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After two weeks of bewildering political warfare, there is a truce in Student Council bickering. Last week a committee of seven assembled in the Dunster House Common room and quietly began to discuss the future of Harvard student government. Calm and deliberative, the meeting contrasted sharply with the circus atmosphere that has reigned in college politics...
...deeply committed in Laos, he said, that the crisis could explode into World War III. Gromyko retorted without bluster. He urged that the U.S. halt its military buildup of marines, guerrilla fighters and helicopters in northern Thailand until the Soviets had time to reply to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer. Kennedy did not commit himself. But the fact was that the U.S. buildup in Thailand did slacken during the week...
...diplomatic drive on the SEATO front when Secretary of State Rusk touched down in the steaming heat of Bangkok for a conference of member foreign ministers. Rusk was determined to get SEATO to declare that, if the Soviets did not respond favorably by midweek to the Anglo-U.S. truce offer, then SEATO "will take military measures to check further aggression." SEATO's Asian members-the Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos, who live in the shadow of Communism-strongly endorsed such a stand. But Rusk learned on his very first night in Bangkok that SEATO's European members were...
...dapper Ambassador Sir Frank Roberts presented a joint Anglo-U.S. offer to the Kremlin. If the Russians would order a ceasefire, then the West would agree to convene the ineffectual three-nation International Control Commission for Laos -consisting of Canada, India and Communist Poland-to certify the truce. Furthermore, the West was willing to scuttle the present pro-Western Laotian government in favor of a truly neutralist...
President Kennedy's choice for the new U.S. spokesman at Geneva was Arthur Hobson Dean, 62, once John Foster Dulles' law partner. A cherubic-looking fellow. Dean earned his negotiator's credentials the hard way, representing the U.S. in the interminable Korean war truce talks with the Chinese Communists. In his briefcase, Dean carried a whole sheaf of new Western proposals, jointly tailored by the Kennedy Administration and the British government to eliminate the most serious Soviet objections to previous Western plans. "Our proposals," said British Negotiator David Ormsby-Gore, "should now make agreement possible before...