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...coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does not object to the continued presence of U.S. technicians. Iceland, just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, is an important NATO watchtower, but if asked to leave, the U.S. will have to comply...
...president in 1948. Following record 1955 sales of $448 million, I.T. & T. in the first quarter of 1956 reported a 6% jump in earnings per share over the same period last year, landed contracts to man and maintain the Air Force's radar Dew line in the arctic and the "White Alice" system in Alaska...
...Chairman Firestone is busy diversifying. Once tires were 95% of the business; now they are 60%. The world's biggest producer of natural and synthetic rubber (1,000,000 Ibs. daily), Firestone makes several thousand rubber products, from the tiniest vacuum seal to 4-ft. snow tires for arctic tractors, plus truck-wheel rims, jet-engine parts, Corporal missiles, refrigerators, food mixers, golf clubs, electric clocks, plastic luggage, textile yarns and thousands of other items...
...pull a pistol on the delegates, killing one. But before he could fire again the delegation had disarmed him, shot him dead with his own weapon. Word spread through Mirnoye and to two nearby camps. Prisoners revolted, disarmed the guards. On April 4 MVD security troops from the Arctic Circle towns of Norilsk and Igarka, armed with heavy machine guns, fought a battle with armed prisoners. Some 200 prisoners and twelve guards were killed. When prison order was restored, an estimated 80 prisoners were found to have escaped into the desolate countryside...
...pity that the nine U.S. Protestant churchmen visiting Russia [March 26] could not extend their route to the nightmarish arctic hell of Vorkuta, where so many of their colleagues are practicing high treason by holding secret religious services. Is this what Metropolitan Nikolai meant when he said, "We must now forgive and forget...