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Nuclear Swap. For all the new optimism on the East River, Fanfani faces an agenda that gives little hope of smooth sailing. Once more, Red Chinese membership will be proposed, though with less feeling: Peking's brutal ultimatum to India has undoubtedly cost it some support among non-aligned countries. There will be demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from...
...Pakistan continued in bloody obscurity, Red China sharpened a knife for India's back. In Peking, India's charge d'affaires was roused at one o'clock in the morning with a curt summons to the Foreign Ministry, where he was handed an ultimatum. In brutal terms, the note gave the Indian government three days "to dismantle all military structures along the Sikkim border," or else take the "grave consequences...
This sort of brutal treatment, says the author, explains why the Chinese people-49 years later-welcomed with open arms the Communist victory in 1949. As for the accounts of mass murder perpetrated by the Reds (Chairman Mao himself modestly admits liquidating 800,000 landlords and capitalists from 1949 to 1954), they are horror stories invented by Western propagandists. In her eyes, Communist China has done no wrong, its leaders are the most kindly of men, and she visits Peking every year. "What astonished me most," says Suyin, marveling at Mao's benevolence, is the sight of "old warlords...
Everybody is entitled to his opinion-but in the eyes of many editors, Columnist and Author (The Day Christ Died) Jim Bishop was voicing some very peculiar opinions last week. Bishop took a two-week vacation in sunny Haiti, where an especially brutal dictatorship dishes out voodoo, terror and death. In five columns distributed to 159 newspapers by Hearst's King Features, Bishop wrote as if he were in a delightful if somewhat seedy country of racial harmony, fiscal integrity, health and peace...
Unanswered last week was the question of whether the Yemeni people would accept the peace; neither the republicans nor the royalists were represented at Jedda. Twice before, the Egyptian and the Saudi had "agreed" to stop the brutal little war, but each effort has shattered on the rocks of Nasser's ambition, Feisal's fear of Egyptian encroachment, and ancient rivalries in Yemen itself, where the tough mountain tribes consider themselves the natural rulers of the lowland tribes. Nor was it very clear just how a referendum could be held in a land whose 5,000,000 people...