Word: truce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last October, including Saigon's division-sized assaults on PRG positions. With 200,000 people made refugees since the ceasefire, we would be hard-pressed to call this peace. The very temporary North Vietnamese threat to delay the second prisoner exchange now completed and the attacks on North Vietnamese truce delegations in Hue and Saigon, parallel the daily truce violations by combat units. These violations of the specifics of the January 27 ceasefire agreement are perhaps no more serious than the thousands of skirmishes and battles that daily make a mockery of the peace, but they are more public symbols...
...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 arming dissident tribesmen...
AFTER ANOTHER MONTH of "reconciliation" like this first month since the treaty was signed in Paris, the Vietnamese might well be in need of an armistice to end the "peace." Canadian truce supervisors complain that the fighting in South Vietnam is still too intense to permit careful "truce" supervision. Fighting continues in Laos, although Pathet Lao and government officials established a formal cease-fire on February 22. In Cambodia, American B52's have continued to bomb in support of that country's military dictatorship. And at the 13-nation peace conference in Paris, haggling over Saigon's refusal to release...
...Hanoi but may hold some of its meetings in Washington. Although its creation reflects a spirit of reconciliation, it is not entirely an instrument of charity. Quite bluntly, Kissinger made it clear in Hanoi that U.S. aid is conditional upon the Communists' observing the terms of the truce settlement...
...would seem unlikely in the long run to refuse aid to North Viet Nam. There are also strong practical arguments for aid, since it would maintain some U.S. influence, as against that of Russia and China, and could turn the rival forces to peaceful pursuits in accordance with the truce settlement. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott may be right in his prediction that "after everyone has made his pitch," then Congress probably will approve the money for reconstruction...