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...Your cover story on Ho Chi Minh [July 16] is a shocking distortion of history. Your article says that after two months of haggling, "Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted, and Giap's army took to the hills to begin the eight-year guerrilla war." Actually the French had concluded an agreement directly with the Nationalist Chinese that provided for their withdrawal from North Viet Nam. As for the agreement Ho concluded with...
...style at the Royal Hotel near the Etoile. "He would always embrace us affectionately," recalls one participant in the negotiations. "But Bidault wasn't too keen on such gestures, presumably because of Ho's goatee." After two months of hirsute haggling, Ho suddenly agreed to a modus vivendi: the Chinese would leave Viet Nam, but there would be no independence. France promised only to explore the possibilities. That was hardly what Ho wanted, and no sooner was the ink dry on the agreement than Giap's army took to the hills to begin the eight-year guerrilla...
...unassuming and effective modus operandi was similar to that employed in the stickup of the Cambridge Federal Savings and Loan Association last March 8. In both cases the bandit was a short, stocky man around 50 years old. Both banks are set away from the busy Square area, and both robberies took place around 9 a.m. In the Cambridge Federal hold-up the bandit made off with...
...been most severe-Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, East Germany-and Vatican-Soviet relations are in cold storage. Moreover, the church is aware that any concessions offered represent tactical maneuvers, not any real reduction of Marxist hostility to religion. Thus, for the time being, Pope Paul hopes to obtain not a modus vivendi but a modus non moriendi (a way of not dying...
...decision to seek an amicable solution of the Tunisian problem was an outgrowth of the new, flexible Vatican diplomacy inaugurated by Pope John XXIII and carried on by Paul VI in Hungary, where he is still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work...