Word: 38th
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...discussions with Israel, Egypt and Jordan resumed last week after a four-month break, angry Arabs protested that Jarring had indeed been hijacked-by the Israelis. Since Egypt and Jordan refuse to deal directly with Israel, Jarring planned to confer with representatives of each government in his 38th-floor office in Manhattan's U.N. building. But much of the week was consumed by his 11,344-mile round-trip flight to Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree to continue the truce...
Something Less. Progress in the negotiations, if any, is likely to come with glacial slowness. Jarring will likely use his 38th-floor office at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters as his base. Initially at least, he will confer separately with the U.N. ambassadors of Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Eventually, Israel hopes to move the talks closer to home-say to Cyprus or Geneva-to elevate them to the foreign minister level and to hold them face-to-face...
...took some imagination. Tunney was a liberal, had been a registered Republican, and the district-the 38th, which included Riverside, his home-was markedly conservative. It also took some special insight by a pretty fair political professional, President John F. Kennedy. His advice, relayed through Edward Kennedy, Tunney's law-school roommate and close friend: drop the name Varick, by which Tunney had been called since childhood. The skeptical Tunney ran a poll: 66% of his potential constituents associated the name Varick with Russia and/or Communism. (In fact, it was the surname of a Revolutionary War ancestor.) At that...
GUNNAR JARRING, who is known as "the Silent Swede," suddenly found himself cornered one day last week by a group of reporters near his office on the 38th floor of the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Pelted with questions about the Arab-Israeli discussions that he has been summoned to conduct on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, the Swedish diplomat recited an aphorism in Hindi, one of a dozen languages that he knows. Then he translated it: "All is all right." With customary caution, Jarring immediately added, "I mean that only personally...
...superior to the South's. ROK troops have proved themselves tenacious fighters in Viet Nam, but at home they must make do with World War II-vintage weaponry. At present the two armies, along with two U.S. divisions, are engaged in a nerve-racking confrontation across the 38th parallel's free-fire zone; though the truce line is guaranteed by the 1953 U.N. armistice, there are sporadic outbursts of shooting...