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Tomorrow's flight Water Usage 727 Friday, May 11 through Sunday, May 13 NAS Norfolk, Va. 8:00 a.m. Usable storage: 14.28 MIL-100% (Fri.), 14.39MIL - Guantanamo Bay 11:00 a.m. noon 100% (Sat), 14.36 MIL-100% (Sun.) Kingston, Jamaica 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Goal: 1 MIL Guantanamo Bay 2:15 p.m. 3:20 p.m. Consumption: 860 K (Fri.), 1.02 K (Sat.), 1.16 K NAS Norfolk, Va. 6:15 p.m (Sun.) See page 3 I Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 45 -- No. 217 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, May 14, 1990 Opposition to U.S. bases Floods force evacuations in South in Philippines growing AP - Residents downriver of And in California, the Lake Livingston in Texas are problem continues to be too - AP It's morning in Manila, infringe on national sovereignty. being ordered to leave their little water. Fire season will be where talks between U.S. and Chief U.S. Negotiator Richard homes. Authorities expect the declared today in most of Philippine officials are under way. Armitage opened the talks by flow of water down the Trinity southern California with rainfall On the eve of those negotiations, condemning Sunday's killings. He England -- British Coast Guard River in that area to double by in the region measuring only 38 officials say they're slowly winning two U.S. airmen were slain near the accused the Communist sus- rebels tomorrow, and many roads are percent of normal. Authorities the battle against an oil slick off the Clark Air Base. Philippine officials pected of carrying out the attack of already under water. Flooding is say a four-year drought com- southem coast of England. Nearly have launched a search for the attempting to drive a wedge be- forcing more people to leave bined with a fungus possibly 300,000 gallons of crude spilled when killers. Though there's been no teen Manila and Washington. The a tanker collided with a trawler. their homes in Louisiana, and in linked to air pollution is leaving claim of responsibility, authorities dead servicemen, identified as 19- Arkansas, when volunteers and the region's dense brush ripe for say they suspect Communist rebels. year-old John Raven from Delta New Zealand -- Officials in New county jail inmates have been a huge fire. Officials fear this The U.S.-Philippine talks concern Junction, Alaska, 20-year-old Zealand report the strongest and reinforcing levees threatened by summer could be the worst earthquake there in 22 years. The the renewal of leases on American James Green of Craig, Coo., were the swelling Red River. wildfire season in decades. quake, which measured six-point- military facilities. The rebels want part of a squadron on temporary seven on the Richter scale, toppled a the Americans to pull out. duty in the Philippines from a U.S. two-story building. No injuries were The slaying of two American Air Base in South Korea. reported. airmen and demonstrations by American G.I.'s in the Philip- Kohl defeated in German elections bomb-throwing protesters set the pines have been ordered to return to North Korea -- The government of stage for the start of talks. Security base. The precautionary move was AP - The party of West Ger- setback may complicate Kohl's Communist North Korea says it will for American personnel in the coun- prompted by the two slaying. man Chancellor Helmut Kohl lost to goal of a quick reunification with release the remains of some U.S. try was on the agenda for the first Policy says the American airmen left-leaning social democrats in a East Germany. soldiers killed in the Korean War. The state election today. The defeat of Officials say experts have fin- Korean Central News Agency says the round. Opposition to the U.S. bases were dressed in civilian clothes the conservatives threatens Kohl's ished a draft treaty that would merge "unearthed remains" will be tumed is increasing in the Philippines when they were gunned down about over to a U.S. Congressional because a growing number of Fill- a half-mile from the main gate of slim majority in the Upper House of the German economies this sum- delegation, May 28, at the border pinosAbelieve the military facrltses their base. Parliament. Observers say the mer. village of Panmunjom. U.S.- Iran resolve financial claims Puerto Rico -- The American flag AP - A U.S. official in the owed salaries by Iranian companies Walkout continues could be in line for another star under Netherlands says the United States when they fled Iran during the a Puerto Rican statehood bill working and Iran have agreedto settle some revolution. its way through Congress. The 3,000 financial claims stemming The official says the settlement Cincinnati Bell dials wrong number measure calls for a vote by Puerto from the 1979 Islamic revolution. also provides Ricans in 1991, allowing them to $55-million for repay- AP - Striking workers say clerical workers is in its second day, choose between statehood, independ- The official, from the Iran- ment of a loan from the U.S. Agency Cincinnati Bell has dialed a wrong with no new talks scheduled. Cin- ence or continued commonwealth United States Claims Tribunal, says for International Development. And number. They're refusing to budge cinnati Bell serves 500,000 custom- status with added authority. the $105-million pact deals primar- he says the way is now clear for the on the phone company's demand ers in parts of Ohio, Kentucky and ily with so-called "small claims" Tribunal to deal with some $16- that they pay partsofthe costof their Indiana, and says the walkout will (continued to page 3) for under $250,000. Those claims billionin major claims, whichcould health premiums. The walkout by probablymean somedelays inrepair largely concern Americans who left lead to re-establishing economic the 3,000 operators, technicians and and installation work. behindpersonalpossessions or were relations between the two nations. USA Gitmo Bay's child care costs to remain stable of three, it's $47 a week for full-time included. "However, News By JOSN LISA M. ENLOE disclosing to- 4 or an 0-4, they both will pay the care. Part-time care under the age of tal family income AND AFIS is not a require- same," said Kinate. "However, fees Chicago -- Police in Chicago have three is $30 a week. Over three, full- ment in Gitmo," Kinate said. may change when we relocate to our time, is $45 for the week. Part-time Selected installation child captured a suspect in the shooting Families in Guantanamo Bay permanent facility in the Villamar for this age group is $25 a week. development centers tabulated deaths of two of their fellow officers may now pay less. And families at housing area." last night. More "We also have drop-in care than a hundred Naval Station, Rota, Spain, may be October 1989 data of parents' fees According to the Department of officers aided by tracking dogs fanned paying more. But everyone every- available at hourly rates. Under and their combined gross incomes Labor, U.S. families pay 10 to 12 out through the neighborhood where where will soon pay about the same three is $1.50 per hour, and over based on rank. The Family Policy percent of their gross family incomes the slain officers had been summoned to use child development centers. three is $1.25. There's also a dis- and Support Office determined for child care. Under the new fee to break upa dispute between the counted rate for an additional child." world-wide averages to help set suspect and his grandmother. DoD's Family Policy and policy, the average military member Support Office has established a The Military Child Care Act of preliminary fee ranges. will pay six to eight percent of the New York -- Two juries are to resume standard-fee policy for regular 1989 requires that fees be based on "The majority of the Gitmo resi- total family income for child care in deliberation today in the case of a pair users at service child development family income and be standard dents should see the fees remain a military center. of white youths charged with killing a centers. Gitmo's Child Develop- throughout the military. Fee ranges about the same," Kinate said. "Priority spacing on the waiting black teenager in Brooklyn's ment Center Acting Director Cindy will be based on annual pay and Current rates are based primar- list is given to single and duel- Bensonhurst neighborhood. The trials Kinate, said the fees here are "differ- allowances plus spousal income. ily on local conditions. "Fees here military families. We're hereto serve come amid heightened racial tension ent for each age group. Under the age Variable housing allowance is not don't vary. Whether a parent is a E- the military," said Kinate. " in New York City. As the juries deliberated yesterday, Mayor David Dinkins condemned the attack by a gang of blacks on three Vietnamese Frowns fade with return of Guantanamo's 'Smiley flag' they mistook for Koreans. Blacks have been boycotting two Korean By JOSN LISA M. ENLOE the tradition again for one reason. grocery stores in Brooklyn. "We've received numerous calls from "Gray skies are going to clearup, Gitmo residents. They miss our Washington --The legal test for smiley flag," Keller put on a smiley face." That's what said. America's flag buying law begins the "The flag is only present when today at the Supreme staff at Gitmo's Naval Station Court.