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...point was underlined last week by Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, in a rebuke to the British intellectuals who keep equating Russian bases in Cuba and U.S. missile bases abroad. Said he: "We sit in Europe covered by every kind of missile directed at us from Russian soil. If you bargain between one base and another, you'll not get rid of one Russian base pointed at Europe, and you'll lose one of your own bases...
Neither the U.S. acceptance nor the Soviet announcement mentioned an earlier Russian proposal involving liquidation of NATO rocket bases in Turkey in return for the dismantling of the rockets on Cuban soil...
...German-descended citizens of Pflugerville, Texas (pop.: 400), the most important things in life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High...
Cuba should be offered the chance to start dismantling its offensive apparatus under U.N. inspection within 48 hours. If there are intermediate range missiles on Cuban soil, their presence endangers that country as well as our own; only the Soviet Union gains here. And since the rationale for installing these bases has been defense against an unremittingly hostile U.S., the very step of negotiating for their removal would serve towards obviating them...
...after eleven years of test-drilling, a Dutch oil company jointly owned by Shell and Jersey Standard finally hit natural gas under the muddy reclaimed soil of The Netherlands' north eastern province of Groningen. How big the fields were neither the oilmen nor the government ever felt moved to disclose. But fortnight ago. coming before Parliament to ask authority to tap the fields. Economics Minister Jan De Pous at last let the gas out of the bag. The Netherlands' known reserves of natural gas. he reported, amounted to at least 350 billion cubic meters-more than the combined...