3 Lose Jobs Over ‘Souvenirs’
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WASHINGTON — Three U.S. technical experts involved in monitoring Soviet nuclear blasts have been relieved of their duties after the Soviets found them trying to make off with “souvenirs” from an atomic test site, Administration spokesmen said today.
The spokesmen, dismissing the episode as a “misunderstanding,” said the items found by Soviet authorities in crates being prepared for shipment back home included a small hammer, a piece of barbed wire and several rock and core samples from a hole being drilled at the site.
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