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...British Foreign Office termed Egypt's six-point memorandum on ground rules for the reopened Suez Canal disquieting in that it made no reference to six principles adopted by the U.N. last October as the basis for negotiations on the canal operations...
...Nickerson document was a brief called "Considerations on the Wilson Memorandum," in which he took issue with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's ruling last fall (TIME, Dec. 10) that the Air Force and not the Army was to use land-based missiles with ranges beyond 200 miles...
...last December, according to the court-martial charges, Colonel Nickerson wrote his memorandum against the Wilson order, sent it to William F. Hunt of Reynolds Metals Co. and John A. Baumann of Radio Corp. of America (both employed at Redstone), Editor Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets, and to Washington Columnist Drew Pearson. "We took one look at it," said Bergaust later, "and decided we didn't want the stuff around. So we mailed it back to Nickerson, registered. Fortunately, we kept the receipt...
Searching the Attic. Pearson's legman took Pearson's copy of the Nickerson memorandum to the Pentagon to see if he could stir up an Air Force rebuttal. But the Air Force refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody...
...National Guard recruits and the Guard's opposition to the plan (TIME, Feb. 11-18), ended in an armistice worked out with the mediating hand of Chairman Overton Brooks of a House Armed Services subcommittee. The treaty-or, as Louisiana's Brooks called it, a "memorandum of understanding"-permits the Guard to set up an eleven-week training schedule for 17-18½-year-olds until the end of the year. Then, beginning next Jan. 1 (instead of next month, as the Army had originally ruled), the Guard will institute the Army's preferred six-month program...