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WEATHER VWATER Fair Bravo High Tide Low Tide 11:53 a.m. 7 :34 a.m. -- -- p.m. 5:58 p.m. U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Monday Date June 12, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Soviet Leaders Face Shakeup Violent Debate In UN MOSCOW (AP) (By H. Bradsher) UNITED NATIONS (AP)(By Max Harrelson) WITH THE MIDDLE East EXPERIENCED NON-COMMUNIST fighting ended, U.N. diplomats are looking for a quick and OBSERVERS here see signs of massive Soviet drive in the United Nations to force an Israeli dispute within the Soviet col- military withdrawal from the Arab territory won in the six-day lective leadership that ousted war. Nikita S. Khrushchev 2 y' years Western sources predicted ago, and are discussing the the Russians would keep the possibility of an approaching Vance Resigns; 15-nation Security Council in shakeup. almost continuous session on There seemsto beindecision-- Nitze Moves Up this issue and that the debate apparently caused by intense WASHINTO.(AV1I.4y, Doyglas D. would be one of the most bitter infighting--on such major is- Cornell) PRESIDENT JOHNSON in U.N. history. They cited sues as how government spending ANNOUNCED Saturdaythe resrgna- the stormy session ofthe C6pn- should be divided among various tion of Cyrus R. Vance as Dep- cil which ended early yester- programs. uty Secretary of Defense and day. Observers also point to re- selection of Secretary of the This session generated such cent appointments as indicating Navy Paul H. Nitze as his suc- heat that at one point the a jockeying for power in the cessor. Soviet Union and Bulgaria de- Kremlin. This set in motion two other manded that Israeli Ambassador They are not predicting the high level changes in the De- Gideon Rafael be denied the ouster of the top man, Leonid fense Department. right to address the Council C. Brezhnev, but more likely a The new Secretary of the Navy because of what they called Mild-mannered repeal of what will be John T.McNaughton, now Israel's "monstrous crime" and happened to thelast collective Assistant Secretary of Defense Rafael's "shameless lies." leadership, which if6liowdd for International Security Af- "Some of the debate bordered Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. fairs. Into McNaughton's pres- on hysteria," one diplomat ob- From that leadership group, ent job will go the Defense served. Some Western observers Khrushchev had become dominant Department's General Counckl, said the Russians had been enough by 1957 to oust his Paul C. Warnke. placed in an extremely embar- opponents. Vance has been bothered by rassing position bytheci lapse Some observers think a po- back trouble and the White of the Arab countries and that tentially explosive situation Houseiabid his resignation was they felt compelled to take within the current leadership for personal reasons. There drastic measures to divert at- will remain submerged until was no indication that any tention from their defeat. early next year as the top men policy shifts dictated the While most of the 22-hours try to keep up (Cont'd page 2) shifting of the (Cont'd pg 2) of off-and-on Agbate Saturday was devoted to getting tlie Syrian-Israel conflict ended, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Helos Rip Red Looters India, Mali and the Arab Coun- SAIGON (AP)(By George McArthur) U.S. HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS tries indicated they would caught a guerrilla band attempting to strip a downed Air Force press hard for quick U.N.action bomber and killed 30 in a day-long fight to remove the bodies on Israeli troop withdrawals. of the two crewmen U.S. headquarters repprted Sunday. The Soviet Union already has The B-57 Canberra had smashed into 4,760r-foot Nui Gia Moun- a resolution before thb,'Cbunn' tain Friday, seven miles from Cam Ranh Bay on the coast. The cil calling for a pullback to guerrillas and the American helicopters apparently located the the old lines fixed in the wreckage at about the same time Saturday morning. armistice agreements of 1949. A fight began immediately, with the guerrillas attempting to There appeared little likeli- get machine guns and 500-pound bombs from the wrecked pkind hood, however, that Israel and the armed hilicopters trying to clear the area so U.S. and would even consider such a South Korean assault infantrymen could get in. move. Whatever wi7twithdrAwals Each time troop-carrying helicopters approached, they met a they will finally order, ob- hail of machine gun fire. A small infantry group and an Air servers believe, will be far Force demolition team finally reached the (Cont'd on page 2) less extensive. (Cont'd page2) PAGE 2 MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1967 NGIkM0 GAZETTE relations and make deals on other subjects de- spite the war have produced few benefits and much Chinese criticism. 0 vime Wa tte Policy seems to be shifting because of in- ComNavBase . RADM E.R. Crawford 01 Public Affairs Officer.LT Paul E. Lamey tensified U.S. air raids over North Vietnam Editorial Advisor.JOC William A. Liedtke and Soviet claims that a Russian sailor aboard Editor.JOl Sam Herzog a cargo ship in a North Vietnamese harbor was News Editor.CT2 Vic Griffeth attack. Feature Editor. .SN Ed Sullivan killed in an American Sports Editor. .J03 Sig Couch .The GITHO GAZETTE is published according to the rules and reg- WASHINGTON (Cont'd from page 1) assignments ulations for ship, station newspapers as outlined in NAVEXDS resulting from his resignation, which will b ef- P-35 and under tl direction of the Naval Base Fublic Affairs Of- fective June 30. ficer. :It is printed four days a week at government expense on government equipment. The opinions or statements news items Vance has been in the Pentagon for more than that appear herein bre not to be construed as offici41 or as re- six years and Johnson sild it was with the flecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Departbzndi.\ deepest reluctance and regret that-h accepted Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours 6f. 8 a.m. the Deputy Secretary's decision to give up his and 5 p.m. MON thru FRI ONLY and will be published in either Mon- day's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. No ads or notices--ex- post. cept command notices--will be published more than once a week nor Nitze is 60 and has been Secre- will they be run in Friday's paper. tary of the Navy for 1 2 years. After he was graduated with UNITED NATIONS (Cont'd from page 1) Soviet 4. honors from Harvard in 1928, he Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko noted Saturday that was -with the New York Investment Gen. Mose Dayan, Israel's Minister Q Dedenseal- bankers, Dillion, Reed & Co.un- ready had declared his government never would go til 1941. back to the 1949 lines. Fedorenko said Israel, Since then he has been in Fede- if permitted, would annex all the occupied Arab ral government off and on wwtth territory. an eight-year gap while he ser- One of the most dramatic moments of the Satur- ved as President of the Foreign day night session came when Fedorenko challenged Service Educational Foundation the right of the Israeli representative to speak in Washington, from 1953 to 1961. at the Council table. The Soviet delegate said The man Johnson intends to Rafael "has lied enough." nominate as the 58th Secretary, The Council President, Danish Ambassador Hans NITZE R. Tabor, said the Council had already agreed to McNaughton, was a Naval officer during World hear Israel and the rules must be followed. Bul- War II and got as high as lieutenant. He com- garian Ambassador Milko Tarabanov backed theSov- manded a Navy gun crew mn a merchant ship in iet protest and U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold- the Caribbean and North Atlantic and then ser- berg supported Tab6r. .ved on a destro er escort in the Pacific. McNaughton is 46 and a native of Bicknell, MOSCOW (Cont'd from page 1) appearances Indiana. during the celebration of the Bolshevik Revolu- tion's 50th anniversary. SAIGON (Cont'd from page 1) bomber late in But there already are signs that some Krem- the afternoon. The bodies of the crewmen were lin comrades are trying to ouster other com- quickly removed and the demolition expprtssblew rades--banish them to minor jobs, the comfor- up the plane. table current fate of Kremlin losers--in order Sharp ground battles were reported Sunday to have their own way. after a week-long lull in the fighting. A U.S. It looks more like a personal duet for power helicopter' exploded in the air killing all 12 than a conflict of interest groups. Thus a Marines aboard. Thirty-one civilians were shakeup would not necessarily lead to clear killed and 42 wounded in Viet Cong terrorist of Soviet problems. attacks over the weekend. I solutions In Western parliamentary systems, a leader's In the Mekong Delta about 25 miles south of failures often are used by his opponents to Saigon, a US. 9th Infantry Division sweep ran ruin him. But in Kremlin shakeups, victory Is into more than 100 Viet Cong in an area of not necessarily pro f of successful policies. flooded paddy fields. The Viet Cong pulled Wh$le domestic decisions have been postponed, back under a hail of artillery fire and at- foreign policy matters have forced themselves tempted to flee on a sampan fleet hidden near- to decisions--some of which have gone awkwardly by. Helicopter gunships blew 20 of the sqm- wrong.