By Viet Cong Rocket Attack

By Viet Cong Rocket Attack

Water Condition T IDES +2 ,~ a v-a Charlie IlI Low 6:14 a. m. Storage Ashore 5:04 pm. 13.8 First daily paper ever to win the CHINFO Merit Award Million Gallons U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Phone 9-5247 FRODAY Date June 14, 1967 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) Pressures Leftist Agitators, Eases Academic Turmoil Tan Son Nhut Airbase Hit PARIS (AP/AFNB) A crackdown by French President Charles de Gaulle's government on By Viet Cong Rocket Attack leftist agitators has helped SAIGON (AP/AFNB) Four enemy rockets exploded at the Tan ease academic and industrial Son Nhut Airbase on the edge of Saigon early today. One Amer- turmoil. ican was killed and one United States plane damaged. The crackdown included ex- U.S. military sources reported that counterfire was immedi- pulsion of 84 foreigners in ately started, and no other enemy shelling was reported. two days-, and the air of Last night was the third tension in the French capital calm night in a row for the has eased sharply. battered city, under a seem- Paralleling the government J ingly relentless rocket attack actions was another move in for a month and a half. de Gaulle's reconciliation Residents of the capital with the extreme right. This have bought sandbags and erec- is the return to France of ex- ted barricades against the Colonel Charles Lahercy after bombardments. They are put- seven years in exile. He had ting more tape on window been sentenced to death in ab- panes. sentia and -stripped of his About 12,000 United States rank for helping in an Army and South Vietnamese troops revolt against de Gaulle. are engaged in a sweep around The President hopes for the the capital in an attempt to support of rightists in the clear out Communist rocket and election of a new National As- gun sites. A military spokes- Wembly June 23 and 30. man said elements of the Uni- The National Assembly elec- ted States 25th Infantry Divi- tion campaign period, 11 days, sion found nine rockets hidden has already begun, and there in three submerged sampans is much fierce political about ten miles northwest of fighting going on in Frahce. MARINE RUNS FOR COVER AS ENEMY Saigon. All 487 seats are up for grabs SHELLS ROCK SAIGON AND OUT- It was announced yesterday since de Gaulle dissolved the LYING AREAS. in Saigon that U.S. casualties assembly May 30. in Vietnam for the week ending June 8 were at their lowest point in five weeks; 380 killed Republicans Start Tulsa Conference Today and 2,739 wounded, with less TULSA, Okla. (AP/AFNB) About 20 republican governors are than half of these requiring gathering in Tulsa for a policy conference opening today. Ma- hospital care. jor interest ii centered on New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's Enemy casualties for the bid for the presidential nomination. week were at their lowest point Rockefeller, due in Tulsa late last night, hopes to pick up since April -- 2,134. There some support fm m his colleagues. are no figures on enemy wound- Three of Richard Nixon's top strategists arrived in Tulsa ed as the Viet Cong and North yesterday, and the impact of the assassination of Sen. Robert Vietnamese often remove them Kennedy is reflected in the intensive security measures being from the field before they can taken. Secret Service agents are stationed on every floor of be counted. the Camelot Inn, where the governors are to live and hold South Vietnamese casualties their meetings. were put at 392 dead and 1,156 More than 50 Highway Patrol troops are on duty around the wounded. The drop reflects the Inn, as well as detachments of Tulsa police-(Cont'-d on Page 2) start of monsoon in Vietnam. Page 2 Gitmo Gazette Friday, June 14 Arabs and Jews Resume Fight TEL AVIV (AP/AFNB) Israeli and Egyptian forces dueled across the Suez Canal today for the first time in three weeks, the Israeli ComNavBase RADM E.R. Crawford Army announced. Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E. Lamey An Israeli spokesman said Egyptians opened up with light arms at 10:30 a.m. and then Editor J03 Tom Meyers brought up artillery an hour later to bombard Layout JO3 Lonnie Sexton Israeli troops at Port Taufiq, at the southern Sports DMSN Tino Serrano end of the canal. The Israelis replied with artillery, mortars and regulations for ship aid- station newspapers as out- lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the and machine guns. Fighting was still raging Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four shortly after noon, the spokesman said. days a week at government expense on government equip- There was no report of casualties from eith- ment. The opinions or statements in news items| that er side. appear herein are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of 8 a.m. and.3 p.m.| MON thru FRI only and willbe publish- ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. Coroner Says Kennedy Shot Three Times No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- LOS ANGELES (UPI/AFNB) A Los Angeles grand lished more than once a week nor will they be run in jury was told yesterday that Senator Robert Friday's paper. F. Kennedy was shot three instead of two times newsworthy The Gazette welcomes contributions of a as was first believed. nature. All contributions should be forwarded to Box was given by Dr. Thomas Mog- 22, in care of the Gitmo Gazette. The Gazette reserves The testimony the right to modify the content of any story to make it uchi, the County Coroner. He said the fatal conform to typographical and format standards for pub- bullet penetrated Kennedy's brain. Another lication. entered his right armpit and a third struck a half-inch below that. REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS MEET (Cont'd from Page 1) Moguchi also said powder burns indicate the men. Each governor's automobile will be driv- gun was fired not more than two or three feet# en by a trooper. Plainclothesmen carrying from the victim. walkie-talkies are patrolling the grounds sur- rounding the inn. California Gov. Ronald Reagon is due at the conference about the same time as Gov. Rockg- Reagon: Violence Imported by Alien feller. A movement is apparently underway to INDIAN4APOLIS, Ind. (AP/AFNB) Gov. Ronald try to persuade Reagon to become a vice pres- Reagon of California last night attributed the idential nominee. Gov. Jack Williams of Ari- assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to "the vi- zona says he will discuss this possibility at olence of war in the Middle East imported by the conference. Reagon has said he would not an alien." be interested in the number two spot. The Chief Executive of the state where Ken- MC CARTHY nedy was killed declared,,"I for one find it Sen. Eugene McCarthy says the problems of unacceptable and worse than no answer at all American cities derive from "failures of basic to be told that all of us collectively are to political structures in this country." blame and that ours is a sick society." McCarthy told a New York audience that the Reagon, considered a contender for the re- problems "would not go away until there is a publican presidential nomination though unan- new politics. through which Americans can nounced, prepared his remarks for an Indiana govern, themselves and assert power." GOP fund raising dinner. The Minnesota contender for the Presidency He did not elaborate on his view of the of the United States made his first public cause of the killing, but clearly referred to speech since the assassination of Sen. Robert the Jordanian ancestry of the man accused of Kennedy of New York. the 'killing, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, and his Presidential aspirant George Wallace says he reported hatred of Jewism. believes a national convention would be nec- essary to nominate his running mate on the WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB) A small band of Poor American Independent Party ticket. Talking to People Campaigners has completed 24 hours of newsmen aboard his campaign plane before land- continuous vigil outside the Agriculture De- ing in Atlanta, Wallace said -:the conVention partment. The group is demanding more federal may be a legal technicality. effort to feed the hungry. Attttt* Pages Missing or Unavailable Gitmo SPORTS And Elsewhere Pro Baseball STANDINGS In yesterday's action St. Louis boosted AMERICAN LEAGUE lead over San Francisco to four games in their LOST PCT. BEHIND National League play. The Cardinals needed TEAM WON twelve innings to put down the Atlanta Braves 20 .661 3-2 in a night game. Pittsburgh had out- Detroit 39 scored the Giants in the afternoon, 8-7. In Baltimore 32 24 .571 5 the only other National League games, the Cubs Cleveland 33 27 .550 6 28 29 .491 10 belted the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 and the Phila- Oakland 11 Astros 3-2. In the Minnesota 28 31 .475 delphia Phillies edged the 11 Detroit beat Minnesota 3-1 to Boston 26 29 .473 American League 12 widen the Tigers first place advantage over New York 26 32 .448 26 32 .448 12 Baltimore to 51 games. The Orioles had the California 12 day off. Oakland shut-out Cleveland for the Chicago 24 30 .444 third time in a row, 1-0 in the eleven-inning Washington 24 32 .429 13 2 game. California defeated Boston 4-2 in the opener and their second game was suspended NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS after 51 innings with the score tied 1-1.

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