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Representative Kenneth B. Keating, ranking Republican on .the House Judiciary Committee, recommends that Congress conduct its own contempt trials of balky witnesses…. The Supreme Court has upheld the conviction for contempt of Congress of Lloyd Baren-blatt, formerly an instructor at Vassar, who claimed that Congress had no right to legislate on, and therefore to investigate, education …. RCA Communications, Inc. suspended two employees who refused to tell the Senate Internal Security subcommittee whether they had been Communists at a time when they had access to secret government information.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has asked the House to adopt a resolution making a formal accounting by Communist China for 450 American servicemen missing since the Korean War a “primary objective” of U.S. foreign policy…. A pamphlet, “Dwight D. Eisenhower—Soldier of Peace,” has been distributed to eighty USIA posts abroad. The booklet, published at a cost of $600, sketches the President’s life since babyhood. … Passed over by the American press: Ghana, the world’s newest democracy and UN member, has silenced her only newspaper with national circulation for criticizing the government.

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