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No Pressure Seen
For Sen. Knowland
To Quit Leadership
Republicans Unhappy,
Sampling Discloses
Washington (U.R) Evidence
from the right, left and center
of the Republican minority in
- the Senate indicated today there
is no significant pressure on
GOP Floor Leader William F.
Knowland to give up his job.
Knowland last week set off
peculation that he might quit
when he vigorously criticized
President Eisenhower's an
nounced willingness to negotiate
with the Chinese Reds on the
tense Formosa Straits issue with
out Chinese Nationalist partici
pation in the talks. He told news
men Saturday, however, that he
had "no present intention" to re
sign. . -
Midwest Speeches
He then set off for the. Mid
west where he repeated his ob
jections to bilateral negotiations
in speeches yesterday in Wiscon
in and Illinois.
A sampling of opinion among
Senate Republicans showed
ample evidence that staunch ad
ministration backers are unhap
py about Knowland's criticism
of the President's course. How
ever, there was no evidence of
any serious demand for him to
retire.
One senator, closely connect
ed with the administration, said
he not only hoped Knowland
would keep the floor leadership
but that he believed the Senate
GOP Conference would not ac
- cept a resignation if it should
be offered. This same senator
feverently hoped there would be
no complete break.
Declaration of Support
In an obvious response, to
" Knowland's critltismri2 Repub
lican senators joined Saturday
night in a declaration of support
for Mr. Eisenhower. They said
they were confident the Presi
dent would carry on any nego
t ions without sacrificing this na
tion's obligations.
Six Youths Jailed
On Liquor Charges
Six youths were arrested and
lodged in Jackson county jail
Saturday night on charges of il
legal possession of alcoholic bev
erages. Joseph William Lucas, 18, box
92, Eagle Point, was 'arrested in
Eagle Point about 1:30 a.m. Sun
day morning, and five Southern
Oregon college students were ar
rested and jailed late Saturday
night.
The five are Charles Leonard
Crandall, 18, Coos Bay; Ronald
Lyman Owings, 20, Klamath
Falls; William David Seymour,
19, 1098 Siskiyou blvd., Ash
land; Allen Mamoru Kimura, 18.
Waipahu, O a h u, T. H., and
Thomas Lee Jacobson, 18, Coos
Bay.
Extra Funds Voted
For Fishing Grounds
Washington (U.R) The House
voted today to let the govern
ment have an extra $135,000 to
replace Indian fishing grounds
submerged or otherwise destroy
ed by the Bonneville Dam.
It passed and sent to the Sen
ate a bill to increase from $50,
000 to 8785,000 the amount the
government is authorized to
spend in acquiring land and
building necessary facilities.
The House Public Works Com
mittee said the increase is need
ed to cover increased land costs
and for access roads, clearing
and grading, and partial filling
of two substitute sites.
Interior Department Money
Bill OKd by Senate Group
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee to
day approved a $327,987,088
money bill to finance the Interior
Department and a number of re
lated agencies in the year begin
ning July 1. ,
In a departure from the prac
tice La previous years the bill did
not include funds to finance the
programs of the Reclamation
Bureau, the Southeastern and
Southwestern power administra
tions and the Bonneville Power
Administration. Those activities
will be included in a public
works bill.
X
MEDFORD, OREGON,
VACCINE ARRIVES Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer
and chairman of the medical advisory committee of the Jackson
county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis, is shown above accepting, the Salic vaccine from Capt. Leon
ard Hipps of West Coast Airlines at Medford airport yesterday
morning. Harry Chipman. chapter chairman, looks on from the
left while Mrs. Moore Hamilton, chapter secretary, watches
from behind Dr. Merkel. Vaccination of all first and second
grade school children in Jackson county, whose parents have
signed consent slips, is scheduled to start on Monday, May 9.
(L. E. McMurray photo)
Oregon Anti-Polio
Vaccine Distributed;
Shots Slated May 9
Portland (U.R) Enough Salk
anti-polio vaccine was in the
hands of Oregon county health
departments today to vaccinate
more than 80,000 first and second
grade students.
MFirst,jmass . inpeyjat jqns with
the vaccine will take place May
9.
Dr. Harold Erickson, state
health officer, said the vaccine
Washington (U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), urged
Congress today to act "im
mediately" to impose compul
sory federal controls on distri
bution of Salk polio vaccine.
was flown to 30 counties yes
terday, while Multnomah and ad
joining counties picked up their
supplies by truck in Portland.
Four Civil Air Patrol planes
were used to deliver the vaccine
to 11 counties not served by com
mercial airlines. The planes
stopped at Gold Beach, Condon,
John Day, Burns, Hood River,
Radford, Robertson
To Report on Trip
Washington (U.R) ; Adm.
Arthur W. Radford, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
Assistant Secretary of State Wal
ter Robertson prepared top-level
reports today on their estimates
of prospects for war or peace in
the Formosa Straits.
Radford and Robertson return
ed here Sunday, night after
spending Sunday at Robertson's
Richmond, Vt., home. They have
been to Formosa where they con
ferred with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek.
Robertson said on arrival at
Richmond that he and Radford
would report to President Ei
senhower, Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and Secre
tary of Defense Charles E. Wil
son. -
They probably will submit
their report to the President be
fore he meets at the White House
Tuesday with top Democratic
and Republican congressional
leaders.
As sent to the Senate, the com
mittee bill was $30,061,542
larger than the measure ap
proved by the House. It was $13,
454,032 larger than the Presi
dent's budget for the various
agencies concerned.
The bill includes $12,690,500
for the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice, S45,380,700 for the Na
tional Park Service, $21,932,498
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
and $15,800,000 for the Bureau
of Land management. It also car
ried $93,826,690 for the Agricul
ture Department's Forest Ser
NDAY, MAY 2, 1955
Lakeview, Newport, Lexington,
Tillamook and The Dalles.
West Coast and United Air
lines shipped the vaccine to their
regular stops in Oregon.
The state's first shipment of
the Salk vaccine .arrived Friday
night and was "packaged Satur
day. Medical Society Approves
Approval of the inoculation
program was given by the Ore
gon Medical Society and the
board of health, after the recent
controversy Over supplies manu
factured by-Cutter Laboratories,
of Berkeley, Calif., raised doubts
about its use.
Oregon's supply was shipped
from Parke-Davis Laboratories
of Detroit.
By UNITED PRESS
A second child died of infan
tile paralysis after receiving a
shot of Salk anti-polio vaccine
but the majority of the nation
appeared to be unshaken today
by the number of polio cases.
Mass inoculations of first and
second graders across the nation
continued even though 35 young
sters have come down with polio
after receiving shots. .
President Eisenhower's Polio
Advisory committee held its
first meeting today to draft
quotas and priorities for distri
bution of the precious vaccine.
Idaho Girl Dies
The latest Salk-inoculated
child to die was a seven-year-old
Idaho girl who was taken to a
Spokane hospital after she be
came ill.
The government placed a ban
on vaccine manufactured by Cut
ter Laboratories of Berkeley,
Calif., after 16 children inoc
ulated with Cutter vaccine came
down with polio. The ban was
taken as a precautionary mea
sure to allow time for -tests to
determine if the vaccine was re
sponsible. Pleated by Reaction
Leonard A. Scheele, U.S. Surgeon-General,
said he was "very
pleased'"at the way parents have
reacted to withdrawal of Cut
ter vaccine.
However, Scheele appealed to
limit inoculations to children be
tween one and nine years who
"run the greatest risk of getting
polio."
Sscheele's appeal and the ad
visory committee meeting in
Washington came as demands in
creased for strict regulation of
the vaccine's distribution.
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Trail Man Killed
In Auto Accident;
Four Persons Hurt
Allen Darnell Dies
When Thrown From Car
t
One man was killed and four
other persons were injured early
Sunday in a two-car collision
on Crater Lake highway near
Eagle Point, according to state
police.
Dead was Allen R. Darnell,
26, Tiller. Investigating officers
said Darnell died at the scene
of the accident. He was thrown
from his car as it rolled over
several times.
Wife Injured
The injured included Darn
ell's wife, Carolyn, 22; Leonard
Lilya, 27, Trail; Henry Diriskell,
25, Canyonville, and Hazel Neff,
14, Tiller. Their injuries were
believed to be minor police said.
The accident occurred at about
3 a.m. Sunday at the intersec
tion of Crater Lake highway and
Alta Vista rd.
Police quoted eyewitnesses as
saying Darnell's car, which was
northbound, suddenly swerved,
crashing into a car operated by
Mildren Viola Knudsen, 31, of
Box 679, Eagle Point. The Knud
sen car was on Alta Vista rd.,
at the intersection, where it was
stopped waiting for traffic to
clear, they said.
Darnell's car struck the right
front fender of the Knudsen veh
icle, according to reports. The
Darnell vehicle went over an
embankment on the right side of
the road, slipped sideways for
about 30 feet down a ditch, and
then flipped over several times,
throwing both Darnell and his
wife from the car.
Both vehicle? were towed
away. No citations were listed.
Second Accident
Two .people were injured Sun
day evening in a second acci
dent. They were Charlene Vir
ginia Heath, 28, of 513V Palm
st., and her husband, Milton Gar
field Heath, 37. The accident oc
curred at about 7:20 p.m. on
Hamerick rd., when the car driv
en by Mrs. Heath failed to make
a sharp turn in front of Lining-
er Gravel company.
The car rolled, ending up on
its top. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heath
were taken by Medford Ambu
lance service to Community hos
pital, where they were treated
and released.
Tuesday Adjournment
Of Legislature Eyed
Salem (U.R) The Senate
voted today to make the sales
tax package of four bills the first
order of business for final vote
tomorrow, as talk grew concern
ing closing the 1955 session to
morrow night.
While several lawmakers
doubted that the session could
end that soon. Sen. Rudie Wil-
helm (R-Portland)), chairman of
the Senate Tax Committee op
posed a motion by Sen. Monroe
Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) to put
final action on the sales tax bills
over until Wednesday. Sen. Wil
helm said he though the session
could end tomorrow night if the
sales tax package is passed upon
tomorrow morning.
Senate President Elmo E.
Smith (R-John Day) also said he
hoped the issue would be voted
upon tomorrow because there
would then be a good chance of
winding up the session and ad
journing tomorrow night.
Sen. Holmes Eyes
Senate Presidency
. Salem-J(U.R) Sen. Robert D.
Holmes, Gearhart Democrat, to
day became the first senator to
announce his . candidacy for
president of the 1957 Oregon
Senate.
At the same time Rep. Pat
Dooley, Portland Democrat, an
nounced his candidacy for the
speaker of the 1957 House.
Sen. Holmes said he felt there
was a strong probability that the
House would go Democratic next
session, and a good possibility
that the Senate would go Demo
cratic. "Afteribserving four sessions
of the legislature with the Re
publicans in control," Sen.
Holmes said, "I am convinced
that the Democratic trend which
elected a U.S. senator and a con
gresswoman from Oregon will
continue."
Weather
FORECAST Partly e 1 n t y
through Tuesday. Chance of a
few scattered ihower tonight
and Tuesday afternoon. Little
change in temperature. Low
tonight 36-38. High Tuesday
2.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 59
Lowest this morning 34
Practice Parachute
Jump Made North of
City Near Camp White
A parachute jump, one of
the first in the Medford area
in many years, was made
shortly before noon today
north of the Camp White area.
Jim Wright, who has served
as a "smokejumper" for the
U.S. forest service out of Cave
Junction, made the jump from
Rogue Flying service Cessna
170 plane flown from the
Medford municipal airport by
Don George.
Wright, practicing "on his
own," bailed out to try a free
fall jump, or delayed para
chute opening. He left the fly
ing service plane at about 3.
200 feet and his chute opened
about 1,000 feet above the
ground. ,
The jump was made about
two miles northeast of the
Veterans administration domi
ciliary and Wright drifted lit
tle in the descent. George re
ported. Wright carried an aux
iliary chute.
George said the jump went
off "swell."
East Nominated
As District Judge
To Succeed Fee
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower today nomin
ated William .G. East, Eugene,
Ore., Republican, to be U. S. Dis
trict Judge for- the District of
Oregon.
East, Circuit Court Judge of
Lane county since 1949, would
succeed James A. Fee, appoint
ed to the Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit.
Judge East, 47, has been an
attorney for 23 years. He was
born in Lecompton, Kan., but
moved to Salem with his family
while still a bby. He graduated
from University of Oregon Law
School in 1932.
Served in Army
He served as an infantry of
ficer in the Army from 1942 un
til 1946, when he resumed his
private law practice in Eugene.
He also became city attorney and
counsel of the Eugene water
board the same year.
In 1949, former Gov. Douglas
McKay named him to the circuit
bench of the 2nd judicial dis
trict, composed of Lane, Douglas,
Coos, Curry and Lincoln coun
ties. He has held that position
until the present.
The judge is married to the
former Louise F. Wilhelm, and
has a daughter, Sara.
Higher Benefits for
Workers Approved
Salem (U.R) The House to
day approved by a vote of 51 to 8
a bill raising workers' benefits
and employers' contributions un
der the Unemployment Compen
sation Act. The bill now goes to
a conference committee for Sen
ate concurrence with the. House
amendments.
If finally approved, the bill
would raise maximum weekly
benefits from the present $25
per week to $35. They would be
effective Dec. 31 of this year. The
law would be effective Dec. 31
of this year.
. The law would effect all em
ployers of two or more persons
and they would make contribu
tions on salaries up to $3300 in
stead of the present $3600.
In order to halt further drains
on the idle pay fund, the bill
raised employer contributions by
.3 of one per cent on salaries
beginning at $700 instead of the
present $400.
Founder of FFA
Dies in Kansas City
v Kansas City, Mo. (U.R)
funeral services for Wilber A.
Cochel, founder of the Future
Farmers of America and for 20
years editor of the weekly Kan
sas City Star, will be held Wed
nesday. Cochel, 77, died yesterday aft
ed a long illness.
A noted farm journalist and
educator in the Midwest, Cochel
was responsible for the first ga
thering of rural boys on a na
tional scale.
Yalhma Firing Center, Wash.
(U.R) The Army's 2nd Infan
try Division today threw its mo
bile units against an "aggressor"
force in an effort to throw the
'enemy" back across the Columbia-river
her.
Dai Denounces
Dethronement by
Military Junta
Eisenhower Envoy
Rushes To Saigon .
Saigon, Indochina (U.R)
Free Viet Nam's bloody civil war
exploded again today in shell
scarred Saigon with heavy fight
ting between government and
rebel troops.
. At the same time Emperor
Bao Dai denounced the military
junta whith dethroned him Sat
urday and said he was determin
ed to return to his native land
from the French Riviera.
Today's fighting erupted when
rebel troops opened fire on gov
ernment positions and regular
soldiers, loyal to Premier Ngo
Dinh Diem delivered a full
scale counterattack.
Army Deserters
The rebels launched their at
tacks just after the American
backed Premier announced that
five battalions of their army had
deserted to the government side.
The sound of new shellbursts
greeted President Eisenhower's
spcial envoy Gen. J. Lawton Col
lins, who flew here this morn
ing from Washington.
Collins saw Diem for half an
hour this afternoon. Informed
sources said Diem brought him
up to date on the recent tumult
uous events in the capital.
Malcolm MacDonald, Britain's
trouble shooting high commis
sioner for Southeast Asia, arriv
ed from Singapore to make an
on the spot assessment of the
situation at London's request.
It was reported later that Col
lins told Diem the United States
could give no guarantees on any
moves the Premier may make in
the future. The Premier's office
described the results of the dis
cussion as "excellent."
MacDonald conferred with
Diem immediately afterward.
Both French and Viet Namese
believed he carried with him the
American decision on whether to
back the new "revolutionary
committee" now supporting
Diem.
Government troops threw a
counter - attack against several
hundred Binh Xuyen in the out
skirts of Cholon, the Chinese
city an the outskirts of Saigon.
Smoke rose from over, the city
areas which were burned in
heavy fighting last Thursday and
Friday.
Shaky Victory
Diem appeared to be the shaky
victor of a week end of violence
and political turbulence when
the fighting began again today.
Bao Dai, in an interview pub
lished in the mass-circulation
newspaper France Soir in Paris,
said he would return home as
soon as the confusion in Viet
Nam has ended. ;
Bao Dai has been living in a
pink villa on the French Riviera
since April, 195, and said he
stayed in France only because
Diem had asked him to do so.
He took sharp issue with the
"revolutionary committee"
which sprang up in Saigon and
declared his dethronement. He
called it a "plot of extremists
who sought to exploit the con
fusion in Saigon."
Safeway Damage
Suit Dismissed
Portland U.R) Safeway
Stores, Inc., was dismissed today
as one of the defendants in a
$714,000 damage suit brought by
a Portland couple.
The complaint was brought by
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Zucker. He
was jailed in 1952 after his wife
wrote checks on the Oregon City
Safeway store. The petition con
tends he was wrongfully jailed.
Remaining defendants in the
federal court action are Fred
Reaksecker, Clackamas county
sheriff; Winston Bradshaw,
county district attorney; Glen
Macdonald, former chief of po
lice at Oregon City, and Stanley
J. Mitchell, Oregon City attor
ney who represented Zucker at
the time.
Ambassadors
Treaty Making
Vienna (U.R) Delegates
of the United States, Russia,
France, Britain and Austria met
today in Vienna's inner city to
try to write an Austrian state
treaty which, could change the
cold war map of Europe.
For an indefinite number of
days they will confer in secrecy
to try to write the treaty which
will end 10 years of military oc
cupation and make Austria a
free nation for the first time
since 1938 when Nazi Germany
took it over anschluss.
Many obstacles lay in their
path, and Austrian Chancellor
Julius Raab warned the Aus
trians not to expect immediate
agreement. .
TO'Slayin
Bernice Hampton (Tex) White,
37 of 228 Hartley rd., Medford,
pleaded innocent in circuit court
today to first degree murder
charges growing out of the death
of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, of
215 Fourth st., Phoenix, last
March 2. Trial for White was set
for June 14.
Birk died in an Ashland hospi
tal March 2 of head injuries re
ceived when he was struck with
Waller G. Tucker
Of Pioneer Family
Dies at Ashland
Ashland Walter Gray (Jim)
Tucker, 71, a lifelong resident of
this area and a member of a
pioneer Jackson county family,
died here Sunday. Funeral serv
ices will be held Tuesday at
2:30 p.m. with Litwiller funeral
home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Tucker was born June 3,
1884 at the old Wagner family re
sort, now known as Soda
Springs. His father, Louis Tuck
er, came across the plains to Ore
gon in 1851. His mother, Mary
Michelson Tucker, came to Ore
gon in 1862.
Mr: Tucker lived for, a time at
Boone ranch, where the present
house was built by his uncle,
and for a time at Eagle Point.
He attended the old Bellview
schools south of Ashland, and
one of his teachers was Susanne
Homes, who later was county
superintendent of schools and in
whose honor the women's dormi
tory at Southern Oregon college
Is named.
A carpenter, Mr. Tucker help
ed build many of the houses in
Ashland. He was a longtime
member of tfie Ashland Elks
lodge, and was prominent in
work wth the- Bellview Grange.
Mr. Tucker was married to
Mary Homes, who died in the
early 1930s, and in 1945 he mar
ried the former Mrs., Elizabeth
Nichols, who survives him. Other
survivors include two sisters,
Mrs. Daisy Homes and Mrs. Ivy
Grubb, both of Ashland, and
three stepsons.
Estimated Cost of
Hells Dam Declines
Washington (U.R) The es
timated cost of controversial
Hells Canyon dam has dropped
by more than $3,000,000 in the
past three years, a Senate Inter
ior subcommittee was told to
day. -'
C. I. Hoisington, a Reclama
tion Bureau Estimates and An
alysis engineer from Denver,
Colo., said that under April, 1955
prices, the structure would cost
$353,740,000. A previous esti
mate submitted to Congress in
1952 set the cost at $356,810,000,
he said.
Hoisington was one of a series
of Interior Department witness
es called to supply technical in
formation about the dam. The
subcommittee was starting a
three-day hearing here, follow
ing hearings last month in the
Idaho-Oregon area where the
dam would be located.
(See Story on Page 8)
Atomic Blast Delayed
Till Wednesday Morning
Las Vegas U.R) The Atomic
Energy Commission today post
poned for another 24 hours, until
Wednesday morning, the sched
uled big atomic blast at Yucca
Flat. Heavy clouds which would
pose a radiation hazard was
given as the reason.
Sit Down To
Austria Sovereign Nation
We must realize that the am
bassadors face a very difficult
task which will take them time,"
he said. "Each line of the treaty
clauses must be gone over and
worded with care and precision
to avoid any misinterpretations,"
Raab pointed out.
If Soviet plans are adopted,
the treaty would erase four-power
occupation zones and leave
Austria a neutral buffer between
East and West. But Western pow
ers have stated f irmely that they
would agree only to a free and
sovereign nation, left to map its
own future.
Heavy security precautions
surrounded the conference site
with some 400 city policemen
by Wit
g ClNHt
, a two-by-four at the Talent saw
' mill.
, . hite also filed notice in writ
ing that he plans to introduce
evidence attempting to prove his
insanity at the time of the as
sault of Dirk.
Claude Richard Day, 23, of
5908 Southeast Lamber st., Port
land, and Jack LeRoy Day, 18,
of 7925 East 60th st., Portland,
were to be arraigned today in
district court on charges of fail
ure to stop at the scene of an ac
cident involving bodily injury to
a pedestrian on April 14.
The Day brothers were return
ed to Medford from Los Angeles
Friday. Claude Day is charged
with failing to immediately stop
at the scene of the accident and
remain until he had rendered
reasonable assistance to Mrs.
Ruby Bartley, 55, route 1, box
237, Talent, who suffered two
broken legs, a broken wrist and
serious internal injuries.
Found in Ditch
Mrs. Bartley was found in a
ditch beside Highway 99 near
the Tally Ho restaurant in
Talent.
Jack Day is charged as a pas
senger and witness with failure
to furnish the victim his nam
and address.
The trial for Richard Rhoten
and Conley Carl Rhoten, route
1, box 74, Rogue River, was It
for June 7 in circuit court to .
They are charged with the theft
of more than $75 worth of fir
logs from the. Robert Dollar
company last March. They plead
ed innocent last week.
Burglars Grab $800
In Property From
Ranch, Two Firms
s Three burglaries and the theft
of a car radio, involving more
than $800 worth of property,
were reported to Jackson county
sheriffs office yesterday
Officers investigated a break
in at the Inter-Mountain ranch
near Prospect, where first esti
mates listed about $600 worth of
property missing.
Thieves escaped with several
dollars worth of animal halters.
about 24 dog harnesses, an eight-
foot steel rule, and a block plane
at the Big Y Feed Store on North
Highway 99, Saturday night. No
estimate of the stolen property
was available.
Loss About $200
About $200 worth of property.
including foodstuffs, was taken
from Bob's Barbecue, North
Highway 99.
Officers said burglars ! broke
glass in wondows near doors In
both the Big Y Feed store and
Bob's Barbecue. Investigations
into both burglaries continued
today.
Ward Sherman, Fourth ana
Pine sts., Central Point, report
ed to sheriff's officers that th
radio in his car, valued at about
$25. was removed while the ear
was parked at Fourth and Pin
sts. Saturday night.
Scattered Orchard
Heating Reported
Temneratures which went fa
te the low, 30s in the Rogue val
ley early this morning resulted
in scattered light orchard nest
ing between 1 and 4:30 p.m.
Don Berry, Jackson county
horticulture agent, said the heat
ing was light in the valley lower
areas, but by 4:30 a.m. mosi .
heating had, ended.
The low temperature at Med
ford's municipal airport was 34
degrees this morning.
Discuss State
anH nlatoons of detectives sur
rounding the building to hold
back crowds and to keep news
men from entering. The inter
ior of the building was guarded
by American military police who
have control of the inner city.
U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn
E. Thompson, the senior diplo
mat, was named conference
chairman for the first day.
Spokesmen of all five confer
ring powers have issued formal
expressions of optimism, but the
brass tacks bargaining on some
of the treaty clauses was expect
ed to be far from smooth. Warn
ings have come from Washing
ton, London and Paris that the
Russians may pull new tricks
at the conference table.
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