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...villa near the Paris suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho quickly arrived at the draft of a nine-point agreement. It was not yet a full accord; some vital details were yet to be filled in. But it constituted a major breakthrough. The plan separated the purely military issues from the political ones; it provided for an in-place cease-fire that would end the major fighting immediately, a U.S. withdrawal and the return of the American prisoners of war within 60 days, and for the establishment of a purposefully vague...
...President's desire to have the entire national security apparatus reflect his thinking and outlook. James Schlesinger, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has been offered the CIA post. Amid all the firings, it is difficult for anybody who says he is leaving of his own accord to be believed. Gene P. Morrell, outgoing director of the Office of Oil and Gas, demanded a retraction of a Washington Post article that said he had been ousted. He had accepted a job with an oil firm, he indignantly explained, long before the firings...
...reasoning and concludes that the whole elaborate structure rests on an empty shell. The subject of contraception is, by the Pope's own account, a matter of "natural law"--not a revealed mystery, not part of a special deposit of truths entrusted to the church; but a teaching "in accord with all men's natural reason." Accordingly, the Pope appointed a special commission which brought together reputable Catholics in the fields of science, gynecology, philosophy, as well as bishops and theologians to help decide the church's position on contraception...
...South Vietnamese President, Nguyen Van Thieu, meanwhile continued to reject the proposed accord and at the same time to rally his people in preparation for a ceasefire. Last Sunday, despite a ban on public demonstrations, his government permitted (and stage-managed) the largest political rally the capital has seen in six years. More than 10,000 Vietnamese Catholics marched to the Saigon city hall to register their support of Thieu and their opposition to the settlement...
...commission, composed of Poland, Canada and India, was set up under the 1954 Geneva accord to supervise the cease-fire in Viet Nam-an agreement that is still legally in force, if only observed in the breach...