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May 11, 1945

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RUSSIA POSES AIM OF 'INDEPENDENCE' FOR ALL COLONIALS; Objective Proposed at Meeting of Big Five Puts New Factor in Trusteeship Controversy TREND TO CURB ON VETO In Regional Disputes Support Gains in Our Delegation for Change in Voting Procedure Proposal Presented Orally Bid to Labor Group Reversed Russia Urges as an Objective 'Independence' for All Colonials Trusteeship Problem Clearing

By James B. Reston Special To the New York Times

US completes trusteeship draft for conf study; seen convinced by Brit arguments to place colonial areas under security organization Gen Assembly adm regardless of whether areas are strategic bases; USSR urges eventual independence for all colonial areas, San Francisco conf proposal; US, Brit and French objections reptd

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Hilda Pérez Carvajal

1945Hilda PĂ©rez Carvajal, Venezuelan biologist[†]

Hilda Pérez Carvajal is a Venezuelan biologist from the Central University of Venezuela. She was president of the Venezuelan Society of Parasitology at the end of the 1980s. Perez studied at the Central University of Venezuela and graduated with a biology degree in the year 1967. Her undergraduate thesis was on E. Coli bacteriophages. Pérez is most known for the research she did on Malaria and Leishmania's in Venezuela.