Warsaw Pact seeks bigger voice in Soviet led decisions
East European nations in the Warsaw Pact push for greater influence on policy and military strategy within the Soviet led alliance. The study notes two trends: closer military integration and a shift toward coalition style decision making while preserving Soviet dominance. The pact, totaling about 1 million troops in 60 divisions, has seen Moscow hint at strengthening or reorganizing the alliance amid West German nuclear strategy concerns.
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London
UPI
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
the World Today
Royal Institute For International Affairs
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Rusmania
Albania
East Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Moscow
West Germany
Thomas W. Wolfe
Russia
USIA Boosts Book Production to Promote American Life Abroad
The U S Information Agency plans a $65 000 year incentive program for private publishers to release books on the American way of life. A Washington publisher will receive $24 000 to print 4 300 copies of six titles, distributed overseas to teachers and students and sold domestically. USIA says the program spurs accurate, independent works and does not propagate propaganda.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Information Agency
USIA
United States
Congress
General Accounting Office
USIR
Emotions Shape Panama Canal Treaty Talks
Since last September the United States and Panama have quietly negotiated terms of a new canal treaty while examining a sea level alternative. Panamanian politics, led by President Robles and former President Arias, fuse emotion with bargaining as Panama seeks sovereignty over the 50 mile zone and a larger share of canal profits, while resisting site moves to Colombia or Nicaragua.
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United States
Panama
Fourth of July Avenue
Panama City
Marco Aurelio Robles
Arnulfo Arias
Arias
Robles
U.S
Viet Nam
Harriman seeks Red Cross help on prisoner exchange in Viet Nam
UPI reports President Enovy Harriman met with International Red Cross officials in Geneva to explore using the Red Cross as intermediary for a prisoner exchange with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Washington cites 33 known detainees and 149 missing servicemen, many presumed POWs.
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Geneva
UPI
W. Averell Harriman
Red Cross
Viet Nam
Harriman
Samuel A. Gonard
International Aid Organization
Gonard
United States
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
South
North
Safety Hazards Disclosed Prompt Auto Safety Warnings
Washington reports that Sen. Ribicoff will unveil a list of safety hazard warnings from Detroit’s major automakers and foreign manufacturers. The disclosures, spurred by Nader and Mondale, aim to back a bill mandating immediate government and owner notices of hazards.
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Washington
UPI
Abraham A. Ribicoff
de Conn
Detroit
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Volkswagen
Volvo
U.S
Ralph Nader
Ribicoff
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Mondale
GOP House Control Seen Without Actual Majority
GOP Whip Leslie Arends says the party could control the House legislative program next year without an outright majority if it gains 60 seats in the Nov 8 election. He noted smaller gains could still block President Johnson’s Great Society, though absolute control with 77 seats is unlikely. The remarks opened the 14th annual Republican Women’s Conference, with Goldwater and Romney speaking.
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Illinois
Johnson
Arends
Johnson Plan to Shift Loans Faces Senate Vote Clash
The Senate approved a plan to shift some government loans and mortgages to private investors 39 to 22 despite Republican denouncements calling it a gigantic crap game The measure would pull housing support for farm loans from a public pool sold to investors and may affect the fiscal year 1967 deficit projections, pending House action. In Palermo Sicily a man confessed to killing his wife though police found her unharmed crediting her account of excessive wine and a misperceived event. Separate notes mention tax credits for pollution fight and a resolution backing containment of nuclear weapons.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Senate
House
Palermo
Sicily
Francisco Cangemi
Gordon Allott
R-Coro
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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