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Mossadegh repts talks in final stage, conf with Deputies; warns of delays; conf with Henderson; speculation on Pact terms; press and Iranian pub optimistic
dense fog; traffic slowed; accidents; illus
lr by striker defends demand for 40-hr wk without pay cut
Neutral zone; UN Command charges Communists use immunity granted convoys supplying truce delegation needs to bolster their war effort on W front; informs them immunity from attack will be reduced beginning Jan 25 to 2 6-vehicle convoys wkly instead of daily convoy; cites abeyance of Panmunjom talks; says convoy issue may be reopened if talks resume
Indicted for spying on US for USSR; arrested, Vienna; flown to Washington
1953Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order (died 1984)[†]
Robert Jay "Bob" Mathews was an American neo-Nazi and the leader of The Order, an American white supremacist militant group that committed counterfeiting, several bank robberies, car heists, murders, and assassinations. Mathews is believed to have served as a lookout in the murder of Alan Berg. Before founding The Order, Mathews was a member of the neo-Nazi groups the National Alliance and Aryan Nations.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]