TIDES Water Condition 9watd High Low 'jitt daLy pa/prn wa to win the CHMINFO c ega CHARLIE III BAY, CUBA 5:53 a.m. 1216 - U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO Storage Ashore 4:41 p.m. 11:10 p.m. 13.0 Million Gallons Phone 9-5247 Date Monday, December 16, 1968 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Nixon Visits Eisenhower, Top Republican Leaders Today Saigon Braces for New Attack-- NEW YORK (AP/AFNB) -- Presi- dent-elect Richard M. Nixon flies to Washington today to B-52s Pound Infiltration Routes meet with the 12 top-ranking SAIGON (AP/AFNB)--U.S. B-52s continued to pound infiltration Republicans in Congress. The routes north of Saigon Sunday and today, but only scattered meeting is expected to. concern ground fighting was reported. itself more with the problems The big planes, seeking to blunt an expected enemy winter of his outnumbered party in offensive, dropped 750 tons of bombs on enemy hideaways, troop the Senate and House of Repre- concentrations and supply dep- sentatives rather than any ots. The targets were in an national policy. arc from 50 miles northwest of Storm Brings Promise of After the Congressional Saigon to 70 miles north of meeting, Nixon will go to Wal- the capital. Pilots reported White Christmas to Northeast ter Reed Medical Center for setting off secondary explo- CHICAGO (AP/AFNB) -- Heavy his third post-election meet- sions indicating hits on ammu- snow, hazardous driving con- ing with former President Eis- nition supplies. ditions and gale-force winds enhower. American soldiers and civil- are continuing today over much Nixon will be elected Presi- ians were ordered off the of the northeast. Heavy snow dent of the United States to- streets of Saigon Saturday as warnings continue for extreme day. Members of the Electoral the city remained on full al- northern New Hampshire and College will gather in their ert in case of possible Viet northeastern Maine, while haz- states to cast their votes Cong attack. ardous driving conditions are that will makeNixon's elec- The 7 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew in effect from Vermont and tion official. came with the announcement by western and central Massachu,- The ballots will be mailed South Vietnamese officials setts to Maine. to Washington where Congress that a full alert will remain The storm that blanketed the will meet next January to in force in Saigon "according northeast in up to eight in- count the votes and declare to the situation." ches of snow tapered off to- the winner of the November. Expectation rose that the day as temperatures plunged election. guerrillas (cont'd on page 2) toward zero. The storm in the northeast Sunday smothered New York City irch Continues for Missing Air Force Plane with three inches of snow-- AN, P.R. (AP/AFNB)--Some 140 U.S. Marines will begin a the city's first measurable in a rain forest near the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base snowfall of'the season -- and to Rico today for a missing Air Force cargo plane with closed Kennedy airport for al- f eight reservists. The plane took off from the Naval most seven hours. Upwards of urday for Homestead Air Force Base, Fla. eight inches fell in the Al- y spokesman said the plane apparently suffered radio bany, N.Y., area. r trouble and was attempting to return to the Naval Page 2 Guantanamo Gazette Monday, Dec. 16, 1968 SAIGON ON "FULL ALERT" (cont'd from page 1) might launch a new attack to improve the Na- tional Liberation Front (NLF) position at the Guantanamo Gazette Paris peace talks. Enemy gunners and U.S. fighter-bombers ex- changed missiles deep in North Vietnam Satur- ComNavBase RAdm J.B. Hildreth day and Sunday, but the American jets escaped Public Affairs Officer Lt D.S. McCurrach unscathed, military spokesmen said Sunday. Editor J02 Jerry Marshall A spokesman for the U.S. command said it was Associate Editor J03 Tom Meyers the fifth time since the bombing of North Vi- Layout JOSN Larry Long etnam was halted Nov. 1 that enemy surface-to- air missiles were launched against American The GLANTANAMO GAZETTE is published according to the rules and regulations for ship and station newspapers reconnaissance jets and their armed escorts. as outlined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of In Saturday's incident, he said, more than the Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed five Russian-made 37 - foot SAMs were fired four days a week at government expense on government opinions at two Navy Skyhawk fighter-bombers escorting equipment. The or statements in news items that appear herein are not to be construed as official an RF8 photo-reconnaissance plane near the or as reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Depart- coastal city of Vinh, 145 miles above the DMZ. mant of the Navy. The spokesman said one of the A4 Skyhawks Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. MON through FRI only and will be counter - attacked, firing an air-to-ground -published in Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. missile at the enemy launch site, but low No ads or notices except command notices will be pub- cloud cover prevented a damage assessment. lished more than once a week nor will they be run in In a series of five sharp attacks in scat- Friday's paper. The GAZETTE welcomes contributions of a newsworthy tered sections of South Vietnam Saturday, 109 nature. All- contributions should be forwarded to Box enemy soldiers were killed. There was no re- 22, in care of the GUANTANAMO GAZETTE. The*GAZETTE re- port of U.S. casualties. serves the right to modify the content of any story to make it conform to typographical and. format standards for publication. BRUNSWICK, West Germany (AP/AFNB)--The young restorer could scarcely contain his excitement as he carefully scraped flakes of paint from a nondescript picture of two nudes on a beach Radiation Hazard to Apollo 8 Discounted and slowly uncovered the signature "Claude CAPE KENIEDY (AP/AFNB)--- The countdown for Monet." the Apollo 8 moon-orbiting flight started Sun- It took three months of painstaking work to day night and the three astronauts who will remove all the paint and reveal what art ex- make the trip are scheduled to receive their perts at Brunswick Museum agreed was a master- final physical examinations today. Space piece by the great French expressionist. scientists predict that the astronauts will Brunswick Museum Director Dr. Gerd Adriani be exposed to radiation no greater than the proudly summoned a news conference to tell the equivalent of three chest x-rays during their World that restorer Knut Nicolaus had discov- orbits. ered a hitherto unknown example of one of Mon- The astronauts -- Frank Borman, James Lovell et's favorite subjects, the St. Lazare rail- and William Anders--are scheduled to blast off way station in Paris. from Cape Kennedy Saturday morning. Their Newspapers spoke ofa discovery "without par- first lunar orbit is scheduled for Christmas allel in the history of modern painting." They Eve. speculated that the oil, which seemed to dis- Some scientists had expressed concern over play all the atmospheric brilliance of Monet, the possible danger to the astronauts from must be worth at least $120,000. - radiation, but the possibility was discounted But the museum's artistic triumph was short- today by scientists of the National Aeronaut- lived. Artist Tans Nowak, 46, claimed in a ics and Space Administration. magazine article that he painted the "Monet" During the lunar orbiting some radiation and also the picture of the two nudes on top wi ll1 a~.l, !,+., +-1,- 1-4- 71TAQ7 -- Monday, Dec. 16, 1968 Guantanamo Gazette Page 3 VC Reportedly Using 11-Year-Olds RAdin Crawford Inspects FTS Personnel HAVANA, Cuba (AP/AFNB) -- Girls and boys as GUANTANAMO BAY -- Ending an annual inspec- young as 11 have fought in Viet Cong offen- tion trip to Guantanamo Bay Friday morning, ses, according to a letter published here. the Commander Training Forces Atlantic Fleet, American military officials often report Rear Admiral E. R. Crawford, former Base Com- children aged 13 fighting with the Viet Cong. mander, inspected Fleet Training Group pers- But this is the first report here of even onnel and presented several awards to FTG younger children being involved in the fight- personnel. ing. RAdm Crawford, speaking after the inspec- The letter came from slim, attractive Yung- tion, said that it was a personal pleasure Phan Thi Quyen, widow of the most revered to return to Guantanamo Bay for the inspec- Viet Cong war hero, Nguyen Van Trei. Nineteen days after their marriage, Vad Trei was executed in Saigon for trying to blow up a bridge which then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was scheduled to cross during a visit. The widow, now a nurse for Viet Cong guer- rillas, wrote to the Cuban Ambassador in Cambodia, Raul Valdes Vive, who is also Cuban representative to the National Liberation Front (NLF), the political arm of the Viet Cong. Her letter was published in Granma, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper, along with a photo showing Quyen, rifle slung over her shoulder, in the black pajama garb and beret . of the peasant. Her longbraided hair fell to her waist. The Ambassador wrote to her on the fourth anniversary of her husband's death by fir- ing squad. tion, to the many friends and acquaintances Replying from a Viet Cong-held area in still remaining on the Base. He congratula- South Vietnam, Quyen expressed hope that ted -FTG on the appearance of its personnel she would welcome the ambassador and other and on the effectiveness of the training Cuban leaders to a "liberated" Saigon one day given fleet units in the area.