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Harold E. Stassen found himself involved yesterday in a new political furor.
WARSAW, Jan. 17--The sharpening political struggle in Poland led today to the dissolution of the Democratic party's youth organization.
MOSCOW, Jan. 17--Nikita S. Khrushchev renewed his defense of Stalin tonight to enthusiastic applause from Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17--The Senate Investigations subcommittee challenged the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters today to state whether it was encouraging witnesses "to hide and conceal facts" about labor racketeering.
AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 17-- Jordan has asked the United States for a guarantee of $30,000,000 a year in economic aid with no strings attached.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]