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After 22 years of "temporary" truce, the Demilitarized Zone that partitions Korea has become, among other things, a bird sanctuary. The gigantic white-plumed Manchurian crane, an exotic type of which only 30 specimens are known to exist, now winters in the barbed-wire-lined...
Every day at noon, U.S. and North Korean officers meet at the border to exchange information about the state of the truce. The Americans invariably stand at least 6 ft. tall, and the smaller Koreans just as invariably make sure that their own chairs are slightly raised so that they cannot be looked down upon. (The Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under...
...years go by, the truce between the two groups of public officials we used to call hawks and doves will probably prove to be infinitely more durable than the "peace with honor" that Richard Nixon achieved in Paris shortly after the 1972 Christmas bombings of Hanoi. A conspiracy of silence will rob the United States of its Vietnam heritage: the moral, legal and political questions that American involvement raised but never quite settled...
...long struggle between the White House and Congress over national energy policy moved closer to a showdown last week. After waiting out a fruitless two-month truce to give the House and Senate time to wrap up an acceptable package of energy legislation, President Ford ordered a phasing out of Government price controls on U.S.-produced oil over the next two years. The move could more than double the price of about two-thirds of the nation's oil output-a prospect that is anathema to many of the Democrats, who hold commanding majorities in both House and Senate...
...incredibly far-reaching ramifications, it nonetheless comes as a surprise to learn that the scandal played a significant role in the course of the Viet Nam War as well. In April 1973, less than three months after the Paris agreement was signed, the Nixon Administration decided to end the truce by resuming U.S. bombing raids against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Reason: scarcely had the treaty gone into effect when Hanoi began violating it. According to a secret report to the White House, the North Vietnamese began installing surface-to-air missiles around Khe Sanh in the northern tier...