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During 71 hours of private talks in Paris last week, the U.S. and North Viet Nam settled all but two of the procedural problems that have delayed the beginning of an expanded peace conference. They agreed, for example, that the salon of the Hotel Majestic, where the talks on the Viet Nam war have been under way since May, is large enough, after all, to accommodate the expanded talks. They also decided that two doors should be used, one for the representatives of Hanoi and of the National Liberation Front, the other for delegates from Saigon...
...which would give the N.L.F. a side to itself. As the Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves. It might have seemed absurd, but in the past, conferences on grave issues have foundered over such trivial "modalities" (see box). And as Hanoi Spokesman Xuan Thuy noted...
...Cleveland, 80% of those who apply for welfare are accepted; in Houston, only 30%. In one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 per person, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi. No one knows how much the wide welfare gap between North and South has contributed to the migration of poor Southern Negroes to big-city ghettos-but it must have been a factor...
...newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley. The fence is a smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries...
Instead of spinning smoothly, the earth wobbles on its axis. By sighting telescopes on distant fixed stars and carefully measuring their apparent movement, scientists have determined that the North and South poles-the points at which the imaginary axis of rotation pierces the earth's surface-are continually on the move. Over the course of a year, they wander about the polar regions in roughly circular paths about 50 ft. in diameter...