Word: truce
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...Hanoi officials and the Viet Cong released the names of 136 Americans who, they said, would be turned over to U.S. military representatives early this week in Hanoi. In another private meeting, between the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese, Saigon's representatives promised better protection for the Communist truce watchers. Yet Hanoi did not seem reassured, and at week's end the Communists withdrew their JMC field teams from Hué and Danang. They were flown in U.S. aircraft to Saigon, thus further delaying the already tardy truce supervision process...
...that empowered the army to rescind the draft deferments of any student who boycotted classes. The law only spurred more protests. Strikes and demonstrations spread to the University of Athens and to the Aristotelian University of Salonika to the north. The students have called a temporary truce, but another mass rally is scheduled for this week. If the government does not back down, warns one student leader, "we will come down the streets...
...last October, including Saigon's division-sized assaults on PRG positions. With 200,000 people made refugees since the ceasefire, we would be hard-pressed to call this peace. The very temporary North Vietnamese threat to delay the second prisoner exchange now completed and the attacks on North Vietnamese truce delegations in Hue and Saigon, parallel the daily truce violations by combat units. These violations of the specifics of the January 27 ceasefire agreement are perhaps no more serious than the thousands of skirmishes and battles that daily make a mockery of the peace, but they are more public symbols...
...little prospect that a lasting peace is coming rapidly to Indochina. Accords in Laos and Vietnam have stopped neither air attacks in Laos nor ground fighting in South Vietnam. Violations of some protocols of the January agreement and the meaningless execution of others demonstrate the nature of the truce. And the Congressional unwillingness to support American reparations is a continuing demonstration of the spirit in which this country waged...
...leave Laos within 90 days. But the only agency to ensure that they do so is the ineffectual three-nation (Poland, Canada and India) International Control Commission which was set up by the Geneva Conference in 1954 and which has never had much success in either supervising a truce or checking on troop movements. The U.S., in turn, agreed to stop its bombing campaign, which has been blasting unspecified targets at a rate of nearly 400 sorties per day. The U.S. presumably will also have to stop arming dissident tribesmen...