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Publisher F D Schroth says paper will never resume pub; charges Eagle 'destroyed' by ANG strike; union exec vp Murphy says strike will continue; charges mgt with refusal to bargain in good faith; says union will press for obligations under contract
Eisenhower backs Dulles on use of atomic weapons on 'strictly mil targets and for strictly mil purposes; press conf
Vatican seen rebuking Cardinal Segura, reptdly over his criticism of Franco Govt
J Reston repts US record of Yalta Conf discussions shows that Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed on postwar dismemberment and that latter favored harsh treatment; links Conf anti-Ger tone with Brit opposition to pub record
nomination approved, Sen, 71-11
1955Cynthia McKinney, American activist and politician[†]
Cynthia Ann McKinney is a former American politician. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American woman elected to represent Georgia in the House. She left the Democratic Party and ran in 2008 as the presidential nominee of the Green Party. She ran for vice president in 2020 after the Green Party of Alaska formally nominated her and draft-nominated Jesse Ventura for president.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]