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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice versa. After 60 days, the U.S. and North Viet Nam will withdraw from the four-party commission, leaving a permanent military commission made up equally of South Vietnamese and Provisional Revolutionary Government representatives. No later than 30 days from the ceasefire, an international conference will convene-the site has yet to be chosen-to acknowledge the signing of the Washington-Hanoi agreement, guarantee the ending of the war and set up some kind of permanent international body to whom the ICC can report any and all infractions, so that, as Henry Kissinger put it, the ICC "is not only...
...antiwar movement appeared to have a new life. Almost 100,000 people gathered at the Washington Monument and yelled "Stop the War" loud enough to be heard at the site of the swearing-in. And it was an older crowd than previously, with a lot of children in baby carriages. The movement seemed to have broadened its base; perhaps it was on the move again...
Except for occasional maneuvering armies, the only people who ever lingered on the scrub-and cactus-sprinkled sand dunes of northeastern Sinai were Bedouin tribesmen. That will soon change. Within the next two months, Israeli surveyors-to be followed by bulldozers and construction workers-will begin charting the site for a new city in a 40-sq.-mi. strip of coastal land below the Gaza border town of Rafah in a corner of the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula. By the end of 1974, a settlement large enough to support 350 families will have been built...
...What if a foreigner does not read German? No matter. Drawings, unmistakable in meaning and identifying each diversion, are appropriately placed on the map: a saucy girl clad only in G string and stockings always signifies a Scharfer (piquant) Striptease; a pert redhead beckoning from a window marks the site of every Bordellbetrieb (bawdyhouse); and two applauding tourists with drinks at hand of course designate what the map calls a Nightclub mit Show...
Tomorrow, thousands of antiwar protesters will demonstrate a half-mile from the inauguration site. A show of disfavor on this symbolic occasion would increase the pressure on the President to effect an immediate settlement in Paris...