Word: truce
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...exorcised this chimera in Washington last week in a significant speech pointing out that 9,000 American soldiers died in Korea between the time that armistice negotiations began and a cease-fire was finally declared, two years later. All told, the two sides met 575 times; while they talked truce, 1,000,000 Americans were drafted, upwards of $10 billion went into the war, and nearly as many U.S. servicemen were wounded as before the negotiations got under...
...ambassador to Saigon from 1964 to last July, ventured last week that the U.S. has "recaptured the initiative" in Viet Nam and, with its ever-increasing strength, is likely to keep it. If that happens, he added, the war may very well end without a single session of formal truce talks but with the "eventual dissolution" of the Viet Cong apparatus and an undeclared halt to guerrilla activities. Meanwhile the cause of peace can realistically be advanced only on the battlefield...
Last week's furor kept Kashmir in the headlines, which is just where the Pakistanis want it. Their worst fear is that the crisis will fade before the U.N. does something about it. Meanwhile, dug-in Pakistani and Indian troops face each other along the 1,500-mile truce line from Rajasthan in the south to Kashmir in the north. India has charged Pakistan with 585 violations in 34 days. Pakistan has countered with accusations of 450 incidents by India. In his first visit to the front, India's Shastri last week exhorted his soldiers "to be alert...
...Terror. That there was no full-scale fighting was due largely to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker, the tall, white-haired OAS negotiator and chief architect of the tenuous Dominican truce. In an eleventh-hour session at the National Palace, Bunker strongly reminded Garcia-Godoy that alienating the military was hardly the way to run a government of reconciliation. He got the President, and later Rivera Caminero, to agree on the pacification of Santo Domingo through a house-to-house arms search by military, police and civilian teams. Garcia-Godoy then ordered OAS troops into the rebel area to make...
Perhaps it should be called a decrease-fire. Whatever the word, India and Pakistan last week demonstrated the flexibility of their own, ten-day-old ceasefire. From Kashmir to the Sind, patrols probed at one another, hoping to grab more high ground before the United Nations truce could be properly policed. During the course of the week, India charged Pakistan with 42 violations; Pakistan charged India with...