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...forces. The N.L.F. and Hanoi demand unconditional evacuation of U.S. and allied troops with international supervision of the exodus. Washington wants joint withdrawal of U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troops with outside monitoring. While the N.L.F. tacitly acknowledges the presence of North Vietnamese forces south of the DMZ, the latest Communist plan merely proposes that the matter of "Vietnamese" military forces in South Viet Nam should be negotiated "by the Vietnamese parties among themselves." The N.L.F. hinted, however, that it might be willing to ask North Vietnamese troops to withdraw from South Viet Nam if the U.S. pulls...
Venus 5 was followed a day later by Venus 6, which ejected a capsule that transmitted for 51 minutes before it too died out. Only the Russians could tell how successful their two latest Venus shots had been and how much information had been gathered about the enigmatic planet. Whatever they learned, the Soviets undoubtedly left some mark on Venus. On board the Venus 5 capsule, Tass reported, was a marker bearing a bas-relief of Lenin and the Soviet coat of arms...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjointed commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the fist stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...
...immense tarpaulin dropped and 100 doves soared into the sky as Jacques Lipchitz's latest sculpture, Peace on Earth, was unveiled at the Music Center in Los Angeles. Donated by Philanthropists Lawrence Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler, and valued at $250,000, the 29-ft.-high, 10-ton design gives eloquent testimony to the career of the 77-year-old sculptor. Lipchitz spent three years on the project, laboring in his studio in central Italy. His efforts were interrupted by the Florentine floods of 1966, which devastated his retreat-as well as two-thirds of the design's original...
...soldier manning the trenches. He realizes that a clumsy bureaucracy has plucked him out of his familiar city life and pumped him full of tales about his opponent's evils, but his training seems suddenly inadequate. He is defenseless, and his overriding concern becomes to pull out of this latest adventure in one piece...