Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WOULD APPEAR that through his threats against Prince Sihanouk's forces and his seemingly blanket assurances to Lon No1, President Nixon jeopardized chances that the Cambodians might come to a truce by their own efforts. At present, while the chances for some kind of a compromise must not be ruled out entirely, the Phnom Penh regime is in an even more disastrous military position than at the time of the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement...
Younger Oglalas refer to Wilson and other Council members as "uncle Tomahawks." AIM charges that Wilson has misused tribal funds, and resorted to nepotism to fill tribal posts. The truce agreement signed last Thursday calls for a complete audit of the Council's books...
When it finally arrived, the day that the G.I.s called X-plus-60 was hot and mildly anticlimactic. On the withdrawal deadline two months after the Paris truce signing, the U.S. military command in Viet Nam was closed down in a simple midday ceremony in a parking lot near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. No U.S. military band was available for the occasion. Loudspeakers blared out a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner, and a color guard rolled up the blue flag of the command under which 2,500,000 American G.I.s had served since 1962. Ellsworth Bunker...
...time, when the Viet Nam truce was being worked out, U.S. officials expected that a de facto ceasefire in neighboring Cambodia would emerge by the end of March. Now it appears that the fitful Cambodian war -and the bombing there by U.S. B-52s -could easily drag on through the year. One reason is that Hanoi does not control all of the antigovernment forces; they include sizable numbers of homegrown neutralists and Khmer Rouge Communists, as well as the estimated 36,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops who are supposed to be withdrawn eventually under the terms...
...midst of last week's mission to Hanoi by Canadian External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp, which was devoted to private discussion about Canada's role in policing the truce, TIME's Correspondent James Wilde took the opportunity to reconnoiter the North Vietnamese capital. His report...