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. U. S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Foreign Ai~d Committee Considers Extending Program WASHINGTON (AP)--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed yesterday that the United States should stay in the foreign aid business, and Con- gress appeared headed toward a stopgap resolution to keep the program alive. But controversy loomed over the the duration of any such revival mea- sure, and the shape of a long-term foreign aid formula. The White House said adoption of a resolution to continue foreign aid spending authority past Nov. 15 is imperative. And a Pentagon spokesman said military assistance "is absolutely essen- tial" in U.S. strategic planning. TUESDAY NOVEMBER-2 1971 I The Foreign Relations Committee spent some 90 minutes behind closed doors discussing the future and the impact of last Friday night's Senate vote that killed the $2.9 billion foreign aid authorization bill. No votes were taken at the committee session and no formal decisions Tidal Wave (Please see AID, page 2) 'Something Devastates Will be Indian State done' NEW DELHI, India (AP)--A cyclone and 16-foot tidal wave have slammed into India's east coast, and polit- I-Fuibright ical leaders reported the loss of 15,000 to 20,000 lives in this lat- est natural disaster on the rim of the Bay of Bengal. The wave and 100-mile-an-hour winds hit Friday night, but the de- vastation was so complete that word of its catastrophic proportions did not reach the outside world until Elections Foreshadow 1972 yesterday. The 'Indian government radio re- WASHINGTON (AP)--Elections across step in the overturning of Nixon. ported a million homes destroyed or the country are being watched for Thomas Emberton, the GOP nominee, damaged, leaving four million per- trends and hints for the Presiden- has tried to hold the campaign to sons without shelter. The broadcast tial politics of 1972, despite a re- state issues but has been forced to put the death toll markable absence of national in- defend Nixon. 2 09.000 at 10,000. volvement in most of them. Despite this scenario begging for 20000 Theoitca The Kentucky gubernatorial race the national parties to send in leaders, including has been billed locally as a test of their big guns, it hasn't happened. a member of Parlia- the Nixon admini- New Jersey vo- Feared ment,__gave their stration but the ters, who turned estinates.after a national GOP has mmm THw r /171 the state legis tour of the strick- been careful to lature over to on area, in India's leave it strictly Vote s, Choose TheIssues t Republicans Dead Orissa state. to the hbne team. nabig way ini The wave sub- Kentucky is one- 1967, are expec- merged scores of villages and is- of those border states Nixon needs ted to give the Democrats a little lands in much the same way that a to fare well in to win re-election ground back, but not enough to stake 30-foot tidal wave swept through next year. any trends on. the Ganges River basin of East Pak- Republicans took the governorship Still, New Jersey stands as one of istan a year ago and left 300,000 four years ago and are fighting up the next best things to a crystal persons dead. hill to keep it. ball available this year. Cyclones and tidal waves are an- Wendell Ford, the insurance man The 1967 GOP swing foreshadowed a nual occurrences in the Bay of Ben- nominated by the Democrats, has re- Nixon victory in that state in 1968 gal at this time of year. ferred to his campaign as the first (Plhease see ',ECTIONS, Page. 2). Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, November 2, 1971 9 A Navyman and a Jamaican were only injured when hit by automobiles on Sherman Avenue last month, not killed GAZETTEER as an article in yesterday's Gazette indicated. .a digest of late news ELECTIONS- made. "I think the one thing I can say is that there wasn't Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India flies to any disposition to do nothing," said Sen. J.W. Ful- the United States tomorrow seeking a new initiative by bright, D-Ark., the chairman. "Something will be done, President Nixon to reassess and revise the whole basis but what it will be, I have no idea." of Indian-American relations. "I want to leave, as they say downtown, my options Senior authorities who portrayed her thinking said open," Fulbright said. Madame Gandhi considers American backing for Pakistan, Rep. George Mahon, D-Tex., chairman of the House in the name of political leverage, is delaying a poli- Appropriations Committee, said he hopes Congress will tical settlement of the East Bengal crisis. agree on "a quickie, stopgap" resolution to continue foreign aid while a permanent program is fashioned. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said "This is not a settlement of the controversy over yesterday that the scuttling of the U.S. Foreign Aid foreign aid," he said. "It is just a stopgap." Program could adversely affect withdrawal of American He suggested a 30-day extension of aid spending Forces from Vietnam. authority, to meet current expenses and pay salaries But, Laird told a White House news conference he while the issue is settled. The House lad passed a plans to tell South Vietnamese officials this week that $3.1 billion foreign aid program, but only by a 10 he does not expect the Senate's rejection of the Over- vote margin. seas Assistance Program will stand. Mahon said he hopes the House could pass such a re- solution by the middle of next week. Enemy gunners shot down two more U.S. heli- copters in the Central highlands, raising announced American aircraft losses in the Indochina War to 8,004 AID- planes and helicopters, the U.S. command announced today. Ground fighting continued in a lull with only small and election of a Republican governor in 1969. clashes reported, but the U.S. command said helicopter The nationally sensitive issues of race and law-and- gunships killed 24 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in order have been important in places like Philadelphia, the Mekong Delta. where former police commissioner Frank L. Rizzo is taking the hard line and Republican Thacher Longstreth Dennis Gabor, British inventor of three-dimen- is pitching to moderation and dissident Democrats. sional photography, was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize In Boston, Louise Day Hicks, who gained national for physics today. The 71-year-old electrical engineer prominence with her anti-busing pitch four years ago, currently is a staff scientist at CBS Laboratories in is challenging Mayor Kevin White again with a law-and- Stanford, Conn. order campaign, but the campaign lines aren't distinct. White is the odds-on favorite. The postal service inaugurated yesterday an San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto is laboring under electronic mail delivery between Washington and New the shadow of a federal indictment as he seeks a se- York. cond term. Dianne Feinstein, board of supervisors A spokesman said the experimental facsimilee mail president and a Democrat, is challenging with a strong service" allows electronic transmission of letters, race in her attempt to make San Francisco the largest charts, graphs and legal papers with a four-hour de- city in the country with a woman mayor. livery time. In Cleveland, black Mayor Carl B. Stokes isn't run- Transmission and delivery of each letter size docu- ning but he is campaigning hard for his choice of ment costs $9 and each additional page costs $3.90 per successor, Arnold Pinkney, the black president of the page. Cleveland School Board. Stateside Temperatures Guantanamo Gazette Boston 64 Local Forecast comNavsase.Adm. B. McCauley New York- 68 Public Affairs Officer.LCdr. W. Boer II Philadelphia 67 Editorial Advisor.JOC Brad Durfee Editor .J2 Ira Crew. Washington 70 Partly cloudy with scattered rain Assistant Editor. Y3 Jeff Earicl Atlanta 68 showers during late evening. 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San Francisco 53 Seattle 49 Tuesday, November 2, 1971 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 Winter MAC Flight Schedule Corrals The following is the winter MAC Flight schedule which began yesterday (all times Manager Addresses GBHA are local at destination): Depart Norfolk 9 a.m. At a special meeting of the Guantanamo Bay Arrive Gitmo 12:55 p.m. Horsemens' Association (GBHA) Saturday, the Depart Gitmo 1:40 p.m. new corral manager outlined plans for the im- Arrive Kingston 1:15 p.m. provement of the corrals which now are under Depart Kingston 2:10 p.m. the management of Marine Barracks. Arrive Gitmo 3:50 p.m. Marine Corporal Bob Rabineau, new manager, Depart Gitmo 5 p.m. told the GBHA members of progress so far and Arrive Norfolk 6:45 p.m.