Portugal - Spain
Aug. 23 The village where the H-Bombs Fell. Palomares, a village in Spain, hitherto so undistinguished that few gazetters list it - has captured the world's headlines since an American B52 bomber crashed there, spilling its quartet of 10-megaton H-bombs, which fell out of the sky when the bomber collided with a tanker while refuelling overhead. There bombs fell on land and one fell in the sea. After the bombs came their owners. American servicement moved into the village with submarines moved into the village fishing grounds. One of the bombs was buried in the garden of Miguel Bonillo, a peasant farmer who was tending his two-acres of tomatoe plots when it fell. Another was buried behind the church - a third in the hills near the village cemetery. A fourth - still not recovered - lay in the deep Mediterranean which laps the beach 800 yards from the village. The Americans have been at Palomares ever since, and may be there until April. Photo shows Near the spot where an H-bomb fell, MIGUEL, 8, and ALERCON, 6 - the children of farmer Miguel Bonillo - pose with the family donkey
