The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 5

THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN. Thursday, Dec. 29,: 5 Strike Throws a Ghost-Town Shroud Over the Divided City of Brussels AP correspondent Eddy. GUmore "Well, my friend, this is people and we've got a strike. But it's bad." front; of almost; ''every house.

But the ever tidy Belgians had packed it neatly into a divided nation. We are di By- Eddie Gil more BRUSSELS OP The London-Brussels plane had 56 vacant seats and when it ar The Lausanne restaurant across the cobblestoned street from the collegiate returned Wednesday from London to Brussels, wnere. ne had reported the mid-December wedding of King Baudouin and Dona Fabiola and later the beginnings of the. strike vided in our politics. Half "We're a nation of nine part is Hi because yo' can't iun restaurant in tit-dark." The record finished and the news1 came on oyer the radio.

In a flat, emotionless voice the announcer said of us are socialists and tho large paper Dags or cans. church of Saints Michael that has paralyzed Beljgium. what Gil more found on his million people and about 1,600,000 of -us belong to un-i other half aren't. The garbage collectors un rived the airport was quiet. The few- people about talked in whispers.

The parking lot and Gudule where King Bau- return was a dimmed out city, a divided nation, struggling ion was on full strike. Al 'Some of us are Catholics douin and Dona Fabiola against inertia. though it was nearlv noon. and some of us are ions. Half of us strike ana the other half doesn't.

You see what I mean it's bad that an electric train had were married 13 days ago there were' very few people "It is seriousv" he replied, corded voice on sing 'Some of us the ma looked as if it were closed. just left strike-hit Charleroi. wctj empiy out ior six private cars and two taxis. There weren't many cars on the; roads. on ine streets.

'It's the strike. ing "Mack the Knife, jority of us I think want a king and some of the others said: "There were Inside the restaurant, how As the taxi entered the yet in a way it isn't bad enough, if you know what I mean." Some customers frowned "But come on," she said, ever, there was life. The At trie city limits, one Ella's lusty voice Was a bit three passengers aboard-guarded by two soldiers." "we're not striking. Are. we, ant a republic.

He pulled at his beer place wasn't full, but about 'Why is your place so downtown section, it was a bit like going into a ghost city. The long, long rows of stores presented dead and Cheri?" realized that something had happened to Brussels. Garage was deposited in dark today?" he was asked. 20 customers were eating Some of us belong to one The patron shrugged his boulders and rolled his like a laugh at a wake before the first drink is handed around. "It's bad.

this strike." said Cheri managed a faint luncn, mosuy silence. kind of union and that union 'm a halfway man too." eplied. "The front half mile. She walked over tc large sad eyes. Cheri," said a girl to a 'lifeless windows.

"No lights," said the driv Well," commenten a cus curly-haired boy friend. "I an American-made juke box, dropped a coin, and it is striking. Some of us belong to another kind of union and that union hates the strike. The Belgians we're tomer, 'it's Detter man no the long-faced patron. "It's too much and yet it's not; enough." er, "the shops have been asked to help conserve elee-J don't like this.

Why does everypne have to be so of the place- is dark because I don't want someone throwing a stone through my window and the back clanked like a gong. a in at all. Related News on Page 1 Then Ella Fitzgerald's re- good lot, we re a halfway explain, please. Navy Witness Places Blame Onto Firemen Buy ft at ISTEW YORK HV-A navy witness testified Wednesday mat a aeaoiy tire aboard the aircraft carrier Constella tion could have been put out: in minutes nad not city iiremen interfered. John F.

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i Charges Disputed His testimony was given before a naval court of in- quiry investigating the December 19 fire that cost the lives of 49 workmen and caused $75 million damage to carrier. Rutledge also disputed charges of untidy housekeep-' ing aboard the carrier and! saki oity firemen lo lnck cx-poricncc in ship firo.s. Tuesday city fire commls-! sinner Kriwarrt Cm-anagh jr. le.t ified the ship was in such condition he would have "ordered work stopped and the premises cleaned hat! it been -a civilian proj-i Flights by Jets Being Resumed ST. PAUL.

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