Word: scheming
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Another plan comes from Arthur M. Cox, a congressional candidate in New Hampshire, who at various times has pondered the problems of Viet Nam for the State Department, the CIA and the Brookings Institution. His scheme calls for a cease-fire only after thorough negotiations have settled all the ground rules of deescalation. The sequence would then be a ceasefire, the withdrawal of all external forces, both allied and North Vietnamese, and the substantial demobilization of Viet Cong and South Vietnamese army forces. The process, he believes, would require at least two years. Overseeing it would be an international peace...
...think that a solution might be found in the creation of an election commission in which the Front would be strongly represented along with the Saigon government. The commission would run the balloting for a new government, committing both sides to abide by the results. Another ingenious, if unlikely, scheme has been suggested by Buddhist Nationalist Thich Nhat Hanh: an interim government made up of those South Vietnamese who reject the leadership of both the National Liberation Front and the Saigon government...
...prisons in Europe and Latin America have long allowed their inmates to receive brief "conjugal visits" from wives and girl friends for the purpose of sexual release. In Mississippi, the state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded by elm trees and shrubs...
Mozambique itself will absorb a growing amount of electric power: the dam will be the cornerstone of a vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...
Cheap Power. Key to the state-sponsored scheme is a special deal to pro vide the plants with cheap power. Each company will build its own smelter and invest jointly with the government in a power plant. The government will contribute 30-year loans totaling $149 million to cover the investment in the power stations and will charge the companies special low rates for the electricity they...