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Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven't had much left to devote to the really important task of developing our state," declared Phillips. "It is painfully clear that the race issue has retarded the development of our human resources. The white cannot keep the Negro down without paying the awesome penalty of restricting his own development...
Permanent peace in the Middle East seems more than ever a mirage in the desert of Arab-Israeli antipathies. Egyptian and Israeli artillery dueled across the Suez Canal last week with unsettling and dangerous regularity. The casualties of an uncertain truce are beginning to rise. Some 100 Egyptians were killed in last week's exchanges, along with half a dozen Israelis. In a growing war of Arab terrorism in Israeli-occupied territory, Israel lost its first lives since the war: a three-year-old child and two policemen...
...Laotian Commander in Chief Ouane Rathikoune, who depends heavily on his cut in the opium trade to buy the loyalty of his soldiers. When Chan tried to cross the Mekong in barges, the Chinese opened fire with everything in their armory. The Laotian commander tried to negotiate a truce and, failing, withdrew to watch the melee...
...which won approval from both Egypt and Israel to station truce observers along the canal, hopes that the situation will cool off at Suez when the observers take up their posts this week, though the Israelis believe that the observers are likely to be ineffectual. The truce teams, which will be composed mainly of Finnish and Swedish officers, will eventually number about 30 men to cover the 107-mile front at Suez. U.N. truce observers have been patrolling the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights 40 miles south of Damascus for the past six weeks...
...birthday truce itself proved a bloody affair, honored by the Communists in the gun breech from almost its first moments. Saigon, to be sure, blossomed with festooned streets and parades of floats escorted by buzzing swarms of teen-agers on motorbikes. But on the battlefields, bullets and mortars pounded in 73 enemy violations of the truce period recorded by Saigon. Some 30 of them were judged "significant," including a long firefight in southern Quang Ngai province in which 45 North Vietnamese and eight American soldiers died early on the birthday of Buddha, who enjoined reverence for life...