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...Paris peace negotiators agree to hold talks around an octagonal strawberry pie, with the Viet Cong bursting through the crust every hour on the half. Richard M. Nixon, in his Inaugural Address, declares he will balance the White House budget by installing a taco stand in the Lincoln Bedroom...
Americans watch in awe as Apollo 12, the first successful attempt to put three men and a Secretary of Transportation in orbit around the moon, fatally misfires on the launching pad. In Paris, South Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators agree to withdraw their troops from combat, but the war between Hanoi and Washington goes...
Since the code was adopted, it has not been applied in a single case. It was not used, for example, against two captured soldiers who were cleared of charges that they made anti-U.S. statements before they were freed by the Viet Cong in 1965. The Navy's dilemma over the Pueblo incident sharply underlines the code's shortcomings. The code cannot be enforced, since it carries no penalties; such offenses as informing and revealing classified information to the enemy are indeed punishable, but under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, not under the Code of Conduct...
...analysts is convinced that the Communists, bloodied by 180,000 battlefield deaths so far this year, have battered themselves to the brink of impotence. If this reading is accurate, concessions can be wrung from Communist negotiators in Paris through astute haggling, reinforced by military muscle against a weakened Viet Cong...
Futile Talks. In both Paris and Viet Nam, Communist actions last week served to confound optimists and pessimists alike. In a swampy paddyfield 50 miles northwest of Saigon, five unarmed American officers faced Viet Cong envoys dressed in grubby khakis during a 24-hour Christmas Day truce. Their futile talks, lasting two hours and 22 minutes, were supposed to deal with the release of three G.I.s. The Communists, who met with the Americans beneath a Viet Cong flag, seemed principally concerned with obtaining some form of U.S. recognition of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong...