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FROSTY REIATIONS prevailed during the Johnson administration. The two presi
dents met only incidentally, when De Gaulle was in Washington for President Ken
nedy’s funeral in 1963 and when Johnson went to Bonn in 1967 for former Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer’s funeral. During the Bonn meeting, above, West German President
Heinrich Luebke assisted a cool Franco-American handshake.
Nuclear Explosion By Accident?
By DONALD H. MAY
WASHINGTON (UPI) — On
Jan. 24, 1961, a 852 of the Stra
tegic Air Command broke apart
In flight near Goldsboro, N. C„
and out of it fell a nuclear
bomb.
The bomb fell separately
from the wreckage of the plane
and buried in soft ground near
the town of Eureka. It did not
explode.
There was a period of public
concern. Then most Americans
forgot the Incident.
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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1969
It now has come back into
the news as one issue in the
1 debate over the Sentinel anti-
■ ballistic missile (ABM) system,
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, In a 1968 book, Dr. Ralph E.
■ Lapp, a physicist who worked
in the Manhattan Project which
r developed the first atomic
, bomb, gave this account of the
' incident:
1 “The Strategic bomber car
ried two nuclear weapons, each
: packing a punch of 24 million
! tons of TNT—i.e. 24 megatons.
One weapon was jettisoned
De Gaulle and
THE PRESIDENTS
His visit to Paris comes last, but it will be the
high and crucial point of President Nixon's
European tour. Whether he succeeds in his
effort to breathe new life into the Western alli
ance may turn on the outcome of his meeting
with the man who has made himself the key and
most controversial figure on the European scene.
President Nixon is the fourth American chief
executive Charles de Gaulle has dealt with in
the decade he has governed France. Their meet
ings have recorded a steady decline in Franco-
American relations.
and parachuted to earth; the
other went down with the plane :
and fell in a plowed field with
out exploding in a nuclear
sense. One weapon was recov
ered and, to tlie astonishment
of the experts, it was discov
ered that all but one of the
‘interlocks’ or safety switches
governing the electronic com
mand of the bomb mechanism
had been thrown..."
Worry Over Sentinels
Pentagon officials were ques
tioned about Lapp’s report at a
public briefing on the Sentinel
system in Waukegan, 111., last
Dec. 19. They were asked
whether "something similar”
could happen with nuclear war
heads to be placed at the Sen
tinel site at Libertyville, 30
miles north of Chicago’s Loop.
Dr. John S. Foster, director
of defense research and engi
neering, himself a physicist, re
plied that "the account is un
true both as to assertion and
implication.” Army Lt. Gen. Al
fred D. Starbird, Sentinel man
ager, said: "I have reviewed
the record in this case, and the
statement that there was only
one safety still in its safe con
dition is incorrect.”
More recently, Rep. Sidney
R. Yates, D-111., asked the Air
Force about it and got back a
classified answer.
What dfd happen?
According to Pentagon files,
852 G serial number 58-187 took
off from Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base, near Goldsboro, on
“a special mission of long dura
tion” requiring two inflight re
fuelings.
Plane in Trouble
Thirteen hours later the plane
reapproached its base, leaking
fuel, and with two of its eight
engines shutd down to reduce
fire hazard. It made a turn.
The crew heard a "thumping
cracking noise.” They felt a
barrel-roll to the right. The pil
ots fought for control. There
was “an explosion” and the
plane tipped sideways beyond
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WARTIME ALLIES met again in 1966 when De Gaulle
paid a state visit to the United States, one of several
meetings with President Eisenhower. Franco-American
relations soon began to cool rapidly, however.
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THE KENNEDYS made Paris a triumphant stop on
their 1961 European tour. French-descended Mrs. Ken
nedy charmed the French president, but personal
warmth wasn’t reflected on the diplomatic leveL
90 degrees. Then it broke into
pieces.
The pilot ordered the crew to
bail out, waited until he thought
all had, then ejected himself.
Os the eight persons on board,
three died and five survived.
Pentagon officials with access
to secret files on the case say
that:
—The bomb that fell ’ was
“unarmed.” That is, a crucial
piece of fissionable material,
necessary for a nuclear explo
sion to occur, was not in it.
This piece was called the "cap
sule.”
—The capsule was not on
board the plane. The flight was
officially described as an “air
borne alert training mission.”
—The absence of the capsule
meant that, at most, only the
bomb’s conventional explosive
trigger could have detonated.
This could have scattered radio
active material but would not
have devastated the area by
heat and blast.
—A nuclear bomb contains a
series of switches which, in a
real war, must close in se
quence as it falls. One or more
of these make it explode at the
right altitude, so that it does
not destroy the plane that crop
pen it and so that its power is
released a the best height for
its mission. One switch closes
by barometric pressure.
—As this bomb fell, some of
these switches did, indeed,
close. But others did not, and
these prevented even the con
ventional explosives from ignit
ing. Had the bomb been
“armed” these remal nin g
switches would have prevented
a nuclear explosion.
The exact workings of U. S.
nuclear weapons are regarded
as so secret that officials de
cline to go any deeper into this
incident in public. Beyctad this
they cite the fact that in 20
years of handling nuclear weap
ons, there have been no un
planned nuclear explosions.
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Backstairs
Rogers Tiff Clue
To Surf Build-Up
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPD—
Backstairs at the White House:
Miss Willie Mae Rogers
undoubtedly made a wise
decision in deciding to stick
with the payroll of the Good
Housekeeping (magazine) Insti
tute instead of taking a leave of
absence without pay and going
on a government salary as
President Nixon wanted.
As consultant to the President
on consumer affairs, Miss
Rogers would have been on one
of Uncle Sam’s hotter spots
even under the best conditions.
If she had continued, however,
to work full time for the
government while remaining on
the Good Housekeeping payroll,
she would have found herself up
to her pretty pink turban in
controversy.
There were more than a few
congressional committee mem
bers slavering for a chance to
get at her. It took only one
press conference for her to
attract slings and arrows
usually reserved for felony
cases—and this was without
having done anything in her
new job other than to say she
was honest and Intended to
draw her pay from private
industry while working full time
for the government, at least for
the next three or four months.
In the broader scheme of
man, this was a relatively
minor situation. Miss Rogers
had committed only one major
crime—being quite frank about
her preference for her current
QUIET WATCHDOG
BRISTOL, England (UPD—
Thieves broke into* a shop in
Bristol Wednesday, stole $7,200
and escaped in the shop owner’s
car. In the back seat of the car
was the owner’s Alsatian
watchdog.
The car was found deserted
by the robbers about a mile
away from the shop. The
Alsatian watch dog was still
quietly sitting in the back seat
6f the car, possibly wondering
why the auto- ride had been
interrupted.
NO TRACE
HONG KONG (UPD—Search
party officials said today they
had found no trace of British
yachtsman David A. Bailey, an
architect from Lowestoft, Suf
folk, who disappeared Monday
night rowing a skiff near Hong
Kong.
pay and in so doing, telling
Washington reporters to go
mind their business.
Here was a textbook case so
characteristic of Washington, a
display of somewhat colorful
personality and disregard for
some of the cast-in-concrete
norms of this capital city.
Scarcely a stranger to these
norms, Nixon held a trained
finger to the winds beginning to
blow from Capitol Hill and quite
obviously, he decided the
tender, formative stage of a
new administration was no time
to buy trouble.
The issue itself may have
been somewhat small, but
having spent years on the hill,
himself, the President knows
that a chief executive should
save his fighting for the big
scraps. Early mail response to
Miss Rogers’ first news confer
ence, which was held at the
White House, may have given
him some clue to a heavy surf
building up.
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SEES CAPITOL
WASHINGTON (UPD—Tricia
Nixon had luncheon Tuesday
with Rep. Fred Schwengel, R
lowa, president of Capital
Historical Society. President
Nixon’s 22-year-old daughter
toured the Capitol which she
said she had seen many times
but “not in the way I saw it
today.” She represents her
father on the society.
APPROVES REQUEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has approved a Penn
Central request to discontinue
“The Spirit of St. Louis” and
“The Penn-Texas” runs after
March 20. In its application, the
railroad claimed the two
passenger trains traveling be
tween New York and St. Louis,
Mo., lost over $1.7 million in
1968. _
“HAIR” STAMP
TOKYO (UPD—Japan’s Pos
tal Ministry announced today it
will issue a stamp showing a
semi-nude woman. The stamp
was copied from a painting
entitled “Hair,” in which one
woman is seen sitting nude
waist up while her sister combs
her hair.