Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate for President, Hubert Humphrey has called for an immediate cease-fire in Viet Nam. A good many Viet Nam experts question whether a cease-fire ought to be the first step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide an ideal opportunity for the forces freed from combat to root out Viet Cong political agents in rural areas. The Viet Cong, of course, might see exactly...
...plans recommend is a reconciliation in Viet Nam beginning at the very lowest levels: hamlet, village, province. This approach is variously described as federal, pluralistic or decentralized. Kahn bluntly calls it Balkanization. It would begin with what the Asia Society's Kenneth T. Young calls a "patchwork of local negotiations" in which warring Communists and non-Communists in a small area would come to terms, make their own local truces and work out their own modus vivendi for governing their localities. Viet Nam is in fact less a nation than an assembly of separatist, often fiercely competitive sects...
...critics of this kind of pluralistic solution to the conflict in Viet Nam argue that it would be too fragile to be sustained, much less built up into an eventual national compromise. What would happen if U.S. and North Vietnamese units clashed in an area where local accommodations had been reached? How could village or district elections in contested areas be supervised? When would the U.S. know that it was safe or opportune to begin withdrawing troops, and how many to retain in South Viet Nam? It would be splendid, of course, to have clear-cut answers to such questions...
...angered by the advent of a left-wing government in Norway," Britain's New Statesman magazine suggested last week. "This government is sharply told that the internal reforms which it plans are not its private affair, but also concern its allies. It is advised to curb the local press, and a manifesto by a group of writers and scientists is described as intolerable. Anxiety is expressed over the ease with which Russian tourists cross the frontier, which - a Note suggests - would be better guarded by U.S. troops. Though the Norwegians claim that they merely want to humanize the capitalist...
...most recent major clash, near Kohima, the Nagas killed 24 Indian regulars. Further fighting is expected once the rest of the rebels return. Last week a small band of rebels, armed with automatic weapons, overran a village near the Burma frontier, captured rifles and ammunition from the local volunteer defense force before withdrawing. India, with a division of troops already tied down in Nagaland, does not want to be encumbered by a cease-fire in dealing with the rebels if the trouble increases. More troops may well be needed, for some Nagas have reportedly been taken...