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o0 wnttunu 0 ztasatit Vol. 30, No. 130 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, August 11, 1975 ISRAELI TEAM VISITS WASHINGTON TO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS FOR U.S. AID (AP)--Israeli Prime Minister which Israel will withdraw, and Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday pro- the number of troops Egypt will gress had been made in recent be allowed to station on the weeks toward a Sinai accord with strategic Mitla and Gidi passes Egypt, but "certain key issues" that Israel will vacate. still need clarification. At the Diplomatic sources in Tel Aviv same time, an Israeli team flew said resumption of the aid talks to Washington to reopen negotia- in Washington is a sign that the tions on $2.5 billion in U.S. aid. United States is satisfied that Israeli newspapers quoted U.S. Israel is making concessions to officials as saying a Sinai Egypt. The United States broke agreement would probably come off aid discussions in the "re- about Sept. 1, after a shuttle by assessment" of U.S. policy that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger followed the breakdown of Kissin- between Jerusalem and Cairo. ger's shuttle diplomacy last spring. LT. GEN. NICHOLS COL. FENNESSY COL. LaMONTAGNE The issues still in dispute, Israel' s director-general of the according to Israeli sources, are treasury, Arnon Gafni, heads the certain sectors of the line to four-man delegation to Washington. GEN. NICHOLS TO BE GUEST OF HONOR AT CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONIES INDIAN PRESIDENT APPROVES AMENDMENT TO FREE MRS. GANDHI FROM CONVICTION Lt. Gen. Robert L. Nichols, com- As. an officer, he has served in manding general of Fleet Marine numerous assignments both in the NEW DELHI, India (AP)--President supreme court appeal of a June 12 Force, Atlantic, will be guest of states and overseas, including in Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed gave his assent conviction that she illegally used honor at change of command cere- combat in both Korea and Vietnam. yesterday to a quickly passed con- government officials to aid her monies tomorrow morning at the Originally from Rochester, N.Y., stitutidnal amendment designed to 1971 campaign for Parliament. Marine Barracks. Col. Fennessy comes to Guantanamo free Prime Minister Indira Gandhi The amendment - introduced in At the 9 a.m. ceremony, Col. from duty at Marine Corps Air from her conviction for corrupt Parliament on Thursday, passed Fri- Edward J. LaMontagne will step Station, El Toro, Calif. He is electoral practices. day and ratified by a majority of down as commanding officer of the married to the former Adella Ahmed, the constitutional head of state assemblies Saturday - retro- Marine Barracks and Ground Defense Gardner, also from Rochester. The state who had no power to refuse to actively states that the existing Force as he nears the end of a couple has four sons and a daugh- sign the legislation, gave the challenges to the election of a career which began in the fall of ter. amendment the status of law a day prime minister shall be deemed never 1951 when he enlisted in the Marine Col. LaMontagne's military career before Mrs. Gandhi is to begin her to have taken place. Corps Reserve. began as a Navy enlisted man in Col. Mark P. Fennessy, who ser- 1946. After his first tour of duty ved as a scout sergeant with the with the Navy he attended New BATHERS THROW ROCKS, BOTTLES IN CONFRONTATION ON SOUTH BOSTON BEACH 11th Marines on Guadalcanal England College, and after gradua- during the struggle in the Pacific tion was commissioned a second BOSTON (AP)--Black and white demonstration into the hostile area in World War II, and later as lieutenant in the Corps. bathers pelted each other with to "reassert the rights of all Sergeant Majpr at Marine Corps After service as a junior offi- rocks and bottles yesterday as sev- Boston residents to use all public headquarters in Washington, will cer, he returned to civilian life eral hundred people gathered for a facilities." be the new local Marine Barracks and attended law school at Boston civil rights demonstration on Eight people, six blacks and two commanding officer following the University while remaining in the racially troubled Carson Beach in whites, were arrested on charges ceremony. Marine Corps .Reserve. South Boston. ranging from disorderly conduct to The Marine Barracks has invited He returned to active duty in About 600 riot-helmeted police assault and battery with a danger- the Guantanamo community to wit- 1957, andsubsequently served in created a 200-foot-wide sandy ous weapon. ness the ceremony, and asked those numerous posts, including two tours off-limits area between the crowds Several persons were injured by attending to be seated by 8:45 a.ih. as an instructor in San Fernando, of about 500 blacks and 1,000 flying objects, among them two to ensure the event begins promptly Spain, teaching infantry tactics whites in the predominantly Irish policemen. One of the officers was at 9 o'clock. to Spanish Marine Corps officers. area. hospitalized after he was knocked Among the highlights will be a In Vietnam, he later served as However, demonstrators repeatedly off his motorcycle when one of the flyover by helicopters and jets, commanding officer, 3rd Battalion, threw rocks, beer bottles and bricks flying objects hit him in the a gun salute by the guided missile 9th Marines. Among Col. LaMon- at each other over the heads of the chest. destroyer USS Sellers, a pass in tagne's many decorations are the policemen. Police on horseback and motor- review by Marine troops, tanks and Silver and Bronze Stars, Legion of Black leaders said they led the cycles, along with an amphibious artillery pieces, and a performance Merit and Purple Heart. vehicle, occasionally charged into by the Fleet Marine Force Atlantic Col. LaMontagne and his wife, the crowds in an attempt to Drum and Bugle Corps. the former Barbara Healy, are both MOTHER 'SCREAMS AND SCREAMS' separate the two sides, who shout- Following the event refreshments from New Hampshire, where they'll ed and gestured at each other. will be served behind the Marine live upon retirement. WHEN SHE FINDS SON'S BODY After two hours, black leaders Barracks headquarters. Ample park- Lt. Gen. Nichols was in Gitmo in said the event, billed as a ing will be available at the April on an inspection trip of OMAHA, Neb. (AP)--Six-year-old "picnic," was over, and police Marine lyceum. Caribbean Marine units. He in- Mark Watson didn't come home on pushed the blacks about a Col. Fennessy, the incoming com- spected the local Marine Ground time to take the medicine to treat quartermile down the beach to manding officer, first enlisted in Defense Force and the Special Mis- his epilepsy and his mother became a shopping center parking lot, the Corps. in 1940, and won the sion Force. During that visit concerned. where they had left their cars. Silver Star and Purple Heart while here he also took .part in the She called the police, and along Meanwhile the whites were held rising to Sergeant Major before dedication of the Huntington Bar- with neighbors, they helped her back out of rock-throwing range. earning his commission in 1951. raeks tt Marine Site 2. scout the neighborhood Saturday for the boy, who also was hard of hear- ing. After about two hours, a friend WORST PROBLEM AMONG AMERICANS ON BASES IN TURKEY IS UNCERTAINTY OVER IMMEDIATE FUTURE asked Mrs. Watson if she had thought of looking in an old refrigerator on ANKARA, Turkey (AP)--Some 15,000 deciding not only the fate of the avoid friction as much as possible," the Watson pickup truck. It was Americans on U.S. military instal- American personnel but the U.S.- one official said. headed for the dump later in the lations in Turkey live in a sus- Turkish relationship as well. American officials here admit day. pended state, not knowing whether In the meantime, an American there have been some problems with Mrs. Watson and the other woman or when to start packing for the military source said the American mail and deliveries of consumer began tugging on the door. It took possible trip home. commanders are battling with prob- goods because of some overzealous about five minutes to get it open, "The worst problem among our lems of morate and idleness. Turkish authorities. "Even diplo- and Mrs. Watson said, "I just people is the uncertainty over Experts in charge of running the matic mail was held up for several screamed and screamed." Mark's body their immediate future," an Ameri- sensitive equipment on the bases days at the beginning, with low- was inside. can official said recently. are out of work, but a large num- level officials not knowing how Police said the boy apparently Angered by the refusal of the ber of the personnel still have far measures against Americans suffocated. An autopsy was ordered. U.S. Congress to lift an arms em- jobs, the source said. "Adminis- were supposed to be carried out," Mark had been playing with some bargo against Turkey that was im- trative work and maintenance of the one official said. has not other children. The Watsons were posed in the wake of Turkey's in- equipment continue," he added. The Turkish government down told by one of them that he had vastion of Cyprus, the Turkish For those Americans with nothing yet taken steps toward closing bases or stop- seen a child close the icebox door. government suspended operations or little to do, base commanders the PX shops on the As to why opher children didn't on the key bases two weeks ago have been recommending long vaca- ping special mail privileges.