not under the iranian flag. top story protesters have gathered in iran cheer on of the victims of the downed ukrainian plank and oppose the government's handling of the crush the protests erupted after the head of the revolutionary guard accepted full responsibility for the downing of the chairs. watching d.w. news coming up next i'll show doc film takes a look back at how a u.s. naval base transformed a sleepy spanish village in the 1950s. it's all happening with. your link to the news from africa the world story links to exceptional stories and discussions continue and welcome to the debut suffering program tonight from funny to me from the news it's easy to our website deputed com smash africa join us on facebook w.

herco. yes it's all pretty common for. a comfortable home we live in the car park to. the park mechanical got to the ball car. pool for every car as a right to expect an education. satisfying recreation for everybody. in america you are. here that another day. a. woman to return. her come on come on come on come on i came from georgia my dad ahead branch had a pompous shout and i'm just still a major. back marketplace. taking years old i decided. just

walking downtown i saw a sign saying sam wants you to put me in aviation council maybe a ship that dan i don't know about now he needed a good grade. pass along but we don't have a basin pass along. that we have one road this is down on the beach so he gave me a chair. and already noticed. that's why i've never seen.

on october 14th 1953 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 alive and i. could tell up on the whole dark i was working at my office in the castle. and suddenly i'm not orions franco is here 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 wants franco was looking around and suddenly said could you please tell me where the salado reverse. commute 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. 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. from your. right. if a foreign country attacked the base we have to defend it and defend the americans. and the like but listen if you have the most impressive firepower in the world and aircraft an atomic bombs because there were atom bombs here what are we going to

defend for you. know i'm alive and then i was out there ok. right here then freed of. my father at a place on a plot of land near a computer. used to store 4 or 5 girls of wine aerator south every year my eyes were swollen from crying when they drove me off our land i was 17 years old and they told us we had to go and we left the doors open and all our stuff there and nearly killed me me and my thought of me for that i mean for there was a huge upheaval and hit everyone hard some people took their own lives hang themselves and so on but the most remarkable thing was that nobody realized there were alternatives that only came later be no they put.

well you look even to the i remember the day i saw the 1st american jeep when i started surveying the area you had it i was looking out my columns and watched the monster drive into a pond and sink you mean like thing do 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 that 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 here he said it doesn't matter my uncle is the commander do you want to join that i said of course man who doesn't you know so i was assigned to a tanker shipping oil from to the warships in codis. this was during the draft sell the draft and if you weren't doing well in school you know there's a potential to be drafted there's a combination of the single girl for losing my job and flunking 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 had

a place with the old school stuff. and the staff sergeant from his desk he looked to mean he said you want to join the marine corps right son or sure he said you want to join for 4 years right and i said sure and it was one time all day q over london england name course and here was a very strong risk they. are going to spain. so 2 times that i really. did not have to go to vietnam during the sixty's. an army green. i came from the united states i was born in a small town of 5000 inhabitants in pennsylvania. 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 and to spanish air force sergeants told me just go to spain there are a lot of pretty girls there by years by year which i'm happy bunny that much of bonita so i said ok then i'll go to spain little baby as luck would have it us where i was assigned to kano pose on a submarine support ship because i was a specialist in measuring equipment calibration and there was a laboratory on board to service the submarines that should be said. that. there were only 2 main streets there grand way downtown from the base and everything else would you think feel like. special because it was like they remind me of. my own. people only different and noticed that when i went to town in back in america i would. i would always

hamburger but over here. you look at all the seats i didn't say that it was very old fashioned 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 skase ecosystem see. i think there were about 10000 american soldiers and civilians and. 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 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 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 rendering 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 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 america. on the street we ask

them for money to set up a center. and they say the city. set out cheaply they'd give us koreans 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 honestly i mean they also did not. represent more. than all right by all the forces worldwide so we can strike anytime . that any time. through let us say that wrote down the road to 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 are many silent mobile and you see the list of missiles some. of the most survivable in our nation.

palermo's nuclear submarines can carry up to 16 missiles with a maximum range of approximately 424500 kilometers. and later in scotland made it possible to get them in and. bush. may have been considering it was a place where those ships could come in a place where they can store whatever they want to store i don't know but this story. has happened here for forums there is a place for thank you do the populations for. if

. they have a submarine tender that was stationed there. it's just like a transitioning place for europe for the minute training and. for hundreds of thousands of young people find employment each year. growing goodbar 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 jumps in the hotel industry taxi business and leisure activities. when i became mayor and i worked to build good relations with the naval base. they were the ones who could help us to move on to the spanish state 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. on the front of the. i did it out of love for my hometown the ties to the town develop quickly womanhood it was a time of great economic growth.

last. year old looking at the workers of the world i focused. on. 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 i said to my father. did you see that the plumber with the car with it i feel my father said it was propaganda and he simply could not comprehend that a plumber could have a car. and they go from the never the no one question. was . 96 to wonderful new. cars started appearing in

town everyone believed that the americans were all millionaires. to be getting. like. 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 like a 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 had gone out today what could we do you know i took my boat out to sea and stopped the engine i could hear one calling there is that i did that several times that 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 only when they jumped into

my boat the day hugged and kissed me like it was their wedding day. that you guys are going to be i. was born of a little california my dad was in the navy and we moved from base to base to base and then we ended up the road a 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 pad and pen. entering 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 buy this. when getting off base it was just how

different things were so there was a lot of places to explore and things to do but the people to i think you didn't have nearly as much as this they do today but i i do think. that that's humility i think i mean in people being so friendly and reach 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 maids we kids grew up and sure if we felt like we were all want you know she would content that she can oh well. and she just loved us that's why i would be so nice and my mother loved her as well to. see when they're going about it when they came into direct contact with american women. that broke the local moral code. all these women had their in concert

something almost unimaginable for the girls from well. we're talking about the early 1960 s. you know they could easily obtain certain contraceptives that were not available in spain at the time. that women could do little more than read and write in your. local market lately the opening up of the dictatorship that took place in the late seventy's began him much earlier. and he's a little man in your group about. what. i believe 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 bonding together 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 there. were only one even when you then we went to northwood massachusetts

. and not such a. country to the world wide roads and i thought why don't they build roads like this and spank. their sexuality i looked at her parents' house and went to high school. student every week her mother gave me money but i didn't spend it i saved it all and i don't you know the time our then no one and the other thing i want to. i wasn't you know was 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 a. new

ban on retarded my brother was a famous bullfighter back then. well when he had bought a cadillac and organized a party. going to be there if you were going through memory 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 bullfighter system as an american a black man he got a lot of compliments. and i did get a future for freedom. i

decided to break the news and i said look i think. that long ago he was a nice friendly person but he was coming nearer. it was intensified investigation i've seen in my life so in a way he finally got down to what you want to know he's how much money do you make among. my pay was so high i am eager to take a pay cut he said i just want to know if people can you promise me when you take a very. quick look at aon up after i remember a part of the golf course was almost in the village so 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. the medium or into the loft 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. not without. a doubt it was a whole different world for us back then that there was a big gap between the backwardness in spain at that time in the american standard of living. down there. that's now 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 you're seeing. a lot of people when they played baseball they set up stands 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.

for going on here we would have a 4th of july we should have forces you know we had a rodeo and we had a big rodeo right across from the drive in theater and that's where we would invite spanish to come on the base and experience a slice of americana with us just as they would sure 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 is 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 go to you severely in front of the base did they check just like they were running a customs checkpoint practical 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 i mean with me from here we honestly never claimed there was there was some american products that you can buy everywhere today but at the time chocolate bars and cookies as well. that's right and sunglasses were very popular in town the people who had access to the base bought 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. and 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. 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. to. 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 confiscated 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 would that work they'll see the packaging won't they i told him just put it there because i'm going to tell them the truth as i drove through 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. you

may have. been one of the my brother wrote a record player because there was very rare in spain back then he came from the base free philco the american brand of phillips and i loved music. 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 traces place. 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. no there's other new music here. he told us i mostly. 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. that you go by and my friends used to buy them and then go home and listen to them until the cows came home. one of the 1st took a look at my home. the radio station to which we still have today if r.t.s. . back then they actually played great music trout in 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 and go my gosh this is great this is music we can't hear or get anywhere else and they started the station and rode a summer $5960.00 and they started out was just radio and then they added tell and. welcome once again to a very good pop because this is a dubious feel that i'm here to bring you a half. truth is a good musician but i'm listening to the base radio station most like a martian was talking to us there was music everywhere you wanted 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 your self who the hell is that. this was an incredible stroke of luck for our village who believes we can hear new releases of the push of a button. but took much longer for them to arrive there than in other parts of the

world if at all you could see that i want to completely got. because you know the beatles everybody loves the beatles and they're always coming up with new stuff as well and chana stopped when an iron butterfly rolling stones the doors supreme somebody love the supremes oh gosh jimi hendrix. and all the base housing you can walk in a corridor and you sure. cranked out a one stereo you would hear jimi hendrix out of another stereo you would hear scarlett santana abraxas coming out of another stereo so definitely the rock n roll was.

most of them in our main hobby as teenagers was music them into 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 and i took a classical guitar and put steel strings on it they cut my fingertips up and you know the bass player simply removed 2 strings from a classical guitar leaving just for. our drummer made his drums from detergent cartons which he cut to size and then covered with costly paper. says one of the. other component of 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. like that i. just wondered if i was 14 when i arrived here and my mother told me don't go down i've been a good son ben not. the sort of what is this i meant when there were other ways to get to school but we defied our parents and always walked along the avenue to san fernando which was busier than all the other streets in the city. that we had gotten on the road to actually consisted of 2 different towns one along a. very traditional and the other along up a need of something very american that's why the american bars are casinos were the last thing on. it on the together on the list so that my journey there was this girl from london her name was janet. she was pretty dressed in

a way we weren't used to here and. we were she was very funny and a mini skirt. i kind of for a jacket to get the most freaked out she was the real thing you were going to fit under the covers of. me but if they gave 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 cracks in the local. beer which was so many pounds 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 right there was pretty colorful to be able to check 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. for trying to involve the locals but it didn't work out maybe because of the double standard life. that. they're looking for probably. 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 fernando my friends told me that we should stay home and not go out while the 6th fleet was in town. and. 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 mean anything here don't. lose your mandarin it was a. fact. if you fell. every time there's a war with any of these are you taking your 1st one day we got a letter from the commander of the 6th saying several members of his crew were infected with the neural disease. this in the. me and. the american ambassador biddle duke even came to. ask me what's going on here now. i said nothing's going on sir show you everything here. so i took him to the bars of the 2 cabarets and that's all there is an. that's all there is mr do. now ok he

said and left what i thought was if my use of. 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 with bad influences. caitlin and if. you know my judge from seville send me a letter you want he said you and i could work something out there are too many prostitutes and. his solution was to throw them all in jail i replied that i had a different strategy to marry them off married a lot of girls almost all of them 2 americans. i don't know any of them who married a spaniard you know only one of. you

american boy. soldiers sailors civilians were college boys. you were killing your own people and yourselves not with guns. with automobiles and also 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 course willis was charged 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 look out on a scandal when she caught. him so you can. see to a number of oh of course i remember one incident as the americans were celebrating their independence day some drove in from the beach. completely drunk.

in question no fundamental there was a man with 3 children i'm talking one time or he took he says. and does and pushes his 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. yes he and his children were buried the next day and the navy compensated their mother by giving her a job on the base and the case was never heard again. probably see that. we the jury find the defendant not guilty.

i really do look forward to my wife. that's all i intend to do 30 days recovery quite. some happen when frank would die that we were just told hey just go back to business as usual if you see protester you see anything happening just go about your business and and stay out of trouble. you're. going to help this mean. everything. good gal. and the. good thing.

about. hillsong go read all. about nothing. when the ships left but i was left high and dry and. you could tell they weren't here anymore we 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 base 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 i'm been there for 40 years the place they and only anyone in tiny. towns cultural roots had almost been lost. later about 30 years ago the old identities started to resurface again 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 and. we even have 14 churches in the city again. the vehicle if you. for 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 own i didn't know what to expect i didn't remember from a spain was home that inexperience in other cultures that she had different you were in and it's a good move even home but if we went to a town nearby it seemed alien to us quite different from our own. it was a great time it was a magical place rota spain back that was they say a bubble a fishbowl but it was very special that was a beautiful time period in in this town and even the early eighty's but you know

everybody speaks with golden years of frodo and there's soissons kind of like a misty foggy memory there she should have been here in the sixty's and seventy's. meet the artist today we see. she came to canada use a refugee when she was just a kid on today she's a lawyer author and show host successful and full of right to mind yes she talks about how can the game or someone pick me up and help me in the. it's everybody was going out and getting to know getting to me. 30 minutes on t w. can

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