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Thursday's flight Editor's Choice Energy Conservation C-5 Tuesday, June 25 Arrive Depart Jeep Wrangler Usage: 337,000 KWH Guantanamo Bay -------- 9:30 a.m. Cost $42,125 Roosey Roads 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Cost in Norfolk: $25,257 Raffle is at Philip's Park NAS Norfolk, Va. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Comparison cost for April Dover, Delware 8:30 p.m. July 4, 3 p.m. Radio Point Gitmo Norfolk See page 3 I Two bedroom $669 $213 I I Guantanamo Daily Gazette Sunrise: Tomorrow, 5:30 a.m. Sunset: Today, 8:37 p.m. Vol. 47 -- No. 120 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Wednesday, June 26, 1991 ' Adm. optimistic on future of Philippine bases AP - Mount Pinatubo is to life June 9 after 600 years of rose more than six miles 10 miles north of San Antonio. rumbling today with frequent rest. today, drifting over a wide area Meanwhile, the White earth tremors, forcing Presi- There's also a new fear of onboth the eastern and western House said yesterday that the dent Corazon Aquino to cancel landslides from tons of debris slopes. Mount Pinatubo eruptions Lebanon - Islamic fundamental- a visit to a town devastated by left by the eruptions. Fore- President Aquino flew will certainly affect negotia- ists say there can be no release of the volcano. casters are predicting strong today to San Antonio, one of tions over U.S. bases in the hostages without aprice. Inastate- The volcano continues to rains tomorrow night near the towns north of Subic Bay Philippines. But politics aside, ment, the Islamic Jihad for the spew ash over a wide area. The Clark Air Base and other areas Naval Base that was heavily the commander of U.S. forces Liberation of Palestine is demand- latest reports indicate the along the eastern slopes of damaged by the eruptions. in the country says ing the release of 400 Arabs from he's ready death toll has risen to 338 Mount Pinatubo. Ashfall forced her to cancel a to make the bases good as Iraeli jails. The statement was %ccompanied by what appears to since the volcano roared back A cloud of ash and steam scheduled stop in a town about new. Rear Adm. Thomas Mer- be a recent photograph of Ameri- cer says he hopes he'll only can hostage Alann Steen, who was need a couple of months to kidnapped in 1987. Peace talks ending on positive note bring 17,700 military depend- China - Officials say efforts to co- UPI - A peace agreement foreign arms supplies for the ready issued its first statement, ents back into Clark Air Base operate on drug enforcement could in Cambodia has, for a time being. saying a new Cambodian flag and Subic Bay Naval Station. be permanently harmed if the U.S. change, survived the peace Prince Norodom Siha- and national anthem will be doesn'trelenton acurrentprisoner dispute. Wang Zongxiao was a talks. nouk, chairman of the U.N.- established once free elections member of a heroin ring broken up Negotiations in Thailand sponsored group created to are held. Judge rules for by a joint operation. He told a between the four warring fac- lead the country into peace, Cambodia fell into civil Calif. judge he had been forced to needle program confess under torture. His asylum tions in Cambodia's Civil says the talks have ended on an war in 1978 when Vietnam UPI - A New York request is expected to drag on for War have ended after three up note. invaded and chased the noto- judge yesterday put the years and that has Chinese offi- days, with a cease fire agree- The U.N. group, a 12- rious Khmer Rouge from AIDS epidemic above the cials steaming. ment still intact. member panel to be known as power. Vietnam began a law, for now. Colombia - Some estimates say Also still intact is an agree- the Supreme National Coun- massive pullout of troops last In acquitting eight ac- notorious Colombian drug kingpin ment under which all four cil, is expected to meet in year that is said to be com- tivists accused in an illegal Pablo Escobar will spend as few as sides have agreed to swear-off August. The group has al- plete. Needle Exchange Pro- five years in jail. The decree regu- g am, Judge Laura Drager lating the amnesty plan under which Escobar surrendered says said city and state officials that his maximum 30-year sen- Nazi war criminal goes on trial today are not doing enough to tence can be cut in half if he de- AP - A labor camp com- Jews. wammbergcr claims to have combat the deadly virus. clares all of his money. The re- mander in Nazi-occupied Po- Schwammberger hid for 40 shot only one prisoner "be- Drager called the maining 15 years could be cut by Needle Exchange Program, another two thirds if he confesses. land accused in more than years in Argentina. He had cause of special circum- which enables drug 3,000 murders has gone on been on the most-wanted war stances, and has denied any users to trade used needles for (Continued on page 3) trial in Germany today. criminals list of famed Nazi role in the killings." clean ones, "necessary as such war crimes hunter Simo Wiesenthal, who Survivors, however, have It's the first an emergency measure to USA proceeding in unified Ger- is at today's opening ses- described how he set his dog avert public injury. many. sion. on inmates, pulled out their Each of the defendants News Seventy-nine-year-old Justice officials say Sch- gold teeth with pliers and could have been jailed up to Josef Schwammberger is wammberger has never denied robbed his Jewish victims of six months for violating a Miami - The Miami neighborhood needle of Overtown is quiet after a state charged with murdering or working at several slave labor gold and jewelry before killing distribution statute. appeals court overturned the man- helping to murder more than camps, where thousands of them. D ager noted in her slaughter conviction of a police 3,000 people 50 by his own inmates were interned and If convicted, he could be ruling that the state has yet officer in the shooting death of a hand. Most of the victims were died. But officials say Sch- sentenced to life in prison. to even consider whether to blackmotorcyclist. Police doubled scrap its needle law in the their shifts following yesterday's wake of the AIDS epi- decision, in anticipation of vio- lence. Gitmo's new zip code , address change take effect July 15 demic. She said the city has given "mixed signals" Guantanamo Bay - The dress serves as the street ad- official mailing address: Washington - The Senate today about such programs, Assistant Secretary of Defense dress. The FPO serves as the Capt. John Doe de- considers an issue that many law- scribing enforcement by makers didn't wanttackedonto the directs all services to carry out city and AE serves as the state. U.S. Naval Air Station police as "at best, spo- crime bill being debated. North the Zip Code Alignment and This enables mail to be proc- PSC 1001, Box 35-A radic." Carolina Republican Jesse Helms Address Standardization Pro- essedmore efficiently by using FPO AE 09593-0008 offered an amendment to ban all Within the next several The government argued job preference based on race, na- gram worldwide, July 15. the Postal Service Automated "All of our box numbers Equipment. years, the U.S. Postal System that the groups involved in tional origin or similar factors. the exchange were really First, the Senate will consider an will remain the same," said Gitmo residents will be will be totally automated. Mail just involved in a protest, amendment that limits the time Chief Wayne Ecklin, Gitmo's able to get information pack- will not be sorted by hand. The not offering legitimate death row inmates have to file postal officer. "For personal ages as soon as they arrive. nine-digit codes will be dis- Habeas Corpus petitions. service. letters, the first line will be the They will be available at both tributed to commands via But the judge was not addressee's rank and name. post offices. The packages guardmail within the next few Washington - The Air Force is convinced, and ruled the giving an honorable discharge to a Line two begins with the contain samples of new stan- days. harm the program sought to captain who carried the lead ban- Postal System Center (PSC) dardized addresses and several "This new system makes us eradictate was greater than ner in a Gay Pride parade this number. ForNaval Station that postage- paid change of ad- compatible with the U.S. weekend. Capt. Greg Greeley says the harm it caused. number is 1005 and for Naval dress cards. Postal System," Ecklin his release was delayed after offi- Acitylawyersaidhedid Air Stationit's 1001. The third The following is an ex- pointed out. "Being labeled cials learned of his homosexuality. not think the ruling set a The decision came yesterday as the line is FPO, AE (Europe and ample of a Naval Station per- with the AE will keep our mail precedent. Victor Kovner Pentagon released a statement Africa) and the nine-digit zip sonal mailing address: in the east coast, making deliv- said Drager wasn't address- saying there's no data that homo- code." BM1 John Doe ery quicker and more effi- sexuals pose a greater or lesser risk ing the enforceability of the A standard address has a PSC 1005, Box 25 cient." to national security than hetero- needles law as it is written, street address, city, state and a FPO AE 09593-0006 If you have any questions, sexuals.