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Vance, one of the Johnson Administration's peace negotiators in Paris, calls "a standstill cease-fire." This would be an agreement that all military forces would freeze in present positions and assume a defensive stance. The plan would also guarantee the Communists de facto political control over the areas of South Viet Nam that they occupy and ultimately, perhaps, a chance to elect representatives to a national Parliament. It would, in effect, legalize the realities of the military situation and amount to an uncontiguous partitioning of South Viet Nam, sometimes known as the "leopard spot" plan. But even...
...anything we can do to get negotiations moving? Some people mention de facto ceasefire...
L.C.N. is a foreign pirate government at war with our nation. Americans who become citizens of the underground state of L.C.N. renounce their U.S. citizenship and the civil rights that go with it. Their renunciation, de facto though it may be, could open the legal door for the Government to plan a coordinated military attack on L.C.N. The Marines should deal with these latter-day Barbary pirates, not an understaffed FBI or 50 uncoordinated, oft-corrupt police forces...
...failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional control over federal programs by putting a five-to ten-year limit on all organic acts of legislation. Congress would then be free to overhaul or eliminate programs that do not turn out as they were intended. He would end de facto apartheid in congested areas by breaking down the artificial distinction between cities and suburbs. A study of Chicago convinced him that Negroes could be redistributed by bus throughout city and suburban schools until they constituted about 15% of the student body in each. This, Lowi feels, would achieve integration...
...state laws covering public employees. But it did consent to a grievance procedure in which a union member can assist workers, and it approved an employee credit union that would allow a form of dues checkoff. As far as the union is concerned, these concessions amount to de facto recognition...