Press Clipping - Norway Protest Against U.S. Over U-2 Flight

2 S. -NORWAY oslo (AP)-NORWA TODAY PROTESTED FORMALLY 1 THE UNITED STATES AGAINST U. S. PILOA FRANCIS G. POWERS' REPORTED PLAN TO LAND HIS U2 PLANE AT BODOE, NORWAY, AFTER HIS SPY FLIGHT OVER THE SOVIET UNION. FOREIGN MINISTER HALVARD LANGE CALLED U. S. AMBASSADOR F. E. WILLIS TO HIS OFFICE AND DELIVERED THE PROTEST ON BEKALF OF THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNNENT. "AT THE SAME TIME I ASKED THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO PREVENT SIMILAR PLANS BEING MADE FOR LANDING ESPIONAGE PLANES IN NORWAY, " LANGE TOLD PARLIAMENT. POWERS' PLAN TO LAND IN NORWAY WAS REPORTED BY SOVIET PREMIER KHRUSHCHEV. WHO SAID BODOE WAS THE DESTINATION MARKED ON A MAP RECOVERED FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE U2 AFTER IT WAS SHOT DOWN MAY 1 BY A SOVIET ROCKET. THE UNITED STATES, WHILE ADMITTING THAT POWERS WAS ON AN INTELLIGENCE SEEKING FLIGHT, HAS NOT CONFIRMED THAT HE PLANNED TO FLY ON TO NORWAY. LANGE HAD SAID PREVIOUSLY THAT NORWAY WAS NOT INFORMED POWERS PLANNED TO FLY TO BODOE. HE SAID THAT WHILE NORWAY IS A MEMBER OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE, ITS AIR FIELDS ARE NOT OPEN TO NATO PLANES WHICH VIOLATE THE TERRITORY OF OTHER NATIONS. F HE CONCEDED THAT AMERICAN PLANES HAD USED NORWEGIAN BASES FOR ARCTIC FLIGHTS BUT SAID THEY HAD BEEN CAUTIONED TO STAY WELL AWAY FROM COMMUNIST TERRITORY. KHRUSHCHEV WARNED NORWAY AND OTHER NATIONS HAVING U. S. AIR BASES THAT THEY RAN THE RISK OF BECOMING THE TARGET OF SOVIET ROCKET ATTACKS IF THEY LET AMERICAN PLANES USE THEIR BASES TO TRESPASS ON THE SOVIET UNION. IN HIS STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT LANGE SAID THAT THE ANGER OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT OVER THE PLANE INCIDENT IS UNDERSTANDABLE. BUT HE ADDED: "I MUST FROM THIS PLATFORM PROTEST AGAINST THE THREATS AGAINST NORWAY THAT HAVE BEEN VOICED FROM RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL PERSONS IN THE SOVIET UNION.' "AS PARTNERS IN THE COMMON DEFENSE OF THE WEST IT IS SELF-EVIDENT THAT WE TAKE PART IN RECONNAISSANCE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS AND ALONG OUR BORDERS," HE SAID. *BUT IT HAS BEEN AND STILL IS, AN EXPLICIT CONDITION THAT THIS ACTIVITY SKOULD NOT VIOLATE THE BORDERS OF OTHER COUNTRIES.' WE841AED 5/13