European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday december 2,1991a Little bit of americana in Cuba relaxed Small town lifestyle just part of Gizmo s Charm . Naval base Guantanamo Fla Havana a 1 <4_ 20iiiles 200 pm detail map Guantanamo Bay Cuba a surrounded by barbed wire and minefields and in the Cross hairs of hundreds of communist guns this . Naval base is a continuing remembrance of the cold War. Which makes it seem extremely Odd to find that inside. A a it a Mayberry a said base executive officer capt. Howard Kirkpatrick. A this is a great place to live. Its not a great place to Wake up Early As everyone Here does and see dozens of schoolchildren Riding their bikes to class. Mothers and fathers it s Mayberry. This is a great place to live. It s not a great place to visit a capt. Howard Kirkpatrick drop youngsters off at a splendid Day care Center. Commuters line up to take the ferry to work Coffee from the base Mcdonald a in hand. Gizmo As it is called is Small town .a. Circa 1960, plucked up and dropped on a tropical Island in the Caribbean. But More than that it is televisions version of what people think a Small Community of 7,000 should be like a Andy Griffith Samerica. There is no crime so people Don t lock their cars or their houses or much of anything else except the ammunition. There is no drug problem. The Speed limit is 25 Mph but Given that the base is Only about 45 Square Miles much of it water nothing is More world than 10 minutes away. A we used to have a traffic Light but we finally took it Down a said John Griffin the base spokesman food critic and editor of the Guantanamo Gazette the twice weekly newspaper. Nearly everyone on Guantanamo is Young Tan and healthy. The rest Are older Tan and healthy. There Are marines who guard the perimeter Fence sailors who service and train the Atlantic Fleet and hundreds of . Civilians jamaicans cuban exiles and other foreign nationals who do everything from Manning the firetrucks to giving Golf lessons. Capt. William c. Mccamy the base commander plays the role of mayor in Guantanamo. Riding around in his old Blue pickup he holds town meetings reviews cleanliness reports on the restaurants checks the stocks at the new shopping mall and visits the schools. He and col. Gary Blair the commander of the Marine contingent express Confidence in Guantanamo a Security even Given that Castro has one of the largest standing armies in the world. Castro a Frontier brigade which surrounds Guantanamo a serves no real military function except to serve As a deterrent to keep people away from our base Quot Blair said. Despite their efforts a a we re doing a booming business in defectors he said because the cuban Economy is bad. In recent Days the base has become a temporary Home for thousands of refugees from unrest in nearby Haiti. Because of the isolation the on base distractions take on great importance. The Golf course stays open even though there a not enough water to grow grass on the fairways since Castro turned off the Supply in 1964. Players carry astroturf Mats to place under the balls. There is a Riding stable Bowling Alley gymnasium free movies Little league Guantanamo in 1903, the United states leased the area from Cuba for $2,000 in Gold a year. The Lea a is open ended. This is the Only . Basom a a it an town it. A a a a a a in a communist country Guantanamo it. A land and water area 45 so. I. Cuba Caribbean sea Windward passage Caribbean sea an existing Camp will be expanded. Boy scouts and girl scouts and night school College. It May not be club med but there Are All the water sports you would expect from a Caribbean resort. And some Fisherman have a unique advantage a they can Mark their favorite spots with the Navy a satellite positioning system. Perhaps the biggest threat to Guantanamo is the budget As the Pentagon looks for ways to trim defense spending. Maintaining such an isolated base costs More than $3p million a year. If relations improve Why not give it n a Cynthia Greer Back Mccamy and others say the bases value has Little to do with its symbolism As the Only american base in a communist country. Leased by the United states in 1903, for $2,000 in Gold per year its Large Harbor is within minutes of deep water training. It served ships from Theodore Roosevelt a great White Fleet and convoys from world War ii today it is the main training base for the Atlantic Fleet and Home for air and sea efforts to Stop drug youth killed by police in Sweden from wire reports Stockholm Sweden a police in the swedish City of Malmo shot and killed one youth and wounded another saturday during a clash with Neo nazi skinheads. Officials said they feared More violence might occur Over the weekend in the nearby City of Lund where skinheads plan to commemorate the death of their idol ancient swedish Warrior King Karl Xii. Saturdays clash occurred outside a discotheque after police responded to a Call of a woman being harassed by skinheads. A police spokesman said a mob surrounded two officers who arrived at the scene. The officers were forced to shoot into the crowd after they were unable to disperse the skinheads by firing in the air. The officers shot and wounded two of the Neo nazi youths one of whom died shortly for War Tokyo a Japan a parliament is planning to adopt a Resolution that would amount to an apology to former enemies and occupied nations for damage caused by Japan during world War ii the Kyodo news service reported saturday. Quoting sources close to the governing Liberal democratic party Kyodo reported the diet Japan a parliament will adopt a three part Resolution by the end of this week which would coincide with the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on saturday. Bomb found on air India Jet new Delhi India up a a Steward discovered a time bomb on an air India jetliner sunday morning shortly before the flight bound for London and new York with 416 aboard was to take off from Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incident occurred half an hour before prime minister . Narasimha Rao was to arrive from an economic Summit in Caracas Venezuela. Police defused the Small bomb aboard air India flight 111. The aircraft scheduled to leave at 7 30 ., was delayed indefinitely airline officials said. The bomb was discovered in a food Container aboard the Boeing 747. Airline officials said the 398 passengers and 18 Crew members on Board when the bomb was detected were All evacuated safely. The passengers were sent to hotels until police and Airport Security cleared the aircraft to resume the flight. The Airliner had come from Madras the capital of tamil Nadu state in South India. Authorities said the food Container in which the bomb was found had been placed aboard the jetliner since its Landing in new Delhi at 7 Local time. The Steward who located the bomb notified air India Security personnel. After initially studying the device they contacted the police and bomb disposal experts who then defused the device the press Trust of India news Agency reported. Capsized replica of Galleon salvaged Isla Cristina Spain apr a Dredger and two fishing boats managed to right a million Dollar replica of 116th-Century Spanish Galleon saturday eight Days after it capsized. News reports said the Victoria a a replica of the first ship to circumnavigate the Globe in 1522 a was being drained and cleaned in the port of Isla Cristina East of Huelva. The vessels construction was sponsored by the government run fifth Centenary commission whose president Luis Yanez watched As the Victoria capsized in shallow water nov. 22 shortly after being christened. Experts said at the time that the vessel capsized for Lack of sufficient ballast and because it was tugged from the Side rather than from the Stern or the Bow. Francisco Monsa Vete the Engineer who designed the vessel told the Spanish National news Agency efe that the ship had suffered Only minor damage after spending eight Days partially submerged. The replica is one of the vessels built to take part in next year s commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus first voyage to the new world. The Victoria was part of a Fleet of five captained by Ferdinand Magellan that set out from Spain in 1519 to Circle the Globe. Magellan was killed in 1521 in the Philippines. A year later his subordinate. Juan Sebastian Del Cano brought Home the Victoria the fleets Only remaining ship and 17 survivors. The replica had been scheduled to sail up the Guadalquivir River to Dock at the expo �?T92 exposition in Seville. Spain is investing billions of dollars on events such As expo �?T92 in Hopes that it will grab the worlds attention next year
