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With that salvo, the Soviets last month launched their latest assault on what has long been pretty much a free-world preserve: seaborne trade between non-Communist nations. The Soviet merchant fleet has been ranging beyond bloc trade routes for years, of course, but never have its excursions been quite so bold. At stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent...
...that will be dissolved just before the voters go to the polls some time in autumn 1969. Last week Willy Brandt, the Socialist leader who is also Foreign Minister in the Grand Coalition, took the occasion of a Socialist Party convention in Nürnberg to fire an opening salvo designed to shred some of the areas of agreement that have held the coalition partners together...
...needs lots of review. The President had little time to read it before it was published." But apparently he had read enough. The commission asserted that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal." In what may be the Administration's opening salvo at the report, Vice-President Humphrey said Tuesday that this conclusion "is open to challenge." The Administration is peeved that the Commission in its effort to determine the causes and cures for riots, did not see fit to praise past achievements of the Great Society...
What was left of the navy became a hotbed of anti-czarist agitation. In 1917, the guns of the cruiser Aurora fired a blank salvo at the Winter Palace in Petrograd and started the October Revolution. At first, sailors were the new Soviet government's most trusted fighters, but Lenin managed to alienate them. He put in charge of the navy a commissar who was, of all things, a woman, named Larisa Reisner-Raskol-nikova, and refused to allow the sailors to organize their own self-ruling local governments. As a result, the Baltic Fleet suddenly mutinied in 1921. Lenin...
...that he would not, and did not, photograph certain specified inmates, among them Albert De Salvo, the confessed Boston Strangler...