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...peddling the sinister design of 'peaceful negotiations.' " When the Viet Cong guerrillas said they were considering asking Communist countries "to send youths and army men," Peking responded with a promise "to send our men whenever the Vietnamese want them." To underscore the threat, Premier Chou En-lai declared that President Johnson "is risking some surprises" by "dancing on the tightrope of war." Added Chou: "The American Government will never force the South Vietnamese people and [North] Viet Nam into negotiations by intensifying...
Aloof & Impassive. Were the two Red giants threatening to move into Viet Nam together? In an interview with a French journalist, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai suggested that if worse comes to worst in Southeast Asia, "the Chinese and Russian peoples will close ranks." But there was no sign whatsoever of incipient togetherness last week when Chou met a delegation of Russians in Bucharest, where Communists of all stripes had gathered for the state funeral of Rumanian Party Leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu...
...Shaochi, Ayub announced his intention to serve as "honest broker" between Washington and Peking in search of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam-despite the fact that neither China nor the U.S. has shown much interest yet in such a settlement. In private talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi,* Ayub sought to promote further trade and, more important, nail down an interest-free, $60 million loan, promised late last year to encourage Pakistani purchases of Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
...volatile southern state of Kerala, the ruling Congress Party of mild-mannered Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week faced its first electoral test since he took office last June. The party had reason to fear the result since India has for months been racked by a succession of woes, ranging from food shortages and floods to corruption and the bloody riots occasioned by the attempt to impose Hindi as the national language...
India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri last week was at the center of a linguistic whirlwind. The storm began to blow when a parliamentary decree was enacted making Hindi the nation's official language. What bothered millions of non-Hindi-speaking Indians was the fear that they would lose out to the Hindi speakers in government jobs and promotions...