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Four Russian students, visiting the University for a year's study, will arrive next week, Frederick T. Merrill, Director of East-West Contracts in Washington, said last night...
Apparently, the Russians have conveniently chosen to ignore the results of last August's Geneva conference which produced East-West agreement on the technicalities of disarmament. At that meeting non-political Soviet experts agreed on the feasability of an inspection system with 180 nuclear-testing stations located throughout the world. But little has been said about that conference, if it has been mentioned...
...grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist rate) to help Nasser build the Aswan High...
...Nasser sets out to build his $1.3 billion, three-mile dam, the Soviet credit-on easy long-term loan-will be but a drop in the bucket. Perhaps Khrushchev's cracks at joint East-West aid were an attempt to head off any Nasser move now to get Western help in making the dam a reality. But Khrushchev's bold gesture stirred Arab gratitude, and Nasser had his own domestic reasons for making it sound bigger and better than it actually...
...came after three weeks of prolonged debate and vain attempts to work out an East-West compromise on suspension of nuclear weapons tests in advance of the Geneva talks...