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More than a year after the signing of the Paris peace accords, American journalists and officials in Saigon have yet to cement a lasting truce among themselves. The current antagonists: New York Times Correspondent David Shipler, 31, one of the most enterprising of the 30 U.S. correspondents remaining in Saigon, and Ambassador Graham A. Martin, 61, a career diplomat who helped negotiate the agreement with Hanoi. As in similar Saigon disputes dating back a dozen years, this one centers on charges that press coverage has given comfort, if not aid to the enemy...
...hope that the Insurgents will eventually tire of fighting and agree to negotiate a truce. Western diplomats in Phnom-Penh, however, note no evidence that any of the guerrilla military leaders are inclined to talk. Instead, the rebels may simply pull back with the rains and resume their attack on the capital with the next dry season...
...October Arab-Israeli war brought a temporary truce, and diplomatic relations were reestablished. Iraq then felt free to send an army division to face the Israelis on Syria's Golan Heights. With the ceasefire, the Iraqi troops were again posted on the Iranian frontier. Inevitably, a series of border incidents led to last week's duel...
Jack Kubisch, an expert on Brazil who worked with Kissinger in Paris during the Viet Nam truce negotiations, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. John Crimmins, a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was posted to Brazil; John Jova, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was assigned to Mexico. Earlier this month, Kissinger flew to Panama to initial an agreement that promised to remove one of the most emotionally charged irritants in hemisphere relations-continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal...
Kimberly Rath failed until now to make that traditional truce with the self where you are resigned to cropping both your hopes and losses. Failure had brought pain--with acid bummers riding her mind, with a bad trip to California, with sanpaku and Harley, who cared--maybe in the wrong ways. Kimberly must have felt scared, and something in her fear drove her to the place of this old and settled...