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...Sino-Indian border conflict coincided roughly with the U.S.-Soviet clash over Russian missiles in Cuba. There is no evidence to prove that the Chinese attacked when they did to take advantage of Soviet preoccupation elsewhere. Once their grip on the Aksai Chin was secure, the Chinese withdrew from land they had occupied in NEFA (now known as Arunachal Pradesh) and offered to negotiate a mutually acceptable border in Kashmir. The Indians, whose call for assistance was answered by an outpouring of arms from Britain and the U.S., refused to discuss the matter until the Chinese completely departed from Aksai...
...while guests sipped cocktails and swapped tales about their spot profits, one trader offered to sell a 50,000-ton cargo of heating oil at $260 a ton. Then he disappeared and discovered that in New York City the spot price had risen to $300 a ton. He withdrew his offer and next morning found a buyer at $316. The trader's profit between dinner and lunch came...
...contributed to periodic flare-ups between Chinese and Soviet troops along the Ussuri and Amur rivers. It may also have been behind China's attack against India in 1962. That assault, in which the Chinese penetrated up to 100 miles inside Indian territory on a broad front but withdrew benignly one month later, was regarded by some as a possible blueprint precedent for the current punitive action...
...spur of the moment. Driscoll was destined to be the first victim of the angry club members. They quickly nominated and elected Skip Stern '81 who called Stanton "hopelessly ineffective as president" and said Driscoll "is a liar if he denies that a slate exists." He later withdrew his comments about Driscoll and nominated him for another position. Stern resigned his position as treasurer last Wednesday, saying he was too busy to do an effective job and "just ran to prove a point...
...accompany the Americans through the checkpoint; then he brought up tanks to the border. The Soviets in turn sent then" tanks to confront the Americans. For 16 tense hours, the two superpowers were thus nose to nose. Though White House advisers were rat tled, Khrushchev finally backed down and withdrew his hardware. But the wrong lessons had been learned. Instead of rewarding Clay for his stalwart behavior, the White House thought he had exceeded his authority, and the general soon resigned his post...