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...Documents. Ferreting out these criminals is the fulltime task of the Central Office for Nazi Crimes, a Wrest German government investigation agency organized in 1958 to coordinate the faltering prosecution efforts of the separate West German Länder (states). Operating in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart, the Central Office includes a judge or prosecuting attorney from each of the ten Länder as well as West Berlin, plus a staff of 25 specialists who search out and study cache after cache of Hitler's wartime records. Their goal is always the same: new names and new evidence. The Central...
...areas--Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Though Indian influence was originally very strong in all of them, the Indians have of late been losing ground to the Chinese. In the extreme east, where India and Tibet meet directly, some-what more than 100,000 Chinese troops are currently trying to wrest the area from Indian control...
...leaders of West Berlin last week cautioned their citizens to commemorate the first year of the ugly Communist Wall with "meditation" rather than demonstrations. But many stubborn Wrest Berliners were not content simply to meditate when anniversary day arrived...
Faded Crisis. Not until then did the subject get around to Wrest Berlin. Only a few weeks ago, it would have been uppermost in everyone's mind. Things seemed a lot less pressing now that Moscow had, for the time being, taken off the heat. In Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev was even saying, "The U.S. threatened us with war over Berlin, but I do not see any reason to go to war." Rusk and Adenauer probably saw this as vindication of sorts for their own policies. Rusk had always felt he could talk the crisis to death...
...safe side with bus riders and labor unions. Last week these two determined men collided on the streets of New York, snarling public transit from the Bowery to The Bronx. The nation's biggest metropolitan bus line was stalled by a strike, and Bob Wagner was pledged to wrest it from the control of Harry Weinberg...