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Last week, with both countries having brought complaints to an emergency session of the Security Council (its 202nd session on a Palestine-related issue), the U.N.'s truce chief on the scene, Norwegian Lieut. General Odd Bull, left little doubt that Syria had been the aggressor. Backed up by photographs, spent bullets and diagrams, Bull's report told of finding "two dead bodies riddled with holes; a tractor with numerous bullet holes; a magazine from an automatic weapon; a lever handle from a grenade; ... a pool of blood where one man allegedly had been shot, leaving part...
...past, Israel has usually made routine complaints to the U.N. when there were truce breaches on the bristling border, then staged heavily retaliatory raids of its own. When such incidents came before the Security Council, the U.S. usually stayed neutral. This time Israel had followed U.S. advice and appealed for Security Council action-hence the U.S. policy switch to support Israel. At week's end the U.S. and Great Britain introduced a joint resolution that condemned "the wanton murder" and called "the attention of the Syrian Arab Republic" to the assembled evidence...
...which has cost well over 200,000 lives. What began in 1948 as partisan warfare between Liberals and Conservatives has degenerated over the years into banditry and blood lust virtually devoid of any political meaning. The senseless slaughter goes on although the Liberal and Conservative parties agreed to a truce in 1957. President Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative, has pressed the search for known bandits; but the campaign to hunt them down appears to make some bandit chieftains all the more savage. Until the roadside massacre, Aranguren usually released his robbery victims, but after slaughtering the 42 men, he gave...
...raise the diplomatic status of East Germany, thus eroding the stubborn hope of eventual German reunification. Kennedy sought to soothe this worry by restating the U.S. pledge of peaceful reunification. Moreover, he pointed out that countries that do not recognize each other nevertheless sign treaties. (One example: the Laos truce agreement, signed by the U.S. and Red China.) The fact remains that a non-aggression agreement, beyond the unilateral pledges already made by NATO, would be taken as a formal recognition of the European status quo, and that could only help Khrushchev unless the West were to obtain significant concessions...
Corruption & Climate. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the truce, North Korea last week held street rallies and parades, shouted slogans, and began the solemn observation of a "Month of Joint Struggle for the Withdrawal...