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...came down in East Germany June 7, were produced by the Communists for a surprise press conference in Dresden. On hand at the conference: a crowd of Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through spokesmen for the Russians: U.S. recognition-actual or implied-of Communist satellite East Germany as a diplomatic equal...
...shaking fists. Russian fighter planes forced down a strayed U.S. Air Force transport plane south of the Caucasus Mountains, took the nine crewmen captive, charged the U.S. with a "gross" and "deliberate" violation of Soviet airspace. And stubborn foot-dragging met U.S. efforts to get back nine other U.S. servicemen who landed in East Germany in early June after their helicopter got off course on a training flight...
...jounced through canefields for 30 miles, finally stopped alongside a cluster of waiting trucks on the San Antonio sugar plantation at the edge of the mountain foothills. The servicemen, their driver and the bus conductor were loaded aboard the trucks and carted off into the mountains, captives of Fidel Castro's leftist, anti-U.S. brother Raúl, who commands the rebels' Sierra del Cristal column...
...also got sympathetic consideration of the Philippines' longtime request for a status-of-forces agreement to grant Philippine courts jurisdiction over off-base offenses committed by Philippines-based U.S. servicemen in the style of the U.S.'s status-of-forces agreements with Japan and other allied countries. And he also got a flat and unequivocal guarantee from President Eisenhower that "any armed attack against the Philippines would involve an attack against United States Forces stationed there and against the United States and would be instantly repelled." Summed up the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos Romulo: "Mission accomplished...
...served as the setting for Republican Candidate Benjamin Harrison's nomination for the presidency in 1888, and is ranked by Frank Lloyd Wright as "the greatest room for music and opera in the world-bar none." Closed as a theater since 1940. used for three years as a servicemen's bowling alley, the 4,200-seat house is now part of Roosevelt University, is empty, flaking and slowly deteriorating. Status: good chance of survival, with nearly every top U.S. architect, museum director and historian enrolled in a fund-raising and rehabilitation campaign...