.I!!,..ECEMEL ,THE MICHIGAN DAILY s Sli slILUON ' .l lll[I..IT T - . fdl T1 T) I7jT T TAT" T T"b PAGE SES With Europe 1 U.S. andI America $79 MJL. '..:: U.S.S.R. Foreign Trade With Non-Communist i Countries 1956 1957MWith Asia and the Mideast it k~:,:~$349MMILLION I ._1111121.11.1 J.LLA USSR Increases Foreign Trade With Non-Communist Nations ANNAPOLIS, Md. - One mid- tally accepted practice at the University of Texas ed shipman has been removed and school. school. five demoted at the U.S. Naval 2) All too often proctoring is It will be financed by' Acadeuiy because of collusion with a farce. a 17-year-old girl who success- 3) In several cases new exam- from National Institute o: fully masqueraded at the Academy inations leak out to students. tal Health funds. as a midshipman.. . $ Susan Johnson, daughter of a AUSTIN. Texas - Personal COLUMBUS, Ohio -- By Baltimore surgeon, cracked more qualities which make for success record 48,000 students a than a century of tradition by in teaching will be the subject of swarming the Ohio State 1 marching undetected into the din- a five-year investigation by the sity campus. Ronald B. 'T ing hall, eating with the men and__ polishing off her tour of duty by + : standing night formation. Then she left. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. O The University of Illinois will build the largest radio telescope R"Your Personal in the world on a site south of Danville. Illinois Board of Trustees have CHRIS~ approved purchase of, a 220 acreS!AT site 35 miles east of the Chicago S A I campus for the huge telescope, which will advance work of the e rsonC astronomy department. * * *Big Selection PHILADELDPHIA, Pa. --A re- port submitted by Temple College's Student Council Committee onRA M SA Cheating calls for a tighter policy to prevent the practice. 119 It concludes that: 1) Cheating is an almost to- t syy ? + I By THOMAS P. WHITNEY Associated Press Foreign News Analyst The Soviet Union has been step- ping up its foreign trade with non- Communist countries. In figures released by the U.S.S.R., this trade increased near- ly 25 percent between 1956 and 1957. The total 1957 foreign trade -importsand exports-with non- Communist countries came to slightly more than two billion dollars in 1957 Soviet trade with the United ab Republic increased 120 per cent from 1956 through 1957. UAR-Soviet trade came to 200 million dollars in 1957. Trade with India rose by 115 per cent and constituted about 126 million dol- lars of Soviet exports and imports. The foreign trade figures reflect] an apparent Soviet effort to in- crease trade 'with nations outside the Communist bloc and paticu- larly with the countries of the Mideast and Asia. The six most important non- Communist countries in Soviet foreign trade are Finland, the United Kingdom, the U.A.R., West Germany, India and France, in' that order. Russia's importance for Finland is shown by the fact that by 1957 the U.S.S.R. held nearly one-fifth of all Finland's foreign trade. The Soviet Union succeeded in estab- lishing this position during the immediate postwar period when Finland delivered large amounts of reparations to the Soviet Union and to furnish these reparations developed'certain industries which were not in general capable of competing with similar industries in the West.' When reparations ended the So- viet Union was the logical market for products of these industries and was willing and able to pay for them in Soviet commodities. Political aims have played an im- portant role in the Soviet attitude towards the Finland trade. 1956 and 1957. First the Soviet Union is making considerable ef- forts to increase trade with under- developed and other countries of Asia, Africa and the Mideast. Such deals as the sale of Communist arms for United Arab Republic cotton, the construction on credit of a steel mill in India and the, credit to Afghanistan have facili- tated Soviet penetration into these markets and sources of raw ma- terials. The second fact is that Soviet trade over-all with non-Commu- nist countries is small compared to that of the United States with the same nations. To put it simply, the United States exports to non- Communist natfons anid imports from them more goods in one month than the Soviet Union does in a year. However, this should not obscure the fact that Russia is increasing trade with countries outside its own bloc, and has managed to es- tablish itself in a critical position in the trade of certain non-Com- munist countries. This' has politi- cal as well as economic signifi- cance since Soviet trade is always used as a political as well as an economic weapon.