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...convinced Charles de Gaulle's government of its independence. The North Vietnamese cars bear the green-and-orange plates of the corps diplomatique. The N.L.F. has an ordinary black-and-white French license plate. South Viet Nam maintains a legation in Paris. The North Vietnamese have the lowest diplomatic status available, that of a mission. The N.L.F. has no status at all. Because the N.L.F. delegates all carry North Vietnamese passports for travel purposes, the French helped them avoid the embarrassment of showing a Hanoi passport by admitting them on a laissez-passer...
...opened, a different kind of crisis caused the 44 schools of Youngstown, Ohio, to shut down at least 15 days before and after the Christmas vacation. The reason was lack of money. This month Youngstown voters simply refused to raise the school-tax rate, even though it is the lowest of Ohio's seven largest cities. Although other cities have balked at school-tax hikes, this was the sixth time in two years that Youngstown had rejected a higher levy...
...plurality amounted to nearly three times the 118,574-vote figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...
...passionate and imprecise discourse on CBS's Face the Nation, he damned the editorial as "the lowest kind of gutter politics." Lawyer Nixon demanded a retraction and threatened a libel suit...
...happen militarily if the U.S. did call off its bombers. For weeks, the Communists had been scaling down the fighting, withdrawing some 40,000 front-line troops, mostly to sanctuaries on or near the borders of Cambodia and Laos. U.S. casualties dipped to 100 killed three weeks ago, the lowest level in 14 months; two weeks ago, the dead totaled 109, the second lowest...