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...October the Americans seemed willing to leave certain points dealing with the political future and the sovereignty of South Viet Nam deliberately vague, to be settled not in fine print but in later political-and possibly military-wrangling after the U.S. departure. Later, they claim, Nixon directed Kissinger to spell out the agreement more exactly-in favor of the South. Specifically, the North Vietnamese claimed that the U.S. was not standing by its commitment to withdraw all its troops from South Viet Nam but was instead demanding the right to have civilian advisers on the ground even after the truce...
...times, when the first farming settlements were begun. Then, or so many experts think, "tricksters" earned their food by performing magic and sleights of hand. Vestiges of this tradition survive in the Shenyang troupe's lion dance, which evolved from the use of animal skins to work a spell on crops, and in their twirling of plates and vases on sticks, which recalls the practice of giving gifts of food to the tricksters. Anthropologists who see a migration across the Bering Strait as the origin of the American Indian point to the similarity between the feats of these acrobats...
...salvaged, but the Administration's severe setback in Paris, the persistent absence of peace, the inability to free the prisoners by Christmas-all these remain bitter blows. They are also reminders that the Viet Nam War seems to have the durability in American life of an evil spell: everyone who touches it sooner or later seems to fail...
Despite all of the differences newly injected by Hanoi, Kissinger contended that most were readily reconcilable if the Communists would only return to the cooperative spirit shown last October. He reported that only one really basic clash remained; "we are one decision away from a settlement." Kissinger did not spell it out, but it was apparent that this question touched on one of the fundamental issues of the entire war: are there two Viet Nams engaged in international conflict, or is there one country temporarily divided by an arbitrary frontier and engaged in a civil...
...number." One...two...three...On four, Van Winkle struck a chord on his electric organ, Teegarden spun a roll on his drums, and away they went into Dancing in the Street. Up in the engineer's booth, a spectator, Rock Guitarist Mike Bruce, fell under Damon's spell and slid off a stool to the floor. A bystander caught Bruce's head inches from the tile floor...