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Both sides in Yemen's desultory war reached a point last November when a cease-fire and truce talks seemed about to achieve some kind of settlement. No such luck. The Nasser-backed republicans declined to give up their claim to power in San'a, the capital, and the royalists were not about to abandon the bitter fight waged in the hills by their leader, the deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr...
Last week the truce game was over. Tribesmen supporting the Imam poured out of their mountain fastness to launch a successful attack on Razeh, near the Saudi Arabian border. The jubilant royalists claimed to have killed, wounded and captured more than a thousand Egyptians and republicans. At the same time, two tribes in the mountains 20 miles from San'a declared their support for the royalists and drove back an Egyptian force sent to subdue them...
When the feud first broke out two years ago, President Kennedy appointed Gen. Douglas MacArthur as an arbitrator to try to settle the dispute in time for the Tokyo Olympics. The NCAA and the AAU declared a truce, but with the Olympics out of the way, war broke out again with the NCAA's memorandum...
...while it had looked as if the 19th General Assembly might meet only to break up. When it finally got under way-two months late so as to dodge the U.S. elections and an additional 35 minutes late because a tortured truce was being patched together-it was at least functioning. But just barely...
Secretary-General U Thant announced the truce terms: "Issues other than those that can be disposed of without objection will not be raised." In short, the Assembly agreed for the present not to handle anything of importance and to avoid taking any votes, while the U.S. postponed a formal demand to deprive Russia of its Assembly vote (under Article 19 of the Charter) for nonpayment of dues on the U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and Suez. While the Assembly is in its limbo of talking without voting, the U.S. and Russia are having another go at working...