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Overruling his officials in the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission, President Eisenhower last week ordered a last-chance attempt to reach a first-step disarmament agreement with the Soviet Union. Eisenhower proposed that the U.S. and its allies extend their offer to suspend nuclear tests for ten months to a period of one year, renewable to two years, if the Russians would agree with the West to 1) quit making atomic weapons and 2) cooperate in setting up a foolproof worldwide system of inspection. "I sincerely hope," said the President, sounding what might well...
...began last week a modern adventure of man against the sky. The Air Force's aim: to suspend one man at 100,000 ft. for 24 hours and chart his reactions-body and psyche-against the textbook theories of life in space...
Batista's answer was to slap Cuba under martial law, suspend all civil guarantees, impose an iron censorship. He ordered his troops to force open Santiago's stores and drive its buses. And his police made mass nationwide arrests...
...principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders that resulted from putting the cart before the ox." The new solutions: 1) concentrate on the basic governmental task of establishing peace and order, 2) open up industrial enterprises to people with "profit motives," and 3) suspend all nonessential economic projects, including government projects that had encouraged "thievery and pilfering." "I do not wish," said U Nu firmly, "to see the government having a finger in all sorts of economic pies...
...Announced, as the West German Bundestag called on the U.S., Britain and Russia to suspend nuclear-weapons testing, that observers from 47 nations (not including India, the U.S.S.R. or its satellites) had been invited to witness a series of "low-yield" (tactical) nuclear-weapons shots in Nevada starting May 16. Purpose: "To familiarize them with U.S. testing policies and operations, especially safety procedures...