Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business!"
After four years of construction, U.S. bases in Spain are 80% completed. The network: three full-fledged SAC bases (at Torrejon, Zaragoza, Moron),...
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