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...Truce Talks. For the moment, Ben Bella's performance succeeded in distracting attention from the deeper problems of economic chaos, political dissension, and simmering rebellion in Kabylia, where guerrillas last week reportedly kidnaped government officials and whisked them into the hills. At the same time, the regime stepped up its anti-American campaign with the charge that U.S. pilots had airlifted Moroccan troops to the border. Despite U.S. official denials, the accusation seemed at least partially accurate. Four days before the fighting broke put, pilots of the U.S. Air Force training mission in Morocco ferried troops...
Dutifully, the rival North African brothers went through the motions of truce talks, but the Moroccans refused Algerian demands to withdraw from the outposts, and after six meetings in Marrakech the negotiations collapsed in anger. As the Algerians stormed home, a new battle reportedly erupted at Ich, 300 miles northeast of the original fighting, and Hassan charged that Ben Bella sought to convert the border struggle into a general war. Back in Algiers, Information Minister M'hammed Yazid blandly declared that a "dialogue is still possible." With that, he boarded a plane for New York, where he will...
...issue that involves barely 1% of U.S. exports to the Common Market, the chicken-tariff war has produced a ridiculous number of international conferences, alarming statements and bad gags. Last week truce was declared. After a final all-night session, bargainers in Brussels agreed to submit the disputed facts to arbitration. In the next three weeks, a panel chosen from nations not involved will determine exactly how much of U.S. chicken exports to the Common Market have been affected by the restrictions of the Six. The U.S. claims that the loss is $46 million a year, the Europeans that...
...Wieder-sehen-Adenauer returned to two themes that he hoped to leave behind in Germany's consciousness. The first was that any East-West "détente talk" could only lead to "new Munichs." Revealing that he himself last year had offered Moscow a ten-year "truce" in return for better treatment of East Ger many's people (he was turned down), Adenauer insisted that any hope of easing the cold war without concessions from Russia is folly. Considering the latest Russian squeeze play against the West in Berlin, no one could say with assurance that Adenauer...
...Thucydides, no tby adhering to military strategy, nor even by waiting to give up to the Gestapo or the enemy, depending upon who comes first. Rather it is saved when Alois rangs up the white skins of the rabbits he has been ordered to kill, which accidentally act as truce flags. Slaughtering pure-bred animals creates a confusion in his mind between the theory of German racism and the practice of the gas chambers and starts him on the path to mental collapse. Although Walser occasionally lapses into stereotypes (e.g. the officious German scientist) and occasionally the symbolic brew...