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TROOP WITHDRAWAL ISSUE. We reject this allegation [that there are some 100,000 to 145,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South]. This story has been, and continues to be, a pretext for the U.S. to commit aggression in South Viet Nam. We receive wholehearted support from North Viet Nam as from other countries, but the people's liberation forces in the South are under the Provisional Revolutionary Government. To demand the departure of these forces is to demand the elimination of the P.R.G. This is totally unacceptable. This is an issue between the P.R.G. and the Saigon government...
...Soviet diplomacy, want it to ratify the present borders in Central and Eastern Europe, thereby solidifying their hegemony over the region. In the event of a conflict with China, the Russians want to be certain that no Western power could seize upon an unresolved territorial issue as the pretext for an attack. In addition, the Soviets would welcome a more relaxed atmosphere in Europe for two reasons. They could avail themselves of badly needed Western technological and economic cooperation, and would be able to place pressure on the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Europe, thus leaving the Soviet Union...
Despite Saigon's public outrage over the matter, a number of key South Vietnamese officials, who have never much relished the ice's presence, were pleased that India had provided a pretext for what they see as a downgrading of the commission. New Delhi, mean time, still has not named an ambassador to Hanoi. Shrugging off charges that the upgrading of relations with North Viet Nam may compromise India's neutral ity on the ICC, a government spokesman in New Delhi last week declared: "We have firm ideas of what happens to be in our national interest...
Mullen meanwhile had left Kusper's office on the pretext that he had to be with a sick father in Wisconsin. Kusper finally called the newsman's apartment to inquire about the father's health and got Mullen's roommate who knew he was on a secret mission but was unaware of the ruse. Mullen was at work, said the roommate. Kusper: "Where?" Roommate: "At the Tribune." Kusper...
...small (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.), feisty man who once managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli...