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Died. Dr. Otto Yulievich Schmidt, 64, tall, stoop-shouldered Russian explorer, who led the first expedition to sail the ice-clogged passage from Archangel to the Bering Strait in one season (1932); after long illness; in Moscow...
While the government fumed, the Sumatran army headquarters continued last week to dispatch nightly caravans of heavily guarded trucks to small northern ports where 16 small-tonnage ships waited to smuggle the rubber across the narrow Malacca Strait. The government was helpless: the army alone has the authority to stop smuggling...
...China. Dulles rejected Red China's bid for a foreign ministers' conference, at least until Red China 1) releases eleven Americans held prisoner in its jails, and 2) agrees to make a "meaningful renunciation of force" in the Formosa Strait...
...Minister Lester Pearson comes to Washington for talks with Dulles. For one thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
...mileage and momentum by the minute, relaxing freedom's watchfulness, exacerbating the free world's differences, as the urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow of peace." Along with the smiles, the Communists offered what appeared to the world's unwise...