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...South Korea: 55,000 Thailand: 47,000 Okinawa: 45,000 Eastern Pacific (afloat): 43,000 Japan: 40,000 Philippines: 30,000 Mediterranean (afloat and ashore): 28,000 Britain: 22,000 Atlantic (afloat): 20,000 Latin America (including Guantanamo Bay and Panama Canal Zone): 16,000 Canada, Greenland and Iceland: 10,000 Spain: 10,000 Turkey: 10,000 Middle East and Africa; 10,000 Taiwan...
...those who have least hope of leaving the war behind-the South Vietnamese-there was no respite from the fighting at home or the interminable diplomatic fencing abroad. Nonetheless, President Thieu finally acted last week to resolve one of the major sticking points in the Paris negotiations. The issue was whether the Communists should be permitted to participate in national elections, which they are specifically prohibited from doing under South Vietnam's constitution...
...Communists have insisted that any elections held while the Thieu government is in power would inevitably be rigged against them. In Paris, North Viet Nam's chief political strategist, Le Due Tho, rejected Thieu's proposal even before it was formally offered. Nonetheless, South Viet Nam's President probably feels that he has scored a tactical point and left the ball in the Communist court for the time being...
Cinnamon? At the Paris conference table there were only new exchanges of invective. Hanoi and the N.L.F. repeated their demands for unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. and "satellite" troops in South Viet Nam, which the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge bluntly rejected. But there was at least a rare moment of light relief. Thanh Le, the chief Hanoi spokesman, complained at a press briefing that Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky want to keep U.S. troops in South Viet Nam so that they can continue to get rich on traffic in opium and cinnamon. Cinnamon? "Ah," Le explained...
Another terrestrial phenomenon?continental drift?could be confirmed by the lunar laser experiment. Periodically measuring the distance between the moon and lasers beamed from fixed points in Africa and South America, scientists will use triangulation to determine whether the distance between the two continents is gradually increasing...