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...Communist orbit. When the anti-Soviet revolutions struck in Poland and Hungary, RFE was operating 29 high-powered transmitters out of West Germany and Portugal on a 20-hour-a-day basis to furnish the enslaved peoples with news reports, which the Communists tried to suppress by jamming. Last week RFE was attacked by West German papers and Bonn politicos, and caused some worried U.S. citizens (including NBC Commentator Chet Huntley) to ask a question. Had the RFE broadcasts actually helped spark Russia's reign of terror by giving the satellites false hope of aid from the West...
...whole, he complimented the committee, headed by Boston Lawyer Charles A. Coolidge, and gave orders for putting "the great majority" of its 28 recommendations into effect. Among the recommendations that the press can cheer: make clear that the classification system is not to be used to suppress information not affecting national security...
...Since the Indians had no other domestic animals except turkeys and ducks, the fat, hairless Xolo puppies were a leading source of meat. They were raised in large numbers, and a famous dog market near Mexico City sold as many as 400 a week. The Spanish clergy tried to suppress this traffic, with only gradual success. For many years the Spanish, too. appreciated roast Xolo. Mexico's famed painter Diego Rivera, who owns 45 hairless dogs, says he has eaten them and found them delicious...
Above the bits and pieces of the puzzle hung a many-sided question: Were these movements of troops and aircraft designed to suppress the satellite rebels? Were they designed to keep the war brewing in Egypt? Was the Kremlin, its battle for men's minds irretrievably lost in the bitter killings of Budapest, now preparing to stake all on a single throw? Or was it all a Communist bluff...
...long-sought confidence and friendship. Perhaps Nehru was unwilling to repudiate his expressed faith in the Soviet "New Look" of liberalization. Perhaps, in the face of British and French aggression in Egypt, the Premier felt Russian intervention in Hungary was justified, that the Kremlin had the right to suppress the "anarchist" insurrection in an "allied" nation. Nehru himself had explained that there was "mutual killing," that the rebellion had passed the borders of sanity, and the Budapest government had lost all control of the situation...