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May 9, 1953

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Eisenhower and St. Laurent Say Laos Belies Red Amity; Joint Statement Calls Blow Threat to All Southeast Asia -- President Earmarks $60,000,000 Aid to France in Fight LAOS BLOW SCORED BY U. S AND CANADA

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pres Eisenhower and Prime Min St Laurent see threat to SE Asia in Laos aggression, joint communique

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U. N. BIDS FOE PROVE FEASIBILITY OF PLAN TO ACHIEVE A TRUCE; Allies Neither Accept Nor Bar Proposal for 5-Nation Group to Take Over Captives MANY QUESTIONS RAISED India Said to Back Communist Move, Feeling That Peiping Is Unlikely to Go Further U.N. BIDS KOREA FOE CLARIFY NEW PLAN

By Lindesay Parrottspecial To the New York Times

UN asks more data; wants to know if plan is practical or involves coercion; implies plan may mean indefinite captivity for those refusing repatriation

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FULL CABINET VOTE SUPPORTS SEAWAY AT $100,000,000 COST; Plan for Building St. Lawrence Channel Backed in Move to Win Congress Action CABINET IS UNITED IN URGING SEAWAY

By Anthony Levierospecial To the New York Times

full Eisenhower Cabinet backs special Cabinet com (Dulles-Wilson-Weeks-McKay) rept and 7 recommendations endorsing project; rept detailed; stresses ltd role by US in Internatl Rapids sec and use of Toledo as terminal; Eisenhower shows statement to St Laurent; both cite hope for early favorable decision on hydroelec issue; map of proposed seaway

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Mighty Atom Blast Jars Test Area; Two Drone Planes Penetrate Cloud; MIGHTY ATOM BLAST JOLTS TEST GROUND

By the Associated Press

powerful blast jars area; illus; 2,000 Army troops maneuver; bomber crews familiarized

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HUMPHREY ASSERTS DEFENSE COSTS BAR BALANCED BUDGET; Declares National Debt Limit May Have to Be Raised -- Stassen Bares Policy Shifts BALANCED BUDGET RULED OUT IN 1954

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury, told Congress today that the cost of national defense and foreign aid made it impossible to balance the Federal budget in the fiscal year 1954 starting July 1 and that the present legal limit of $275,000,000,000 on the national debt might have to be increased.

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Historical Context for May 9, 1953

In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people^[†]