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- Tomorrow's flight Water C-141 Usage NAS Norfolk, Va. 11:50 a.m. Monday, May 21 Guantanamo Bay 2:50 p.m. 4:45 p.m. Usable storage: 13.92 MIL - 99% Charleston, S. C. 6:45 p.m. Goal: 1.0 MIL See page 3 Consumption: 1.14 MIL i i I Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 45 -- No. 222 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Tuesday, May 22, 1990 Tensions ease in Middle East uproar Cheney AP - Arab reporters in Israel have closed shops and schools and wants multi-national NATO force say another Palestinian has died are staying home from jobs in Israel AP - Defense Secretary Speaking on his plane, en from wounds suffered in clashes for asecond day, in an act of protest. Dick Cheney says NATO should route to Brussels, Cheney said with Israeli troops. Meantime, the army has extended a consider revamping its military the alliance should pursue the The death today makes 11 Arabs curfew in the occupied territories to structure as U.S. troop levels in idea of a multinational force. He killed in the violence that began quell angry protests. About one-and- Europe are reduced. said a multinational corps could Cheney's Philippines - The commander of Sunday, after a formerIsraeli soldier a-half-million Arabs are confined to in Brussels, Bel- be formed with three divisions U.S. forces in the Pacific has gunned down seven unarmed Pales- their homes. gium, taking part in his second each from a different nation. optimistic words about U.S.- tinians. Generally, the situation is In Israel proper, about 800,000 NATO Defense Ministers' Meet- A senior official traveling Philippine relations. Adm. Huntington calm today in the occupied Gaza Arabs returned to work today, but ing in two weeks. with Cheney says using multi- Hardisty emerged yesterday from a strip and West Bank. Palestinians there were scattered protests. He says the western alliance national forces in NATO could meeting with the Philippine foreign must adapt if an East-West con- offer cost savings and ease secretary, saying prospects are good ventional arms Pact is reached nationalist sensitivities, for an agreement extending the U.S. especially China gets most-fav ored-nation status and the threat of war against the in West Germany military presence in that country. The where most Warsaw Pact recedes. two sides have agreed to continue AP - President Bush will an- offered to any supplier to the U.S. NATO troops are stationed. talks on renewing the lease for U.S. nounce this week that he's giving Presidents have granted China that bases in thePhilippines. most-favored-nation trade status to status every year since 1980. Almost China. all U.S. trading partners enjoy the Moscow - In Moscow, the The sources say Bush probably designation. U.S. economic outlook improving Gorbachev Administration has come will announce the extensiontomor- up with a new five-year economic row. North, South Yemen unite AP - Leading U.S. economists current business expansion to a rec- plan. It's designed to put the nation The officials say Bush will in- are adding some unexpected bloom ord eight-and-a-half years. on the road to a free market economy, AP - North and South Yemen clude provisions enabling to the American economic rose. The Looming large asa key threat to while cushioning the shock by him to have officially merged into a uni- latest survey of the nation's top the economy's health is maintaining government control of revoke the trade benefits if he de- fied republicofYementoday. North the deficit, cides China's professional forecasters finds them and bargainers for Congress and the food prices and pay hikes. The plan, human rights viola- Yemen's parliament yesterday ap- more optimistic than they were a White House today hold being discussed by Mikhail Gor- tions are excessive. proved the merger plan. And South the next in bachev year ago when many predicted a their series of Summit and his top advisers today, Most-favored-nation status Yemen's parliament, the Supreme meetings, seeks to boost productivity recession this year. Now they're and get the guarantees tariff treatment for a People's Council, also held a special trying to decide what to do. Hopes economy ready for a great leap expecting some slowing next year, for a bipartisan nation's exports equal to the best session to approve the unification. solution are being forward by 1995. but continued growth, extending the challenged by election-year politics. China - More than 200 scientists are threatening to boycott scientific conferences in China until the Navy news Guantanamo Bay can use Communist government allows PHILIPPINE dissidents Fang Lizhi and his wife INSTALLA- SECNAV PRAISE - In his of the U.S. Atlantic Command to emigrate. The scientists also want TIONS - The major warship review to change the Department of De- Armed Forces Day message to sail- (USCINCLANTFLT) and Supreme the U.S. to pressure China into Navy's FY-91 requirements for the fense is tightening security at all U.S. ors and Marines, Secretary of the Allied Command, allowing the two scientists to leave Atlantic new Seawolf attack submarine and military installations in the Philip- Navy H. Lawrence Garrett, III their refuge at the U.S. embassy in (SACLANT) passed from Adm. guided-missile Aegis destroyer pro- pines following the May 13 killing of praised the men and women who Beijing. Frank B. Kelso, II to Adm. "Bud" grams. two U.S. Air Force airmen by terror- have devoted their lives to the de- Edney aboard the aircraft carrier "Idon'tsee any change in 1991," ists protesting U.S. military presence fense of the United States. (continued to page 3) USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) said the Navy's Research, Develop- in that country. "Our defense depends on you in Norfolk, Va. May 18. ment and Acquisition Chief, point- Because of the current unstable selfless men and women ofourNavy Kelso praised the more than ing out that the Secretary of De- conditions, DoD designated the Phil- and Marine Corps, who willingly lay 500,000 service men and women fense's ongoing major ship review ippines as an area of imminent dan- your lives on the line so that this serving in the Atlantic Command for could lead to cuts in future years. The ger for special pay purposes May 15. nation may remain the world's great- _ SUSA their superb work and loyal dedica- DDG-51 and SSN-21, with their Imminentdangerpay means an extra est bastion of freedom," he said. "A tion to the nation. associated combat systems, will be News $110 per month for the 14,745 U.S. grateful nation joins me in saluting SSN-21 AND DDG-51 - On two of the Navy's most advanced military personnel in the Philippines the courage and commitment of all of Capitol Hill May 15, Assistant Sec- warfare platforms. Washington - The House may be and an additional 15 percent of basic you who are proud to serve." retary of the Navy Gerald Cann told headed for a fight over a tough salary for the 1,355 U.S. citizen ci- ATLANTIC COMMAND the Senate Appropriations Commit- smog-control proposal. Key vilian employees stationed there. CHANGES HANDS - Command tee that he does not expect congressmen are trying to compro- DoD's Please see NAVY NEWS, page 3 mise on several amendments to the clean air bill. But they say a battle looms over whether to mandate Gitmoites can get paid thousands for their suggestions production of non-gasoline-powered return it to the Compensation and i cars in the nine most polluted cities. By JOSN LISA M. ENLOE Benefits Division. It doesn't have to Boston - C. Everett Koop is no How would you like to be paid go through your chain of command. Kime longer the Surgeon General, but he's thousands of dollars just for saying, said once they receive your continuing his campaign to wipe out "hey, I got a great idea"? It's pos- suggestion, "we determine who the cigarettes. Koop's new target is sible, Gitmoites. Okay, it's not that best evaluator might be." The evalu- tobacco sales overseas. Addressing simple. But, that's the basic prin- ator will decide if the suggestion is the world conference on lung health ciple behind the Beneficial Sugges- feasible or not. in Boston, Koop said cigarette makers tion Program. If the suggestion can be imple- looking for a new customers overseas Kay Kime, head of Gitmo's mented, it may need to be tested to are going after women and young Compensation see if it's cost people, unfettered by U.S. require- andBenefits Division effective. If the idea is ments for health wamings. at Consolidated Civilian Personnel successful, the suggester receives a Office (CCPO) said, "This is a monetary award. Florida - Manuel Noriega, government-wide program that's Kime said monetary awards are wearing his Panamanian general's designed to encourage employees to paid using two different scales, tan- uniform, appeared in Miami Federal contribute ideas or ways of doing a gible (those ideas which are meas- Court yesterday and agreed to sign job in such a manner that will save ured in dollar amounts) and intan- documents declaring himself too poor either time or actual dollars, such as gible. Tangible awards can go as high to pay his lawyers. So, under a deal Chief Petty Officer Joe King, admin officer at SIMA, receives a simplifying or improving as $23,000. Intangible awards worked out with federal prosecutors, opera- range check for his suggestion: Cmdr.