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February 17, 1955

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JAPAN SEEMS KEY IN SOVIET TACTICS; JAPAN SEEMS KEY IN SOVIET TACTICS Quemoy-Matsu Problem Has Obscured Moscow's Effort to Reach Pact With Tokyo

By James Restonspecial To the New York Times

Reston sees USSR hoping to conclude pact by Apr 28, date specified in San Francisco pact when Japan must conclude pact with USSR, thereby winning Japan's consent to carry out Yalta accord assigning S Sakhalin and Kuriles to USSR; sees Japan willing if it gets back Habomais and Shikotan; cites US Sen rider holding San Francisco pact does not give USSR right to isles

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SECURITY REVISED IN DEFENSE WORK; SECURITY REVISED IN DEFENSE WORK Central Pentagon Office Set --Suspensions Will Be Cut --4,000 Cases Handled

By Special to The New York Times

Defense Dept to improve defense workers security program by setting up central screening and rev bds; Dept repr comments; repts 4,000 security-risk cases processed, past 18 mos

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Atka Takes 6 Emperor Penguins On New-Found Antarctic Coast; THE ATKA TAKES SIX BIG PENGUINS Navy Men Get Four of a Bag of Big Birds by Tactics of Football Field

By Walter Sullivanspecial To the New York Times

W Sullivan describes capture of 6 emperors by USS Atka Antarctic expedition; illus; birds will be given to Washington, DC, zoo

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HOUSE VOTES RISE OF $10,000 IN PAY OF CONGRESSMEN; HOUSE VOTES RISE IN CONGRESS PAY Tally Is 283-118--Increase Also Approved for Judges --Bill Goes to Senate

By C. P. Trussellspecial To the New York Times

House, 283-118, votes $10,000 rise, including rises for professional staff members of coms; Repr Burdick falls to curb rise; bill would raise Speaker's pay to $40,000; H S Truman backs bill, wire to Repr McCormack

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DULLES SEES PEACE TALKS IF REDS RENOUNCE FORCE; REPEATS CHINA WARNING; DULLES SEES HOPE IF REDS BAN FORCE A BID TO RUSSIANS Secretary Says Those Who Put State First Could Get Accord

By Russell Porter

Hon Sec Dulles

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1955Mo Yan, Chinese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Donald Morrison of TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988).

Historical Context for February 17, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people^[†]

Headlines from February 17, 1955

JAPAN SEEMS KEY IN SOVIET TACTICS; JAPAN SEEMS KEY IN SOVIET TACTICS Quemoy-Matsu Problem Has Obscured Moscow's Effort to Reach Pact With Tokyo

SECURITY REVISED IN DEFENSE WORK; SECURITY REVISED IN DEFENSE WORK Central Pentagon Office Set --Suspensions Will Be Cut --4,000 Cases Handled

Atka Takes 6 Emperor Penguins On New-Found Antarctic Coast; THE ATKA TAKES SIX BIG PENGUINS Navy Men Get Four of a Bag of Big Birds by Tactics of Football Field

HOUSE VOTES RISE OF $10,000 IN PAY OF CONGRESSMEN; HOUSE VOTES RISE IN CONGRESS PAY Tally Is 283-118--Increase Also Approved for Judges --Bill Goes to Senate

DULLES SEES PEACE TALKS IF REDS RENOUNCE FORCE; REPEATS CHINA WARNING; DULLES SEES HOPE IF REDS BAN FORCE A BID TO RUSSIANS Secretary Says Those Who Put State First Could Get Accord

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