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S P Brewer series on US-Latin Amer relations
Afshartous found strangled; Mossadegh's foes implicated; opposition to Mossadegh's drive for army control seen weakened; Govt proclaims mourning; police say killing was ordered by Gen Mozayeni; Modazzer says Afshartous was lured on pretext Toilers party wanted him to mediate with Govt on Majlis deadlock; other versions
Dulles and Sec Humphrey rept US to discontinue aid for balancing budgets, confs, Paris; say all aid will be linked to Amers security
repts Washington diplomats not encouraged by Communist plan
Taft ready for 24-hr sessions
1953Arielle Dombasle, French-American actress and model[†]
Arielle Dombasle is an American-born French singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa (1995). She has worked with a wide variety of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on Two (2002), Philippe de Broca on Amazon (2000), Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Jean-Pierre Mocky on Crédit pour tous (2011) and Raoul Ruiz on Savage Souls (2001). She also starred in the 1984 ABC miniseries Lace and its 1985 sequel Lace II and appeared as a guest on Miami Vice. Dombasle has released thirty-four singles and eleven albums and has directed six movies.
1953Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.[†]
Operation Moolah was a United States Air Force (USAF) effort during the Korean War to obtain through defection a fully capable Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter. Communist forces introduced the MiG-15 to Korea on November 1, 1950. USAF pilots reported that the performance of the MiG-15 was superior to all United Nations aircraft, including the USAF's newest plane, the F-86 Sabre. The operation focused on influencing Communist pilots to defect to South Korea with a MiG for a financial reward. The success of the operation is disputable since no Communist pilot defected before the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. However, on September 21, 1953, North Korean pilot Lieutenant No Kum-Sok flew his MiG-15 to the Kimpo Air Base, South Korea, unaware of Operation Moolah.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]