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Two U. S. escort destroyers tied up at"Gitmo," as the sailors affectionately call the naval base. Rear Adm. Ed. J. O'Donnell, Base Commander. Far removed from the clamor raised by Fidel Castro's Cuban government in Havana, work and life go on as usual at the Guantanamo Naval Base, the 45-square-mile area of land and water occupied under perpetual treaty by the United States since 1903. Cuban employes of the base-*-nearly 4,Q8JI of them —are Increasingly con cerned lest they lose profitable jobs which many of them have held within the naval base for a quarter of a century. Guantanamo is capable of handling the largest, of American surface ships and ! the fastest naval jets. Its subordinate commands include a naval training group, a Marine barracks security detachment,, a public works center, a 100-bed naval hospital, a naval dental clinic and a naval aviation utility squadron. At Guantanamo now are about 3,000 sailors and marines', including officers, plvs rooo H«PP.n,wta and about 660 civilian civil service employes an'’ dependents. mifMmmm . > - . s VBBsnBMHBBnnK i uauaiii. Cuban Instructor teaches Spanish to first grade pupils. There are 1,200 children of school age on the base, and government employ* 08 teachers to educate them. After work Ciibans leave Queatanamo base by ferry for their hemes, Cruiser USS Little Rook anchored In bay at Guantaznune base. Cuban workers returning to their homes in evening are searched at gate to prevent contraband leaving the base. .Sherman Avenue.
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