Today in History-June 25
The US is pressing for a cessation of hostilities for at least threemonths
1970: New peace plan for Middle East
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The United States has launched its latest plan to bring peace to the Middle
East.
US Secretary of State William Rogers announced his initiative to encourage
the Arabs and Israelis to stop shooting and start talking at a news conference
in Washington.
Mr Rogers said he hoped the plan would be carried out under the guidance of
United Nations mediator Dr Gunnar Jarring and in accordance with UN Security
Council resolutions.
The peace effort will attempt to resolve the so-called "war of attrition"
which has been raging between Israel and Egypt along the Suez Canal since the
Six Day War in 1967.
'Lasting peace'
Recent strategies by the US Secretary of State to end conflict in the
region have been rejected by all sides.
Mr Rogers said the objective of the initiative was "to encourage the
parties to move to a just and lasting peace".
He refused to give details of any military assistance which might be
offered to Israel or to divulge any further details of the plan.
But the US later confirmed it was pressing for acessationof hostilities for
at least three months and wished negotiations to be based on the UN resolution
242 - passed at the end of the Six Day War.
Under this declaration, Egypt and Jordan should acknowledge Israel's right
to a secure existence behind recognised borders.
In return, Israel should accept the principle of withdrawing from occupied
territory.
The Israeli authorities have not commented on the proposals, but Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser is reported to have been scathing of the plans.
King Hussein inspects the Jordanian frontline with Israel in the 1967
war
1950: UN condemns North Korean invasion
Artificially 1969:
The North Korea has invaded South Korea at several points along the two
countries' joint border.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has denounced North Korea's
actions as a breach of the peace and has called for an immediate ceasefire.
The United States President Harry S Truman has gone a step further and
urged western nations to go out to Korea and help repel the communist
invasion.
"By their actions in Korea, communist leaders have demonstrated their
contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded,"
he said.
Surprise attack
The invasion took the international community by surprise, even though the
American Economic Co-operation Administration has its biggest mission - about
2,000 staff - in South Korea.
The seven-power commission of the United Nations in Korea (Uncok) confirmed
North Korean troops crossed the border - known as the 38th parallel - in 11
places after artillery bombardments were reported in South Korea at 0400 local
time.
Uncok has identified northern forces in the Ongjin peninsula and the
western towns of Kaesong and Chunchon and landings on the east coast around
Skagnung, almost 40 miles from the border.
Their statement also contained details of machine-gun attacks by four 'Yak'
aircraft on military and civilian airfields outside the South Korean capital
Seoul, destroying aircraft and jeeps and setting fire to petrol tanks.
President Syngman Rhee of South Korea - who denied early rumours of war -
told Uncok at least 36 North Korean tanks and armoured cars had been counted on
their way to Seoul by the shortest routes.
The North Korean wireless station, in the capital Pyongyang, justified the
invasion saying communist forces were counter-attacking against border
incursions by the South Koreans in the early hours of the morning and reported a
state of war shortly after noon local time.
After an emergency meeting with his cabinet South Korea's foreign minister
Ben Limb urged the people of the republic to resist the "dastardlyattack".
The UN Security Council met at Lake Success, Detroit after the Korean
Ambassador John Myung Changan sent an urgent petition to the State Department in
Washington.
Korea has been divided since the Japanese withdrawal at the end of World
War II left the USSR occupying the area north of the 38th parallel and the US to
the south.
Vocabulary:
cessation: a bringing or coming to an end; a ceasing(停止)
dastardly:meanly timid; cowardly; base(卑怯的;卑鄙的)
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