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...Iron Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites...
...agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary...
...much to minimize them, Syria was in fact taking a sharp turn to the left. The New York Herald Tribune reported from Paris, from a source neither French nor American, that Communist technicians would take actual command of Syrian units using Soviet-furnished arms. Another story reported 500 Czech technicians about to be sent to work in Syria. In London British officials said they have evidence that the Soviets are already subsidizing leading members of Syria's ruling army clique...
Debrecen, Dunapentele and Szolnok, no wheel turned. The coal mines were deserted. At Salgotarjan 80 people were killed when police fired into a crowd of 10,000 workers who demanded the release of their workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle...
...correspondents in Damascus watched some 3,000 Syrian volunteers parade with oily new Czech-made Tommy guns, and had a look at artillery and tanks newly arrived from Soviet-bloc countries. The Syrian army chief firmly denied that Soviet-type planes had arrived recently in Syria. Syria, an economically sound if politically unhealthy nation, is getting arms cut-rate from Russia, and paying out of current funds. Unlike Nasser's Egypt, which has mortgaged perhaps half of its cotton crop to pay for Communist arms, Syria is in little danger of having its exports cornered by the Russians (Syria...