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Show 1. Af II Turkish Base Still r By FRAME MACOMBER Copley News Service ft;- The Uiiited States, even with tlie lesFrancis Gary Powers behind it, continues to iraintain a constant aerial surveillance of military developments in other sectors dt the world. ion of -- Nonetheless the United States spent millions to set up the Djabarkir base for U 2 operations, jointly bossed by the CIA and Air Force Intelligence. U-pilots, like Powers, drew salaries of $36, 000 a year whether they flew or not. And most ot them did. Officially they flew test flights for Lockheed. Dyabarkir, a pastoral area nestling the muntains in Turkeys Tigris y 6 2 Former CIA pilot Gory Powers, at witness stand in 1 962, holds model of House on capture by Russ. U-- plane as he testified before 2 -- - Sverdlovsk about Soviet borders. miles 1,200 source of the Tigris River where Turkey agreed to grant the United States rights to build and operate the base from which Powers eventually took his U-- 2 reconnaissance plane on a flight which brought an abrupt end to a Big Four summit meeting In Paris eight years ago. Inside The Turkish governments change of heart came gradually, as younger men took over the government and the oldsters, defiant of the constant Russian threat on their doorstep, fell out of grace. The new generation of Turkish leaders decided it was time to show a friendly face to the Soviets, even at the expense of continued economic and military aid from the United States. What happened before and after PowU-- 2 Lockheed-buil- t was knocked of about 70,000 down from feet by a Russian surface-to-ai- r missile? Its all part of the story of Dyabarkir. And much of it is told by a former Air Force officer, working closely with the U.S. Central Intelligence super-secrAgency, He was there when it happened. ers But this is the story of Dyabarkir, a farming area where sheep are grazed, cotton is grown, lumber is cut and iron ore is mined. It also is the place near the Early In 1950 the followers of Kemal Ataturk, who died in J938, still were reigning in Turkey. They were They were getting U.S. military and economic aid. d. About that time in the cold war the United States needed sites from which to launch aerial reconnaissance missions, a nice expression for Dyabarkir seemed an ideal place from which to mount such flights for Russian over-fiyAnd so it came about, with Dyabarkir having a second mission as a support base for U.S. bombers, if it should be vital to send them there. It never has been, so far. spy-flyin- ' Rule By Riot' To Half Needed: Firmness Riots have now become a daily occurrence in this country, but we ought not to be suiprised. They have been increasing not only because the participants are not punished, but because they are actually rewarded. Riots will go on so long as rioters find that they can get by riots concessions they could not get by peaceful means, and so long ts they can riot with Individual impunity. merely the right to quit work, in collusion with others, but the right to prevent, by Intimidation or violence, anyone else from taking the job that the striker has voluntarily vacated. Mass picket lines, the obvious purpose of which is physical intimidation and obstruction to prevent the peaceful continuance of a business, have for a generation been tolerated as a matter of coarse. In the last 36 years tills intimidation has even been encouraged by statGuardia Act of 1S32 in ute. The Norris-L- a effect denies injunctive relief to persons suffering irreparable injury from clearly unlawful conduct by unions and pickets. In the same way, demonstrations and riots by Negroes, even when they involved violence, looting and arson, have not only been condoned by many officials on the ground that Negroes have just grievances, but have been rewarded Privileged strations and rioting are, after all, not new. In the field of labor they have been tolerated for generations. The theory was that any method was permissible U only its declared purpose was to improve the conditions of the workers "The right to strike has been' sacrosanct And the right to strike has been interpreted, in practice, as not opment and public affairs, gave them an ultimatum at 4:40 p.m. Here is what followed, as reported in The New York Times: by new housing subsidies, welfare He handed them statements formally laws that were programs and notifying them that they were in violation not passed until after the riots. The natural conclusion of the rioters was that riots of university rules. Then he told them they would be suspended If they were not pay off better than peaceful petition. of the building by 5 p.m. and out Finally, of course, the "confrontaif they were still there at 6 p.m. expelled s crimand tions, riots, vandalism, The students left before 5 oclock, inal trespass by students at the colleges have been encouraged by muddle-heade- d Brooklyn College later provided a aid weak-knee- d administrators who have similar lesson. That lesson is elementary not only granted complete amnesty to and ought to be learnable even by a Co--, the rioters but capitulated to arrogant lumbia or Northwestern administrator.. and often absurd demands. Nobody has a special license to intimIt is gratifying to be able to report a idate, block, invade, riot or commit vandalism or criminal trespass, even if he few honorable and instructive exceptions. happens to be a union member, a Negro On May 15 more than 60 Negro students, or a student. l calling the: selves the Society for the Lawbreaking cannot be tolerated, no Purpose of Lobbying in the Interest of Black Students, seized the administration matter who the lawbreaker or how justibuilding at the University of Chicago and fied his grievance. Law and order can be Issued a list of demands. Charles U. preserved only if they are preserved without exceptions. Daly, flie universitys director of devel civil-righ- ts sit-in- n - OUR MUSICAL WHIRL the announcement of Jennie ourels master classes this summer as art ot the BYU Music Departments, uiftmer Festival, has come the ques-oi- t: What is an art song? How is it diluent from a folk song? Among many available definitions, ne is that an art song is actually oppo-it- e that of a folk but that mg oesnt really say nything either. But a folk song With ' ly found in the German Lied," a word should that literally means song, and always be capitalized, as with any other German noun. The nearest French equivalent is chanson, and examples of the form may be found also in the Italian, Spanish, Russian, Scandinavian and Eng- lish languages. the voice itself and the ability to project the meaning of the woids. The skill of the accompanist is also as anyone who might important have had any doubts, knows after he has read Gerald Moores , The Unashamed and his Am I Too Accompanist, Loud. (As the worlds most renowned accompanist, British Mr. Moore has just retired from concert work. He has lectured several times at BYU.) The cooperation given a singer at the piano of necessity influences the success of a recital rather over be- NEW YORK Nelson Rockefellers top strategists have been holding a series of soothe-inSome of his most voluble, knowledgeable, and financial people have been complaining that the Governor is running like an empty brook. s. But the message at these intimate sions one in the sky-hig- h ses- Tower Suite it raise Those LOWER-CLA- 1 ex-U-- 2 2 2 SS PAcKfeRoUNP To lower-clag- g FOp&G-pOlJNP- - 0-- 3 But a more recent incident was just the other day. A local candidate for a national post was at a rally and clambake in his honor. It was in a smaller town down south. And p; ins ... Inside Rocky's Camp and another at the more proletarian Overseas Press Club has been to cool difference of art songs. simplified it, dont rock the boat, wait for Dick tween an art song and a folk song is to It Is admitted by many qu: rifled ob- Nixon to make a mistake, stay fluid compare it to classical dancing (ballet) servers that opera singers .are infreand flexible, but get ready to tool up and folk dancing. A folk dance ends when quently equally effective on the concert after the national nominating convention t of .technically the dancers stop (because they are tired stage. If they confine their recital proauthor-hiif lightning strikes. nknown , or whatever reason). Classical dancing grams to operatic arias, the result may it usually a guarded session last week, some At builds to a climax for its ending. be monotony, and their training In creatonsists of a num-e- r of Mr. Rockefellers top 50 policy makers There are comparatively few great inof stanzas set ing broad effects of vocalism, aided by on the politicial, industrial and labor J one repeated terpreters of art songs in each genera- sweeping gestures, is hardly conducive fronts actually asked Bob Douglas, one detail of minute is to a that because this the very tion, principally mastery telody. of his executive suite chaps, if Nelson difficult pltase of toe vocal art, with a makes a great recitalist. There are and An art song, on plans to pull out again. have been many outstanding exceptions, he other hand, represents the musical correspondingly limited number of sinThe answer, which did little to revive reciof course, but generally there is a dividA song etting of a text of known authorship by cere and qualified patrons. the of line and stars between 'el be must the Tout Miss as dispirited political ensemble, was such talist opera ing known composer. It is seldom stanzaic that the Governor is in for the duration, concert. able to turn each composition Into a mintt form- - and the music follows the words and that Dick Nixon does not have it of sceThe public demands an appealing hroughout, in a style the Germans call iature drama, without the help sewn up because only 15 per cent of the of any kind. ' vocal quality as well as dramatic versaaction or costume, The nery, accompanidurchkomponiert." 64 convention delegates will be repeaters in while an from ment Is often elaborate, and sometimes are the art artist facial of Variations song, expression tility this year ir Miami. interpreter of popular folk music can get erhaps as important as the melody or prrmissable, and perhaps an occasional with an he words (Schuberts Tie Erl King). the almost otherwise But That only appealing personsinger by gesture. figure is a little too low. Actually text. the and enunciation of a clear of It on the will ality run about 20 per cen, according to is expressiveness art all depends entirely model generalfor song Tie one who has counted virtually every nose in every state. The highest the repeaters have run in recent history was 26 by Brickman the small society per cent when Dwight Eisenhower was in complete control of a unified party. Furthermore, some of Mr. Rockefellers experts point out that since Barry NAME 0NeTHiNG Goldwater ran for president, 46 of the 50 Well... PioTS HAVE Republican state chairmen have been reWBIVbO placed. They are not necessarily all FDR P&oPLb "THEM FpoA Rockefeller liberals, but neither are they another Perhaps definition of the Bya-bark- ir VICTOR RIISCL Even The Accompanist Is Important By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor over-flight- over-fiys,- HENRY HAZLITT . demon- ir 2 Mayl. Today Dyabarkir still is outfitted and operating as a potential strategic air command bomber base, if the need should arise to send U.S. bombers over that" part of the world. And it seems to take on even more significance, perhaps as a major U.S. insurveillance base, now that telligence the government of Pakistan has advised the United States that its leae of the Peshawar base, due to expire July 1, 1969, will not be renewed. Dyabarkir, a city of about 175,000, also is likely to be given a new role that, of a tracking station for American detective satellites already circling the earth on a regular beat to look down with their cameras on strategic installations of other nations and flash photos back to U.S. earth receivers. The great difference between Dyabarkir today and yesterday is this: The U.S. base acquired from the Turks 'after World War II during the omet.of the cold war no longer can be used as a site from which U.S. reconnaissance planes over-flterritory of the Soviet Union. The Turkish landlord In May, 1966, told die United States It could continue to operate the Dyabarkir base, but not as a catapult for flights over Russia in aircraft like the one Powers was piloting May 1, 1960, when he was shot down over Blue Monday Despite the millions spent on the base, the living was pretty By HARRV JONES rugged. Most of the personnel lived in Politics for a blue Monday. trailers, and there were few hangars, except for repairs, so the base would not Did ou see the Governor's official be too conspicuous from the air. car the other afternoon? His very own V, hile the CIA called the shots, the Atr state auto with its Highway Patrol chaufForce commanded the U-- squadron of feur and its CAL-license plate, had a single-je- t engine planes with their outsize ROCKE FELLOW big bumper sticker some wings and what pilots called on the rear bumper. jpt performance. It was the day that toe Rock was in A former Dyabarkir pilot who not only flew missions over Russia, from the town on a speaking engagement up on Tuikish base but instructed other pilots the university bill. So it could hae been a sneaky freshman. They cant all be for as well, says the U-- was the sweetest plane ever and simple to operate." It Bol.hy Kennedy. hrd the highest - resolution cameras, Or maybe the Governor figured anyspecifically equipped to shoot pictures of one from as far away as New York had Russian military installations from altto be a tourist. And you know how our itudes as high as 70,000 feet. Cal rolls out the carpet for tourists. The U-- was built by Lockheed in its Or maybe you have seen the bumper famed skunk works" and designed by stickers which say . , . transplant J. D. L. Lockheed vice president Clarence Williams heart to toe Senate. Doesn't (Kelly) Johnson. It still is being built, some ad man realwith modifications, in the same plant ize that toe majorwhere the phenomenal super - fighter ity of heart transYF-1and was the bomber, designed plant are unsucput together before It was rejected by cessful? Or, as the the Pentagon a few years back. medics put it The s usual mission from Dyabar- the operation was kir was to fly across Russian territory, a success, but the over specified pictorial targets, then land patient died of comat Bodo, Norway. The return trip was plications. another reconnaissance mission, usually If doctors operover different Soviet territory. Most of ated like some of s were from 2,500 our Mr Jones the Russian politicians, to 2,800 miles, depending on the mission. they would try to transplant appendix! About trie only man I know who is Despite continuted U.S. A'r Force-CIsure to win is State Sen. Lamar Buckner operations at Dyabarkir, this country relations with Turkey have been deterio- from up Ogden way. He is unopposed. He was supposed to have someone run rating since 1962. The U-- 2 base at logically was cut back after Presiagainst him from the Democratic Party dent Eisenhowers 1960 edict that there or was it the Procrastination Party? of Russian would be no more over-fiy- s Lamars opponent waited until toe territory. last minute to file and then got caught in The usefulness of the base naturally traffic missed the deadline! diminished after Powers was shot down It must be toe first time on record and President Eisenhower announced no that a politician got in a jam before he " one more Russian pilot recalls. But it still retained its value as filed for office! It was Sen. Buckner who was National a potentially important SAC base. President of the Junior Chamber of ComlatDefense the Despite Departments merce back longer than both he and I est word that Dyabarkir still is operating hate to admit. for as it did eight years ago except the Turkish governSoviet over-fiy- s He traveled extensively as national ment in 1966 rule Turkey never again president and visited many places. On could be used as a U-- base. That was time he happened to visit a certain fir. xtut a year after the Turkish governlbert factory that catered to the more ment began to swing over to Russia and severe cases people who thought they participate, for example, in Turkish-Sovie- t were Napoleon, King George, Uncle Sam. industrial fairs. It was the climax The ones who think they are Unde Sam of a leftist movement in Turkish governthrow money away, ment which really started back in 1962, But you know toe bit. when the United States promised Turkey two overage destroyers. But, after a Anyway, toe boys were being taken hassle in Congress, only one was deliv- for a bus ride on a summer day as Lamar toured the facility. It so happened ered. that he was standing by watching while What about the U-- pilot whose plane the boys were loading onto the bus. got in the sights of a Russian SAM? Powers works as a test pilot at Burbank, Come along, said the man In a Calif., for Lockheed. Since toe big shootwhite suit. out over Russia, his imprisonment and You dont understand, said Lamar, subsequent release in exchange for Soviet Im toe national president of toe master spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, Pow! ers divorced his first wife, remarried Jaycees ar.d lives in Verdugo Hills with two chilYa, I know, answered the man. dren, one by his second wife's former "Get on the bus! ' marriage. , Then the guard turned to the bus driver.- Thats a new one around here . . . president of the Jaycees ! Da-bark- Dyabaikir was headquarters for the famed U-- 2 spy piane that Powers flew on a course that changed history. But on April 27, 1360, Powers was forced to take off instead from Adana, Turkey, because ot a shift in prevailing winds. He flew to Peshawar, Pakistan, and on to disaster on A Slightly 2 River Valley is indisputable evidence of this policy. The U.S. Defense Department says that Dyabaikir today, as it was during the hottest crises of the cold war with the Soviet Union, still is a jumping-of- f place for many of this nations aerial reconnaissance activities. A15 Politics On bombers. below NEWS Monday, June 3, 1968 Such a Turkish base would have made s it possible for and the earliei B 36 Lombois to fly their missions and return to base, if it had been necessary. But the peripheral SAC base ' never got any stM mnfTifnriiiniiriifimirt DESERET For Spy Planes Jump-Of- f O r I'yajHi'ii all bound to Dick Nixon. After the breakup of the soothe-in- , some of Mr, Rockefeller's most intimate associates talked of his disastrous about-fac- e some months ago when he decided not to run. They explained it was mostly prompted by his deep friendship for Lyndon Johnson. Few realize how close they are and fiave been ever since 1965. It was on Jan. 19 of that year, the eve of the inaugura-tion- ,. that an effervescent Lyndon Johnsoh swept into the Governors reception et the Sheraton. He moved almost hydraulically towards the box of Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, embraced top Governor and then with the noisy gaiety of the basement hall drowning out his words, thanked Nelson for his help in 'the campaign. Mr. Rockefeller had not backed Barry Goldwater that season. Then they talked for five minutes five minutes more than any other governor got. And there still is another untold story of that era. President Johnson offered the New York Governor a post which would have put him in a world role, but Mr. Rockefeller thought hed sit it out in Albany instead where he could pick up some rational options inside his own pany. a toe town "dumyoung man coming up and saying how dum, kept stupid the candidate was. It was embarrassing to the chairman of the event, who made things a little worse by saying, Dont pay any attention. He doesnt know what he is talking about. All he ever does is repeat things he hears! Wito End: The more I hear about the first show of The Doors toe other Saturday night, the more I urge you to try and MISS them next time around! 4iiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii':iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiunuiiiN BIG TALK s ; "i came and went and The as his insiders call him out of his on a slow bus. hearing, is on the trail He still believes he can scoop up the nomination, especially if he can swing the Ohio delegation, among others. So he eschews public imagery for private pet suasion, avoids meeting with Negro leaders, with ethnic spokesmen or with the scores of labor leaders who are ready to declare for him. Labor, too, is being asked to cool it On Monday, May 13, the Governor's self-- . labor advisor, Viceffacing, tor Borella, invited a handful of labor strategists to a quiet dinner in a private So history Rock, n dining room of the Tower Suite. Mr. Rockefellers labor strength was analyzed. It is strong, indeed. It would be powerful if Bob Kennedy were nominated. But their rending is a Hubert Humphrey ictuty at the Democratic convention. Mr. Johnson would see to that. However, even if it is Mr. Humphrey, a considerable number of important labor leaders will opt for Mr. Rockefeller if he is the GOP candidate. "If Kennedy passes out campaign buttons, will they be Bobby Pins?" From photo lateen Ov Lionet v. McNaery for tti Dtnerof Nows' popular daily Baby Birthday feature |
