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...machinery designed to supervise the truce has proved remarkably ineffective. All told, the Communists and the Thieu regime have charged more than 90,000 truce violations, ranging from isolated shellings to battalion-level battles. Yet the vaunted International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), with its 1,160 neutral observers, its 42 local offices throughout South Viet Nam and its fleet of black-and-silver planes, has managed to complete investigations and file final reports on only six truce violations. At week's end, two helicopters carrying eleven ICCS members were reported missing in Northern Quang Tri province...
...able to write to his ex-wife through Thomas Kennelly, a former federal attorney who had prosecuted the Mafiosi with Calabrese's testimony and is the one man who knows the family's whereabouts. But she absolutely refused to let Leonhard see his children, even at a neutral location, for fear they would give away their new identities. Leonhard went to state court to gain full custody of the children. He won after his former wife refused to take the risk of appearing in court to contest the case. But she also failed to surrender the children...
TIME's columns were less partisan in the 1956 campaign and approximately neutral in 1960. Although Luce was on close terms with the son of his old friend Joe Kennedy, LIFE's editorial page gave a narrow endorsement to Nixon. When Luce suggested that, as a Democrat, J.F.K. would naturally adopt a liberal domestic policy, the elder Kennedy seemed surprised. "Harry," he erupted, "you know goddam well no son of mine could ever be a goddam liberal...
...chill and exasperation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber arrived in Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy...
When Chief Negotiator Harlington Wood returns today from top-level meetings in Washington, he may bring back a plan providing for a neutral meeting place. One hang-up in negotiations so far has been the Interior Department's refusal to negotiate in the "armed situation" that exists at Wounded Knee...