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...dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...
After an extended policy meeting Peace Council yesterday suggested that the Korean prisoner-of-war issue be discussed by truce teams only after cessation of hostilities there, are invited students opposing this position to an open meeting next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...
...Korea's hills, U.S. casualties were the heaviest in a year. According to the latest Pentagon figures, the U.S. is currently taking casualties at the rate of more than 1,000 a week (including some hundreds killed or permanently disabled). Since the truce talks began more than 16 months ago, the U.S. has suffered 44,700 casualties. In that time the battle line has moved hardly...
...truce of 1949 settled the Arab-Israeli fighting, but not the fate of the 880,000 Arab refugees who fled Palestine. They straggled into camps scattered all over the Middle East and settled down to a wretched life in crowded hovels, with bad food, no sanitation, little schooling for their children and increasingly less hope. Each year the U.N. has thrown an embarrassed money handout to the refugees. Last week the annual handout kicked up a brief but bitter fight...
When the Communists invaded South Korea, Byrne refused to leave his flock in Seoul. He was arrested and later taken far north of the Communist line, along with his secretary, Father William Booth. Reports reaching Seoul said that he was weak and ill-treated. Last year, during the truce talks, Father Booth's name appeared on a list of civilian prisoners, but not Bishop Byrne's. The Communists refused to answer questions about...