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...sightseeing in the opposite sector of their divided city. Trains between east and west operated at twice their usual capacity, and border traffic was unusually heavy. But not everyone was on a holiday jaunt. By last week 5,400 East Germans had taken advantage of the holiday crush to seek refuge in West Berlin. Defecting at the rate of 900 a day, they created the biggest mass rush to the West since the anti-Communist riots of June...
...Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops to the Gaza. Even though to let a Middle Eastern war run on unimpeded would be to permit their semi-allies, the Arabs, gradually to crush Israel, the chances are that the Russians would wish to intervene--without the Arab-Israeli balance of forces Russia would lose one of her strongest selling points in the area, Communist arms...
...shouting his praises. Three days later, to appease this outburst, the official Georgian Communist paper, Dawn of the East, devoted a whole page to glorifying Stalin. But having made this concession, Dawn of the East next day carried a demand that "provocateurs and enemy elements" in Georgia be crushed. Then orders came to "crush" the revolt. Some 15,000 party aides went to work "re-educating" the Georgians...
...line admitted that Grace had indeed requested that a way be found to keep newsmen at a distance. But when the howl went up, she relented. The compromise: there wil be two press conferences aboard ship Reporters will bunk four to a room in cabin class because of the crush, but will have first-class privileges...
...minutes before they could get the news out. Then the U.P.'s Merriman Smith uttered the conference-ending words ("Thank you, Mr. President"), and newsmen stampeded for the door. Against the risk that their White House correspondents in the front rows might lose precious seconds in the crush, all the wire services stationed extra men near the door; Smith tipped his own man with a wink and a nod as he rose to end the conference. Newsmen lucky enough to have staked out corridor phone booths leaped to call their offices. But some, like Harold Greer of the Toronto...