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Bull in Charge. Assigned for two-year hitches, U.N. soldiers rarely volunteer for more. Recently Palestine's fourth Chief of Staff of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, General Carl von Horn of Sweden, pulled out, roundly accused by the Israelis of being pro-Arab.-Into Jerusalem last week to succeed him flew a Norwegian air force general with the head-snapping name of Odd Bull ("Odd is a very common Norwegian surname, and Bull is a very old Anglo-Saxon family name"). Bull, who led a U.N. observer team in Lebanon in 1958, seemed to be heading into renewed...
...sporadic artillery duel continued, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma desperately tried to get his pro-Communist halfbrother, Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, to agree to a resumption of truce talks. But Souphanouvong vetoed every location for the peace talks suggested by Souvanna Phouma. Sighed a Neutralist colonel: "The discussions move like the tortoise and the war can move like the hare. Maybe before the location for the peace talks is decided, the decision for Laos will have been made in battle...
...Robert McNamara. Finally the businessmen gave halfhearted agreement to King's demands-but there was no assurance that they could persuade Birmingham's segregationist politicians to go along. "We'll Kill You." It was a truce-but there was to be no peace. Saturday night, after a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Birmingham, two dynamite bombs demolished the home of the Rev. A. D. King, brother of Martin King. The minister, his wife and five children raced to safety just before the second blast. Suddenly, the street filled with Negroes. They hurled stones at policemen, slashed...
Saying that "this government will to whatever must be done" to preserve law and order, the President sent Asst. Atty. Gen. Burke Marshall back to Birmingham in an effort to save the shaky truce announced Friday...
...radically new development in the fight for civil rights. The Administration's response indicates that it is unaware of the change in Martin Luther King's movement, his new determination not to end the agitation until his demands for full-scale integration are met. By merely calling for a "truce," and sending Justice Department staff-member Burke white down to Birmingham to talk with city officials, Attorney General Kennedy has failed to meet King's real challenge...