WEATHER WATER FAIR 3 CHARLIE 86/73 Q U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 Tuesday Date Apri 1 11, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) One Strike Ends Us Trade Barriers Three Still o WASHINGTON(AP)(By J. Baulch) Hold Awaiting LBJ THE 13-DAY STRIKEthatpllagued the three big radio-TV networks PUNTA DEL ESTE (AP) (By Kenneth Davis) THE UNITED STATES ended tonight, but union re- stubbornly resisted efforts yesterday to breach U.S. trade bar- jection of a proposed 20-day riers or unshackle credit dollars for the particular benefit of truce threatened a national Latin America. railway strike on top of the Latin American foreign ministers clamored for a fatter share massive trucking shutdown. of U.S. markets through hemis- But Congress moved quickly, NRPA Benefits Available phere favoritism and for the at PresidentJohnson's bequest, In U.S. and Overseas right to shop in their own to head off a crippling rail- countries with dollars from road stoppage with action ex- Everyone benefits - you, the Alliance For Progress. pected today, ahead of the your family and the folks Secretary of State Dean Rusk midnight strike deadline. you give and his colleagues hedged at In New York, negotiations back home-when making such commitments even continued between 10 unions to the Nation- though there were hints Presi- and five New York daily news- al Recreation dent Johnson might comedy with papers. and Park As- some spectacular concessions. The impact of the trucking sociation. He is due today. lockout was beginning to be The work pace for hemisphere felt, especially in the auto w The NRPA foreign ministers quickened as industry. And other industries works with the first five presidents ar- girded themselves br disruption military commands in the rived for the beginning of the as the lack of supply of raw U.S. and abroad and with three-day summit meeting Wed- materials and parts began to nesday. pinch. local community agencies to Mexico inherited a touchy The radio-TV impasse was provide playgrounds for presummit chore: writinga pre- broken after terms of a pro- children, teen centers, and ambletothefinal statement by posed contract were worked out recreation facilities and pro- President Jbhnsonand his fellow in an all-night session that chief executives. The minis- stretched to early Monday. grams for people of all ages. ters, faced with 14 complete Its terms were not announced. NRPA helps those with spe- preamble versions and a long ABC got a go-aheadfrom union cial needs too-the ill and list of amendment proposals, leaders for its $1.5 million handicapped, the aged, the shunted the problem to Mexico. telecast of the (Cont'd pg 2) mentally The big controversy centered retarded. on inclusion of political questions in the preamble. The United States, a top source said,submitted a preamble that Carroll Tops For March includes mention of Communist GITMO (By J. Gratts JOSN) subversion and representative Machinist Mate Chief Robert Democracy, among other items. H. Carroll recently received U.S. statesmen met demands the serviceman of the month for Latin access to U.S. mar- award for March at Guantanamo kets with the statement that Bay, Cuba. only President Johnson had The award is based on the power to do anything. individual exhibitingqualities Some sources read portentsof in professional performance, a spectacular concession by the military behavior, leadership, U.S. President in the words of adaptability and community a U.S. official source, who spirit. Carrol was presented smiled and said "I don't think the award by Rear Admiral E.R. I ought to scoop the President." Crawford,Commander,Naval Base. The source made the comment in Carroll, no (Cont'd page 2) reply to a (Cont'd page 2) PAGE 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE PUNTA DEL ESTE(Cont'd from page 1)reporter's UNITED NATIONS (AP) A DEBATE WAS set to question. start here on whether the Commonwealth of Anthony Salomon,Assistant Secretary of State Puerto Rico is really a U.S. colony and should For Economic Affairs, discounted reports that be discussed as such in the United Nations. the United States had unhitched Alliance For The working group of the U.N. special commit- Progress dollars from the provision for their tee on colonialism had a private meeting expenditure within the States. scheduled to take up that subject, on which Salomon put in the escape hatch, linking such action has been deferred since 1962. a step to the U.S. balance of trade position. The issue was whether the nine-nation work- The unfavorable balance appears to be a con- ing group should recommend that th 24-nation tinuing fact of U.S. life. committee put Puerto Rico on its standing Still others saw the possibility that Presi- agenda as a territory that has "not yet -at- dent Johnson might free the aid dollar within tained independence." the hemisphere. :With a U.S. edge in the $8 Tanznaian Ambassador John W.S. Malecela, billion U.S.-Latin American yearly trade, they chairman of both the committee and the working figure the United States canaffordthe gesture. group, called the meeting Thursday after four Puerto.Rican organizations asked him to get a WASHINGTON (Cont'd from page 1) Hollywood committee decision on the basic question be- Oscar ritual, which the network estimated was fore the July 23 plebiscite on Puerto Rico's seen by 70 million viewers last year. future status. In the railway dispute, representatives of The plebiscite will give Puerto Rican voters six AFL-CIO unions rejected a request by mem- a choice among (1) continued tommonwealth sta- bers of the Senate Labor Committee for a vol- tus, (2) independence and (3) U.S. statehood. untary 20-day truce, to make any Congressional The United States is not a member of the action unnecessary. The railroads had re- working group, but it is known to be opposed ported they were willing to resume talks if to any action that would put the issue before the unions would agree to the extension of the the committee of the whole. truce. Italy, a member of the working group, entur- Chairman Lister Hill, D-Ala., of the Senate ed a lone reservation to the consensus. Its committee said the senators then voted 14 to 0 delegate, Ludovico Carduzzi-Artenisio, argued approving a resolution asked by Johnson ex- that the General Assembly had decided the tending the no-strike period 20 days. Hill question in 1953 when it took Puerto Rico off said the Senate will take up the resolution the list of non-self-governing territories Tuesday morning first thing. following its establishment as a commonwealth. House leaders also plan to bring up a com- A U.S. source said the United States would panion resolution for passage in that branch oppose vigorously any decision by the Colon- Today. ialism Committee to add Puerto Rico to its 0 agenda. But the 24-nation committee is so GITMO (Cont'd from page 1) newcommer to re- constituted as to make the U.S. position much cognition, is President of the Guantanamo Bay more difficult than it was in the working Toastmasters Club 92-U. He is attached to the group. Naval Station Commissary store as chief in charge of maintenance,and resides on Base with TOKYO (AP) CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG and his his wife Joyce, and three children, Debra, supporters have gained control of the Polit- Robert and Barry. buro of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, the highest policy-making body, a NEW YORK (AP) HARLEM GOES TO the pollsto- Japanese report from Peking said yesterday. day and is expected to re-elect Adam Clay- The Peking-based correspondent of the news- ton Powell to the Congress which expelled him. paper Yomiuri said of 6 of 11 standing commit- The question is whether there will be a big tee members of the Politburo gave support to turnout to protest the expulsion of the 58- the Mao leadership while the remaining 5 sided year-old negro Congressman--or whether the with President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's rival. voters will stay home from complacency. The dispatch said the Liu faction was ques- Everybody is sure that Powell will be re- tioned persistently ontheir "revisionist line" elected," said his campaign chairman, L.Jos- and finally surrendered to the Maoists. eph Overton. "This complacency may lower his Yomiuri, quoting reports circulating in the winning margin." Chinese capital, said hot arguments con- The campaign was short of funds to advertise tinued for about two weeks between late March the protest-vote angle. and early April at the standing committee Powell, handily elected every two years meeting on Liu's "revisionist line." since 1944, did not campaign in person. He (A dispatch to Belgrade of the Yugoslav news can be arrested ibr contempt of court if he re- agency Tanjug from Peking also reported the turns from his island retreat in the Bahamas. development. It quoted the Red Guard newspaper of the Metalurgy Ministry as saying the six WASHINGTON (UPI)SPACE AGENCY DIRECTOR James Maoists on the standing committee had "destroy- E. Webb told a House subcommittee yesterday -- ed the Bourgeois-reactionary line" of their deficiencies which led to the Apollo dister opponents.) will be corrected. But he said more deaths can The Yomiuri account said those lining up be expected. with Mao, who is Chairman of the Communist Party, were Deputy Chairman(Cont'd on page 3) PAGE 3 TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE TOKYO (Cont'd from pg 2) and Defense Minis- PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY (AP) PRIME MINISTER ter Lin Piao; Premier Chou En-l.ai; Chen Po-ta, SIR Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago last chief of Mao's so-called great proletarian night said the economic intrgration of Latin cultural revolution--or purge; Kang Sheng, a American was not an impossibility.