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20. The Hiroshima-Nagasaki World Peace Conference expressed full support for the Australian Conference for International Cooperation and Disarmament. 21. Only one-quarter of the world's synoptic surface weather observation posts are below the Equator. 22. The initiators of the Moscow World Youth Solidarity Forum had the support of democratic youth and student organizations throughout the world. 23. Communist Councillor S. K. yesterday made a stinging criticism of the Tory-controlled Greater London Council's so-called 'plan' for the capital. 24. Even if this proposal were acted upon, and it is now evident that the President has disavowed it, the fundamental guns-instead-of-butter nature of the economy would in no way be altered. 25. Japan yesterday formally requested a review of the provision in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) under which 14 member states can refrain from granting most-favoured-nation treatment to another member. 26. Representatives of 122 Governments arrived in Geneva at the weekend to attend the "little General Assembly". This is the name given here to the three-month United Nations World Trade and Development Conference which opens today. 27. This is precisely the situation the Geneva Agreement sought to avoid, when it included provision for a six-mile demilitarized zone between North and South. 28. Now the Civil Rights Commission, in two days of open hearings, has turned the spotlight on the near-ghetto conditions in which native Negroes live in the only major city in the country where they are in a majority. 29. Three Black Arrow three-stage satellite launchers have been ordered from Westland Aircraft by the Ministry of Technology. 142
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