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Mews day LATEST NEWS AND PICTURES SATURDAY JANUARY 22 IMS Radiation Reported at Crash Site 2Ktg 5 I wgmi LPI RadwphoW Combined News Services Almcria Spanish doctors checking police and others working around the wreckage of an American bomber were quoted last night as saying they found traces of contamination among some of them Spanish sources described this as slight traces of radioactivity No confirmation' of these reports could be obtained cither here or in Madrid from Spanish or US sources But local officials said the doctors had been drought in bv the Spanish Nuclear Energy Board to check those who might have touched or handled wreckage from the bomlicr which according to Air Force officials carried unarmed nuclear devices In nearby Cuevas de Almanzora meanwhile more than 50 angry villagers demonstrated in the town square last night as the search for the missing devices in the B-52 bomber moved into its fourth day The villagers paraded through the square shouting with the US and its go and grf awav and take vour bomb with They dispersed peacefully after about 30 minutes Officials in the crash area theorized that one of several nuclear devices picked up from the wreckage in the sand dunes hereabouts had broken open enough to let a minimum amount of radioactivity escape Spanish sources said these devices had been flown to the US 16th Air Force headquarters at Torrejon near Madrid Mayors of the Spanish villages of Garrucha Cuevas de Almanzora and Ycra appealed to all persons who may have touched or picked up pieces of wreckage to submit their clothing to medical teams for examination Some of the estimated 1000 Spanish and US military men who had been searching a cordoncd-off area hnc for the still missing nuclear device were switched to a new coastal base at Carrucha Many believed the missing device had fallen into the sea and preparations apparently were living made to expand an underwater search Spanish officials prohibited two chartered planes bringing foreign newsmen from landing at the Spanish Air Force Base of San Javier for the search Both planes were told to land at a commercial field 'The US Air Force which has admitted the plane was carrying nuclear weapons steadfastly refused to confirm or deny persistent reports that the huge search was for one such nuclear device still missing in the crash of the Strategic Air Command bomber Infoimcd sources said four nuclear bombs were aboard the bomber vhen it collided in the air with a KC-135 jet tanker during a refueling operation and crashed near Falomares in the southeast of Spain Monday They said three devices had been recovered but that a fourth was still missing The transfer of equipment to the beach area represented a cltange of headquarters' for the search over the rugged arid bills about 95 miles southeast of Granada Air Force officials said the reason for the move was to avoid damage from flooding in the event of rain The official Spanish meteorological service forecast cloudiness and warm for the area No rain was forecast US Airmen Search Near Palomares in Spain for Lost A-Dcvice pwm s-v rr ijfMSVEJWiasnBgra Spain Tells NATO: End Gibraltar Overflights restrictions imposed by the Spanish on travel to Spain from Gibraltar A responsible Spanish source said: "The fact is that Spain is not disposed to longer tolerate the risks or consequences of a base included in an international military organization to which Spain itself docs not But he insisted the move was not intended to force admission into NATO adding: country has never solicited admission nor do we desire Another official source contrasting use of Gibraltar as a NATO base with defense pact with the US said: "A US bomber with nuclear armaments aboard fell Tn Spanish soil earlier this week This is a risk which Spain accepted freely in return for various benefits when it signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States But in the case of Gibraltar we have all the risks and none of the Madrid (AP) Spain projected its dispute with Britain over possession of Gibraltar into 'the North Atlantic Treaty Organization yesterday The foreign ministry notified -the en-oys of all NATO nations that because of "the risks and consequences to Spain of using Gibraltar as a NATO their planes will no longer be able to fly over Spanish soil to or frotf the big rock on southern door step Spain is not a member of NATO The US was included in the ban but officials here said they did not think it would affect US air bases in Spain Ihese bases fall under the terms of a special treaty' between the two nations In London British officials said this was another move by Spain to get sovereignty over Gibraltar They said it is no more likely to persuade Britain to negotiate than previous Rounding Out the News Around the World Compiled From News Dispatches Actor Herbert Marshall" Dies at 75 Herbert Marshall suave sophisticate of stage and screen died in Beverly 1 1 ills Calif today after 'more than half a century of playing English gentlemen and villains He was 75 Marshall whose Tight leg was amputated following a severe at his wound during World War I died African under the same sentence was a political move designed to embarrass the Rhodesian govern-' ment Under British law the orders make it illegal -for the Rhodesian government to carry out the death sentences Rail Man Doubts Strike Due A railroad spokesman said yesterday lie doubted that a major railroad strike might occur March 31 when a federal arbitration ruling expires under which jobs have been eliminated J-E Wolfe chief negotiator for the railroads expressed the doubts in a San Francisco Calif talk US Conducts Underground A-Test An underground nuclear test of low yield was conducted yesterday at the Atomic Energy Nevada test site the AEC announced in Washington In AFC terminology low yield means equivalent to 20000 tons of TNT or less The shot was the third announced this year Times Square to Lose Astor Hotel The once elegant Astor Hotel a Times Square landmark for 62 years will be razed to make way for the construction of a 10 story office building it was disclosed in Manhattan yesterday It will be the 33rd New York City hotel to dose since 1915 Peru Calls AS Talk on Reds Peru called yesterday for an extraordinary meet ing of the Council of the Organization of American States to denounce intervention in the American republics The council will meet Monday to hear the Peruvian' complaint A spokesman for Peru said in Washington that the request "is aimed precisely at the Soviet Cause of death was not immediately available He had been something of a recluse in recent years Queen Commutes 2d Death Sentence Queen Elizabeth II ordered in London last night tiie death sentence of a second Rhodesian African convicted of arson commuted to life in prison Earlier in the day the Rhodesian government charged the reprieve for another.