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After the French armistice, Hitler moved his headquarters to the depths of the Black Forest, there perhaps to brood on his proposals to seize Iceland and settle
...David Charles Poskanzer got a phone call in his Albany, N.Y. office: "Dave, what do you know about Iceland disease?" By chance. Dr. Poskanzer, a disease detective for the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service (TIME. Jan. 19, 1953), was able to answer: "I've just read the entire world literature on the subject-both papers." Immediately, his boss ordered him to a spot where an outbreak of the rare disease was suspected. The spot: Punta Gorda...
...important respect, the NATO members showed that the spirit of NATO is not to be judged simply by declining arms budgets. In recent weeks Soviet Russia has threatened Turkey, Norway, The Netherlands, Denmark, Britain. Greece, Spain, Iceland and most recently West Germany with atomic retaliation if they allow NATO to base atomic weapons on their territories. One by one, the ministers of the threatened countries scornfully declared their rejection of the Soviet threats. Said Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange proudly: "If the Russian intent was to weaken the faith of the Norwegian public in NATO, the effect...
Reluctantly, Washington was bending under the pressure. Last week the parties to the embargo-upheld by all NATO nations (except Iceland) and by Japan-were studying secret U.S. proposals to remove some peaceful items from the China embargo list. In return the U.S. wants to lengthen the list of items embargoed to Russia, tighten the "exceptions procedure" by which Britain and others have sent certain strategic goods into Russia. The U.S. would continue to have no dealings with China but would agree to China trade by its allies...
Changing Definitions. Denmark was the first nation in Europe to enact sterilization laws (1929) ; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have followed suit. In the first 25 years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because...