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Warns cuts in foreign aid funds request would be reckless gamble with peace, TV-radio s
Lodge gives concensus of majority views on dispute; queries Egyptian stand on 'insulation' of Canal from pol, failure to deposit acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction of Internatl Ct over disagreements under 1888 Constantinople Conv, stand on arbitrary withdrawal of Apr 24 declaration; again says declaration does not meet 6 principles but should be given trial; Pineau, after Brit and US objections, fails to introduce resolution; worked out substitute arrangement at earlier conf with Dulles, Washington; Hammarskjold, with French approval, will continue efforts to clarify Egypt's stand
'Fun and fund-raising' gatherings held across nation; party members hear leaders poke fun at Repubs in recorded quiz show broadcast by radio
GB weighs stationing mobile force of some 5,000 men in Kenya for protection of Brit interests in Arabian Peninsula
US and UN agencies map drive to eradicate malaria throughout much of world in 5-10 yrs; drive stems from recommendations of US Internatl Development Advisory Bd special com; members listed; Pres Eisenhower comments, message to Cong
1957Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician[†]
Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from the state of Alaska, having held the seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and is the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman. Murkowski became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
1957South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.[†]
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day, particularly inequality.
In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]