SESSION V 251 LANGHAM: This was rot the case. This is one of the things that Ithirk has something to do with this difference in the reaction. The Spaniard, believe it or not, respects his officials and he believes them, and these Spanish AEC people came in and explained the situa- tion to them. My wife and I became great friends with a waiter. ready to leave, I saidto him, When we were "You never asked why we were here. Ha3 it ever occurred to you?" He said, ‘No, not particulariy. A lot of people come here, a lot of nice people." I said, ‘Well, we've been here associated with Palomares, you know, the weapons acci- dent.'' "Oh, yes, he replied, "Palomares. It's somewhere down on the coast. I saw something in the paper like this but wc never get excited about anything we read in the papers!" So their whole attitude waa fine. The only tims: there was some trouble was with the ked Duchess, who is three times a grandee, She was thrown into jail for 24 hours once; she's a roa? agitator. She showed up at Palomares with two doctors she had hired herseli to give these people physical examinations; she was telling them that they had been mistreated, they inight be sick, and maybe they were going to die. As a result there was a flare-up in the community, and so the Spanish officials and authorities had to go down again. The people will go up and down depending on how much they're agitated. If you can just keep the agitation low, the proklem is low. This ¢2emed not to be the sit’ ~tion in Japan. EISENBUD: quite apparent. did you have? LANGHAM: There were a lot of differences, ! think, that are What about the oress? How large a press corps Did you hav: the foreign press? You had the foreign press, a few wandered in and . out. EISENBUD: excitement? LANGHAM: What was the total press corps at the height of the You never knew. They just ‘ andered in and out The people were ioo busy to give them any information, So they pindered away again anu then, in fact, much of the criticism of the way this was handled has come from the presr, I miear we were too busy. We didn't bother with them and they got tased wi.d went away. Furthermore, tne sea searc’ stole the show, you see. I mean those H-bombs sitting out there ji.st ready to go off, stole the show. they really didnt bother with us so much. So