Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 169, Ed. 2 Monday, September 4, 1972 Page: 4 of 4
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highway in Iceland runs
between Reykjavik and
the American base at Ke-
miles
their families just don’t
bother going off the base,
which creates some mor-
ale problems.
Asked to
ment after those 45 years,
the detective was in
courtroom until 5 p.m.
Job Calls
the Icelanders have turned
it into a toll road with
only one tollgate so situat-
ed that basically it is only
traffic from the military
base that pays the tolls.
The toll gate used to be
a little closer to town but
then a new aluminum fac-
tory was built beyond it—
so the gate was moved
back a bit where the facto-
ry workers miss it but the
Americans still get caught.
Now, once again, Ice-
land’s year-old leftist coa-
lition government is
threatening to end its
agreement on the base and
boot the American mili-
tary out by the end of 1975.
As obviously easy as it is
for them to feel unloved
here, U.S. military and ci-
vilian authority don’t want
to go and are hopeful of
being able to renew the
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Bv Raymond R. Coffey
REYKJAVIK, Iceland
(CDN)—Six nights a week
the 1,300 lowest ranking-*-flavik Airport 25
away.
The United States helped since the spectacular
pay for the highway but growth in Russian naval
power, an American mili-
tary spokesman says.
Also, he said, "We score
more intercepts” of Soviet
warplanes over the Ice-
land defense region than
any other NATO base.
If there was no base
here, he said, "We’d have
to stretch and spend a lot
more money.”
For example, he said, if
the airplanes based here
were moved to, say, Scot-
land, "We’d have to settle
for less coverage of the
Iceland area or have more
airplanes” because the
greater distance would
mean less flight time over
the ocean around Iceland.
The base agreement
dates from 1951 and origi-
nally Iceland allowed a
maximum of 6,600 Ameri-
cans to man it.
Over the years Iceland’s
sailors and airmen at the
American NATO base in
Iceland can be allowed out
on pass until 10 p.m.
But there is no liquor
sold in Iceland on Wednes-
days, which is a kind of
national sobering up day
in a country where drunk-
enness is a problem of vis-
ibly staggering p r o p o r-
tions.
So on Wednesdays the
Americans out on the town
are allowed on the streets
until midnight.
This rank - conscious
harassment of the Ameri-
cans was not invented,
though, by some brass hat.
It is imposed by Iceland,
whose policemen can also
personally search every
American leaving the
base, and it and other re-
strictions typify our host
ally’s whole attitude to-
ward the U.S. military
presence. .
Currently the only paved
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uncordial attitude has led the real estate occupied by
to the force being reduced
at present to about 3,300
men—Including 2,200 from
the Navy, 1,000 from the
Air Force, and tiny de-
tachments from the other
services. There also are
2,400 of their wives and
children.
What makes Iceland's
attitude particularly gall-
ing to the Americans is
that the Americans are the
only military defense force
this country has.
By its constitution Ice-
land doesn’t and can’t
have any army or navy of
its own. The Icelandic lan-
guage does not even in-
clude military-type words,
so that they had to invent
a word for "admiral” to
apply to the U.S. com-
mander here.
The only native "force”
in a country of 200,000 peo-
ple is about 200 unarmed
policemen and a "coast
guard” with five tiny pa-
trol boats.
Hence Iceland’s only
contribution to NATO is
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al foreign countries.
7,000 house-to-house in-
quiries in Potter’s Bar.
Taking the palm prints
of every factory worker in
town (about 2,000).
Their comparison with
the one on the murder
weapon and the few in po-
lice files.
Results were nil but
Hatherill simply spread
his net. He set about get-
ting palm prints of every
willing male in Potter’s
Bar (a good psychological
ploy since refusal to sub-
mit could arouse suspi-
cion).
Nearly 9,000 prints were
taken but comparison halt-
ed with the 4,604th print of
a local youth. It matched
the one on the iron pole.
The youth confessed and
eventually was detained
“during her m a j e s t y’s
pleasure,” a probable eu-
phemism for life.
In his 50 murder cases,
Hatherill writes, he won
first-degree convictions on
two-thirds of them, but
‘ ' six persons were
"You can’t go fishing
and golfing on the same
vacation," as one officer
put it.
The result, he said, is
Nurse Is Added that most Amer,cans and
By State School
Miss Barbara Bergevin,
who has 12 years teaching Asked to characterize
experience at colleges in relations between the peo-
ple of Iceland and the
Americans the officer said
"What they are mostly is
nonexistent.”
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of imprisonment may well
be no longer than they
might have got for the rob-
bery itself.”
During his tenure as CID
commander, Hatherill in-
troduced many anti-crime
innovations, including the
highly successful Flying
Squad, a picked body of
about 100 experts who can
handle just about anything
in criminality. Here are
some other Hatherillisms:
—On alibis: The suspect
claiming a cast-iron alibi
"is pretty certain to be
lying.” Few persons can
remember in minute de-
tails events of even three
days past.
—Interrogations: A few
moments of silence at the
outset usually won’t bother
a guilty person, but one
who’s innocent will usually
become flustered and in-
dignant.
—Types of killings:
"Murders that are deliber-
ately planned are much
the most fascinating to
deal with.”
—Confessions: "Aconfes-
and soon had police rou- hanged (before Britain s,on must not be regarded
abolished the death penal- as an end in itself ... in
ty except for a few other words, the confes-
crimes). s*on should supplement
Nevertheless, the detec- The Proof.” (Maybe a rea-
tive thinks that limiting 8on for Britain’s high con-
capital punishment was a vlctlon rate?)
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WASHINGTON (NNS) -
George Hatherill, for 10
years commander of Scot-
land Yard’s famed Crimi-
nal Investigation Depart-
ment, says:
never considered a
senior detective to be fully
Hooded until he had inves-
tigated a difficult murder
case.”
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some 50 murder cases dur-
ing his 45 years with Lon-
don’s Metropolitan Police.
He cites the Potter’s Bar
murder (April, 1955) to
Doister two other maxims:
A successful detective
needs persistence and
maybe "2 per cent luck.”
The Potter’s Bar case
began when the battered
body of a woman was
found on the small town’s
golf course. There were
signs of sexual molesta-
tion, and the murder
weapon, the 17th green’s
iron flag pole, was found
hear the body. It bore a
single palm print, the only
due.
. Hatherill was assigned only
tine the public seldom
hears about humming at
tbp speed. The checkouts
oyer the next 6’/2 months
might seem unbelievable
in a detective novel.
Writing "A Detective major mistake. He writes:
§ttory” (McGraw-Hill, "Since my days” (he re-
tired in September, 1964),
“a generation of young
criminals has come into
being who have little re- eriu probably would ac-
gard for life. They know if cept their verdict that "a
they’re caught and convict- policeman’s lot is not a
ed of murder in connection happy one.”
On the day of his retire-* College in Wilburton.
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base arrangement on a
modified basis.
The base has become
even more crucial to the
NATO defense system
YORKTOWN, Va. (AP)
— David Blagden, who
sailed his 19-foot sloop
across the Atlantic Ocean
in 52 days, arriving here
Sunday, will take the easy
way back — on a freighter.
Blagden, from England,
set sail June 17 in his
sloop "The Willing Grif-
fen,” the smallest boat
ever to compete in the sin-
gle-handed transatlantic
yacht race. He finished
10th out of 57 contestants.
While the small craft
had no trouble negotiating
thousands of miles of
ocean between England
and the United States, she
arrived at the weapons
station gate on the back of
a rented truck.
I’d planned to sail her
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the U.S. base.
Foreign Minister Einar
Agustsson has said he be-
lieves Iceland could still
fulfill its NATO “obliga-
tions” if there was ho base
but the Americans consid-
er that absurd.
Nor can the Icelanders
be unaware of the possible
consequences of being un-
defended.
Britian occupied the
place as a defensive move
in World War II and, as a
U.S. source put it, "The
Icelanders woke up one
morning in 1940 and found
50,000 British troops in the
street. It took all of an
hour and 45 minutes to es-
tablish the occupation.”
The Icelandic attitude is
rooted in an-'Intense na-
tional pride, a parochial-
ism that comes from the
isolation of their gloomy
and largely barren island,
and a fierce concern about
possible dilution of their
language and culture by
outsiders.
The U.S. military radio
and TV stations with their
English-language pro-
grams, for example, are a
source of constant irrita-
tion and a popular song in-
cluding the words "Coca-
Cola” was banned from
Icelandic Radio until
someone invented Icelan-
dic words to substitute.
In last year’s election
the government shifted
leftward and the local
Communist Party, the
"Labor Alliance," which
has 10 of the 60 seats in
parliament wound up with
two of the seven cabinet
posts.
In order to form a gov-
ernment others in the coa-
lition had to compromise
with Communist demands
to kick the Americans out.
The result was a pledge
to review the base agree-
ment with the aim of hav-
ing the Americans out by
the end of 1975.
Now the Communists in-
terpret this to mean the
Americans must certainly
go while their non-Commu-
nist cabinet colleagues in-
terpret it to mean only
that the issue must be
studied.
So far the government
has not taken any action
on the issue, being too
preoccupied with extend-
ing Its territorial water
limits to 50 miles and kick-
ing out British fishermen.
But Foreign Minister
Agustsson was asked if
this meant that "When you
finish with the British you
will start on the Ameri-
cans.”
"Yes,” he replied,
though he is not a Commu-
nist and personally takes a
moderate view of the base.
It should be possible, he
said, for Iceland to meet
its commitments to its
NATO allies “without hav-
ing a foreign defense force
in Iceland forever.”
The Americans feel they
have to maintain at least
their present strength. The
base’s squadron of F102
fighters has averaged
about 180 "intercepts"—
going up to meet and pho-
tograph them—of Russian
warplanes a year for the
last five years.
The results of monitor-
ing R u s s i a n submarine
traffic are classified but
obviously the Americans
consider the submarine
situation even more impor-
tant than the airplanes.
Meanwhile the Ameri-
cans go on living with
the restrictions — being
searched at the gate, being
able to take only two
packs of cigarets off the
base, one of which must be
opened, only two rolls of
film, one of which must be
open and in a camera.
The most stringent regu-
lations apply only to the
lower ranks—about one-
third of the total.
But even officers going
off for a short leave in Ice-
land can, for example,
"I’d planned to sail her leave base with only
down here," Blagden said, equipment for one sport.
"But I have to be back at
work in England next
Monday, so I didn’t have
time.
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