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...right of the people of South Viet Nam to determine their own political future is specifically affirmed. A National Council for National Reconciliation and Concord is to be created by the two South Vietnamese parties to organize internationally supervised elections. It will consist of "three equal segments," indicating that neutralists will have a role. All of its decisions must be unanimous...
...Paris accord calls for a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, composed of the Saigon government, the Provisional Revolutionary Government and South Vietnamese neutrals. Its effectiveness will be limited, if not paralyzed, by the fact that any action it takes must be unanimous. But as Thieu well knows, the council could eventually be transformed into a base for a new "coalition" of Communists and neutrals that could bring him down. In his forthcoming discussions with the P.R.G., Thieu is unlikely to give an inch on any crucial issue...
...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...