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Month-long speculation in Europe over Andrei Gromyko’s mysterious visit to Cairo and 48-hour secret conference with Nasser in March, now resolved. European observers believe Nasser wanted assurance of Soviet neutrality should he decide to jump Israel. . . . Nasser’s army is equipped with 1,200 to 1,500 medium and heavy Soviet tanks, 550 fighters and bombers. It also has a 75-ship navy and about 100 missiles, according to well-informed Current African Publications—plus the Soviet technicians to keep them running. – – . By Memorial Day, all 433 women and children attached to U.S. embassy in Cairo and consulate in Alexandria had been evacuated. . . . U Thant’s performance in pulling out UN _ peacekeeping force practically before Nasser \ demanded it aptly summed up by N.Y.- Times columnist C. L. Sulzberger: “[He] used his international prestige with the objectivity of a spurned lover © and the dynamism of a noodle.” .. . Early victim of the Middle East crisis, the James Bond flick Goldfinger which came under new Cairo ban of “spy and adventure films that paint saboteurs and spies and imperialist hirelings as heroes. [These movies] are a psychological and ideological weapon.”

In the works: a “million man” march on Washington October 21 to protest the Vietnam war. Organizing for it: the Communists, usual pacifist and New Left groups, plus high-powered Dr. Benjamin Spock-Martin Luther King Vietnam Summer. . Smaller marches planned for July 4, August 6, Labor Day—to keep the troops in shape. . . . Progressive Labor and fellow-traveling black power groups expected to instigate riots and demonstrations in attempt to disrupt July plebiscite on future status of Puerto Rico. . . . Conviction of Progressive Labor’s William Epton on charges of conspiring to overthrow a state government during the Harlem riots of 1964, upheld by N.Y. Court of Appeals. Epton out on bail pending Supreme Court appeal. . . . Death of philanthropic Stephen Curriers on a Caribbean charter flight this spring, reportedly has put serious crimp in finances of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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Month-long speculation in Europe over Andrei Gromyko’s mysterious visit to Cairo and 48-hour secret conference with Nasser in March, now resolved. European observers believe Nasser wanted assurance of Soviet neutrality should he decide to jump Israel. . . . Nasser’s army is equipped with 1,200 to 1,500 medium and heavy Soviet tanks, 550 fighters and bombers. It also has a 75-ship navy and about 100 missiles, according to well-informed Current African Publications—plus the Soviet technicians to keep them running. – – . By Memorial Day, all 433 women and children attached to U.S. embassy in Cairo and consulate in Alexandria had been evacuated. . . . U Thant’s performance in pulling out UN _ peacekeeping force practically before Nasser \ demanded it aptly summed up by N.Y.- Times columnist C. L. Sulzberger: “[He] used his international prestige with the objectivity of a spurned lover © and the dynamism of a noodle.” .. . Early victim of the Middle East crisis, the James Bond flick Goldfinger which came under new Cairo ban of “spy and adventure films that paint saboteurs and spies and imperialist hirelings as heroes. [These movies] are a psychological and ideological weapon.”

In the works: a “million man” march on Washington October 21 to protest the Vietnam war. Organizing for it: the Communists, usual pacifist and New Left groups, plus high-powered Dr. Benjamin Spock-Martin Luther King Vietnam Summer. . Smaller marches planned for July 4, August 6, Labor Day—to keep the troops in shape. . . . Progressive Labor and fellow-traveling black power groups expected to instigate riots and demonstrations in attempt to disrupt July plebiscite on future status of Puerto Rico. . . . Conviction of Progressive Labor’s William Epton on charges of conspiring to overthrow a state government during the Harlem riots of 1964, upheld by N.Y. Court of Appeals. Epton out on bail pending Supreme Court appeal. . . . Death of philanthropic Stephen Curriers on a Caribbean charter flight this spring, reportedly has put serious crimp in finances of Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.