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...shouted him down, and Mr. Julia had disappeared. Now that the time had come to present his case, Mr. Julia was nowhere to be found. There was a brief recess consumed in the search, as sargents-at-arms, Committee members, attorneys, and delegates hunted for him; when all proved fruitless, the case opened anyway. Soon, however, looking more frightened than ever, Mr. Julia appeared, apparently from the recesses of the hotel lavatory where, some said, he had been struggling with a bout of nervous diarrhea...
Three weeks of executive sessions ended last week in an ovenlike truce tent at Panmunjom. Major General William Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate, said angrily that the secret talks, undertaken at Communist request, had been "completely fruitless." General Harrison unilaterally declared a recess of one week, and walked out with his delegation...
Some Continental politicians believe that the Russians do genuinely fear German rearmament, and may be ready to talk business. In reply, the U.S. points to six years of Soviet obstructionism in U.N., 258 fruitless four-power sessions over an Austrian treaty, and a year's frustration at Panmunjom. To attempt to bargain before the West German and European Army treaties are ratified, the U.S, fears, means putting the treaties themselves on the table as bargaining items...
...wasn't long before the freshmen learned the Rhinehart tradition; Smith Hall rose in rebellion against having boiled eggs alternated with boiled eggs at every breakfast and 75 signed fruitless petitions--no relief was forthcoming...
Free Votes. After making these points, the West agreed to confer with the Russians "as soon as it is clearly apparent that the Soviet government [intends] to avoid the fruitless negotiations of the past." To establish its good faith, Russia should...