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WEATHER WATER *Cloudy 85/72 SCharlie U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Monday Date April 3, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Hill In Britain Bolivian Guerrillas For Wilson Talks LONDON(AP)(By H. Kelly) VICE Increase Men, Arms PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY GUERRILLAS sped yesterdayfrom sightseeing LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (AP)(By Joseph Benham) COMMUNIST against in Italy as the world's best were reported yesterday to have begun using mortars the armed forces said it guarded tourist to diplomacy in Bolivian troops, and the commander of Britain and talks with Prime may take months to rout them form their hilly,jungle hideouts. Minister Harold Wilson. Gen. Alfredo Ovando, Armed Forces Commander and former Pres- Humphrey and Wilson set the dent of Bolivia, was quoted USO Units on the Job as telling newsmen in the area stage for two days of U.S.- the guerrillas appear to be British conferences with a From Arctic to Vietnam "working dinner" at Chequers, From the Arctic ice-cap to much more numerous than whom armed forces bat- the Prime Minister's country thethe Peruvian retreat outside London. tled for eight months in 1965 be discussing the USO is on the job sending and 1966. "We shall Rene nuclear nonproliferation treaty, out "live" en- Ovando and President the Kennedy Round of tariff tertainment Barrientos flew Saturday to negotiations,the strengthening unit top .lay the areas in southeast Bolivia units to play where regular troops and mi- of the Atlantic Alliance,events before what itia have been reported fight- in Europe, East-West develop- US~u ments 'nd the situation in the entertainers ing Communist guerrillas for Far East, among other things," hail as the more than two weeks. Humphrey said in an arrival audience in the Six Bolivian soldiers, a "greatest"gretestcivil iapn guide and about 20 statement. guerrillas have been reported At an airport welcome cere- world" - the American mony in London, Humphrey said Armed Forces. killed in sporadic fighting in he and his wife welcomed "the Last year 700 entertainers the rugged, thinly populated to reaffirm once area opportunity gave 400 performances to a and virtuallyinaccessiblethe oil producing more the admiration and good north of will America feels for the military audience of 2,500,- center of Camiri. British people and for your 000. USO clubs throughout About 600 soldiers, the same gracious Queen." the world are a place to re- number of militiamen and an "For any American to come to lax, meet friends and enjoy undetermined number of Air Farce like F-51s and AT-6s are moving Great Britain is almost against guerrilla forces whose comming home," (Cont'd page 2) yourselves, numbers are estimated as high as 400, with a considerable number of foreigners in their Purgeranks. Mao Presses Liu hReports from the area and sources here TOKYO (AP)(By Mark Kuramitsu) REPORTS FROM PEKING yesterday from government indicated Communist Chinese Ch Mao Tse-tung's drive to airmanand in Cochabamba were varied, discredit President Liu Shao-ch ihas entered the final stage, as they have been since the Radio Peking, monitored here ,said "hundreds of thousands" first announcement ofthe ruer- warfare outbreak a week of revolutionary workers and Re d Guards staged a demonstration rgiia Tien An Men (Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square for ago. in Peking's Gen. consecutive day to l an all-out attack on "the kunchThe Defense Minister, the second Suarez, was quoted in leader of the bourgeoi s line within the party." Hugo greatest as saying the guer- A Japanese newspaperman in a dispatch from Peking said re- Cochabamba bestamped cent developments in the Chines e capital indicate Mao's drive rilla movement could to discredit his opponents in t he power struggle has been nar- out in three months. Ovando, Genera I Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping and talking to newsmen during a rowed down to Liu, Party flight over the combat zone, member Tao Chu. Politburo could last Asahi said noless than 200,000 Red Guards and Maoists workers said the conflict monthst(Cont'd pg 2) and peasants participated in Su nday's(Cont'd on page 2) for many PAGE 2 MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE BOLIVIA (Cont'd from page 1) the extent of SAIGON (AP) (By George McArthur) The U.S. the U.S. role was cloudy. One local reDort said COMMAND reported yesterday the bombardment of II Special Forces men were iii the guerrilla zone the southern coast of North Vietnam by five to aid the Bolivian efforts. U.S. sources in American warships--the war's biggest sea as- La Paz said the number was no more than four sault in a single day. The vessels pounded and that they were members of the regular U.S. coastal defenses and points along the supply Military Advisory Group,not Special Frces men. line to the south and returned to sea stations unscathed, a spokesman said. TOKYO (Cont'd from page 1) demonstration in The naval attacks were carried out Saturday Peking. The Chinese-language Radio Peking while foul weather limited air attacks on the broadcast said Tien An Mem Square was flooded North and ground action in the South subsided. with red banners and portraits of Mao. It said A full report of damage inflicted on shore the demonstrators "loudly" chanted slogans installations by the Navy's guns was lacking. "resolutely repudiate the bourgeois reactionary The only answering fire from shore came from line," "thoroughly criticize the greatest fol- an area near Dong Hoi against the guided mis- lower of the bourgeois reactionary line within sile destroyer Waddel. The destroyer's crew the party," an apparent reference to President sighting four bursts from Communist batteries Liu, and distributed leaflets denouncing Liu but the vessel was far out of their range. and his followers. The other ships in the assaults were guided Sunday's demonstration in Peking followed missile cruiser Providence and the destroyers reports of mass rallies in the capital, Shang- Turner Joy, Alfred R. Cunningham and the Dun- hai and Harbin Saturday denouncing Liu and his can. The Providence and Waddel carry guided followers. missiles which are used only in air defense. Radio Peking said students, workers and sol- The five ships were carrying out Operation diers participated in the capital Saturday. It Sea Dragon. added 200,000 persons held similar rallies in The Waddel and the Cunningham destroyed Harbin and thousands more in Shanghai. three barges and damaged three others six The demonstrators apparently were touched miles north-northwest of Dong Hoi, a port off by the first official attack on Liu Friday about 50 miles above the North-South border. by the Communist Party's most authoritative The Turner Joy reported damaging another publications, theoretical journal Red Flag and barge 31 miles northeast of Vinh, on the coast party organ The Peking People's Daily. of North Vietnam's southern panhandle, she also shelled enemy defenses on Hon Mat and Hon LONDON (Cont'd from page 1) he went on. Nieu, two islands about 35 miles off Vinh, "I will meet with Prime Minister Wilson, which also were targets of the Providence and various members of the government and members the-Duncan. of Parliament. It will be a particular plea- The ships also shelled "choke points" along sure to meet members of Parliament as I am a the supply routes in the South. A choke point former United States Senator. is an area where traffic--truck, rail or water "I look forward to a firsthand understanding -- is forced to go into a narrow passage. of British views and to clarifying our govern- Normally a choke point is where several roads, ment's position where clarification may be rail lines or canals merge. U.S. planes and necessary." ships often hit them to make them impassable Humphrey was asked if Vietnam would be dis- or to render facilities around them unusable. cussed. He said he had made his statement and U.S. pilots flew only 98 missions because of stepped down from the rostrum. the bad weather over most of North Vietnam Saturday. The planes hit at points ranging MONTREAL (AP) PRIME MINISTER DONALD Sang- from the Red River Deltato the southern border. ster of Jamaica remained in a coma Sunday af- In the only major action reported in the ternoon and a spokesman for the government South, the Viet Cong tried to overrun a small party attending him in Montreal said the Is- "Green Beret" camp on the edge of the Plain of land leader's chances of survival "are be- Reeds early Sunday morning. comming progressively worse." The 56-year-old Prime Minister, who was NEW YORK (AP)THE SOVIET UNION is threatening flown here from the Caribbean March 21 after a to cut aid to Communist Cuba by two-thirds, brain hemorrhage, has suffered long periods of NEWSWEEK magazine reported Sunday, citing unconsciousness since his arrival. He lapsed "diplomatic sources." into the coma Saturday. The magazine noted Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Dr. Herbert Eldemire, Jamaica's Health Min- recently signed a new trade agreement with ister who flew here with his leaderin a United Communist China. Castro also criticized Mos- States plane, is on 24-hour call to the Mon- cow for supporting so-called "Capitalist" gov- treal Neurological Institute where Mr. Sang- ernments in Latin America, the story said. ster is being treated. Dr. Eldemire said, chances that Sangster ADEN (UPI) PRO-CAIRO ARAB agitators demon- will survive are "very slim" and that his con- strated in the streets of this British colony dition "continues to deteriorate slowly." "He yesterday as part of the protest against a might last a day or he might survive seven three-man United Nations mission which arrived days but his chances of pulling out of this yesterday evening.