U Thant Thinks VN Truce Boycott Suspende LONDON (AP) the Interna- Tional Transport Worker Fed- Should Be Extended Eration Today Temporarily UNITED NATIONS, N.Y
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WEATHER IOND GEN 5720/2 WATER FAIR CHARLIE 92/71 ~3inuo *hztft U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 MONDAY Date DECEMBER 12, 1966 WGBY Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Argentine Shippin U Thant Thinks VN Truce Boycott Suspende LONDON (AP) The Interna- tional Transport Worker Fed- Should Be Extended eration today temporarily UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) U.N. Secretary-General U Thant suspended its boycott of Ar- reported to have told some diplomats that he believes North gentine ships and aircraft Vietnam will reduce nostilities if the coming Christmas truce pending negotiations for in South Vietnam is extended well beyond the mid-February settlement of the Argentine Lunar New Year. dock workers dispute that Diplomatic sources sd prompted the boycott. today that in stating that The ITWF issued the fol- Rhodesian Boycott belief last week, Thant did lowing statement: not give his specific reason "The ITWF has been inform- Proposals At UN for thinkirtg that would be ed that negotiations for the UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) the North Vietnamese reac- settlement of the Argentine African members of the U.N. tion. dock workers dispute are in Security Council planned to The South Vietnamese Viet progress. In order not to propose today that it order Cong rebels, with North jeopardize the possibility an oil embargo and a broad- Vietnamese support, have de- @f success of these negoti- ened trade boycott against dared a 8-hour truce Wtions, the ITWF has decided Rhodesia's white minority starting Christmas eve and a to recommend to its affili- government. 48-hour truce starting New ates that pending the out- Mali, Nigeria and Uganda Year's eve. South Vietnam, come of the negotiation boy- were working to get in the with U. S. support, has de- cotts of Argentine vessels formal proposal before the dared similar Christmas and and aircraft should be tem- Council continued its Rhod- New Year's truces. The U.S. porarily suspended. esian debate this afternoon. and South Vietnamese have "Should, however, these At that meeting, Ambassa- also declared a 96-hour negotiations produce no sat- dor Arthur J. Goldberg was truce during the Lunar New isfactory settlement of the expected to announce U.S. Year, in February. *dispute, affiliates of the support for Britain's posi- The Secretary-General is ITWF will be urged to resume tion that the Rhodesian re- understood to have discussed effective boycott action bellion should be ended by his ideas about Vietnam with against Argentine ships and peaceful means alone,through Israeli7For~ign2 Mi.r~dter7Ab- aircraft recommended by the selective mandatory U. N. ba Eban, who met for more Nov. 16 resolution of the economic sanctions. than an hour with Thant yes- ITWF Executive Board." (Continued on page 4) terday. The boycott until now has not been 100 percent succes- sful. Accordi.ngt:to Argen- tine shipping sources, var- Jordan OK'sTroos IF ious unions throughout Eur- AMMAN, JORDAN (AP) _ Jordan has agreed to let in Iraqi and ope have not acceded to it. Saudi Arabian troops within two months, but only if U. N. Ships arriving here have Sea cekeeping forces are withdrawn from the frontier between been unloaded for various srael and the United Arab Republic, a Jordanian government reasons. Stevedore unions spokesman said last night. have not taken part in the The Jordanian stipulation appeared to check-'the plans of boycott, according to Argen- other Arab leaders to extend their troops further along the tine shippers. Israeli frontier sinceit was unlikely that the United Nations The latest Argentine ship would remove its forces and risk a further increase in Middle to arrive was the RIO DULCE East tensions. 'of 6,770 tons which is oper- Jordan has expressed fear that foreign troops admitted to ted by Empresa Lineas Mar- its territory would be used to overthrow King Hussein. titimas Argentinay(ELMA). It Nor was U.A.RCPresident Gamal Abdel Nasser, with 55,000 of arrived Saturday in Liver- his troops fully occupied in Yemen, thought to want the U.N. (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) PAGE 2 MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1966 GITMO GAZETTE 1 have been pleasantly surprised in the past few months with the regularity and frequency of U.S. mail deliveries on the Base, but I am curious, and am sure that others would also like to know, how the U.S. mail gets in and out of Gitmo. How often? By what methods? First class, second class and packages? How are air freight shipments handled, how are air freight charges computed, and is it really worth the seemingly high extra expense? The Post Office here is doing an excellent job and should be commended for its prompt handling of the mail. N.Z. Baxter The Postal Officer, NAVSTA replied-- U.S. Mail for Gitmo arrives and is dispatched in the following ways: INCOMING Airmail,First and Second Class is flown in from Norfolk on cargo and MAC flights, the schedule of these flights vary from month to month but in the past several months these flights have been on an average of every other day. PARCEL POST is held in Norfolk and comes to Gitmo aboard United Fruit Ships every other Satur- day. This is a firm schedule and the last scheduled ship was on the 10th of December so you can figure schedules using the above date. Parcel Post also comes in aboard U.S. Navy ships departing Norfolk and arriving here for refersher training. The Fleet Branch Post Office in Norfolk will and does use all available means of transportation to see that we get our mail. OUTGO1N6 All calsses of mail are flown from Gitmo.on all available flights regardless of the planes destination in the states. Examples of this are as follows: Marine Logistic flights depart Gitmo every Tuesday and Friday and goes into MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina and MCAS Cherry Point,North Carolina. Our mail on this flight is off loaded at Beaufort, South Carolina and put directly into the Postal System. The same holds true for the cargo and MAC flights that jo into Norfolk and various other points in the East Coast. Our outgoing mail actually goes out more often than it comes in due to various unscheduled flights and by using all flights pos- sible. Mail for Kingston is flown in and out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Mail for San Juan is flown out three times weekly on the southbound Marine Logistics flights, COMTEN flights and our own station aircraft. In regard to your question on air frieght shipments the Post Office does not handle freight, but assuming you meant Airmail Parcel Post, this is handled as follows: Incoming Airmail Parcel Post is flown to New York then trucked to Norfolk daily and dispatched to Gitmo by air- craft. Airmail packages are never put on any type of ship. They are always flown to Gitmo. A point to remember on outgoing mail is that even though all our mail is flown to the states, once it gets to the first point of entry it leaves that point according to the type of postage that has been paid; that is AIRMAIL is flown and other classes of mail go by surface trans- portation. AIRMAIL Charges are computed by wieght and distance and since this office is a branch of the New York Post Office, a person stationed here at Gitmo pays postage only from New Yorkto the point the packages is addressed to. An example of this is a package for any destination in Ohio would cost $1.23 and a five pound package would cost $2.73. In regard your question ".is it really worth the extra expense?" There is no specific answer to this because it is up to each individual patron as to how fast he wants his package to get to its destination. The actual time delay between a straight parcel post package and Air Par- cel post could be as much as two weeks. TI, l m C-rF. t PoI ILh.d W .Ith th, .,1 .6 regul o h and t n . B.A. YOUNG,LT, USNR Colli,~ IISN, Public AItr OIfet t h rfI . I n VEXOS 1h,P- and undM d irctio- of LC DR _D. can AYBASE or oflt N.vyh p,,r. nt .e GAE' IE .a . m-mber of th ArmedForP. .Senice- I FEEL 6UILT' ABOUT THE I SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO MAKE WAY I FEED SNOOPY.HIS 141 MEALS MORE INTERESTING. MEALS ARE SO DRAB. D CS~ P4 GE 3 MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1966 GITMO1 GAZETTE THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA (AP) Doctors say LONDON (AP) Queen Mother Elizabeth spent 6-year-old Zoltan Hargitav--who has undergone another restful night and was reported today surgerV twice since beinr mauled by a lion making a satisfactory recovery from an abdom- NOV. 26--continues to improve. inal operation. The medical bulletin was Zoltan, the son of actress Jayne Mansfield signed by two of the surgical team who per- and her ex-husband actor Mickey Hargitay, formed the operation on the 66-year-old Queen nonetheless was listed in serious condition Mother. yesterday. He is sufforingc from spinal men- ingitis discovered after operations for a SYDNEY(AP) A 65-year-old Briton sailed his fractured skull and removal of a ruptured 53-foot ketch into Sydney harbor todaynto com- spleen. 3 plete a 1 ,750-mile nonstop voyage from Ply- mouth, England. WASHINGTON (AP) Formor President Dwight D. Francis Chichester had hoped to make the Eisenhower went under the surgeon's "knife trip in 100 days, but adverse winds and cur- this morning for removal of the rents gall baldder stretched the Gypsy Moth IV's voyamo to which surgeons say contains "multiple" gall 107 days.