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had fallen into an Army reservation in the vicinity of Fairbanks. 

 Soviet Premier Khrushchev commented later, "We know [the rocket] 

 fell on the United States, but they do not want to give it back to us." 78 

 Correspondence regarding the rocket and its recovery then ensued 

 between the Soviet and American IG Y committees, until the American 

 delegates were able to demonstrate conclusively that the rocket 

 must have fallen in Siberia rather than in Alaska. 



CENSORSHIP 



A basic principle of the ICSU, and therefore of the IGY, was 

 that all scientific information would be reported as soon as possible 

 and thereafter quickly disseminated to all interested parties. However, 

 some newspaper and radio reports covering a CSAGI conference in 

 Moscow, held from July 29 to August 9, 1958, were held up by Soviet 

 censors. Chiefly, the censored material concerned Japanese infor- 

 mation regarding radioactive rain samples which demonstrated that 

 radioactivity in Japanese rainwater resulted primarily from Soviet 

 nuclear weapons tests. Protests over this censorship of reporting 

 IGY results successfully prevented further censorship, and news 

 stories that had been held up were released. 



» New York Timet, Dec. 7, 1957, p. 1. 



