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...Communist countries to the East. Armed forces in these zones would be controlled to maintain "a military balance." As a further protection against surprise, each side would be permitted a radar network in the other's zone-the Russians in the Western zone, on or close to the Rhine; the NATO members somewhere in Poland. This was no impractical talk of a neutral zone, but a fresh contribution to the tired old lexicon of "demili tarized areas" and "buffer zones," and conceived in large terms...
Died. Thomas Mercer Backhouse, 51, officer in charge of the war crimes section in the British Army of the Rhine in World War II, successful prosecutor in 1945 of Joseph ("The Beast of Belsen") Kramer and other Nazi operators of Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps; of pleurisy; in Nottingham, England...
...aircraft brought naval commandos. Back in France, 100,000 conscripts had their period of service lengthened indefinitely; 50,000 reservists were recalled to the colors. All told, the rapid build-up brought French strength in colonial North Africa to some 200,000 men -more than there are on the Rhine...
Just One Experiment. He disputes methods used to arrive at psi findings, suggests that all the tests could be frauds, possibly worked by "arguing that much good to humanity could result from a small deception designed to strengthen religious belief." If the findings of experimenters like Rhine and Soal are valid, says Price, they are "of enormous importance . . ." "As scientists." he asks, "what sort of evidence for ESP should we demand?" His answer: "Just one experiment that does not have to be accepted simply on a basis of faith in human honesty." His recommendation: apply Hume's precept with...
From his laboratories at Durham, N.C., where for more than 25 years he has been testing theories and assembling statistics about "ESP-prone" subjects, Dr. Rhine fired an angry volley at Price's article, asked "whether a hundred or more research scientists ... are so stupid as to indulge in a gigantic hoax involving the hiring of confederates and such...