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...January 1970 hearing as an adviser and report on the proceedings. At first James Q. Wilson, CRR chairman, prohibited the move, but then the Committee huddled in one corner of the hearing room and reversed Wilson's initial ruling. Thus, in a few minutes and on its own accord, the CRR set an important precedent to which it still adheres...
...accord, which will be signed later this year, is a logical consequence of President Nixon's trip to Moscow last May. It includes an understanding that the U.S. and the Soviet Union will open their ports to each other's merchant ships, and it will give permission to the U.S. to establish business facilities in Moscow. But its most important section deals with two Siberian natural-gas projects, gigantic undertakings for which the total cost will eventually run to about $10 billion. They are not expected to start until 1978 at the earliest...
Tensions between the divided halves of the city have relaxed somewhat since the signing of the four-power Berlin accord. The most recent sign: East Berlin has allowed the West Berlin government to buy the station property -for $10 million. The West Berliners plan to develop the land for commercial purposes, but the sale came about so suddenly when East Berlin finally decided to sell that details have not been worked...
...paying off the borrowed money he has sunk into Pen Duick IV. Says Fiancée Teura: "Everything has gone into the boat. So Alain had to win for our marriage, for our future, for everything. But, you see, he is not a man like other men." D'accord...
...Russians have persistently claimed that the Germans were responsible. Last week, in accord with the British practice of making official records public after 30 years, a secret report from Britain's wartime ambassador to Poland was released by the Foreign Office. It establishes, almost beyond doubt, that the Russians, who in 1940 were allied to the Germans, carried out the Katyn massacre. Based on what he called "a considerable body of circumstantial evidence," Owen O'Malley (now Sir Owen) wrote Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in 1943: "Most of us are convinced that a large number of Polish officers...