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Essentially the issues remain the same today. Truce has been imposed several times by a United Nations Good Offices Committee, composed of the United States, Belgium, and Australia, but both sides have disregarded its directives. The Renville Agreement of January, 1948, did little but restate the ambiguities of Lingajatti and proved abortive. With the help of a complete blockade of Republican territory, the Dutch were playing on time--snipping off pieces of nationalist holdings and converting them to pro-Dutch states. On December 19, Dutch paratroops descended on Jokjakaria and captured the heads of the Republican government, saying that...
Squash players took the lead yesterday in stirring up inter-House athletic rivalry again after the exam period truce, while League A basketball resumes today. Hockey and League B basketball begin tomorrow...
Under a white flag of truce, city fathers made their way 16 miles southeast for an interview with Communist General Lin Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North Station. At week's end it looked as if the clamor for peace in one of China's largest cities had been silenced-by the surging tide of Communist conquest...
...undeclared war in Kashmir was over. Last week Indians and Pakistanis were able to boast of the world's best kept ceasefire. Under the truce terms, the question of which dominion will rule the border state would be settled by a plebiscite, under a United Nations administrator...
Everybody agreed that the two pro leagues would have to make peace or perish, but neither side was prepared for peace. Last week, in Philadelphia, officials of both leagues talked truce for twelve futile hours. The National League's unacceptable terms: add the Browns and 49ers to the ten-team National League, fold up the other six All-America teams...