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Militarily, the North Vietnamese troops, estimated at some 67,000, are required to leave Laos within 90 days. But the only agency to ensure that they do so is the ineffectual three-nation (Poland, Canada and India) International Control Commission which was set up by the Geneva Conference in 1954 and which has never had much success in either supervising a truce or checking on troop movements. The U.S., in turn, agreed to stop its bombing campaign, which has been blasting unspecified targets at a rate of nearly 400 sorties per day. The U.S. presumably will also have to stop...
...nothing more than good living accomodations. House Masters grow more remote, more transient and less sympathetic. Senior Faculty associated with a House provide the residents nothing except an occasional march of the potentates, giving anyone in the dining hall some amusement watching the entire faculty of a Harvard department troop in for a free meal. Some of the grad students and tutors try to redeem the situation, but many of them don't bother. Harvard's administration is disturbed by the situation in the College, with reason: neither the living arrangements nor the instruction of undergraduates are particularly close...
...long-feared backlash was a fact at last. For the British army, the renewed violence created a second front, a vicious situation in which its men were being shot at by both Protestant and Catholic extremists. The flare-up caused the British government to order yet another round of troop reinforcements for Northern Ireland. It remained to be seen whether, in the long run, the two-sided sniping at Britain's army would lead British public opinion to conclude that the best solution might be to get out of the place once...
There are, however, the inevitable personal agonies that accompany troop departures. Many G.I.s and their Vietnamese sweethearts, some with babies, must decide whether to continue their lives together. The women can apply for "fiancee visas," but must marry within 90 days after their arrival in the U.S. or be returned to Viet Nam. The U.S. embassy in Saigon granted 1,511 such visas last year and recorded 553 marriages of U.S. military men and Vietnamese women. There has been no rush of new applications, however...
...Administration will smooth out the rough edges of the war and [try] to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be 'reformed' to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes...