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U.S. President Eisenhower answers a query on internationalizing the Panama Canal during a press conference in Washington DC.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. President Eisenhower stands in front of a microphone before the newsmen during the press conference. One of the press women asks the President if he agrees to the internationalizing of the Panama Canal and whether he was considering building another canal in that area and if they did would they be able to hold it. Pressmen seated at the conference. The President says that the second question takes a lot of study but for the previous 14 years he has been in favor of building another canal, but that was something that he shall not recommend. Regarding the internationalizing of the Panama Canal he says that it is something he would not even think of at that moment. He says that they have got a treaty with Panama, the provisions of which have been obeyed and they have had a model relationship with Panama for the last 50 years. He says that he believes that a particular incident should not become a reason for breaking a relationship that has worked so well. View of the pressmen talking. The President talking to the officials and the pressmen.
Officers watch the preparations of the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, U.S.
Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. Strategic Air Command (SAC) Commander in Chief General Thomas S. Power, Commander of the 1st Missile Division Vandenberg AFB Lieutenant General David Wade and Commander of the 15th Air Force Lieutenant General Archie J. Old Jr, and the staff watches the launch. SAC insignia and emblem on Atlas missile in the service structure. The missile on a launching pad. Mark II nose cone on the missile. Base of the missile and the service structure. Number 630 is visible on the missile. Airmen check parts and sections of the missile on the launch pad prior to the launch. Major Ernest E. Bankey Jr. is the officer in charge of the launching pad and procedures. The airmen check equipment and the missile at the launching platform.
The launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States.
Preparations for the launch of an Atlas 12 D missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. A service structure is backed away from the missile. The Mark II nose cone on the top of the missile. United States Air Force personnel operate control panels in the launch control room. The countdown clock and TV monitors in the background. The missile on the launching platform. LOX vapors stream from the missile. USAF personnels at the launch control panels and watch TV monitors. A countdown clock. Personnel at the control panels of the consoles. Atlas on launch pad. LOX vapors around the missile.
Castro, Raul Castro, Jose Miro Cardona and former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba.
The Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Peasants at work in sugar cane field. Clusters of huts in city slums. Poor people in the slums. Small huts along the slums. A girl bathing a child in front of a hut. Fidel Castro, a revolutionary leader, with other guerrillas in a hilly area. Castro, who supports the middle class people, in a crowd. People on streets applaud. Castro with Cuban people. His brother Raul Castro and his associate Che Guevara during a revolution in Guatemala. Castro speaking in a microphone. Other officials beside him. A large crowd listens to him and applauds. Fidel Castro with Cuban Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other officials after the overthrow of the Batista government. A Cuban firing squad executing a prisoner.
Sailors roll drums of radioactive waste material over the edge of USS Calhoun County (LST-519), into the Atlantic Ocean.
Dumping of radioactive material in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy sailors roll a barrel or drum of radioactive nuclear waste material over the side of the U.S. Navy's tank landing ship USS Calhoun County (LST-519). The sailors knock down a 50 gallon drum and roll it over the side of the ship. Drums being rolled over the edge of the ship into the Atlantic Ocean by pairs of sailors. Water splashes.
USS Calhoun County (LST-519) at port in New Jersey, United States before leaving to dispose of nuclear waste in the Atlantic
Dumping of radioactive material into the Atlantic Ocean. USS Calhoun County (LST-519) anchored at a port in New Jersey, United States. The American flag flies aboard the ship. Barrels or drums of atomic waste lined up on the deck of the ship. A map with a place marked on it. The map depicts the area in the Atlantic Ocean (seemingly off the coast of the Carolinas), where the atomic waste is to be disposed. Closer view of map shows writing, "Com Three Disposal Area" and a 2000 foot depth indication.
