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...Joseph, Mary and the Christ child's on their flight into Egypt. Since 1949 the 100-sq.-mi. demilitarized zone created under the U.N. armistice has bulged like a blister into Israel's Negev desert holdings. In recent weeks Canadian Major General Edson L.M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor., has repeatedly warned the Egyptians to stop putting up "check points" inside the zone. The Israelis chose this area to attack...
...situation, if the present fighting continues. This country should be ready to institute possible economic sanctions as well as diplomatic pressure, against either side, or both, to halt open warfare between Israel and the Arabs. Once the fighting is stopped, we should also move to implement the UN Truce Commission's recent proposals for the creation of an effective demilitarized zone between Israel and her neighbors. Barbed wire and 1000 yards of open space, if adequately patrolled by UN inspectors can at least make border raids more difficult to undertake than they are at present...
...Aviv, after a new border clash, the U.N. truce chief, Canadian Major General E.L.M. Burns, said: "The irreducible minimum conditions" provide no common ground for peace talks...
...Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet Nam as an economic leech that they wish would go away. With floods and typhoons wiping out crops, overcrowded North Viet Nam cried for food even more...
Democrats charged that the pre-election arrest of some of their members amounted to intimidation. On election day itself, observers of the Geneva Truce Commission, consisting of Canada plus suspicious representatives from neutralist India and Communist Poland, made spot checks, found no irregularity. The only violence stained not the Sangkum, but the Democratic Party with blood-a Sangkum Party chauffeur was murdered...