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When it finally arrived, the day that the G.I.s called X-plus-60 was hot and mildly anticlimactic. On the withdrawal deadline two months after the Paris truce signing, the U.S. military command in Viet Nam was closed down in a simple midday ceremony in a parking lot near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. No U.S. military band was available for the occasion. Loudspeakers blared out a recording of The Star-Spangled Banner, and a color guard rolled up the blue flag of the command under which 2,500,000 American G.I.s had served since 1962. Ellsworth Bunker...
...time, when the Viet Nam truce was being worked out, U.S. officials expected that a de facto ceasefire in neighboring Cambodia would emerge by the end of March. Now it appears that the fitful Cambodian war -and the bombing there by U.S. B-52s -could easily drag on through the year. One reason is that Hanoi does not control all of the antigovernment forces; they include sizable numbers of homegrown neutralists and Khmer Rouge Communists, as well as the estimated 36,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops who are supposed to be withdrawn eventually under the terms...
...midst of last week's mission to Hanoi by Canadian External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp, which was devoted to private discussion about Canada's role in policing the truce, TIME's Correspondent James Wilde took the opportunity to reconnoiter the North Vietnamese capital. His report...
...Dennis Banks, an Indian leader, jumped out to announce that both sides had agreed to a ceasefire proposed by the National Council of Churches of Christ. Reported Huff: "There were whoops of joy as the sun set behind a ridge spotted with the silhouettes of jagged pines." That precarious truce held despite a shootout between Indian patrol guards and federal marshals just an hour later. Two Indians were shot, one in the hand and one in the leg, and both sides argued over who had fired first...
...Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips were removed-inspiring newspapers...