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ockup of the ghmol t The pieces found oh ■ the ioutbeast of Madrid ohr the is building the mockup. '? th-u three more bodies were found, bringing the crash, toll to seven. Four t'-iymen PALOMARES, Spain. Jan. was searching the Spanish countryside tonight, reported ly seeking an atomic device missing after Monday’s col lision of a B 52 bomber and a U.S. officials in Madrid and at the scene refused to eonbomb was carried by the B-52 which crashed into the KC-135 jet tanker during a refueling Hundreds of U.S. troops some of them armed with geiger counters. When asked what the geiger counters were for, an information officer said: “What are geiger count ers normally used for?” It was understood on good authority that the B-52 carried several atomic devices and that all but one of them had been accounted, for after the crash, which killed sewn men. Other American bombers carrying defused nuclear bombs have crashed without incident in the past in the United States. Nuclear sci entists have said repeatedly that a nuclear bomb aboard a plane cannot be detonated un til it is armed, even on the impact of a crash. (In Washington, the Defense Department said: “We have no comment on the report.”) Jets Crash in Spain, 5 f U.S. B52 jet bomber and a Spain today and crashed on the Five of the 11 crewmen ; aboard the two planes were rescued, U.S. Air Force officials . said. Four of them were identiL fied as bomber crewmen. from the 68th Bombardment Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Base in North Carolina. It was being refueled by the tanker, carrying four crewmen. The tanker was from the 910th Air Refueling Unit at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Tex. It was tempo rarily stationed at Moron Air port near Seville. The Spanish news agency '.-Air Force near Madrid Said thetCifra said four crewmen were B52 with a crew of seven was/picked up from the sea, one gravely hurt, and hospitalized at the coastal village of Aquilas. A spokesman at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base identi fied the missing from the B52 as George J, Glesner, Electronics warfare officer, of Belleville, Snyder of 6213 Foote St., Seat)