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...army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners, blew them up in the Jordanian desert, and openly challenged the army. This time Hussein, decrying the renewed fighting as a "shame to the Arab people," resolved to crush...
Considerably less charmed were the Americans who faced him nine years later across the table at the Korean truce talks in Panmunjom, where Huang led the Chinese delegation. He refused to speak English, would not shake hands with the American delegates and interminably denounced them as "capitalist crooks, rapists, thieves, robbers of widows." At one session, his marathon attacks became so insulting that Arthur Dean, chief American negotiator, gathered up his papers and stalked out of the conference room. One American participant recalls: "Huang Hua was quite stunned. He cried 'Come back!' That was the only time...
...statement accuses the Pakistani government of using tanks, planes and artillery against unarmed people and concludes,"... we fear that the present course of the government of Pakistan can lead only to disaster." It urges an immediate truce and prompt restoration of "legitimate and responsive government in East Pakistan...
...with it, would make such an outcome virtually impossible. The alternative, which might please both Saigon and Washington, would be a "Korean solution": a South Vietnamese government strong enough to fight the North to a standstill, leading not to a formal peace but to a semi-permanent armed truce. In Korea, of course, that was possible because of the presence of U.S. ground forces and the existence of a vigorously anti-Communist population...
...this means that the counterculture, the world's first (and probably last) socio-political movement to grow out of the force of electrically amplified music, has reached a grudging, melancholy truce with the straight world it set out to save. Surrounded, ensnared by a modern industrialized economic system, the movement has become fragmented, confused. That immaculate peaceful energy with which it began has been transmuted into a vast, yawning sense of futility, and there seems...