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...Olympian Ultimatum. It was not for lack of effort on labor's part. Swarms of hard-bitten labor lobbyists bustled around Capitol Hill all session. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself stumped from office to office, making gruff demands for repeal. International Typographical Union President Elmer Brown even distributed copies of an Olympian ultimatum admonishing Congress: "Our patience is about exhausted with being doublecrossed. And the Senators ought to know that they cannot doublecross the labor movement again and get away with...
Clearly, Pakistan had little choice but to accept the U.N.'s cease-fire ultimatum. Cut off from U.S. and British arms supplies, denied Russian aid, and severely mauled by the larger Indian armed forces, Pakistan could continue the fight only by teaming up with Red China and turning its back on the U.N. To take those steps would have meant a permanent break with the West and an end to the Western aid that has so greatly stimulated Pakistan's economy. India, by contrast, is still the big gainer in the war. Shastri had united the nation...
Nuclear Swap. For all the new optimism on the East River, Fanfani faces an agenda that gives little hope of smooth sailing. Once more, Red Chinese membership will be proposed, though with less feeling: Peking's brutal ultimatum to India has undoubtedly cost it some support among non-aligned countries. There will be demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from...
Peking's stern ultimatum to India, which once sounded like the voice of certain war, was resolved in a squeaky backdown. Peking announced that the Indians had dismantled 56 outposts on Chinese territory, thus precluding the possibility of a three-cornered war. But Peking kept up the threat of future trouble by demanding the immediate return of "two kidnaped Tibetans, 800 sheep and 59 yaks." India, of course, denied everything from dismantling to yaknaping. And in New Delhi, a mob promptly marched on the Chinese Embassy, leading a herd of sheep bearing placards that read: "Eat me, but save...
China was already reaping rewards. New Delhi claimed the ultimatum was proof positive that Mao Tse-tung and Ayub Khan were plotting the destruction of India. Even so, India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri tried to stave off war by belatedly agreeing to a two-year-old Chinese offer to have a Sino-Indian inspection team decide whether the fortifications were in China or Sikkim. No one had much hope the offer would be accepted...