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A.- Am&- U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Tuesday, May 14, 1974 Ford says U.S. m ust keep military capa bility NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP)-Vice Pres- fortunate to be in the position as ident Gerald R. Ford said yesterday leader of the world to be in the po- that it is crucial for the United sition first to achieve peace and now States to maintain a military capa- to try and maintain it. bility "so that others will know "And we're doing it as we expand America is not only strong in wea- our economy as we have in our domes- pons but also in will." tic programs, trying to help the less advantaged. We must try to Fordwell Ford sai -ia peec deicaing maintain that military capability so a huge new wharf at the New Orleans that others respect us, so that others port that "If we do not keep strong know that America is strong not only militarily, we will not enjoy the in weapons but in will." full fruits of this tremendous ef- fort between responsible government Continuing, Ford added that "We're and energetic enterprise." - blessed with the fact that if we do In the brief talk he made no men- what is right to support a military tion of Watergate. budget of sufficient current strength, Preceding Ford on the platform was adequate research and development, Rep. F. Edward Hebert of New Orleans, the procurement-of additional strate- a Democrat who is chairman of the gic weapons, the rebuilding of our House Armed Services Committee. Re- navy, we can look forward to-not ferring to that committee Ford said, only this year--a world of peace, but "Strength means peace, and military a decade of peace." strength continues peace. The dedication ceremony, attended VICE PRES. FORD by about 1,000 persons, was for the . "strength means peace" "Yes, the United States today is second of nine new mammoth bulk load- ing facilities at the New Orleans port. Perom faces crisis with federal police threatembhg to resign BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)--President Juan Peron Margaride was reincorporated into the police by faced a serious.crisis within the federal police yes- Peron late January and appointed head of the political terday as 27 tcr officers threatened to resign in dis- section, despite a wave of protests by leftist Peron- agreement with a controversial appointment. ists and liberal groups. The government announced Friday that Commissary Gen- eral Alberto Villar had been appointed chief of the Villar's appointment as c~ief of police did not trig- federal police and that Commissary Major Luis Margaride, ger open protests in the force this time but when he would be deputy chief of police. was appointed deputy chief last January, eight senior top officers also resigned in protest. Six commisary generals--the highest rank within the force--and 21 commissary majors said they are ready to Villar is an anti-guerrilla expert who has pledged to retire from the police rather than serve under Marga- put down the wave of terrorism plaguing this country. ride, whom they depicted as "a controversial personal- ity within and outside the force." Leftist Peronists and Marxist groups have accused him Margaride won notoriety in the sixties, when as chief of being ". a man of the Central Intelligence of morality he staged frequent raids in downtown hotels Agency (CIA)." They base this accusation on the fact in search of adulterous couples. He would then call that Villar attended the International Police Academy the betrayed husband or wife for a confrontation with in Washington, D. C., operated by the Agency for Inter- the other party. His career ended when the police national Development (AID). He was also criticized for arrested a number of high-ranking government officials. having closely cooperated with the previous military regime. Page 2-LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Tuesday, May 14, 1974 NEW YORK (AP)--Charges of sexism in the American GAZETTEER press were voiced by a panel on "Women: In the News and the Newsroom" at a weekend convention of more than .a digest of late news 1,300 journalists. "Sexism is the only form of bigotry treated as good clean fun" by the press, said Ellen Cohn, a free-lance writer and panelist at the A.J. Leib- ling Counter-Convention sponsored by a journalism re- view. Among her specific complaints were a paucity of .LISBON (AP)--The newspaper 0 Seculo , one of Lisbon's women in management jobs and general refusal of news- leading dailies, failed to publish fo r the fourth con- papers to use the title "Ms." instead of "Miss" or secutive day yesterday because of a d ispute with workers "Mrs." Ms. Cohn who prefers the feminist designation over editorial control. A second Lis bon newspaper, A said the press's general refusal to use "Ms." was un- Capital, said it hoped to publish for the first time questionably political." The panel, one of 19 present- since last Friday. The printer's uni on that publishes ed at the weekend convention, was assigned to the both newspapers struck Friday in supp ort of leftist smallest meeting room and met before a crowd that over- employes who demanded 0 Seculo's mana cement publish on flowed into the hallway. The two-day convention is its front page a statement demanding the ouster of named for the late writer whose critical appraisals of "Fascist" executives. The journalist s' union and other the press appeared in the New Yorker Magazine. newspaper unions have voted purges of publishing execu- tives since the government was overthirown April 25 on grounds the managements collaborated with the old re- gime of deposed Premier Marcello Caet ano. Energy status TOKYO (AP)--Chinese Premier Chou En -Lai, reported suf- fering from undisclosed indisposition , appanrentlu y trookl a rest yesterday. Visiting Prime Min sister Zulfikar Ali Gitmo used 26.9 Bhutto of Pakistan, who had been conf erring with Chou, per cent less fuel met yesterday with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-Ping, the from May 1-12 than official Hsinhua News Agency reported . Hsinhua' s for the same period broadcast made no mention of Chou, bu t the premier or- last year. Of the dinarily would have been on hand for talks of this 1.437 million gal- scope. Chou also missed a state banq uet in Bhutto's lone allocated for 320 honor Sunday night. Hsinhua gave no reason. Chou did, May, 478,000 gal- were used for however meet with Bhutto earlier Sund ay.lons~y. the first 12 days PARAMARIBO, Surinam (AP)--A governm(ent decision to of Gitsmoedthis month, 269 or take over the Marienburg Sugar Estate brought a 10-day 33.2 per cent of in storage sugar workers strike to an end yester day. The termsallotment. A 0 of the government takeover were not iimmediately ts balance of 959,000 closed, but official sources said tha t the government gallons remained for and Amsterdam Rubber Culture Company, owners of the in the barrel Marienburg Estate, had been negotiati wnr seofrth the month on May 12. the months. "The company claimed it coul d not operate In fractions, sugar factory profitably and the gove rnment was will- use 55626 al- ing to take over the plantation and the factory to loe if6it0ha avoid an addition to the unemployment list," the sources consue 12/3 ofha 31 said. the allocation for As of May 12th the month. Water status Local Forecast Water figures for yesterday: Partly cloudy with scattered Guantanamo afternoon showers in the Bay' Gazette WATER PRODUCED: 1,218,000 area. Visibility unrestricted. Winds light and variable -~~4.144 IA. .44. 4. .0444 WATER CONSUMED: 1,377,000 becoming SE 10-12 knots with gusts to 20 knots. High Lt. Ca . .4liaf.ie Mticer WATERLOSS: 159,000 today 86. Low tonight 73. 3 44.4. .4 1 . Bay conditions 2-4 feet. High 040,4444. A 4 WATER IN STORAGE: 18,595,000 tide 0326. Low tide 1007. 30 .4 . ._ 04. ..I.40. Guantanamo Gazette LOCAL, WORLD NEWS--Page 3 . Tuesday, May 14, 1974 Elections, strikes, headline in France, Denmark PARIS (AP)--Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing COPENHAGEN (AP)--Tens of thousands of Danish workers has regained his three per cent lead over his Socialist put down their tools in protest yesterday as Prime Min- rival, Francois Mitterrand, according to the latest ister Poul Hartling's minority government moved to in- opinion poll on the French presidential election. crease the country's sales tax. The poll predicted 51.5 per cent of the May 19 vote Hartling's efforts are designed to curb imports and would go to Giscard d'Estaing and 48.5 per cent for Mit- reduce Denmark's galloping balance of trade deficit. terrand. The poll, published today by the newspaper The Liberal Prime Minister was in a race against the Figaro, was taken after Friday's live television debate clock after he barely escaped resignation and a call between the two candidates. for elections last Friday in a confrontation with the opposition Social Democrats who refused to go along with Earlier straw votes showed the conservative Giscard the sales tax increases without basic agreement on long- d'Estaing and the Communist backed Mitterrand running term economic and political issues. neck andineck. Figaro said 47 per cent of television viewers said The Folketing (Parliament) postponed the crucial vote Giscard d'Estaing won the debate, while 35 per cent con- on the government's sales tax bills until today. sidered Mitterrand the winner and 18 per cent had no Thousands of striking workers assembled in front of views on the subject.