The Sunday Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 14, 1978 Page: 5 of 56
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THE SUNDAY CONSTITUTION, May 14, 1978 5A
Japanese Officials Remain Committed
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Close Contest Appears
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Career Of Bette Davis
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WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY
May the Lord
Bless rev real geod
The program began with an hour of
vintage Davis the down South tempt
ress in "Cabin in the Cotton" ("Ah d
love to kiss ya. but Ah jest washed mah
hair "). the sensuous Mildred in "Of
Human Bondage," the double ciga-
rettes with Paul Henreid in Now Voy
Asia on a diplomatic mission The cap-
tain. Mad Jack Percival, decided while
he was there to try to rescue a French
bishop being held captive in Danang
"He sank a Vietnamese ship and got
a bunch of men shot up, but wound up
fleeing the harbor under full sail —
without the bishop Here's the entry for
that day. May 26, I found in the diary
of one of the men aboard a Lt John B
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pitch and listens to the music of the
water lapping against oak
When the wind blows she moves at
her mooring She's alive "
At times he gathers up his paper-
work in his office ashore and takes it to
the captain's quarters aboard ship "I
use a ballpoint pen instead of a goose
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Re
public (.API — Pro American President
Joaquin Balaguer, seeking a third con
secutive term in Tuesday's election,
faces a challenge from the party whose
ouster from power in 1963 led to a
bloody civil war and U S military in
tervention
Chief opposition tn the 70-year old
president a bid for four more years in
office comes from Antonio Silvestre
Guzman. 67. backed by the left-of-
center Dominican Revolutionary Party
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The PRD, whose leaders say it has
retreated from old radical positions
and presents no threat to U S inter-
as tv was founded by former President
Juan Bosch He was an outspoken critic
nf American influence in this Carib-
bean island nation which was run by a
US military governor from 1916 to
1924 Bosch was elected in February
1963 and was overthrown seven months
later in a military coup
title to 1% acres on what now is ached
uled to be a second runway
"At last I thought I was no longer a
tenant, and then less than 20 years
later the government comes and says I
should give my land back," he com
plains
Atsuta is deputy action chief of the
By BOB THOM AS
Associated Press Writer
CELEBRATING JESUS. Ruth Carter Stapleton, the evangelist sis-
ter of President Carter, speaks to thousands of Christians Satur-
day jammed into Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands sports
complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The event was an all-
day rally of sermons and singing to celebrate Jesus.
(AP Laserphoto)
Dale
It seems I must say. to have shown
a sad want of sound discretion in com
mencing an affair nf this kind without
carrying it through to a successful
issue’ "
in his folder, above the account of the
incident, Cmdr Martin has written a
title
"The First Time "
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merely by admitting, "I was 70 two
weeks ago
The questioners seemed to know the
entire Davis saga including nuances of
her performances Among her replies
"How do I prepare (or a role? I re-
member the advice of Chude Rains 'I
learn the lines and pray to ied .
"Rams is the actor who most im
pressed me professionally The one
actor I always wanted to work with and
didn't was Charles Laughton I think
we could have played the two meanest
people tn the world
"I could never be a director rd be
impossible I’d want to get in there and
do it myself . .
"My favorite woman to work with
was Mary Astor in The Great Ue ' 1
fought for her and they finally gave
her the role And she did her own piano
playing
"No. I did not have a feud with Joan
( rawford on Baby Jane Whenever
two expert equal stature and equal Ion
gevity act together, people expect trou-
blc she was an utter professional And
she suggested putting up a huge sign:
Sorry but we re getting along fine’
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By JULES LOH
AP Special Correspondent
BOSTON (AP) — Next month Tyrone
Usually something no one wants yet every one
gives But qood advice is priceles Especially
when it concerna your future. Your Woodmen rep-
resentative can advise you on the right imsurence
proqram — just as he has so many of your ne gh
bor Ask him
We wish to toka this moons to express our deepest
sense of appreciation to oil the kind friends who by
words of sympathy and deeds of kindness helped
lighten our burden of grief in the loss of our beloved
husband. We wish to especially thank leverend IK
Jones for the lovely service and comfort We feel espe
cially grateful for the beautiful floral tributes and
many thanks
The Nathaniel Shaw Family
hansthaeprtheanlyeKovternment predie Commander Due Retirement
ARGENTINE MEAT
BUENOS AIRES (AP) - Argentina
exported tons of beef during
1177, up 19 percent from the previous
year, according to the Ministry of
Economy Dollar value of the year's
exports totaled $895,803,000
first they didn’t see the fight as
' Belle Davis. in
actress opened a
PASADENA, Calif (AP) - Having
played other characters in 87 movies,
she now performs another role she
Happy
Mother's Day
■ to the
wonderful mothers
. of Comanche County.
NARITA, Japan (AP) — Tokyo’s new
international airport a 2 900 acre ex
panse 11 miles north of the city, is an
idea whose time had crime seven years
ag<> and which still is struggling to ar-
rive
The often deferred opening is now set
for May 21, and the Japanese govern
ment has grimly pledged to go through
with it If thia sounds more like the re
lief of an embattled fortress than an
occasion for bunting, ceremony, and
beady rhetoric. It flu the realities
Narita isn't just a $2 8 billion airport
badly needed because the old Tokyo
Bay field is overcrowded It is an ideol-
ogical issue a cause of strident opposi
ton that has cost five lives, much
treasure, and much loss of face for the
government
Rows of not police guard the pertme-
ter Entry points are fortified with bar
ricades, and fences and barbed wire
loom at strategic spots tn keep demon
strators in cheek
"Japan's international credibility is
at stake, says Yasuhiro Nakasone, a
leading official in the ruling Liberal
Democratic party
It is not a persuasive argument to the
koose alliance of farmers, students, left-
wing radicals and assorted dissidents
who have fought the airport through
the years the farmers at first because
they didn't want to yield their lands,
the radicals because they saw it as a
powerful anti establishment issue after
others, like the U S Japanese security
treaty and the Vietnam war, had
vanished
Four extreme left wing groups joined
the farmers holding out against Narita
The Chukakau, the Fourth Internation-
al. the Proletarian Youth League and
the Battle Flag. all dedicated to the vio-
lent overthrow nf capitalism
A leader of the "Chukakau," who
would not be identified, told a reporter
We first arrived here in 1968 and the
farmers have made us feel welcome At
The plan (or the new airport hit tur-
bulence as early as 1965 Farmers from
Tomisato Village, the first site for the
new airport refused tn give up their
land Original plans for an airport
somewhat larger than New York's John
F Kennedy had to be scaled down to
half The location was changed tn
struggle against imperialism, but
they’ve come to see our point of view ”
At Narita, some farmers now voice
left wing slogans and denounce the air-
port as a base from which U S bom-
bers could launch attacks
So far, the only attack involving the
airport was launched by radicals who
broke through police security March
26, got into the control tower, smashed
essential electronic gear, ransacked
files and forced the latest postpone,
ment — the 12th — in opening the field
Some critics blame the government
for letting the Narita affair get out of
hand over the years Officials didn’t
really try to explain things to the farm-
ers until opposition had hardened, they
say
"It's an example of what happens
when the bureaucracy doesn't get off
on the right foot," says Dr Shigeto
Tsuru, professor emeritus at Hitotsuba-
shi University
"No, I did not claw Errol Flynn's
face in Elizabeth and Essex' How
could I do anything to that beautiful
face Women all over America would
have hated me Besides, any cruel
thing I do is mental, not physical
"I'm not a lonely woman I have
three lovely children, and two lovely
grandchildren I m not lonely at all '
Miss Davis, whose autobiography
was titled The Lonely Life," ended
the program amid another standing
ovation and the words “Ah'd love to
kiss y'all, but Ah jest washed mah
hair."
"Dark Victory." "Beyond the Forest
("What a dump’"), "Whatever Hap-
pened to Baby Jane
Finally, the classic line from All
About Eve" Fasten your seat belts
it's gonna be a bumpy night "
She came onstage to a standing ova-
tion a petite woman in (lowing cherry
and white chiffon She was pleased at
the reception but impatient to begin
Taking a chair and a hand mike deco
rated with a nosegay, she remarked, 1
can't say 'What a dump’' because this
is such a beautiful auditorium " She
praised Pasadena as "the most beaut)
(ul city in California," then asked for
questions
For the next 90 minutes she prowled
the stage in the panther like Davis
walk. delighting the audience with her
frank answers She drew applause
diehard group He was arrested Feb 6 quill, but the desk ts the same " At
with five others inside a large tower times he even puts on his 1912 uniform
apparently built to block test flights on and goes to work
the runway The privilege of commanding the old-
Chairman Tomura of the Anti-Airport est ship of the line has enriched Cmdr
League stresses that "our campaign is Martin's sense of history, all right, but
not aimed at getting more compensa- no more than Cmdr Martin has
tion Neither do we seek alternate enriched America's appreciation of Old
lands This is a struggle against state Ironsides
Most nf the 1,000 landholders have
made their peace with the airport au-
thority. but the Anti Airport League
remains — an umbrella organization nf
about 20 diehard farm families, 1,000 or
more radicals, and thousands nf stu-
dents and labor unionists who commute
to Narita for demonstrations
As the government announced its deter-
mination to put Narita into service.
Issaku Tomura. chairman of the Anti
Airport League, threatened to step up
the violence
One policeman died from burns after
a gasoline bomb attack on a police box
near the airport last year Three other
not policemen were beaten to death in
1971 A demonstrator was killed last
year
Narita airport was conceived 16 years
ago with visions of rail links to the
capital by 125 mph trains and under
ground pipelines bringing in jet fuel
from nearby ports The government
correctly foresaw today's congestion at
Haneda airport where just under 500
flights arrive and depart each day
Some planes have to park a quarter of
a mile from rundown terminals
The outlook at Haneda appears to
co.
Southern California tour of her one-
woman show this past week and is
"getting reacquainted with the country
I visited for 25 to 30 years
Beckman Auditorium on Pasadena s
California Institute of Technology
campus was filled to capacity for open-
ing night, the majority being those who
had grown up on Davis movies in the
1930s and 1990s
Sanrizuka Village, where Emperor Martin will retire from the Navy, his
Hirohito owned a 1,300 acre ranch The name the latest inscribed on an exclu-
airport authority relocated two-thirds sive list
of the imperial pastureland to another As best I can tell he said I am
prefecture and used the property to the 57th person in command of the
build the only Narita runway completed USS Constitution The lack of rec
Sanrizuka’s farmers compare the for- fit out one of the vessel’s antique guns
able sale of land to build a public facil- so it could fire a salute to the Queen of
ity to the draft of the militaristic gov- England when she came aboard during
ernment dunng World War II the bicentennial celebration
"Ours is the best farmland in Ja- Twice daily that gun is still fired, at
pan,” the league says in its literature dawn and at dusk Every half hour the
"In a democracy, no government tells ship's brass bell marks the time
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OLD IRONSIDES Commander Tyrone Martin of the US Navy makes on entry in the ship's deck
log from the captain's quarters of his command, the U.S S Constitution, the oldest ship of the line
Mortin, who wears an 1812 uniform, has assembled all the lore he con find on Old Ironsides, in-
cluding the correspondence of some of the descendants of its crews (AP Laserphoto)
Three years after the creation of the hoisted The ship's crew stands watch
airport corporation in 1965, 1,000 farm- around the clock
ers still faced down the government “While Im her captain she s an ac-
surveyors, and at one point farmers tive ship, not a museum "
over 80 even formed a suicide squad to When he became captain, Martin be-
stop the surveyors We have lived gan assembling all the information, all
long enough they said "We are not the lore, he could find about the ship
“Jezebel." "The Letter,
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While far less farmland had to be ac all kinds about this ship is. well, dis-
quired at the new site, the farmers maying. I've spent the last four years
were no less militant Their hostility trying to fill in gaps "
has prevented a start on the two other in its 181 year history. Old Ironsides
runways might have had more battle-scarred
Many of the farmers in Sanrizuka captains at its helm, but surely it never
settled there after the American occu- had one more ardent in his feeling for
pation of Japan split up an 9,600 acre the ship than Tyrone Martin
imperial estate in a broad land reform At times he climbs down deep into
meant to help Japan's tenant farmers the bowels of the grand old frigate and
One farmer, Hajime Atsuta, received sits, alone in the quiet, and smells the
The military installed a civilian
triumvirate which governed until April
1965 when the civil war erupted The
United States blanketed the island with
42,000 troop* later incorporated in a
Pan American peace force that quelled
the fighting which killed about 2,000
persons The peacekeepers paved the
way for elections in June 1966 that saw
Balaguer, a former philosophy
professor and political moderate,
defeat Bosch for the presidency
Bosch, who split with the PRO in
1973 is one of six candidates in
Tuesday's presidential race But moat
observers see the campaign as a close
two-way contest between Balaguer.
chief of the moderate Reformist Party,
and Guzman, a landowner and former
vice-presidential candidate
The soft spoken Balaguer. a bache-
lor. has run this nation with an pater-
nalistic hand, building close ties with
the United States and focusing domes
tic policy on economic austerity, land
reform and national reconstruction
Gradually, the airport corporation nuscule in relation to the ship’s stand
managed to settle with the vast ing in the service and in the nation He
majority of farmers, but the hard core began corresponding with descendants
that remained gathered support from of persons who served on the ship with
the radicals and activists and sym- shipwrights who worked on it, mining
pathy from many ordinary citizens attics and musty files
After a while, protesting against His research grew Data not usually
Narita assumed a kind of legitimacy, found in libraries now fill a 4-inch thick
even respectability, and groups only folder
marginally affected joined in to make The search was never easy and some-
things tough for officials times ludicrous.
The rail link was abandoned because He asked a Navy records clerk. for
residents of Tokyo's Edogawa ward ob- example. for information on an officer
jected that the trains would be mere who served back in the 1800s "I can't
nuisance, they wouldn’t serve the resi- help you, sir." he was told, "unless you
dents and would interfere with TV re- can give me his Social Security num-
ception, they said ber "
Today the nearest rail link to the air- But determination paid off Consider
port is a $6 cab ride away Buses take one nugget alone
up to three hours to reach Narita from "Did you know he said teasingly.
a Tokyo terminal "that the U S S. Constitution once
The underground pipeline was scut- landed a force of Mannes at a place
tied when residents of Chiba City, near named Danang?"
Narita, protested that earthquakes Come, now, skipper
might cause explosions "It is true The place was called
Under the circumstances, some Japa Turon then. and later Tourane, but it is
nese are wondering how Narita got the same city as Danang Vietnam
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