Word: truce
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...would have been more impressed," he said, "if the international cables during the 40-day truce had been sizzling with messages to Hanoi saying, 'Now conditions for talks exist. Now play your part. Your friends in this country who want peace expect you to respond.' I'd like to have seen the peace-in-Viet Nam lobby outside the Chinese embassy demanding that the Chinese government diminish their malevolent pressures on Hanoi, preventing Hanoi from following what might be her natural inclinations to ma.ke peace...
Oglesby said that the fault with the policy formula was that it viewed history as an "interruption of wars by truces." He said that the policy rested on four assumptions; both sides of a global pact must agree that global warfare is an unsatisfactory way to solving the conflict, a truce line must be rigidly drawn, both sides must cooperate in maintaining the truce line. And, given the first three conditions, common interests between the two sides will gradually take root...
Oglesby said that American policy makers believe that Vietnam is the truce line between the United States and China and that eventually the Chinese "will join hands with American Bankers." But this will never happen, he continued, because Asia is revolutionary, while Europe was not. The Asian people are deeply committed to change because of "national aspiration combined with national resentment...
...Viet Cong, who initiated the latest truce, shattered it almost immediately. Communist guerrillas fired on a U.S. Marine platoon near Danang, killing two sergeants. A fierce battle between Reds and South Korean troops near Tuy Hoa resulted in 53 Communist dead. In a pre-dawn raid by terrorists, a 25-lb. bomb exploded outside a U.S. billet near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, killing a U.S. soldier...
...years of independence. In northern India there is the threat of renewed invasion by the Red Chinese, who have already seized 14,500 sq. mi. of Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...