Cuba Recognized by 3 OAS states; U.S. unhappy WASHINGTON (AP)--The State Department has. described as an "unfortunate development" the recognition of Cuba by three Caribbean area members of the Organization of American States. Observers said the recognition, announced Tuesday in Ottawa and in Hav- ana, appears to further the erosion of the OAS embargo on the Communist island. The three member nations, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados, where joined in establishing ties with Cuba by Guyana, which is not an 0AS state. There are now six OAS states which do not comply with the Cuba embargo, which was imposed after the Fidel Castro regime was found guilty of aggression against Venezuela. The other three are Mexico, Chile and Peru. State Department spokesman Charles Bray said "it has been and remains our view that any change in the OAS sanctions should result from collect- ive action by the OAS member states after the organization has found the bases for those sanctions no longer ekist." Thursday. Dec. 14. 1972 All systems go for pay raise The 6.69 per cent pay raise for the armed forces, scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, will' notbe affected by President Nixon's announcement Monday that he has ordered a freeze on government pay at the executive level until a new budget is sent to Congress in January. However, longevity pay and all promotions, both for officers and enlisted personnel and including promotions effected locally by commanding officers, have been suspended until further notice. See Page 8 for new pay chart.
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CubaRecognized by
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WASHINGTON (AP)--The State Department has. described as an "unfortunatedevelopment" the recognition of Cuba by three Caribbean area members ofthe Organization of American States.
Observers said the recognition, announced Tuesday in Ottawa and in Hav-ana, appears to further the erosion of the OAS embargo on the Communistisland.
The three member nations, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados, where joinedin establishing ties with Cuba by Guyana, which is not an 0AS state. Thereare now six OAS states which do not comply with the Cuba embargo, whichwas imposed after the Fidel Castro regime was found guilty of aggressionagainst Venezuela.The other three are Mexico, Chile and Peru.
State Department spokesman Charles Bray said "it has been and remainsour view that any change in the OAS sanctions should result from collect-ive action by the OAS member states after the organization has found thebases for those sanctions no longer ekist."
Thursday. Dec. 14. 1972
All systems go
for pay raise
The 6.69 per cent pay raise for thearmed forces, scheduled to go intoeffect Jan. 1, will' notbe affectedby President Nixon's announcementMonday that he has ordered a freezeon government pay at the executivelevel until a new budget is sent toCongress in January.
However, longevity pay and allpromotions, both for officers andenlisted personnel and includingpromotions effected locally bycommanding officers,have been suspendeduntil furthernotice.
See Page 8 fornew pay chart.
Thursday, December 14, 1972
No word on peace pact;
Kissinger returns to U.S.PARIS (AP)--Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho ended
their crucial peace talks session yesterday withoutannouncement of any agreement of ending the Vietnam War.
Kissinger prepared to fly 'to Washington to report toPresident Nixon following a six-hour meeting with Tho.
Communist and other sources said major points of diff-erence still remain to be ironed out between the two topnegotiators.
Presidential Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler toldnewsmen in Washington the two delegates at the regularsemipublic peace talks, William J. Porter of the UnitedStates and Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam, would continuemeeting periodically to discuss technical aspects of apossible future agreement.
Ziegler said Kissinger will confer with Nixon todayand will remain in communication with Tho. Any decisionregarding further meetings of the two top negotiatorswould be made jointly by both sides through an exchangeof messages, Ziegler added.
The press spokesman would not say flatly that furtherParis talks are contemplated, but his language suggestedthat they are likely.
There was no immediate indication of the points ofdisagreement which led to renewed suspension of thetalks.
Meanwhile, in Vietnam, U.S. bombers harassed severalthousand fresh North Vietnamese troops and nearly 100
tanks yesterdayas they headed
Wat r status south along theHo Chi Minh trail
Figures for Wednesday, Dec. 13 en route to SouthVietnam or Laos,
WATER-- PRfDUICE 1,701,000 U.S. sourcesWATER-CONSUMED: 1,379,000 said. The Ho ChiWATPO GAIN 322,000 Minh trail is al-WATERIN SToRAGE:. 18,994,000 ways at its bus-
WASHINGTON (AP)--William P. Clements Jr., a Dallas,Texas oilman, has been named by President Nixon to beDeputy Secretary of Defense. Clements, 55, Chairman ofthe board of SEDCO, Inc., of Dallas, formerly known asthe Southeastern Drilling Co., would succeed KennethRush, who has been moved from the Pentagon post to beDeputy Secretary of State.
At the Defense Department, Clements would be underElliot Richardson, who is leaving the Department ofHealth, Education and Welfare to become Secretary ofDefense.
Richardson said in a statement that Clements "bringsto the job great personal strength, integrity and man-agerial acumen."
WASHINGTON (AP)--Citing a danger of "acute and chronictoxicity" in high doses, the Food and Drug Administrat-ion yesterday moved to limit the strength of Vitamin Aand U products.
The FDA said overdoses of Vitamin A can cause a widerange of complications, such as AnoreXia, growth retard-ation in children, drying and cracking skin, increasedpressure in the skull, pain, irritability and headache
"The availability without prescription of these Vita-mins in high dosage levels contributes'significantiy totheir misuse and the occurrence of serious adverb e eff-ects," the agency said.
.NASHINGTON (AP)--The Nixon administration is planninga major effort to try to reduce sharply rising foodprices, including increasing productivity in the indus-try, Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson said yester-day.
Peterson, who heads the government's productivitythrough increased efficiency and output per man hour isone of the most promising areas in keeping food pricesdown.
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BRIEFS
*bingoThe Naval Base Civic Council
announces that the regularMonday night Bingo at MorinCenter will resume on Monday,January 8th. The Civic.Councilwishes everyone in Guantanamo"Happy Holidays."
*baby courseA Mother and Baby Care Course
will be offered at the NavalHospital by Mrs. Schriefer, aRed Cross volunteer, startingWednesday 17 January 1973.
The course, which consistsof dTscussion, films, pamphletsand a tour of the labor anddelivery area, will continuefor 6 weeks. Class time willbe 7 to 9 p.m. Call 7710 or7438 to register.
41 menu changeThe Flagship Mess regrets
that due to the delay in ship-ment, the Steamship Round ofBeef scheduled for FamilyNight on Sunday, 17 Decemberhas not arrived in Gitmo.However delicious Oven Roast
Beef will be substituted. Welldone., Medium, and Rare Roastwill be available for yourchoice.
*children's partyOn Sunday, December 17th,
the Yacht Club will hold theannual Children's ChristmasParty. It will be held from2 to 4p.m.at the Yacht Clubpatio.
There will be refreshmentsfor the children, and all chil-dren of Yacht Club Members areinvited. Santa Claus will bearriving by Pontoon Boat andhe will distribute gifts tothe children. As in the past,gifts should be wrapped andhave the name firmly attachedto the package.
Reservations are required.Please call Louis Pola, 90192,Barbara Romick, 98162, DeniseBoland, 85285, or Mary Courval,99118 for reservations priorto 14 December.
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The battle report from the Spanish-American War i.n 1898has been donated to the Naval Base Museum and can be view-ed.there. Personnel taking part in the ceremonies fromleft to right are: H.M. Cook-Museum Director, R.C. Rich-ardson-Naval Base Civic Council Mayor, Capt. Alford-C.0NAVSTA, Senior Chief, Eberlin -Senior Enlisted Advisor.
Brush fire at Radio RangeA brush fire started at Rad-
io Range Tuesday approximately2:55.
The fire started at the Ra-dio Range incinerator andspread quickly toward CampBulkley. Assisting the fireburning were 25 to 30 knotwinds -causing the fire tospread rapidly because of thedry condTtTons.
All available fire equip-ment was pressed into service.The fire company had to pullback to Camp Bulkley to pro-tect the Ammo Storage Areawhich the fire was travelingtoward.With the fine support of the
2/8 Marines, with shovels andback firing, the fire fightersset up a final line of defenseat the base of Camp Bulkley.
The fire was finally con-tained Unly after 8 to 10acres of land were destroyed.
Fire Chief Hayes wishes toextend a "well done to the 2/8Marines."
Christmas lightingset for tonight
Guantanamo's community Chri-stmas tree, across from theNavy Exchange, will be light-ed approximately 7:30 tonight,After the lighting the pup-
lic is invited to sing Christ-rnas carols. Leading the carolwill be Vincent Corbisiero.
Old battle report given museum
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Sparkling 8Week of 15 - 21 December
F 4:30 On CampusR 5:00 Big PictureI 5:30 Acid: Armed ForcesD SpecialA 5:55 Notes of Interest &Y Movie Schedule
6:00 Panorama6:30 Alternatives
"Parents"7:00 High Chaparral
"Mi Casa, Su Casa"8:00 Bob Hope Special8:55 Notes of Interest9:00 Ironside
"Murder Impromptu"10:00 10th Hour News10:10 Alias Smith & Jones
"The Day They HangedKid Curry"
11:30 Movie: DragonwyckeVincent Price
S 9:30 Sesame StreetA 10:30 CartoonsT 11:00 Whacky ProfessorU (Guantanamo Original)R 11:30 College FootballD 2:00 Pro BowlersA 3:00 Animal WorldY "The Mexican Grizzly"
3:30 Roller DerbyN.Y. v San Francisco
4:30 Flying Fisherman5:00 Auto Racing
"National 500"5:30 Mary Tyler Moore5:55 Notes of Interest &
Movie Schedule6:00 News Brief6:05 National Geographic
"Men of the Seren-getti"
7:00 Walt Disney"Andrew's Raiders"
8:00 Melba Moore & Clif-ton Davis with guestCloris Leachman
8:55 Notes of Interest9:00 Perry Mason10:00 News Brief10:05 Odyssey in Black10:30 Movie: Three Faces
of Eve. Joanne Wood-ward, Lee J. Cobb
12:00 Dick Cavett.,bypopular Demand, JackPaar returnsasDick's guest for thesecond time.
10:30 Music & Spoken Word11:00 Christophers & Sacred
Heart11:30 This is the Life12:00 Sports5:55 Notes of Interest &
Movie Schedule6:00 News Brief6:05 Mr Ed6:30 Lock Up7:00 Bonanza
"Search in Limbo"8:00 Dean Martin
Guest: Glen Campbell8:55 Notes of Interest9:00 Mission Impossible
"Double Dead"10:00 News Brief10:05 Movie: The Sorcerers
Boris Karloff
4:30 Santa Clause readskiddie letters
5:30 Johnny Mann5:55 Notes of Interest &
Movie Schedule6:00 Panorama6:30 Route 66
"1800 Days to Justice"7:30 Name of the Game
"Keep the Doctor Away"8:55 Notes of Interest9:00 Andy Williams
10:00 10th Hour News10:10 Monday Night Football
4:30 Santa Reads Letters5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
"Problem Bear"5:55 Notes of Interest &
Movie Schedule6:00 Panorama6:30 Nanny & the Professor
"The Great Debate"7:00 Bold Ones
"The Glass Cage"8:00 Carol Burnett
Guest: Debbie Reynolds8:55 Notes of Interest9:00 David Frost Revue
Guest: Burt Reynolds9:30 Lloyd Bridges
"To Walk with the Stars10:00 10th Hour News10:10 Heart of Christmas10:30 Tonight Show
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Santa Reads LettersJuliaNotes of Interest &Movie SchedulePanoramaFlip WilsonGuest: Johnny MathisVirginian"The Stranger"Notes of InterestMarcus Welby"It is so Soon"10th Hour NewsArnie"Second Honeymoon"Movie: Because TheyAre Young. DickClark
Marvel ToonsWild KingdomAs it HappenedNotes of Interest &Movie SchedulePanoramaRoom 222"The New Boy"Gunsmoke"9:12 to Dodge"Glen CampbellGuest: John BynerNotes of InterestMod Squad"Outside Position"10th Hour NewsAll in the FamilyGod Rest You MerryGreatest Fights &Boxing
Holiday Weekday schedule forperiod from 18 Dec to I Jan:
Mon - Fri12:00 Colonel Flyck1:00 The Untouchables2:00 Wanted, Dead or Alive2:30 CBS Sports Spectacu-
lar3:30 Have Gun Will Travel4:00 To Tell the Truth
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Cine Scene1. BEN: Lee Harcourt Montgomery, RosemaryMurphy. The perspidacious rodent who turnedhis 13ack on Willard now directs an army 4,000strong in a virtual takeover of the neighbor-hood supermarket, health spa and candy fac-tory.Suspense Horrot Color 95 Min PG2. DAY OF WOLVES: Richard Egan, Martha Hyer.Seven bearded men, strangers and known to eachother only by number, gather under the leader-ship of the "Brain", number one, and plan theperfect crime.Drama Color 92 Min G3. THE PROUD AND DAMNED: Chuck Connors, AronKincaid. Four young Texans and their ex-sergeant, Will, have wandered throughout LatinAmerica as hired guns for several years afterdropping out of the American Civil War. Theystumble upon a vicious military dictator, whooffers them a choice: execution or their ser-vices. They elect the latter.Western . Color 97 Min PG4. BLACULA: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee."Blacila" is an African prince who made themistake, back in 1815, of asking Dracula tosign a petition abolishing slavery and wasturned into a vampire for his trouble. Todayhe roams Watts and Los Angeles transforming agood percentage of the black population intoblood suckers like himself.Horror Color 93 Min PG5. COOL BREEZE: Thalmus Basulala, RaymondSt. Jacques. Chief among those who use womenare Rasulala as an impossible cool Californiahood breezing his way toward $3 million inloot and disaster for most of his gang.Adventure Drama Color 103 Min R6. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT: Richard Benjamin,Karen Black. Portnoy, Harvard law grad andminor New York City human resources official,describes to his psychiatrist various exper-iences from his life: his incredible relat-ions with his parents--a mother whose idea oftoilet training is to tickle her son's geni-tals, his perpetually constipated fatherwhose goal in life is a satisfying bowelmovement; his heroic feats of nonstop mast-urbation as a 15-year-old, his first heter-osexual experience and his final psychicdestruction.Comedy Drama Color 101 Min R7. CRICKET ON THE HEARTH and RUDOLPH THE REDNOSED REINDEER -- Special Christmas movies.8. MARY MARY: Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nel-son. Publisher is surprised at the sight of
,his ex-wife who has gone the full beautytreatment and then some. He discovers he isstill attracted to her.Comedy -Color 126 Min NRA
9. SCROOGE: Albert Kinney, Alec Guinness.Scrooge lives a shutin life compounded ofpenury and old habit. Mean to his one clerk,nasty to all children and demanding paymentfor loans even on Chritsmas Day.Musical Color 113 Min G10. THE DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK: Spencer Tra-cy, Frank Sinatra. An eccentric iiiissionaryon French ruled island in the Pacific strug-gles to save leper colony from earthquake.Drama B&W -121 Min NRA11. GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT: Tom Smothers,Orson Welles. Young executive, tired of hismistress and job as marketing analysist,takes a skid row hotel room and studies as atap-dancing magician under Orson Welles.Comedy Color 92 Min R12. SAM HILL: Ernest Borgnine, Stephen Hu-dis. During an election for sheriff, thelocal minister, a con man, dies of poison-ing.Western Color 96 Min NRA13. DEEP END: John M. Brown, Jane Asher.Attendant at bath house and ladies' attend-ant switch sections to earn extra tips.Drama Color 91 Min R14. DEAD RUN: Peter Lawford, George Geret.Professional pick-pocket steals attache casefrom ,spies and finds top-secret papers.Drama Color 97 Min R15. COME BACK CHARLESTON BLTRI: GodfreyCambridge, Raymond St. John. Black organi-zation robs Mafia of heroin supply to cutthe white man out of Harlem.16. MELODY: Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde. MarkLester, 11, befriends tough and independentclassmate but then finds girl friend instead.Comedy Color 106 Min G17. THE CANDIDATE: Robert Redford, MelvinDouglas. Redford, playing a little knownlocal figure, is picked by some politicalking-makers as the likely aspirant that canmake it as a U.S. senator.Drama Color 110 Min PG18o GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT. See 11 above.19. THE DEVIL AT FOUR O'CLOCK. See 10.20. THE MOLLY MAGUIRES: Richard Harris, SeanConnery. A secret organization, the MollyMaguires takes its name from old antilandlordgroup in Ireland in which men put on women'sclothes to avoid recognition.Drama Color 125 Min PG21. DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN: Vincent Price,Robert Quarry. Dr. Phibes tries to bringwife back to life using Egyptian formula.Horror Drama Color 95 Min PG22. MR. KINGSTREET'S WAR: John Saxton,Tippi Hedren. Men fight for African land.Action Drama Color 92 Min NRA
Thursday, December 14, 1972
Anti -Castro group strikesWASHINGTON (AP)--An anti-Castro organization calling itself the Cuban Se
ret Government says it placed the bombs that damaged a travel agency andthree offices which handle packages for Cuba.
The explosions occurred Monday in Montreal, New York and Miami. Therewere no injuries, but the organization warned of further attacks againstpersons and firms who do business with Cuba.
"To do business with the Communist tyranny that oppresses Cuba means torecognize them as the legitimate government," a letter received at theAssociated Press Washington bureau gaid.
It says there should be "no more packages for Cuba" except for medicines
It added? "If the betraying business continues, our attacks will be feltby the publications that advertise the agencies dedicated to this unpatri-otic activities.
"Also we will then attack the persons that work in these places as wellas the owners." An English translation accompanied the Spanish text of theletter.
Jews again warned about mail bombsLONDON (AP)--Scotland Yard warned prominent Jewish personalities and
organizations yesterday to beware of an expected wave of letter bombs.The warning followed discovery in Singapore of two bombs of a new type.Both were in packages containing diaries and were addressed to Jewishpeople in Germany. They were discovered by a security officer in aSingapore sorting office. When the envelope is opened a small springstrikes a detonator and fires a plastic charge.
Grandmother elected to German postBONN, GERMANY (AP)--Annemarie Renger, an attractiveblonde grandmother
who drives a sports car, was elected yesterday by the West German Parli-ament as the first woman speaker in its history. The 53-year-old Social-ist immediately vowed to use the new office, which ranks second highestbehind the presidency,to press her campaign for women's rights. "Thefact that a woman has been entrusted for the first time in German his-tory with the office of Parliamentary President may perhaps contributetoward breaking down prejudices that still militate against a fairjudgment of the woman's role in our society."
British wage -price freeze blastedLONCON (AP)--British labor leaders charged yesterday that the govern-
ment's 90-day wage and price freeze is not working. They called for anearly meeting with Prime Minister Edward Heath. "We believe that pricesare rising and will continue to rise," said Victor Feather, General Sec-retary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) which represents 10 millionworkers. Feather claimed the freeze was placing undue hardships on thelower paid. In that connection, ancillary hospital workers across Brit-ain, including ward orderlies, caterers, and cleaners, staged a halfday walkout yesterday against the block on their pay.
Canada hopes to improve NATO roleOTTAWA (AP)--Canada would like to improve the effectiveness of its
NATO contribution without increasing the costs or the size of itsEuropean contingent, Defense Minister James Richardson has said. Thebiggest single item in that program would be the replacement of theaging Argus coastal surveillance aircraft. Richardson said Canadaplans "to maintain and qualitatively improve the over-all capabilityof its NATO forces."
Haitian refugees
end freedom huntPOMPANO BEACH, 'LA. (APJ--Hungry
but happy, 65 Haitian refugees drif-ted ashore Tuesday after sailing toCuba and the Bahamas in a three-weekjourney aboard a leaking 56-Foot sail-boat.
The 42 men, 20 women and threechildren jumped ashore at dawn afterbeaching the craft in three-footsurf some 40 miles north of Miami.Yvon Bruno, the captain, said therefugees included 12 "political pri-soners" and their families andfriends.
Bruno, who said he was a barge op-erator in the Haitian capital ofPort Au Prince, said his father brib-ed the captain of the guard at aHaitian jail to free the prisonersNov. 23.
The refugees boarded the ancientsloop and sailed first to Maise, Cu-ba, where they were forced to tradeall their possessions, includingtheir shoes, for food and water afterefusing to embrace Communism andask for asylum, according to Bruno.
Bruno said the refugees sailedfrom Cuba Dec. 5 and landed Dec. 11at Bimini, a tiny Bahamian island50 miles east of Miami, where localresidents gave them food, clothingand water.The group included several elder-
ly women suffering from malnutritionand a 22-year-old woman who is fivemonths pregnant, Bruno said. One ofthe older women was admitted to alocal hospital.
Bruno said Haitian jails under theadministration of President Jean-
c- Claude Duvalier "are full of polit-ical prisoners. I was in a cell hold-ing eight men, and one night threeof the others were taken out andwere never seen again. We decidedit was time to leave."
IDuvalier, 21, was named presidentfor life on the death of his father,Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier in 1971.Most of the Haitians were reluctantto talk about the flight from theirhomeland. One man, asked why heleft Haiti, answered, "because theywanted to kill me."
Bruno, the only member of the Fren-ch-speaking group who was.:fluent inEnglish, said the vessel leaked dur-ing the entire trip.
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PinderMEXICO CITY (AP)--The World
Boxing Council today decidedby a majority vote to stripBantam Weight Cjampion Enrique"Maravilla ' Pinder of hiscrown if by December 29 he doesnot sign an agreement to defendthe title against Mexican Rodo-fo Martinez.
Ramon G. Velazquez, presidentof the WBC, said the CentralAmerican and Caribbean. NorthAnerican.South American andEurope Divisions voted againstPinder. Britain's vote had notbeen received, Valazquez added.
Pinder, a Panamanian, has acontract to fight Mexican RomeoAnaya, classified by the WBCas fifth ranking contender, onJanuary 13. The event was-setujp without the sanction of theWBC,,which ordered Pinder tofight Martinez, the number onechallenger.
Valazquez said if Pinder doesnot agree to the WBC's ul-timatum by December 29, it willstrip him of the title and ar-range a match between Martinezand Agustin Senin, of Spain,the WBC number three challen-ger, to decide the new WorldChampion.
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Bench in clearCINCINNATI, Ohio (AP)--Final tests on a lesion removed Monday
from the right lung of Cincinnati Reds' catcher Johnny Benchverify the inflammation was Benign, reds' team physician Dr.George Ballou announced today.
"The tests with the microscopic section of the tissue removedhas confirmed that there was no evidence of any malignancy,"Ballou said in a terse statement issued at the Christ Hospitalthis morning.
Ballou also said Bench was being removed from the intensivecare ward and placed in a private room.
Bench underwent two hours ard a half of surgery Monday morn-ing for the removal of a "spot" detected during x-rays givento the Reds in September.
Ballou and Dr. Luis Gonzalez, Bench's personal physician whoperformed the surgery, said Monday that preliminary testsshowed the lesion to be Benign.
Bench is expected to be hospitalized another week, with fullrecovery expected before the opening of Major League Baseball'sspring training.
-- SPORTS SHORTS--
ABA to expandThe owners of the American Basketball Association have moved
to expand for the 1973-74.season. They announced Tuesday theywill accept applications for two new franchises. The additionof two teams for next season will give the league twelve teams,its most in history.
Commissioner Robert -Carlson also said the owners hope to ex-pand into larger television markets. He named Los Angeles,Chicago, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Honolulu as-strong possi-bilities for the new franchises. Carlson said ABA executivesalready have investigated areans in Chicago, Los Angeles andPhiladelphia.
Terrapins dump GeorgetownIn college basketball Tuesday night--Maryland's third ranked
Terrapins jumped out to a quick 13 point lead in the first nineminutes and went on to swamp Georgetown 99-73. It was theTerrapins fourth straight.Junior Tom McMillen led Maryland with 29 points and 15 re-
bounds. In other top college games, it was 15th ranked Ind-iana 69 Notre Dame'65. .Texas Tech 92 Tulsa 83. .Air Force 78Colorado State 57.".Texas-El Paso 71 Wayland Baptist 44.
Quarry may retireMike Quarry bolted out of the ring and threatened to retire
Tuesday night after being held to a ten round draw by Texaslight heavyweight Champion Frankie Evans. The 21-year-oldQuarry broke into sobs in his locker room after the bout.
Fe said,"I'm going to retire. Boxing is too dirty for me.I'm going back to school." Quarry said he wants to try andget the decision changed and if he succeeded, he will changehis mind-about retiring.
