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nearly 2,000 more dockers out, London; 132 ships idle; Southampton dockers stage token walkout; 4,500 tug and lightermen vote to join London strike; dispute complicated by Stevedores Union raids on Transport Union membership
truckers adopt defiance program as O'Rourke com says it will let those who sign individual pacts operate in face of gen tie-up; Hoffa reptdly favored, com opposed, some long-distance truckers' offer of 18¢ now, 7¢ in '55; Govt mediators conf separately with both sides; Wagner fails to contact Beck; completes 3-man com to seek settlement; sets up com of 8 city dept heads, with Deputy Admr Clapp as chmn, to work out delivery of essential supplies; O'Rourke says union will help move certain supplies; Dist Atty Hogan reptdly will probe underworld influence in com shift; O'Rourke, at news conf, explains Hickey ouster; denies link to underworld; Hickey absent; other developments
Comm refuses to license Balletta as hiring boss for Internatl Terminal on grounds of coercion by ILA; NLRB dir Douds rejects ILA charges against Comm; ILA presents contract demands to Assn; asks 22¢-an-hr pay rise, 'penalty cargo' pay rise, 10¢-an-hr increase in employer contribution to welfare fund, 8-hr pay guarantee, union shop and selection of foremen by union; Comm rules last demand illegal
Aux Cayes, Jeremie hardest hit; other towns reptd destroyed; casualties feared heavy; US aircraft carrier Saipan to aid; other aid readied; storm moves north; map
1954Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic[†]
Mordechai Vanunu, also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured from Britain to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]