Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force C-130 transport in Soviet Armenia last September; Lausche doubted the Soviets' insistence that they knew nothing about eleven crewmen still unaccounted for. Mikoyan looked Lausche in the eye and said: "You have no faith in us." Last week the State Department put out a tape-recorded transcript (see Foreign Relations) that proved again and unforgettably that Communists give words a special meaning of their own. The Kremlin had denied that the C-130 had been shot down. But the transcript was the sound of Soviet jet pilots gabbing excitedly to each other by radio as they shot...
...with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
Last week, convinced by Moscow's silence that quiet diplomacy was hopeless, the U.S. released the transcript of the recording, and with it all the background on all the futile talks. A day later the Air Force buried two unidentified members of the lost crew in Arlington National Cemetery. The four other bodies had been sent to their families for burial. Somewhere in Soviet territory were eleven more Air Force men, all of them, perhaps, dead. If there was any consolation for the U.S., it lay in the fact that the free world now knew how they died...
...Atlantic City, N.J., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, in a remarkable echo of ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, went out of his way to sneer at Nationalist China's devotion to the offshore islands as "almost pathological," then declined to release a transcript of what he had said...
...transcript of Boussaid's last words was forwarded to the Paris headquarters of the Direction de Surveillance du Territoire, the secret-service arm of the French police. The D.S.T. has long warred on the F.L.N.'s clandestine organization in France, which levies taxes to finance the rebels in Algeria, operates an espionage network and an underground escape route. The F.L.N.'s biggest coup occurred this spring, when it smuggled out of the country an entire soccer team made up of star Algerian players (TIME, April 28). In combatting the F.L.N., French secret police have made thousands...