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...though a trickling tap had suddenly been turned full on, Soviet bloc aid is pouring into Cuba. Since July 26, some 20 Soviet ships have embarked from Black Sea, Baltic and Siberian ports; by Aug. 8 at least eight vessels had docked at Cuban ports to unload military goods and 5,000 "technicians...
Anxious to unload their embarrassing guest, Israeli authorities last week packed Convicted Soviet Spy Robert Soblen onto an El Al plane for a U.S.-bound trip via Athens and London. But as the plane approached London, Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach with a steak knife, forcing British authorities to take him on as a hospital patient. The delay that Soblen won by his dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying...
...profitable to grow these crops and turn them over to the Government at the support price. If there were no production controls, then any farmer with enough capital and know-how could grow as much wheat or cotton as he could find land to plant it on, then unload the stuff on the Government. Price supports and controls inevitably go together in agriculture, as they do in other sectors of national life-diminished freedom is the seamy side of the welfare state...
...ground rules within which to work. Disposal of the 63 million G.M. shares that Du Pont owns outright must begin no later than Aug. 1; the shares may be distributed to Du Pont stockholders or disposed of in any other way the company sees fit. Thereafter, Christiana Securities must unload the 535,500 G.M. shares that it now holds, plus the 18.5 million shares that it stands to receive if Du Pont should decide simply to divvy up its G.M. holdings amongst its shareholders...
...soldiers clad in off-duty slacks and Hawaiian shirts. White-helmeted U.S. military police stroll in pairs past the bars and nightclubs of the Rue Catinat. In the high blue sky lie the geometric patterns of contrails from U.S. jets, and at Saigon's busy docks, U.S. ships unload wheat, flour, trucks and military hardware-all the material needed to complete Harkins' mission...