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' It has been estimated. that for every Vietnamese freedom fighter killed or: captured,.the U.S. expends $351,111. Since the figures include many who may be only civilians, the true ‘expenditure may be” as high as $500,000.
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THAT. WAS FOUR H-BOMBS STATE, DEPARTMENT CONFESSES
Forty-four days after that B-52 accident over Spain, the State Department officially confessed that it was four H-bombs that fell. And while their power was not specified, the experts concluded they were. the giant 20-megaton jobs. ©
The State Department also officially confessed in its March 2 communiqué that two of. the H-bombs really blew open on the way down. Up to now rumor had it that only one of the H-bombs had opened up, splitting its casing upon impact.
Conventional explosives, according to the statement, were touched off. These broke the two H-bombs and scattered the plutonium triggers. over the Palomares. farming area. Plutonium, used to set off a hydrogen fusion reaction, is one of the most deadly poisons known. to man. a , : .
However, it was all safe enough, said ‘the State Department... First of all, the plutonium would not explode unless the conventional explosives were set off simultaneously, and this could not occur accidentally. Proof of this was that the two H~bombs that were dropped accidentally, and in which conventional explosives exploded accidentally, did not end in H—bomb explosions. ,,..
. _ Moreover, the plutérium, scattered ‘over the Spanish countryside caused no harm, radiological surveys in the Palomares area showing "no evidence of a health hazard." |
Furthermore, scientific experts "say there is no hazard in eating vegetables marketed from the area, from eating the meat or fish or drinking the milk of animals."
“And on. top of. ‘this, the Atomic Enerey Commission is shipping 1,500 tons of radioactive contaminated top soil and vegetation [tomatoes that is?] back to the United States for burial at its. Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina.
‘Of course, “it. may still be wondered just how frank and honest the State Department is in its confession. For instance, Agence France Press reported March 2 Lin Le Monde March 3] that the amount of radioactive contaminated soil being shipped,out of Spain to the United States amounts to 6,000 tons. And the.State Départment said” nothing about. the Spanish architect, reported by Le_ Monde . to be) undergoing | treatment for radioactive burns. ©
Just to show how heal thy it now is cat Palomares, the American ambassador in Spain, Angier Biddle Duke, and the Spanish Minister of Information, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, are going to go in swimming at the beach dressed only in bathing trunks.
Brave men! Two American pocket submarines are still combing the sea..bottom nearby hunting for the H-bomb that is still unaccounted for.
TOKYO CONFERENCE SCHEDULED AGAINST WAR IN VIETNAM
~The Japan Socialist party announced February 20 that it-will sponsor an Asian People's Conference in