Word: communique
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...island," raged General Arismendi, and, over Ramfis' protests, the two flew home. Woodward was left with no alternative but to make an embarrassing return trip to the OAS to ask that action on his request be delayed "indefinitely." Ramfis resigned as armed forces chief of staff, and a communiqué in his own handwriting said that he had boarded the Angelita and sailed for Europe. At week's end Secretary of State Rusk announced worriedly: "It appears that [Héctor and Arismendi] may be planning to reassert dictatorial domination. In view of the possibility of political disintegration...
...nuclear testing, he clung to the argument that the U.S. should agree to a new testing moratorium, even without inspection safeguards against cheating. On only one basic issue did Nehru shift his position-and then, only by about an inch. "The President and the Prime Minister," said their joint communiqué, "concurred in the legitimate and necessary right of access to Berlin." But Nehru would not affirm the West's right to maintain troops in West Berlin...
...catch a train, Charles de Gaulle last week gave up his legal authority to be near dictator of France. A few hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
Shifting Middle. Though the final communiqué was the more moderate for Nehru's efforts, it was a woeful performance for the band of statesmen who had swept into Belgrade to render self-proclaimed moral guidance in the cold war. President Dorticós of Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism...