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Berlin was no longer the sole danger point. In Washington's "Crisis Center," State Department intelligence experts kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...nervous conversation all over the Pentagon. No one thought for a moment that Taylor would be a yes man, or that he would serve President Kennedy simply as a briefing officer. Suspicious of Kennedy's motives and Taylor's plans, the armed forces have called a truce in their internecine feuds about budgets and missions; they have closed ranks for a possible cold war with the White House. Cracked one Pentagon civilian: "They've stopped arguing about how the pie gets cut up; they're worried there...
...undergraduates was the Lampoon's; the CRIMSON recorded that 'Poonies had admitted complete despair late in the fall, and appealed for funds in several directions at once. Harvard's only humor magazine and Cambridge's sole newspaper struggled through the winter and following spring, until in a grudging truce, it was temporarily absorbed into the CRIMSON...
...long report to Geneva, the International Control Commission, which is supposed to be policing the truce, simply threw up its hands. Wrote Chairman Samar Sen, an Indian civil servant: "In the jungle, it is nearly impossible to say who shot first or who gave the first provocation." Obviously, unsympathetic to what he called "the Boun Oum group," Sen said he had no "detailed evidence" to back up repeated government charges of Pathet Lao raids-and he showed no desire to go into the jungle...
European settlers in Algeria were bitter. "Naturally," said one, "the F.L.N. will take advantage of the truce to intensify its attacks. It's madness to believe that it would do anything else." Even Moslem sympathizers were disappointed by the F.L.N.'s rejection of De Gaulle's offer of a ceasefire. If the talks at Evian end in a stalemate, the F.L.N.'s stubborn decision to keep fighting may backfire...