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Last week Defferre, Mollet and an eight-member Socialist delegation returned from Moscow, where they had a nine-hour conference with Nikita Khrushchev. A few years ago such a mission to Moscow would have been political suicide for Socialists. But things are different in the balmy atmosphere of the East-West détente. In Moscow, Mollet claims to have detected a tendency of Communism "to orient itself toward truly democratic formulas." To most connoisseurs of Communism, such talk is dangerous nonsense. But French Socialist leaders insist that they have high hopes for a possible deal with the Reds...
...Gaulle does not want the U.S. to get completely out of Europe," Hoffmann said. "But he wants to strengthen Europe into a power that will have a voice of its own in East-West discussions vital to the security and welfare of Europeans...
Until the eve of negotiations, fighting continued. The affair threatened to build up into an East-West confrontation, as Cuba's Fidel Castro and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed aid to Algeria's Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...wire dish is firmly attached to the ground, it cannot be turned mechanically. But by changing the position of the dangling waveguide that feeds radio energy from above, it can be swung electronically 20° north or south of vertical. The rotation of the earth takes care of the east-west steering. Because the telescope's position is only 18° north of the equator, it can reach all the planets, for at that latitude they pass high overhead...