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the horizontal axis.

The instruments, which functioned perfectly, record- ing among other things the impact of micro-meteors and the intensity’ of ultra-violet and infra-red radiation.

De Gaulle gets hostile reception in Senegal

DAKAR—A group of some 500 youths shouted down a speech General de Gaulle was making to nearly 100,000 people

in a Dakar square last week.

Banners saying “No to the referendum” and “French go away” mingled with the flags of welcome when de Gaulle

arrived on his African tour to muster votes for his dictatorial constitution.

Trade unions called a 24- hour strike in Senegal to back the demands for independence.

Yellow ~“independence” leaf- lets showered the general’s car. Cries of “independence”

mingled with cheers as he drove into the city from the airport.

The crowd which greeted de Gaulle appeared to be smaller

than at previous stops in his African tour.

Most of the people along the sparsely populated coast road were Europeans in bikinis from the nearby beaches.

The leaflets thrown from the crowd were in French signed by Union Progressive Sene- galaise, a local branch of the PRA, African Regroupment Party, which demands inde- pendence and then confedera- tion.

BACKS LABOR STAND

British TUC asks test ban

LONDON—Leaders of the British Trades Union Con-

gress, representing eight

million workers,

called on the

Macmillan government last week to abandon its current series of nuclear tests at Christmas Island.

Meeting in Bournemouth to prepare the annual congress this week, the TUC General Council urged the government to negotiate suspension of tests, independent of disarmament, for some longer period than one year.

The council’s stand on tests is aimed to back up the simi-

Scientists A-power

GENEVA—The biggest-ever conference of atom scientists opened in Geneva this week to reveal what has been done and what can be done in the field of atomics for peaceful pur- poses.

More than 60 member coun- tries and specialised agencies are attending this second United Nations international conference to discuss among other things, a global “blue- print” for industrial atomic power drawn from an inex- haustible source of energy.

This is a problem with which they have been grappling since the first conference in 1955— the possibilities of limitless power from nuclear fusion, the process which takes place in a hydrogen bomb-explosion.

At present, all peaceful atomic power is derived from nuclear fission — the splitting of the atom, chiefly using uranium as fuel.

fusion releases energy by joining together lightweight atoms at great heat — and ordinary water could serve as a fuel.

Nuclear

Since 1955, when the subject was first made public, control- led fusion power has come much nearer to reality with experiments such as Harwell’s

lar call made by the British Labor Party leadership on August 20.

In reaching its decision, the council said it believed it would be useful to make a statement on its position be- foe the TUC congress debated nuclear policy.

discuss programs

Zeta, which has registered and held such fantastic tempera- tures.as five million degrees centigrade.

Soviet scientists have also been active in this field.

The USSR recently announ- ced that it had discovered a new method of achieving con- trolled thermo-nuclear reac- tion. The announcement was made in Peking as a tribute to Sino-Soviet friendship.

Aim of the conference is to pool the most recent scientific knowledge on specific uses of nuclear energy, costs, disposal of radioactive wastes, appara- tus designs, and safety measures for industrial workers.

The immediate benefits to under-developed countries of a global nuclear power program for peaceful uses may not be immediate power production.

Instead it may lie in the ad- vantages from radioactive iso- topes, byproducts of reaction, which have brought astonish- ing advances in the medical and agricultural fields.

The agricultural branch of atomic science, which has diminished past risks and in- creased yields, could mean a full larder for mankind for the rest of his days.

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