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When William P. Rogers signed the Paris truce agreement last January, the U.S. agreed that "advisers to all paramilitary organizations and the police force will be withdrawn" from South Viet Nam and that it would not "intervene in the internal affairs of South Viet Nam." Presumably that meant that the U.S. would stop training and subsidizing President Nguyen Van Thieu's 122,000-man national police force, which has collected more than $131.7 million in U.S. assistance since...
...true state of American diplomacy. It was Kissinger, the theorist of a Bismarckian balance of power, who had created the intellectual framework for Nixon's greatest achievements in foreign policy, the new detente with China, the progressive improvement of relations with the Soviet Union and, finally, the truce in Viet Nam. It was Kissinger, too, who personally brought those theories into reality in an endless series of secret flights and exhaustive negotiations in Peking, Moscow, Paris. Secretary of State Rogers traveled to official conferences and presided over the traditional routines of foreign affairs...
...when the two warring women's groups declared a truce that allowed players from both circuits to compete against one another in major tournaments. Evert's first test came at the French Open in June when she advanced to the finals against Margaret Court, won the first set 7-6, took a commanding 5-3 lead in the second-and then fell apart. Suffering from a bad case of overconfidence, she blew the second set 7-6 and lost the third 6-4. Then in quick and dispiriting succession, she lost to Australia's Evonne Goolagong...
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...