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WEATHER VATER Fair C'harlie 1 We REt & U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Monday Date March 20, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) [B] Renews Powell Preaches Vietnam Pledge In Bi i GUAM (AP) PRESIDENT JOHNSON, arriving ilmNot NY on Guam for a broad review of military and diplo- BIMINI, BAHAMAS (AP) (BY Str atton L. Douthat) A SURLY ADAM matic offensives to end the CLAYTON POWELL preached on thi s tiny Bahamian island yesterday Vietnam war, renewed today his the Palm Sunday sermon he dare d not go to New York to deliver. pledge to defend South Vietnam The deposed Congressman had promised earlier that he would 'unit] an honorable peace can risk arrest by going to New York to walk the streets on Palm be negotiated." Sunday andi speak in Harlem's "I renewthat pledge to you." Civil Council Abyssinian Baptist Church on Johnson said to Vietnamese the theme, Prime "When a man falls, Minister Nguyen Cao Ky On TV Tuesday he shall rise again." and Chief of State Nguyen Van But Powell changed his mind Thieu. CIVIC COUNCIL MAYOR "Pat" Friday, saying he Speaking feared that for South Vietnam, Patterson and other members of his arrest would lead to vio- Thieu pledged that his country the Civic "will council will ap- lence and bloodshed by his do her best so that all pear on AFRTS TVChannel 8, on the brave soldiers people. who have Tuesday nightto exp!in to the Saturday, Powell refused to made the supreme sacrifices in functions of the Civic Council answer qny questionsfrom news- the defense of freedom will to Gitmo residents. men about his case. not have given their lives in The program will be aired And vain." when a photographer from 6:30 until 7 ande hosted pointed a U.S. camera at him, he and Vietnamese leaders, by Chief Journalist Bill became very angry. meeting for the third time in Liedtke. "No pictures!" he snapped. a little more than a year, ex- Also on the program, the "You could changed lose your camera greetings before a Council and the Safety Office that way." crowd of 2,000 Guamanians and will present the winners of Later, he relented Americans who and al- had come down to the Safety Slogan Contest. lowed pictures to be taken the airport to welcome as them. The top prize is a $50 U.S. he accepted palm fronds from The President's wife is va- Savings Bond, awarded-to the cationing a group of native children. in the Virgin Is- best slogan submitted by an Palm Sunday,preceding lands for four or five days Easter, adult. commemorates Christ's while Mr. Johnson attendsthe For the high triump- school students hal entry into Jerusalem, when conference. She left for a $25 Savings Bond will be the multitude Cancel Bay, St. Johns today, strewed palm awarded for the best essay. fronds in his path. Powell passed out fronds to those who heard his sermon. The 59-year-old Powell says Opposition Boycotts Gandhi he will stay at Bimini at least until NEW DELHI (AP) India's President April 4, when court Sarvepalli Radhakr Radhakr- hearing is scheduled ishnan set fbrth four major goals of Prime Minister Indira in Wash- Gandhi's new government ington on his suit to regain yesterday in a speech boycotted by the Congressional nearly 200 opposition members of Parliament. seat he held for 22 years The unprecedented snub by all opposition parties except until he was bar- the red from it by right-wing Swatantra was to protest the imposition the House. of Presi- In New York, a sheriff also dent's Rule, a kind of federal control, in Rajasthan State following riots there. holds a warrant for his arrest on a criminal Shortly after the President's address,a member of the contempt charge Hindu stemming from Communal Jan Sangh Party in the Lower House of Parliament a libel judge- ment he refused to brought a no-confidence motion against Mrs. Gandhi's five-day- pay. He old government as a result of her handling later made a partial payment. of the Rajasthan He * cr i sis. said Friday there was a tenseness Debate on the motion was to begin immediately in Harlem that at the Prime could explode Minister's request. (Continued on page cwo) into violence if he were arrested. PAGE 2 MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE NEW DELHI(Cont'd from page 1) "Let us start LONDON (Cont'd from col. one) the debate right away," she said. The Labor government has granted a number of If passed, the motion would lead to the re- lifetime peerages, but has refused to sanction signation of Mrs. Gandhi's government. But any such hereditary awards which one Conser- this was considered unlikely since her ruling vative lawmaker called "About the cheapest way Congress Party has a 20-seat majority in the of honoring a person that has ever been in- Lower House of Parliament. vented." NEW YORK (AP) ABOUT 10 MEMBERS of a Harlem SAIGON (AP) TAKING ORDERS AIRBORNE from com- Black Nationalist group who call themselves puters, United States B-32 Stratofortresses "Mau Mau" walked out during a sermon at a Palm battered Communist installations in the Repub- Sunday service today in Representative Adam lic of Vietnam in a near-record six raids over Clayton Powell's Abyssinian Baptist church. the weekend. The eight-engine jets took off Police sources said several wore red con- from Guam, site of President Johnson's con- struction workers' helmets and at least two ferences withtop United-States and South Viet- had what were described as "ornamental" bayo- namese leaders on the Vietnam war. nets or scabbards, purchasable in almost any The use of the new computer technique was Army-Navy store. not explained in detail by the United States A sermon was being preached by the Rev.David command in Saigon, but one official said the Licorish when the "Mau Mau" members walked out computers make the jets more flexible. The as he was warning against extremism. computers and other electronic equipment Powell, who is Pastor of the church, had aboard are programmed with a vast number of originally planned to come back yesterday to targets, making it possible for the Strat- campaign for his lost seat in Congress and ofortresses to revise the missions after they preach a Palm Sunday sermon. take off from Guam. In the past they left the Powell is favored to win back the seat by a island base with one target planned and could heavy margin in a special April 11 election in not be diverted. his 18th Congressional District. Other United States warplanes, carrier-based all-weather Intruder jets,struck for the third MOSCOW (AP) THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT expelled time at North Vietnam's steel fabricating plant two Chinese diplomats from Moscow Saturday, at Thai Nguyen, 32 miles north of Hanoi. The charging them with carring on anti-Soviet act- two-and-a-half-square-mile industrial complex ivity. was first raided March 10. The Foreign Ministry ordered immediate de- No United States losses during Saturday's air parture for First Secretary Miaho Chiung and operations were reported. Third Secretary Sun Lin. Ground action in the Republic of Vietnam, The expulsion was in apparent retaliation overshadowed by the air war, was limited to 0 for the recent expulsion of two Soviet diplo- small but occassionally intense skirmishes mats from Peking. Saturday. Most of the fighting, as usual, was NG. Natashin,Second Secretary of the Soviet in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian Embassy in Peking and O.A.Yedanov, Second Sec- border and in northern areas of the country. retary and Chief of the Consular Section,were In the scattered fighting, 97 Viet Cong bodies expelled a week ago, accused of "abuse, slan- were counted, and United States casualties der, deception,threats and insults against the were reported to be 12 dead and 32 wounded. Chinese staff" at the embassy. The United States military spokesman said the B-52 bombers Saturday night and Sunday hit LONDON (AP) THE HOUSE OF COMMONS rejected a six suspected Communist base camps. One strike bill to abolish titles of aristocracy which a only 18 miles west of Saigon, rattled windows minister of the Labor Government claimed would in the capital. The swept-wing jets have been 0 change "our whole system of Parliamentary Gov- flying in for an average of four raids a day ernment." in recent weeks. The heaviest B-52 assult was Home Secretary Roy Jenkins appealed to the February 16, when seven targets were hit. House to refuse a second reading of the pri- The Navy said its planes from the carrier vate bill introduced by Laborite Emrys Huges. Kitty Hawk, each capable of hauling sixteen The legislators refused the vital reading 1,000 pound bombs, hit the Thai Nguyen steel without a formal vote Friday. plant, the only one l.n North Vietnam, Saturday The bill provided that all titles bestowed night. No assessment of the raid was given. Queen Elizabeth II or any of her predecessors It was the fifth attack of North Vietnam's should become extinct with the death of -the industrial capacity in days. Besides the two present titleholder. It would also ban the previous strikes at the steel plant, two major granting any more titles. The bill, however, power-generating stations were raided last explicity exempted from the banning any titles week. held by members of the Royal Family. Overall, United States pilots flew 73 mis- Defending his measure, Hughes said: "The old sions over North Vietnam Saturday, despite bad nobility have had their day, and should now weather over much of the country.