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...opened a new TIME bureau in Bangkok, flew into Rawalpindi and on to the front. Rome Correspondent William Rademaekers, who had been covering the comparatively quiet political crisis in Greece, flew out of Athens for Karachi and went right to work when he found United Nations Secretary-General U Thant on the same plane...
Other diplomatic moves were afoot, though without benefit of Lyndon's left. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant was sounding out 14 nations-among them Red China and the Soviet Union-to determine whether another U.S. bombing pause would help pave the way to peace talks. In Moscow, United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he too would help negotiate a cease-fire to halt "American aggression...
...fire line, Indian troops captured three more Pakistani outposts in heavy fighting. More important, Indian troops moved across the cease-fire line to occupy a sizable swath of Pakistan-held territory as a "precautionary measure" against further infiltrators. Even Indian resentment of the failure of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to denounce Pakistani aggression was mollified by public circulation of a report by Australia's Lieut. General Robert Nimmo. He has served for eleven years in Kashmir as the U.N.'s chief observer, and he accused Pakistan of "numerous and widespread" violations...
...ready, willing, and indeed anxious to negotiate about Viet Nam with "any government at any place at any time." He said that he had sent the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, to New York with a letter requesting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to use all his best offices to try to achieve a peace settlement. He even mentioned the terms laid down by Hanoi last April, terms then indignantly rejected by Secretary of State Rusk, as conditions that should not even be discussed.* Said the President: "We are going to continue to persist, if persist...
...another suspension of bombings might cause Hanoi to "take some face-saving peace initiative of its own." It has been willing to make more of a compromise at the negotiation table than most U.S. policymakers: "The course of sanity is to explore the initiatives opened up by Secretary-General Thant and General de Gaulle for negotiations to seek a neutralization of Viet Nam and all Southeast Asia...