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...Vietnamese on both sides have died in the continued fighting-more than the total number of Americans killed in the eleven years of U.S. involvement. When a newsman in Saigon asked: "Is there a cease-fire?" Lieut. Colonel Le Trung Hien, the military spokesman, replied dryly: "Our daily communiqués [of military action] answer your question...
Parts of the Arab oil strategy are still unclear. The communiqué from Kuwait, for instance, left deliberately vague the political conditions under which the 5%-a-month production cuts would be restored; it made no attempt to define "Palestinian rights." Further, the Arabs promised to slash shipments only to "unfriendly" countries. That pledge is impossible to carry out because the Arabs have little control over where oil goes once it leaves their ports...
...massive bands of guerrillas be allowed back in the lines under independent fedayeen command. The King's determined stand stalled the conference. When it ended after three days, Egypt announced that it was resuming diplomatic relations with Jordan, and Syria is expected to follow suit soon. But the communiqué made no reference to the fedayeen issue or to the Eastern front...
Most of the slight modifications of the January accords reflected in the communiqué resulted from the obstructionist tactics of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu and the demands of the P.R.G. (TIME, June 18). Thieu was able to prevent the communiqué from describing the areas under Communist control in terms that could imply a permanent secession from South Viet Nam. The Communists gained a few points also. The communiqué ignored Thieu's insistence that national elections be held early and that the estimated 145,000 North Vietnamese troops withdraw from the South...
There is one fairly devastating measure of what the talks apparently did not accomplish. The communiqué disposes of Cambodia in one sentence, stating merely that "Article 20 of the [January] agreement regarding Cambodia and Laos shall be scrupulously implemented." Yet fierce fighting still rages along the access routes to Phnom-Penh, as U.S. warplanes continue flying combat missions. Kissinger implied that he has a tacit understanding with Tho that could bring peace to Cambodia and Laos (where fighting has stopped but no progress toward a political settlement has been made). Tho has denied that there is any understanding, secret...