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...Center here. The Party's First Secretary has suggested that the Soviet Union suspend repayment of bonds worth 265 billion rubles (about $65 billion). Though a member for twenty years of the Russian Research Center has termed it "a breach of confidence unparalleled in Soviet economic history," the new moratorium will probably not change the Soviet economic system radically. For, coupled with his announcement April 8, Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government would not float any new loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been encouraged to buy bonds totalling about three weeks...
WASHINGTON, April 12--A weekend moratorium on almost all U.S. mail services goes into effect at midnight tonight...
...national safety to agreements that have no effective safeguards and no controls. They urge a bold American defense of freedom, and they urge us to try achieving this by starting to plan an end to our military draft . . . There is no political campaign that justifies the declaration of a moratorium on common sense...
Since any H-bomb testing by one nation is detectable by another, violations of the moratorium would be immediately evident to all the nations involved. In any case, it is doubtful if a nation would gain by breaking the moratorium, since the power of the H-bomb is so great that it appears to have reached a practical power-limit...
Finally, the development of an intercontinental ballistic with an H-bomb warhead depends more upon the perfection of missile techniques than on H-bomb development. This should not be considered a deterrent to a bomb moratorium...