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...sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...
...dropped out of the battle. Algeria's militant Ahmed Ben Bella allowed recently that Mauritania's nationhood is a "reality." Last week even neighboring Mali, which also claimed part of Mauritania and permitted pro-Moroccan guerrillas to raid the desert nation a year ago, finally buried the hatchet. With royalties beginning to flow into his treasury from big, Western-financed iron-ore mines, Ould Daddah cut off the $4,000,000 annual subsidy his government has been getting from France, thus effectively answering African taunts that he is a "valet of the French...
Ever since he lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian...
Traffic Director Robert Rudolph and Councilman Alfred Vellucci smiled broadly at each other, shook hands, and agreed "to bury the hatchet" at an informal meeting yesterday...
Vellucci said he was "very happy" about the new arrangement; for Rudolph the plan was only "experimental." Vellucci was quick to warn Rudolph that if the $3 fine were reinstated for any reason, "the hatchet I buried was not the only...