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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RAPACKI PLAN. For more than a year, Poland's Foreign Minister has been plumping for creation of a "denuclearized" zone to consist of Poland, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany. In its present version-revised, according to Rapacki, to "meet Western objections"-the Rapacki Plan would begin by banning production of nuclear weapons in these four countries and restricting atomic armaments in the area to such forces as already have them, to wit, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The next step-complete denuclearization of the area-would take place only after agreement was reached on "appropriate reduction of conventional forces...
What the Communists presumably mean by a confederation is an arrangement under which both East and West Germany would retain their present governments and economic systems, and even commitments, but would establish some kind of "federal" parliament or high commission to regulate any trade and relations between the two Germany's, the one free, the other Communist. Even if a confederation were fairly proportioned between West Germany's 54 million people and East Germany's 17.4 million, it would mean open Western acceptance of the East German Communist government and of the Soviet presence in East Germany...
...leaders of France's former territories, there are vast differences about where they should be heading. The eccentric Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Republic of Congo is not a man to want to join a federation that may cut down his own power within his present preserve. The abbe's more statesmanlike neighbor to the north, Strongman Barthelemy Boganda, of the former French territory of Ubangi-Shari -now grandly called the Central African Republic* fears that in the fragmentation of French Equatorial African states, the young republics might fall victim to a "new colonialism...
...turbulent present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar...
...Italian Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has occasionally fitted the well-padded form of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, offered President Eisenhower a vicuna coat (free, no strings), later decided, after he was told about Bostonian Bernard Goldfine, that the offer was still good. "It is not insulting in Italy to present a vicuna coat," explained Litrico. "In Italy it is a good material...