WEATHER VWATER CLOUDY + C HARL IE Q$1 We Rtft U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 MONDAY Date APRIL 10, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Review Board Ministers Work Spreads Blame C8 a era Mane CAPE KENNEDY(By H. Benedict) Acs7 v i e I IN A MASSIVE, 3,000-page INc final report on the Apollo I PUNTA DEL ESTE,URUGUAY (AP)( y Ken Davis) WESTERN HEMISPHERE fire, a blue ribbon board of PRESIDENTS started arriving Sun day while their foreign ministers review said Sunday a bruised bickered over a summit declare tion to further Latin American or broken wire was the most progress. likely cause of the blaze. It The ministers worked late in to the night seeking agreement sharply criticized the Apollo on foreign trade, one of the team for poor management and top issues onthe summit agenda. for failing to adequately con- AttackonMeaslesIs The Latin countrieswant broader sider the safety of the astro- PartofNARCProgram access to U.S. markets. nauts. First presidents to show up The eight-manboard,cl imaxing Kim,10 years old, is learn- at this plush beach resort seven weeks of exhaustive in- ing to talk for the second were Osealdo Lopez Arellano,of vestigating, said the probe of time. At two, measles en- Honduras; Marco A. Robles, of the Jan.27 fire disclosed "many cephalitis struck, leaving her Panama; and Fidel Sanchez Her- deficiencies in design and en- nandez, the President-elect of gineering, manufacture and Salvador. quality control" by both the tarded. Now The chief executives of Par- National Aeronautics and Space Kim can read aguay, Guatemala, Costa Rica Administration and industrial and danceand and Triniday--Tobago are due contractors. today. Sloppy workmanship also was some day she President Johnson and the cited. starewill sing. remaining Latin presidents are Killed when aflashfire raced Establishing programs to scheduled to arrive Tuesday, through their cabin during a help retarded children grow one day before the opening of launch pad test were Air Force their 48-hour conference. Lt. Col. Virgil 1. Grissom, to useful, happy adulthood is Their foreign ministers are veteran of Mercury and Gemini one goal of the National As- trying to come up with a pre- * fi ghts ; Air Force Lt. Col. sociation for Retarded Chil- amble to a final summit state- Edward H. White 11, Americats dren; another is prevention. mentfor the presidentsto sign. first space walker, and Navy Disagreement between the min- Lt. Cmdr. Rober B. Chaffee, a Currently, NARC is urging isters delayed the close of rookie (Cont'd on page 2) i ofimmunization all children their conference, scheduled to end toniuit. The ministers against measles. plan to meet again today. Under consideration were five complete texts and fifty pro- Weekend Quiet In Aden posed amendments. ADEN AFTER A WEEK of bloodshed and violenceKAP) Aden re- With the three-day meeting turned to normal Sunday. only two days away, President Shops, banks and offices reopened and the port was crowded Otto Arosemena of Ecaudor still with shipping following a strike which paralyzed the city. had not decided if he would "The situation is almost completely normal," said a bulletin attend. H.is appeal calling for from military headquarters. the United States to convert The declaration by the United Nations Mission, headed by the the Alliance For Progress into Venezuelan Ambassador Manuel Perez Guerrero, that it would not a Marshall Plan threatened a return to Aden was greeted with general relief here. A return boycott. visit undoubtedly would have brought a fresh round of clashes President Rene Barrientos between British troops and terrorists and few believe the mis- Orouno of Bolivia already has sion could achieve any worthwhile results. said hewill not attend because * Many Arab terrorists, according to an official of the ex- the agenda does not include a tremist Front For Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY), discussion of a sea outlet for are slowly making their way across (Continued on page 2) Bolivia (Continued on page 2) THE ADMIRAL'S INSPECTION OF NSD TOMORROW WILL DELAY THE PRINTING OF THE PAPER UNTIL 3 P.M. PAGE 2 MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE URUGUAY (Cont'd from page 1) It is also un- As an example it released a picture showing likely that President Francois Duvalierof Haiti a wrench socket that had been inadvertently would come. He has a 60th birthday celebration left among several wire cables. coming up April 14, final day of the meeting. The wrench socket was in the area where the Foreign Minister Jose Pinto,told a news con- fire is believed to have started, but the board ference that American nations must strengthen did not link it with the blaze. the Alliance For Progress instead of looking It said that the fire is believed to have back on formulas "useful at other times and started in the lefthand equipment bay "where under other circumstances." the environmental control system instrumentation Expressing surprise at the Ecuadorean pro- power wiring leads into the area between the posal,Magalhaes said: "We are here to pave the environmental control unit andthe oxygen panel." way for improvements in the Alliance For Pro- This was located to the left and beneath Gris- gress." som's couch. Big argument over the preamble is wheth-r it The report said there were many combustible should contain political statements. Some materials in this area of Apollo I and con- nations want it to reflect only the six themes cluded that "test conditions were extremely the presidents will discuss. Others want a hazardous." preamble divided into two parts--one about The board, headed by Dr.Floyd Thompson, con- general American principles and one about the cluded that "in its devotion to the many dif- six themes,all of which are economicorsocial. ficult problems of spacetravel,the Apollo team Meantime, Secretary of State Dean Rusk went failed to give adequate attention to certain along with a switch by the ministers to dis- mundane but equally vital questions of crew cussions at the political level. This could safety.'" get into problems of borders and sea outlets. Although it was not able to determine con- U.S. resistance to preferential treatment in clusively the specific cause of the fire, the U.S. markets stiffened Sunday despite earlier board listed these conditions that led to the faint indications President Johnson might make f ire: concessions. 1. A sealed cabin, pressurized with 100 per The ministers found one point of general cent oxygen. agreement--elimination of unnecessary military 2. Extensive distribution of combustible expenses--even if the agreement contained broad materials in the spacecraft. phrases such as "in proportionto real demands." 3. Vulnerable wiring carrying spacecraft Secretary of State Rusk backed the proposal. power. It was the first entirely unanimous decision 4. Vulnerable plumbing carrying a combust - of the pre-summit conference. ible and corrosive coolant. The arms curb was tied to the concept of 5. Inadequate provisions for the crew to keeping Latin America free of nuclear weapons. escape. A U.S. official source earliersaid "we can't 6. Inadequate provisions for rescue or med- very well chide them for buying weapons when ical assistance. our military budget is more than the combined gross. YESTERDAY's WATER REPORT Produced. 1.463 million gallons ADEN (Cont'd from page 1) the border to Consumed. 1.798 million gallons neighboring Yemen. in storage. 14.688 million gallons More violence is probably in store for Aden Storage target. 14.700 million gallons before independence promised by 1968 but the Adens are looking forward at least to breathing BONN,GERMANY (AP) SCIENCE MINISTER GERHARD space before the next round. STOLTENBERG said yesterday West Germany's final decision on signing the treaty to stop the CAPE KENNEDY (Cont'd from page 1) The board spread of nuclear weapons will depend on what said the Apollo team failed to recognize that kind of controls it will call for. "the test conditions were extremely hazardous" He said the question of controls has become and as a result there were no emergency, fire- especially important since there are consider- fighting or rescue procedures on the pad. ations of imposing these only on the territor- Several recommendations were made for re- ies on non-nuclear states. designing the spacecraft, including a quick This is so because the Soviet Union has re- escape hatch,use of fEaer conbustible materials fused to have any controls on its own terri- and improvements in the electrical, communi- tory, Stoltenberg said in an interview with cations and life support systems. the Cologne Sunday newspaper Rundschau Am Son- The board said extensive fire damage in the ntag. charred Apollo I cabin made it impossible to "These considerations make the question of pinpoint the exact cause of the fire. discrimination (against non-nuclear states) But it said the most likely source was an and of thair being put at a disadvantage in electrical arc of short circuitin wiring under peaceful nuclear research and in commercial the seat of command pilot Grissom, in the area competition especially important," Stoltenberg of the enviromental control unit. said. Regarding the electrical malfunction as a Stoltenberg indicated that West Germany fav- probable cause, the report said that it found ors controls for all countries, including the numerous examples of poor installation, design nuclear superpowers, and not only on nuclear and workmanship in the spacecraft wiring. arms but also on chemical and bacteriological (Cont'd on col. 2) weapons. W PAGE 3 MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1967 GITMO GAZETTE THURMONT, MARYLAND (AP)(By Douglas Cornell) SAIGON (By Victor L. Griffeth) THE FIRST PRESIDENT JOHNSON SURVEYED THE burgeoning FLIGHT of American B-52 bombers arrived in beauties of spring from a mountaintop yester- Thailand yesterday to begin operations against day and made last-minute plans for the Latin Communist targets in South Vietnam, tne U.S.