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* Mrs. Meir and Dayan stay at present posts JERUSALEM (AP)--Premier Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan reversed their decisions to quit Isracl s iew government and faced a reported new military crisis on the Syrian war front. But no crisis, tension or military buildup was visible on the Golan Heights where Israeli and Syrian tanks battled during the October war, Israel's state radio reported. Dayan, however, was quoted as saying he agreed to remain Israel's defense boss because of a "new security situation. to help overcome the crisis." The state radio said "intelligence information had been received indi- cating that the Syrians were planning aggressive action." Israeli newspapers headlined unidentified foreign reports of Syrian troop concentrations on the Golan front and a new Soviet arms airlift. The Israeli military command, in a statement repeated in every hourly radio newscast, said the Golan Heights front was calm. Roads in the October war zone were reported open, Jewish settlers were working normally in their frontier fields and orchards and the exact nature of the security crisis was a mystery. Israelis appeared baffled by the sudden and undefined development that ended a 65-day political crisis and prompted Mrs. Meir and Dayan to stay in power. Until Tuesday night, Dayan had refused to join Mrs. Meir's cabinet and Mrs. Meir herself had made no final decision on whether to retire or remain premier. Some Israelis suggested the crisis with Syria was a gambit for the gov- ernment to end the political crisis without losing face, but one western diplomat noted "it couldn't be a fraud. In a society as open as this it would be revealed right away." Other Israelis believed that pressure from Washington was behind Mrs. MOSHE DAYAN Meir's bickering Labor Party pulling itself together'and solving the S . .still defense boss political stalemate. President vetoes emergency energy bill A A WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon But, Nixon said, it "threatens to yesterday announced his promised undo progress we have already made, veto of energy emergency legislation, and creates a host of new problems." saying it would result in reduced energy supplies, longer lines at "Employment would go up and incomes the gasoline pumps, minimal reduc- would go down " as a result of the tion in gasoline prices and "worst bill's proposed rollback of domes- of all, serious damage to jobs in tic crude oil prices, the President America." continued. Later in the day, the Senate Nixon said the proposed bill would failed in an attempt to override set the oil prices "at such low the veto. levels that the oil industry would be unable to sustain its present Nixon said-it was "with a deep production of petroleum products, sense of disappointment" that he including gasoline." sent back the bill without his Thursday, March 7, 1974 approval after Congress has worked That was the basis for his dire * on it for four months. predictions about its impact. Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, March 7,,1974 Streaking fad spreads GAZETTEER at nation's universities .a digest of late news NEW YORK (AP)--Streaking spread to the streets of New York overnight as a group of big city students dashed nude across the Columbia University campus, BEIPUT (AP)--President Hafez Assad of Syria said following a trail blazed by collegians elsewhere. yesterday that the Soviet Union is pressing his country The fad has led to scattered arrests--mostly for in- to attend Arab-Israeli peace talks in Geneva. "But decent exposure. An Oklahoma streaker was critically we shall go to the Geneva conference only when tangible injured when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into progress is achieved on the question of military dis- a car. engagement between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights," Assad told the Beirut magazine As Sayyad in an inter- On the whole, however, the streaking syndrome has view. Syria has agreed to send representatives to caused few problems. Authorities generally take a Washington to negotiate disengagement with Israel lenient attitude as long as the streakers stay on cam- through Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger later pus and don't interfere with anyone else. this month. Assad's interview appeared a few hours The New Yorkers--45 men and a lone coed--claimed a before he met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. record for the length of their streak, a sprint of a Gromyko in Damascus for the second time in a week to mile and a half that started at about 11 p.m. They discuss what a government spokesman described as Syria's were accompanied by a 16-piece university band and terms for an overall Middle East settlement. cheered on by about 1,000 supporters. LONDON (AP)--Britain's first battery bus, a 50-passen- Across the country, small groups of students from ger vehicle capable of speeds up to 40 miles an hour, the University of Washington braved the cold to streak will go into service in Manchester this spring. Named past a row of fraternity and sorority houses near the "The Silent Rider," the bus has a claimed range of campus. 40 miles between charges, or a normal day's work at At Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., about peak times in a crowded city center. The bus is the 120 male streakers paraded along a four-lane road early result of two years development by the Chlorida yesterday morning. One source said police closed the Electric Storage Group. It is claimed to have cheaper street to traffic for about 45 minutes, but authorities running costs than the diesel vehicle, easier main- denied that they had taken any action at all. tenance, quieter operation and better environmental characteristics. Other nude runners were reported at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, where the campus paper urged LOS ANGELES (AP)--Comedian-actor Billy De Wolfe is students to "be chic and streak," and at Northern Ill- dead at the age of 67 after undergoing treatment for inois at Dekalb. lung cancer. A UCLA Medical Center spokesman said In Sioux Falls, S.D., the streaking fad reached down De Wolfe died Tuesday from a blood clot. He had been into the high school set Tuesday night. hospitalized for a week. De Wolfe, whose first job A youngster, wearing only a ski mask, socks and tennis in show business was a dancer, performed on Broadway, shoes, made a mad dash across the basketball court be- in motion pictures and on television. One of his best tween quarters of the Sioux Falls Lincoln-Brandon Val- known movie roles was his impersonation of "Mrs. ley high school basketball game. Murgatroyd," a middle-aged matron, in "Blue Kisses." An estimated 3,000 persons witnessed the sprint, and He also appeared in "Dixie," "Tea for Two" and he was given thunderous applause. "Lullaby of Broadway." Water status Guantanamo Local Forecast Gazette Water figures for yesterday: R-C A",. C flCCyC -lCt. X1.-IF. WClkC, Continued partly cloudy c.ndin.g ofi- r WATER PRODUCED: 1,303,0C0 with scattered afternoon and early Lt. r0. J sL. P c AffaiC offimr evening showers. Visibility JM -red Dr. .****.C.Mc C M or WATER CONSUMED: 1,134,000 JOsA .ary.cho. ** *.****.*.r unrestricted. Winds N 4-6 knots becoming SE 12-14 knots WATER GAIN: 169,000 s P S cy . R ter with gusts to 24 knots, return- Jos - d . p ing 3-5 knots after sunset. h valBuep8lc WATER IN STORAGE: 19,265,000 affai. ofCer. It C. panted tou a~y CCI * CCC8E Iligh 85. Low 71. Bay dire8Cio of a -ttCCPCCC CCCC== CC. C. OCCCI condition Ct.CCCC.CC *C C~ OC Cp. C.0CC *~ C . CCC,135 .CC 29.4 feet. High tide 0857. CC.8 .:% CtOCCC.C~C CC.C. O 8.C.CC Low tide 0221. CC.C?.t~ Thursday, March 7, 1974 Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 * Mrs. Wood reigns as queen should know their at Seabee Ball at Windjammer advisory board reps Mrs. Sandra June Wood reigned by the Navy, 'Seabees' by the public In an attempt to serve barracks over the annual Seabee Ball Monday and 'confused bastards' by each residents better, SMCS II.L. Allen, at the Windjammer. other, they can do anything up to Gold Hill Towers barracks officer, The following were her court of and including stringing a telephone reminds occupants of certain aspects princesses: Debbie Linn, Holly Miguel, line, constructing a bridge, build- of the Barracks Enlisted Advisory Diana Pierce, Deanna Shepard, Vickie ing an outhouse or repairing a Council. Smith and Patricia Stanley. cigarette lighter." Department personnel should learn who their representatives to the Guest of honor Rear Admiral Ralph The Seabees' definition of them- council are. If they have any com- M. Ghormley was made an honorary selves provides a clue to the kind plaints or suggestions, they should Seabee and Gitmo's oldest of men they were. "A Seabee," they contact their representative so he Seabee, lEQCH N.J. Thaggard, and the youngest, said, "is a soldier in a sailor's or she can inform them at the next CECA D.L. Stokes, were also honored. uniform, with Marine training, do- meeting. Likewise, it is the re- At the ball, definitions of a ing civilian work at WPA wages." sponsibility of each representative Seabee were given. Perhaps the It was also mentioned at the ball to ensure that his people receive most colorful is the one given by to the Seabee motto of "can do" he copies of the council minutes and "Spider" Rowland, sports writer has added "have done" or "will do." obtain their opinions about the for the "Arkansas Gazette".