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Guantanamo Daily Gazette Vol. 46 -- No. 121 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, June 18, 1990 Moratorium to be lifted on Gitmo housing MacAfee of the Navy Comptroller's Part of the problem is that the Office they came to get an overview Navy does not invest enough in of Gitmo. family housing, according to "We're taking a look at the Walker. base's mission, facilities, and what's "We feel the Anny and Navy lag available to Guantanamo residents far behind the Air Force in allotting Soviet Union - Radical reformers in as regards recreation and housing," money for family housing construct the Soviet Union say they'll walk out said Walker. tion," he said. ofa big communist party meeting two weeks from now unless they get The primary reason for the visit Although, the Navy lags behind what they want. A group known as sofGiio's housing needs. in some areas, Walker added that the democratic platform is advising dele- ' "Congress appropriated $12-13 emphasis is now to improve isolated gates to the communist party congress million for 120 units for Gitmo areas. to depart if the party doesn't agree to family housing last year," said "We are very impressed by Navy relax its hold on the military and Walker. "However, those funds are personnel all over the world," he N secret police. being held by the Secretary of De- said. "However, we're more im- fense as part of a moratorium on all pressed with people in Guantanamo, Colombia-Twelve more people are -a ._ , military construction." Diego Garcia, and other remote loca- dead in Medellin, Colombia, in the Michael Walker, Staff Director for the Military Construction Sub- The moratorium will last until tions. You all are doing an outstand- latest flare-up of drug war violence. committee of the Senate Appropriations Sixof the victims,includingtwoteen- Committee is inter- Nov. 15, but Walker says that may ing job." age girls, were killed in a shooting viewed by the "Newscenter 8" film crew. not be the case for Gitmo. The visit by the senate staffers attackona restaurant.Fourpolicemen "We expect the release of funds ended Friday and they returned to and two soldiers were shot dead on Guantanamo Bay - Two mem- MiheWakrsteStf Di- for family housing in Guantanamo Washington. bers of the Military Construction Saturday. Police say the Medellin rector for Military Construction and and Iceland in the next few weeks." "It's reasonable to expect that drug cartel is offering bounties of Subcommittee for the Senate Appro- Rick Pierce is the Minority Si staff The release of those construction Gitmo will receive an appropriate over $4,000 for every policeman priations Committee from Washing- Director for the respective sen ate funds may allow Gitmo's family level of military construction," he killed. ton, D.C. arrived Saturday for a staff. housing construction to start on said. That means that new family whirlwind tour of the naval base. Along with Lt. Cmdr. R ick Bulgaria -The opposition says Bul- schedule. housing for Gitmo is on the way. garia's former communists have won Oil spill threatens Texas coastlinee a majority in parliament in the AP - The Coast Guard now sans that tar balls may not be far country's first free elections in 58 Ohio flash floods leave scores dead predicts tar balls from the "Mega away. years. Officials from the union of AP-Thedeathtoilfrom flash The victim's identity and sex Borg" oil spill will hit the Texas The 30-mile slick, which ilin- democratic forces say their unofficial floods in Shadyside, Ohio, has were not immediately released. projections indicate the socialist coast on Tuesday. geared about 11 miles offshore, hhas reached 20, but one personlisted as Earlier, an unidentified man was party captured between 32 and 36 A Coast Guard spokesman says stretched into a light sheenin pla ces missing is alive and well. found one-half mile south of the seats in yesterday's runoff voting. the slick is moving slowly and and continues to drift slowly aw.way Investigators digging in de- mouth of Wegee creek and about didn't make much progress toward from the tanker. bris for bodies found the 20th seven miles south of Shadyside. land on Sunday. Officials say that's Texas land commissioner G ary Canada - Nelson Mandela takes his victim Sunday night, according to The list of missing was re- because shifting windspushed the oil Mauro says he can't wait any lots ger anti-apartheid fight to the Canadian the Belmount County coroner's vised from18to 16 Sunday night northeastward, as it drifts inthe Gulf todispatchcleanupcrews along a 45- parliament this mroming, urging con- office. The body was pulled from after a woman who had been of Mexico. mile stretch of Texas coast. Mai uro tinued pressure on South Africa's the mouth of Pipe Creek at the listed as missing called authori- white minority Petty Officer Mark Sedwick says evenif the lightcrude oil ne ver govemmentto reform. Ohio River, about seven miles ties to say she was safe. Her car The South African black leader re- says the oil has been staying reaches shore, crews have to be south of Shadyside. had been found in the flood area. ceived a red-carpet welcome in Ot- parallel to shore. He says it's now ready anyway. The comissio ner tawa . running east of Galveston, Texas, plans to dispatch some 200 trainned and towards Louisana. volunteers today to rid the bead hes (continue to page 3) U.S. Supreme Court gives states Officials have alerted commu- of debris that could hinder tar-I ball cities north of Galveston to Loul- cleanup. more power to regulate abortion White House and Congress set AP - Anti-abortion activists to making abortion illegal. USA say they'renot going to be daunted A Roman Catholic church for serious budget negotiations by public opinion polls. Bad press or leader denies threatening Catholic News what one describes as "turncoat politicians with excommunication if AP - After weeks of prelimi- Now they've got to figure out politicians." Members of the group they don't back the church's fight Washington - "Newsweek" maga- nary talks, it's expected budget how much to get from spending cuts called the National Right to Life against abortion. New York Cardinal zine says many of the U.S. soldiers negotiators for Congress and the and how much from taxes, and so far Committee took stock ofthe battle at John O'Connor says a newspaper killed in the December invasion of White House will get down to neither side's been willing to walk a convention over the weekend in column he wrote last week-wam- Panama were probably killed by serious bargaining this week. So far, the tax plank. Sacramento, Calif. The Supreme ing that abortion rights advocates run "friendly fire." The magazine quotes they've agreed only that next year's But Minnesota Congressman Court has given the states an unidentified military source, who more the risk of excommunication-was budget needs something between also say many of the 347 wounded Bill Frenzel says if they need a "fall power to regulate abortion, and not intended as a threat. O'Connor Americans were likely hit by their $45 billion and $60 billion worth of guy"he'lldoit,because he'sretiring Right to Life President J.C. Willke says it was to help those people stay comrades. new revenue or savings. next year. says his group remains committed in the church's good graces. Seattle - A Soviet pilot who dumped sand and cement on the Battle for Cuzco Well, aftermath and birth of the Naval base crippled Chemobyl nuclear plant is EDITORS NOTE-This is the Military theorist, Alfred said to be near death in a Seattle Mahan mensions of a smaller base of 45 June 1903. The Navy arrives to cancer center. A spokeswoman says final part of a three part series on long argues that a great nation, like square miles are agreed. survey the land and to mark the thepilot's conditionhasn't improved the Battle for Cuzco Well. the United States needs overseas February 23, 1903. President boundaries of the base. Photographs, in twodays. The 53-yearold man was bases to support a Navy around the Roosevelt signs the agreement leas- taken at the time of the survey show diagnosed last year. A month after the surrender of globe. The United States receives ing 28,000 acres of land and water to the dense mangroves that surrounds Santiago, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the rights to coaling nations in Cuba, in the United States. the cays. Brush and cactus dominate Mi-west - Residents of the Great Philippines are occupied by Ameri- accordance with a provision of the The old Spanish land records the hillsides, and the peaceful coveof Plains are cleaning up damage from can troops and the Spanish are ready Platt Amendment and both the U.S. show that five estates are within the Corinaso. The survey team floods and tornadoes that struck spends yes- to surrender.