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IIeSegretti adlmiiIits sabotage of '72 Muskie campaign WASHINGTON (AP)--Political sabo- raiser for President Nixon's cam- Segretti will pear before the teur Donald H. Segretti pleaded paign. Senate Watergate Committee tomorrow, guilty yesterday to violating feder- Segretti's guilty plea was to Chairman Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., an- al election laws during last year's three charges, including conspiracy nounced yesterday. Domocratic presidential primary in and distributing political litera- Ervin said the committee canceled Florida. ture which did not identify the its planned hearing today because In Senate testimony, Segretti was persons responsible for distributing attorneys for two other scheduled identified as receiving between it. witnesses, former Presidential Ap- p30,000 and $40,000 from a fund pointments Secretary Dwight L. Chapin A letter outlining the cooperation and"private investigator John Buck- Segretti agreed to give prosecutors ley, told the panel their clients in exchange for immunity from fur- would invoke their Fifth Amendment ther grand jury prosecution was rights and refuse to testify. sealed by the court at the request of Segretti's attorney and federal Herbert W. Kalmbach, one-time per- prosecutors. No reason was given sonal attorney to President Nixon for keeping the letter secret. and a Nixon campaign fund raiser, Segretti had been indicted by a told the Senate Watergate Committee federal grand jury in Tampa, Fla., he had paid Segretti between $30,000 on four counts, but prosecutors and $40,000 at the request of Chapin. agreed to drop one of them. Kalmbach said he did not know what the money was to be used for. Among items Segretti was accused of distributing was a letter on Segretti also appeared before U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie's campaign District Court Judge John J. Sirica stationery accusing two other Demo- who granted him immunity from prose- cratic candidates, Sens. Hubert H. cution for testimony before the Humphrey of Minnesota and Henry Senate committee. Jackson of Washington, of sexual In addition, Sirica granted the misconduct. same limited immunity to two future Segretti, 32, a Los Angeles attor- committee witnesses expected to tes- neyentered his plea before U.S. tify about their work with Segretti District Court Judge Gerhard A. in Florida. Gesell who deferred sentencing on the three misdemeanor charges. Each They are Martin D. Kelley of Dade DONALD H. SEGRETTI carries a maximum penalty of one County and Robert M. Benz of Tampa. admits porno literature year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Benz has been named as a co-conspirator. U.S. NAVAL BASE Navy birthday '73: A family tradition GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Today's Navy family is the col- 198th birthday, to give this brief lective of yesteryears' tradition account of the greatest navy in makers and today and tomorrow's world history and the people who history setters. The "Navy family" left their mark in a tradition that is made up of active duty men and is an inspiration for all of us. women, reservists, civil service personnel, retirees and dependents-- Would you like to walk the deck the same type of people who built with John Paul Jones? Go pirate- a solid foundation upon which our hunting with Stephen Decatur? Catch Navy is built. a glimpse of Farragut at Mobile The fascinating story of the U,. S. Bay? Operate on of the old guns of Navy is of people establishing the Dewey's era? Become acquainted with traditions which form the backbone Sims, Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance or of the 1973 Navy birthday celebration. King? It has been said that we best serve John Adams once said (when he was the present and future when we un- eighty) that he was never going to Tuesday, October 2, 1973 derstand the past. So it seems ap- die--and he didn't. He lives today propriate at this time, the Navy's See BIRTHDAY, Page 4 Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, October 2, 1973 Two deaths spotlight plight GAZETTEER news Of non-hospitalized elderly .a digest of late MIMI, Fla. (AP)-They sat in wheel chairs in the crowded emergency room, bare backs exposed by hospital gowns and dignity tattered by the admis- sion that they are too ill to go home and too poor to go anywhere else. WASHINGTON (AP)--The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to They are a forgotten breed, and when two of make a $500 million overall cut in a $21 billion Ameri- them died in their wheel chairs last week at can weapons authorization bill. It adopted, 50 to 47, Jackson Memorial Hospital's emergency room it an amendment by Senator Robert C. Byrd, co-sponsored at was four hours before any of the nurses and the last minute by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, ordering physicians noticed. the reduction. The bill was then passed by a 91 to 7 vote, sending the measure to a House-Senate conference The deaths of Volton Jordan, 60, and Clarence to adjust differences. Nixon administration supporters 54, spotlighted the plight of the poor Brinson, opposed any "meat-ax" cut. Senator John to live alone and not sick enough C. Stennis, who are too sick chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the to be admitted to the hospital. Jordan died of "meat-ax" approach did violence to the Senate's commit- a heart attack and Brinson of chronic pulmonary tee system where defense and bther proposed expenditures disease as they waited for space in a nursing are studied item by item. Humphrey earlier had pro- home. posed a $750 blanket cut. He said he considered it The staff calls the indigents boarders. They reasonable. In the end, he supported the Byrd modifi- live in. wheel chairs, their days filled with noise cation, calling it "modest" and in keeping with fiscal and their nights spent on stretchers in treatment responsibility. rooms. things are a bit brighter now. A few months But SAIGON (AP)--Communists and government troops fought ago, the emergency room housed about 30 boarders. the biggest battle since the Vietnam cease-fire 40 miles the county raised its daily care payments from But northwest of Saigon over the weekend, the Saigon comman nursing homes $11.50 to $13.50 per patient and the said yesterday. President Nguyen Van Thieu declared the will take them now. Communists had taken "the initial step to ignite a new Linda Vick, emergency room head nurse, said offensive." Waves of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong yesterday morning's census of boarders was 14. infantry attacked two government strongpoints near the Cambodia-South Vietnam border in 24 hours of savage agencies are closed over the "The social service fighting ending Sunday afternoon leaving more than 300 boarder population builds up," weekend, so the soldiers from both sides dead, wounded or missing, the them in nursing and Miss Vick said. "We put command announced. boarding homes as fast as we can. By Tuesday we'll probably be downtto four or five." "Most of them don't need hospitalization," she WASHINGTON (AP)-President Nixon yesterday signed legis- said. "They just need daily care. But we don't lation formally consolidating the government's major have the facilities for that." volunteer service programs under one agency. He called it an example of bipartisan harmony between the White Charley Love, 43, fell Saturday and hurt his House and Congress. The legislation provided authority him to Jackson. shoulder. Policemen brought for the Operations of Action, the agency Nixon created I'll get out of "I feel pretty good. I think in 1971 under a reorganization plan. Brought under here soon," he said as attendants wheeled patients Action's umbrella were VISTA, the Peace Corps, Foster by on stretchers. Grandparents, and the Service Corps of Retired Executives. hte %MMU19 Guantanamo, Water status Gazette 1-741.11- Local Forecast .lpichaelAd.7t.F.rki-.NM.Om. Partly cloudy with scattered . Water figures for yesterday: showers. Visibility unre- stricted except 2-3 miles in WATER PRODUCED: 1,397,000 shower areas. Winds light . and variable, becoming SE S,2 C. .,. 1 WATER CONSUMED: 1,400,000 .0. .~d .3.71. 10-12 knots with gusts to 21 47. Jd- 3444.ra Dre. l4. ,. ,. i tm 1 vb knots during the afternoon. L.S.Jam. ois. .b e. r .ff WATER LOSS: 3,000 VJi's. o . 2-. .. .. v. .-. .1 . - -. M -t Max. temp 89, min. temp 75. Jf, Ja an d,e . e conditions 1-3 feet. High WATER IN STORAGE: 19,772,000 Bay Lp _I. tide 0034. Low tide 0644. S Tuesday, October 2. 1973 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS-Page 3 Pot, heroin-sniffing dogs speed up drug busts By JOSN Sandy Warren Meet Duke and Garnet--they're Cit- mo's drug detector dogs and are two of only 40 or so in the Navy and five or six that can detect both marijuamu: and heroin. Duke, a six-year-old German shep- herd. has been here two years. He was among the first to attend clas- ses in Washington, D.C., and Ft. Gordon, Ga. Before that., he was a sentry dog in Vietnam. Five-year-old Garnet, a Labrador retriever, arrived here in August. the commanding officer," Chief watch the dogs in their searches. He is an ex-tracker; that is, he Garraway says. It seems he plans to employ dogs "tracked down" military escapees The dogs do, however, conduct cus- to search for drugs at the Jamaican and assisted civilian police in toms on incoming baggage, aircraft, airports and other Jamaican locations finding lost children and criminals. ships, household effects and autos.