Worldwide military alert termed most widespread since '62 missile crisis WASHINGTON (UPI)--Trying to head plans to send Russian troops to might become combatants. -aid the Russians as off a threatened unilateral in- police the Middle East cease-fire Kissinger of midday had not started moving troduction of Soviet troops to the whetherr or not the UTnited <tatesdid. toward the Middle East or Middle East, President niwn yes- so. troops any "irrevocable action." terday ordered a precautinnary gen- The Soviet Union later announced taken Expressing hope no such action eral alert of U.S. armed forces it would not insist on sending its would be taken, he said: "We are the world. troops to the Middle East. The U.N. around the Soviet Union to pull Thousands of sleeping soldiers, Security Council then passed a reso- not asking back from anything that it has done." Air Force crews and Air National lution to send an emergency force to Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Guardsmen were aroused in pre-dawn Dobrynin met at the hours and ordered to report to their Anatoly F. Department late Wednesday. stations. The Strategic Air Com- State broke up shortly mand (SAC) placed nuclear bomber Their conference and the alert was crews on increased alert status. police the cease-fire that would after midnight immediately, with Some men on leave were recalled. not include troops from the big ordered almost five powers. what Kissinger described as unani- mous approval of the National Se- Military officials described it curity Council. First word of it as the most widespread alert they "The alert will be taken-off as leaked out within two hours from could recall since the 1962 Cuban soon as any danger of unilateral of the units involved. missile crisis. The exact number action (by the Soviet Union) is re- some of troops on alert was not known. moved," Kissinger told a news con- U.S. armed forces stands at Secretary of State Henry A. Kis- ference at the State Department be- The million men with about 300,000 singer said the U.S. alert was, fore the Soviet announcement. He 2.2. GIs in Europe, where the ordered because the Soviet Union said the United States was opposed American to have a more stun- placed some of its forces on alert to placing troops of the two super alert appeared (See ALERT, Page 2) and served notice to Washington of powers.in a position where they U.S. NAVAL BASE Kissinger: No diversion GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA WASHINGTON (UPI)--Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said yesterday "it is a symptom of what is happening to our country that it could even be suggested" the U.S. military alert was a tactic to divert Attention from President Nixon's domestic problems. The White House said the Middle East situation forced Nixon to cancel both a televised address to the people Wednesday night and a news con- ference last night. Both had been almost cer- tain to deal largely with an impeachment in- quiry in the House and Nixon's firing of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. At Kissinger's news conference, Marvin Kalb of (See KTCRTNER, Page 6) Friday, October 26, 1973 Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Friday, October 26. 1973 ALERT- (Continued from Page 1) GAZETTEER ning effect on GIs within easy missile range of the a digest of late news Middle East battlegrounds. Scores of Army and Air Force bases were placed on alert from coast to coast beginning at 2 a.m. yesterday. The crack 82nd Airborne Division, a 12,500-man ever- ready unit based at Ft. Bragg, N.C., was placed on WASHINGTON (AP)--John T. Dunlop, director of the Cost full alert and troops were seen mustering in full com- of Living Council, said yesterday he favored continuing bat gear. wage and price controls into 1974. Lifting them before 1974, he said, would bring about"a magnitude of price The alerts were, in cases where it could be deter- increases that would be unsatisfactory." Dunlop was mined, well below the final stage of readiness for the first administration official of his rank to say action--"Red Alert." In most cases, military comman- he favored continuing the controls into 1974. Under ders stopped short of mobilizing the National Guard present statutory limitations, the controls expire units. Selfridge Air National Guard said 900 men at April 30, 1974. In other economic news yesterday, nep. Mount Clemens, Mich., were put on alert, 900 in Willow Agriculture Department figures showed that the annual Grove, Pa., and another 900 in Niagra Falls, N.Y.--all retail cost of a market basket of farm produced food for the first time since the October 1962 Cuban missile declined $24 in September, the sharpest drop in crisis. 17 years. The price decline, the A UPI survey of other U.S. forces stationed overseas first of the year, would have been much larger had middlemen passed showed: along all the squeeze absorbed by farmers, the figures indicated. Italy--Military sources said U.S. troop strength in Italy normally totals about 11,000 men, including 5,000 WASHINGTON Sixth Fleet sailors and about 3,000 Army personnel at (UPI)--Republican pressure on President Nixon Camp Elderle in Vincenza, to name a special prosecutor in the Watergate case intensified yesterday with a majority of House Greece--The armed forces alert included the Sixth GOP members demanding a successor to Archibald Cox. Fleet, whose homeport is near Athens, a fleet source After three White House aides briefed a private party said. He said three Sixth Fleet units arrived at the caucus, House Republican Leader Ford said "the port of Elefis Wednesday and were ordered to full alert Gerald majority of the members felt there should be re-estab- yesterday. They were scheduled to sail for an unknown lishment of a special prosecutor's office." The House destination late last night. move came one day after the Senate Republican leader- ship unanimously urged Nixon to name a new special Britain--A U.S. Air Force spokesman refused to comment prosecutor without delay. on whether the five operational air bases in Britain were alerted. U.S. troop strength totals 21,000 "rre- dominantly Air Force" personnel in Britain, he said. DAYTON, OHIO (AP)--Homework for some 40 students at Spain--U.S. troop strength in Spain is kept secret, Wright State University may be skin flicks, a "dirty" but military sources said it has not substantially book or a trip to a gay bar to changed from the 10,000 men level at which it stood talk with homosexuals. The class is called problems in human sexuality, and its in- three years ago but there were no details on how the structors say it's a healthy approach to understanding alert affected the troops. sex differences among people. The students, most of --Portugal--The U.S. Air Force refused to comment on them married women, are enrolled in the experimental whether it had been ordered to standby status. The class sponsored by the continuing education department. base here, where there are between 1,000 and 1,500 per- The lecturersare prostitutes, pimps, doctors, biologists, sonnel from all four services, is largely used as a ministers and homosexuals. Ellen Murray, assistant sociolo- transit and refuelling stop. gy professor and a partner in the course, had an explana- tion for the absence of men in the class: "Most males are pigheaded and think they know all there is to know." Water status Guantanamo. Local Forecast Gazette Partly cloudy to cloudy with Water figures for yesterday: showers. Visibility 10 miles reduced to 1-3 miles in show- WATER PRODUCED: 747,000 . .? . 211k.f ers. Winds variable at 5 32l .412.- 4-W .-- knots becoming S 8-10 knots .2 . WATER CONSUMED: 1,465,000 with gusts to 19 knots, be- . .m coming variable at 5 knots O . WATER LOSS: 718,000 after sunset. Max. temp today O. .k . 84. M. temp tonight 74. .22. -4.S 1.,. tl22.,22.,22.0,2222f WATER IN STORAGE: 17,622,000 1 ho1.2- .5222 2 S, -1 1 C 3h. 0tt520221 ). Bay conditions 2-3 feet. High di, ., f- - .p . i , p tide 1008. Low tide 02.53. Pages Missing or Unavailable Friday, October 26, 1973 Guantanamo Gazette SPORTS--Page 7 Without Turncotte no Secretariat TORONTO (AP)--The appearance of Secretariat and his jockey in the Canadian International Championship Stakes at Woodbine race track Sunday is a pretty iffy thing. If Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat--and there is some doubt about his status--it will be his seventh time in the race, a $125,000 added event at 1 5/8 miles over the Marshall turf course. Turcotte, a native of Grand Falls, New Bruns- FECRETAIRAT AND RON TURNCOTTE wick, may have lost the mount on Secretariat .not one without the other when he was disqualified Wednesday for inter- ference in the stretch with Speak "ction, who finished first in the feature at New York's San Diego gets Alou Aqueduct Race Track. Aqueduct stewards were to rule yesterday on SAN DI GO (AP)--Veteran outfielder Matty whether to suspend Turcotte. " suspension in Alou, a former National League batting champi- New York usually starts the day after the on with a .309 lifetime average, has been sold judgement. to the San Diego Padres in a reversal of the club's low-budget policy. If Secretariat runs, and if he wins, the Big The Padres bought the 34-year-old Alou from Red would be the first three-year-old to win the 't.