America (CV 66) - Naval Cruise Book

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but undercurrents told of discontent and hinted at Change . . .

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K- Y -I ,-- W T . . . changes whi hcreated strife' Rowland Evans and Robert Novak U .S, The Homeless Sixth Fleet As the U. S. aircraft carrier America pproached the Greek har55r of thodes on May 24 ready for overdue hore liberty, carefully planned polit- :al rioting ln the streets of Port City frevented anybody from coming a- hore-a painful and humiliating inci- .ent signifying the constraints, some elf-imposed, on U. S. power in the world today. The success of the rioters on Rhodes 1 denying shore leave for hundreds of ankee sailors has received no publici- 1. Nor are official spokesmen in either ie State Department or Defense De- artment anxious to talk about the ugly ttle affair. But it dramatizes this fact, oth depressing and dangerous: Lack I liberty ports in the Eastern Mediter- can ls making the powerful U.S. Sixth leet virtually homeless This condition epresses' morale, reduces reenllst- .ents and may eventually make that a a Soviet lake. Here is a classic case of how blunders Washington subtly undercut na- Jnal security throughout the world. tat a superpower's capital ships can ad no port forhrest stems from tragic isjudgments in the White House and ate Department and iron-headed ob- inacy In Congress. Overdue for liberty, the officers and en of the America were ready to de- rlr for the storied isle of Rhodes May -when they were halted by word of itlng in the streets. 'I'he Americas of- ers, easily seeing every move on ore with their binoculars, noted that e demonstrators were exuberant uths but that older men were stage- inaging the proceedings. hi fact, the riots were directed by An- aas Papandreou's left-wing party and e Communist faction for the overt rpose of keeping the America from iding. Government police were on nd but did nothing to stop the dem- strators, partly because the conserva- e government of Prime Minster Con- ntine Karamanlis does not feel ong enough to crack down on any- ng so popular as anti-American dis- bance. The inability of a U. S. carrier to land the ports of its once steadfast ally is 2 bitter fruit of the mistaken U. S. WY of intimate friendship with the mer Greek military dictatorship at cost of alienating the Greek people. 2 demonstration at Rhodes -.was the ation of the far left, but it was trly popular with Greek public opin- t lor is it politically possibletodat. W. carrier to visit Turkish per-is, Ig case, the senseless congressional .oi UL military aid to Turkey, result- NTI Qf 'lofi Vwi'i'-if-w- iw- - - . ..l.. .fi 1 V, 1,1 ' -, -jyK',51.i,L. and tolcraaion of li-to 'l'-gy. ' n of Cyprus. lSt0ry, Page gk ing from its invasion of Cyprus, has cooled previously warm relations with another ally in the Eastern Mediterra- nean. Adm. Frederick Turner, commander of the Sixth Fleet, has quietly proposed bringing his carriers into the Egyptian port of Alexandria. But here again dip- lomatic tangles intervene: The State Department says no. Nor do the diplo- mats want carrier visits to the Israeli port of Haifa. Although U.S. destroyers have recently visited both Alexandria and Haifa lgreeted by cheering crowds in both placesl, the State Department feels the Mideast situation too fragile for anything so noisily obtrusive as a carrier visit. Beirut, so long a haven for all Americans, hasbeen off limits ever 270 fro Beir itlio t 'nciden AS50ClBl8d PFESS 1 IRUT ... A small U.S. Navy vesse' evggia-te-d -about 270 Amegicaxe 535 other foreigners from the Le an-th 0 er' war yesterday in a .swii.t,. 511100 , .ip ation guarded by Palesuman guerrillas' its pas-senrgezns, -their baggage and 3 ,ew pets at a is-easid-e bathing club, than tram' ported them to the USS Spiegel Grove, W.aii,in,g three to five miles offishore, for a off without any sense of panic, said, since most were long-term: of Leba-non. : For some the evacuation. wasg of convenience. A German st, called lit her vacation, and H woman left for two weeks to a mot-her's funeral. Ain En-glirshman declined to -told he could-n't take his dog. - And others still preferred to il Joslin Cobb, a constil.t-inf: 1--1-'V since the Arablsraell war of 1967. 44.nour sail to Athens. l . h A q, I H Vw- ,,,., is A Week after the replllse at Rhodes, The evactration. -opg-r-asgtgipiigegegxtr 5315- 1 A I the America paldatwo-day liberty visit 105247 fyesleldafgl. glgents Said R Saw., - ' ' he Ce tral Medi- cessfully Wltllou In l ' . D- 'I' A to Taranto, Italy, in t n D mem issued m Was,hmgmn bt, lilllrtgllsalrl'SBl!1gr11lle1l'tSleaflBa3l?JIdI:2llxIll?llfl.?1Ilf Ford, wh0 liayed HD Mu l i I , an A I. N' ttxilrw' Dutghmen, unable to land for political beta?-1 am Q reasgns carrying grievous consecu- ences. The worst of the listmcnt, down to rate on the America. too many single four- 1 sidering the two-yeai for today's highly teci ' - , , permits only two year. ' .moe or Sn? V ice for enlisted men. Ti Hoiv'ffTi'1', The 55h Fleeffvail way to run a navy. D -Sh .inyilitafy S3518 Ollcia Nor is there any doub 'Mai Bfizsmi mllflfe 2,Z,f2,fS'aQvlf,?, magma the lai low morale on the Sixth was in cgamy. P Uwe' ,.,.g,,-,Q were not permitted to carnfl The Navy's official spokr UY13 f B-gm p,irp0Yl'Brm5y1- mt cg gyms .Or Weary-helniets. I , ute this to the protractet BE-ARUT K around Bel me for 3 Brmgh that fn swift. help was avail-a-ble lf 'ii fleet has been on alert be banon 2-Hd he egcave 'OVW andfhe mst lt awe l.o-new-e-r. some Jet fighters were ll Lebanese crisis the last ft UB bioclted xacuation Cflflghx be lv loiiicia on snort ale-rt -on the degli if But naval officers say pr. dg1ericaH9R5undali m u Amari- 0 Dan 'Cglgggf h2y0uC0u1,d' problem preceded civil wari metal Sal tout.. mixing fmt-Sh em' gf pm - . . ' ' tes. and stems from the unfriend. 0mnce Y09e people. as at theBl'l.l-H the he leafhedbQ19.beacllq?ell:n3llluevef!U 'i conditions ' th E t C ut 390 tdawn 1 t0 301 d l dtYY a of?-an tore take In e as eff' Il Awe-aemblelliaeide Nile nf buses an ?E'f,Olxm-,t Collfwand mfclifaenci to U.S. may carry our 2nd eveicucili from Lebanon if situation worsel From press dispatches WASHINGTON -- The State Depart- ment said Monday a second evacuation of Americans from Lebanon may be underta- ken if the situation there continues to dete- riorate. Although precise figures are not avail- able, it is believed that over a thousand Americans chose not to participate in Sun- tlmfs evacuation of 263 U.S. nationals from Beit ui to Athens aboard a Navy landing Clirllun Upstairs 7' Arwen? spokesman Frederick , QV ' ,V ef- Si-ii ui no immediate plans ill' q-I--I-3. 1 - i--1.0.4 1 E rl f'l-A-Jffltif? 1 I if Wi the situa- il ill Cleteriorates. we to assist the remaining Americans to leave Lebanon. Meanwhile, high winds on the Mediter- ranean Monday .pushed back the arrival time early Tuesday of a Navy assault ship ferrying 267 evacuees from Lebanon to Greece. .A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the time of arrival at the ancient port of Pi- raeus about six miles south oi Athens, was rescheduled for 9 am., nearly three hours later than previously announced' . ' Thats the only hitch so far, the spokesman said. Meteorological sources in Crete report- ed high north winds on the Mediterranean. which caused the delay :fl west to Greece from Belnl ' 4 The ship. the USS 59125, carrying 110 Af1flel'lcan5.' na and other foreign namzm transported from the a Sunday. i Related story OH Pk The spokesman, afterjnd sultations am0HE, U-S' Ida mats, said the ship WWW of Keratsini, 3 Gfeek mla 5 by American SYHPS as bout 9 a.m. i 3 Back in Beirut Msgs? Arab peacekeeping U0 ' if lContinwed UF PM