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Negotiator Xuan Thuy, shook hands with him in the hotel's rococo, crystal and gilt Grand Salle before moving behind the closed doors of conference room No. 5. Leading off, Thuy set a strident tone that prevailed all week. He accused the U.S. of "monstrous crimes" and repeated the "primordial and most pressing" Communist demand for a total and unconditional end to U.S. bombing of the North. Harriman, in an opening statement that was edited by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford at the request of the President, noted that all U.S. bombing would stop "if our restraint is matched...
...spirit of revolution, whose modern roots were struck in France nearly two centuries ago, reappeared with a vengeance again last week and shook the Fifth Republic of Charles de Gaulle. It began with rebellious students, but it spread with ominous speed through the ranks of France's workers, creating a tempestuous alliance that often before has had explosive consequences. The situation was serious enough to cause the Premier of France, Georges Pompidou, to declare on nationwide television that the rebels were bent on "destroying the nation and the very foundations of our free society." It became grave enough...
...Cleveland, a midafternoon kiddy show on Cleveland's WKBF-TV. The host, Ventriloquist John Slowey, slipped lavaliere mikes around the necks of his young dummy, "Private Clem," and of the guest of the day. "What do I call you-your highness?" piped the bug-eyed puppet. The guest shook his head, smiled, and replied: "Most people use the name Mr. Mayor." So began the first of a weekly series of appearances by Carl Stokes, the first elected Negro head of a major U.S. city and the most winning on-air mayor for the kids since New York City...
Wall Street quite obviously agrees with the prognosis. President Johnson's March peace overtures gave the stock market its sharpest two-week surge in two decades. And last week the market quickly shook off the subsequent dip prompted by the Federal Reserve Board's increase in interest rates. The advance carried the New York Stock Exchange index of all issues traded on the Big Board to a record high of 54.26, up .87 for the week. "The only thing capable of reversing the prevailing psychology," says Analyst Robert T. Allen of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "is a complete breakdown...
...shook his head again and stared at the big microphone in his face...