the mechanical issue jeffrey thank you very much for your insights that was a.b.s. aviation expert geoffrey thomas there you're watching t.v. news coming up next our documentary wrotto in the role focusing on a spanish village and why the placement of a u.s. military base changes everything there i'm terry martin thanks watch. it's all happening much of it coming. to are linked to news from africa the world your links to exceptional stories and discussions to no one look up to the day of you suffocating program tonight from son jimmy was easy time i would say deputy comes africa join us on facebook t.w. .

yes it's all pretty common place in america. a comfortable home we live in a car park to put down. the pike mechanical got to. cool for every child has a right to expect out of your cage. satisfying recreation for every 5. americans you are. here that on a day to be a. woman every. time. i came from georgia my dad had a branch at apapa shop and i distilled into a major what we call back marketplace. taking years old i decided. just walking downtown and i saw a sign says sam wants you to put me in aviation council in aviation back

then i don't know but man you needed good grades passed along but we don't. the basic pass along this is that we have one road this is a dam on the beach so he gave me a chair. in order to notice. and that's why i have never said. on october 14th $1053.00 i went into the countryside with a bicycle and some cattle and i saw

a convoy of cars coming towards me. hey stand back get off the road. things were very authoritarian back then so i guess somebody important was coming to live in. the tapas on the i was working at my office in the castle. and suddenly i don't know. franco is here so i said sister what are you talking about franco yes she said franco is here. so we went up to the keep and there he was. franco was looking around and suddenly said could you please tell me where the salado reverse. and i said it was there behind those trees. ok ok he said and that was it he looked around a while and then said ok very well. from the left and everyone was wondering what he was looking for and why he had come to rota but we had already read in the newspapers that spain had signed

a treaty with the united states and what it was all about. is spain was not in any condition to negotiate and this would become obvious in the agreements it signed because they did the country a lot of damage. if. you're. looking. at a foreign country attack the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. to defend their life but listen if you have the most impressive firepower in the world and aircraft and atomic bombs because there were atom bombs here what are we going to defend for you. know i'm a live and then i was not there ok. right here then for you to.

have it then you'll not and that my father had a place on a plot of land near a computer. used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine there to sell every year my eyes were swollen from crying when they drove me off our land and i was 17 years old and i told us we had to go and we left the doors open and all our stuff there. and nearly killed me let me play him up out of me for that i mean for there was a huge upheaval and hit everyone hard and some people took their own lives hang themselves and so on but the most remarkable thing was that nobody realised there were alternatives that only came later be no they put. you know what we were big media i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when

i started surveying the area you know i was looking out my columns and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink to me like you. mean my friends used to catch mackerel for a living and. one day we were at. the 5 of us and a big guy came into the bar and said hey guys do you know where we can find some workers around here do you want to work so we started building the jetty and after we'd finished a dutch engineer i'd met asked me antonio do you want to join the navy. i didn't have any more work so i said i don't have any papers yet he said it doesn't matter

my uncle is the commander do you want to join. i said of course man who doesn't you know so i was assigned to a tanker shipping oil from to the warships and. this was during the draft saw the trash can yes. you weren't doing well in school you know there's a potential to be drafted there's a combination of nursing the girl for losing my job and talking to school so i said i have to do something and i don't want to go to vietnam so i was walking around downtown portland oregon and to recruiters at a place you know tolstoy office and the staff sergeant set up from his desk he

looked to be nice and you want to join the marine corps right son yes i sure do he said and you want to join for 4 years right and i said sure and it was one tunnel they kill over london england name course and here was very sure of spain are going to spain. so 2 times that i really. could not have to go to vietnam during the sixty's. army green. and. i came from the united states i was born in a small town of 5000 inhabitants in pennsylvania on. electronics was my hobby but my parents couldn't afford to send me to college so i enlisted in the navy. during the final training sessions into spanish air force sergeants told me just go to spain where there are

a lot of pretty girls there will be this by use by you which i'm happy bunny that much of bonita so i said ok then i'll go to spain lobby as luck would have it us where i was assigned to kano post a submarine support ship because i was a specialist in measuring equipment calibration and there was a laboratory on board to service the submarines are said. that. there were. main streets there grand isle. way downtown from the base and everything else we just think feels like. special because it was like background they remind me of. people only different and notice that when i went to town in back in america i would have always found a hamburger but over here i couldn't find a hamburger top look at all the seats i didn't say that it was very old fashioned if you can i prefer to just say that it was very different cultures the cars the

way people dressed the way the streets and buildings looked like they were all made from concrete and i came from pennsylvania where the houses were all timber and there were forests and things like that possible space ecosystem see. and they were about 10000 american soldiers and civilians in need that if you need to look at what it was he told her that i remember it like it was yesterday. we were kids playing in the street downtown and suddenly the jets flew over. we were all paralyzed by the noise what the hell was that. took place today is because they were small helicopters we called them little devils. my mother was outside doing the laundry as usual and fled into the house yelling i saw

a flying saucer. when the americans arrived they were 1st met with rejection mainly because some locals had lost their homes and land and were in a very difficult situation. and any kind of under iraqi when the americans arrived they didn't waste any time they threw coins and other stuff into the waiting crowd. almost all of us on the dock bent down and tried to grab something that you think is the better way. to get you on your arm those were difficult years in spain. it was the post-war period and there was a shortage of everything. so when we kids saw the americans in the street we asked them for money to set up a center. and they'd say. they'd give us coins are gone more candy or something because i could imagine that this was the tactic the

americans used to build good relations with the spanish people and what i mean. that was that more. than all right you buy all the horses so we can strike any target. that any. watching. through all of us here that wrote that the road to the base played a very important role in the cold war because it was on the atlantic and also very close to the entrance of the mediterranean that many there any silence. did you see the list of missiles suffering the most survivable in our nation's. palermo's nuclear submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers. still system from the

usa it would have been too far to retaliate if the soviet union attacked. stationing these submarines in rhode island and later in scotland made it possible . bush. i think it's may have there be considering it was a place where the ships could come in and a place where they could store whatever they want to store i don't know where they store their. weapons. have a good ear for us there's a place where they could do operations for. the

thing. they have a submarine tender there were stationed there. it's just like a a transitional place for europe for the minute training and they are. 100 troops out of young people find of climate here. growing good parents they do produce things which make life better in peacetime can be our greatest protection in time of war. the finish quickly became dependent on the military base it created new jobs in the hotel industry taxi business and leisure activities. so i got an ear when i became mayor and i worked to build good relations with the naval base. they were the ones who could help us and the spanish they hardly

supported us at all. at 1st the americans couldn't believe it they said your mayor you must make a lot of money but i didn't do it for money. other been a part of it i did it out of love for my hometown ties to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth. the

workers of the world folks. believe that. my father took me to see a movie there was a scene where a plumber went to a house to fix a pipe he turned up in a car and then i said to my father. did you see that the plumber with the car there's a feel my father said it was propaganda he really said we simply cannot comprehend the plumber could have a car long. time so 49060 wonderful new world. has this on a big car started appearing in town everyone believed that the americans were all

millionaires. to be going to. like. the signals the beginning of a new era. before the 1st manned moon shot like nasa brought the space capsule they would be using for the lunar journey here to test how it landed at sea. plane flew by and started dropping parachutists 14 or 15 of them carrying flashing lights sometimes 2 or 3 men went missing at sea because their lights and gone out. what could we do i took my boat out to sea and stopped the engine i could hear one calling there is yeah i did that several times one day they lost 5 men and i found all 5 of them can you imagine how it feels to be 7810 miles from the coast alone with

a parachute in the middle of the ocean it's incredible and then when they jumped into my boat they hugged and kissed me like it was their wedding day. that you guys are going to be. it was one of the little california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base and then we ended up in rhode spanking and i just remember getting off the plane and just hit by this wave of heat. it wasn't so much a culture shock for us at 1st because we were on the base and on the base we had all the amenities we were able to to stay on the base for the 1st few months that we were there and then we ended up moving off to school. when i got here in 1969 i remember we had a pet. donkey and her name was chiquita and she scared the hell out of us we had to do a mood test every morning with a banana see she was going to bite us. when getting off base was just how different

things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people too i think you didn't have nearly as much as this thing today but i i do think. that that's humility that i think i mean in people being so friendly and reaching out even though i don't have much what i have i will give you and then are made her name was it was anna like so many families that had the mayes. we kids grew up and sure if we felt like we were all want you know she would care and pension that she can oh well. she just loved us that's why i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to. sink when the better better when they came into direct contact with american women . that broke the local moral code. all these women had their own cars something

almost unimaginable for the girls from. we're talking about the early 1960 s. they could easily obtain certain contraceptives that were not available in spain at the time. you know women could do little more than read and write in your. local market lately anything up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier. and a little woman in. what. i hear now that's when the base was opened i worked as an assistant to the nurses there one of them mary chisholm became my friend she asked me what my greatest wish was and i said joking i want to go to america on the agenda and so when i actually arrived in new york i was so impressed where am i am i in a theater i've never left wrote a before because they were the only one even the money then we went to northwood

massachusetts. and most of. the country there were wide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this in spain. that. i did as i similarly i looked at her parents' house and went to high school. and today every week her mother gave me money but i didn't spend it i saved it all and i don't even know that our then no one then the other thing i want to thank you. i wasn't aware that when i came back to spain i bought my mother a television the 1st one on our street all the neighbors came to watch it the neighbor across the street came to watch a bull fight when she saw the bull on t.v. she ran out of the house because she thought it was going to attack her.

no it recorded my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. when he had bought a cadillac and organized a party and. i never imagined i'd meet an american so when i saw this guy there i liked him immediately he was well built women don't miss that kind of thing when. we had a very nice wedding we were very well known because of my brother so a lot of people came a bullfight a system marries an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. and i did a few token freedom. so i invited.

i decided to bring a new thermos look i brought a paper cut that matt in the gulf he was a nice friendly person but he was domineering. intensified investigation up scene in my life so in a way he finally got down to what you want to know how much money do you make among . my pay was so high for him even to take into account he says i just want to know if people take care of you promise me you take a very very. quickly but i remember a part of the golf course was almost in the village we kids used to go there you know there was a barbed wire fence there but there was 30 centimeters between the wires so we could slip through. a medium or into

a loss so we told each other if the americans catch us they'll shave our heads and make us play the drums in the hot sun till we drop it's not without. a doubt it was a whole different world for us back then there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the american standard of living. so bare ground there. that's not when we went on base it was like being in an american movie. because what we saw in the movies really wants their way of life. played a lot of people feel when they played baseball they set up standards and we kids would go there and maybe get a pack of cigarettes or a beer. and they were like things from an alien world.

before going to see how we would have a 4th of july down we step forces you know we had a rodeo and we had a big rodeo right across from the drive in theater and that's where they would invite spanish to come on the base and experience a slice of americana with us just as they would share the feria with the americans so it was very cool that cultural exchange. supermarket symbol of the high standard of living in this country today. and that aside what interested the people in the outer most were the products in the so-called navy exchange the commissary which was actually the americans department store which the navy exchange just wanted to sell as much as possible

they didn't care if you were american or spanish however they grew out of you severely in front of the base did. they checked us like they were running a customs checkpoint to come and. they had magazines like penthouse and so on which we didn't have and sports magazines here everything you can imagine every brand of tobacco a huge selection of food the meat for example was delivered from germany in refrigerated trucks it was fantastic meat if you could afford it and if. there was some american products that you can buy everywhere today but at the time chocolate bars and cookies as well as rape and sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base put them in large quantities and then sold them out of their garages. in that case. although i always asked 1st i did get a lot of things from the base here. i went so far that one day an american

commander his name was captain yang said to me father if you go on like this and take everything with you will have to swim back to america ok i took everything i could people who know me knew that i didn't keep anything for myself it was all for the people of wrote. me one day the chaplain told me he wanted to buy a stereo for a friend but he didn't dare take it off base because the civil guard would confiscate it he asked me to pick it up for him i said sure so he bought it on the base and brought it to me i told him to put it in the car next to me he said but how will that work they'll see the packaging what i told them just put it there because i'm going to tell them the truth as i drove to the gate the civil guard stopped me and asked me what i was carrying so i said i'm smuggling their reaction

was oh you're always making jokes father and they let me pass. him in. the mind of the el my brother a record player because it was very rare in spain back then he came from the base. philco the american brand of phillips i loved music funnier when i mostly got. back but i was mainly influenced by a black man who was married to a woman from toronto. his name was chase. he owned a bar and chase's place place he took up he played bass guitar and i used to sit there and listen to. people and apparently he noticed that and that i loved his music and so he used to give me all the records he didn't want anymore.

and that's how i started listening to blues jazz rock. i know there's other new music here. surely used to look after the soldiers overseas to make them feel at home the records went on sale there at the same time as they did in stores in new york or chicago or london. and my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. because like a look at my level of the. radio station to which we still have today they're far ts. back then they actually played great music throughout and that was picked up throughout the area that could be received just this is as it is today and i believe that's the same thing that happened when england played music from the bases and it was heard throughout back

in the fifty's back in the sixty's that everyone would pick up on the nickel my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and rode a december 5th 1960 and they started out with just some radio and then they added television. hello there welcome once again to a very good pop. this is a good man feel that i'm here to bring you a half hour of entertainment is a good musician. listening to the best radio station was like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you went and wrote and. you'd be walking down the street and going somewhere and suddenly you heard bob dylan on the radio. for the 1st time around yourself who the hell is that. this was an incredible stroke of luck for our village we could hear new releases at the push of a button. it took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the

world if at all you could want to completely have. because the beatles everybody loves the beatles and they are always coming up with new stuff as well and channels chop and iron butterfly rolling stones the doors spreen sorry buddy love the supremes. gosh jimi hendrix. all the base housing you can walk in a corridor or are you sure. moving cranked out of one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear this carlos santana tracks is coming out of another stereo so definitely the rock n roll. must

win for them in our main hobby as teenagers with music coming to them and one thing led to another we tried to form a band. we were very young back then maybe 12 years old i played guitar i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on and they cut my finger tips and the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar leaving just 4 below our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with course the paper. this is one of the. other component is one of the members of the band the radar's was a carpenter a cabinet maker a very good craftsman. he made my guitar neck by hand. and cut out the body with

a song. and i get up and. you're wondering i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me don't go down i'm going to do something not. the sort of what is this i mean there were there were other ways to get to school but we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue de san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city. because of that we had. growth actually consisted of 2 different towns one along kyra colorado very traditional in the other along up in need of something very american that's where all the american bars and casinos were the last time i know. that you got there and that is so your mileage on it there was this girl from london her name was janet. you know how she was pretty dressed in

a way we weren't used to here in russia. but you know we were very very in a mini skirt. and i kind of for her jacket to get the. most freaked out she was the real thing you were going to. claim it but it's a caveat you arrived here in december 917 i had no more than 5 pounds in my pockets and i remember my parents saying to me what are you going to do for a living what are you going to do and the next day i started looking at the crazy cat in. the in which i was so many i remember saying to my mother it's like the las vegas of the southwest. and there were people of all colors on the street motor was pretty colorful. there was a lot of partying and there was a bar outside of course that was let's say a bit illegal you see. right there was

a tiny new york. never slept. trying to involve the locals but it didn't work out maybe because of the double standard of life there. that. they're looking for probably through. drinking. one day i came out of the library and saw and i will never forget this a long queue of men in front of a brothel in the avenue. my friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town. and that. the street was full of women on both sidewalks as they waited for the soldiers to come off base those who were granted

leave because they did not get it at the same time there were about 6000 of them imagine that 6000 young men in their twenty's in a small town when thing here don't. think a lot of mandarin it was a fact. every time there's a war going to be a leader it takes a jump. here one day we got a letter from the commander of the 60 saying several members of his crew were infected with an aerial disease. this in the. sort of. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to. ask me what's going on here now. i said nothing's going on sir i'll show you everything here. so i took him to the bars on the 2 cabarets and that's all there is and. that's all there is mr good. now ok he said and left one that was if. so for his.

prostitution brought a lot of money into the town. the local authorities saw it as a violation of religious morality and set up a commission to protect women both locals and outside as from what they said were bad influences. and if. you know my judge from seville sent me a letter. he said you and i could work something out there are too many prostitutes and wrote. his solution was to throw them all in jail i would apply that i had a different strategy to marry them off married a lot of girls almost all of them to americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know. you american

boy. soldiers civilians were college boy. you're killing your own people and yourselves not with guns. with automobiles and. we were always warned keep out of trouble don't talk about politics don't molest women and don't do anything else that isn't completely proper charge but of course there are a few bad apples in every basket right. there were always a few boys who cause trouble in town once in a while. i'll be out of almost good advice and quite a local shot on a scandal when she caught. them for most of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach at point 0 connaught completely

drunk. in question no one dominant there was a man with 3 children on a donkey one time or he took he said. and doesn't push this is the car came off the road and crashed into the donkey with the 3 children and killed them all. you can't imagine the outrage this caused interest. since you're a member of the armed forces some will be under military control until the trial yes or. is he and his children were buried the next day and the need be compensated their mother by giving her a job on the base in the case was never heard again. probably see that. we the jury find the defendant not guilty.

if you look forward to my wife. that's all you can do 30 days recovery quit. making them happen when franco died that we were just told hey just go back to business as usual if you see protest or you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. you. don't help just me. everything good get. you know me and. when i. get a good thing good. you'll song and.

bring. about nothing. when the ships left but i was left time and dry if. you could tell they weren't here anymore we've lost so many jobs it's not a good thing to live in a mystery to me on the matter after i stop driving taxis i started to work in a bodega hired my own business and sold mine on the bass i had an idea and i could go in and out as i wished i don't know what it's like there today i don't go there anymore you know i'm been there for 40 years the place they and only anyone in time you. tip if you play the town's cultural roots had almost been lost. later about 30 years ago the old identity started to resurface again with people were looking for their own traditions again. the fairy the sun the seadrill festival the virgin carmen festival and all these things that had been

forgotten at that time have now returned that we even have 14 churches in the city again. you got the vehicle if you're. from me this is the really interesting the greatest culture shock for me because i grew up here from 8 was not coming here it was going back it was going back to the united states that was my culture shock because i went back and 16 years old and i go oh my goodness going back to my uncle i didn't know what to expect i didn't remember from a spain was home that didn't experiencing other cultures that he had different you were in and it's a good move even 101 but if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own group of them unless it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back that was they say a bubble of fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period and in the south and even the early eighty's but yeah

everybody speaks from the golden years and there's soissons kind of like a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's. for so long our food we live in a world that's filled with plastic. and plastic garbage. the consequences for nature and the environment are catastrophic what can politicians and businesses what can we do. to fix this problem the world is drowning in plastic garbage. made in germany 90 minutes w. .

whatever we begin to do the day will effect get out of c o 2 in the atmosphere and increase the temperature. turning 50 we have to start down by starting to decrease the amount of c o 2 for there now this is actually not a hard problem and just takes will power over there are very important economic interests to own a lot of coal who own a lot of oil but are doing everything possible to make sure this doesn't happen we have to fight them right 25th will be well on the way to grow large on renewable solar wind i'm optimistic that. we're not totally and so that's b.c. .

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