Energy Tip of the Day ENERGY CONSERVATION IS TME DAiIY EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY Time your showers to four min- GAZETTE utes. Do not luxuriate, it only takes seconds to wet your body then turn off the water, "soap Guantanamo Bay, Cuba up" and then turn the water on for a good rinse. A four-minute shower may use about 10 gallons of water, while a longer soaking Volume 38 Number 63 DOD Month of the Military Child Thursday, April 7, 1983 shower wastes water. China severs cultural relations with U.S. ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART ? PEKING (AP)--China severed all The decision, announced by the Affected are at least eight pending cultural exchanges with official Chinese news agency, official exchanges ranging from art the United States today in retalia- plunged relations between Washington exhibitions and film weeks to tion for the U.S. decision to grant and Peking to a new low. scheduled visits by American journ- political asylum to defecting The decision was relayed to senior alists. inese tennis star Hu Na. U.S. Embassy officials by China's In a short message, a U.S. Embassy World Ministry of Culture. It said that, spokesman said, "We consider it to effective immediately, "the Chinese be an over-reaction on the Chinese News Digest Space walk today government will stop implementing side and a matter of regret to us." all the remaining items of cultural He refused to comment further, (AP)--Two of the astronauts on exchange with the United States" saying subsequent statements will (AP) -- Nicaragua's interior ministry the space shuttle "Challenger" for 1983. have to come from Washington. says a key Salvadoran guerrilla will be taking a walk this after- leader was "brutally assassinated" noon, into the open cargo bay of yesterday in a suburb of Managua. the spacecraft. Hope for nuclear weapons reduction fades A ministry statement did not sy Astronauts Story Musgrave and how the woman was killed, or why she was in Nicaragua. Donald Peterson start the final WASHINGTON (AP)--Some members of in Europe late this year. steps toward their space walk the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- A White House official says a (UPI)--A police crackdown in Bra- right after breakfast. tee are not hopeful about the proposed Roman Catholic pastoral has failed to quell unrest in They begin by donning their prospects of weapons reductions, letter on nuclear weapons is both zil San Aulo. Rioters protesting un- suits and breathing pure oxygen, following a meeting with arms con- "thoughtful" and a "wholesome employment continued to rampage which they'll continue to inhale trol negotiators. contribution" to debate. the center of South from a back pack supply after Chairman Charles Percey, an But he says it would be "risky" through America's biggest city last night, they leave the ship. Illinois Republican, says he's to adopt a clause in the document where more than 450 people have The men will spend a lot of convinced the Soviet Union wants to calling for the U.S. not to be been arrested. One man has died their out-of-spacecraft time stall the talks on medium-range the first nation to use nuclear and more than 100 people have been finding out just how much freedom missiles. And Senate minority whip weapons. of movement their newly designed Alan Cranston of California says treated for minor injuries. spacesuits afford. They'll also the White House has "bungled" any motel in be testing the tools and techniques chance of an agreement. (UPI)--A body found in a was positively that will be used in future mis- Another foreign relations panel Watt bans Beach Boys Quartzsite, Arizona, as that of sions to repair satellites. member, Senate Democrat Paul identified yesterday WASHINGTON (AP)--Controversy is of the 1950's NASA is keeping the public in Tsongas, says there may be enough Danny Rapp, founder no stranger to Interior Secretary Danny and the Juniors. Au- the dark about details of a con- Republican votes to defeat Kenneth group James Watt, and he's in the the 42-year-old versation between an astronaut Adelman's nomination to head the thorities say middle of one again. took his own life by on the shuttle and a doctor back arms control agency. Sources say apparently The latest flap is over Watt's himself in the head. on Earth. But it says the dis- the Senate will vote Monday. shooting bands to Washing- had no impact on the That agency says the Soviets banning of rock Sussion ton's annual Fourth of July cele- least six people drowned shuttle mission itself. lead the U.S. in military spending. (UPI)--At bration. that dumped a foot Meanwhile, NASA experts have It says that in 1980, the most re- in thunderstorms The Beach Boys have headlined on the Deep South. Storms firmed up their plans to correct cent year with figures available, of water the show the past three years, but than 12 inches of rain the orbit of a satellite launched Moscow spent $188 billion, Wash- dumped more this year, they'll be replaced from Challenger Monday night. ington, $131 billion. on Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where by Las Vegas entertainer Wayne flooding swept away and drowned a They'll be firing the thrusters The agency says the Soviets also Newton and the U.S. Army Blues girl who had just on the satellite over a period exported more weapons, $8 billion seven-year-old Band. off a school bus.(UPI)- of several days in an effort to worth, compared to America's $6 stepped rock bands attrack its higher orbit. Watt said move it into billion. (UPI)--Several states are vowing Intelligence sources say some the "wrong element," and he claims to defy the new federal law allow- of that Soviet spending has appar- this as an effort to achieve what ing 70-foot-long double trailer ently gone to develop a new, long- he calls "an impact for wholesome- Hostages are released; trucks on state roads. The state- range land attack cruise missile. ness." ments of defiance came one day And they say it may mean a fresh Presidential aide Michael Deaver after Federal Highway Administra- threat to Western Europe. responded by calling the group Police arrest suspect tion officials announced 181,000 The missile, which the sources a "national institution," and miles of the nation's roads, in- call the SSCX-4, is said to have said he and his family "loved" PHOENIX (UPI)--A former mental cluding the entire interstate a range of nearly 1,900 miles. last year's concert. patient who had demanded police system, would be opened to the big That's longer than the American A Beach Boys spokesman call's trucks as of yesterday. At least kill him because he was bored cruise missile, set to be deployed the decision "unbelieveable." with life held a man and woman one state, Georgia, sued the hostage for four hours in Phoenix government. Officials in New Jer- before surrendering to police sey, Vermont, Connecticut and early today. Massachusetts also pledged not to Ricky Kloha, 29,was taken honor the law. into custody at a V.A. hospital after he released hostage Maria (UPI)--The pet bear of communica- Reyes who had been shot in the tions magnate Ted Turner was re- leg. captured at Turner's plantation The second hostage, Allen Sepan- in South Carolina last night. The ski, was not hurt. Bear, named "Boo Boo," had escaped . A police spokesman said Kloha from her pen last October. 3d been a mental patient at the hospital but signed himself out without doctors' approval in mid- March. Oilslick grows daily The spokesman said Kloha was (UPI)--A mammoth oilslick in armed with a pistol when he broke Gulf grows larger by into a counseling session at the the Persian day but Iran and Iraq refuse hospital late yesterday. A nurse the to halt their war long enough to escaped but Reyes and Sepanski cap the wells that are feeding it. were taken hostage. Eight Persian Gulf nations are meeting today to try and decide Fire safety tip what to do instead. The enormous oilslick started to accumulate after Iraq bombed CHAPLAIN THOMAS F. JOHNSON (CENTER) IS CONGRATULATED BY CAPT. Iranian oilfields. Care more instead of being M. D. Fitzgerald, COMNAVBASE, upon his receipt of the Meritori- The Iranians are demanding an care-less to keep yourself, ous Service Medal for his services as the Chaplain for Off-Base Iraqi apology before they co- your family, and your pro- Housing of the Navy Public Works Center, San Diego, Calif. from operate with the regional effort. perty safe from fire. Aug. 1979 to Aug. 1982. The citation stated, in part: ".he Fed by as much as 10,000 barrels single-handedly ministered to the needs of 5,600 families of of oil a day, the sticky mass is nearly 25,000 people, the equivalent of a small city. Working threatening to block desalination with scant resources, Captain Johnson gave of himself and, with plants that provide water for at his exceptional professional ability, established a family least three million people living religious program where none had existed." At left is Johnson's along the western coast of the LEARN NOT TO BURN wife, Darlene. (Official U.S. Navy photo) Persian Gulf. Page 2 The Daily Gazette Thursday, April 7, 1983 FREE! JOIN THE CLUB! WE COLLECT THE NAVAL STATION ENLISTED labels from food cans, send Dining Facility and the them to school with our Branch Facility at Leeward Special Announcements children, and don't ask for Point will offer special anything in return.