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Statement on vetoing movie admissions tax repeal bill
Okazaki repts accord on MSP aid including arms standardization, rept to Diet; terms; aims; press reaction; repts US orders recd; US officials see standardization making possible off-shore buying
Communists hint they may not return all of 12,763 UN POWs listed for exch; Peiping radio says these have not been screened on repatriation wishes; repts UN POWs being advised they may elect not to be repatriated directly; Communists free 400 POWs including 81 Amers; UN releases 2,753 POWs; repts quelling 12,000 NK demonstrators, Koje Is; repts 1 NK killed, 4 wounded; Peiping radio repts Red Cross team in Pyoktong camp; 64 sick UN POWs flown to Japan for treatment; 58 more en route
Gen Clark backs use of any and every weapon including atomic bomb if Communists abrogate truce, int, Washington; illus; expects Rhee to keep pledges; says SKs alone cannot defeat NK armies; says 8th Army will maintain battle readiness
1 of freed Amer POWs describes indoctrination efforts; says Communists offered POWs chance to talk to folks at home over Communist radio if somewhere in broadcast they urged removal of fleet from Taiwan
1953Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author[†]
Anne Fadiman is an American essayist and reporter. Her interests include literary journalism, essays, memoir, and autobiography. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award.
1953Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (born 1860)[†]
Abner Charles Powell was an American Major League Baseball player who was a member of the Washington Nationals of the Union Association in 1884.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]