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...left-wing weekly Tribune, Angry Young Playwright John (The Entertainer) Osborne, 31. showered spleen over his fellow countrymen. Zeroing in on Britain's political leaders from a refuge in southern France. Osborne denounced them as ''murderers" for refusing to dismantle all British nuclear weapons forthwith: "My hatred for you," he wrote, "is almost the only satisfaction you have left me. My favorite fantasy is four minutes or so of noncommercial viewing as you fry in your democratically elected hot seats, preferably with your condoning constituents. I would willingly watch you all die for the West, if only...
...five other warships to pass through the Suez Canal en route to Kuwait without a word of protest, but finally decided he disliked the British more than Kassem. "Kassem is only a bad cold, but British imperialism is a cancer," wrote Nasser's favorite journalist. The U.A.R. forthwith sponsored a Security Council resolution urging an immediate British withdrawal from Kuwait. With support only from Russia and Ceylon, the resolution was defeated...
...issue was a Security Council resolution inspired by 42 Afro-Asian states, demanding that Portugal "desist forthwith from repressive measures" in Angola and take "immediate steps" toward giving Angola self-government and independence. The Russians loudly demanded outright condemnation of the Portuguese, hoping to force the U.S. into the position of "protecting" the colonialist Portuguese...
Time for Advancement. Rather than submit to the Anglo-U.S. demand that an immediate cease-fire order precede any peace conference. Moscow called for talks forthwith and said vaguely that the Laotian belligerents should hammer out their own ceasefire. This could conceivably give time for the Red-led Pathet Lao forces to advance as they did last week (see THE WORLD). The talks would include prompt convocation of the three-nation International Control Commission (Canada, India, Poland) in Delhi and the opening of a 14-nation conference-notably including Communist China-in Cambodia. The U.S. shuddered at the thought...
Then he wanted the Assembly to recognize the "legitimate government" of Antoine Gizenga, Red-backed boss of Eastern Province. This was not all. Gromyko went on to denounce Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold as a "murderer" and a "stooge" who must be fired forthwith...