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...Communist-led rebels still held most of north central Laos, and the road into their lair was studded with land mines, freshly imported from Red China. Though Boun Oum's generals predicted all-out victory "within a week," most foreign observers on the scene predicted a negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some sort of coalition government that the Pathet Lao rebels...
...National Interest." Goldberg came armed with a potent weapon. President Kennedy, he said, felt that a strike settlement was required "in the national interest." Key to the truce: management and the three striking unions led by the Seafarers agreed to delay a decision as to which side should fix the size of work crews; they would wait a year for recommendations from an Eisenhower-appointed commission on railroad work rules, headed by former Labor Secretary James Mitchell...
Benefactor of the Church? In the exchange of letters that reached the outside world last week, Trujillo tentatively accepted the bishop's truce offer: "We have devoted the most careful consideration to your intention to correct the imprudences which, as you loyally acknowledge, have been committed in the church...
...strike lasted just one day. Theobald guaranteed no reprisals, but leaders of the teachers' union rumbled that the end was only "an honorable truce." Whether prelude or epilogue, the strike was a classic example of the dilemma facing U.S. teachers. To get needed gains in pay and treatment, they now have two rival organizations: the noncombative, 714,000-member National Education Association, which is mostly dominated by school administrators, and the aggressive, 60,000-member American Federation of Teachers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. As proved in New York last week, national labor chieftains-sensing the unpopularity of strikes that...
...benefited by the competition. The Chinese "volunteers" shed their blood in great numbers during the Korean war, but the Russians have long had the upper hand. Chinese Communist officers sit with North Koreans across the table from American and other United Nations representatives in the green truce-talks hut at Panmunjom. But Russia has hitherto provided most of North Korea's arms, including MIGs. and all of Pyongyang Radio's praise has gone to Moscow for "truly great support and aid." The top prize for a heroic North Korean worker who exceeds his production norm is a trip to Moscow...