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...retaliation. Predictably, Murray's warning set off a shock wave in the group of U.S. nuclear scientists passionately opposed to any resumption of nuclear tests. Cornell University Physicist Hans Bethe, one of the chief developers of the H-bomb, called Murray's statement an attempt "to divert public opinion from the real issue: to get a treaty that could lead to disarmament." Columbia's Physicist Isidor I. Rabi sniffed that Murray was "technically not qualified to discuss such questions...
Wrecking Crews. More impressive was the testimony of Turkish General Arif Onat, who said he was appointed by Menderes after the riots to try to divert blame to anonymous "Communists." Said Onat: "I am fully convinced that the events were prearranged by the government. With my own eyes I saw looters being followed by the police, not to prevent their looting but to prevent outside interference with their actions." Onat said he also saw riot leaders holding lists of buildings to be destroyed and shouting instructions and encouragements to their wrecking crews...
...been stabbed to death by another youngster: "What we should do is pass a law by which all known (gang) members be arrested and sent to jail," he said. "I know that there is a cry that there is no room in the jails. . . . Then build more jails. Divert the money from other things, but build them. We cage wild animals. . . . Shall not these boys and girls be caged...
...these two gorillas." In one emotion-bogged passage, leftist ex-M.P. Ian Mikardo shouted: "I am not prepared to see my loved ones go up in radioactive dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...Nile, is Pakistan's lifeline; without it, all Western Pakistan would be a desert. Though only 8% of the basin's area stayed in India, it includes the headwaters of three of the six principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan's water. As the downstream areas turned parched and seared, excitable Pakistanis called for war, crying that a quick death was better than death by thirst and starvation. India agreed to turn the water back on, but the Indus remained...