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Tempting Target. Thus did Nasser, in a breast-beating May Day speech, serve notice last week that the 45-month-old battle for Yemen was entering a crucial new phase. The Egyptian-Saudi truce signed last August is clearly dead. Nasser refuses to pull out of Yemen, as promised. And the Saudis refuse to stop pouring in aid, as promised. Saudi arms and supplies are flowing back again to Imam el Badr's Royalists through the southern Saudi towns of Najran and Qizan, and from the South Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over...
...film's dialogue suggests an uneasy truce between Zionism and Hollywood hipsterism. "We've already lost 6,000,000 people," snaps one patriot. 'Do you want us to try for seven?" To top the evidence that Shadow should not be taken seriously, if at all, Frank Sinatra pops in as a soldier-of-fortune silot who quips, "Hey, don't leave me here alone, I'm anti-Semitic." Musical-comedy exuberance dominates a battle scene that has Sinatra aloft in a Piper Cub, bombing Egyptian tanks with Seltzer bottles and spraying soda at their planes...
...earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone. The truce worked until last week, when three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars arrived with orders to destroy A Shau...
After one month of battle and six of armed truce, Pakistani-Indian relations were at long last returning to normality. Normality, of course, did not mean friendship. Not when the emotional question of Kashmir was involved. But at least the two nations, under terms of the Tashkent agreement, were talking together again-to the vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran...
...Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring that he would not withdraw his 70,000 troops, as promised, until an "acceptable" government in San'a is agreed upon. "If anyone thinks we have become tired," Nasser vowed, "let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation...