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...MacArthur, the conquerer of Japan, is hailed as the new hero in the sports world for his efforts in bringing a cease-fire in the vitriolic war between the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegate Athletic Association. But we can not join in the celebration, for MacArthur's truce is a tenuous and fragile arrangement imposed by the powers and prestige of the Presidency of the United States. It solves none of the basic issues. In fact, it ignores some major considerations and raises new questions...
...sound of Christmas in Katanga province was the thunk of mortar shells and the rattle of machine guns. After an uneasy twelve-month truce between U.N. forces and the troops of Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe, a few minor incidents got out of hand, and for the third time since September 1961 the province was in turmoil. Blue-helmeted U.N. soldiers swarmed through Elisabethville, seized roadblocks on the highways. Swedish U.N. Saab jets swooped low over Katanga's airfield at Kolwezi, destroying four planes on the ground and setting oil tanks ablaze. In the first skirmishes, seven...
...federal judge entered the prison, hoping to arrange a truce. He returned to report that 13 hostages (a figure later proved erroneous) were already dead. By nightfall, the guards outside were uncontrollable in their fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...
...Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford. New York Times vice president and the Publishers Association's chief negotiator, "that the reputations of the I.T.U. and Local 6 for fair...
Although the thousands of shoppers spilled along Fifth Avenue seemed little concerned with problems of this world, for the city's newspapers, continued unhappiness loomed as the striking printers rejected the publishers' proposal for a 60-day truce...