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...question of deciding the question of calling such a preparatory meeting," said the communiqué, "consultations with all parties are necessary." That means months, maybe years, of bilateral talks among dissident Red leaders. Russia's chance of hammering out ideological unanimity appeared to be virtually...
...communiqué published by the Polish news agency P. A. P. was just that. It spoke of "brotherly friendship and complete unanimity of views"; yet a quick look at the guest list put the lie to that in a hurry. Gathered in Warsaw last week were Premiers, Presidents and party bosses of the Warsaw Pact nations: Russia's Brezhnev and Kosygin, Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov, Czechoslova kia's Antonin Novotny, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, Rumania's Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Hungary's Janos Kadar, Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka...
...arrested members of the High National Council. Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu agreed to convene a "national convention" as soon as possible to act as a legislature; in the meantime, the aging, feeble Suu would exercise "legislative powers." "The political crisis is considered ended," announced a communiqué, and the U.S. embassy cautiously welcomed the deal as "a promising step in the direction of . . . stable and effective government...
...support an invitation to Russia for a four-power standing committee that would meet periodically to discuss the German problem. Neither Washington nor London was very interested, judging that Russia would turn down the invitation anyway, and France flatly refused. Schröder could only issue his own unilateral communiqu...
...appeared to turn toward dangerous desperation. After his own fast, Tarn Chau, the sect's political coordinator, led 500 monks and nuns in another 24-hour hunger strike; before beginning it, a group of the bonzes prudently tucked into a hearty breakfast outside their pagoda. Then a Buddhist communiqué claimed that Tri Quang, leader of northern and central Buddhists, was continuing his original fast into a sixth day. Quang is said to like fasting, on grounds that it "clears the head...