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Dewey sets NYS Legis special session to approve plan; Balch scores action; says Dems will oppose fare rise as part of plan
F F Schupp, former USAF mission aide in Guatemala, fled country with Mendoza; both reptdly in Salvador; Schupp reptdly was friendly with mil and Govt; R Flores Avendano and H Cordova Selffert get safe conduct; E Conde Valero freed after 2 days
effort to discuss problems seen made at coming session
USN light jet attack bomber shown; able to carry small atomic bombs; developed by Douglas; weighs only 15,000 lbs; illus
Laniel seen playing for delay
1954Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (died 2013)[†]
Metropolitan Kiril ; June 8, 1954 – July 9, 2013), was the Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria.
1954Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician[†]
Sergei Anatolievich Storchak is a Ukrainian-born RUssian politician who had former served as the a Deputy Finance Minister of Russia. Storchak was born in Olevsk, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine SSR, and became one of Russia's three deputy finance ministers in November 2005. He specialized in international financial relations, and was a prominent figure in negotiations over paying off Soviet-era debt. He negotiated Russia's repayment of its debt to the Paris Club of creditor nations, which it completed last year. In April 2009, he was charged with attempted fraud and embezzlement of state funds.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]