PICTURES OF EUROPE
Photographs From U.S. Satellite (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, April 7. The United States weather satellite Tiros had sent back from space pictures clearly showing the boot of Italy, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Suez area the Eastern Mediterranean nations and the south-west coast of Europe, officials said today. , Some of the pictures, selected from more than 1000 received from Tiros by the Army Signals Corps at Fort Monmouth. New Jersey, were being prepared for publication late today. Pictures of the earth and its cloud cover from Eastern Europe eastward across Asia had been received at the Keana Point, Hawaii, receiving station and were being flown to Washington for distribution early next week, officials said.
They denied reports implying a policy of withholding or censoring pictures of. Communist territory.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 7
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