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...Common Market goods of the same total value-a move that might create a bad atmosphere for next May's scheduled round of tariff-cutting negotiations, at which the U.S. hopes to win broad mutual tariff reductions. For the moment, everyone was simply relieved at the chicken truce. "We are all glad it's over," said W. Michael Blumenthal, Trade Negotiator Christian Herter's deputy in Geneva. He was addressing an American Club luncheon in Geneva-at which the main course was French chicken...
...truce talks got under way at the presidential palace in Bamako, Mali, to settle the border war between Morocco and Algeria, a flock of vultures hovered overhead. As if to counteract such ominous signs, Malian witch doctors with grotesque ritual masks came from miles through the bush. There was plenty of work for them...
...getting last licks. In a TV role, Gleason had to pedal downhill on a bike into a phony brick wall. The wall was supposed to fall away. Instead it fell on him, and lo and behold, a broken left wrist. With his injured appendage safely enslinged, Gleason offered a truce to Toots. "Now," he cracked, "we can go out and buy a pair of gloves together...
Cozier Group. By week's end the eager peacemakers were having trouble, too. Algeria demanded a full meeting of the 32-member Organization of African Unity, in which Ben Bella partisans have a majority. Instead, Haile Selassie offered to serve as chairman of a truce meeting in Tunis including Hassan, Ben Bella and one of the unlikeliest political fraternities ever gathered outside the U.N. cocktail lounge-Egypt's Nasser, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, Libya's King Idriss, Mali's Modibo Keita, and Guinea's Sekou Toure...
...truce will settle little beyond what sums are involved. Both sides fear that yielding in the first test of Common Market agricultural protectionism would set a pattern for the later and larger decisions about wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. The Europeans stipulated that the panel's fact findings are not to be legally binding; the panel will not even consider possible remedies for the lost U.S. chicken business. Still, optimists hope that during the truce, both sides may find it easier to make concessions...