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Astronauts Rehearse For Sunday's Blastoff * Apollo 16

CAPE KENNEDY Fla. (AP)--The astronauts rehearsed blastoff and earth orbital maneuvers yesterday as the countdown proceded smoothly toward Sunday's beginning of the Apollo 16 moon mission. Civil authorities prepared for the massive traffic jam expec- ted to be caused by the launch. Astronauts John.W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thomas K. Mattingly II boarded the command ship simulator to run through activities from the time the booster roc- ket leaves the pad until they fire out of earth or- bit and head for the moon. That covers 2 hours, 27 minutes in the flight. Young and Duke also practiced their lu- nar module trainer and -Mattinglyworked on lunar orbit exercises in the com- mand ship simulator. Four days before Apollo 16 V leaves the launch pad for man's fifth expedition to 0 BAY, CUBA Fraud the moon, house trailers and campers already were swarming around scouting for van- tage points IRS Cracks Down (Please see APOLLO d tu n page On Tax Preparers 2) WASHINGTON (AP)--With five days left before the filing deadline, the Internal Revenue Service assigned thousands of agents yesterday to help taxpayers fill out their 1971 federal income tax returns. Commissioner Johnnie M. Walters Thursday, April 13, 1972 said his agency will use 15,000 tech- nical personnel, about seven times more than normal, to help taxpayers complete the job of filling out re- turns before the deadline of mid- Enemy Rockets Hit Da Nang night Monday, April 17. le said the sharp expansion and SAIGON (AP)--North Vietnamese gunners fired a score of rockets into Da its service to taxpayers is being Nang today aiming for the allies' second largest air base in South Vietnam. launched because of widespread evi- Enemy troops also renewed attacks across a key river defense line anchoring dence of fraudulent practices by the government's northern front. sufficient numbers of tax preparers. Within minutes of the first rockets explosions at Da Nang, hit for the IRS offices throughout the country first time since the current enemy offensive broke out two weeks ago, an will be open at later than usual aircraft with a huge searchlight took off. Its task was to pinpoint the hours, including Saturday but not enemy rocket launcher positions and if possible to guide fire on any wea- Sunday, Walters told newsmen. pons will unfired. The IRS crackdown of tax preparers There were no immediate reports of damage from the 1:30 a.m. attack. The in recent weeks has resulted in de- last one February 9, killed three South Vietnamese and wounded six South tecting 1,800 preparers who have pre- Vietnamese and ten Americans. pared fraudulent income tax forms. U.S. Air Force and Marine F4 Phantom squadrons from the base as well as South Vietnamese fighter-bombers are vital in keeping the northern front resupplied. IRS studies have shown that about In reporting the new enemy attempt to cross the Dong Ha-Cua into the de- half of federal income tax returns militarized zone, the Siagon command said 52 enemy troops were killed. are prepared.by tax preparers. Vietnamese pilots also claimed to have knocked out six enemy tanks as they Walters said that IRS agents en- tried to cross a tributary of the Dong Ha-Cua several miles to the west. gage in other work, apparently in- After the collapse of their defensive line south of the DMZ in the open- cluding wage-price controls, would ing days of the enemy offensive, Saigon's troops managed to stablize their be pulled off their jobs the next (Please see WAR page 2) (Please see TAXES page 2) Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Thursday April 13, 1972

APOLLO- from page one along roads and causeways. "The time is right," Brady said. "Anybody in central, .a digest of late news north-central or south-central Florida can get up at a reasonable hour Sunday morning and be in time for the shot.

The United States expressed formal displeasure TAXES- from page one at the French government yesterday for the prompting five days. from Paris that the Vietnem peace talks be resumed with- But Walters said agents, like anyone else, are sub- out delay. Emmanuel de Margerie was called in by the Un- ject to human error and the tax payer will be liable dersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Alexis for the mistakes. Johnson, to convey the Nixon administration's feelings Walters said in response to a question that IRS agent- that the French call was one-sided and made without no- s who prepared returns for taxpayers will not sign them. tifying the U.S. in advance, spokesmen said. But, he said, in view of the expanded program the ser- vice will now consider requiring agents to initial or FIrmer president Lyndon B. Johnson was feeling sign returns if they prepare them. great after he returned to yesterday to recuper- The commissioner said that taxpayers who have reason ate from a major heart attack. One physician indicated to beleive that thier returns have been prepared fraud- Johnson may be able to resume much of his normally ac- ulently or incorrectly by preparers may have the IRS tive life. help them file an amended return. What got the IRS started on the new program was a Iur individuals, including Vermont's commission- study of tax preparers in the southeast region which er, and two corporations were 'accused in federal court showed that more of the private commercial tax prepare yesterday of-vioLating united Nations sanctions against ers in that area were making fraudulent returns. trading with Rhodesia. In a unique case, the U.S. attor- ney's office in New York announced the first such prose- one cution under 1968 Rhodesian sanctions. WAR- from page northernmost line on the south bank of the river. They President Nixon announced yesterday he will inflicted heavy casualities on waves of enemy attack- nominate Benjamin L. Hooks, a Memphis attorney, to be ers who sought to breech it with tanks and infantry. the first black to serve onh the seven-member Federal The town of Dong Ha lies just below the river and Communications commission. Hooks, described by the has been one of the enemy's major objectives so far in White House as a political independent, would serve a the offensive. The provincial capital of Quanh Tri lies seven-year term starting July 1. 13 miles further south. Enemy troops also tightened their seige of an infan- Three persons were killed,) houses were wash- try and artillery base guarding the most valuable ape ed away and hundreds of residents were evacuated yester- proach to the ancient imperial capital of Hue. day as heavy rains caused severe flooding in several Field reports said enemy troops had now surrounded Kentucky communities. High winds toppled barns and fire base Bastogne 12 miles south of Hue. house trailers and snapped power lines. Enemy gunners fired 50 rounds into the base Tuesday and government forces battled an estimated 300 to 400 Army S gt. Donald Fryer's seven-month battle North Vietnamese troops three miles from the shell- to adopt a 'ietnam orphan ended when the three-year-old scarred base's barbed wire perimeter. The Saigon com- boy arrived at Ft. Lewis, Wash. yesterday from Vietnam. mand said 21 enemy troops died in that engagement Attempts by Fryer and his wife, Delores, to bring young while three government troops died and 17 were wounded. David Matthew to the United States was complicated by The situation around Bastogne was described as criti- an erroneous Army drug test. The long effort to clear cal. It commands route 574, a narrow dirt road that was the sergeant's name involved a pair of Army generals, a used by the enemy during the 1968 Tet Offensive to Congressional hearing and a nudge from the White House. spearhead an offensive that partially captured Hue.

Stateside Temperatures

' ' Guantanamo NgW Boston 44 Gazette New York 61 local Forecast 72 Washington becoming partly 68 Mostly clear Atlanta cloudy with showers during Miami 78 afternoon,becoming mostly o2Iacro. . Jacksonville 82 fmh v Ince t .es tntE io clear again after sunset. a i s ie../..,. s itnt dio Detroit 64 TowY adt. . . .) 69 Visibility unrestricted. Winds St. Louis N 3-5 knots becoming SE 10-14 no aanteam ente spolished scoordit o U, rbules an knots,gusts up to 22 knots Denver 80 during afternoon then returning Los Angeles to N knots San Francisco 3-5 after sunset. 57 Today's high 84,tonight's low Philadelphia 65 Seattle 71. Bay conditions 1-2' increase to 3-5' during afternoon. High tide 2147. Low Tide 1445. Thursday, April 13, 1972 Guantanamo.Gazette LOCAL NEWS--Page 3 Club Movies Club Iguana Exchange FRIDAY--"THE IMPATIENT HEART" NRA Michael Brandon, Michael Constantine

SATURDAY--"ROMANCE OF A HORSETHIFF" 'The Scene' D to :i M ay Yul Brynner, Eli Wallsch PG Sound Due Open SUNDAY--"THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD" Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee PG Next on the horizon of new Navy Exchange facilities is a personal ser- vices center which will be co-housed with the new appliance repair area TUESDAY--"NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS" and the new stereo and record store called "The Sound Scene". The new David Selby, Lara Parker PG building located behind the coffee shop will house these facilities. The audio center will be over 1,300 square feet ,and will be chocked full WEDNESDAY--"THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER" of the latest stereo components as well as the latest albums and tapes. , NRA "'We will have a great selection of country, soul, jazz, classical and show tunes" said Kid Byron Hayden, THURSDAY--"i:ARLOW" ',xchange electronic equiptment buyer. -LOCAL Carroll Baker, 'artin Bolsam NRA BRIEFS--- CPO Club The grand opening is slated for the end of May. EOD started Tuesday conducting SATURDAY--"NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS" Shortly after the new stereo cen- blasting operations, in the vicinity David Selby, Lara Parker PG ter opens, the exchange will begin of Ocean View housing area. Blast- a renovation of the main retail SUNDAY--"THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER" ing is expected to last for ten store. days to make way for a trailer park. John Wayne, Dear Martin NRA The renovation will be done with- The work will be conducted during out closing the store according to daylight hours and the blasts will MONDAY--"THE IMPATIENT HEART" NRA Exchange officials. Michael Brandon, 'fichael Constantine be at irregular intervals.

TUESDAY--"CHANGE OF MIND" The remodeling will present a Water will be secured in all Mo- Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver R whole new cashier and special order bile Point housing area from 8 a.m. section along with a new shoe de- until noon on Friday. The reason is WEDNESDAY--"HARLOW" partment plus a better designed to allow the contractors to install Carroll Baker, '!artin Bolsam NRA cosmetics and jewelry counter. a water meter on the main water line. At the Mini-Mart the Exchange is THURSDAY--"HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD" now constructing a "Shopper's Stop" Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee PG an area where patrons can have a coke or a malted or perhaps even FRIDAY--"ROMANCE OF A HORSETHIEF" coffee and doughnuts. Customers can Council Meets Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach GP utilize this section to get a res- .pite.from the rigors of shopping. In Morin Center Como Club Seven items appear on to- night's Civic Council meet- SUNDAY-- "ELTOY DANCERS" Another facility, now under con- ing agenda. Entertainment from Jamaica is that huge concrete struction, They are: building between Marblehead Hall I-Change of policy for TUESDAY--"HARLOW" and Special Services, the new En- Morin Center. Carroll Baker, Martin Bolsam NRA listed Men's Club. The two million 2-Election of deputy mayor, dollar project will include all the treasurer and deputy secre- THURSDAY--"THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER" latest features now being incorp- tary. John Wayne, Dean Martin NRA orated in clubs throughout the Navy. 3-Re-opening of Saturday morning kiddie matinee at Morin Center. Sergeant Majors Change at Bulkeley 4-Possibilities of 16-20 year old age group having Sergeant Major L. R. Cooper will martial music and the parade will their own club. be relieved by Sergeant Major F. T. include motorized -equipment and 5-Committee reports McVieve during ceremonies held at artillery pieces used by the Mar- 6-4th of July picnic budget Camp Bulkeley's parade field today ines. discussion. at 3 p.m. Following the formal ceremonies 7-District reports. to attand the new staff NCO club will be The public is invited The meeting will begin at an out- the change-of-command ceremonies dedicated and named after 7:30 p.m. in the Morin Center and parade conducted by the 2nd standing Marine. International Room. Battalion, 8th Marines for the The uniform-of-the-day is Sergeant Majors. authorized for personnel attend- ComNavBase band will provide the ing in uniform. Page 4--ENTERTAINMENT Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, April 13, 1972

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SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI Naval Station 1/8 2 3 4 5 6 7/9 Naval Air Statirn 10/9 1 2 3 4 5 6/8 Marine Site 11 10 1 2 3 4 5 Naval Hospital 12 11 10 1 2 3 4 Camp Bulkeley 13 12 11 10 1 2 3 EM Leeward Point 14 13 12 11 10 1 2 NAS Leeward Point 17/18 14 13 12 11 1.0 1/15 BOQ Leeward Point 16 15 14 13 12 1.1 10

1. KIDNAPPED: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard. 10. BOY TEN FEET TALL: Edward G. Robinson, Fer- Young Lawrence Douglas seeks out Uncle Plea- gus McCleland. A ten year old boy heads for his sence for his inheritance and nearly meets his aunt in Durban after his parents death. DRAMA death. DRAMA COLOR 100 min. G. COLOR 88 MIN. NRA. 2. DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: Sean Connery, Jill 11. GREEN MANSIONS: Audrey Hepburn, Anthony St. John. Charles Gray, Agent 007 is assigned Perkins. A political refugee(Perkins) escapes to uncover a plot to corner the world diamond to the jungle of Venezuela, determined to find market. ACTION DRAMA COLOR 120 min. GP. gold so that he can return home and finance a 3. THE SEVEN MINUTES: Wayne Maunder, Mari- revolution. DRAMA COLOR 124 MIN. NRA. anne McAndrew. A clerk in a Califronia book- 12. ELMER GANTRY: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons. store is arrested and prosecuted for selling An opportunist teams up with a traveling evan- a supposedly pornographic book by J.J. Jadway. golist show, headed by a beautiful girl. News- DRAMA COLOR 116 min. R. paperman knowing their indiscretions, tries to 4. THE FRENCH CONNECTION: Gene Hackman, Fer- expose them publicly. DRAMA COLOR 146 MIN. nando Rey. New York detectives Gene Hackman NRA. and Roy Scheider pursue drug pushers and users, 13. ONCE UPON A DEAD MAN: Rock Hudson, Susan St. employing strong-arm tactics. CRIME DRAMA James. Rock Hudson is a police commissioner who COLOR 105 min. R. seeks the thief of a gold coffin and the killer 5. GOODBYE COLUMBUS: Richard Benjamin, Ali of two antique dealers. DRAMA COLOR 96 MIN. MacGraw. Benjamin, uncommitted and unsure of NRA. his future, arranges to meet Ali MacGraw, the 14, JENNIFER ON MY MIND: Michael Brandon, Tippy daughter of a wealthy Westchester self-made Walker. In his New Jersey apartment, Michael businessman. DRAMA COLOR 150 min. NRA. Brandon contemplates what to do with the body 6. THE CARPETBAGGERS: George Peppard, Caroll of Tippy Walker. She died from an overdose of Baker. This is the story of Jonas Cord, Jr. heroin. DRAMA COLOR 90 MIN. R. industrial and motion picture dynamo and the 15. MAN IN THE WILDERNESS: Richard Harris, John many women in his life. DRAMA COLOR 150 min. Bindon. After two years of trapping Harris is NRA. attacked by a bear and left in the wilderness 7. LAW OF THE LAWLESS: Dale Robertson, Yvonne for dead. But, by a determined effort he sur- De Carlo. A that focuses on the town vives and returns to his friends in time to and people of Stone Junction, Kansas, in the save them from massacre. DRAMA COLOR 105 MIN. year 1889. Pete Stone is being tried for mur- GP. der before a "hanging judge." WESTERN COLOR 16. MAN AND BOY: Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster. The 93 min. NRA. code of the West was--If you're black, step 8. MARLOWE: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt. Or- back--but Caleb(Cosby) wouldn't listen. To prove famay Quest offers Marlowe fifty dollars to this to his son he headed out to take on the find her brother Orrin. Wherever Marlowe goes whole damn West. DRAMA COLOR 98 MIN. G looking for Orfamay's brother he finds a corpse. 17. SABATA: Lee Van Cleef, William Berger. Sa- MOLODRAMA COLOR 95 min. GP. bata arrives at a western frontier town at the 9. THE TRAP: Richard Widmark, Tina Louise. moment its bank has been robbed and many sold- Richard Widmark asks his father, who is the iers have been killed. WESTERN COLOR 107 MIN. sheriff, to dismiss his deputies from duty at GP. an airport, in order that Lee J. Cobb, who is 18. THE VIOLENT FOUR: Gian Maria Volonte, Thomas the head of a crime syndicate, can depart in Millan. When a crafty gang of four bank robbers a plane from the country. ADVENTURE DRAMA led by Volonte, attempt to cover their last one COLOR 90 min. NRA. by tripping the burglar alarm so police would be where they had been, there is a slipup and one of them is cought. DRAMA COLOR'97 MIN. NRA Thursday, April 13, 1972 Guantanamo Gazette ENTERTAINMENT_ Page 5 Sparkling Channel 8

Week of April 14-20 4:30 Addams Family S 10:30 Music & the Spoken Word F 4:30 Sea Hunt: With Lloyd 5:00 Peter Gunn R Bridges U 11:00 The Christophers 5:30 Julia 11:15 I 5:00 Animal Kingdom N Sacred Heart 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie D 11:30 This is the Life D 5:30 Big Picture Schedule of Interest & Movie A 12:00 All The Time In The World A 5:55 Notes 6:00 Panorama Y Schedule: With Tom Hatch & Y (OTO Religious Special) 12:30 Camera Three 6:30 Flip Wilson: Lily Tomlin Chuck Dazey plays a housewife shop- 6:00 Panorama 1:00 NBA Playoffs: LA vs. Chicago ping at the store with 6:30 Doris Day helping 2:30 NCAA Basketball: East/ grocery man Flip 7:00 Naked City: "A Kettle of her). West College All Stars Precious Fish" 7:30 Men From Shiloh: "Hannah" "The Covey" 4:05 On Campus 8:00 High Chaparral: (Lisa Gerritsen stars as Lobo 4:35 CBS Reports: "Busing" (Mexican bandit El a plucky child who gets breaks jail and plots to 5:30 Fabulous World of Skiing help from Trampas while Ranch 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie plunder Cannon searching for her lost supplies to avenge his Schedule mother). 6:00 News Brief imprisonment by Manolito). 9:00 Marcus Welby:"Brave on a 6:05 Wild Wild West 9:00 Ironside: "An Obvious Case Mountain Top" (A young of Guilt" 7:00 Glen Campbell 8:00 Dean Martin Navajo worker, who hopes 10:00 Tenth Hour News his highly paid city job 9:00 Mission Impossible: "Oper- 10:10 Bracken's World will free him and his ation Heart" 11:00 MOVIE: "Ghost in the Invis- the poverty of 10:00 News Brief wife from ible Bikini" the reservation, becomes 12:20 Boxing 10:05 MOVIE: "Flight to Singa- a victim of emphysema). pore" 10:00 Tenth Hour News 9:30 Sesame Street Third Man: (New Show) M 4:30 World of Skiing 10:10 The 10:30 Sparky MOVIE: "Gideon of Scot- 0 5:00 Here's Lucy 10:30 T 11:00 You Are There: "Paul Re- land Yard" U vere's Ride" (It's the N 5:30 Science Fiction Theatre D 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie R famous ride of Paul Revere 4:30 Marvel Toons D from Boston to Concord, A Schedule Panorama 5:00 Andy Griffith A Massachusetts) Y 6:00 5:30 It was a Very Good Year (A re-run is 6:30 Age of Aquarius Y 1:0Pinpoint: 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie shown of Samiz rolling for 7:30 Name of the Game: "Aquar- Schedule $5,000 in the 'computer- ius Descending" 6:00 Panorama ized" pin set-up). 9:00 Jackie Gleason 6:30 Bill Cosby:"Home Remedy" 10:00 Tenth Hour News 12:00 MOVIE: "Clouded Yellow" (A crisis summons family 10:10 This is Your Life: 1:30 Men of the Sea:(One half and friends bearing a 10:30 Tonight Show hour information special) variety of remedies to 2:00 Dick Cavett Chet's aid. He has come T 4:30 Partridge Family 3:00 American Sportsman down with a head cold). U 5:00 Buck Owens: (New Show) 4:00 Billiards 7:00 : "The Noonday E 5:30 Mayberry R. F. D. 5:00 Wide Wide World (A priest tries to S 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie Devil" 5:30 My Three Sons his brother's soul D Schedule save 5:55 Notes of Interest & Movie while Marshal Dillon Schedule A 6:00 Panorama Y 6:30 Nanny & Professor patiently waits in the 6:00 News Brief wings to see how it will 6:05 CBS Reports: (What happens 7:00 Daniel Boone:(Daniel and an Indian Chief who trusts come out). when people achieve the corks, him are double crossed by 8:00 Laugh In: (Pop the very things they've worked it's show number 100! an ambitious General). hard for all their lives) It's a blast from beginn- (One hour information 8:00 Carol Burnett all 9:00 Alias Smith & Jones :"The ing to end reuniting special)., former cast members with Girl in Boxcar #3" (This 7:00 Untouchables the present cast). is an account that chroni- 8:00 World of Disney: New Show 9:00 Mod Squad: "Is There Any- Heyes and Curry's 8:55 Notes of Interest cles one Left In Santa Paula?" sly efforts to haul 9:00 Li'L Abner: OTO Variety 10:00 Tenth Hour News Special 50,000 to a town 400 miles away). 10:10 All in the Family 10:00 News Brief Dick Cavett: (Dick Cavett 10:00 Tenth Hour News 10:30 10:05 MOVIE: "Devil at 4'O scores again He comes Clock 10:10 Charlie Chaplin up with a plum in this 11:30 MOVIE: "The Kansan" 10:30 Combat show). Thursday, April 13, 1972 Guantanamo Gazette NATIONAL NEWS--Page 6 0 Kleindienst Senate Committee Will Not Subpoena White House Aides

WASHINGTON (AP)--The Senate Judiciary Committee refused yesterday to either order or invite White House aides , especially Peter Flanigan, to come before the panel to give testimony in the controversy surrounding act- ing Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst. In an executive session, the committee refused in three different tie votes to subpoena the aides. It turned down also a motion to request Flan- igan to appear in executive session. The committee tied 6 to 6 on a motion to limit the subpoenas to Flanigan and William Timmons and tied again 6 to 6 when the subpoena was limited to Flanigan alone. The series of tie votes amounted to a victory for Republican members, since a majority is required for the RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST as he wait- issuance of subpoenas. ed to testify before the Senate Voting for the issuance of the Judiciary Committee. supoenas in the three votes were Democratic Sens. Sam J, Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, Philip A. hart of Michigan, Quentin N. 3urdick of North Dakota, Robert C. Byrd of West Vir- ginia, and John V. Tunny of Califor- n18. Labor Pickets Supermarkets Opposed were Republicans Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram L. Fong of Hawaii, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, WASHINGTON (AP)--The AFL-CIO gave the go-ahead yesterday to its 13.6 mil- Marlow W. Cook of Kentucky, Charles lion members to start picketing superarkets and other stores to protest Mathias Jr. of Maryland and Edward rising prices. J. Gurney of Florida. "Xe are going to escalate," said Leo Perlis, director of the labor fed- Committee members absent were Dem- eration's community services departmen t which has been conducting a labor ocratic Sens. John L. McClellan of watch-dog operation to monitor prices around the nation. AFL-CIO price Arkansas and Birch Bayh of Indiana. monitors were originally instructed in a letter not to throw up picket lines, but Perlis told a conference "that sentence is rescinded." "Go ahead and do what you have to do," he told several hundred labor officials at the annual National AFL- es CIO Community Services conference. Earlier, Sen. William Proxmire, D- Wis., chairman of the Joint Economic Committee o' "on-ress, told the delegates President Nixon's Phase II 11 wage-price controls were unfairly holding down wages while letting 'ASHINGTON (AP)--The Senate refuse d to shelve for a year a bill to lim- prices rise. it the President's war-making powers while a national commission studies Proxmire said his committee will the proper war powers roles of Congr ess and the President. hold hearings starting Friday aimed at achieving a fairer economic con- In a 56-23 roll call vote, the Sen ate defeated a substitute bill by Sen. trol program. J. Glenn Beall Jr., R-Md., to establiish a 24-rember commission, half ap- Perlis also said workers and con- pointed by the President and the otheer half by Senate and House leaders. sumers were being unfairly treated under Phase II controls. Ball argued that the House is unli kely to consider the Senate bill this "What we are getting is a circus, year and that the President is 'high]ly unlikely" to sign it. not bread," he said. A year from now, he said, Congress could consider it again "in a little "It hasn't worked since te very less emotional light" and it would be more likely to pass. beginning because it was unfairly applied, unfirmly applied and totally "This is the Time to act," Sen. Jaccob K. Javits, R-N.Y., responded. He incredible," he added. said the Senate already had decided the bill needed no further study. Page 7--WORLD NEWS Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, April 13, 1972

Bhutto Opens Way for Peace Talks

NEW DELHI (AP)--Prime Minister Gandhi recieved Cuba Indira yesterday a letter from Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that Indian off- icers said opened the way for peace talks between the two countries. The officials did not disclose details of the letter, but Bhutto told Rogers Justifies newsmen in Rawalpindi he had accepted Mrs. Gandhi's proposal for low- er level discussions to prepare an agenda for a national meeting. Ac- cording to radio Pakistan, Bhutto said he left the site and date of Isolation the talks open. WASHINGTON (AP)--Secretary of State William P. Rogers said yester- British Labor Opposes Entry day Cuba's "interventionist behavior" and its military ties with the Sov- LONDON (AP)--The British Labor Party moved closer yesterday toward iet Union justify a continuation of outright opposition to Britain's entry into the Common Market. The its isolation from the hemispheric party's legislators voted to press for a national referendum on the community. subject. The issue of the referendum brought the resignation this Apparently ruling out any overture week of six right wing party members. toward Cuba in the near future, Scott Seeks Improved Relations Rogers told a' meeting of for- WASHINGTON (AP)--Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said yesterday eign ministers he and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield will seek in their trip of the Organ- to China next week to "find means to widen communications and improve ization of A- relations" between China and the United States. Talking with reporters merican States at the White House, Scott said he recieved a 75-minute briefing from (OAS): President Nixon Tuesday. He wouldn't give details, but said he and "Cuba's con- Mansfield would be relaying "certain oral expressions of good will" tinuing inter from Nixon, who visited China in February. ventionist ac tions and sup: Iranian Premier Tours Devastation port for rev- olution--even TEHRAN (AP)--The Premier of Iran yesterday toured the areas hit by though on a this week's earthquake. He estimated the death toll at between 3,500 different scale ROGERS and 3,800 somewhat lower than earlier estimates. than in the past--still constitute a threat to the peace and security Chinese Table Tennis Team Arrives of the hemisphere." DETROIT (AP)--Fourteen members of a Chinese table tennis team landed on the soil of the United States yesterday, keeping their promise to Tuesday radio Havana said govern- visit this country before the blossoms return. The table tennis team ment officials had seized 290,000 is returning a visit by an American team last spring which heralded a U.S. dollars in ransom money from thaw in relations between the United States and China. Newsmen, offic- a Puerto Rican businessman who kid- ials and translators and the team left a chartered plane at Detroit napped a bank executive then hijack- airport. ed a plane and forced it to be flown to Cuba. In a broadcast monitored in Miami, radio Havana said the money taken from Jose Luis Lugo Rodriguez would be deposited in the Cuba National Bank and the account in the name Offensive Worries Cambodia of Banco Popular of Puerto Rico would be frozen.

PHNOM PEHN, Cambodia (AP)--The Thanh said. Cambodian government is worried The Premier spent time on the con- Radio Havana said the $290,000 about the enemy offensive in neigh- flict in South Vietnam, however, his would be frozen "because it belongs boring South Vietnam, Premier Son immediate concern is the political to a United States bank" and the Ngoc Thanh said yesterday. situation. funds would not be released until In an interview, the Cambodian Thanh, who served in exile as Pre- "the liberation by the United States Premier declared that the drive by mier of Cambodia during the Japanese of the numerious accounts of the the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong occupation of World War II, said he Cuban government frozen by the U.S. envolved grave risks for the entire had agreed to serve President Lon Treasury Department in July 1963." world even though his government Nol last month after most of the The broadcast said Lugo Rodriguez believes the enemy objective may be country's politicians had turned had told Cuban authorities that his more political, than military. down the offer of the job. His rea- action was not politically motivated "It is a risk-perhaps not of World soning is that Lon No1 "wants the and that he had been a collaborator War III-but of a possible glimnering republic." with the Central Intelligence Agency of a third world war," Son Ngoc and the FBI while in the U.S. Page 8--SPORTS Guantanamo Gazette Thursday, April 13, 1972 Strike SPORTS Number of Games in Question

WASHINGON (UPI)--A day of luncheon meetings and long-distance phone conversations proved fruitless in attenps to solve the baseball strike. Negotiations between players and owners broke off early yesterday after the two groups fail- ed to agree on the issue of retroactive pay. The Executive Director of the Players Assoc- iation, Marvin Miller, told reporters that a meeting was scheduled for later yesterday morn- ing with a federal mediator. Miller also said the owners are scheduled I to meet this morning in Chicago. In their latest proposal, the players agreed to forfeit maximumowners ofmake one upday's all 162pay if Stick MayStic MayCauseCaue StrikeStikethe games. The owners want to subtract CHICAGO (UPI)--There's apparently some a day's pay from the players strike talk going on in the National Hock- for each game that is resched- ey League. uled as part of a doubleheader. The Chicago Black Hawks have initiated a Both sides agree the players protest against the League's limitations would be paid for games resche- on hockey stick curvature that could lead duled on open dates or split to a strike of all players now engaged in doubleheaders. the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The two sides also have The Hawks voted unanimously to request agreed on a $500,000 increase the league to drop its rules of checking in the-pension plan that would stick curvatures. come from surplus money already Other teams will probably follow the in the plan and not from any Chicago vote. more owners' contributions. The Executive Director for the NHL Play- The day started with Miller ers Association, Alan Eagleson, says if meeting with the players rep- the other clubs vote to back the Black resentatives at a New York Hawks, they will refuse to play unless reg- restaurant for lunch. ulations on stick curvature is stopped. That meeting moved into din- Hockey sticks are now limited to half-inch curve. Each stick ner following a private meeting bears a stamp of approval by a league official. between Miller and John Gaher- in, the c7lub owners' chief CA SPORTS--negotiator. --- OCA SPO TS-The two men then went their separate ways and failed to- come up with a negotiable *Pee-Wee League plan. Pee-Wee League baseball tryouts will be conducted this Sat- urday, at the Pee-Wee League Field on Sherman Avenue. Times for these tryouts are as follows: 7 year olds 9 a.m. and 8 year olds at 10:30 a.m. These tryouts are mandatory for any boy planning to participate in Pee-Wee League baseball this season.