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Bunche repts Israeli accord on permitting Egyptians to leave Faluja; talks with Riley set; Israel demands simultaneous direct talks on demarcation lines; Security Council com cancels meeting on issue
Quill admits '47 slowdown; says TWU will not strike or effect slowdown to promote new pay demands
Brit, French, Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourg and Canadian reprs meet with US Under-Sec Lovett on proposals for N Atlantic pact, Washington; illus; State Dept notes Vandenberg resolution is basis
Govt reprs sign ECA pact for $300 million US aid to S Korea during next 3 yrs; terms
NANKING, Dec. 10 -- Martial law was extended to virtually all Nationalist China tonight as more than 5,000 teams, operating under Nanking garrison headquarters, went from house to house in the capital looking for "Communist" agents.
1948Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer[ā ]
Stamatis Spanoudakis is a modern Greek classical composer. In his early career, he studied classical guitar. He shifted to rock music, but then continued classical studies at the WĆ¼rzburg State Conservatory with Bertold Hummel and later in Athens with Konstantinos Kydoniatis. Later, he studied Byzantine music. He has worked with various Greek singers, composing the music and writing the lyrics for a large number of hit songs. With his religious works, he has provided a very different perspective of contemporary byzantine music. He has also composed numerous soundtracks. Since 1994, he has exclusively composed instrumental music, such as music that embraces Greece's history and religion.
1948Shinji Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (died 2023)[ā ]
Shinji Tanimura was a Japanese singer-songwriter.
1948ArabāIsraeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.[ā ]
The 1948 ArabāIsraeli War, also known as the First ArabāIsraeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and the entry of a military coalition of Arab states into the territory of Mandatory Palestine the following morning. The war formally ended with the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line.