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MONDAY. MAY 18. 1959
HERALD AND NEWS.' KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Iran May Yet Be Able
To Keep Reds At Bay
TEHRAN. Iran AP-A David
and Goliath bailie of nerves rages
in the Middle East today between
Iran and world Communism. A
dangerous period lies ahead, but
Jran seems to have a better than
even chance of keeping its gianl
Soviet neighbor at bay.
Backed by massive United
Stales economic and military sup
port, Iran is stronger now than
at any time since the cold war be
gan. A tour of the Kurdish area in
the northwest tends to ease fears
that the Soviets might try to use
it as a corridor to Communist-influenced
Iraq. The Kurds in the
area are bitterly anti-Communist.
Inside the country the Commu
nist Tudeh Party, although one of
the strongest organized political
forces, seems to have been crip
pled. Many of its members have
fled the country. Others have been
disillusioned with Moscow. The
party now seems to have little
real hold on any substantial seg
ment of the population.
Neighboring Iraq's drift toward
Communism is considered by
many in Iran to be a greater
problem than that of Moscow
pressure itself.
With the Iraqi revolution last
July. Moscow apparently decided
the decisive moment had arrived
to break the Baghdad Pact and
the West's northern tier linking
Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan
In a defense chain.
: The Soviets made important
concessions to Iran. But when the
prospect arose of Iran's signing a
bilateral defense agreement with
the United States, the Soviets
rolled out their big propaganda
guns for a heavy attack on Mo
hammed Reza Pahlevi.
Both honey and threats failed.
Iran signed the treaty, and Mos
cow's predictions of dire conse
quences failed to materialize.
Moscow suffered a loss of pres
tige. -
There's a strong feeling here
that the Soviet Union will not
move with force against Iran and
risk World War III. Instead the
Soviets seem to be pinning their
hopes on propaganda, spreading
rumors of internal Iranian trouble
and hoping to stir any sort of po
litical upheaval which could be ex
ploited or pave the way for an
attempt at a Tudeh comeback.
But if neighboring Iraq comes
under total domination by the
Communists, in fact if not in
name, there are a number of dan
gerous possibilities.
Iraq obviously could be a train
ing ground and transmission belt
for subversive elements and ex
iled Tudeh members.
There could be interference with
the Shatt Al Arab Waterway,
which leads from Abadan site
of Iran's huge oil refinery to
the Persian Gulf. At present it's
the chief means of shipping Aba
dan's output and Iranian crude oil
to the outside world. Oil is the
backbone of Iran's economy.
Iraq administers the waterway.
Years of effort failed to get agree
ment to internationalize the con
trol, even when Iran was a part
ner of Iraq in the Baghdad Pact.
Alert to the danger, Iran is seek
ing to make herself independent
of the Shatt Al Arab. The govern
ment is talking about a pipeline
from Abadan to the gulf and
dock and harbor facilities.
Apart from external dangers.
there are real internal ones.
The shah has emerged as a
strong ruler. His determination
and drive are behind a vast net
work of hopeful programs under
way in Iran. But if anything
should happen to the ruler his
program might be crippled and
there also would be a strong pos
sibility ot internal political chaos.
However, the Shah seems confi
dent some think a bit overcon
fident of his security.
There is danger, too, that im
patience with waste and corrup
tion in Iran's political life will
boil over into internal trouble.
Along with Iran's spectacular pro
gram tor economic development
she needs social and political re
form to win the confidence of the
small educated class which has
proved itself so vastly important
m other developing countries.
The Shah has indicated changes
are on the way. Much will depend
on how quickly and how dramat
ically these reforms take shape.
Flower Fancier
Goes Overboard
HOLLYWOOD fAP) Erna Tan
ner wanted to plant some geran
iums on the 100-foot cliffside be
hind her Hollywood Hills home.
She ended up dangling over the
cliff.
She tied a rope to the bumper
of her car and let herself over
the cliff but the ground gave out
from under her halfway down.
She clutched the rop for 45
minutes until firemen rescued
her.
Missile Lead
Claimed For U.S.
TAMPA. Fla. (API Gen. Ran
dolph McC. Pate. Marine corps
commandant, said Friday night
that the United States is ahead of
the Soviet Union in over-all mili
tary strength.
He said this is the judgment of
the other members of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and of the Con
gress. Pate spoke at MacDill Air Force
Base at a dinner.
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Scienfsts' Effective Pitch Wins Support For Research
OUTSTANDING MUSICIAN of the 1959 graduating class
of McCloud High School is Sandra Miller, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Miller of McCloud. She received the John
Philip Sousa band award in its third annual presentation,
Cheula Post No. 92 American Legion makes the award each
year at the school Spring Music Festival. If was presented by
Robert Martin, commander. Photo by Ray Kite
ni'ELlST
While attending the University of
Goettinger. Otto von Bismarck.
German statesman, took, part in 2B
duels and lost only one, according
to Encyclopedia Britannica.
WASHINGTON' AP'-Ncw ven
I hits behind the curtain ot the
future can be counted on to be
I surprising lantastic and ex
pensive.
That's the word today from a
Grandmother, 71,
Smashes Carrier
GKOItGE All! FORCE BASK.
Calil. I APi A .71-year-old greai
grandmother who is afraid to
drive a car has broken the sound
barrier twice.
Mrs. Zaridic Bunker climbed out
of an FliiOF Super Sabre Jet Sat
urday and announced "it was the
greatest ride 1 ever had in mv
life."
The plane, named "Zaddie's
Rockin' Chair." had just flown
nearly 800 miles an hour in level
IliKht at 3ii.ono teet. Then in a
due from 40.0(10 to 15.000 feet, it
exceeded the speed of sound again.
"I didn't even realize it." said
Mrs. Kunker, of Palm Springs.
Calif. "I'm ready to go again right
now."
The plane was piloted by Lt.
Col. Rnhinson Risner. 34, Okla
homa City, as part of an Armed
Forces Day celehration.
team of physicists who have been
putting together some notes on the
mysteries of the universe.
They are keenly interested, in
particular, in what might come
Iran A Proposed Federal Pro
gram in Support of High Energy
Accelerator Physics.
Don't let th.it imposing title
throw you. These scientists., in
H.ooo words of material issued by
the White House during the week
end, use language that every once
in a while verges on simple elo
quence. For example, in a discussion of
how man's mind has been able to
comprehend more and more, step
by step in patient research:
"We are peeling an onion layer
hy layer, each layer uncovering
in a sense another universe, un
expected, complicated, and as
we understand more strangely
beautiful."
Basically, these men are seek
ing more federal money for par
ticle accelerators, or atom smash-
RV OTHER NAMES
In the southern coastal states,
a "gopher" is a "tortoise:" in the
prairie slates, it is one of several
striped "ground squirrels;" else
where, it is a "snake."
Over the next four years, by
13, they want the government
to raise from 59 million dollars to
135 millions the amount it spends
each year on atom smashers.
Kvcn before their report was
made public. President Eisenhow
er backed one of the detailed proj
ects they suggested. In a New
York speech last week, he said he
would ask Congress to finance a
100 million dollar project proposed
hy Stanford University. It is a
linear accelerator two miles long.
and would be the most powerful
of its kind in the world.
with larger accelerators cannot b
guessed.
"if the past Is a guide they will
be numerous and fantastic.
"The one thing that we have
learned to expect from nature is
to be surprised."
They made no promises of spe
cific discoveries for the future, but
commented "examples from the
past are countless."
Almost diffidently, they brought
up the matter of cost:
"Experimentation in high ener
gy physics requires expensive de-
he proposal came from twoliho Hosii-orf nr. .1.,:,,. i-.
struments to measure and control
parucics traveling at speeds ap-
proacning tne velocity of
groups of scientists, one a special
panel from Eisenhower's Science
Advisory Committee, and the oth
er the General Advisory Commit
tee to the Atomic Energy Com
mission. They made a tantalizing sales
pitch:
"The practical results that must
derive from continued exploration
light.
and large numbers of scientific
and technical personnel.
"Thus, not only the construction
of these high energy accelerators,
but also their utilization require
the expenditures of large sums of
money."
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