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...Apparently alarmed by Nixon's pullback from a signing and Thieu's protests, Hanoi broke the secrecy of the agreement and broadcast a summary of its provisions, warning of grave consequences if the U.S. did not sign on Oct. 31. The disclosure was aimed at forcing the U.S. to adhere to the original deal despite Thieu. Scant hours earlier, Kissinger said that he believed there would be a cease-fire in "a few weeks...
...second danger--"isolationism"--it seems highly improbable. We have been over-invested, over-committed, over-extended in parts of the world, and particularly in East Asia, over the past twenty years: indeed, the so-called Nixon Doctrine wisely acknowledges that fact. But disinvestment in one area, and indeed, pullback in Asia, cannot in this day and age mean anything like what those who grew up in the twenties and thirties so much fear. We are simply too globally involved, through communications, technology, trade, travel, economic investment, diplomacy, and our special status as a nuclear power, to return to anything resembling...
...made what seemed the major news and concession: the assertion of an eventual goal of complete military withdrawal from the island. That had never been so bluntly stated, and was sure to cause fresh tremors on already edgy Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia. But in fact such a pullback from an essentially untenable position has always been implicit in Nixon's Guam Doctrine, and in the Administration's view, reiterated in the communique, that the problem of Taiwan is ultimately one for the Chinese to settle peacefully among themselves...
Cambodia has been helped immeasurably, of course, by the North Vietnamese pullback from populated areas into the northeast and east. South Vietnamese troops continued to engage NVA forces along the Cambodia-South Viet Nam border last week, but the operation was viewed largely as a feint in connection with the South's elections. Cambodians are still not happy with the large presence of Vietnamese-from both the North (60,000 troops) and the South (10,000)-on their soil. There have been widespread reports of terrorism, rape, murder and pillaging by South Vietnamese. In an interview with TIME Correspondent...
...wrote in Cairo's authoritative Al Ahram that Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had given Washington until early this week to produce diplomatic results with the Israelis. Did that mean Egypt would resume its "war of attrition" if decisive results were not forthcoming, particularly concerning an Israeli pullback from the canal's east bank? Not likely, given Israel's continuing military superiority. Rather, the article seemed part of Sadat's attempt simultaneously to put pressure on Washington and placate Egypt's increasingly restive army officers. As part of that campaign, Sadat personally donned...