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...cover: South Vietnamese woman holding flags in preparation for truce; Le Due Tho and Kissinger after initialing in Paris; U.S. airman tossing helmet at Tan Son Nhut airfield, South Viet Nam, after cease-fire news; P.O.W. wife Margaret Lengyel...
...last, a truce. At last, after a season of false moves and false dawns, the papers were signed. At last, after years of death and destruction, the war that four U.S. Presidents had considered a necessary act of resistance against international Communism was ending in an ambiguous stalemate. For the U.S., at least, it was over. In Viet Nam, fighting may well resume?or never entirely stop. Yet for the moment, those on all sides who had once sought victory now felt an exhausted sense of relief...
...Various joint bodies are created to help supervise the truce. These include at first a four-party joint military commission from among the recent combatants, a two-party joint military commission, the ICC (see box, page 17), and within 30 days, an international conference of 13 members...
...Secretary for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, was dealing with them as a major power, flying them to London in an R.A.F. plane for secret political talks. MacStiofain even got the British to release an internee from prison camp to join the I.R.A. delegation. But they blundered by breaking a truce they had arranged themselves. As Bogside Catholic M.P. John Hume put it: "The Provos bombed themselves to the conference table, and then they bombed themselves away again...
Disbelief is the only immediate credible response to President Nixon's television announcement that a cease-fire and truce have been agreed upon. Too many times before the conflict seemed to be ending, only to have hopes dashed by a new act of aggression by the American government...