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Mademoiselle from Armentières, parley...
While hardly ranking with the parley between Marc Antony, Lepidus and Octavian in a tent near Bologna at which they created the Second Roman Triumvirate, the meeting of the three little men under a tent on Laos' Plain of Jars certainly rivaled it in security precautions.* Amid fluttering truce flags, the only outsiders allowed within 100 meters of the tent were one unarmed bodyguard for each principal, and two servants. Between 100 and 300 meters away were stationed ten unarmed guards for each side, and in an outer circle stood 330 more soldiers...
...five in order to protect their inefficient farmers. With this lack of progress, the Geneva negotiations are sure to get off to a slow start, and will probably drag on wearily for many, many months. Some Europeans feel, in fact, that Charles de Gaulle does not want the Geneva parley at all, and would be happy to see it collapse because of German intransigence over grain...
...MALAYSIA. Everybody was trying to make peace between the four-month-old Federation of Malaysia and President Sukarno's belligerent Indonesia. First, Attorney General Robert Kennedy arranged a cease-fire in the smoldering jungle war and set up a peace parley in Bangkok for this week. Then Cambodia's anti-American Prince Norodom Sihanouk ("Snookie" to some) criticized Bobby for "meddling," and tried to arrange a separate peace conference. The upshot was that nobody was quite sure who was meeting whom where...
...expire until March 1965, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner exhorted both publishers and union leaders to get together next week in an effort to avert another disastrous strike. The mayor's impatience was understandable. He has been vainly seeking to arrange just such a peace parley ever since the strike ended last March...