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...Despite all its obscurities, the war in South Viet Nam is a Chinese test of our resolve to contain their expansion by whatever means necessary. The Chinese can see that a victory for them in Viet Nam will raise their bargaining stature in the inevitable nuclear showdown between Communist China and the West. If Washington trembles at the prospect of conventional war with China, we will surely hide under the bed when China finally confronts us with nuclear weapons...
Rather than force a showdown, Stevenson announced that the U.S. would relent, this once, and not challenge Russia's right to vote. The U.S. rationalization: the Albanian motion was procedural rather than substantive U.N. business. With that, the Assembly voted 97 to 2 against Budo and adjourned, hoping that the payments dispute might be settled during the spring and summer by a special committee to be appointed by Quaison-Sackey. The Assembly seemed clearly pleased at having averted a crisis, but in fact it had only demonstrated the absurd and sadly precarious condition of the U.N. today...
...showdown for the Ivy League championship take's place this weekend at Penn and Princeton. Cornell (11-1) plays Penn (8-3) at the Palestra tonight, and will probably defeat the Quakers to cling to a precarious lead in the Ivy race...
Whether he would stay resigned was a question; Inönü quit once before, in 1963, only to accept reappointment by President Cemal Gursel. Whatever the case, Turkey seemed a step closer to a showdown between the nation's feuding factions...
...precedent would probably mean the end of the Assembly's power to take active steps to quell future little hot wars around the globe. Clearly, Moscow would like nothing better; and for just that reason the U.S. was standing firm as the crisis moved toward a showdown this week, when President Quaison-Sackey has indicated that voting must begin...