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...Liberation Front-together without raising the issues of legitimacy and status. Although N.L.F. delegates were to share the conference table, South Vietnamese or U.S. recognition of the Front would not be implied. Somehow, even though the Administration had known for years that the representation issue would be the major snag in any negotiations, the formula was treated as supersecret. Washington let it be known that the N.L.F. would have seats at the peace talks, but it failed to specify the terms...
...ANSWER to the first objection, the defense may claim, in Holmes' words, that "turning in draft cards was not a result of aiding, abetting, or counselling by any one of these defendants, but an act of individual conscience." The second snag is more difficult. The defense has said that a close reading of the Selective Service regulations shows that Congress never intended to make failure to carry your draft card with you illegal. In that case, collecting draft cards would be no crime at all. In addition, the five's lawyers contended during the hearings that turning in cards...
Glitches & Goofs. The official explanation for the latest snag was continuing trouble with the Boeing Co.'s design for its swing-wing B-2707. There were hints of such problems last fall, when the company announced that it was stretching the 306-ft. craft by 12 ft. and adding a pair of stubby movable wings on the forward part of its fuselage. Goofs and glitches always creep into the early blueprints for any new aircraft, but lately Boeing President William M. Allen has been telling airline customers that engineering "miscalculations" were serious enough to send the SST "back...
...Cosmopolitan sees it, there is almost no human activity into which sex cannot be introduced. Instructions on how to go skiing turn into advice on how to snag a skier. "You're standing on the left line next to a slim-hipped Nordic god. You produce a cigarette. He's got to be interested if he removes his gloves in arctic weather and delves through pockets to light you up." Even archaeological expeditions are happy hunting grounds. "One night, wild and high," reports a girl who joined a dig in Greece, "we danced Zorbalike steps to records...
Clipping the Hawk. Before the snag, Vance had won a settlement under which the Greeks promised to remove within two months the 8,000 or so troops that they have illegally infiltrated into Cyprus during the past seven years, leaving only the 950 that they are entitled to station there under the island's 1960 independence accords. They also agreed to disband the 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard, to pay damages to the Turkish Cypriot villagers of Ayios Theodores and Kophinou for the Nov. 15 attack by Greek General George Grivas and his Guards...