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...night of Dec. 27, 1951 fell black and squally over Formosa Strait. Through the choppy waters, the U.S.S. Higbee, a 2,425-ton radar-picket destroyer, steamed cautiously on patrol. Her skipper, Commander Verner J. Soballe, dozed fitfully in his sea cabin. But the Higbee was alert. Men on watch stood by the five-inch guns, and down below soundmen listened intently for signs of prowling enemy submarines...
...sure. What about the oil and the continuing echoes from the hull? Quietly, a small group of World War II sub captains got out old charts and started poking into the files. Their search led them to the record of another U.S. vessel that had fought a battle in Formosa Strait...
...State Department denounced the charge for the nonsense that it is. The U.S. has no soldiers with Li Mi's army, has twice asked Formosa to quit supplying it with arms. Chiang Kai-shek's government insists that Li Mi is independent of them, and "we have no intention of making Burma a military base of any kind." Yet last week Li Mi himself was reported in Formosa, where he had flown on Christmas...
...Southeastern states, does a lucrative short-haul business between New York, Chicago and Washington. But it gets comparatively few long-haul passengers because they prefer to take transcontinental lines. With Northwest's cross-country flights to Seattle-and its overseas arms to Honolulu and to Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines-that pattern should change (see map). For its part, Northwest would cash in on Capital's Eastern business, and get a transcontinental route through Chicago, which it has long wanted...
Other international pressure points which the Conference will cover include a Security Council plan for ending the Kashmir dispute, the 38th parallel as a dividing line of Korea, and international trusteeship for Formosa...