For the Record

An Illinois resident imprisoned in divers Soviet forced labor camps for nine and a half years estimates that some 3,000 other Americans—mostly GI’s from World War Two— are still being held.

The Soviet delegation to the presidential inauguration in Argentina has made special efforts to open diplomatic relations with Brazil and Chile, and to negotiate purchases of coffee and copper. It’s reported the Soviet head of delegation will undertake a grand tour of South America later, following the trail of Vice President Nixon. . . . The Japanese are resentful of American press attacks on their “trade treaty” talks with Red China. Negotiations have broken off, but the trade will be conducted without a treaty, in the words of one Japanese businessman, “just like the British, the Germans and the Americans.”

An Illinois resident imprisoned in divers Soviet forced labor camps for nine and a half years estimates that some 3,000 other Americans—mostly GI’s from World War Two— are still being held.

The Soviet delegation to the presidential inauguration in Argentina has made special efforts to open diplomatic relations with Brazil and Chile, and to negotiate purchases of coffee and copper. It’s reported the Soviet head of delegation will undertake a grand tour of South America later, following the trail of Vice President Nixon. . . . The Japanese are resentful of American press attacks on their “trade treaty” talks with Red China. Negotiations have broken off, but the trade will be conducted without a treaty, in the words of one Japanese businessman, “just like the British, the Germans and the Americans.”