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...TIME notes that "oddity" that "many of those who are attacking Johnson for not having resorted to force at once in the Mideast are those who attack him most bitterly for having used force at all in Viet Nam" [lune 9]. What is so odd about a philosophy that advocates use of U.S. power only when the nation requesting our assistance can clearly demonstrate its own solid commitment to fight for the right to exist and to be free? If the South Vietnamese showed the kind of determination and willingness to defend their country that the Israelis have shown...
...gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation. He is even setting up headquarters for a broader Tri-Continental Organization in-of all places-Cairo. Castro claims that Russian support of the Mideast cease-fire was a "capitulation" comparable to Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba in October 1962 (see PRESS...
Defiantly rejecting the "intemperant utterance" of Russia's Aleksei Kosygin, who preceded him in the rostrum, Eban spelled out the actions of Moscow and the Arab states themselves as unassailable proof of who was responsible for the Mideast war. Rather than accept Israel's "sovereign right to existence," Eban said, the Arabs adopted a "doctrine of 'day-by-day military confrontation.' " Rather than working for peace, Russia "has for 14 years afflicted the Middle East with a headlong armaments race." Eban read off the deadly catalogue of Russian arms that had been delivered to the Arabs...
From the hippy haunts of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, it is a long city mile to United Nations headquarters on the shore of the East River. But last week, as the U.N. General Assembly began its Mideast debate, it was an open question whether the hippies or some of the delegates were farther out. Most of the speeches sounded like part of an ambassadorial bein, a surreal exercise in psychediplomacy...
...around Washington on the eve of Kosygin's arrival in New York, dropping broad hints that if Johnson were willing to break the ice, talks might prove highly profitable. The Soviet Premier, they said, was prepared to join Johnson in a tour a"horizon encompassing not only the Mideast but also Viet Nam, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and mutual limitations on costly new anti-ballistic missile systems. Another likely topic: Red China's successful explosion of a hydrogen bomb...