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Japan weighs US offer to sell surplus grain to Govt for local currency, use revenue to buy Japanese indus equipment for underdeveloped Asian nations
Stassen confident USSR will find new US proposals at subcom talks more acceptable than hitherto, news conf, Washington; bases optimism on Eisenhower offer; outlines US objectives; defends offer; holds ratio of US, USSR stockpiles balanced by USSR greater forces strength; sees stockpiles eventually cut back by using materials for peaceful projects
Feb passenger revenue $654,728 over Feb '55, 1st rise in 8 yrs; NYCTA hails gain; Patterson comments; sees $3-million instead of $7.8-million drop for fiscal '56
note from Saud, Nasser and al Kuwatly to Hussein seen bid for closer Jordan ties to strengthen Arabs against Israel
Lacoste urges approval of Govt request for special powers, s, French Assembly; cites evidence of worsening situation; blames French failure to keep promises, foreign intervention; urges Eurs in Algeria cooperate; s underlined by increased terrorist activity; 55 persons killed in day
1956Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach[†]
Mark Justin Dantonio is an American college football coach and former player. His most recent head coaching position was at Michigan State University, a position he had held from 2007 to 2019.
1956Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs[†]
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, author, and former diplomat, who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is currently the Chairman of Committee on External Affairs. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and 2006 United Nations Secretary-General selection for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress, he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology. He has about two dozen titles to his credit and was awarded by World Economic Forum as "Global Leader of Tomorrow".
1956David Willetts, English academic and politician[†]
David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, is a British politician and life peer. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He served as Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014 and became a member of the House of Lords in 2015. He was appointed chair of the UK Space Agency's board in April 2022. He is president of the Resolution Foundation.
1956Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.[†]
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army.
In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people[†]