Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Explanations for the comparative tranquillity vary. One Western diplomat argues that the Communists feel that they won little in their land-grab attempts after the January truce. Another believes that the Communists are now concentrating on building up their infrastructure in areas they already hold. He adds that Saigon "has achieved an equilibrium it can live with. The main arteries are open, the bulk of the population is within the government fold." But it is still too early to tell whether Cease-Fire II will really take permanent hold...
Lonely men walk Malamud's streets, inhabit his cities, kill each other with indifference. Only in the title story is some form of communication accomplished, but it rests in an uneasy truce. A "Rembrandt's Hat" graces the head of a man who wears it "like a crown of failure and hope." Malamud has a gift for fleshing out the lives of conventional failures who provide unconventional wisdoms about hope that lies even in the depths of isolation. Aloneness implies individuality, and it is this that Malamud explores so beautifully in the island-voyage of Rembrandt...
...G.I.s have gone home, prisoners have been exchanged, and Viet Cong officers-escorted always by South Vietnamese security troops-drive around Saigon. There is also the ineffectual presence of the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), created to monitor the adherence of both sides to the truce. The Hungarian and Polish commission members, who consider themselves Hanoi's representatives, have employed dilatory and obstructionist tactics to prevent the Canadian and Indonesian members from investigating reported truce violations. Last week External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp announced that Canada would quit the paralyzed, dissension-torn ICCS...
...Demilitarized Zone. More important, the two sides must exchange maps delineating the areas under their control. Next, the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord must constitute itself to include representatives of the Viet Cong, the Thieu government and members of the so-called third party. Under the truce signed in January, this council should have been in operation by the end of April. One of its principal tasks is to prepare the way for a national election. Thieu, however, will oppose any attempt by the council to function as a coalition government superior to him. For its part...
Expanded Regime. This new approach suggests that the Communists might really be willing to give the truce a chance, at least for a time. With a cease-fire in Laos more or less in effect, that would leave only the Cambodian mess to be resolved. The U.S. hopes it can nudge Cambodia's former head of state, exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and Khmer insurgent leaders into talks with members of the expanded regime of Marshal Lon Nol in Phnom-Penh...