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Muses Economy Minister Pham Kim Ngoc: "Jumbo jets carry charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...
...week's end another uneasy truce was in effect in most of the battle areas. A hopeful sign was that it was being supervised by joint patrols of the army and the fedayeen. But the gut issue remained unresolved. The fedayeen seemed prepared to return to the status quo, under which they would continue to control the refugee camps. Franjieh was determined that the control should be shared with Lebanese authorities so that the guerrillas would never again have the freedom that they enjoyed before. Ahead lay the possibility of more battles until the fedayeen give in-or, perhaps...
Across the border in South Viet Nam, government troops continued to battle North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in actions scattered across the country. Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission of Control and Supervision-a move that would all but destroy the unit. For Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, peace seemed no nearer at hand than it did a year...
...kidnapers are little better than bandits, but many of them claim to be acting either for socialism or for Peronism. President-elect Hector Campora, who was voted into power last month as the representative of the exiled Juan Peron, has asked the guerrillas to "grant us a truce" until after his government is installed May 25. There is little sign of that happening...
...history of the two groups indicates that the current truce is fragile. Founded in 1888, the A.A.U. is a largely volunteer organization which became the sole authority for certifying American Olympics entries, a right that was and is its primary source of power. The N.C.A.A. was formed in 1906 at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt to make and enforce rules that would reduce deaths and injuries in college football. As campus sports flourished, so did the N.C.A.A...