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P Fedoseer, in USSR Communist party pub, decries 'fencing off' Russians from foreign cultures
secret USWA-UMW talks spurs speculation on merger, on USWA withdrawal from CIO, on CIO dissolution, on AFL-CIO merger; merger talks among smaller AFL and CIO unions cited
Legis rejects efforts to delay rise
Eisenhower appreciative of Taft stand
BERLIN, June 25 -- Last week's riots, according to official East German sources, took the lives of twenty-five persons and have forced the Government to scrap much of its five-year plan as well as curtail its rearmament program.
1953Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.[†]
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1946, during the country's involvement in the Second World War.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]