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Six days after the U.S. Navy sent a boarding party from the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy O. Hale to the Soviet trawler Novorossisk in the North Atlantic to investigate the cause of breaks in five transatlantic submarine cables (TIME, March 9), the Russians lodged a predictable protest. Charges that...
A U.S. cable repair ship, said the U.S. note, had found in preliminary investigations that one cable had been badly scraped and scuffed for about a mile east of the break. The cable itself had obviously got fouled in the Novorossisk's trawling gear, been raised to the deck...
First to react to the villa's imminent destruction was France's Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, which set up a cry of "Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De...
At length, the Russians ("neither overly friendly nor hostile-just resigned") permitted Sheely to examine the ship's papers (all in order) and the ship's log. From log notations, Sheely found that Novorossisk had indeed been plowing the seas near the cables at the time of the...