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...scene played out last week on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Communist invasion of South Korea. It was the 212th act of a farcical drama that faces little danger of closing: the periodic meetings of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom on the 1953 Korean truce line. The initial, stated purpose of the commission-to police the armistice between the two Koreas-has long since been overshadowed by Red propaganda and invective. But the endless sessions serve as a grim reminder that Korea, where 54,000 Americans died and 50,000 are on active service, is still...
Another Plan. Whatever Caamaño had hoped to achieve by his surprise attack, the powerful OAS reply apparently convinced him to cut it out. Only an occasional sniper's shot broke the truce the rest of the week. Once again U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and the other two members of the OAS negotiating team resumed the work of trying to arrange a settlement between Caamaño and the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, who had been waiting peacefully for almost a month...
...seven weeks of sporadic fighting and tortured negotiations, the U.S., acting largely alone, had managed to impose a shaky truce between the loyalist forces of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras and the collection of rebellious soldiers, discontented civilians and Communist infiltrators led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó. Now the U.S. was trying hard to move into the background. It was time for Latin Americans, however reluctant, to share the burden of keeping peace and restoring some sort of workable government to the bloodied little nation...
...hour pitched battle. Another 2,500 soldiers captured four union strongholds in the mining districts and moved to within H miles of the huge Cat-avi-Siglo Veinte complex, where thousands of well-armed miners had barricaded themselves. At that point, the miners requested a 48-hour truce. Barrientos insisted on unconditional surrender. He then summarily canceled all union wage increases granted since last Aug. 31, 1964, and gave the Comibol state mining company freedom to hire and fire any workers it chose...
...great-great-granddaughter of Company Founder Eleuthere Irenee and heiress to a $5 million share in the chemical fortune, whose spectacular 1937 marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (among the 1,300 guests: some 600 Du Ponts, 200 Roosevelts, President F.D.R., virtually the entire U.S. Cabinet) brought a lasting truce between the two bitterly warring families, but was itself a failure ending in a 1949 divorce, after which she embarked on another unhappy marriage, grew increasingly depressed and spent frequent periods in rest homes; by her own hand (she was found hanging by her braided bathrobe belt from a shower...