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Crises elsewhere may come and go, but Berlin remains the No. 1 testing spot of the cold war. In Berlin last week the cold war got perceptibly hotter. It all began when two junketing U.S. Congressmen, Massachusetts Democrat Edward P. Boland and New York Republican Harold C. Ostertag, motored into East Berlin to see one of the standard tourist sights: the ponderous Red army war memorial. They rode, accompanied by a U.S. Army Lieutenant, in a radio-telephone-equipped Army sedan. East German Volkspolizei approached the parked car and forced the party at pistol point to follow them...
...President signed the bill reluctantly, however, and immediately announced he would seek its revision during the next session of Congress. One of his objections concerned the Act's failure to authorize the drafting of men into the reserves if volunteers did not fill quotas. Congressmen had claimed that this proposal came dangerously close to Universal Military Training, insisting on a voluntary recruiting program. But if legislators really want to enact provisions for only a small standing army, they must devise a system which is either less voluntary or more attractive for potential reservists. As matters stand now, the Reserve Forces...
Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas, Lonardi's Vice President, who wants to try 273 former Perónista Congressmen for treason...
President Eisenhower did recommend a program of federal aid last year, but his plan was so limited that most Congressmen and educators did not waste much time studying it. After saying that $7 billion is needed for new schools, the President proposed federal grants of $66 million a year for three years--or 33 cents a year to meet every 35 dollars of admitted need. He also mentioned federal loans to be payed back with interest, but state administrators found this program even less acceptable than the grants...
...basis is expected to get the green light from Congress next year. The Administration has ditched General Lucius Clay's bond-financing plan in favor of a 13-year, $26 billion program financed either by increased user taxes or by a combination of taxes and tolls. Congressmen and truckers who stalled the pay-as-you-go formula this year are now reported ready to back a program financed entirely by increased user taxes, including boosts of 2? a gal. on gasoline, 2? a Ib. on tires, tubes and retreading materials, plus higher excise taxes on trucks and trailers...