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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1971
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—President Nixon escorts W. German
Chancellor Willy Brandt past an Air Force honor guard after
Nixon promises Brandt
no secret deals on troops
By HELEN THOMAS
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
—President Nixon winds up his
summit session with Willy
Brandt today, having reassured
the West German chancellor
that the United States will
make no secret deal with the
Soviet Union on East-West
troop cuts in Europe.
They scheduled 2*6 hours
more of talks at Nixon’s resort
villa on Biscayne Bay before
Brandt departed shortly after
noon for Sarasota, Fla. where
he is vacationing with his
family.
Presidential Press Secretary
Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen
that Nixon privately pledged to
Brandt there would be no end
runs around NATO allies on
troop reductions when he
journeys to Moscow in late
May.
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers, who held separate
conversations with West Ger
man Foreign Minister Walter
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mitment.
“We will make no agreement
in Moscow or anywhere else
about mutual and balanced
force reductions unless we do it
in the framework of NATO,"
Rogers told reporters.
Both Nixon and Brandt had a
chance to compare notes on
their independent moves to
relax East-West tension. Rela
tions between the two govern
ments were described as
“excellent” and “proceeding on
parallel courses.”
The two-day meeting with
Brandt was the fourth in a series
of summits Nixon has sche
duled with allied leaders in
advance of his trips to Peking
and Moscow.
His next meeting —and
perhaps the most crucial —will
be held with Japanese Prime
Minister Eisaku Sato in San
Clemente, Calif., Jan. 6-7.
Tuesday night Nixon gave a
business suit dinner in honor of
Brandt at his one-story white
stucco beachside residence as
Key Biscayne, yachts, bedecked
with colorful Christmas lights,
floated by as a special treat for
the guests.
The hearty meal included
crabmeat mousse, roast prime
tenderloin of beef, cheese
souffle and baked Alaska with
German and French wines.
Nixon was expected to
remain at his winter White
House until New Year’s Day.
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THE SUBURBAN MOM always seems to end up chauf
feuring the kids around, whether in the United States
or the Soviet Union. Irina Semenovna Lapasova, of the
Soviet’s Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region, finds a motor
cycle just right for the rough terrain around their vil
lage. No one seems to mind.
Crete missiles powerful ally
By JOHN PINKERMAN
Copley News Service
HANIA, Crete — Amid the
apparent tranquillity of the
olive groves, lush gardens,
mountains and canyons of this
eastern portion of the Greek is
land of Crete, a military ac
tivity operates with a vital role
in North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization (NATO) defenses
against Soviet mis-adventure
in the Mediterranean.
The main installation here is
called NAMFI (NATO Missile
Firing Installation). Its mis
sion as advertised to the public
is to train missile firing crews
of NATO nations. However,
alongside the “training” unit is
the Greek air force’s 115th
Combat Wing, and the Greek
missilemen, already fully
trained for combat, could
easily convert this “practice”
operation into one of war de
fense.
There is much above ground
here that is easy to spot. There
is an array of antiaircraft de
fense guns. There are radar in
stallations of tremendous
range. There are communica
tion antennas that can bring in
orders or warnings from
around the world, if necessary.
There are launching sites for
Nike Ajax, Nike Hercules,
Hawk and Sergeant missiles.
There are protected facilities
for computerized firing of these
missiles. There are protected
fuel dumps.
And, everywhere in the
vicinity of Hania, there are
huge mounds of upturned dirt.
Upturned dirt can mean only
one thing — somebody is dig
ging deep into the ground ami
at a missile base that can only
mean the base is to be strength
ened.
Soviet warships steaming in
to the Mediterranean from the
Black Sea cannot help but
wonder about Hania because
firing exercises go on from
here 48 weeks a year.
“We have excellent surveil
lance radars to make sure we
don’t hit any ships or planes in
training,” Maj. Gen. Deme
trios Lagarias, installation
commander, said in a briefing
on the work of his unit, “even
though 5,000 major commercial
ships pass every year and the
air corridor is a very busy one
for airliners heading to Turkey
and beyond from Central and
Western Europe.”
The military seems to be
everywhere in the Hania area,
and it reminds a visitor a bit of
Quemoy where the Free Chi
nese of President Chiang Kai
shek have held off the Chinese
Arctic
patrols
increased
OTTAWA — The Canadian
armed forces are beginning to
enforce sovereignty in the
arctic in accordance with a new
policy that sees Russians and
Americans as potential
trespassers.
Command posts have been
set up in the north and the land
detachments have been
strengthened. More aircraft
patrol the huge arctic
territories.
All this is to show the world —
if the world is watching — that
Canada claims its arctic and is
enforcing sovereignty.
Thus far there hasn’t been
anyone around to challenge
that sovereignty, nor does it
seem likely any nation will do
so in the foreseeable future.
In the absence of any
“enemy” the armed forces
have to do something to earn
their pay and they are working
hard at learning military
techniques as they should be
practiced in the vast and frozen
north.
What they accomplish in
training skills may come in
handy if Canada is called upon
by its North Atlantic Treaty
Organization ally, Norway, to
supply assistance in that
country which does face a
powerful Soviet military force
across its borders.
Canada has agreed in the
event of an emergency to
supply army and air units to
Norway although some ob
servers wonder if the
Canadians would get there in
time to be of any use.
But back home in Canada
where potential foes are few
and far between, the Canadian
troops also are to take on the
less glamorous, but certainly
important role of keeping an
eye on the wildlife in the arctic.
The federal government
cannily has decided that while
the armed forces are up in the
north, they may as well count
the caribou herds and the
musk-ox and the polar bears.
The United States does not
recognize all Canadian claims
to the arctic and when the
American tanker Manhattan
was trying to prove the
feasibility of moving oil from
Alaska down the Atlantic coast,
there was Ottawa concern of a
U. S. “takeover” in the far
north.
But movement of the Man
hattan through the North
west Passage was not really
successful and the project has
been dropped. Canadian fears
over “excessive” U. S. interest
have abated.
Reds for 21 years even while
only 1% miles from the main
land. Hania has the same quiet
and calm mixed with feverish
military activity.
Lagarias said the reason for
picking this remote area of the
world for such a training site is
secret but it doesn’t take much
conjecture after looking at a
map to guess why. A minor up
grading of missile capability
here will put any Russian ves
sel well within the range of
NAMFI’s firepower if the Reds
should make a warlike break
out from the Black Sea.
Lagarias doesn’t like to talk
about what might come to be.
“Our mission, since we
opened on May 12, 1968,” he
said, “has been to provide a
practice range under NATO for
friendly Western nations (ex
cept that the Turks don’t come
here). We are continuing con
struction but with our three
Nike, four Hawk and one
Sergeant firing sites, we al
ready have had 638 missile
exercises — 70 Sergeants and
the rest divided equally be
tween Nike and Hawk.” Includ
ing the target drones, there
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Chile takeover
brings copper dip
SANTIAGO, Chile - The
Chilean government has finally
had to admit that
nationalization of the big, U. S.-
owned copper mines did not
bring the torrent of dollars
expected.
Production is less than
planned, costs are up and
prospects are bleak.
In 1970, with only three major
mines operating, copper
production was 570,000 tons;
this year, with two new mines
already on stream, output is
forecast at 575,000 tons. The
planned goal for the year had
been almost a million tons.
Jorge Arrate, new vice
president of the government’s
copper corporation, broke that
bad news. But he could have
added more.
What Arrate did not mention
was that the loss in production
in the two main mines, El
Teniente and Chuquicamata,
should in fact have been a
considerable increase. Those
mines, formerly the property of
the Kennecott and Anaconda
companies of the United States,
have almost completed
multimillion-dollar expansion
projects. El Teniente was
programmed to produce at
least 80,000 tons more this year
than last. Instead, by the end of
October, El Teniente output
was more than 34,000 tons less
than for the same period last
year.
El Teniente’s costs per pound
of copper, above 70 cents, in
June and July, have been
brought down to slightly over 50
cents. The copper is being sold
at an average of less than 50
cents. Chuquicamata costs run
around 40 cents.
Copper industry sources say
that the relation between the
increase in cost and the decline
of production in the two big
mines is in direct proportion to
the number of engineers and
technicians who left for foreign
countries immediately
following the Marxists’ victory
in the 1970 presidential elec
tions.
have been 1,110 missiles
launched.
Nations involved in this
training include Belgium, Den
mark, France, Germany, Nor
way, the United States and
Greece. Britain and The
Netherlands are expected to
send crews soon.
Most crews stay about a
week and most nations, includ
ing the United States, keep
liaison officers here as part of
the NATO team.
The year-round warm
weather and mostly clear skies
make Crete ideal for such a
military activity. Also, the is
land is a remote area at its
eastern end and if there is any
difficulty, there are several
Greek units based on Crete, in
cluding the sth Infantry Divi
sion.
“The enemy, communism, is
a constant threat,” Lagarias
said. “That is why we Greeks
are very proud to accept this
mission for NATO.” He praised
U.S. cooperation and said the
U.S. Sixth Fleet makes some
use of NAMFI — utilizing tar
get drones for subsonic firing,
although conducting its own su
personic firing exercises.
El Teniente lost 180, while the
former Anaconda properties
saw 150 highly trained copper
men leave for abroad.
Even those mine experts who
remained in Chile have not
docilely accepted the govern
ment takeover, and all that it
means.
Arrate, for example, com
plained of 36 supervisors at
Chuquicamata who were
“suspended” for taking part in
a strike protesting nomination
of political activists to high
technical posts in the company.
President Salvador Allende,
himself, has become involved
in the problem of high
production costs. Allende made
a special trip to Chuquicamata,
where labor contract renewal
negotiations are beginning.
Allende and his ministers of
labor and mines pleaded for
“moderacy” and asked that the
copper workers’ demand for a
50 per cent, across the board
increase in pay and fringe
benefits, be reduced to 35 per
cent.
Put to a vote of the union
membership, 660 men went
along with the president’s
request, and 3,400 voted to stick
to their 50 per cent demand.
Negotiations are supposed to
continue until the end of
December and, if no agreement
is reached, then there will be a
strike.
Predictions are that both
sides are going to fight hard for
their claims. But the copper
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totally dependent on copper for
its dollar income, hold the
upper hand.
The last contract renewal, in
the El Salvador mine, also
began with a demand for a 50
per cent increase and was
settled, after a brief strike, for
45 per cent.
The next copper contract
could set a difficult precedent
for Allende. Government and
private workers generally seek
to follow the miners’ lead in
their pay demands. Yet, it is
reported, Allende would like to
hold general pay increases as
of Jan. 1,1972, to no more than
18 per cent.
In loving memory of Mrs.
Ruth L. Hinds, who passed
away Dec. 26, 1969.
One never loved more
sweetly nor devotedly nor
wholly than you . . . and one
was never loved more than
you.
A chariot came of solid gold,
It bore your name so big and
bold.
In you stepped and were
Heaven bound. An eternal
home our loved one found.
The Angels all came out to
meet you. And God Himself
was there to greet you.
They had all waited ever so
long To pick you up and take
you home.
Dearly loved and sadly
missed
The Family