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Tide, Sun, Temp. Weather Forecast g, h tiie-12:57pm AA -A-Cloudy Lo 0~-63p with scat- - t tered showers. Low tie---6:33am 'Winds SE 12 knots ifnzt --- 8742 1-3 feet. LOW---74 The Netoy'46 0n1 hou'-baied daity Vol. 31, No. 116 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Thursday, June 17, 1976 Three die Ambassador to Lebanon killed (IPI)--The American ambassador to of State Kissinger to contact all Lebanon and an aide were kidnaped governments in the area as well as and killed yesterday in Beirut. Lebanese officials to help identify U.S. Ambassador Francis Meloy, ac- the murderers. companied by economic counsellor Kissinger emerged, from the Robert Waring, was enroute to his meeting, with a grim expression on first meeting with Lebanese Pres.- his face. It was just five weeks elect Elias Sarkis. ago that he picked Meloy, a career The U.S. embassy in Beirut said diplomat, for the touchy post in the two diplomats and their Beirut. Meloy received orders from Lebanese driver apparently were the President to make an all-out kidnaped and murdered when they effort to arrange a lasting peace tried to cross the cease-fire line in Lebanon. between the Christian and Moslem Three other U.S. officials have sectors of Beirut. When the embassy been kidnaped in Beirut in the learned they har! not kept their last year but all were eventually appointment, officials began the released unharmed. search which later turned up their All factions in Beirut, Christian, bullet-riddled bodies wrapped in Moslem and Palestinian guerrillas, carpets. denied knowledge of the kipnaping Pres. Gerald Ford was conferring and killing yesterday. with advisers on Meloy's disappear- It came as Arab League negotiators ance when word arrived at the White tried to win complete agreement to., House that the ambassador was dead. their long-range peace plan. Ford conferred for almost another hour with Secy. of State Henry A. Kissinger, Vice Pres. Nelson Rockefeller, CIA Director George U.S. aircraft sent Bush, and others. The President said the three men were assassinated while on a mission to Cyprus AFTER 32 YEARS OF SERVICE Capt. George E. Barton, chief staff officer, Nav of peace and he ordered, "all ap- Base, will retire from the Navy July 1. The captain and his wife Gladys, propriate resources of the United better known as "Tootie," will leave today for the states. In a short States" be thrown into the hunt for ceremony yesterday in Capt. McConnell's WASHINGTON (AP)--The United States office all the base commanding their killers. Ford said, "Those officers wished Capt. Barton farewell. Col. Fennessy, has sent three Air Force transport C.O. Marine Barracks, responsible for these brutal assas- gave him a Marine plaque . Capt. planes and four helicopters to a McConnell gave Capt. Barton a flight sinations must be brought to jus- suit with half of a wing above the name tag. British base on Cyprus in case it tice." The President ordered Secy. becomes necessary to evacuate Americans from Lebanon, the Pentagon Democratic platform contains what Carter said yesterday. wanted At the same time, the Defense De- partment spokesman denied reports (UPI)--The Democrats made certain His reply, "As I looked out over Time and time again, Eizenstat ad- that U.S. combat troops have been this week their 1976 platform will the committee I certainly thought dressed the members and urged them deployed to Cyprus in preparation not be a copy of the long and left- it was genuine. If they were acting to avoid "red flag" words or issues, for possible military intervention leaning statement of principles I think that they're very good such as homosexual rights, amnesty, in the Lebanese civil war. which helped do them in four years actors and actresses." opposition to capital punishment, Three HC-130 and four HH-53 heli- ago. But it wasn't all sweetness and full federalization of welfare copter transport planes have been ,e153-member platform committee light. John Gilligan, the committee costs. stationed there with the permission ted a platform which will be secretary and chairman of the task of the British government, the presented to the national convention force which worked on the most con- "We are going to run a race a- spokesman said. next month, containing just about troversial section on "human needs" gainst one or two conservative The movement of the aircraft oc- everything Jimmy Carter wanted and and civil rights, was exasperated Republicans," he said. "There is curred earlier this week and was not much more. in debate over homosexual rights no need to give them unnecessarily not connected with the disappearance Party rules made it highly unlikely and amnesty. He cracked, "Our de- emotional issues." and deaths of U.S. Ambassador there will be minority reports or sire for self-immolation knows no Francis E. Meloy Jr., economic other challenges to the platform at bounds." Because committee members repre- counsellor Robert Waring, and their the convention. A vice presidential possibility sented the various candidates in Lebanese driver, in Beirut, the The ideological brawling which has himself, he quickly proportion apologized. But to their strength, Carter spokesman said. become a trademark of the Democratic his repeated calls for leaving the forces were all over the place, "These aircraft have been posi- Party for years was suppressed for Carter-backed draft language alone making sure votes went their way and tioned to support Sixth Fleet units two reasons: Carter's control over paid off with few changes in the asking the liberal wing of the party presently operating in the eastern the proceedings and the committee draft. to co-operate. Mediterranean to conduct humanitar- members' own desire to subordinate ian relief and-or life-saving their preferences to the larger goal Those which did succeed, such as oper- The ations in Lebanon if required," of winning the White House. pardons for those in "financial or liberals did so on their own, the spokesman said. Committee chairman Wendell legal jeopardy because of their anyway, and they, along with the Carter Anderson, governor of Minnesota and peaceful opposition to the Vietnam people and the more conserva- "This does not indicate any im- tive Henry a vice presidential possibility, was war," eventually had the blessing Jackson and George minent move to evacuate people Wallace asked about the many expressions of of Carter's chief platform opera- partisans, were able to from Lebanon," the spokesman claim harmony. tive, Stuart Eizenstat. victory on nearly every plank. stressed. NEWS Queen standings BRIEFS (UPI)--FBI agents yesterday ar- Marine Barracks Bicentennial Queen rested two nurses at Veterans Ad- Candidate Patricia A. Mittelstadt ministration Hospitals in Ann Arbor, leads, as of yesterday, in votes. Michigan, and Chicago. Leonora To vote for your candidate drop a Perez and Filipina Narciso were in- money contribution in boxes at the dicted yesterday in the murders of Navy and Marine Exchanges and the five patients at the Ann Arbor V.A. Leeward Point Exchange. Money col- Hospital last summer. They will be lected from the ballot boxes is tried in federal courts. turned over to the Community Fund at the end of each day. The other candidates, not in order WASHINGTON (UPI)--Former Texas of votes received to date, are: Gov. John Connally, mentioned as Kimberly Sue Childs, Commissary a possible running mate of Pres. Store; Barbara J. Weymouth, NAS base Ford, paid a half-hour call on the police; Fabiola C. Evans, NavSta; President yesterday. 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