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...determinedly establishing themselves as the freest of Russia's satellites, could and did. To Washington came an economic delegation that negotiated an agreement for $95 million worth of U.S. aid and went home with the possibility of receiving even more. In addition, the U.S. eased restrictions on the shipment of strategic goods to Poland, upped exports so that more dollars worth of goods have already been delivered so far this year than were shipped all of last year. The Poles have increased exports to the U.S., e.g., canned hams, Christmas ornaments, have leveled the ratio of their trade...
...Fishing. But the Syrians, as if to dramatize their geographic importance in the most barbaric and graphic way, let half a train shipment of 1,000 Iraqi sheep die on the way to Beirut by simply refusing them water. As the carcasses were burned in a giant pyre at Beirut, the message was clear: it is not so easy to isolate Syria. Syria was also laboring to convince everyone that it had not turned Communist. "I am a considerably wealthy man, and I am determined to keep my wealth," protested Syrian Acting Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who negotiated...
...victory for civil rights came 338 years, to the week, after the first shipment of Negro slaves to the British colonies landed at Jamestown...
...military power in Korea was against them. Old Syngman Rhee bluntly demanded atomic weapons. This week, as the result of the Panmunjom meeting, a force of F-100 jet fighters capable of delivering tactical atomic bombs will begin to move into Korea. They will be followed by a shipment of up-to-date infantry weapons, but for the time being the U.N. Command will not get atomic rockets or guided missiles...
...Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first shipment under the Eisenhower Doctrine. Last week, as the Lebanese voted in the first of four Sunday elections for a new 66-man Parliament, 15 out of the 22 government candidates up for election came out victors. Solh himself defeated El Yafi by a comfortable 19,098 to 16,270. President Camille...