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Meager Results. At an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, Secretary-General U Thant was authorized to seek an end to the war. With the fervent support of every Council member, Thant flew from New York to see if world opinion meant anything to the combatants. Results were meager. In Rawalpindi, Thant spent most of his time pleading with Pakistan's rabidly anti-Indian Foreign Minister Z. A. Bhutto. Bhutto made Pakistan's position clear: no cease-fire unless it was accompanied by a definite commitment to settle the Kashmir question by self-determination for the Kashmiri people...
...prevent a strike, but that was by no means his only aim. Worried over new pressures on the economy (see following story), he wanted a settlement that was not only "fair and just" but also "noninflationary." According to the guidelines laid down by his Council of Economic Advisers, that meant a maximum 3.2% total increase in wages and fringe benefits for the steelworkers, and the President made it clear that he thought this would be fair shakes for both labor and management...
When Tory Sir Harry Hylton-Foster agreed to be Speaker of the House of Commons last fall, his decision was a godsend to new Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It meant that the Labor government would not have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with a Laborite. But last week Sir Harry dropped dead on a London street, and to Labor that seemed a bit much, coming as it did in the wake of a Labor M.P.'s death fortnight ago, which trimmed Wilson's edge over the Conservatives to a mere...
...also raised a canny theological argument. His sexual organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed in his privy parts" can marry within the congregation. This meant that he was barred from marrying a Jewess. But, added Blau triumphantly, there was no reason, according to rabbinical commentaries, why he could not wed a convert. "And God," he said proudly, "has sent me a convert...
...Scapegoat. It was not until 1918 that the military stalemate ended. That spring the German army in France had launched its "victory offensive," and April in Paris meant shells from Big Bertha dropping in the Tuileries Gardens. The French needed a scapegoat for their setback and chose General Franchet d'Esperey (the British called him "Desperate Frankie"), then commander of the northern armies in France. He was exiled to Macedonia. An egotistical but forceful general, D'Esperey promptly got the 350,000-man force out of its lice-ridden trenches. He struck boldly at the heart of Germany...