. Varner and Chief Journalist Daniel Koze. According to this book, the Monon- gahela was a wooden hull steamer that fought under Farragut in the Battle of New Orleans and in several other engagements. It was launched in 1862 in Philadelphia. From 1894 to 1903, she was a train- ing ship with a detachment of Marines aboard. And, like most training ships, she found her way to Gitmo. Her assignment as a station ship here was short-lived. In the spring of 1908, while anchored between South Toro Cay and Granadillo Point, the ship caught fire. No reason for the fire is given in the history book, but it is known that shortly before the fire the Monongahela was conver- ted to electrical power. While afire, she was towed and beached at a spot on the south side of Deer Point. Much was salvaged, but the ship was a total loss. Af- ter a few weeks, she settled on her What's happening side and submerged. From a helicop- ter today, one can see her hulk ly- TODAY ing in about 12 feet of water. CAMP BULKELEY LYCEUM: "The Designated Xpression", a USO group from the A gun, whose barrel "drooped" from University of Maine at Farmington, will perform at 7:30 p.m. the intense heat, was salvaged. An MORIN CENTER: Bingo at 8 p.m. oddity, it was mounted on the cliff ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS will meet at 8 p.m. in the Hospital training room. overlooking the Monongahela's rest- For more information, call 7493 DWH or 97191 AWH. ing place in what was the backyard of Quarters 1105.