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...Soviet Union and the United States have been giving chief consideration at the London disarmament talks to proposals which would limit nuclear testing, establish quotas on conventional armament and begin "open-sky" aerial inspection. So far the United States has presented no official plan for establishing a central European buffer zone...
...addition, establishing a European buffer zone can herald solutions to some of the outstanding political problems between Russia and the United States. Neutralizing a trial region might lead to a general European security pact including both East and West. Successful negotiations could also promote agreement on troop quotas for the leading Western and Communist nations...
Proposing the buffer zone, though, is itself of value. It demonstrates to the neutral nations that the United States would seriously consider fundamental policy changes in order to achieve disarmament. With more countries supplied with atomic weapons and with the possibility of missile warfare, basic changes in strategy will be forced on the United States whether the administration takes the initiative...
Whipple said that the danger of punctures from comets is "not serious." A meteor-buffer device, invented by him several years ago, would solve the problem by providing the spaceship with a "second skin," which could be thrown off when punctured...
...unwieldy hodgepodge of Scandinavian and Colombian infantry, Indian paratroopers, Yugoslav reconnaissance troops and Canadian headquarters personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers and men, armed and equipped...