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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Thieu rendered judgment, and it was devastating. He violently denounced the nine-point plan. He insisted on a total withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces and the establishment of the DMZ as a political frontier. He scorned the proposed interim political body, the National Council of Reconciliation and Concord, as a coalition government in disguise...
...book with a philosophical doctrine and a prophetic meaning with hymns and parables, epics and parables, epics and a comprehensible symbolic unity. With a swipe he disposes of such essentially irrelevant questions as the importance of Thoreau's mysterious journals or the divergences of Thoreau's thought from his Concord neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson's. He takes interest soles in whether Walden holds up to close philosophical scrutiny in what it has to tell us about how we are to live...
Heaven-bent might sound better, considering Vereen's background. Not only was his father a deacon at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist Church and his godfather a traveling Baptist preacher, but Vereen studied six months in a Manhattan seminary. "I was always being saved," he says of his upbringing, "getting on my knees and ridding myself of the demon." Though he quit the seminary and later had what he calls a "little lovers' quarrel" with the church, he says he went into the theater "because it allowed me to reach people in so many capacities, to build...
...Saigon, Thieu was busily positioning himself as an independent patriot. The nine points? He damned the National Council of Reconciliation and Concord that is provided in the Kissinger plan to organize new elections as "a disguised coalition" with the Communists. A ceasefire? Thieu insisted that first Hanoi would have to pull all of the estimated 145,000 troops it has in the South back to North Viet...
...story in The New York Times last Thursday said that Vietnamese in Paris have received reports that the Saigon government has recently begun torturing an imprisoned Saigon student leader. The article also said that persons whom the PRG wants to participate in the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord would remain in Saigon jails according to the terms of the draft agreement...