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LONDON, Oct. 19--Sixty-five passengers, including 16 Communist Chinese government officials were killed in the crash of a Russian jetliner en route from Peiping to Moscow Friday, the Red Chinese Radio said Sunday night.
The announcement was foreshadowed by a Peiping radio broadcast noting an absence of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Quemoy area.
Since the Red siege began Aug. 23, U.S. warships and planes have been escorting Nationalist craft with supplies for Quemoy up to the three mile limit. Radio Peiping quoted Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai as telling the Nationalist Chinese he had ordered the conditional halt out of "humanitarian considerations."
The policy that should have been adopted toward Red China when she was better behaved--recognition, as well as containment--would appear at the moment as cowardly retreat. But an offer to recognize the Peiping regime in the near future as the government of mainland China and permit it to...
In approving the U.S. proposal the Assembly rejected India's request that the Assembly open full-scale debate on Red China's representation. It also decided against considering any proposals for excluding the Chinese Nationalists or to seat the representatives of Peiping.