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...Kennedy and Chen came to no agreement on specific strategy to keep Red China out of the U.N. The Nationalist government, Chen said, will fight to continue the moratorium on debating the subject. But most State Department experts think that the moratorium, as a gag on free discussion, has lost too much favor with a General Assembly now swollen to 99 members, with most of the new nations opposed to the idea. The DOS planners would prefer to conduct open arguments on the merit of Red China's admission-and seek to have the question classified as an "important...
Scraped Soil. Large areas of the test site are still littered with bomb-twisted steel and wrecked buildings, but the site's radioactivity has notably declined since the start of the test moratorium. "Hot" debris has been removed from the dangerous places where bombs exploded; in some cases several inches of soil have been scraped up with bulldozers. But caution has not relaxed. All workers wear radiation-detecting devices and are carefully checked in and out of their jobs...
...policy," Bowles complicated the trying problem of Red China's admission to the United Nations by insisting that the Administration embroil itself in full-scale debate on the issue. At Bowles's suggestion, Kennedy made the naive mistake of asking the Russians for a six-month diplomatic moratorium while the new Administration worked out its foreign policy. Bowles earned the enmity of the department's career men by recommending outsiders for important ambassadorships, irked Democratic politicians at the same time by not selecting big party contributors...
...buildup in bordering Laos. There is potential trouble ahead at the U.N., where the question of Red China's entrance is sure to be raised at the General Assembly this fall. For years the issue has been kept from resolution by an annual vote in favor of a moratorium on discussion of whether the mainland Communists or the Nationalists on Formosa represent the people of China. Each year the moratorium draws fewer votes, and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk have helped make the situation less hopeful than usual by announcing that this time...
...press, was broadcast on TV and radio. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the N-bomb's most enthusiastic proponent, told the Senate: "We are in mortal peril. More than a year has passed since I first spoke on the folly of the test-ban moratorium. I mentioned the neutron bomb would operate as a kind of death ray. It would do next to no physical damage and result in no contamination, but it would immediately destroy all life in the target area. Today I doubt there is a single nuclear physicist of repute who would challenge...