TIDES +Water Condition 6:g2 a.m. + lIZA Charlie.III 1 8:4p.m. ~ 4~ Storage Ashore 2:44 p.m. 14. 0 12:22 p.m. First daily paper ever to win the CHINFO Merit Award MILLION GALLON. S U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 TUESDAY Date July 23, 1968 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Da Hang Bases Hit By Artillery Barrage Czech Soil Free of Troops, SAIGON (AP/AFNB) Enemy gunners have gone on a rampage in the northern sector of Kremlin Aims at Border South Vietnam. PRAGUE (AP/AFTB) Reliable sources in Prague say Soviet Some 135 rounds of rocket troops have completed their withdrawal from Czechoslovakia. and mortar fire struck United But other sources say the Soviet Union has told the Prague States bases around Da Nang government the nation's western borders must be strengthened. Monday in one of the heaviest The sources say the Kremlin leaders contended the Czechoslo- attacks of the war. But Unit- vak Army is incapable of de- ed States casualties were re- fending its western approach- ported light. Damage to air, TV Special To es. The informants say tte Naval and Army facilities is Soviets demanded "a solution said to be light to neglig- Turn On - 'LSD' to this situation," presumably . able. Did you know that a person meaning that Soviet Army for- Other enemy artillerymen who has used the drug LSD can ces should be stationed in the shelled government administra- have a relapse at any time country. tion centers throughout Quang even though he has not touched The sources say the Soviets, Ngai Province. the drug since, and that some in a communication to the Five rounds of 81MM mortar of these relapses have oc- Czech government, also demand- hit in the vicinity of Marine curred as long as two years ed "internal consolidation" in Amphibious Force headquarters after the drug was taken? Czechoslovakia, and "suppres- just across the Da Nang River This is one of the many sion of counter-revolutionary from the city itself. facts presented in a special, tendencies." The Soviets use Thirty rounds of the same 40-minute film entitled,"LSD". both terms to describe the type hit Marble Mountain, five It will be aired on Channel 8 democratization process in the miles south of Da Nang. A Television tonight at 8:00 p.m. Czech nation. spokesman said there was no Narrated by a Navy doctor, The sources also report the ground attack at either point. the film offers an interesting Soviet Union has demanded the A heavy volume of small arms and informative look at the removal of the head of the fire could be heard from Da controversial, much-discussed Communist Party's Central Com- Nang, but it apparently came drug. mittee Department which is re- from U.S. Marines firing on The presentation is another sponsible for defense and sec- suspected enemy positions. community service of Armed urity for the patty. However, The last (Cont'd on Page 2) Forces Television. other informants say the last of the 18,500 Soviet troops who remained on Czech soil af- ter the Warsaw Pact maneuvers Israeli Plane Hijacked: Flown to Algiers three weeks ago had crossed ROME (AP/AFNB) An Israeli airliner with 48 persons aboard the Czech-Soviet border near has been hijacked on a flight from Rome to Tel Aviv. Officials Presov. say the plane was forced to land in Algiers. The leaders of the feuding The Boeing 707 was operated by El Al,Israel's national air- Soviet and Czechoslovak Commu- line. It carried 38 passengers and a crew of ten. The pilot nist Parties have agreed to radioed from the plane that he had been forced to divert from meet in Czechoslovakia, an of- his route. ficial Tass News Agency an- The plane had taken off from Rome with a veteran El Al pi- nouncement reported yesterday. lot at the controls. El Al's Rome office says the pilot radi- No date was given for the oed that a passenger had forced him to change his course an meeting. hour after he left the Rome airport. The Kremlin had first de- Israel's Foreign Ministry, its Transport Minister and the manded a showdown meeting in airline made strong representation to international bodies, the Soviet Union, but Czecho- including the U.N., to get the plane freed. (Cont'd on Page 2) siovakian (Cont'd on Page 3) Page 2 Gitmo Gazette Tuesday, July 23 EAETY GUNN1ERS1 O1N RA>VPAGE (Cont'd from Page 1) )vtmo time Da Nang was hit was July 5, when it was QAzdtt o hit by rocket fire. ComNavBase RADM J.B. Hildretb meanwhile, a North Vietnamese spokesman in Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E, Lamey Paris says the three American fliers who did not leave Hanoi as scheduled last week are Editor J03 Tom Meyers free in North Vietnam. But the spokesman said Layout J03 Lonnie Sexton he does not know where the pilots are or when Sports YN2 Dave Nadolski they will leave the country. The GITdO GAZETTE is published according to the rules The Americans were released by North Vietnam and regulations for ship and station newspapers as out- last Friday, and were expected to return to lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the Laos on the same day. United States author- Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four ities are hoping they will reach Laos by this days a week at government expense on government equip- Friday. ment. The opinions or statements in news itmes that A member of the anti-war committee that flew appear herein are not to be construed as official or as to Hanoi to meet the fliers cabled his Phila- reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. and notices will be accepted between the hours of delphia office Monday that departure has been Ads 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. MON thru FRI only and willbe publish- delayed one week. ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. And in Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- said Monday he and President Johnson agreed to lished more than once a week nor will they be run in take "the initiative" in fighting while the .3tiday's paper. Vietnam talks are going on in Paris. The Gazette welcomes contributions of a newsworthy "The President of the United States and I nature. All contributions should be forwarded to Box agreed that we would not allow the Communists 22, in care of the Gitmo Gazette. The Gazette reserves story to make it to take advantage of their policy of fighting the right to modify the content of any conform to typographical and format standards for pub- while negotiating," Thieu said. "We did not lication. discuss cessation of bombing and we did not discuss coalition." ISRAELI AIRLINER HIJACKED (Cont'd from Page 1) Late word from Saigon reports that heavy Israel has no diplomatic relations with any shelling continues this morning throughout Arab nation. South Vietnam. Among the passengers was an American woman. American casualties are reported light. A The airline says she is Mrs. Rena Tsuriel of full report is not available on South Vietnam- Brooklyn, New York. Also aboard was a party ese casualties, but initial reports say four of seven Roman Catholic priests on a pilgrim- civilians have been killed, four soldiers age to the Holy Land. wounded and two houses destroyed. The Israeli Embassy in Rome said there are The enemy slammed between 200 and 300 rounds no important Israelis aboard. It said eight of mortars and huge 100-pound Russian rockets of the passengers were Israelis and the others into U.S. and South Vietnamese military in- of various nationalities. stallations around Da Nang, south of Hue, and The Italian Embassy in Algiers said it was in Quang Tri Province, where a follow-up told the nine Italian passengers would be free ground attack on the provincial capital was to leave Algeria. This includes the seven repulsed. Roman Catholic priests. U.S. aircraft losses over North Vietnam have One source said two armed Palestine refugees reportedly dropped dramatically since Presi- broke into the captain's compartment and took dent Johnson limited bombing raids to the over the plane. country's narrow southern panhandle. A spokesman in the Defense Ministry said the An Associated Press check of daily military possibility of Arab saboteurs being responsi- communiques shows 30 U.S. planes listed as ble for the incident was not ruled out. shot down over North Vietnam since the re- The Boeing 707 was the first Israeli air- strictions went into effect March 31. The U.S. liner ever hijacked and was the first time an lost 133 places during the same period last Israeli commercial plane was forced to land in year when raids were conducted against most of an Arab country. North Vietnam. Algeria declared a state of war with Israel Intelligence reports say the Viet Cong are during last year's six-day war, and this has getting ready for a new offensive timed for never been officially ended. Diplomatic re- the U.S. political conventions in Augast. The lations between the two countries are non-ex- reports say the Viet Cong are holding high- istent, and no nation is charged with repre- level meetings in hideouts around Saigon to senting Israeli interests in Algeria. review mistakes of past offenses. Algerian officials refused comment. Tuesday, July 23 Gitmo Gazette Page 3 CZECH-SOVIET MEETING SET (Cont'd from Page leaders refused.