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...It is widely recognized that short-term fallout is highly localized, with the northern hemisphere receiving many times the southern share, and certain heavily populated areas such as the northern United States, California, and Japan being frequently doused with huge intensities of radiation...

...Now its modest funds are running low, and the Quaker representative in Lebanon has cabled a plea for help...

...The Russians, on the other hand, almost always assign to their foreign service posts men and women who know the...

...Contributions may be sent to AFSC, 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa...

...The real roots of the steady rise in the price of steel, and therefore in the cost of living generally, lie in the complete collapse, at least in steel, of two of the vaunted pillars of the free enterprise system: competition and the free market...

...Office of Education acquired the 30 or more mathematics and science textbooks used in the elementary and secondary schools of the Soviet Union...

...The Senate Subcommittee on Anti-Trust and Monopoly reported that the 1957 price increase of $6 a ton was at least twice the $2.50 to $3 a ton rise in labor costs...

...The purpose was to give us a clearer understanding of the comparison between Soviet and American standards...

...The lack of jubilation in progressive circles over the prospect of major Democratic gains is not hard to find...

...American scholars have testified before Congressional committees that this, the richest nation on earth, is linguistically the most backward major country in the world...

...The AFSC assistance is going primarily to families in which the breadwinner has been killed or wounded...

...When the Editor of The Progressive returned from the Soviet Union two years ago, he reported in these columns the astounding extent to which Soviet youth was mastering foreign languages, principally English, but the tongues, too, of Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America...

...As it has so often in the past, the steel industry sought to justify the latest price rise, announced August 1, on the basis of increased labor costs, but the reaction on the stock market and the net income record of steel indicate that the new price advance will add up to a good deal more than the higher wages paid to produce the steel...

...The decision sharply rapped the immigration service for its use of certain documents in returning the sailors to the United States, labeling them invalid and a "sham" that "no more fits the facts than a horseshoe fits the cloven hoof of an ox...

...report presents a wealth of data on the global fallout problem attending nuclear tests, the real problem remains untouched— the problem of local fallout following nuclear war...

...Ten dollars provides a month's food supply for a family...

...committee today is a prospectus of the biological consequences of nuclear war...

...Recently the Kiwanis Magazine carried a timely commentary on what this difference can mean: "Somewhere in the Middle East a crowd listens to a loud-speaker on a sound truck in the village market place...

...Fallout Publication of the United Nations report on the effects of nuclear radiation has launched another round of debate on this touchy question, although the areas of dispute have narrowed...

...The relatively few companies in this heavy industry, where a "small" company is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars and a large one in billions, all charge the same for their products...

...Yet the July 31 New York Times headlined a market story "Steel Issues Soar on Price Increase...

...Sixty-five years afterward, in 1955, the last year for which official statistics are available, the percentage had declined to 13.7...

...Court of Appeals reversed the decision, after six months deliberation, ordering the men freed and released to the Mexican government...

...bases in Franco's Spain than with the American tradition of political asylum, the sailors were to be delivered into Spanish custody as deserters and sent to almost certain death at the hands of a firing squad...

...Those opposed to continued testing stress the larger estimates of damage and translate the statistics from impersonal percentages into numbers of men, women, and children who will be crippled or killed by fallout...

...What impressed him greatly was the speed and ease with which Soviet scientist-linguists translated the scientific publications of almost every country on earth and made them im-medately available to scientists everywhere in the U.S.S.R...

...SANE cites March rains in Berkeley in which radioactivity rose as high as 208 times the level set for "safe" drinking water, and points out that at times the standard for fresh vegetables in California has been exceeded by one to two thousand times...

...An American official stands by, completely unable to understand the rapid flow of guttural sounds...

...This Russian is one of a vast army of linguists trained in the U.S.S.R...

...For several weeks the AFSC has been providing emergency relief in both rebel-held and government territory...

...There are distinguished exceptions in both Senate and House, of course, and in more than half a dozen states the voters do have an effective choice, but no one who studies...

...to fight the West, not with automatic rifles or atomic artillery, but with the ordnance of foreign tongues...

...Apparently with the approval of a State Department more concerned about U.S...

...The Service Committee points out that in addition to the humane act of preventing sheer starvation, "a prompt response to the human need in Lebanon from the American people may help assuage the bitterness recent events have provoked...

...In June 1957, while on shore leave from their Spanish destroyer in San Diego, the sailors crossed the border into Mexico, voluntary refugees from Franco's dictatorship...

...The U.S...

...Every survey, however, shows the Republican chances of maintaining their present position are pretty dismal...

...Consider the field of language study as a simple but dramatic example...

...But on appeal by the ACLU, the U.S...

...Those in favor of continued testing emphasize minimum estimates of damage and use world-wide averages for fallout to bolster their argument that the slight statistical risk of injury is negligible compared with the military advantage gained by the tests, although even the most ardent supporters of the bomb testing policy have quietly abandoned the comforting concept of a "clean" bomb...

...There is good reason for steel stock to soar every time the price of steel goes up: net income, after taxes, for each ton of finished steel rose from $6.80 in 1952 to $17.91 in 1957, a gain in profit margin of 263 per cent...

...Of the 34 Senate seats at stake in the November elections, 21 are now held by Republicans and 13, including six safe seats in the South, are occupied by Democrats...

...This, of course, is especially true in the field of foreign policy...

...report, and the approach to the fallout problem generally, seem closely related to the observer's attitude toward the political question of testing nuclear weapons...

...Prices are "administered," determined by the two colossal giants, United States Steel and Bethlehem, and all rise uniformly at the same time...

...report is its concentration on world-wide averages with a lack of attention to local phenomena...

...Hunger in Lebanon In the clash of power politics and military maneuvering that overlays the struggle in Lebanon, the families of casualties have been almost universally forgotten...

...Navy in a wholly illegal manner...

...courts, with the U.S...

...Among the Diplomats Our national language deficiency shows up most glaringly in the diplomatic ranks...

...First the listeners hear a news summary, then a bitter propaganda barrage against Washington, and finally a declaration of Moscow's love for the Moslem world...

...Or so the mathematics of the situation would indicate as the campaign begins...

...report unanimously concluded, for example, that "even the smallest amounts of radiation" are liable to prove injurious, but estimates of the degree of damage varied enormously...

...Attorney General's office contending the sailors should be returned to Spain as military deserters, and the ACLU charging the men were virtually kidnapped from Mexico by the U.S...

...The official figures show, for example, that in 1890 16.3 per cent of American high school students studied foreign languages...

...Prices follow one route only —uPHappy Ending Five Spanish sailors walked to their freedom across the Mexican border last month to bring a happy ending to one of the most celebrated civil liberties cases of recent years...

...If a price rise were necessary to offset increased labor costs, it would not result in greater profits or a surge in stock values...

...But the Quakers' American Service Committee rarely forgets anyone, and the Lebanese are no exception...

...Then began a yearlong legal battle in two U.S...

...But the American Civil Liberties Union stepped in with a writ of habeas corpus...

...The first judge ruled that under the Spanish-American treaty of 1902, which calls for the mutual return of military deserters, the sailors must be returned to Spain...

...But political questions aside, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy has pointed out that a serious flaw in the U.N...

...Clearly the Republicans must do much better than the Democrats—and in the teeth of a strong Democratic trend—even to hold their own...

...Nor does steel even make a pretense of allowing prices to follow the old law of supply and demand, as witness the current increase at a time when production is far below capacity, and has been for many months...

...Big Steal Apparently even big, brash Bethlehem and United States Steel corporations were embarrassed at the prospect of announcing the fourth price increase in steel in two years, for this time they arranged to have several of the smaller companies break the bad news by advancing prices a few days earlier, hoping to take some of the onus from the two giant leaders of the industry...

...Lagging Behind the Russians Painful as the facts may be, the evidence continues to multiply that the Russians are outstripping us in critical areas of life that bear directly on the struggle for supremacy between the two rival systems...

...the roll calls on major legislation and follows the response of members of Congress to the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy can escape the conclusion that a majority of the lawmakers in both parties join forces on most significant issues...

...language of the country to which they are sent...

...Many of our envoys abroad cannot read or speak the language of the country to which they are accredited, and this holds true for a considerable number of the junior staff who might be expected to translate for the political appointees to ambassadorial or ministerial posts...

...But some seven months afterwards the Russian textbooks are still unevaluated because "the office has been unable to find persons with dual competence in Russian and in the subject-matter to make comparisons from partial translations with American school texts...

...The appellate court ruled that since the sailors were on legitimate shore leave while in the United States, they did not become deserters until they entered Mexico, and therefore did not come under the 1902 treaty...

...Not far away, a Soviet diplomat smilingly turns to a group of bystanders and strikes up a conversation with them in fluent Arabic...

...Compare this with an episode reported recently in the New York Times: Last winter the U.S...

...And we have been moving steadily backward over the years...

...Most Democrats in Congress vote pretty much as do Republicans...

...Nuclear scientist Ralph E. Lapp, in a statement presented to SANE, said, "While the U.N...

...Navy, at the request of Franco's Spanish Navy, teamed up with U.S...

...I believe the important task awaiting the U.N...

...immigration officials, gave chase and brought the sailors back...

...Evaluations of the U.N...

...The U.N...

...NOTES IN THE NEWS Democratic Trend For whatever it is worth—and there are a great many thoughtful Americans who have a notion that it isn't worth much—the Democrats have an excellent chance of increasing their control of both houses of Congress, and more especially the Senate, this campaign year...