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Jet fighter
pulled roll
before wreck
DUARTE, Calif. (UPl)_6n e
minute before a Marine jet
fighter and a commercial
airliner collided in flight killing
50 persons near here, the
military craft executed a 360-
degree roll, the sole survivor of
the collision told investigators
Wednesday.
Brad Dunbar, spokesman for
the National Transportation
Safety Board team investiga
tion Sunday’s collision, reported
that Marine Lt. Christopher
Schiess, 24, radar officer of the
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craft who parachuted to safety,
said the roll was performed at
about 15,500 feet.
Dunbar said Schiess’ full
statement would not be relea
sed. No other details were
disclosed.
The collision occurred at
about 12,000 feet in a much
traveled air corridor used by
commercial flights out of Los
Angeles International Airport.
The Air West DCS was being
controlled by radar while the
Phantom F 4 fighter bomber
was on a “see and be seen” or
visual flight operation.
Maj. Michael Fibisch, public
affairs officer at El Toro
Marine Air Station where the
crashed fighter was based,
declined to remark on Schiess’
statement.
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Battle cholera
CALCUTTA—More British air force jets landed today
with doctors, nurses and millions of doses of anti-cholera
vaccine in the struggle to keep the disease from spreading
amont the five million refugees from the war in East
Pakistan.
Fighting slows
SAlGON—Fighting was reported almost at a halt today
in South Vietnam and Cambodia. In Cambodia’s capital,
Phnom Penh the high command said a communist
defector told them his unit suffered 1,400 casualties
including 500 dead in recent fighting just outside the
capital.
Irish blasts
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Bombs damaged two
police stations in Northern Ireland and a power station in
the neighboring Republic of Ireland overnight No injuries
were reported.
Mail thefts cut
WASHINGTON—MaiI pouches full of valuables are so
sought after by thieves that the underworld has even
respeted to gnagland executions in the scramble for the
loot. But Chief Postal Inspector W. J. Cotter, testifying
before the Senate investigations subcommittee yesterday,
said thefts of valuable air mail sacks have been cut almost
to zero since tighter security was begun at major
American airports.
Draft ceiling voted
WASHINGTON—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy says a
ceiling voted by the Senate on the number of men who
may be drafted in the next two years should prevent
President Nixon from escalating the war in Indochina.
The Senate voted 78-4 yesterday setting the ceiling.
Ailing allies face growing threat
Whose sea is the
Mediterranean now? The
Romans called it
“Mare Nostrum"—Our
Sea. More recently,
the West's admirals have
looked on it as NATO's
private paddling pool.
But now the Russian Bear
has learned to swim
and the Soviets are a
naval force to be reck
oned with in the middle
sea. Their ships are
modern, their supply
lines short, their bases
conveniently spotted on
Arab coasts and the
gateway weakly guarded.
By TOM CULLEN
ANKARA, Turkey—(NEAl
—The "Sick Men of NATO”
is the unenviable title Turkey
and Greece have earned for
themselves in recent months,
and some time spent in both
countries makes clear that
the label is justified.
The sickness is political. In
Greece, where the military
junta has been in power for
over four years, free elec
tions are no nearer than they
were in 1967. Turkey, too, ap
pears to be headed for a
military dictatorship as a
solution to threatening an
archy.
In both countries violent
anti-Americanism exists.
Rightly or wrongly, Greeks
believe that the CIA engi
neered the plot which
brought the colonels to pow
er, and they bear a grudge
against the Nixon govern
ment as being the junta’s
chief prop and mainstay.
In Turkey Americans are
so unpopular that the U.S.
Sixth Fleet no longer dares
to visit Istanbul. Two years
ago sailors from the carrier
USS Forrestal were thrown
into the Bosphorus.
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Turkey and Greece are on
the outs with each other over
Cyprus, where the situation
is unchanged from 1964 when
Turks dropped napalm
bombs on two Greek-Cypriot
villages.
Overshadowing all else is
the Soviet naval build-up in
the Mediterranean. The Rus
sian fleet is now present in
the Mediterranean perman
ently and in strength, with a
two-star admiral as flag of
ficer. Its strength varies
from 50 to 70 vessels, but
they include the latest model
cruisers and destroyers and
nuclear submarines, some of
which are equipped with long
range surface-to-surface mis
siles.
This is only the tip of the
iceberg, for another 600 to
700 Soviet vessels are based
in the Black Sea.
"The Russian bear has
iearned how to swim,” as
Adm. W. F. A. Wendt, com
mander of U. S. Naval
Forces, Europe, remarked
recently. The bear’s wake
he pointed out, now extends
from the Caribbean to the
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The Russian dream of ex
panding southwards to the
Mediterranean and to the
warm waters of the Indian
Ocean dates back to Peter
the Great (1672-1725), who
fathered the first Russian
navy.
In less than 10 years that
dream has come close to
realization. In this short time
the Kremlin has upset com
pletely the balance of power
in the Mediterranean, and
succeeded in turning NATO’s
flank.
An American naval com
mander attached to NATO
headquarters in Izmir put it
to me thus: "The Mediter
ranean was once NATO’s
private paddling-pool. Now,
thanks to the Soviet presence
there, it has become a pond
for sitting ducks. Instead of
pointing their guns north and
east, NATO forces must de
fend themselves in all di
rections, including the rear—
don’t forget the Soviet MIGs
parked on Egyptian air
bases.”
No NATO member is more
apprehensive concerning the
changed baiance of power
than Turkey, which shares
some 2,000 miles of frontier
with the Soviet Union, in
cluding the Black Sea.
Turkey has fought 13 wars
with Russia in the past 300
years, and the Turks know
that in the event of another
war. they are marked down
for invasion. To secure their
southern flank, the Russians
must force the Turkish
Straits, which connect the
Black Sea with the Mediter
ranean, and capture Thrace.
At the moment, Turkey’s
relations with Russia are ex
cellent, the Soviets are build
ing a $263 million steel mill
for the Turks, plus an alum
inum plant and an oil re
finery. But they could change
overnight.
This is why the Turkish
government has been press
ing the Nixon administra
tion to increase military aid.
which has dropped from $134
million annually in 1965 to
SIOO million at present.
Turkish officials I talked
to, like Faiz Meier, director
general of the Mutual Secur
ity Office, are dissatisfied
with NATO’s effort in the
Mediterranean. They say
that the NATO "on call’’
force, which exists to show
the flag in crisis areas for
purposes of solidarity, is not
enough. NATO should in
crease its forces in the Turk
ish Straits, Western Thrace
and the Aegean.
The Turks feel they are
entitled to criticize, for over
one-quarter of their budget
is earmarked for defense
purposes, despite the fact
that they have the lowest
gross national product of
any NATO country, their
600,000-strong army is at the
disposal of NATO in times of
emergency.
The closer one looks at the
problem the more apparent
it becomes that there is a
potential conflict of interest
between the United States
and its eastern Mediterran
ean allies The Greeks feel
threatened by their neigh
bors to the north, Albania.
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia,
while the Turks are pre
occupied by the Russians
and the Bulgarians. United
States interests, on the other
hand, are not bounded by
NATO, but are global.
To the Pentagon the Med
iterranean is not only vital
to the defense of central Eu
rope, but as a staging area
for the Middle East. This is
a source of potential dis
agreement with Turkey and
Greece.
In the event of direct
American involvement in the
Middle East would Turkey
and Greece permit the Amer
ican air bases located on
their soil to be used in con
tingency operations?
Both Turkey and Greece
see themselves as bridges
between Europe, Asia and
Africa, and feel that they
have a constructive role to
play in this respect. “Hav
ing been on Arab soil for 500
years, we feel that we can
act as mediator between the
West and the Arab world and
vice versa,” as Faiz Meier
explains.
“Don’t forget,” Meier
adds, "that Turkey consti
tutes a barrier to prevent
Russia from having physical
contact with the Arab
world.”
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